Duke of Genoa Sits For King Victor In Italian Court
Rome Jan 20 The Duke of Genoa who acts as King at the Quirinal while Victor Emmanuel leads Italy is praised as a rival to the king for the people’s favor. Victor remains democratic minded, while the Duke of Genoa travels in public, defends the throne through service, and aids the Nation with hospital acts and royal duties.
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Rome
Genoa
Quirinal
Victor Emanuel
Europe
House of
Savoy
Victor
Adruzzi
Aosta
Turin
Hac
Italy
the Quirina
Margherite
Russians Seek U S Bids to Build Munition Plants
Nicholas Riabouchinsky of Moscow arrives in New York as the representative of Russian capitalists planning to erect munition factories in czarist Russia and is collecting bids from American builders for the project.
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Nicholas Riabouchinsky
Moscow
New York
Italian Children Tie Duke to Wartime Duty
A Duke furthers his regally loyalties while visiting his Italian children weekly. An army officer consoles him during a train wait, asking when the war will end, and the Duke answers that victory must come first.
Notable New England bank embezzler to be freed
Boston reports the release of George W. Coleman from Greenfield jail after a conviction for embezzling up to £100000 from the National City Bank of Cambridge. The case linked William Kelligher to leading the gang, with Coleman fleeing to Kansas City before surrendering. Coleman’s sentence was shortened for good behavior.
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Boston
Mass
New England
Greenfield
George W. Colemar
National City Bank of
Cambridge
Coleman
Kansas City
William Rkelliher
New York
Charlestown
van. Coleman
Riversville Post Office Robbed for Cash and Stamps
West Virginia police report the Riversville post office in Fairmont was robbed Sunday night of 117 dollars in cash and postage stamps valued between 200 and 300 dollars. Thieves entered through a rear window and bloodhounds tracked them, but no arrests have been made.
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Fairmont
Riversville
United Accessories Co Starts Jitney Bicycle Club
The United Accessories Co announces a program to finance a 1916 model bicycle for twenty dollars with payments of five cents a week rising by ten cents weekly until paid.
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United Accessories Co
Sultan Kotchak Leads Campaign in Persian Lake Urumiah Territory
The sultan of a small Persian principality around Lake Urumiah fought Russians who invaded his domain and with Turkish aid drove out Cossacks. He then attacked Armenian and Syrian Christians, reportedly massacring eighty. Russians advance as he leads tribesmen to repel them.
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Sultan Kotchak
Lake Urumiah
Shortest Month Holidays Highlight Leap Year Proposals
The passage notes February as the shortest month with many holidays including Ground Hog Day St Valentine’s Day The Twenty Ninth and birthdays for Washington Lincoln and more It discusses Leap Year proposals with Inez Millholland Boissevain and woman’s rights advocacy and quotes her stance on proposing and equality.
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St. Valentine
Washington
Lincoln
Col Ardam
Avon
Shakespeare
Inez Millholand Boissevain
Advance Por 30 000 Miners Wage Increase In Iron Range
The wage advance goes into effect today in Minnesota and northern Michigan iron ranges. It amounts to about 10 percent and covers over 20,000 United States Steel Corp employees and about 10,000 workers with smaller companies.
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Duluth
Minn
Minnesota
Michigan
United States Steel Corporation
Kansas farmers weigh plan to hold wheat at $1 a bushel
A movement to unite Kansas farmers to hold their wheat for one dollar a bushel may be launched by the Farmers' Union at its annual convention in Topeka. The proposal has drawn favorable reception. Over 2,000 farmers from across the state attend, with sessions lasting through Saturday.
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Topeka
Kan
Kansas
Farmers’ Union
Hancock Man Electrocuted at Mercer sburg Tannery
Raymond Mann about 20 unmarried resident of Title Cove near Hancock died instantly by electrocution at the Byron and Sons tannery in Mercersburg.
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Raymond Mann
Tittle Cove
Hancock
Byron & Sons
Mercersburg
Teen Dies Struck at Electric Switch Incident
A young man on wet ground reached an electric switch on Saturday afternoon and formed a direct conducting path for current. He was killed instantly, and reports say Mann had been warned to stay away from the switch.
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Tie
Mann
One Year Ago Today in the War February 1 1915 At Sea and Front
German submarines sank British merchant ships in the North Sea and English Channel. Heavy fighting reported in the La Bassée district. French torpedo boat sunk off Nieuport Belgium. Russians claim to have recovered a trench west of the war front.
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Ma@ermans
North Sea
English Channel
la Bassee
Nieuport
Belgium
Warsaw
RESSER ORDERS LANTERNS FROM WHEELING STAMPING
The Russian government has placed an order with the Wheeling Stamping Company for 85,000 dozer lanterns. The lanterns are of burning type and the plant will operate day and night to fill the order.
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Wheeling
W. Va
Wheeling Stamping Company
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