Frontline Battles and Allied Raids From Europe War Briefs
Heavy counterattacks by German and Austrian troops fail to topple Italian positions on the Asiago plateau as allies report successes. British raid on a Bulgarian post near Lake Doiran accompanies artillery duels on multiple fronts. French raids in Champagne and St Mihiel noted with daily air combat and bombing behind lines. Reports detail Haig and Baker warnings of a major submarine push and U.S. military expansion in France with 500000 to 1,000,000 troops planned. Additional notices cover domestic fuel, sugar, and prohibition actions, plus scattered incidents in Europe and the Americas.
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Asiago
Lake Doiran
Cerna
Monastir
Germany
Ultimatum Demands by Berlin Strikers Across Germany
Berlin strikers issue an eight point ultimatum calling for peace without annexations, worker involvement in parleys, better food distribution, lifting the siege, release of political prisoners, democratization, and direct secret ballot suffrage. Von Hindenburg warns to halt movement, urging duty to front lines. Censorship bans Berliner papers. clashes near Berlin reported with casualties as troops reportedly refuse to fire on strikers.
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Zurich
Vorwaerts
Berlin
van Hindenburg
Amsterdam
Rheinische Westfalische Zeitung
Essen
von Hindenburg
Germany
Berliner Tageblatt
Berliner Post
London
Daily Express
Geneva
Great Leviathan Returns with American Troops in War Era
A French port reports the great steamer Leviathan carrying thousands of American soldiers after an uneventful voyage with no submarine sighting. Transports Covington Cincinnati President Lincoln President Grant Powhatan Madawaska and former Lloyd steamships George Washington Mount Vernon Agamemnon Aeolus Mercury Pocahontas Huron Antigone also reached European port with troops and supplies ten months ahead of expectations.
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Leviathan
Vaterland
America
Covington
Cincinnati
Lincoln
Grant
Powhattan
Agamemmon
Aeolus
Mercury
Pocahontas
Huron
Antigone
Thompson’s million dollar aid to Bolsheviks exposed
William B. Thompson, former head of the American Red Cross Mission to Russia, is reported to have given over 1 million dollars to the Bolsheviks to spread their doctrines in Germany and Austria. He claims the Bolsheviki pose the strongest anti German power in Russia and their propaganda weakens Central Powers regimes. Russian aviators are dropping thousands of pounds of Bolsheviki literature over German, Austrian, Turkish, and Bulgarian lines.
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New York
William B. Thompson
Petrograd
American Red Cross
Russia
Germany
Austria
Thompson
Goeben Escapes British Reconnaissance Report
London January 21 The British admiralty says a midnight Sunday reconnaissance proved the Turkish battle cruiser Sultan Selim formerly Goeben is no longer ashore at Nagara Point.
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Goeben
London
Sultan Yanusz Selim
Nagara Point
Libby Meat Workers Pledge to Abstain Wheat Bread
Chicago January 31 75 hundred Libby packers have pledged to abstain from wheat bread for sixty days as part of a labor action. The move aims to reduce costs and shows unity among workers at Libby plants.
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Chicago
Libby
Libby, Packers
Save Wheat Now Urges Strict Economy in Missouri
Federal Food Administrator F B Mumford warns of a wheat shortage as U S consumption rises. He urges a wheatless day weekly and two wheatless days in public eateries, with bakers possibly limited to eighty percent flour and buyers required to obtain other cereals with wheat flour.
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Missouri
France
F. B. Mumford
Washington
Food Administration
Dean Mumford
University of Missouri trains faculty for drafted men
The University of Missouri forms a faculty military company of eighty professors with official War Department status to drill drafted men before camp. Boone County plans to train Class 1 draftees early, and the Boone County Council of Defense will list residents who have not contributed to war funds and give them a second chance to lend to the government.
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University of Missouri
Boone County
United States
Wallace M. Craigie
War Department
Boone County Council of Defense
Coal Mine Tragedy Claims Life of Edward Perine
Edward Perine aged 48 died when a ton heavy slate ledge fell in a coal mine three miles east of Columbia the other afternoon. The accident occurred as he conducted work in the mine, with investigators noting the dangerous working conditions.
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Edward Perine
Columbia
Dismissal of Moberly Teacher Sealed by Federal Arrest
Prof. Ernest Schuenemann of Moberly High School was dismissed from the faculty after charges were preferred. He said President Wilson led America into the European war to please Wall Street plutocrats, a claim cited in the dismissal report.
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Ernest Schuenemann
Moberly
Wilson
America
Wall Street
Peirce City School Destroyed by Fire
A Peirce City High School blaze of unknown origin destroyed the building recently with losses surpassing $30,000. The fire was spotted around 7:00, and responders were hampered by a frozen water plug.
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Peirce City School
Peirce City High School
Uncovered Hidden Wealth in Callaway County
Fulton abstractor 8 K Black employed by County Assessor E M Crump uncovered hidden notes money and bonds in Callaway County finding that 40 percent of such assets were not assessed last year.
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8. K. Black
Fulton
E. M. Crump
Callaway County
Pettis County Soldier Dies at Fort Sill
James Monroe Manley age 21 son of G G Manley Pettis County farmer died of pneumonia at Fort Sill Oklahoma He enlisted in Sedalia last August in Company D 140th Infantry Massachusetts
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Pettis County
James Monroe Manley
G. G. Manley
Fort Sill
Sedalia
140Th Infantry
Missourian Killed by Train Found Near Higginsville
The body of James Hudson was found between the Chicago and Alton beaches at Higginsville. Authorities believe he was killed by a passenger train that had passed through ten minutes earlier.
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James Hudson
Chicago & Alton Beachs
Higgimeville
Tteen
Food control seen as wartime necessity and curb on profiteering
A Missouri food administrator argues that extended production and curbing speculation matter more than low prices. He notes food control has halted profiteering and that high wartime prices reflect the need to feed civilians and soldiers.
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United States
Food Administration
Hoover
France
Missouri
Dean F. B. Mumford
Missouri, College of Agriculture At
Columbia
America
Dean Mumford
Greenfield Mayor Phillip Griffith Dies in Kansas City
Phillip Sidney Griffith 43 mayor of Greenfield Missouri Republican state committeeman from the Sixth district and editor of the Greenfield Vidette died suddenly of heart disease in his room at the Hotel Baltimore Kansas City. He went there for medical treatment in recent days. Survived by wife and three sons Philip Charlies and Robert all of Greenfield.
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Phillip Sidney Griffith
Greenfield
Iotel
Baltimore
Kansas City
Mr. Griffith
Philip
Charlies
Robert
Springfield High Girls Vote to End Silk Stockings
Springfield High School girls vote to forego silk stockings and kid gloves during the wartime period. They commit to war time economies and adjust dress practices as part of patriotic measures.
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Ben
Springfield
Pioneer of Missouri dies in Sedalia at age 84
Jonathan D. Claycomb born in Virginia eighty four years ago and a Missouri resident for seventy four years died in Sedalia. He left for California during the Gold Rush of 1849. Upon returning he took up farming.
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Missouri
Jonathan D. Claycomb
Virginia
Sedalia
California
Captain W. H. Feagans Dead After Years of Service
Captain W. H. Feagans aged 79, longtime Macon County resident and engrossing clerk of the state senate, has died at Macon. He was a Civil War veteran.
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W. H. Feagans
Macon County
Macon
State Senate
One Crop Paid for Land Near Poplar Bluff
Leonard McMullin a farmer near Poplar Bluff cultivated 580 acres and last year had all in corn. He shipped 27 cars of corn totaling 30 000 bushels at 1 60 a bushel netted 48000 dollars or 82 75 an acre, more than the land’s original price.
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Leonard McMullin
Poplar Bluff
Wood Drive Aims to Help Warrensburg Poor
Nearly a hundred residents led by Captain Tom Lanham traveled in motor cars to a timber tract donated by banker F. L. Mayes. They cut wood to ease Warrensburg fuel shortages and will distribute the timber to the needy.
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Warrensburg
Tom Lanham
Civil War Veteran Gen Samuel Woodson Price Dies at 89
Brig. Gen. Samuel Woodson Price dies at his son Robert C. Price’s home in St. Louis after five months illness from arteriosclerosis. He served in the Civil War and was blinded at Kenesaw Mountain. Prof. Ernest Scheunemann, a Moberly high school teacher, is jailed after a preliminary hearing on disloyal utterances, released under $6,000 bond at Hannibal.
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R. H. Walters
Fight and Water Plant
Spiro
Muskogee
United States
T. A. Dubois
W. B. Henderson
142D Infantry
Camp Bowie
Samuel Woodson Price
Robert C. Price
St. Louis
General Price
Kenesaw Mountain
Ernest Scheunemann
Moberly
A. H. Waller
Hannibal
Robert Darr of Carrollton Dies at 88
Robert Darr 88 died in Carrollton the other morning after a brief illness. He was a Mason for sixty four years.
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Robert Darr
Carrollton
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Paterson
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Secretary of Labor
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Edward BR. Stettinius
Gearal
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J. P. Morgan & Co
George Boden
Foreign Exchange Department
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North’ Dakota
National Association of Master Bakers
Apple & Franklin
J. W. Harreld
Lawrence Gas Company
Healdton
Mr. Harreld
Leavenworth
Camp Logan
Thirtythird Division
Houston
Tex
Joseph W. Folk
Interstate Commerce Commission
Rio Grande
el Paso
Columbia Coal Company
Witteville
Okla
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Weser Zeitung
Reichstag
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Czetnin
Bolsheviki
Mumford
University Faculty Military Company
Eld
Dean
Ernest Wiethoelter
Doan
Foster-Milburn CO
Buffalo
Red Cross
Carter
Mother Gray
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le Roy
Jonah
Fletcher
Rap RE HS Sean
Wise
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