Mrs Grote Plans Ashes Scatter at Old Homestead
Mrs S W Grote sails from New York on the Holig Olan to Riga Russia to scatter her husband's ashes at his old homestead as directed in his will. The groom died by his own hand twelve days after marriage, was brother to the czars imperial physician, and Mrs Grote, known as Doctor Grote, is Swedish born and inherits the estate.
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S. W. Grote
New York
Riga
Russia
Grote
Mme
Marcella Sembrich
American Polish Relief Committee
Herbert L. Satterlee
Mme. Sembrich
Auto Conquers Angry Bull In New Jersey Picnic
Thirty members of a Newark Bible class had a mountain outing in the Orange area. A Holstein bull charged the diners, sending several to trees or tables while others hid in autos. One man fainted in a tree. a chauffeur rammed the bull into a neighboring lot to save him as the picnic ended.
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West Orange
N. J
Newark
Pleasantdale
Orange Mountains
Vincent Farm
Pittsburgh Firm Declines Shell Contract Bid
Electric Steel company of Pittsburgh declined to bid on a 1 000 000 drop forged shells order from the British government citing humanitarian reasons. The contract value was estimated at 450000 dollars and the firm returned blue prints with a note stating it could not consider the contract. The Pittsburgh foreign trade commission had asked the firm to bid.
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Pittsburgh
Electric Steel Company
Pittsburgh Foreign Trade Commission
Cornell student tests wireless cart communications
Ithaca reports O E Buckgaber of Brooklyn a Cornell senior in civil engineering has mounted a car wireless sending set. Two copper wires from the car hood converge at the sash point and the apparatus sits on a seat. After two weeks of trials messages were sent ten miles under favorable conditions and Buckgaber expects greater ranges with more tests.
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Ithaca
O. E
Buckgaber
Brooklyn
College of Civil Engineering
Cornell University
Germans Confiscate Copper in Belgian Cities
German troops seize brass doorknobs chandeliers and other brass and bronze fixtures in Belgian cities to avert a copper famine in Germany.
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Amsterdam
Germany
Polish Legion's feat and Fischer's frontier defense in war
Austrian press marks the Polish Legion led by Pilsudsky as a bold corps that captured Kielce and fought across Russian Poland with valor. It also lauds Major General Fischer who organized Bukovina’s frontier defense and saved Czernowitz, using intimate terrain knowledge to outmaneuver Russian forces.
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Dank
Auffenberg
Russian
Poland
Kielce
Austria
Schoenbrunn
Vienna
Switzerland
Polish Legion
Russia
Joseph von Pilsudsky
Warsaw
Pilsudsky
Siberia
Galicia
Vistula
Cracow
Hig
von Dursky
Dunajec
Germany
Ivangorod
Wolbrom
Paderewski
Manchuria
Kunitzky
Kharkov University
Nadworna
Lunanova
Carpathians
Bukowina
Fischer
Bukowhtna
Roumania
Hungary
Austria-Hungary
Czernowitz
Quicksilver Demand Rises as European Supply Disrupted
California remains the world’s leading quicksilver producer with 15 591 flasks produced last year while European supplies are blocked by war. McCaskey notes explosive cap use and contraband status limit European shipments, boosting trade with South America and Asia though prices have fluctuated from 39 to 100 dollars per flask.
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Los Angeles
Cal
Austria
Italy
California
H. D. McCaskey
United States
Bcological Survey
Europe
South America
Orient
Japan
India
Elephant injures man in Porterville alley incident
In Porterville California a trick elephant in a theater alley grabbed boxmaker John Wallace after he offered a sour orange to the animal. The elephant hurled Wallace about 30 feet into packing cases, leaving him unconscious. Surgeons treated his wounds for hours.
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Porterville
Cal
John Wallace
Wallace
Girl 17 Weds Man In Jail In Springfield
In Springfield Missouri Miss Sarah Harris seventeen married Harrison Gregory in the county courthouse records office. Gregory serves six months for violating the local option law. After the ceremony she talked with him through jail bars for half an hour.
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Springfield
Sarah Harris
Court House
Harrison Gregory
Gregory
Vinci tonic boosts appetite and digestion, Athens ad claims
A Mrs James H Eppy credits Vinci cod liver and iron tonic with restoring her health after Nervous strain and fatigue, saying it helped her family and daily chores. The ad lists H R Palmer & Sons druggists in Athens, Georgia, and other leading stores carrying the tonic.
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Rapetaptien
Vinci
James H. Eppy
H. R. Palmer & Sons
Athens
Georgia
Marriage, Virtue and Cough Remedy Ad Highlight
A fragment cites Voltaire on marriage and crime linking fathers to virtue. The text then touts Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy as a quick cold cure with a testimonial from Mrs J Boroff Elida Ohio praising its efficacy for her daughter Ruth two years prior.
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Chamberlain
J. Boroff Elida
Ohio
Ruth
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