American hero with artificial feet becomes airman in war
Owen Cobb Holleran of Atlanta lost part of both feet but refused defeat. After an amputations in Serbia he adapted to artificial feet and trained as a pilot in the British air service, rising to captain and flight commander before later honorably discharged from the Dublin Fusiliers.
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Atlanta
Dublin
Fusileers
British Air Service
Huns
France
Owen Cobb Holleran
Owen
Holleran
Holloran
E. G. Lowry
London
United States Army
Captain Lowry
Southern Bell Telephone Company
Gray
New York
Scotland Yard
Dublin Fusileers
Gallipoli
Egypt
Serbia
Georgia
South Carolina
England
Cliveden Hospital
Air Force
Dublin Fusiliers
Hero of Zeebrugge Captain Carpenter of Vindictive
A New York report recounts Captain Carpenter of HMS Vindictive arrival after the Zeebrugge raid and his ship’s battered condition. It also notes Captain Holleran, missing after a daylight bombing raid, captured by the Germans as aviators played a baseball game amid war chatter.
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Captain Carpenter
H. M. S. Vindictive
New York
Castor Oil Imports Boost U.S. Airplane Power
Seattle import surge from the Orient brings thousands of gallons of castor oil, a key airplane motor lubricant. Domestic production lagged after a failed castor bean crop, but Orient crops flourished, fueling expectations of higher oil flow with mail routes expansion.
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Seattle
Wash
Orient
America
United States
Judge Freesman With Flu Freezes Court Dismissal
Walter Sanowski appeared in criminal court in Pittsburgh and was released after a doctor diagnosed influenza. The judge ordered the case dismissed and Sanowski was taken to a hospital as the court adjourned.
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Pittsburgh
Walter Sanowski
Criminal Court
Sanowski
Captured Hun Band Plays Our Anthem
Corporal Ewan W. Allan reports a German regimental band of 60 prisoners in France played The Star Spangled Banner. The surprise attack without a barrage preceded their capture and the performance was credited as creditable by Allan.
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Pittsburgh
France
Ewan W. Allan
Three Hundred and Ninetieth Infantry
Allan
Western mining and metal prices report
Western Newspaper Union News Service lists Denver metal prices with bar silver at 1.01 percent, copper 2.556 cents per pound, lead at 7.05 dollars, spelter 8.12 dollars, and tungsten concentrates at 17.00 to 20.00 dollars per unit.
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Denver
Copper Firms Announce Dividends and Output Figures
The Old Dominion Copper Company declares a quarterly dividend of 1 a share payable Dec 31 to holders of record Dec 17 and denies a Jan 1 shutdown at Shan non Clifton. Shattuck Arizona Copper offers 50 cents a share payable Jan 20 to holders of record Dec 31. Greene Cananea reports November outputs of 5.1 million pounds copper 169000 ounces silver and 1330 ounces gold. Shattuck Arizona output for November totals 583655 pounds copper 514127 pounds lead and 11296 ounces silver.
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Old Dominion Copper Company
Shannon
Clifton
J. W. Bennie
Shattuck-Arizona Copper Company
Greene-Cananea Copper Company
The
Shattuck Arizona Company
Ore strikes and mining outlook across Colorado 1918
Reports from the Ward district note R A Duncan taking good ore at Silver Siding. Red Rock Oil Co reorganized with plans to sink a well near Rocky Ford. Ward miners expect oil at Twenty Mile well near Steamboat Springs. Despite the war minerals act, manganese and tungsten futures remain uncertain. Boulder County ends 1918 with silver gains from revived mines. Victoria mine near Salina yields a copper vein with $10-$20 gold and $50-$200 silver per ton. Leadville shipped 60 804 tons of ore with 10-35 percent manganese first half of 1918. production likely to stay high in second half per USGS.
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Red Rock Oil Company
Rocky Ford
Ward
Steamboat Springs
Twenty Mile Oil and Gas Company
Colorado
Boulder County
Victoria
Salina
Leadville
United States Geological Survey
Anaconda Copper Reports Large November Copper Output
The Anaconda Copper Company reports an output of 22,600,000 pounds of copper in November. From April 1 to November 1, 1918, the War Department purchased 2,111,024 half barrels of oils and lubricants valued at $23,809,584 for Department use. Bricklayers finish the Anaconda Mining Company's new Washoe Reduction Works stack, rising 585 feet, the world’s tallest, a monument to the copper firm's engineering.
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Anaconda Copper Company
War Department
Anaconda Mining Company
Washoe Reduction Works
Copper Corporation
New mining activity and company formations in Grant and Chaves counties
Mogollon camps see more workers as mills and mines run near full crews. The Oaks Company connects with the Pacific mine shaft bottom to develop its north end. The New Mexico and Arkansas Oil and Diamond Mining Company files incorporation to develop oil and gas lands in Chaves county at Mogollon. Black Hawk Mining and Milling Company buys 240 acres of fifteen claims near its property, with the Hotchkiss group and others included in a large Grant county deal. Development starts immediately, adjoining Chino Copper Company holdings.
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Oaks Company
Pacific Mine
New Mexico and Arkansas Oil and Diamond Mining Company
State Corporation Commission
Chaves County
Mogolion
Black Hawk Mining and Milling Company
Hotchkiss Group
Grant County
Black Hawk
Chino Copper Company
Oil field notes show deepest well in Ohio and Wyoming anticline plan
The Ohio Oil Company well on section 33 east of the pioneer site reaches 3900 feet but is held by a fishing job. In Wyoming a new field called the National Anticline is planned thirty miles north of Cheyenne with a drilling rig and 3000 feet of casing ordered and drilling to begin within sixty days.
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Ohio Oil Company
Wyoming
Cheyenne
Cooperative Bull Associations Help Small Dairies Cut Costs
The article explains how co operative bull associations let 15 to 30 farmers share five pure bred bulls across five breeding blocks. Bulls rotate every two years to prevent inbreeding, reducing costs and enabling members to build herds with minimal investment.
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Co-Operative Bull Associations
Co-Operative Bull Association
United States Department of Agriculture
Iowa
Minnesota
Massachusetts
Bull Association
Maryland
Michigan
Better Producers: Bull No 1 and Dams Yield Strong Daughters
A study notes 7 daughters from Bull No 1 and 7 dams show 14 of 16 daughters excelling their dams. The average increase of daughters over dams is 30 percent with figures 281.6 226.4 55.2 369.5 1254.0 cited.
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New Windsor
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Navy Department
State, War and Navy
Pennsylvania Avenue
Potomac Park
Army
Zeebrugge
Mander
Hal
Judge Freesman
Western Newspaper Union News Service
Arizona
R. A. Duncan
Silver
Montana
New Mexico
Mogollon
Special Information Service
Cooperative Bull Association
State Agricultural College
Dairy Division
United States Department of
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