Arkona Crew Faces Starvation After Labrador Wreck
The crew of the fishing schooner Arkona and residents of Forteau Bay on the Canadian Labrador coast face starvation unless aid arrives immediately. Arkona, owned by Gloucester Fresh Fish Co, was icebound in the Straits of Belle Isle ten days ago while en route from Green Bay to Bay of Islands. Admiral Wood ordered an ice breaking steamer from Halifax to assist, as ice prevented the regular provision boat from reaching the settlement. The Arkona has a ten man crew.
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Arkona
Forteau Bay
Canadian Labrador
Gloucester Fresh Fish Company
Straits of Belle Isle
Green Bay
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Bay of Islands
Overseas freight movement rises after armistice signing
Washington report from the exports control committee of the railroad administration shows a steady overseas freight increase since the armistice. An Atlantic and Gulf port accumulation exists with North Atlantic ports receiving 5 722 more cars than delivered in December. The December export freight tonnage, excluding bulk grain and coal, rose 107 percent from December 1917.
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Washington
Atlantic
Gulf
Exports Control Committee
The
Railroad Administration
North Atlantic
Fruit-atives Headache Relief Ad From Ogdensburg NY
Testimonial advert claims Fruit-a-tives eases violent headaches after years of suffering. Mrs Alexander Shaw reports complete relief. Box price 500c, six for $2.50, trial size 25c. Sold by dealers or via Fruit-a-tives Limited Ogdensburg NY.
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Alexander Shaw
Fruit-A-Tives Limited
Ogdensburg
N. Y
32 Deaths in Forces in Russia
Washington reports six officers and 126 men dead among the American Expeditionary Forces in northern Russia through Jan 4. The figures come via cable from Col. James A. Ruggles, military attache, Archangel, to the War Department.
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Washington
Russia
War Department
James A. Ruggles
Francis
Archangel
Russian Front Casualty Figures and Senate Critique
Casualty tallies show 3 officers and 57 men killed or died of wounds, 2 officers and 63 men died of disease, 4 enlisted men accidentally killed, 1 officer and 2 men drowned, 16 enlisted men missing, 159 wounded in action, and 15 accidentally wounded. Colonel Ruggles reports equipment, health, morale, and food as very good aside from vegetable shortages. Senator La Follette criticizes sending troops to Russia and questions Bolshevik reliability, urging disclosure of documents.
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Ruggles
War Department
Russia
Senator la Follette
Wisconsin
Senate
United States
Call for Rindge Ice Players to Report for Practice
Captain H G Mutch of the Rindge Technical School hockey team asks seven candidates to report to him at Russell Field Cambridge this morning at 10. Cambridge schools close this week for influenza precautions delaying contact. Rindge vs St Johns Prep at Danvers Saturday. Mutch aims to prepare the septet.
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H. G. Mutch
Rindge Technical School
Russell Field
Cambridge
Mutch
Rindge
St. John’s Prep
Danvers
Ban on preservatives upheld by court
The Wisconsin ban on selling food products preserved with benzoate of soda benzoic acid and derivatives was declared constitutional by the Supreme Court in Washington.
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Washington
Wisconsin
Supreme Court
Mince Meat Factory Boosts Maine Village Growth
Winslow's Mills in Maine hosts the state’s only mincemeat canning plant. Operated by the Birds of Rockland, it shifted from beans to shell beans and corn, using Maine grown apples and beef for 3600 cans daily and employing 35 workers plus seven of Ernest Vannah’s 15 children.
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Winslow's Mills
Maine
Birds of
Rockland
Ernest Vannah
Winslow’s Mills
New England
Armour Firm Cited To Explain Monopoly Ties
Armour & Co. were cited to appear before the Federal Trade Commission on February 17 to answer a formal complaint accusing the company of concealing its control of the Farmers' Co operative Fertilizer Company of Richmond Virginia for the past three years and using that influence to gain trade not accessible if the facts were public.
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Armours
Washington
Armour & Co
Federal Trade Commission
Farmers’ Co-operative Fertilizer Company
Richmond
War Department reports WWI hospital outcomes data
Washington January 7. War Department releases show among 71 114 wounded in expeditionary hospitals from January 15 to October 15 2018 that 85.3 percent recovered and returned to duty while 8.8 percent died. Disease cases totaled 169 632 with 93.3 percent returning to duty and 4 percent dying.
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Washington
War Department
General Staff
Grew Named Minister Plenipotentiary of Peace Commission
Joseph C. Grew of Boston, Secretary of the American Peace Commission, was named supervising director of the commission secretarial staff with the rank of minister plenipotentiary. The announcement came from the committee on public information in New York on January 7.
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New York
Joseph C. Grew
Boston
American Peace Commission
Committee On Public Information
Contracts Tie Up Big Capital
Washington January 7 A Chicago businessman told the Senate military committee that much of the nation s liquid capital is tied in informal war contracts with the government He joined Secretary Baker in opposing the Hitchcock bill which would validate contracts but set up a new commission to settle them Baker said existing War Department machinery can settle 25 000 outstanding contracts Crowell on demobilization of industries urged curbing informalities to settle all by June
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Washington
Joseph H. Durfrees
Chicago
Senate
Tee
Baker
Hitchcock
War Department
Treasury Department
Crowell
Congress
Postmaster Boston Exam Date Delayed to March 18
Report from the Federal building states the civil service examination for the Boston postmaster has been postponed from January 21 to March 18. Civil Service Commission officials in the custom house said they had no notification of the delay.
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Federal Building
Civil Service
Boston
Civil Service Commission
Custom House
Quinine Advertises Laxa tive Bromine Tablet Claim
A vintage advertisement touts Bromo Quinine tablets labeled LAXATIVE with tonic and laxative effects. It promises no nervousness or head tingling and features E. W. Grove’s signature on the box, priced 30 cents.
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E. W. Grove
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