War News Snippets From Fronts and Home Front
Reports from the European theaters detail French counterattacks near Verdun and German advances in Moldavia and Wallachia. Villa forces claimed Saltillo, while Rio Danube actions threaten Braila and Rimnik Sarat. U.S. exports to Italy surge. the draft ages remain liable. a 1918 bond plan seeks deficit relief. world wheat output sits at about 75 percent of last year.
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Upoo
Moldavia
Meuse
Verdun
le Mort Homme
The
Somme
Douglas Haig
Rimnik-Sarat
Dobrudja
Braila
Berlin
Villa
el Paso
Texas
Saltillo
Coahuila
Torreon
Monterey
Carranza
Wilson
Congress
Treasury
Washington
Department of Agriculture
International Institute of Agriculture At
Rome
Nations seek peace and wartime unrest across Europe
A wide set of notes reports Austria backing peace to President Wilson while Joffre is named marshal of France. Other items include sinking of the Norwegian steamer Saos, wreck of Sankaku Maru with 300 dead, rail collisions in Canada, resignations in Austria, and bodies of civilians killed in East Prussia in 1914. Also covered are Carranza family travel, daylight saving forecast, oil field claims, copper prices, and a Dickens edition sale in New York.
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Wilson
Austria
Lloyd’s
Venustiano Carranza
Nuevo Laredo
United States
Mexico
Villa
London Times
London
William W. Rutherford
Liverpool
Mme de Thebes
Queen Victoria
President Carnot
France
San Francisco
Meung sur-Loire
Anne de Savigny
Lencho
Sonora
Carranza
Douglas
Aziz
Mori
Arthur Swann
American Art Galleries
New York
Late Market Quotations for Cattle and Hogs
Market quotes show steers and heifers priced by quality and feeding type, with hay fed and grassers listed from about 4.50 to 8.25 per hundredweight. Cows, veal calves, feeding cows, breeding heifers, and stockers appear with varying bids, alongside hogs, sheep, and feeder lambs. Hay and grain prices include Denver and Nebraska ton rates for hay, with wheat, oats, corn, bran, and flour also quoted.
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OIC Oisic
Cess
Cvigio
Vivian Escoarenn
Sliven
Bianfolle
Tie Cleaiacn
Ovsne'ese
Asec
Live Poultry Price List From Denver Market
Prices for live poultry not F O B Denver list hens five pounds and over at 15 cents per pound and hens under five pounds at 13 cents. Turkeys ten pounds or over at 20 to 22 cents per pound. Young ducks at 5 to 13 cents per pound. Includes notes on other poultry and vegetables.
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F. O. B. Denver
Eitipes
Ccoys Cceielsiere Peeibe
Irooseder
Aie
Cisisnigvs Viersrereeipearste
Eikie
Ecssaec Ees Geero
Vegies Coucrel Pieicieresie Daa
Prices and grades for eggs fruits and vegetables
A list shows eggs graded No. 1 and No. 2 net F O B Maryland and other packing and pricing details. Butter creamery prices for first and second grade, apples pears and various vegetables with box and per pound rates. Other items include celery onions cabbage and carrots with price ranges.
Metal Market Quotations and Concentrates
Prices for spelter and lead quoted per 100 pounds in St. Louis and New York. Tungsten concentrates at 60 percent valued at 15.00 per unit. Crude ores 60 percent 15.00, 25 percent 9.40, 12.00 and 10 percent 8.70 10.00 per unit.
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Barneil Vier No
Concastro Spelter
St. Louis
New York
Coppee Nkchetins Cocks Sic
Boulder
Chicago Produce Prices on Potatoes and Poultry
Chicago market reports Washington Idaho Colorado and Oregon white potatoes at 1.70 1.80, Michigan white 1.70 1.75, Wisconsin white 1.60 1.70, 18 percent 4c, turkeys 23c. Poultry fowls 1744 18c, springs.
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Chicago
Washington
Idaho
Colorado
Oregon
Michigan
Wisconsin
Springs
Chicago Grain and Provisions Prices Summary
Chicago market notes show wheat Nos 2 and 8 red and Nos 2 and 3 hard listed as nominal. Corn ranges include No 2 yellow 92 to 92 1/2 cents, No 4 yellow 88 to 90, and No 4 white 89 to 90 1/2 cents. Oats No 3 white 51 1/2 to 52 1/2 cents, standard 52 to 53. Rye No 2 nominal. Barley 85 cents to 1.22. Timothy 3.50 to 5.50. Clover 12.00 to 17.00. Pork 28.53. Lard 16.20. Ribs 13.25 to 13.87.
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Colo
Nebraska
Colorado
Cs .P
Ss. P
Chicago
Flax Prices At Duluth May And July Bids
The Duluth Minnesota linseed market shows May flax at 52.9014 bid and July at 2.89 nominal. The figures reflect trading terms and market quotes for flaxseed futures.
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Duluth
Minn
Villa Forces Advance Toward Chihuahua City After Defeat
Juarez reports Carranza troops defeat Villa forces at Bustillos and seize several towns. Villa, moving north with about 5000 men toward the state capital, prompts fears the Carranza commander may be forced to evacuate Chihuahua City for the border. Sixty Villa prisoners were executed.
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Union News Service
Juarez
Mexico
Carranza
Bustillos
Chihuahua City
Villa
Juan Murga
San Antonio
Cusihuiriachic
Guerrero
Julio Acosta
Pedernales
Cusihuirachic
el Paso
Tex
Francisco Villa
Concho
Bustamante
Santa Rosalia
Jiminez
Murguia
Teutons gain ground in Rumania and pressure Verdun
London reports dawn 1917 finds armies largely deadlocked except in Rumania where Teutonic forces press the Danube front near Braila and Fokshany. Russian and Rumanian troops withdraw with new positions taken. In Verdun the Germans failed a surprise attack east of Chambrettes farm.
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London
Rumania
Braila
Danube
Fokshany
Petrograd
Verdun
Chambrettes
Paris
New Year Wishes to Wilson From World Leaders
Washington marked the day with fewer official ceremonies as President Wilson skipped the New Year reception and Secretary Lansing avoided the traditional diplomatic breakfast. Secretaries Baker and Daniels hosted receptions while cablegrams from rulers of belligerent and neutral nations and presidents of American republics arrived at the White House.
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Washington
Wilson
Lansing
Baker
War Department
Daniels
Navy
White House
Europe
Central American
De Baca Sworn In as New Mexico Governor
Esequiel C. de Baca took the oath of governor at St. Vincent's sanitarium in the presence of a few personal friends and political intimates.
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de Baca
Santa Fé, N. M
Esequiel C. de Baca
St. Vincent’s Sanitarium
Campbell inaugurated Arizona governor amid locked offices
Thomas E. Campbell, Republican, was inaugurated as Arizona governor with no ceremony as incumbent G. W. P. Hunt retained the office and found the executive offices locked. Campbell addressed a large Capitol crowd after official canvassing showed him ahead by 30 votes.
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Campbell
Phoenix
Ariz
Thomas E. Campbell
Rep
Arizona
G. W. P. Hunt
Capitol
Hunt
Arizona state happenings and mining notes roundup
A broad digest from Bisbee to Globe, Chandler to Kingman covers events and economy. Items include fair and convention calendars, post office gains, new bridges, burglaries, a governor-elect certificate, arrests in Tucson, phantom horse prosecutions, mining outputs and ore grades, a new Mascot post office, snowfall near Warren, and farming and road projects in southern Arizona.
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Arizona
Phoenix
Ajo
Tucson
Jerome
Chandler
Gila River
Wilkelman
Bisbee
Thos. Campbell
Bufford
J. J. Ward
M. C. Turney
Omaha
Coconino County
Harry Kendall
John
Nelson Simpson
Crooks Canyon
Wagner
Leek
Fessler
Patagonia
Switzerland tops per capita spending on poor relief
Switzerland, relative to its population, spends more on poor relief than any other nation, highlighting its generous social welfare commitments and administrative approach compared with peer countries.
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Switzerland
Danderine Claims Dandruff-Free Glossy Hair
An advertisement extols Knowlton's Danderine as a remedy for dandruff delivering immediate relief and shinier, fuller hair. It warns that dandruff harms scalp health and hair vitality, urging readers to buy a 25-cent bottle from any drug store and try it.
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Knowlton
The People's Physique and the Change in Motion
The Mobile Register discusses how widespread automobile use reduces physical exertion for farmers and workers. It questions whether ease and softer travel improve overall health and fitness as machinery replaces strenuous open air labor.
Rat Prophesies Wreck Fate in Connemara Sinking
A Greenore witness recalled a large rat leaping from a hamper as the C onnemara sank in the Irish Sea. Patrick Killen, a cattleman, warned the crew to flee the ship, saying the sign boded disaster. He barely returned aboard when urged by a railway man.
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Connemara
Irish Sea
Greenore
Patrick Killen
London Globe
No News
A terse dialogue unfolds between a teacher and a father about money and a daughter’s conduct in a period voice, suggesting a domestic or schoolroom vignette rather than a formal news item. The exchange centers on perceived value and accountability, with no external events described.
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Mesopotamia
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Tigris
Brody
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Nev
Southern Pacific Railroad
Hagerman State Bank
Hagerman
Montana
Denver
David Caplan
Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles
San Quentin Penitentiary
Italy
Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce
National Guard
Iwar Department
Government of the Guard
National Defense Act
Gen
Joffre
Poincare
Budapest
Chefoo
Tokio
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Cornwall
St. Polycarpe
Vienna
Rudolf Seighart
Austrian Land Credit Bank
Charles
Ritter von Leth
East Prussia
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Sporting News
Frankie Russell
New Orleans
Jim Hanlon
Harry Sherman
Minneapolis
Mike Gibbons
Les Darcy
Jack Read
Biffer
Sailor Kirke
California
National Athletic Club
Kirke
Frank Isbell
Des Moines Club
Wichita, Kan
Wichita
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Oklo
W. S. Goldsworthy
Santa Fé Railroad
Boston
Honora May O’brien
John B. Manning
New Mexico
State Corporation Commission
Santa Fé
Wisirote
Pt Cits
Colorado Upland
Nebraska Upland
South Park
San Luis Valley
Gunnison Valley
Mdot el Eso
Atetableie S. Ators
Callcare
D5dicivisie
H. Gr
Cbieiy Ali
Ipolalges
Metal Market
Chihuahua
Carranza Force
Teutons
Arizona State News
Bisbee Poultry and Pet Stock Association
of Arizona Federation of Women’s Clubs
Globe
Arine Cattle Growers’ Association
Obe
Mascot
Cochise County
Lilly A.C. Hauser
Warren District
Nogales
Goldroad
Supreme Court
B. M. Clements
Mark Twain
Mississippi
Chloride
Pioneer District
Superior
Shattuck
University of Arizona
Arizona Eastern
Doymoine Steeper
O’fallen
Kingman
A. M. Clapp
Tennessee
Golconda
Jerome St. Louis Copper Mining Company
Sullivan-Burke
Jerome-Portland
Green Monster
Iron King
Messrs. Copley
Williams
Jack Degman
Elkhart Mines Company
Hayden
Nimo
Dean
Wyoming
Aron Holm
Cody
Wyo
Doan
Boz Doan
Foster-Milburn CO
Buffalo
N. Y
Fletcher
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