Wounded Prisoners Moved Home in Swedish Exchange
Stockholm May 17. Wounded German and Austrian prisoners of war pass through Sweden on trains to German hospitals in exchange for Russians sent home. The voyage involves 217 men on board and highlights harsh travel, scant care, and grim scars as doctors, soldiers, and Red Cross staff manage the lengthy exchange between Russia and Germany.
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Stockholm
Sweden
West Point
Russia
Mic
Germany
Vladivostok
Petrograd
Prague
Lee
Associated Press
Aryone
Trelleborg
Hamburg
Berlin
Tle Hk
Halsberg
Legation
Emperor William
Francis Joseph
Austria
Field Marshall von Hindenburg
Rhine
Swedish Red Cross
Red Cross
Enlisted Men May Transfer to West Point
Adjutant General March cites an 1818 act allowing cadet appointments to US Military Academy from enlisted Regular Army personnel aged 19 to 22 with at least one year of service. Eligible men may apply to the President to take the academy examinations after a year in service, seen as aiding future commissions.
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United States Army
F. C. March
General Recruiting Service
The Late Andrew Rylus
Redding reports the death of Andrew Rylus who was kind to animals and helped neighbors. He loved flowers and plants. He was shot once and the bullet could not be extracted. This caused discomfort and irritation. He believed that indulgence in the very cause of many ills was life’s greatest pleasure.
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Redding
Andrew Rylus
Coast to Coast Auto Record Shatters In Cadilac Run
New York May 17. H G Baker arrived in New York in a standard Cadillac eight cylinder roadster after a seven day eleven hour fifty two minute cross country trip from Los Angeles. He beat his own prior record by three days, nineteen hours, and twenty three minutes traveling about 3471 miles through Arizona New Mexico Kansas Missouri Illinois Pennsylvania to Philadelphia.伴
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New York
Los Angeles
New York City
H. G. Baker
W .F. Strum
Indianapolis
Baker
Flagstaff
Arizona
Albuquerque
Santa Fe
Las Vegas
N. M
Trinidad
Col
Dodge City
Emporia
Kan
Kansas City
St. Louis
Colum
Wheeling
Pittsburgh
Philadelphia
Cadillac
United States
SEEK TO PLACE FIGHTING MEN ON FARMLANDS
Hobart Australia May 17 Sir Rider Haggard, the British novelist and land settlement expert, arrived to advise Australia on placing soldiers on farms in the Overseas Dominions after the war. He favors Canberra farms with a defense pledge, as part of expanding white population and rural settlement. He warns that settlement must be a studied policy by governments or big business to hold the empire together and boost land dwellers and country villages.
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Hobart
Australia
Sir Rider Haggard
England
Dominions
Press
Peopile
Rider
Canberra
Sir Rider
British Empire
United Kingdom
Post Office News store offers leather goods and gifts
In a note from the Arcade area, the Post Office News store at 11 Arcade near Main street promotes leather articles wallet and case selections at moderate prices. It highlights journals, old Hampshire band paper, greeting cards, periodicals, and gifts including diamonds watches and silverware by M. J. Buechter at 48 Fairfield avenue.
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Post Office
Old Hampshire
Main Street
M. J. Buechter
Fairfield Avenue
Middie Street
Adv
Hartford Men Mining Quartz and Asbestos
Henry P. Fiske and Frank W. Jones Jr have opened a mine at Satan's Kingdom New Hartford and installed a boiler and engine They report quartz and feldspar and asbestos as primary targets with quartz selling around six dollars per ton and feldspar about a dollar less The mine sits near the railroad and extends through Prospect Bethany Beacon Falls Naugatuck Oxford and Seymour Geological notes place Satan's Kingdom in the Hartland schist area rich in quartz feldspar and garnets with notable deposits in Roxbury Far from rich in mica while quartz used for sandpaper and feldspar in porcelain temperaments.
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Henry P. Fiske
Frank W. Jones, Jr
Satan's Kingdom
New Hartford
Satan
Connecticut
Hartland
Hoosac Mountain
Prospect
Bethany
Beacon Falls
Naugatuck
Oxford
Seymour
Roxbury
Siberian Farmers On Way to America
Yokohama report notes the Sado Maru sailing for Canada and the United States carrying eighty five Russian farmers seeking work in America. They depart Russia due to low spirits and poor village conditions in Siberia.
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America
Yokohama
Japan
Canada
United States
Russia
Siberia
Fairfield County News and Local Incidents
A roundup of Stamford area events reports boiler explosion at Springdale plant injuring two workers George La Venture and Frank Fer alich in hospital. City of Danbury secures a 50000 loan at three and a quarter percent with Bernard Schol les and Co. New York. Fortunato Degregoria held after hammer threat in Greenwich. Bankruptcy discharge for Richard E Brown of Stamford. Mendelson Horse Co. petitioned for bankruptcy. Rev A A Bickford resigns from White Hills Baptist. Walter Polasky dies after freight yard accident. West Norwalk six cylinder car burned three days after use. Davis D Knapp place Danbury fire destroys house barn. Death and damage figures listed. Coram Tuberculosis Sanitarium bungalow destroyed by fire. Fire origin accidental from heating work. Flowers for Mother's Day John Beck and Son.
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Fortunato
Degregoria
Greenwich
Iman
Richard E. Brown
Stamford
United States
Mendelson Horse Co
A. A. Bickford
White Hills Baptist Church
Mr. Bickford
Shelton
Walter Polasky
Peter Polasky
Pirc
Vaast Brothers
West Norwalk
Davis D Knapp Place
Danbury
John Lyon
Coram
William H. Stockwell
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Hartford Men
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Alfonso
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Great Britain
Belgium
Madrid
Royal
Pyrenees
Portugal
Cyrus
Cyrus Pharmacy
Fairfield County News
Springdale
George la Venture
Frank Feralich
Stamford Hospital
Bernard, Scholles & Co
Water Department
Tavs Berodsa
John Beck & Son
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