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Newspaper
Algona Courier
Location
Algona, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 06, 1916
Page
9
A compact summary lists major World War I events in 1916 including naval actions like the Lusitania sinking, Teutonic drives through Poland and Serbia, and notable personalities who passed away, highlighting outstanding features and notable figures from the year.
A dense chronology recounts battles, torpedoings, landings, and political moves across Europe from January to December. It lists ships sunk, towns captured, armies engaged, and diplomacy, including U S warnings to Germany, Italy entering the war, and shifting fronts from the Carpathians to the Dardanelles and Balkans. Named places include the Eng lish Channel, Dardanelles, Carpathians, Galicia, and the Adriatic, with numerous ships such as the Formidable, Lusitania, and Ancona, and nations Britain Germany Russia Austria Hungary Italy France and the United States involved in a widening conflict.
A compact chronology lists key events from January to December including the San Diego exposition opening, Alabama moving to a dry state, Wilson inaugurating long distance telephone service to San Francisco, Panama-Pacific fair opening, North Dakota abolishing capital punishment, admiral appointments, Harry K Thaw trial outcomes, census milestone, Frank and Leo Frank cases, martial law in Georgia, a capitol bombing, J. P. Morgan assassination attempt, Independence Day disaster, Edison joining naval advisory, Thaw sanity ruling, Des Moines auto race, Panama Canal cut slide, Plattsburg training camp, mob execution of Leo Frank, powder blasts, Fort Sheridan camp, G A R encampment, wireless message to Hawaii, hazing penalties at Annapolis, Chicago mayor actions, Wilson engagement, Panama-Pacific closure, Mundelein appointed archbishop, Wilson marriage, and national labor legislation meetings.
A sweeping year of political seizures, coups, and regime shifts stretches from Paraguay where rebels seized President Sherer to Haiti where Davilmar fled and U S forces occupied Port au Prince. Japan progressed in China, Portugal saw a presidential resignation, and new rulers emerged across Europe and the Americas.
A chronicle of major disasters from January to December detailing earthquakes in central Italy and California, hurricanes in American Samoa and Texas, coal mine catastrophes in West Virginia and Japan, shipwrecks near Honolulu and the Chicago river, fires and explosions in Panama, Panama Canal era sites, and large losses at Roebling and Du Pont facilities, with numerous fatalities and financial damages across multiple months and places.
A series of 1914 actions include immigration bill struggles with literacy clause, Wilson opposition to woman suffrage constitutional amendment, Mondell revolution on enfranchisement, indictments against Terre Haute men for election conspiracy, and congressional passage of naval and army appropriations. Key nominations to the Interstate Commerce Commission and defense funding are noted.
The record lists a sequence of 1900s financial events including federal inquiries into wheat prices, the Missouri Pacific Iron Mountain system loss of control, multiple interstate commerce actions, receiverships of major firms, and key cultural notices. Notable items include the creation of the Trade Commission in Washington with Joseph R Davies as chairman, the International Mercantile Marine Company entering receivership, and the Rock Island railroad receivership. Deadlines, stock moves, and notable deaths or appearances of famous figures are interspersed. The chronology captures regulatory actions, corporate collapses, and notable obituaries and appearances across months from January to August.
Industrial notices recount a wave of Chicago labor actions from March 8 when 900 contractors locked out union members to December 4 indictments of 54 Chicago labor leaders. Key events include April wage-arbitration gains for engine men, June streetcar wars resolved by arbitration, and a broad construction industry shutdown. The sequence marks major strikes, lockouts, and notable outcomes across unions, plants, and firms in 1924 Chicago.
Timeline of key moves from early 1914 including Carranza Obregon victories Puebla Mexico City shifts Cuernavaca and Vera Cruz. Notable incidents cover the killing of John B. McManus, Villa and Huerta actions, international responses, raids along the Texas border, and Carranza’s international recognition by the United States and Latin American nations.
A compact review lists notable sporting results and league changes. Entries include Sherman antitrust lawsuit against the National and American leagues, American Association elevated to major league status, Willard defeating Johnson for the heavyweight title in Havana, De Palma’s record 100 mile auto win in Indianapolis, Travers’s national amateur golf crown, Resta’s 600 mile Chicago race, and multiple college and regional competitions with winners in golf, tennis, trapshooting, and rowing plus other track and sailing outcomes.
A historical timeline lists events from 1872 including commissions named with note on George Robles, Woolley as mint director, the 63rd Congress adjournment, census director Rogers, Thompson elected Chicago mayor, Roberta of Terre Haute and others found guilty in election conspiracy, Secretary Bryan resignation, Supreme Court voids grandfather clause, indictments of Indianapolis officials led by Thomas Taggart, Lansing as secretary of state, Polk as counselor, South Carolina prohibiting state-wide, woman suffrage defeats in New Jersey, New York, Massachusetts, and Pennsylvania, Republican wins in Massachusetts, 64th Congress convening, St. Louis chosen for the 1872 convention, and Henry P. Wetcher as ambassador nominee to Mexico.
A condensed list of prominent figures reported deceased or noted in this period includes Rt. Rev. Robert Codman episcopal bishop of Maine in Reston. Daniel M. Houser publisher of the St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Henri Fabre French entomologist. Sir Lionel Carden British diplomat. Paul Herglavu French dramatic author. Sir Charles Tupper Canadian statesman in England. Blanche Walsh actress. E. W. Pretorius publisher of St. Louis Times. Herman Ridder publisher New York Staats Zeitung. Lewis Waller actor. P. A. B. Widener Philadelphia heir. E. and Willard actors in London. Booker T. Washington educator. Julius C. Burrows former senator. August Pitou actor and playwright. Gen Jesus Rabi Cuban War hero. Edward Smith president American Shipbuilding Co.. Stephen Phillips English poet. Lt Col C J Bromwell Hawaii army engineer corps leader. Abraham Gruber New York politician. B M Cockrell former U S senator. Viscount Alverstone former Lord Chief Justice of Great Britain.
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