Welcome Home Guardsmen at Union Station
Des Moines advices say the special train with Waterloo Iowa infantry will arrive late tonight. Thousands expected as Veterans of two wars join a city welcome with bands, flags and a parade to the armory. Mayor Law urged decorations to honor the troops returning from duty at the Mexican border.
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Waterloo
Iowa
Des Moines
W. R. Law Lato
Dubuane
Manchester
Charles City
Union
Union‘station
Union Station
Althe
Four More Years Added to Liebknecht's Term
London dated January 15 Dr Karl Liebknecht the German Socialist leader has been given an additional sentence of four and a half years at hard labor and expulsion from the Berlin bar. A Berlin court martial last year had sentenced him to four years for treason. The appeal to the imperial military tribunal was rejected on November 6.
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London
Karl Liebknecht
Berlin
Amsterdam
Dr. Lisbknecht
Imperial
Broker Confesses to Killing Girl in Columbus Hotel
Wheldon H. Wells, former Kansas City broker clerk, confessed to County Prosecutor R. P. Duncan that he shot Mona Byron Simon in a Columbus hotel room last Thursday night. He claims the killing was in self defense after being arrested in Huntington, Indiana, and arriving in Columbus in police custody.
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Columbus
Wheldon H. Wells
Kansas City
R. P. Duncan
Mona Byron Simon
Wells
Huntington
Ind
Welcome home Black Hawk County guardsmen
The community honors the Black Hawk County national guardsmen for seven months of service, praising their patriotism and sacrifice. Residents note the pride in every home as guardsmen return and express hope that if called again their families will endure with courage.
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Iowa
Black Hawk County
Aging Iowa clergyman collapses reading scripture lesson
Center Point Iowa Special Rev John B E Stauffacher 68 one of Iowa s oldest clergymen died moments after tottering as he began the scripture reading at his Center Point church Sunday morning He had served 39 years as a preacher was a former pastor at Logan Avenue Waterloo and led the Center Point Evangelical church in recent years Surviving children include two sons Rev C H Stauffacher Cedar Rapids and Rev George Stauffacher Cairo plus Virgil Albuquerque N M Scott H Waterloo and Mauda Stauffacher Center Point Funeral services Wednesday at 2 30 p m in Center Point Evangelical church Bishop W H Fouke Masonville Iowa will preach with other ministers from the region attending.
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Center Point
John BE. Stauffacher
Iowa
Iowa Evangelical Conference
Logan Avenue
Waterloo
C. H. Stauffacher
Cedar Rapids
George Stauffacher
Cairo
Mr. Stauffacher
Virgil
Albuquerque
N. M
Scott H
Mauda Stauffacher
Lawsons Name Revelation In New Wilson Leak Probe
Washington reports show Thomas W Lawson pressed to reveal the congressman who allegedly named a cabinet officer and broker in a stock market leak about President Wilson's peace note. House rules committees broaden the inquiry with new resolutions to compel testimony and specify names, with Lawson slated to testify at 7 p.m. Also noted is the death of Rear Admiral Allen B Reed at age 79.
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Washington, D. C
Thomas W. Lawson
Wilson
Lawson
House Rules'committee
Thomas W Lawson
Boston
House
James Rellir
Wall Street Journal
Donald McDonald
Boston Financial Bureau
Levenon Ig
Representative Garrett
Campbell
Reinbeck Church Burns to Ground
Reinbeck Jan 16 Flames were seen rising through the floor of the German Methodist church as the basement burned. The frame building, erected over a decade ago, was destroyed at an estimated loss of 3600 with 1800 insured. Pastor Rev Mr Schultz said a new edifice is likely and trustees will meet tomorrow to discuss plans.
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Reinbeck
Kaiser's Letter Urges Peace Note Draft to Bethmann-Hollweg
From Apisterdam via London dated Jan 16 says the German emperor pleads for a moral deed to end the world’s suffering. He asks Bethmann-Hollweg to draft peace notes, seeking a ruler with conscience to free neutrals and all from the war’s pressures, and to submit arrangements without delay.
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London
Norddeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung
von Bethmann-Hollweg
Bethmann
Britain Increases War Munitions Output Rapidly
London reports English munition factories now produce every 48 hours more heavy gun ammunition than in the entire first year of the war. Production of machine guns rises to 6,000 in the third year, with explosives and rifles expanding dramatically, signaling optimism for a spring offensive on the western front.
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London
Western Front
Ministry of Munitions
America
Whitehall
Start on Search of Missing Aviators
Four civilian drivers departed Yume Arizona at dawn under Col Richard H Wilson orders to scour for missing Army aviators Lieut Harry G Bishop and Lieut W A Roberson They carried four days rations and supplies in two cars as the operation began
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Yume
Ariz
Richard H. Wilson
Harry G. Bishop
W. A. Robertson
Allied forces occupy Cerigo in Greek islands drive
Athens reports the allies occupied the island of Cerigo on Wednesday, the southernmost Ionian island belonging to Greece. Other Greek insular possessions are said to be occupied as bases for hostile submarines in the Mediterranean off the Morea.
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Cerigo
Athens
London
Ionian Islands
Greece
Mediterranean
Morea
Paper delivery reminder and contact numbers
If the paper is not delivered by 6 o'clock due to carrier error or other cause, call 2930 for a replacement copy. After 6:30, call telephone No. 2.
Mrs Hanna Buys Garage on Fifth and Comercial Streets
Mrs Hanna Ww J Ilmuna announced purchase of the new building at Fifth and Comercial streets, occupied by Waterlog Automobile & Supply. Consideration said to exceed 75000 dollars. structure cost about 70000 dollars. Erected by the Mercantile Warehouse company, in which she was formerly involved. Waterloo Automobile & Supply company signed a five year lease.
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Ww. J. Ilmuna
Fifth and
Comercial
Thee Waterlog Automobile & Supply Company
Mercantile Warehouse Company
Hanna
Waterloo Automobile & Supply Company
Mackensen's Men Within Miles of Galatz Port
Field Marshal von Mackensen's outposts push to six miles from Galatz the Danube port, after Vaden fell two miles south of the Sereth river on the Uraila Galatz railway. Russian front gains near Riga appear stymied by German counterattacks. Petrograd reports repulsed assaults. On the Somme heavy artillery dominates with some limited German repulses and prisoner gains. Further north, Russian and Roumanian attacks on Suchitza and northern Roumania front are repulsed.
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Fleld Marshal von Mackensen
Galatz
Danube
Sereth
Vaden
Uraila
Riga
Petrograd
Somme
Berlin
Suchitza
Senate Body Kills Wage Increase for Government Clerks
Washington D C Jan 16 Increases of pay for government clerks approved by the house were stricken from the appropriation bill today by the senate committee. The panel also recommended cutting the salaries of the farm loan board members from 10000 to 7500 and the secretary from 6000 to 3000. The tie vote defeated Senator Smoots bid to raise government employes pay while Senator Tillman was the sole Democrat voting for it. The annual cost of the increases was estimated at 13193687 dollars.
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Washington, D. C
House
Senate
Farm Loan Board
Smoot
Utah
Tillman
South Carolina
Prosecute Mrs Smith For Husband Death in Denver
Denver January 15 District Attorney Forty announced that prosecution of Mrs Stella Moore Smith will continue despite the inquest. He said evidence uncovered warrants the course. Mrs Smith’s counsel offered no comment aside from a probable self defense plea.
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Denver
Colo
Stella Moore Smith
Forty
Foley
Australian government to pay farmers big sum
Melbourne reporting, Premier Hughes said the government will advance farmers 30 pence per bushel on wheat recently purchased by Britain. The payment amount totals 15,009,000 pounds, to be issued on Monday.
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Melbourne
London
Hughes
Admiral Dewey Near Death at Washington Home
Admiral Dewey, hero of Manila Bay, is gravely ill at his Washington home. Doctors say a general breakdown and arterial sclerosis have left him unconscious and fading, with only hours to live. He is 80, receiving care as specialists report weakness and danger of further decline.
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Washington, D. C
AdmirAl Dewey
Manila Bay
A. M. Fauntleroy
U. S.N
Luther Bhaldon, Jr
Dewey
Bavarian King Congratulates Kaiser on Regent Proclamation
The king of Bavaria sent a telegram to the German emperor praising his regent proclamation. He said the emperor's strong reply against enemies finds a lively echo in all hearts and assured Bavarians will continue the fight to enforce peace.
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London
Bavaria
Amsterdam
Reuters
Deutschland Seen In Atlantic On Way To America
New York January 15 British freighter Clematis arrived from Bordeaux with news an unidentified submarine moved westward in the Atlantic as late as last Thursday morning. Sailors on board suspected the vessel could be the German submarine Deutschland on a third voyage to America. The submarine did not attack the Clematis which lay about 800 miles east of Newport Rhode Island. A Flushing dispatch reported a Dutch warship captured a German submarine found in Dutch waters and will intern it.
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Minis
New York
Atlantic
Clematis
From
Bordeaux
France
Deutschland
America
Newport
R. I
London
Flushing
Reuter’s
Government Affirms Francis Statement On Russia Ties
In Washington on January 15 the state department backed Ambassador Francis’s Petrograd remarks that closer commercial ties with Russia are unlikely if revolutions principles from last June’s economic conferences are upheld. An inquiry to Francis about his comments was deemed unlikely.
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Washington, D. C
Francis
Petrograd
Russia
State Department
London police raid suffrage HQs under defence act
London police and military forces raided the printing plant and headquarters of the Women's Social and Political Union and the homes of several of Mrs Pankhurst's lieutenants across London. Britannia, the suffrage publication, and two taxicabs full of documents were confiscated amid the operation. Britannia criticized the government and claimed a split between Lloyd George supporters and a peace faction.
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London
Women's Social and Political Union
Motorman Robbed By Masked Bandit in Marshalltown
Marshalltown, Jan 15. Street car motor man O. M. Whiting was held up by a masked highwayman at a viaduct and relieved of 18 dollars mainly company funds. He was forced to abandon the car control lever and walk to report the crime, recalling a similar three-man robbery three months earlier at another terminus.
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Marshalltown
O. M. Whiting
Whiting
Temperature ranges for January 15 from Buchanan Optical Co
The record lists temperatures with vague times notations. Entries show values like midnight to 6 am and morning readings around -7 to -3 degrees, with historical comparisons from years 1911 to 1916 indicating ranges from -20 to 58 degrees. The OCR is inconsistent but references daily temperatures and past year spikes.
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Buchanan Optical Co
Lovesick Woman Spends 72 Years in Bed Dies at 94
A London dispatch reports a Scarborough woman who died this week at age 94 after 72 years in bed. She was ill only for two days prior to death, kept a good appetite, and a complexion like a young girl. The cause was a disappointed love after a 21 year engagement that her father disapproved of, leading her to withdraw to bed and only travel once from Cambridge to Scarborough.
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New York
New York World
London
Scarborough
Cambridge
Mann Act upheld by High Court in landmark ruling
The Supreme Court held the Mann white slave law applies to interstate transport of women for personal immoral acts, affirming Caminetti and Diggs convictions. Majority opinion noted possible blackmail risk, three justices dissented advising revision, while a mining tax issue and road-rate cases were also decided.
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Washington, D. C
Supreme Court
Drew Caminetti
Maury J. Diggs
Justice Day
White
McKenna
Clarke
McReynolds
Congress
Vietion
Lb. T
Alva
Okla
Diggs
Caminetti
Sargent, Sutton& Kearsage Land Company
Minneapolis
Chicago & Alton
Yasco& Mississippi
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Galatz Port
Mrs. Smith
Deweo
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