Kaiser Wilhelm’s Humorous Navy Pranks Revealed
An article by Johannes Fischart in Weltbuchne recounts Emperor Wilhelm II in 1904 aboard the cruiser Nymphe during Kiel regatta events. He mocked officers by demanding champagne, tossing caviar, and playfully humiliating General Hahnke, provoking laughter among the imperial suite.
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Associated Press
London
Kaiser Wilhelm
Johannes Fischart
Weltbuchne
Fischart
Emperor
Nymphe
Kiel
Admiral von Tirpitz
Kaiser
Tirpitz
Wilhelm
von Hahnke
Hahnke
Hahno
Mr. Fischart
Highland Colony Brief News Notes
Mrs. W. L. Dunn of Norfolk Nebraska arrived unexpectedly to visit Mr and Mrs Robert Jamieson. Miss Elsie Adolphson finished her term of school near Federal this week and will start a three month term next Monday twelve miles north of Hillside. Pete Fox has invested in a Ford.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. L. Dunn
Norfolk
Neb
Fod
Robert Jamieson
Elsie Adolphaon
Pederal
Hillsidale
Pete Fox
Ford
Wyoming Ranches to Have Telephone Line
Land er Wyoming on April 5 a telephone line is to be built from the Harrison ranch to the Glenden ning ranch about fourteen miles above Dubois. The line will span twenty six miles and connect a number of ranches that previously had no telephone service.
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Lander, Wyo
Harrison Ranch
Glendenning Ranch
Dunolr
Dubois
Forty five Thousand Paid for Wyo Ranch
Phillip Dunn of Harrison Nebraska bought the Fetterman ranch owned by L. W. Clelland near Douglas Wyoming. The Clelland ranch on the Platte and La Prele rivers will be Dunns new home with his family. Purchase price was 845000.
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Douglas
Wyo
Phillip 4. Dunn
Harrison
Neb
Fetterman
L. W. Clelland
Clelland
Platte Tiver
la Prele
Platte
Gype Durnng
Sioux
Colunty
Nebraska
Joseph F. Duen
Nouglac
Bootlegging Ring Nabbed Across Wyoming Montana Line
Sheridan officials helped Montana authorities arrest a bootlegging ring operating between Cody and Sheridan and into Montana. Ben Rossi led the gang and faces Wyoming charges after gunpoint takedown near the Montana line. haul valued at about 6000 dollars.
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Sheridan
Wyo
Denver
Montana
A. A. C. Thomas
Bén Hossi
Portland
Thomas
Montana Line
Ihrea
Wyoming
Ben Rossi
Sheridamamt
Cheno Company's Rig Relocated to New Quarter Section
RIVERTON Wyo April 5 The rig of the Cheno Oil Company moves to a new quarter section S W 14 See 25 T34 R95 and plans to drill to a depth of 1000 feet in the new location.
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Riverton
Wyo
Cheno Oil Company
Sam Quarter
S. W
Carelessness Lets Oil Tank Spill Near Wyopo
In Lander on April 5 an open escape cock on a pipe line led to a tank of oil leaking onto the road. Oil men heading to the Wind River refinery discovered the spill the next morning after about 400 barrels had escaped.
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Lander
Vryopov
Wind River
Wyopo Company
Oil Claims Staked Near Shoshoni in Wyoming
Riverton Wyoming April 5. The Hout Oil company moves a rig out on Muskrat nine miles southeast of Shoshoni. They report locating around 100 square miles of oil claims using the Riverton company rig.
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Riverton
Wyo
Hout Oil Company
Muskrat
Shoshoni
Riverton Company
Centennial Field to Be Tested With Adequate Drilling
LARAMIE WY April 5 The Centennial Oil company now drilling in the Centennial valley has reached about 1900 feet and plans to resume in about a fortnight with good prospects of oil. The firm, led by A J Mull and backed by Findlay financiers, will deploy a first rate outfit and ample capital to prove a large underground oil body.
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Laramie
Wyo
Centennial Oil Company
Centennial Valley
Findlay
A. J. Mull
Wyoming Goat Herd Remarkably Prolific
Glankook Wyoming April 5. Reven som kids from 1 mothers is the race established by Mrs. W Kim bene s Goat herd this year, and all are thriving. The little fellows came during the cold weather and some were 4000 I a little kitchen nursing, but ape to get away with their share of tin cans prickly pears and barbed wire of each men. haiser te derived from the old German cpemere from the
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Glankook
Wyo
Forestry Section Girls Back in London After War Service
London returnees from the Forestry Section recount life at lumber camps in Northamptonshire and wage war era strikes. Two infantrylike workers arrive in uniform with small earnings, face Tube strike delays, plan to join hotel workers in London, and foresee resuming civil life with a good job and purpose.
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London
Margaret Walter
Mall
Land Army
Victoria
Northamptonshire
London Tube
eClub
Tommy
Canada
Mesounger
Burlington Arcade
Converse County to Be Tested As Sugar Beet Ground
Douglas Wyoming April 5 A test of this section of the Platte to show the adaptability to sugar beet raising will be made this season as Great Western Sugar Company of Denver contracts. C B Turner assistant agriculturalist visited Douglas and arranged for about 250 shares of beets this year. A field superintendent will be sent to advise growers with the company paying half his salary and beet field workers supplied by the company. Turner believes the area is well suited for sugar beets and will yield an exceptionally valuable crop.
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Douglas
Wyo
Platte
Ihs
Great Western Sugar Company of
Denver
C. B. Turner
Turner
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Bill Homenzollern
Highland Colony
Wyoming Ranches
England
Dr. Caldwell
Earl Cowell
Cement City
Mich
W. B Caldwell
Washington Street
Monticello
Illinois
Cro
Hammond
Entrance ' S Revenue Theatre
Boundary
Cheno Company
New Locality
Centennial
Haiser
Cpemere
Roy J. ‘White
Cheyenne, Wyo
Converse County
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