Fall of Erzerum Shifts Balkan and Caucasus War Runs
Reports from Petrograd celebrate Erzerum’s fall as Russian advances threaten Armenia Trebizond and Mesopotamia while easing pressure on Saloniki. Western front sees heavy fighting as Germany advances in Artois Champagne and near Tahure Somme Road. Iran and U S debate naval policy as ships sink and senators push public ownership talks.
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Erzerum
Asia Minor
Petrograd
Armenia
Trebizond
Tabriz
Mesopotamia
Caucasus
Balkan
Saloniki
Artois
Champagne
Berlin
Tahure-Somme-Py Road
Shares of Cambria steel stock sold for one million
Glen Kent of Muskogee Oklahoma received a telegram from his uncle in Pittsburgh announcing that shares of Cambria steel stock bought for Glen and his mother twenty years ago had just been sold for one million dollars. The stock was purchased by his father during Glen’s infancy.
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Glen Kent
Muskogee
Okla
W. H. Haws
Pittsburgh
Cambria Steel
Kent
Glen
New Naval Plan Uses Old Battleships For Training Cadets
Secretary Daniels and advisers unveil civilian naval training using six pre dreadnought battleships to train up to 2,500 men on an Atlantic Coast cruise starting mid-August. Volunteers declare intent to serve in war. no oath required. Ships include Kearsarge Kentucky and others, rendezvousing at Narragansett Bay before returning by early September.
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Washington
Daniels
Plattsburg
Atlantic
New York
Boston
Philadelphia
Norfolk
Portland
Charleston
Pacific Coast
Roosevelt
Heavy storm sweeps France with damage across Paris and provinces
A gale in France caused shipwrecks, delayed Channel services, and interrupted ports. Telegraph wires and trees fell, and several people died or were injured in Paris. A flood spread in the Chambéry plains as front reports call the forty eight hours the worst since the war began. In Belgium roofs were blown off and a large area flooded.
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Paris
France
Chambery
WIRE FIGHT HEAVY OIL TAX IN OKLAHOMA
Tulsa oil men announce plans to form a powerful organization to challenge a 3 percent gross production tax on oil. They vow to fight the tax to the court of last resort, viewing it as the cost of state government. Bitter toward the legislature, they consider an amendment to oppose the measure.
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Tulsa, Ok
Oklahoma
Limited Train into a Ditch in Richmond
Limited train derailed or left tracks into a ditch in Richmond Virginia on February 15. No further details on injuries or cause are provided in the fragment.
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Richmond
Germany Fixes Krayt Price Amsterdam February 14
Fragmented OCR notes indicate a price setting in Germany and an Amsterdam date February 14. Details are unclear. entities Berilver and Dore appear as garbled terms with no coherent events or outcomes.
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Germany
Amsterdam
Missouri Drives Plan to Settle Vacant Lands
Missouri officials and federal labor leaders in Kansas City discuss a cooperative program to settle 10,000,000 uncultivated acres south of the river. Jewell Mayes and E G Bennett meet Assistant Secretary Post and Immigration Commissioner Caminetti to align immigrant workers with dairy and fruit land opportunities. The aim is a permanent state labor representative to coordinate farm labor and land use.
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Kansas
St. Louis
Federal Department of Labor
Statespearl of Agriculture
Missouri
Jewell Mayes
State Board of Agriculture
Wilson
Department of Labor
Washington
Mayes
E. G. Bennett
Kansas City
Department of Labor and Immigration
Caminetti
Man faked death to cheat insurers in 1915 fire scam
John Alvin Brock, who in March 1915 defrauded three insurance companies of 10000 by faking his death in a barn fire near Cuba, Oklahoma, returned from Woodward after being found by an insurer inspector. He confessed to hiding during the funeral and fleeing to St. Louis with his family, returning cash and deeds to fake farms to claim the payout.
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John Alvin Brock
Cuba
Woodward
Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York
Brock
Ing
St. Louis
Zinc Miners Get Wage Increase Across Three States
Wage increase of 25 cents a day awarded to about 10 000 miners in the Missouri Oklahoma Kansas mining district due to ore price gains in the last thirty days. High grade ore now brings 125 dollars per ton.
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Missouri- Oklahoma-Kansas
Young Bryan Wise Gets First Barbershop Cut
William Jennings Bryan Wise, aged 20, of 4 Crane, visited a barber shop for the first time and had his two and a half foot raven hair cut after listening to his uncle's persuasions. He was born during Bryan's free silver campaign in 1896.
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William Jennings Bryan Wise
Crane
Bryan
Made II by Oi Fumes Traps Bus Passengers in Route
Four people were rendered unconscious and eight more fell ill during a trip in an auto bus from Gimbo to Clayton, St. Louis County. The bus body is fully enclosed and heated by two oil stoves whose fumes are suspected to have caused the incident.
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Gimbo
Clayton
St. Louis County
Coming Home From Front
Mr and Mrs Charles Wonell wait the arrival of their son Edward Woned from service on a farm near Houston. The report notes the family’s anticipation and the homefront scene as war veterans return.
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Charles Wonell
Houston
Edward Woned
Uae
Tariff takes center stage at Missouri Republican dinner
At Kansas City Con vention hall 1150 Republicans gathered for the seventeenth annual Young Republicans banquet. Henry D Estabrook of New York pressed a old style protective tariff as the key issue while Lamm McIndoe and Morris supporters clashed in loud demonstrations. Clarence A Barnes presided with candidates present as S G Nipper urged harmony and John F Dell recalled Progressive party ties.
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Convention
Kansas City
Association of Young Republicans of
Missouri
Lamm
McIndoe
Morris
William Warner
Clarence A. Barnes
Mexico
Association
Henry D. Estabrook
New York
S. G. Nipper
Potosi
John F. Dell
Progressive Party
M. A. James B. Ruckel, Builder of MU First Building, Dies
M. A. James B. Ruckel, who led the construction of the University of Missouri’s first building, died at his Kansas City home after an illness that began last October. He was 90.
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M. A
James B. Ruckel
University of Missouri
Kansas City
Wealthy farmer John Miller dies at home near Montgomery City
John Miller an 83 year old and among Montgomery County's wealthiest farmers died at his residence near Montgomery City. His wife had died several months earlier. He leaves four sons all active farmers in the county.
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John Miller
Montgomery County
Montgomery City
That County
Miners Close Deal for Dick Turpin Mine
A large mining transaction closed with a company led by Senator Ed Wilkerson of Winfield Kas purchasing the controlling stake in the Dick Turpin mine west of Carthage for 125000 dollars.
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Carthage
Ed Wilkerson
Winfield, Kas
Dick Turpin
St Louis County Approves $3 Million Good Roads Bond
St Louis County voters approved a $3,000,000 good roads bond by about 8,000 to 1,300. The measure passed in a recent local election, funding road improvements across the county.
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St. Louis County
Two Boys Fatally Injured in Sled Car Collision
In St. Joseph, two youngsters borne by sleds slid down a hill and crashed into a street car at its foot. Teddy Walkowiak, age 12, and George Saulan, age 11, suffered probable fatal injuries.
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St. Joseph
Teddy Walkowiak
George Saulan
Missing Dairyman's Body Found Near Joplin Mine
The body of 38 year old Joseph Hudson a dairyman who had been missing a week was found at the bottom of an abandoned mine near Joplin Investigators believe he slipped on ice and fell into the opening.
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Joseph Hudson
Joplin
Plank Collapse Kills Two at Carthage Mine
James Williams age 38 and Henry Counts age 43 were killed at the American Davey mine near Carthage when a shaft cribbing plank broke loose and fell 200 feet striking them on the head and crushing their skulls.
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James Williams
Henry Counts
Carthage
Mine Operator T K Irwin Dies at 78
T H Irwin, a millionaire mine owner and builder of the Joplin to Pittsburg electric line, died at his Carthage home aged 78. The Carthage resident had long been a prominent figure in mining and regional infrastructure development.
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T. K. Irwin
Joplin
Pittsburg
Kas
Carthage
Deaf Mutes Sing Hymn at Miss Moyers Funeral
At the funeral in St Louis for Miss Ivey J Moyers a hundred deaf mutes gathered and tapped a rendition of Nearer My God to Thee with their fingers marking the song. The crowd included students and locals observing the unusual ceremony.
Salesman Dies after Illness in Glasgow
H B Shacuetford aged years died in Glasgow after a three days illness of monotony while traveling for Arbuckle Brothers, selling gnomes.
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Glasgow
Shacuetford
Glestow
Arbuckle Brothers
Gnomes
Inside Baths and Limestone Phosphate Claim Health Gain
Advice promotes daily internal cleansing by drinking hot water with limestone phosphate to wash toxins from the bowels. It claims benefits for headaches, biliousness, constipation, and general health, urging readers to obtain phosphate from druggists and begin internal sanitation.
Humorous Divorce Tale From A Lawyer Client
A young attorney recounts a humorous incident where a negro seeks divorce for his eldest child, offering a wholesale price for all eleven children after explaining he always provides his business and that the daughter is the only one married. The lawyer notes the man’s practical humor in discussing legal fees.
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Mary
The Only One Skeleton Key Deadlock Remedy
A terse exchange proposes a skeleton key as a remedy to a political or organizational deadlock. The dialogue implies an instrumental, possibly controversial, approach to breaking stalemate. It frames the key idea as a simple solution to a complex impasse.
That Young Man Defies Stereotype in Courtroom Rally
A heated exchange erupts as a youthful defendant challenges bias during a courtroom appearance. Attorneys clash over perception and decorum, while a sympathetic crowd leans toward fair treatment. The session underscores tensions between age, authority, and justice.
Japan plans coal tar carbolic acid factory
Japan government plans to start a factory to produce carbolic acid from coal tar, signaling a move to develop chemical industry capacity and domestic supply.
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Japan
Traveler Demands Full Hotel Fare but Accepts Rail Halt
The traveler insists on full charges for hotel stays while showing no objection to halting fares on railroads. He holds firm on accommodations but waives objections to railway price stops.
A Change of Food Works Wonders
A discussion on how wrong foods and drinks disturb health, with an example of a Missouri woman improving after stopping coffee and incompatible foods. The text stresses that dietary changes are a first aid for stomach and nervous troubles.
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