Bond Election Authorizes 1.5 Million in County Road Improvements
Western states report a county bond election passing by more than four to one to finance road improvements totaling 1,500,900 dollars. Other items note influenza mask orders in Victoria, a jail raid in Seattle, desertion cases on Mare Island, and various war and postwar updates including troop counts, naturalization changes, and transportation plans.
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Victoria
J. Cassidy
International Weekly
Seattle
Colorado
Wyoming
Arizona
New Mexico
United States Army
Naval
Oakland Police
Yeomanette
Irene Burke
Mare “Island
Juneau
Alaska
Peter Jackson
United States
Clyde D. Calhoun
Craig
Jackson
Kilauea
Hugh Campbell Wallace
France
Wilson
Democratic Party
Democratic National
Washington
South San Francisco
Calor
Davy
Honolulu
William Ragsdale
Naturalization Bureau
Bureau of Naturalization
Salt Lake City
San Francisco
William H. Swanson
Frederick Porter
Pacific Aero Club
World War Era News Roundup of Battles and Politics
Reports from Petrograd, Kadish and Sebastopol outline food shortages, frontline actions, and ships driven ashore. Poland resists German pressure, Greece remains largely unscathed, and Japan denies pressuring China. Athens stays largely prewar in feel while Germany outlines a new program. The piece notes naval operations, sports, prices, embezzlement, and societal shifts including women’s suffrage in Wisconsin and Cuban compulsory service ending.
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W. D. Childs
Western Union Telegraph Company
Russia
Petrograd
Kadish
Archangel
British War Office
Qmsk
Japan
Rick
Rotterdam
Bergen
Christianstad
Sebastopol
Posen
Germany
United States
Geneva
Viscount Jellicoe
Lord Kitchener
Hampshire
Havas Agency
Viscount Chinda
Great Britain
Paris
China
Ceae
Greece
Athens
Berlin
Mining and Oil News Outlook for Phoenix Area Ventures
Plans to double United Verde Copper Company productivity advance rapidly. Apache Oil completes first well south of Holbrook and aims to keep pace with neighbors mining oil sands. Verde Squaw prepares deeper drilling after 465 feet of lateral work. Hopi Oil section progresses under Senator Mayfield with C. E. Major guidance. Daisy group near Don Luis develops 13 patented claims adjoining White Tail Deer and Bisbee West. Consolidated Arizona Smelting at Humboldt ships 1,070,000 pounds copper in January. Blue Bell and De Soto mines total 12,600 ore shipped to reduction works, up from December.
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Apache Oil Company
Holbrook
Verde Squaw Company
Hopi Oil Company
Senator Mayfield
South Carolina
Blue Bell
de Soto
Caribou silver mine resumes shipments in Boulder county
The Caribou mine at Caribou in Boulder county reports three feet of ore with ore grading about 3000 ounces of silver per ton. Cripple Creek district notes a Mines of Colorado review of developments since 1906 and the Roosevelt tunnel level shows high grade ore. Vindicator Consolidated Old Mining resumes diamond drill exploration as leases yield regular shipments and ferrochrome talks advance.
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Caribou
Boulder County
Colorado School of Mines
Cripple Creek
United States Geological Survey
Roosevelt Tunnel
Portland Gold Mining Company
Utah Junction
Vindicator Consolidated Old Mining Company
Armistice Ends Montana Manganese Industry Tied to War Shipping
The November 11 1918 armistice ends manganese production in Montana as Brazil and Cuba imports flood markets at lower costs. Butte Miners strike resumes over a $1 daily wage cut, halting Emina mine output of 400 tons daily. Phillipsburg and Butte lose hundreds of jobs. Great Falls plant and Ophir mill cut workers. Davis-Daly mines small by-product manganese. Great Falls ferro manganese capacity reaches 9 000 tons monthly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montana
Brazil
Cuba
Butte Metal Miners’ Union
Independent
Metal Mine Workers’ Industrial Union No. 800
Butte
Emina
Phillipsburg
Great Falls
Ophir
Butte-Detroit Mining Company
Davis-Daly Mining Company
Waldo Zinc Smelter to Add New Unit Doubling Capacity
Grubnau Bryant and Grubnau owners announce immediate construction of a new unit at the Waldo zinc smelter, about fifty miles north of Albuquerque. The plant has grown with little public notice but is now one of New Mexico's most important local industries.
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Grubnau
Bryant and
Waldo
Albuquerque
Wyoming oil promoter faces four Texas charges
Edward Lovewell, once of Caspar Wyoming and Denver, linked to Hecla Wyoming Oil, faces four charges in Texas courts tied to a Burkburnett field promotion. Delmonte Oil, backed by Salt Lake City capital, drills a test well in Salt Creek Wyoming, 3 475 feet deep, the deepest in the field.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward Lovewell
Casper
Wyo
Denver
Hecla-Wyoming Oil Company
Texas
Burkburnett
Delmonte Oil Company
Salt Lake City Capital
Salt Creek
Wyoming
Arizona Items Highlight State Happenings and Economic Shifts
Arizona news outlines include state actions on oil company records and a new Jerome telephone district upgrade, plus a pilot project for a State Veterinary Board. Weather notes report heavy snow in the White Mountains and fuel shortages at Fort Apache. Bills address deportation of draft dodgers, fraudulent advertising penalties, and mining industry tensions with a rail rate protest.
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Arizona
State Corporation Commission
Jerome
Commission
Clarksdale
Forts to Be Destroyed Armistice
Army orders announce destruction of forts under armistice terms. Military brief notes detonation and removal plans by engineers, with no civilian impact detailed.
Germany is disarmed after armistice terms agreed
Berlin dispatch reports German acceptance of renewed armistice terms presented by Marshal Foch. Erzberger read the document to the National Assembly and warned against further heavy hours. Disarmament plans include both land and naval forces and may lead to dismantling Heligoland fortifications and Kiel canal openings.
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London
Mathias Erzberzer
Weimar
Treves
National Assembly
Lerzberger
Poland
Baltic Sea
Foch
Heligoland
Kiel Canal
Chicago Packing House Workers Get 10 Percent Raise
Judge Alschuler announced a retroactive ten percent wage advance to November 10 for about 85 000 packing house employees. The award also grants two and a half cents an hour for workers under 21 earning less than forty two and a half cents. The ruling addresses minor complaints amid cost estimates of around 15 million dollars annually.
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Chicago
Alschuler
Ship Refuses Peace Party Delegation at Cape Town
The British steamer Durham Castle sailed from Cape Town without the South African Nationalists delegates who sought to reach Paris for the peace conference. The crew refused to man the ship if the delegation traveled aboard.
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Cape,Town
South Africa
Cape Town
Paris
Wilson approves more railway troops for Archangel
Washington reports the withdrawal of American and allied forces from north Russia will begin when spring weather allows. President Wilson approves sending two additional companies of American railway troops to Archangel to speed movement and bolster supply lines, per General Bliss.
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Washington
Russia
Wilson
Archangel
War Department
Tasker H. Bliss
Paris
Chamberlain
Senate
House
Baker
Order of the Cootie Formed Among Allied Forces on Rhine
The Order of the Cootie was organized among American forces on the Rhine. The crest shows a cootie rampant with the motto Coot Mit Uns. Eligibility is limited to veterans with three months of scratching experience.
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Coblenz
Rhine
Full French Losses in War Report
Full list of French naval losses published includes four battleships the Danton Suffren Gaulois and Courbet plus four armed cruisers Leon Gambetta Amiral Charner Cleber and Du Petit Thouars and one fast cruiser Chateau Renault. Also fourteen destroyers eight torpedo boats and fourteen submarines were lost totaling about 110000 tons versus England 550000 Italy 76000 and the United States 17500 tons.
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Aris
3Ouvet
Suffren
Gaulois
Danton
Leon Gambetta
Amiral Charner
Cleber
Dupetit Thouars
Chateau Renault
England
Italy
United States
Hungarian Patent Weights and Discount Terms
The record shows Hungarian items listed with weights 98 Ibs 48 Ibs and 24 Ibs. Entries mention sacked goods, subject to discount, and shorthand terms that appear to describe packaging or accounting notes. No clear event or outcome is provided.
Metal Markets and Cash Grain Prices Mixed in Chicago Reports
Metal markets show bar silver at 1.01 per ounce copper at 4s 18 per pound lead at 5.00 spelter 6.36 tungsten 12.00 per unit. Cash grain in Chicago lists various futures and spot quotes for corn oats rye barley timothy Proverbs. pork and lard prices noted with ribs around 23 to 24 dollars.
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Nebraska
Colorado
South Park
Gunnison Valley
Chicago
Ecaur
Sugar Prices in New York Market Summary
Raw sugar steady at 7.28 per cen trifugal. Cut loaf 10.50, crushed 10.25, mold A 9.50, cubes 9.75, XXXX powdered 9.20, powdered 9.15, fine granulated 9.00, diamond A 9.00, confectioners A 8.901, No 1 8.85.
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New York
Chicago Live Stock Prices Reported for Hogs Cattle and Sheep
Chicago markets show hogs at 15.50 to 18.10 per hundredweight with ranges for light and packing stock. Beef cattle list values from 5.50 to 20.25, including butcher stock, stockers, and calves. Sheep quotes cover lambs and ewes from 9.75 to 17.50 with grades listed from culls to prime.
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B. Denver
Colo
Chicago
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Western Newspaper Union News Service
Siberia
United States Liquidation Commission
Edwin B. Parker
Houston
Tex
Lansing
Society of Nations
National Board of Farm Organizations
Congress
War College
Post Office Department
Blakslee
Navy
Annapolis
University of Pennsylvania
Wladek Zbyszko
Arvid Anderson
Boston
St Louis
Alfredo de Oro
Augie Kieckkhefer
West Philadelphia
J. S. Swartz
Park Bank of Pittsburg
State Examiner
Mercy Hospital
Mark I. Requa
Standard Oil
Fuel Administration
Monroe
Mich
Northwesterniversity
Mining and Oil News
Western Newspaper
Union News Service
United Verde Copper Company
Arizona Oil and Refiing Company
BE. A. Edwards Dil Company
White Mountains
Fort Apache
United States Weather Bureau
Phoenix
George J. Henry
Arizona Veterinary Association
Association
Holbrook Oil Company
George D. Meiklejohn
Mexico
Nogales
Garcia Zertuche
Legislature
Hayward
Cochise County
Junction
Calumet & Arizona Mining Company
Dean-Arizona
Denn
United States Railroad Administration
Bisbee
Supreme Court
Rice Bogan
Yuma
Henry Butler
Niland
Cal
Douglas Y. M. C. A
Department of Justice
United Verde
United Verde Extension
Third United States Infantry
Ship
Order of
Denver Markets
Carjoad
Duvine
Aia
Avesta
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