War News From The War Fronts And Diplomacy
Summary of global wartime developments including Russia and Germany armistice talks, Ecuador severing ties with Germany, Congress declaring war on Austria-Hungary, and the Don region revolt. Reports on Cambrai Verdun fronts, Italian front prisoners, and British shipping losses. Rumors of Argentina and Brazil relations surface amid war tensions. Italian air forces mobilize against Austro-German advances. A Russian government proclamation cites Kale dines and Korniloff revolts with aid from constitutional democrats and bourgeoisie.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ecuador
Germany
Congress
Austria-Hungary
Wilson
Berlin
Havana
Menocal
Cuba
Asiago
Diaz
Italy
Three Sidney Girls Raise Money to Help Sammies
Three Sidney Nebraska girls collected funds to supply more than 400 soldiers in the Sammies program with tobacco for a week. Col Fred S Breen of Flagstaff Arizona resigns as disbursing officer for Arizona under the selective service law. Denver post office alerts Miss L Elwinna Kennedy postmistress at Colter Wyoming of her death. Three pacifists in Los Angeles convicted on disorderly conduct charges each sentenced to six months in jail and fined 1200 dollars. Tobacco prices hit a new high in Louisville Kentucky as 103 hogsheads of old barley coal type sold at 40 cents a pound for over 40000 dollars. Utah bakers at Ogden plan a 15 cent loaf to comply with food administration wheat and labor conservation guidelines.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fred S. Breen
Flagstaff
Ariz
Arizona
Denver
L. Elwinna Kennedy
Colter
Wyo
Los Angeles
Cal
Louisville
Master Bakers of
Utah
Ogden
Food Administration
Democratic suffrage committee chosen in new House
Washington reports that Democratic members of the new House suffrage committee, headed by Representative Baker of California, were selected. Cabinet women are active in Washington, setting the pace for President Wilson's official family as a government life insurance act for soldiers and sailors operates for a little over a month with 64 168 applications totaling 552 093 000 dollars. Coal dealers refusing to cooperate with the fuel administration will be removed from business, according to Fuel Administrator Garfield.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New House
Representative Baker
California
Washington
Wilson
Secretary of the Treasury
Fuel Administration
Garfield
Russian evasions widen rift as war toll rises globally
Reports from Berlin and London describe evasive responses from German delegates while Russian famine claims mount after Kerensky era. In North America and Europe, ships are sunk, explosions seize Ireland, and Halifax endures a deadly blizzard aftermath with thousands left homeless. Global reactions praise Wilson and Belgium aids, with Pershing empowered to allocate resources amid wartime strain.
Indiana University Plunging Fullback Enlists in Army
Linn W. Howard of Ripon Wisconsin quits school to enlist as a first class mechanic in the United States army quartermaster department. Assigned to Fort Thomas Kentucky, he leaves for that post. An nouncement from New York by A L Barlocker of the Westchester Racing Association notes Futurity of 1920 with a $30000 guaranteed value. Dave Brister wins ten hour endurance at the Denver Athletic Club with 1954. Lou Robinson second 1903 Stephens 185. Thomas W. Ames of Ishawooa Wyoming visits the capital seeking thoroughbred and Morgan sires for army horse production on his ranches.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Linn W. Howard
Ripon
Wis
Indiana University
Quartermaster Department
United States Army
Fort Thomas
New York
A. McL. Barlocker
Westchester Racing Association
Dave Brister
Denver Athletic Club
Lou Robinson
Stephens
Thomas W. Ames
Ishawooa
Wyo
Big Horn Basin
General News Highlights of Early 1920s Events
The wire reports note a likely 87 cent minimum silver price and crude oil price moves by Pittsburgh agencies. Robbers in Culver City stole 10000 dollars from the Commercial and Savings Bank after posing as filmmakers. Ezra Goddard, editor of the Jolly Elk, died in Minneapolis from heart trouble. About 2 million rounds of small arms ammo seized on the Mexican border were delivered to Mexico per War Department orders lifting the embargo. Winona trappers propose muskrat meat to ease the national food problem, citing over a million pounds wasted along the upper Mississippi. Mexican consul in Brownsville reports 70 bandits killed in battle at Agulegunas Neuve Leon. Six mess halls at Camp Sevier were destroyed by fire from a kitchen flue. President Wilson refused to pardon Samuel V. Perrott, former Indianapolis police chief, now imprisoned for election-law violations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ezra
Billy) Goddard
Jolly Elk
The
Elks
Minnesota
Bill
Minneapolis
War Department
Winona, Minn
Association of Commerce
Mississippi Valley
Brownsville
Tex
Agulegunas
Neuve Leon
Thirtieth National Guard
Camp Sevier
Greenville
S. C
Wilson
Samuel V. Perrott
Indianapolis
Arizona News Roundup From The Copper State
Arizona reports sewer Extension in Tucson. Campaigns for Red Cross Christmas seats and war savings drives. Clarkdale in Prescott gamble inquiry. Gila valley hog farming grows. Edward L. Shaw named explosives inspector. Edgar Spencer charged with theft in Jerome district. Father Gheldorf home at Ajo indicates future Catholic church. Unknown Mexican Indian murder near Wickenburg noted. Tucson railroad worker John J. Connor faces desertion charge. Otto Mechke 71, Tucson engineer, dies. Copper output and shipments highlight industry. Chilean and Mexican ore trade via Douglas port. War effort fundraisers by Old Dominion and Y M C A. Major Neustatter to tour state. Bishopric changes in Graham county. Boy Scouts and veterans activity. Governor Campbell urged to keep roads and bridges active. Loyalty League support for copper industry. Arizona copper tonnage projected near 750 million pounds. Arizona Mining Congress release.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Western
Union News Service
Tucson
Red Cross
Arizona
Clarkdale
Prescott
Gila Valley
Graham County
Edward L. Shaw
Phoenix
Jerome
Edgar Spencer
Cottonwood
Ajo
Father Gheldorf
Wickenburg
John J. Connor
New York
Southwest
Otto Mechke
James R. Welker
Layton Ward
Joseph W. Greenhalgh
National
United States
James I. McClintock
Ray Consolidated Copper Company
Mexico
Douglas Port of Entry
Flagstaff
Thomas E. Campbell
Thomas Maddock
Miles Merrill
Bisbee
Loyalty League of America
Joseph E. Curry
American Mining Congress
Towns Razed As Five Thousand Injuries Reported
A disaster leaves thousands injured and significant damage as buildings are torn to pieces. Part of multiple towns are razed and debris blocks roads while emergency crews aid victims and assess the wreckage.
Halifax disaster voice reports massive casualties and devastation
Reports indicate over 5,000 dead and thousands injured after a catastrophic Halifax event. Twenty five wagon loads of bodies were taken to a morgue, and two miles of freight cars were derailed and scattered. Many houses shook and telecommunication lines failed, with vessels overturned and a railway station collapse burying hundreds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Halifax
Canadian Pacific
Halifax Disaster Toll Grows After Explosion and Fire
United States and Halifax reports put the confirmed deaths in Halifax harbor and North Dartmouth at several thousand as Mont Blanc and Imo collision and resulting fire devastate the city. Temporary morgues line streets while救援 workers comb the ruins.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Halifax
N. S
Mont Blanc
Imo
Belgian Relief Commission
Dominion
Colorado metal prices and Cripple Creek output for November
Western Newspaper Union reports bar silver at 85 cents, copper $23.17, lead $6.25, spelter $7.71, tungsten concentrates $26 per unit. Boulder list shows 60 percent tungsten concentrates at $20 and various crude ores. Cripple Creek district November output totals 95,358 tons valued at $1,044,697, with Golden Cycle, Portland, Victor and other mills contributing.
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Colorado
Boulder
Cripple Creek
MILLS
Golden Cycle
Colo. Springs
Portland
Colo
Springs
Denver
Cig
Independence
Victor
Copper District Output Returns to Normal in Warren Arizona
Warren district in Arizona resumes normal ore output as the largest single copper-producing division recovers. Diamond drilling starts at Magma Chief Copper Co property in Superior. Word from Dos Cabezas says Gold Ridge Mining Co opens a large gold and silver ledge. Midway Oil Co annual meeting in Phoenix elects L V Engman, Paul B Gaylord, Arnold Nydegger, and Floyd J Wilson as directors. Engman is named president, Gaylord vice president, Nydegger secretary, D H Staley assistant secretary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Warren
Arizona
Magma Chief Copper Company
Superior
Bisbee
Dos Cabezas
Gold Ridge Mining Company
Midway Oil Company
Phoenix
L. V. Engman
Denver
Paul B. Gaylord
Arnold Nydegger
Colorado Springs
Floyd J. Wilson
Mining activity updates across Colorado and nearby regions
Work at the Griffith well east of Colorado Springs continues. The Annex mine in Lake Gulch Gilpin County is reopening after years idle. In Boulder County the Up-to-Date mines report high grade ore from a reopened deep shoot. United Gold Mines of Cripple Creek declares a Christmas dividend of 1 cent a share totaling $40,000. The Matchless mine at Fryerhill Leadville, owned by the widow of Senator H A W Tabor, is being explored to unlock ore yielding 600 ounces silver per ton.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Colorado Springs
Lake Gulch
Gilpin County
Boulder County
United Gold Mines Company of
Cripple Creek
Fryerhill
Leadville
H. A. W. Tabor
Oil City Derricks reports November oil well completions
Agencies in Pittsburg noted 186 wells completed in November under the Oil City Derricks monthly report. Secretary Lane issued potash prospecting permit regulations for public lands. Anaconda Copper Company mined 12,200 tons of ore from twenty mines, 3,300 tons below normal output.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburg
Oil City
Lane
Anaconda Copper Company
Mining Firms File Incorporation Papers in Four Local Companies
Alhambra Silver Mining Co of Silver City files articles in the State Corporation Commission with 1500 capital. Encino Basin Oil & Refining Co reports Encino office. Dored Mining Co of Derry, Sierra County, capital 500000. Cleveland & Weatherhead merge Deadwood Sun Burst Mines and Mill into Deadwood Mining Co. Morgallon mine ships ~30 bars monthly plus concentrates. Copper properties Chino Utah Copper Ray Consolidated Nevada Consolidated combined first ten months yield 384,970,000 pounds versus 367,697,000 pounds same period in 1916.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State Corporation Commission
Encino Basin Oil & Refining Co
Encino
Dored Mining Company
Derry
Sierra County
Cleveland & Weatherhead
Deadwood
Chino
Utah Copper
Ray Consolidated
Nevada Consolidated
Denver druggist slain by bandit
A bandit shot and killed Dr Henry Mogensen 40, owner of a Denver drug store, as he tried to stop the assailant fleeing after he held up and shot J W Clark of a jewelry store at 705 Eighteenth Street and then escaped in a car at the northeast corner of Eighteenth and California.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Denver
J. W. Clark
Eighteenth Street
Henry Mogensen
Eighteenth
California
Oil Drilling Moves In Wyoming Fields
Casper-Embarwell No 1 in Hidden Dome reports over 300 feet to go as drilling continues. Two veteran oilmen lease 417 acres at Pilot for exploration and development. John H Nolan of California Midway Oil Co Los Angeles leases 1200 acres of Hale claims twelve miles east of Thermopolis.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hidden Dome
Pilot
John H. Nolan
California Midway Oil Company of
Los Angeles
Hale Claims
Thermopolis
Kidney Trouble Backache Relief Ad
An advertisement promotes Dr Kilmer Swamp Root as a remedy for kidney and bladder issues. It claims quick results and nationwide availability. Readers are urged to buy a bottle or send ten cents for a sample from Dr Kilmer Co. in Binghamton New York.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dr. Kilmer & Co
Binghamton, N. Y
Out of Debt
A reflective musing on the burden of debt and the uneasy feeling of financial freedom. The piece likens escaping debt to a fish out of water, exploring relief and instability that accompany new liberty from monetary obligations.
Hall's Catarrh Medicine Ad Offers $100 Cure
Frank J. Cheney, senior partner of F. J. Cheney & Co. in Toledo, pledges one hundred dollars for any catarrh case not cured by Hall's Catarrh Medicine. The sworn claim appeared before a notary on December 6 in Toledo Ohio, with the medicine advertised as blood-acting internal remedy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State of Ohio
Toledo
Bucas County
Frank J. Cheney
F. J
A. D
W. Gleason
F. J. Cheney & Co
Ohio
D Annunzio Helped Italy Enter World War
The poet aviator D Annunzio pivotal in steering Italy into the war in 1915. His Quarto address spurred public ardor and pressured Giolitti to yield, with 150000 greeting him in Rome and Parliament declaring war.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
D’annunzio
Italy
New York Evening Post
Giolitti
Quarto
Garibaldi
Rome
Salandra
Piazza Delle Terme
Chamber of Deputies
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Sidney, Neb
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Kerensky
Francisco Villa
Ojinaga
Presidio
Texas
Dublin Evening Mail
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Great Britain
North China Daily News
London
Japan
Belgium
Pershing
Justice Harris
Citizen’s Finance Committee
SPORT
Pittsburgh
Culver City
Arizona State News
Queen Creek Copper Company
Old Dominion Copper Company
Globe
Consolidated Arizona Smelting Company
Major Neustatter
Boy Scout
A. S. Embree
Western Newspaper Union News Service
Halifax Harbor
Dartmouth
Navy Department
Navy Dispatch
Richmond
North Street
Pier Eight
Gottingen Street
American Sugar Refining Company
War Office
Western Newspaper
Tollow
Montana
New Mexico
Alhambra Silver Mining Company of
Silver City
Wyoming
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