Annual Report of Bristol Highways Chief 1915
L H Callan presents the Bristol Rhode Island Highway Department report for the year ending February 1 1915. He notes a tight budget and rising costs while detailing road conditions drainage needs and a push for broader improvements despite limits. He cites concrete and bituminous work plus sidewalk and bridge concerns and lists expenditures and projects across streets.
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Bristol
R. I
R. L
Highway Department
Warren
Garfield Avenue
Collins Street
Charles Street
Cole Street
Richmond Street
High Street
Theuburban Railroad Company
Goeben and Breslau Escape Masina With Stolen Code
New York reports reveal German cruisers Goeben and Breslau escaped from Masina to the Dardanelles at the war’s start using a week old secret British code stolen from the admiralty. Troubridge followed a spurious order, learned only later in London court martial, suggesting possible spy or treason at high levels.
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New York
Goében
Breslau
Massina
Dardanelles
Trowbridge
London
Troubridge
Messina
Goeben
FIND COMFORT IN TRENCHES
A West Flanders dispatch reports British French and Belgian troops in the Yser trenches are comfortable and well sheltered thanks to material ingenuity. Soldiers live below ground with weather no great danger and some have obtained stoves making mud walled compartments warmer than hygienists would approve.
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London
Feet Cut Off in War Frostbite Toll at Boulogne
London reports a surge of frozen feet among British troops near Boulogne sur-Mer with about fifteen hundred affected and four thousand expected to require one or both feet amputations due to nerve damage. Chilblains and frostbite have crippled ranks more than enemy fire, leaving many unfit for combat for the duration of the war.
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Bristol
East Providence
London
Boulogne sur-Mer
France
Officer Attacks Kaiser During Flanders Battle
German reports claim a general staff officer went insane after the emperor rebuked him for a tactical error at Flanders. The officer allegedly drew his sword and assaulted the Kaiser before other officers restrained him, while the Kaiser remained shaken by the incident.
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Paris
Flanders
Fight in delirium from trenches to hospital life in France
Jy Gabriel Delagarde reports from Jens, France, detailing a veteran correspondent’s vivid tour of war’s horrors. In Amiens area bombarded towns like Roye display unburied dead, hospitals fill with delirious soldiers, and firemen and civilians confront nightmarish scenes as the front lines push onward.
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Jy Gabriel Delagarde
Chicago’ Daily News
Jens
France
Graumes
Amiens
Roye
Albert
Heroine In Honored By Austria For Bravery
Vienna reports Austria awarded the cross of the Francis Joseph order to the wife of a lieutenant who accompanied her husband into the field and trenches, recognizing conspicuous bravery.
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Vienna
Austria
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Annual Report
Franklin Street
Wood Street
Bay View Avenue
Roma Street
Coggeshall Street
Thompson Avenue
Church and
State Streets
Mt. Hope Avenue
DeWolf Avenue
Burton Street
Parker Mill
Aces Es
Cedbavens
Committee On Highways
L. H. Callan
Q. Yds
Thomas Goff
High
Mildred L. Williams
Hope St
B. Herreshoff
Walter Cole
Burton School
High St
Edward Wells
William Gladding
Samuel Kinder
Burton St
Annie W. Fitch
Union
Art
Hope Ave
South
Labor
Chew Meas
Perry
Thompson Ave
Alt Ross
Labor Psoe
MT Hope
Domino
the American Sugar Ref'g CO
Boston
Mass
T. Clarke Brown, Jr
Constitution St. Tel
R. Bristol
BR. L
Chiropodist
Geo. H. Peck
B. W. Wall
Bristol, BE
G.W. Simmons
E. L.F. Colwell
Constitution Street
Elinor Glyn
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