Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 292, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 December 1920 — WILSON GETS NOBEL PEACE PRIZE [ARTICLE]

WILSON GETS NOBEL PEACE PRIZE

The Nobel peace prize will be conferred .on President Wilson on December 10, it was aimounced Tuesday. The ceremony will be held as usual in the Norwegian Storthing, which awards the prize. The Nobel prize carries a grant of about *40,000, which is one-fifth of the annual interest on about $9,000,000, left by Alfred B. Nobel, Swedish scientist and inventor of dynamite, who died in 1896. The only two Americans who in-the past have received the prize were Theodore Roosevelt in 1906 and Elihu Root in 1912.