War News Briefs From The Front In Europe And Beyond
Berlin reports a French battleship Verite torpedoed near Malta, denied by Paris. Lloyds notes sinking of the British steamer Allie and Danish steamer Ebro and Vik ing. Teutonic advances press Romania as Russian and Romanian forces resist. Greek royal army poised to act per ex-minister Diomede. Braila captured. four Romanian towns taken with 1,400 prisoners. In Courland, Russians attack Mitau and are repulsed with casualties. Riga fighting continues. Mexican filibusters killed or wounded near Zapata. revolutionists seize Ramilene and Parral. Russians attack Fokshani to Fundeni. gains near Obilechti, heavy losses elsewhere. Petrograd says positions near Kapatuna restored and Oituz valley trenches captured.
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Berlin
Malta
Paris
Lloyd’s
Allie
Viking
Rumania
Germany
M. Diomede
Paris Temps
Braila
Courland
Mitau
Riga
New Hampshire
Zapata
Tex
Laredo
Ramilene
Parral
Fokshani
Fundeni
Obilechti
German War Office
Global wartime notes and political shifts reported
Reports from Tokio to London cover officers sailing to European fronts, floods in Holland and Germany, Norway coal talks, Rhine rise, maize trade control, notable deaths including explorer Finlayson and Duke de Dino, tallest woman claim, San Marino embezzlement charge, submarine armament plans for Japan, fortune telling case in London, Austrian cabinet crisis and J Sylvester resignation, and Greece alignment with the Entente on reparations details.
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Tokio
Holland
Germany
London
John Finlayson
Finlayson
Charles Maurice Camille de Tallyrand-Perigord
Duke de Dino
Villa Perigord
Monte Carlo
France
England
America
Olinto Amati
Republic of
San Marino
Republic
Rimini
Atlantic Ocean
Mediterranean Sea
Madame Elmira Brockway
Chicago
West London
Vienna
Lokal Anzeiger
Berlin
Galicia
Francis Joseph
J. Sylvester
Chamber of Deputies
Athens
Reuter
Three masked highwaymen rob $10000 payroll in Tarentum
A payroll of a glass company was seized by three masked highwaymen who held up an express messenger at Tarentum near Pittsburg Pennsylvania, taking ten thousand dollars. A sequence of separate notices follows.
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Tarentum
Pittsburg
Plans for defense of the Adamson act before the Supreme Court
The Justice Department completed defense plans for the Adamson act and prepared the government's brief for Supreme Court submission. An eclipse of the moon began Sunday night at 12:50 a.m. Eastern time, the first of seven in 1917, visible across the United States. President Wilson commuted to life imprisonment the death sentence of ex-soldier William White for murder. Prof. Frank W. Taussig of Harvard joined the tariff commission and may become chair. Senator Owens assailed the Supreme Court at a National Popular Government League meeting, claiming 25 million dollars were spent in 1916 to influence elections.
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Supreme Court
Department of Justice
United States
Naval Observatory
Kansas State
Wilson
William White
James Jackson
Frank W. Taussib
Harvard
Tariff Commission
Supreme Court of the United States
Robert L. Owens
Oklahoma
National Popular Government League
Robert L. Owen
Willard to Fight in Milwaukee on Club Demand
Milwaukee club holds leverage to call Jess Willard into a bout in Milwaukee whenever the club requests his services. The schedule also notes Syracuse University as the sole new opponent in Harvard’s 1917 baseball series, announced from Cambridge. Franklin Isbell returns to Wichita as a citizen, while Tex Jones may join Island Park next season. The Business Men’s Racing Association in New Orleans plans to buy Fairgrounds for 400000 dollars from the New Orleans Jockey Club. St Joseph owner Jack Holland books a spring training trip to Tulsa, Oklahoma.
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Jess Willard
Milwaukee
Syracuse University
Harvard
Cambridge
Harry H. Frazee
Boston American League Baseball Club
Boston
John J
Jack) Barry
Frank Isbell
Wichita
Tex” Jones
Island Park
New Orleans
Fairgrounds
E H Sothern to retire from stage say his physician
In New York the actor E H Sothern was announced as never again appearing on stage by his physician. The report notes a decline due to illness and age, marking the end of a celebrated career on Broadway and in touring companies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E. H. Sothern
New York
Bureau of Social Hygiene
John D. Rockefeller, Jr
Mining and Metal Prices Reported in Western News Service
Western Newspaper Union News Service lists current metals prices with silver at New York 75% and copper at 29.37 per 100 pounds. Lead priced at 7.50 per 100 pounds, spelter in St. Louis at 9.15, tungsten concentrates and ores in Boulder range from 8.70 to 15 per unit with various spec percentages.
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New York
St. Louis
Boulder
Carlson Urges Fair Rates Fight and School Lands
Gov Carlson urges Colorado lawmakers to pass laws protecting school lands worth 175 million dollars and to tighten bribery libel and corrupt practices statutes. He backs fuel for fair freight and transportation rates and recommends a 25000 dollar appropriation for pursuing the suit. He defends the state industrial law and urges constrained appropriations.
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Denver
Colorado
Twenty-first General Assembly
Carlson
Colorado Fair Freight Rates Association
State Public Utilities Commission
Gov. Carlson
General Assembly
State Tax Commission
State Survey Committee
State Industrial Commission
Farmers’ Grange
Senate
House
Copper and silver strikes at King’s Range and Jerome mines
Yavapai county mine output reached 32 202 126 dollars in 1916. Chalcopyrite ore from the Arkansas and Arizona at Jerome’s 1640 foot level reported. In Castle Dome, Ashee Shea and Murphy claim a big silver strike. Copper Hill ore at Chloride yields solid metal with high silver. Lead output in 1915 rises in US mining and smelting. US ore lead content exceeds 600 000 short tons, up 15 percent from 1914.
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Yavapai County
Arkansas & Arizona
Jerome
Globe-Miami
William Schafer
Miami
Yuma
King’s Range
Copper Hill
Hughes Arizona Copper Company
Chloride
University of Arizona Bulletin
United States
Colorado Mining Report Highlights 1916 Production and Projects
Colorado ranked second in gold output in 1916 with ore valued at 19 099 100 dollars. The Temple Fuel Company added two coal mines in Trinidad. A 19 mile power line to the Rawley mine at Bonanza Saguache county will cost about 1 250 dollars per mile. Modoc Consolidated Mines in Cripple Creek reorganized with Denver and Pittsburgh interests. North Star mill in Silverton resumes after repairs. Breckenridge reports a major Summit county deal. Puzzle mine in Summit County to be developed with a million dollars. J B Putnam reports the greatest copper strike in Pueblo near Westcliffe at Princess Annie mine. A 1200 foot pipe line from Paramount Reduction at St Elmo delivers 500 000 gallons daily for water.
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Colorado
Temple Fuel Company
Trinidad
Rawley
Bonanza
Saguache County
Modoc Consolidated Mines Company
Cripple Creek
Denver
Pittsburg
Silverton
North Star
Breckenridge
Summit County
Pueblo
J. B. Putnam
Sangre de Cristo
Princess Annie
Westcliffe
Paramount Reduction Company
St. Elmo
Grizzly Gulch
New Mexico Mining Boom Highlights 1916 Totals
In 1916 New Mexico set records with metal mining output doubling to 43 million dollars and coal production nearing 8 million. Johnny Bull mine at Stein's Grant resumes work. Kathleen Consolidated Copper Co formed with 250 thousand shares at Willard Estancia. George F Utter completes sale of New Year’s Gift claims for 20 thousand dollars in Steeplerock district.
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Tyrone
Hanover
Stein
Grant County
State of
New Mexico
Kathleen Consolidated Copper Company
Willard
Estancia
Scholle
George F. Utter
George H. Utter
Wheat Fire Destroys 20000 Bushels at Fleming Elevator
A blaze at the Fleming farmers elevator consumed 20000 bushels of wheat. Firefighters battled the flames to prevent spread as the structure burned on the site.
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Sterling
Fleming
Teutons Capture Forshani and Take Prisoners
Berlin reports Field Marshal von Mackensen forces have seized Forshani on the Moldavian railroad line and taken about 4,000 prisoners along with cannons and machine guns. Russian actions near Kalnzem and Novo Selki are noted with trench losses and prisoners. German advances in Volhynia and Galicia were repulsed, Petrograd says.
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Berlin
Romania
Moldavia
von Mackensen
Fokshani
Riga
Kalnzem
Volhynia
Novo Selki
Galicia
Zborow
Petrograd
Hall Oil to Drill 200 Wells in Pilot Butte Field
Reports from Cheyenne indicate contracts exist for drilling 200 oil wells. Hall Oil Company, a Wyoming and North Dakota backed firm, has sunk ten shallow wells already producing and plans renewed development next spring.
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Cheyenne
Wyoming
Pilot Butte
Hall Oil Company
North Dakota
Signal Corps Under Quarantine in El Paso Camp
The Colorado signal company is held in quarantine at Camp Stewart as a preventive measure against possible typhus fever development in El Paso Texas.
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Signal Corps
el Paso
Tex
Colorado Signal Company
Camp Stewart
Wheat and Corn Hit Noted War Prices in Chicago
In Chicago on January 8, wheat surged to $2 a bushel for No. 2 red winter, up about 5 cents from Saturday with immediate delivery. Demand from Europe and domestic mills drove the rise while corn climbed above $1 a bushel and barley also reached $1.
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Chicago
Europe
Arizona State News Digest from Early January
Reports from Arizona cover events across the state including shows in Bisbee and Globe, a cattle growers convention, and land sales attracting buyers. Notes describe bank deposit growth, liquor enforcement in Ray, mining progress near Parker and Kingman, hospital capacity in Cochise County, and new game law restrictions. Also listed are factory sales deals, oil and copper findings, personnel changes, and public notices about mining belts, irrigation, and road incidents.
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Arizona
Salt River Valley
Cochise County
Holly Sugar Company
Southwestern Sugar and Land Company
Glendale
Parker Syndicate
William E. Maroney
Kingman
Metcalf
Minister's Confession Praises Dodd's Kidney Pills
Rev. W. H. Warner of Myersville Maryland credits Dodd's Kidney Pills with saving his life after sciatica back pain neuralgia cramps head pressure and nervous spells. He says the medicine restored him to perfect health and urges readers to get DODD'S exactly as spelled.
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W. H. Warner
Myersville
Dodd
Rev. Warner
Adv
China to Teach Paper Making in Government School
A government school will offer a course in paper making taught by Chinese instructors. The program aims to develop local skills and foster industrial collaboration with China.
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China
Lightest Lumber Balsam Wood Highlighted
The article notes balsam wood as the lightest of all lumber types, emphasizing its lightweight properties and potential uses for builders and craftsmen seeking minimal weight in construction and design.
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Union News Service
Great Britain
Norway
Cologne
Major
State Penitentiary
Jefferson City
Wireton
Okla
Col
W. F. Cody
Glenwood Springs
Cody
Wye
Henry Torborg
Blue Island Avenue
Ariz
Chester Dewey
Washington
SPORT
Edward H. Hatch
Mutual Trust Company of
Orange
N. J
Evans, Landis and Carpenter
Illinois
House Rules Committee
Representative Wood
Miami Copper Company
American Institute of Mining Engineers
James B. McNamara
San Quentin
Cal
Los Angeles Times
Mining and Oil News
Western Newspaper
Industrial Law
Western Newspaper Union News Service
Teutons
Forshani
Arizona State News
Bisbee Poultry and Pet Stock Association
Bisbee
of Arizona Federation of Women’s Clubs
Globe
Arine Cattle Growers’ Association
Obe
Tombstone
Suh
Ray
Cobrita
Salome
Arizona Butte
Cerbat Range
Mooney Falls
Arizona Lead and Zinc Company
Warren District
Mineral Kingdom
J. R. Treat
Florence
Douglas and
Campbell
Hunt
Phoenix
Hunt- Campbell
Superior-Bay Christmas
William F. Gordon
Jim Murphy
Pete Salinas
Seventh
East
Madison Streets
Salinas
United Verde Extension
Cottonwood
C. V. Hopkins
Goldroad
Ces
Grocer
Bala Aque
Free Skinner Mfg.co
Omaha
U.S.A
Watson E. Coleman
Washington, DC
The
Morse Bros. M. & S. Co
Wazee St
Denver, Colo
Genasco
Hendrie & Bolthoff Mfg. & Supply Co
Colo
Fallstone Remedy Co
Dept
S. Dearborn St
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