War reports mix on battleship incident and Romanian front
Western Union dispatches detail conflicting claims of a French battleship Verite torpedoed near Malta, while Paris denies it. British and Danish steamers sunk. German and Bulgarian forces advance in Romania. Russians and Romanians counter with attacks near Mitau and Riga amid ongoing fighting.
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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 News in Brief From War Fronts to Europe and Americas
Ten Japanese officers left Tokyo for European battlefields as floods hit Holland and Germany after river rises. Britain reports Norway’s coal embargo reply and improved situation. Rhine water in Cologne rose sharply. London says maize trade under government control similar to wheat. Explorer John Finlayson dies at 105 in Wrangell Alaska. Duke de Dino dies at Monte Carlo aged 73. twice married American women. A London doctor notes the English woman as tallest among France England and America. Olinto Amati arrested for embezzling 2,000,000 lire in San Marino. Submarine activity leads navy to arm Japanese merchant ships with six inch guns. Madame Elmira Brockway fined in London for fortune telling and to be deported. Austrian cabinet crisis over Galicia home rule. J Sylvester resigns as Austrian chamber president. Greek government rejects parts of entente reparations note while ready to discuss others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Maurice Camille de Tallyrand-Perigord
Duke de Dino
Villa Perigord
Monte Carlo
France
England
America
London
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
Express robbery and pardons noted in mixed statewide items
A Tarentum express messenger loses 10000 payroll amid three masked bandits. Missouri governor frees 92 inmates from Jefferson City. Tornado toll rises in Wireton Oklahoma to seventeen as burial mourners gather. Cody remanded home from Denver in fragile condition, Torborg leaves Chicago fortune from streetcar career. Yuma receives a 300 year relic mission bell weighing 150 pounds found in an orange grove.
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Wireton
Okla
Col
W. F. Cody
Denver
Glenwood Springs
Cody
Wye
Henry Torborg
Chicago
Blue Island Avenue
Yuma
Ariz
Chester Dewey
Plans for defense of the Adamson act before the Supreme Court
Justice department completed defense plans for the Adamson act with the government brief ready for submission. The text notes a total lunar eclipse beginning at 12 50 a m Eastern time visible across the United States and the first of seven eclipses in 1917. It mentions Wilson commuting a death sentence from William White to life imprisonment and Harvard professor Frank W Taussib joining the tariff commission. Senator Owens assailed the Supreme Court at the National Popular Government League meeting, claiming 25 million dollars were spent in 1916 to influence elections.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
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 When Club Demands
Syracuse University slated as sole new opponent in Harvard baseball's 1917 schedule announced at Cambridge. Frazee says Jack Barry accepts Boston club management. Isbell to become Wichita citizen again. Tex Jones sought for Island Park first base. New Orleans business men buy Fairgrounds track for 400000 from New Orleans Jockey Club. St Joseph owner Holland plans spring training trip to Tulsa.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
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 Quit Stage After Physician's Announcement
In New York, a physician announced that actor E. H. Sothern will never appear on stage again. The update comes amid a string of notable events reported from national figures and institutions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E. H. Sothern
New York
Bureau of Social Hygiene
John D. Rockefeller, Jr
Metal price report from Western Mining News Service
Prices for metals listed by the Western Newspaper Union News Service include Silver at 75.5 cents, Lead at 7.50 per 100 pounds, Copper at 29.37 dollars per 100 pounds, Spelter at 9.15 dollars per 100 pounds, and tungsten concentrates with varying crude ore contents priced from 8.70 to 15 dollars per unit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
St. Louis
Boulder
Carlson Urges Fair Rates and School Lands Protection
Gov Carlson urged Colorado lawmakers to pass laws safeguarding school lands valued at 175 million dollars and tighten statutes on bribery libel and corrupt practices. He pushed for equitable freight rates and a 25000 dollar appropriation for the Public Utilities Commission to pursue the suit, and urged a printing-cost inquiry and continued support for the state industrial law.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
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
Mining Prosperity Noted in 1916 Arizona Output
Yavapai county mines produced 32 202 126 dollars in 1916. Chalcopyrite ore from the Arkansas and Arizona at Jerome yielded high grade copper from the 1 640 foot level. Globe Miami district faces uncertain prosperity per Miami Mother Lode Mining Co president William Schafer. S. G. Ashee James Shea and A. M. Murphy report a big silver strike in Castle Dome. Copper Hill at Chloride yields copper ore near solid metal with high silver. Lead industry gains noted by University of Arizona Bulletin with US ore lead content rising from 522 864 tons in 1914 to over 600 000 tons in 1915.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
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 Mines Lead Nation in Gold Output of 1916
Colorado ranked second in gold production in 1916 with ore valued at 19,099,100 dollars. The Temple Fuel Company at Trinidad added two new coal mines to regional output. Surveys approved for a 19 mile Rawley mine power line to Bonanza Saguache County at about 1250 dollars per mile.
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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 Upswing Noted in 1916 Reports
The 1916 year in New Mexico mining shows record output with metal mining totaling about 43 million dollars and coal about 8 million. The Kathleen Consolidated Copper Company based in Willard Estancia was formed with 250 thousand shares at one dollar each. George F Utter sold the New Year’s Gift group of claims for 20 thousand dollars in the 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
20000 Bushels of Wheat Burned at Fleming Elevator
A fire destroyed the farmers' elevator at Fleming killing 20000 bushels of wheat. The blaze prompted damage assessment and concerns about local grain storage.
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Sterling
Fleming
Teutons Take Forshani Prisoners and Weapons
Berlin reports Field Marshal von Mackensen’s forces seized Fokshani north of Moldavia, capturing about 4,000 prisoners along with cannon and machine guns. Russian troops repelled German advances near Novo Selki in Volhynia and north of Zborow in Galicia, while taking trenches and prisoners near Kalnzem close to Riga.
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Berlin
Romania
Moldavia
von Mackensen
Fokshani
Riga
Kalnzem
Volhynia
Novo Selki
Galicia
Zborow
Petrograd
Pilot Butte Oil Field Expansion Planned by Hall Oil Co
Reports from Cheyenne indicate contracts for drilling 200 oil wells in Wyoming. Hall Oil Company, backed by Wyoming and North Dakota capitalists, will press development of the Pilot Butte field, already yielding from ten shallow wells, with renewed vigor next spring.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cheyenne
Wyoming
Pilot Butte
Hall Oil Company
North Dakota
Signal Corps Under Quarantine at Camp Stewart
El Paso Texas says the Colorado signal company is quarantined at Camp Stewart as a preventive measure against typhus fever developing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Signal Corps
el Paso
Tex
Colorado Signal Company
Camp Stewart
Wheat Tops Two Dollar Per Bushel In War Price Rise
Chicago January 8 for the first time war prices on wheat touched 2 dollars a bushel No 2 red winter wheat for immediate delivery sold at that price an advance of about 5 cents since Saturday. Demand for shipment to Europe and domestic milling needs cited as the rise's cause. Simultaneously corn jumped to above 1 dollar a bushel and barley reached 1 dollar.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Europe
Arizona State News Highlights 1917 Arizona Events
Numerous Arizona items including Bisbee poultry show January 6 7 Globe federation of women’s clubs convention January 19 21 and Carneiro arizona cattle grow ers convention March 5 7. Also mining notes Cochise county hospital crowd politics liquor arrests at Ray and state land sales.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bisbee Poultry and Pet Stock Association
Bisbee
of Arizona Federation of Women’s Clubs
Globe
Arine Cattle Growers’ Association
Obe
Minister's Confession Endorses Dodd's Kidney Pills
Rev W H Warner of Myersville Md credits Dodd's Kidney Pills with saving his life after a long struggle with sciatica back pain lumbago neuralgia cramps and dizziness He says the medicine restored him to perfect health and urges others to get DODD'S three D's for diseased kidneys
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W. H. Warner
Myersville
Dodd
Rev. Warner
Adv
China to Teach Papermaking in Government School
China plans to introduce papermaking as a government school subject to teach students industrial craft and traditional skills. Officials say program aims to expand vocational options, promote cultural heritage, and prepare youth for local manufacturing roles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
China
Balsam Wood Highlighted as Lightest Lumber
The article notes balsam wood as the lightest lumber among common timber types. It discusses its light weight and potential uses in furniture and construction contexts, emphasizing the material’s ease of handling and maneuverability in fabrication processes.
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Union News Service
Tokio
Holland
Great Britain
Norway
Cologne
John Finlayson
Finlayson
Tarentum
Major
State Penitentiary
Jefferson City
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
Arizona
Teutons
Forshani
Arizona State News
Tombstone
Suh
Ray
Cobrita
Salome
Salt River Valley
Cochise County
Holly Sugar Company
Southwestern Sugar and Land Company
Glendale
Parker Syndicate
William E. Maroney
Kingman
Metcalf
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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