Annual Report of Rear Admiral Griffin on War Navy Stats
The 1918 year end report shows 1959 total vessels with 264 ships and 42 000 men in European waters. Regular navy lists 570 ships plus 93 coast guard vessels, 937 converted merchant craft, and 247 Naval Overseas Transport vessels with 112 to be commissioned. Construction includes 276 new ships and 52 tugs, bases in France Britain Gibraltar and two in the Mediterranean, six repair ships, and new submarine detection devices. Navy radio expansion and 200 mile air to shore communication are highlighted, plus progress on battleships destroyers and submarines with engines and plant progress detailed.
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Washington, D. C
Germany
Griffin
Bureau of Steam Engineering
Admiral Griffin
Regular Navy
Coast Guard
Lighthouse Service
Coast and Geodetic Survey and Fish Commission
Navy
Naval Overseas Transport Service
Shipping Board
Regular
United States
France
Great Britain
Gibraltar
Mediterranean
General Electric Company
British
Admiralty
Ministry of Marine
Atlantic
Taylor
Annapolis
Europe
Mississippi
Sipaerines
Today’s events and meetings across multiple cities
An emergency conference on reconstruction plans is set in Chicago by the National Organization for Public Health Nursing. The Rhode Island Corn Growers’ show opens in Providence to illustrate corn production. The National Drainage Congress meets in Chicago with talks on government funding for drainage, water power, food control and river regulation. Sports calendars include racing at Jefferson Park New Orleans and the Cuba American Jockey Club in Havana, plus tennis and baseball committee meetings in New York and Indian.
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National Organization For Public Health Nursing
Chicago
Rhode Island Corn Growers’ Association
Providence
National
Drainage Congres
Jefferson Park
New Orleans
Annual Sports and Federation Meetings Across North America
Automobile convention of New York State Motor Federation held in Rochester. Hockey annual meeting of Canadian Amateur Hockey Association in Toronto. Wrestling Central Association A A U championship tournament in Chicago. Boxing Central Association A Milwaukee.
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New York State Motor Federation
Rochester
Canadian Amateur Hockey Association
Toronto
Central Association A. A. U
Chicago
Boxing—Central Asociation A. A. U
Milwaukee
Miss Christabel Pankhurst Candidate for Parliament
Miss Christabel Pankhurst one of fourteen women candidates for parliament in the forthcoming British elections is the daughter of Mrs Emmeline Pankhurst. A brilliant young woman she earned a law degree at Victoria University but could not practice in Britain due to her sex. She served as organising secretary for the W S P U and helped devise many militant suffrage strategies. She and her mother and sisters have been arrested several times for their suffrage work.
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Christabel Pankhurst
Emmeline Pankhurst
Miss Christabel
Victoria University
Women’s Social and Political Union
Chronology Snippet of European Figures and Events
The fragment lists Duke of Sully born at Rosny and died at Chartres December 22, 1641. It notes 1769 Dartmouth College charter grant and 1810 North Germany annexed to France. The piece ends with 1818 Baron Ellenborough, incomplete.
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Duke of
Sully
Henry IV of
France
Rosny
Chartres
Dartmouth College
North Germany
Baron Ellenborouch
Hastings defense lawyer dies in London
Leading counsel for the defense in Warren Hastings's trial, he died in London. Born November 16, 1750. The item includes a dated chronology noting the Thames embankment sighting in 1880, Utah statehood bill in 1893, naval actions in 1914, 1915, and a 1916 appeal to Americans for Belgian relief.
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Warren Hastings
London
One Year Ago Today in the War Highlights
A retrospective notes Punchal Madeira bombarded by a German submarine. German envoys arrived at Brent-Litovsk to sign an armistice with Russia. Berlin reported a further Austro German advance in northern Italy.
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Punchal
Madeira
Brent- Litovsk
Berlin
Italy
Notable Birth Anniversaries of Public Figures
Rt. Rev. John Cragg of Montreal born in Cincinnati 57 years ago today. Dr. A. Lawrence Lowell of Harvard born in Boston 2 years ago today. Arthur G. Perkin famed color chemist born in Sudbury England 67 years ago today. Edwin O. Excell gospel evangelist and composer born in Uniontown Ohio 07 years ago today. Emil Seidel socialist leader and ex Milwaukee mayor born in Ashland Pennsylvania 54 years ago today.
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John Cragg Vorthing
Montreal
Cincinnati
A. Lawrence Lowell
Harvard University
Boston
Arthur George Perkin
Sudbury
England
Edwin O. Excell
Uniontown
Emil Seidel
Milwaukee
Ashland
Local Market Reporting Service Expands Nationwide
The bureau of markets expands its local market reporting service across 15 states after a successful Providence start. The program, allied with local authorities, supplements national telegraphic news from the Department of Agriculture and covers a new field in market data reporting.
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Bureau of Markets
United States Department of Agriculture
Secretary of Agriculture
Providence
R. I
Untitled Remedial Elixir Sold By Druggists
An old advertisement touts a universal remedy praised for safety and reliability. It claims the product is trusted by grandfathers and mothers alike and available from all druggists for 60 cents or 1.20 dollars.
Dr Kings New Life Pills Promote Regular Bowels
Mild tonic action claims to tame bowel schedule issues and support daily duties. Advertises as cleansing and stomach stabilizing with broad distribution and a price of 25 cents. Reports claim consumer figures aid growers and housewives, while benefiting dealers through local newspaper circulation.
Indian Girls Engage in Canning Campaign Exhibit
Indian girls in Beckham county attend meetings with the home demonstration agent and display a strong effort in canning and drying fruits and vegetables. An Indian woman exhibited 100 chickens from her own farm as part of the local exhibit.
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Beckham County
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Eve
Fen Isere
Fuomence Loella
Lydia E. Pinkham
E.pinkham Medicine CO
Rub
Aise
Orient
BAN Company
W. 17Th St
Infante
Childr
Philadelyade
Sloan
Thames Embankment
House of Representatives
Utah
Dardanelles
Macedonia
League of Neutral Nations
People of
America
Larimer Street
Denver
Egypt
Uxertland
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