Seven Liquor Bills Debated as Casper Hospital Bill Fails
In Wyoming assembly, seven liquor control bills were introduced after the Casper hospital appropriation measure failed. Debates centered on licensing, forbidding female patrons, and voter or property owner thresholds, while a separate nurses home bill passed on third reading.
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Casper Hospital
Spraul
Plate
Casper
Sproul
Higgins
Jones
Ecwood
Park Ty
Meek
Weston and
Camp Counties
Rep
Holdrege
Hot Springs
Hot Springs State Reserve
Thermopolis
Kendall
Sheridan
Lim
Sailings Cancelled and Passage Refused by Liners
New York February 7 The sailing of the American ships St Louis and St Paul is indefinitely suspended as the Washington state department declines to advise private voyagers into the German war zone. The International Mercantile Marine instructs agents to stop booking passengers. British consulate refuses passports for women and children aboard ships through the war zone. Ninety seven passengers aboard.
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New York
St. Louis
St. Paul
Veestroat Praskiin
Internetional Miroanttie Marine
Washington State Department
Department
International Mercantile Marine Today
Bonus distributed to Union Pacific Cheyenne workers
Approximately sixty thousand dollars was paid as a bonus to Union Pacific employees in Cheyenne to ease living costs, with 1480 004.17 distributed in the Wyoming division. The company announced a month’s extra pay for all employes of Union Pacific and associated lines, effective January 1 1916.
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Suion Pacific Railroad
Cheyenne
Wyoming
Union Pacific
E. Calvin
Omaha
Union Pacific Railroad Company
Oregon Short Line Railroad Company
Oregon-Washington Railroad of Navigation Company
Head on Crash North of Cheyenne Injures Train Crew
A northbound freight train and a southbound passenger train collided near Mile Post 7 about seven miles north of Cheyenne around 11 PM. Engineer Charles Jones suffered a broken leg and facial burns. two Mexican passengers were fatally or critically injured, with several others hurt including W E Jackson and Mabel Frahm. Rescue aid arrived from Billings and Douglas, and both trains sustained severe damage with cars telescoped and the Pullman car forcefully struck.
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Charles Jones
Mile Post No. 7
Cheyenne
W. E. Jackson
Guernsey
Mabel
Billings
L. W. Storey
Douglas
Dickinson
Noth
Mabel Frahm
Fr. M. Stuart
East Eighteenth Street
Stuart
T. J. Topham
Cherles Reynolds
W. FF. Ronayne
Hertha
Pullman
Hartsell
Joars
Record Day as 802 Apply for Citizenship in Manhattan
New York February 7 802 men and women applied for their first citizenship papers setting a record for a single day in Manhattan. The applicants represent a diverse mix of ages and backgrounds seeking naturalization.
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New York
Manhattan
Strange Vessel Off Boston Reported By Harbor Tug Master
Captain Rush of the Boston navy yard was told by Captain Stoss that a strange vessel, blinking submarine and lacking a flag, was sighted four miles off Marblehead headed to sea. The report came tonight via harbor tug master Moss.
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Rush
Boston Navy Yard
Stoss
Moss
Marhlehead
May be overt act that will bring war
Mrs. Alexander Cuthill of Casper Wyoming aboard the California survived the torpedoing off the Ireland coast by a German submarine yesterday. Dispatches last night showed she was not among those injured. The Cuthills are well known in Casper as part of a Scotch colony. she travels to visit her relatives near Glasgow, Scotland.
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Rep. Wilson
Oviatt
Committee On Education
Senate
Genatora Sibley
Holliday and
Chrieman
Rep
Kirk
Wyoming
Alexander Cuthill
Casper
Wyo
California
Ireland
Cuthill
Glasgow
Scotland
British liner California sunk off British coast
The British liner California was sunk by a submarine off the British coast. It carried thirty-one passengers and a crew of 184 with one life lost and thirty hospital cases. Authorities report 160 survivors. the armed ship carried war supplies and the passengers were British and Canadian subjects.
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New York
California
Crack Anchor Line
Washington
State Department
California torpedoed with American aboard saved
American Consul Frost at Queenstown cabled that the California was torpedoed without warning and that one American known to be aboard was saved. Several passengers including two women and several children are missing. John A. Lee of Montgomery Alabama is believed to be a crew member. The captain said two torpedoes were fired from 200 yards with no prior warning.
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Washington
Frost
Queenstown
State Department
California
John A. Lee
Montgomery
Ala
The
California Torpedoed as War Zone Tension Mounts
Washington reports the torpedoing of the California without warning as Germany resumes unrestricted submarine warfare. Officials expect a U.S. decision on war or peace as Lloyds tallies heavy shipping losses and Britain relies on sustained tonnage to avert collapse.
Port Adelaide Sinking Hits British Policy Warning
The Port Adelaide, an 8181 ton British liner built in 1911 and owned by Commonwealth and Dominion, was torpedoed without warning by a German submarine. Passengers and crew were rescued by the Dutch steamer Samarinds and landed at Vigo. the master was captured aboard the submarine. The note cites Germany's pledge breach to warn before sinking passenger ships.
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London
Port Adelaide
Australia
Samarinds
Vigo
Germany
United States
Lloyd's Shipping Agency
Commonwealth and Dominion Line
One Day's Toll of German Sinking Reported
The report cites German torpedoing in the last twenty four hours sinking ships including an Anchor liner California and a British steamer of unknown tonnage. Two British cables and two boats were sunk and the Azul of 3074 tons is reported as probably sunk.
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California
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