George Washington Resumes Wireless Contact With New Mexico
On board the George Washington Feb 20 the ship regained wireless contact with the New Mexico after hours of cut communication due to mechanical trouble. Winds remained strong and seas rough as President Wilson entertained Congressmen Ivering Norris and Smith on deck. Franklin Roosevelt ordered additional warships to meet the George Washington and convoy her to Boston.
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New Mexico
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Smith
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Franklin Roosevelt
United States
Boston
Hoyt J. Ashton Killed in France by Hand Grenade
Hoyt J. Ashton of the 87th Division died in France on January 28 from a hand grenade wound. His mother Mrs. J. Cooley of Athens R D 7 received official word after a delayed notice failed to reach him. He and his brother John served in Battery B, 36th Field Artillery. John last wrote January 22 saying they were well.
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Tempest Delays U S Troop Transports Along Atlantic
Gales hinder nineteen transports carrying about 20 000 troops. Ships like the Henderson with over 1200 sick and wounded seek calmer southern waters. The President Grant aids Polar Bear and is due Wednesday. Montana and St Louis expect to arrive tomorrow. Kansas with 1939 soldiers coal at Bermuda while Woodsocket, with damaged propeller, is seen Sunday.
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Woodsocket
Guysville Man Recounts Ferrying French Planes to Verdun Front
Vern Bean of Guysville returns as a civilian after fifteen months overseas ferrying Spad fighters from French factories to the Verdun front. He details formations challenged by enemy fire, notes hospital confinement of one week, and mentions cootie battles with a hot water solution. His brother Harry Bean serves as a sergeant in the 12th aero squadron.
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Columbus
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Bolshevik Forage Along Caspian Sea Is Worst
London report: General Dene kin and Cossack forces advance in the Caspian region reaching Brianskyoe and render Bolsheviks eleventh completely out of action. Archangel front attacks in the Washka Valley repulsed with heavy enemy losses. Norway begins its first tin plate mill.
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Sinn Fein activity resumes across Ireland in February surge
Dublin reports a Sinn Fein congress of club delegates meeting nationwide amid renewed agitation. A message from Prof. Edward De Valera read at the Mansion House claims he escaped from Lincoln to work for Ireland. Government raids seize rifles and 17,000 rounds of ammunition from Raphoe Royal School, Donegal.
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Sinn
Ulater Volunteers
France to be paid for wartime material seized by invaders
German national assembly orders return of industrial material taken from France and Belgium. Dispatches report rising strikes and unrest in Germany. Government troops quash Spartacan railway sabotage near Elberfeld, killing 17 and wounding 38. Spartacans seize Bayreuth forcing the burgomaster to resign. Troops concentrate south of Lippe and east of Bochum.
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Belgium
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Armistice Compliance Suspends Hostilities With Poland
Berlin reports that hostilities against Poland were suspended Monday in line with armistice terms. An official announcement confirms the development and notes the pause in fighting until further notice.
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Poland
Flu Decimated Ohio Population. 4065 Deaths In December
Columbus report shows 4,065 Ohioans died from influenza in December. Ages 20 to 34 bore the heaviest toll while 6 to 14 had the lightest mortality.
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Northwestern co-eds clash over dean policy on photos
Northwestern University women students react to a dean of women's ban on taking pictures without her permission. The dispute centers on control of campus photography and student autonomy.
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Chicago
Northwestern University
Detroit Flooded by Whiskey Run Across Ohio Line
Detroit endures heavy liquor flood from Ohio as federal and state officials clash over prohibition enforcement. About 300 whiskey runners arrested on the Ohio side. Michigan officials unable to curb the flow. traffic runs heavy as Toledo prices rise amid the border water problem.
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Judge Root Bans Liquor Crossings Into Michigan
In Monroe Judge Root granted an injunction prohibiting liquor from Ohio entering Michigan as unconstitutional and contrary to the state dry laws. Attorney General Groesbeck asked for the injunction and state officers prepared to arrest crossing liquor runners at the state line. The nation followed a conference in Detroit on Thursday.
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Michigan
Liquor Shipment to Toledo Tied to Michigan Probe
Cleveland officials report four carloads of liquor were shipped to Toledo for Michigan distribution. Federal authorities will investigate to decide on action, noting Cleveland’s distance from the state line may limit local steps.
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Toledo Saloons Exhausted As Liquor Flood Rages In
In Toledo Ohio stocks of liquor are nearly gone and workers fear a Michigan liquor famine as distillers rush carloads of booze into the city. Police protection is sought to handle the surge while hundreds crowd hotels and downtown interurban stops await whiskey deliveries.
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Dixie Highway
Monroe
Ohio
Cox Attacks Education Bill as Treason Claimed
Governor Cox denounced the Comings measure as artful and dangerous to Ohio life, labeling it treasonous. The house, by party vote, sent the message to a three member committee for analysis while the senate forwarded the bill to the education committee with eight hour police firemen wage reform also under review.
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Cox
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Repu
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Taxation Committee
Work 18 Resumed at Big Navy Yard
Hog Island the world s greater ship yard resumed normal work today. Four hundred striking foremen who demanded increased from 64 to 70 a week and the 26 000 workers forced out returned after giving Director General Pier of the emergency fleet corporation one week in which to adjust the difficulties.
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Worlds Greater
Emergency Fleet Corporation
Two Men Electrocuted for Murders in Kentucky
Eddyville Ky Feb 21 James Lawler and Patrick Kearney both of Cincinnati were executed in the electric chair at the state penitentiary for the Covington hold up killing of Andrew Nordmeyer and John Rehm on March 6 1918. Both asserted innocence.
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James Lawler
Patrick Kearney
Cincinnati
Andrew Nordmeyer
John Rehm
Ninth Ward Perpetual Loan and Building Association
Covington
In Transit Hoboes Now Working Men Says Official
Albany February 21 report cites L. W. Spreges of the U S department stating there are no hoboes left in transit. He says displaced travelers are now laboring men moving through the country. The statement reframes itinerant workers as a mobile labor force in transit.
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L. W. Spreges
U. S. Department of
Part Time Work In Mines To Last Some Time
Coal production remains reduced to about two days a week with some seeing a possible three days. Illinois coal stocks sit at lakefront markets while demand shifts away from war orders. Optimism persists that no serious condition will arise as peacetime adjustments proceed.
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Illinois
Great Lake
Ohio
West Virginia
Uian
Wilson to Speak City of Boston
President will speak in Boston Wednesday afternoon as announced by Secretary Tumulty. Wireless messages indicate he will arrive Monday morning and depart for Washington soon after to conduct non executive business with the administration in the capital.
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Tumulty
Washington
Burglary Strikes McMillan Music Co and Mrs Shepard Home
In North Dakota on February 21 thieves forced a window to enter the McMillan Music Company and steal instruments valued over $5,000. Earlier a burglary at the home of Mrs. Arthur B. Shepard yielded jewels valued at $2,000.
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McMillan Music Company
Arthur B. Shepard
Athens Baptist church organizes for new house of worship
Members of the Baptist church of Athens form an organization and plan to build a church. They will meet currently in the Music Hall at Ohio University with services Sundays. The first service is set for next Sunday February 28 at 7 pm. All denomination members are urged to attend.
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Music
Ohio University
Delay of transports reach New York as cruiser St Louis returns
The cruiser St Louis arrived at New York thirteen days after leaving Brest with 1,338 officers and men aboard. It carried 161st infantry units including companies BD F and G, plus 19 officers and 968 men, along with three casual companies and twenty casual officers from New York Ohio and Pennsylvania.
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St. Louis
Brest
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Pennsylvania
Olympia to reach port after Brest departure
Wireless from the steamer Olympia says it left Brest on February 7 and will enter port Monday or Tuesday. The liner carries 6 648 passengers, nearly all part of the expeditionary force.
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International Mercantile Marine
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Brest
Labor unrest spreads across the nation in new strikes
Washington reports hundreds of strikes and growing labor disputes nationwide as officials warn of severe stagnation and wide unrest. The labor department notes strikes are more prevalent than in recent history amid mass labor tension and economic strain.
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Labor Department
Gangsters Die In Chair After Failed Clemency Bid
Frank Masz zano and Rosa Borgia of Akron were electrocuted for the murder of Patrolman Gethin Richards. A Toledo reprsentative urged clemency before adjournment, citing a pact to oppose capital punishment, but the resolution failed.
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Frank Maszzano
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Akron
Gethin Richards
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Toledo
Cox
Peace Council Faces New Problems After Wounding of Premier
Paris Feb 21. The supreme war council met at Clemenceau's residence after he was badly wounded by an assassin's bullet. Denmark urged the return of Schleswig Holstein seized by Prussians long ago, and Albania sought recognition. The Pan African congress pressed its advisory role as sessions continued.
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President to Return to France After Washington Arrival
The presidential ship George Washington will reach Boston by noon Monday. President plans to sail home to France around March 5 with naval aerial demonstrations planned off the New England coast. Seaplanes dirigibles and three destroyers will escort the convoy from the Chatham station.
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George Washington
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Chatam
Mass
Bolsheviki Threaten Swiss Hostages Over Mrs Radek Arrest
Petrograd dispatch reports Bolsheviki threaten to execute ten Swiss subjects by March 6 unless Mrs. Radek is released. The move follows the arrest in Switzerland of Karl Radek's wife, the Bolshevik official imprisoned in Germany.
When the boys come home they will ask what YOU have done
A wartime era call to show proof of service and contribution echoed in a patriotic appeal. The message urges citizens to display their income tax receipts as evidence of personal effort for the war. It emphasizes accountability and collective sacrifice from households.
Paris Rumors Link Plot Attempts to Clemenceau
Paris dispatch reports circulating rumors of plots linked to pro German and extremist groups in connection with Premier Clemenceau. An assassination attempt left him wounded but not in danger, with officials optimistic he will return to work within hours.
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German troops withdraw from Elberfeld amid riverfront fighting
Feb 21 report says German forces under Ma Koch’s orders fought into noon before withdrawing to hold the Rhine frontier. Spartacans reportedly seized the Rheinsbank at Muelheim as the area remained in a neutral zone along the river.
Deportation of Joachim and Wife Reported from Copenhagen
Copenhagen reports that PH Joachim and his wife were arrested in aria and deported to Munich per a Munich dispatch. Local police provided no further details on the case or charges.
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Allied Forces Set to Field Against Germany
Paris dispatch reports that the inter allied army will soon be in the field to press the war, with finance and manpower curbed. The note cites figures of roughly 1,450,000 troops and British and Belgian forces totaling 100,000 in the action.
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