Coal crisis widens as strikes cripple rail and power
In a widening coal famine the central west faces escalating shortages. Officials order end to electric display ads in the Philadelphia district and cut rail passenger service west to the Pacific. A federal grand jury will probe alleged Lever Act violations by coal operators and miners.
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Clinton
Ind
Central West
Philadelphia
St. Louis
New York
Potomac
Chicago
Pacific Coast
Alien
Robertson
Oklahoma
Washington
Garfield
Fuel Administration
L. Ert. Slack
A. B. Anderson
Slack
United States District Attorney
Dan Simms
Simms
United States
Athens Hi Lands but Single Man on Usher's Team
L. C. Usher selects an All-Southeastern Ohio high school football team from eight schools. Ambrose of Logan and Christ of Gallipolis are ends, Martz of Portsmouth and Cap't. Washam of Jackson Hirh are tackles, Rizley of Wellston and Clark of Ironton are guards, Leeper of Gallipolis is center, Jackson of Nelsonville is quarterback.
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Nelsonville
Littler
Athens High
Callahan
Jackson High
Portsmouth High
Multer
Ambrose
Logan
Martz
Portsmouth
Rizley
Wellston
Leeper
Gallipolis
Clark
Ironton
Washam
Cap
T. Jackson
Christ
Jackson
Athens
Master
L. C. Usher
Syracuse University
Athens Hi
Usher
Althe Jackson
Logan Althouight
Nelsonville High
Light Large Sea Serpent Immune to Bullets Reported
Four hunters near Yaramid Lake in Reno Nevada sight a 25 foot sea serpent with huge fins and a bulletproof hide. The creature reportedly surfaces, evades bullets, and the hunters J. B. Neff Mike Nagy W. J. Neff and M Gent who shot it narrowly escaped unscathed after dives.
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Reno
Nev
Yaramid Lake
Great Lakes
Neff
Mike Nagy
W. J. Neff
Yanks Argues Chantilly France Sightseeing Tours For Troops
In Chantilly France Y M C A trips for American soldiers and sailors offer art history and palace visits from Paris to Versailles Fontainebleau Malmaison and St. Germain. The program includes tours to Chantilly with the famed chateau and its renowned art collection drawing thousands of servicemen.
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Chantilly
France
Chateau-Thierry
Belleau Wood
Rheims
Soissons
Chemin-des-Dames
Paris
Versailles
Fontainebleau
Malmaison
St. Germain
Louvre
Condes
Montmorencys
Chateau
Sees Game With Teacher Eyes Miss Mildred Harris Plays Giants Fan
Blind 19 year old Mildred Harris inherits her father's love of baseball and uses a personal code to “see” games. In Milwaukee and New York, she cheers from the stands with her father guiding explanations. She has learned to identify players and plays, and calls the Giants her team.
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New York
Charles K. Harris
Milwaukee
Chicago
Harris
West Wighty-sixth Street
Mildred Harris
Giants
Mildred
Christy Mathewson
Ty Cobb
Benny Kauff
Ross Young
Miss Harris
Y. W. C. A. Rooter
Whiskers as Old as He Is in Santa Ana
J. H. Hall, former Orange County auditor, claims the oldest whiskers at sixty one years. Captain Hall, a G A R member, has never shaved and his whiskers trace back to his teens as he splits time between Santa Ana and the East.
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Santa Ana
Cal
J. H. Hall
Orange County
East
Captain Hall
Blind Sergeant Writes With Artificial Hands In London
Sergt Alan M Nichols of the Second Durham light infantry, though blind and without both hands, learned to write with a specially constructed typewriter and aluminum artificial hands. After patient training he passed a two hour fifteen minute writing test with only two corrections. A rail of Finnish iron ore mine lies under the sea.
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London
Alan M. Nichols
Durham Light Infantry
Nichols
Finland
One Bath in 492 Families Revealed on Block Survey
A New York housing survey of a Hast 23d street block for the state reconstruction commission finds one bathtub in forty three tenement houses housing 1,700 people. The tub is owned by the saloon keeper for his family. most of the other 481 families rarely use it. Investigators report the next bathing facility is a stationary wash tub with a lift out partition used only on Saturday nights.
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New York
State Reconstruction Commission
Mexico Faces Internal Strife as Carranza Pressures U.S. Intercession
President Carranza appears determined to push the United States into intervention by holding prisoner William O. Jenkins, U. S. consular agent at Puebla, amid delicate internal conditions in Mexico. The country seems near a revolution, with army factions aligned against the government.
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Carranza
United States
Mexico
William O. Jenk
Ins
William O. Jenkins
Puebla
Jenkins
Mexico City
Elfwears Landaa
Alvaro Obregon
Pablo Gonzales
Venustiano Carranza
Red Cross Christmas seals sale drives Athens area relief effort
A reader reports volunteers and students in Athens County pushing Red Cross Christmas seals, with a youngster selling out quickly and teachers and towns aiding the campaign. Mrs Woodworth and helpers have placed 60,000 seals, while citizens from Nelsonville to Athens contribute to the drive across the county.
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Red Cross
Athena
William Silvus
Junior Hous
H. A
Walter T
Strouds
Carr
Woodworth
Roach
Nelsonville
Athens
Athens County
County
al County
War at an End Resolution Introduced in House
A joint resolution declaring the war at an end was introduced in the house by Representative Tinkham of Massachusetts. The article notes the inventor has patented a perforated towel rack for bathrooms that can connect to a faucet by a rubber hose to serve as a sink attachment.
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Washington
Tinkham
Massachusetts
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