Greek War Dispatches Cover Fronts From Epirus to Salonica
The Athens Chronicle reports Greek forces advancing in Epirus capturing Filipiada and other areas while Turkish troops retreat. Reports from Salonica describe Greek stores captured at Katerina and Katiochaion with impact on Eddhem Pasha’s supply lines. Voluntary Greek recruits head to France and nurses offer service while domestic weather and disease pressures influence agriculture and public health.
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Esaly
Nd Boughasi
Damais
Gritzovali
Farmy
Nezling
Epirus
Filipiada
Skouzes
Turkennment
Naim Pasha
Silouuva Pass
Hakki
Noraly
Koskrena
Im Pasha
Virran
Mdi Pasha
Gordonan
Garbika
Break in Shipland levee floods 19 000 acres near Greenville
Greenville Mississippi April 26 There was another break in the levee on the Mississippi side at Shipland known as The Promised Land levee. The 800 foot wide breach at ten feet high threatens Mayorsville and floods Issaquena Sharkey Yazoo and Warren county lands ten to twenty feet deep. Hundreds of farms and cabins abandoned as terror spreads.
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Greenville
Miss
Mississippi
Shipland
Promised Land
Mayorsville
Yazoo River
Issaquena
Sharkey
Yazoo
Warren
General Miles seeks wartime assignment as military attache
Washington April 26 General Miles has asked permission to travel to Greece to observe the Greece Turkey war from a military vantage. Secretary Alger has presented the request to the president. If approved it would mark the first instance of a army commander going abroad during active hostilities as a military attache.
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Washington
Miles
Greece
Turkey
Alger
Sheridan
France
Grantie gunman shoots Gutridge brothers in Granite
Baker City April 26 A stage driver from Sumpter carries word that G H McMahon who traveled from Baker City to Granite shot Lewis M Gutridge twice and Samuel W Gutridge in front of the Gutridge store. Samuel grappled the assailant until Deputy Sheriff Nivens arrived and arrested McMahon. If both men die lynching is feared. Samuel W Gutridge is Granite postmaster.
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Baker City
Sumpter
Granite
G. H. McMahon
Lewis M. Gutridge
Samuel W
Gutridge
Grant County
Lewis
Sam
Representative Holman dies after vertigo linked fall
Washington April 26 Representative Holman of Indiana died at 2 PM after a fall caused by vertigo earlier this spring. His condition worsened from meningitis, and he passed away without regaining consciousness following a brief rally. Other briefs cover a hailstorm in Newton Kansas and convicts labor matter in Salem Oregon.
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Washington
Holman
Indiana
Salem, Or
E. T. Johnson
Astoria
Gilbert
Johnson
Indian lands and wheat market in Gilsonite season notes
Washington April 26 report details senate amendments to the Indian appropriation bill opening the Uncompahgre reserve under mineral law with a lease plan. a prohibition on corporate possession of gilsonite deposits. Wheat market shows active week with rising prices due to export demand and reduced spring wheat prospects. large deliveries to Japan and China boost sentiment amid limited stocks. Local prices for Portland Seattle and San Francisco listed for flour grains hay butter meat and produce.
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Washington
House
Senate
Council of the
Bland
Union Pacific
New York
American
Northwest
Red River
Jim River
California
San Francisco
China
Japan
Phantom Bride Haunts Late Night Ireland to Danvers
A young man travels at night to wed Amelie de Boursons in a moonlit trance. He agrees to marry her, only to discover at dawn the notary’s gallery portrait confirms she died forty years earlier, leaving him a phantom bride and a ruby ring as proof.
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Loudre
Danvers
Londre
Mademoiselle
Tam Amelle de Boursons
Monsieur
Tregonne
Mlle. de Boursons
Amelie de Boursons
St Louis Globe-Democrat
Straub executes for 1895 Lanter murder in Friday Harbor
Richard H. Straub was hanged at 11 15 A M in Friday Harbor San Juan county for the August 1895 murder of Leo Lanter on Blakeley Island. About twenty five spectators witnessed the execution outside the jail inclosure as Sheriff Jones carried out the sentence after the Lydia Thompson’s arrival from Seattle without a governor’s reprieve.
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New Whatcom
Wash
Richard H. Straub
Friday Harbor
San Juan County
Leo Lanterman
Blakeley Island
Lydia Thompson
Seattle
Jones
Straub
Navy plans reserve vessel list with Columbia as nucleus
The navy department plans a reserve fleet core led by the Columbia. After a New York event, she will be laid up at League Island with 77 crew kept under four commissioned and three warrant officers to train the remainder. About 800 crew will transfer to the battleship Iowa.
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Washington
Navy Department
Columbia
League Island
New York
Towa
Ottawa Tariff Cuts Favor British Goods in New Plan
The government announces a tariff change to favor British and other friendly nations. Reductions start at one eighth of the general rate for the first year and drop to one quarter thereafter. Most schedules are affected except revenue duties on wines, tobacco, cigars and cigarettes.
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Ottawa
United States
Great Britain
Turkish court acquits suspects in Lenz murder case
United States Consul Borgehor reports from Erzercum Turkey that a Turkish court has acquitted the Kurds and Armenians charged with the murder of American bicyclist Lenz. The magistrate ruled insufficient evidence to convict and dismissed the case, noting none of the accused had been deemed guilty by authorities.
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Washington
United States
Borgehor
Erzercum
Turkey
State Department
Young Lenz
Peculiar suit over policy limits across time zones in De Borgia
In De Borgia Montana line John W. Conner sued over an accident policy that expired at noon the day of his injury measured by Iowa time, seeking 2500 dollars. Meanwhile fourth class postmasters in Oregon were appointed W J Clarke Gervais Marion county and J H Hiatt Lyons Linn county. In San Quentin Kloss hanged for murder at 1030 am, witnessed by officials and press. In Evergreen Alabama a Mundge trestle wreck left four fatally injured including two tramps. No resuscitation after complete body freezing remains noted.
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Murray
Idaho
de Borgia
Montana Line
John W. Conner
Iowa
Washington
Oregon
W. J. Clarke
Gervais
Marion County
J. H. Hiatt
Lyons
Linn County
San Quentin Prison
Cal
Frank Cooney Kloss
William Deady
Kloss
Variations In Acorns And Seeds Across Trees
The excerpt notes that no two leaves or seeds are exactly alike, asserting that this uniqueness extends to every part of a tree. It emphasizes that individual trees exhibit broad variation in their leaves and seeds, reflecting natural diversity in botanical structures.
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South
Amelie de Boursons Revealed in Icy Wedding Mystery
A man questions a notary about a supposed bride Amelie de Boursons. The woman is alive, cold to the touch, and the ceremony proceeds with a ring and ruby. The groom marries her, then she vanishes at the carriage door amid astonished onlookers.
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Notary
Monsieur
Taman American
Amelie de Boursons
Mile
de Boursons
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