Americans mourn Tuscania dead buried on Scotch coast
War department reports indicate American losses from the Tuscania sinking are under 170 of 2179 aboard, with 260 unaccounted and 171 survivors listed. Villagers in Scotland held a burial for 78 victims, a British colonel announced a public fund to build a monument, and soldiers saluted as bodies were numbered and interred in trenches. Eight Americans remain in Britain.
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Washington
War Department
Department
Associated Press
Eee
Tuscania
London
American Field Hospital Bombed by German Air Attacks
An American field hospital near U S lines in France was struck by a German airplane dropping heavy bombs. The building nearest the impacts housed sick and wounded officers and men. No one was hit, but patients and townspeople were shaken. anti aircraft guns failed to stop the raid and the hospital will likely be relocated.
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France
Fire at Grey Nunnery Claims 62 Children
Montreal February 16 bodies recovered from the wreckage of the west wing raise the death toll to 52 with 14 more children found among the ruins. Sisters nursing soldiers returning from overseas aided in preventing higher losses while authorities seek the fire source with a nun suggesting a spark from an X ray machine may have started it.
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Montreal
Lfe
Shipyard unions end quarrels in Superior meeting
Eight hundred delegates from Duluth and Superior shipbuilding unions including boilermakers carpenters and machinists met in Superior to discuss a strike and agreed to work with the shipping board on the shipbuilding program while ending petty quarrels.
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Duluth
Superior
Shipping Board
Heatless Monday details cited by Fuel Administrator
New York February 18. Fuel Administrator Garfield told Williams alumni that the five day suspension and heatless order freed 480 ships with over 2 000 000 tons of food fuel and munitions and other war supplies from Atlantic ports. The ships were bunkered and sent to sea from January 17 to 20. The flow of supplies to American expeditionary forces and allies was restored with most ships at sea or anchored only in smaller numbers.
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New York
Garfield
Williams College
Atlantic
Romania Will Fight to the End Despite Isolation
Chicago, Feb 18. Dr. C Angelescu, head of the Romanian mission, declares Romania will continue fighting to the end against Bolsheviks and Germany. He says Romanians are cut off from friendly nations, with 4,000,000 kin under Austro-Hungarian rule, and will not yield.
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Chicago
Rumania
C. Angelescu
Germany
Dr. Angelescu
Trotzky insists Russia is out of war for keeps
London February 16 Trotzky the foreign minister reiterates that the Bolshevik government has withdrawn from the war and that all agreements with former allies are invalid He announced to the all Russian workmen and soldiers councils that Russia's withdrawal is real and the councils approved the policy.
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Trotzky
Russia
London
William
Leon Trotzky
Market declines across Chicago and Minneapolis grain reports
Chicago grain shows March and May corn and oats opening and closing prices with fractional changes. Minneapolis grain notes flour stability and various commodity prices including barley rye wheat oats and bran. Paul market reports hogs cattle veal calves and sheep with steady or slight price moves and large receipts.
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Minneapolis Grain
Minneapolis
Omaha and Chicago Livestock Markets Report Feb 20
Omaha hogs receipts 15 000 market lower heavy 16.20 16.50 mixed 16.25 16.40 light 16.15 16.45 pigs 10.15 bulk 16.25 16.45 cattle receipts 7 000 market steady native steers 9.13 cows heifers 7.70 10.50 western steers 8.50 12.00 stockers 7 11.50 calves 9.13 bulls stags 7.50 10.50 sheep receipts 12 000 market slow lambs 15.25 16.50 Chicago hogs receipts 64 000 bulk 16.50 16.70 light 16.95 16.70 mixed 16.25 16.70 heavy 16.10 16.70 rough 16.10 16.25 pigs 12.50 16.50 cattle receipts 16 000 native steers 8.50 13.25 stockers 7.35 10.60 cows 6.40 11.60 calves 8.25 13.50 sheep receipts 16 000 sheep 9.75 13.18 lambs 13.50 16.60
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Paul
Omaha
Chicago
Peace Prize for Lenin Proposed by Amsterdam Professors
Constantinople professors nominate Bolshevik premier Nikolai Lenin for the Nobel peace prize, filed at Stockholm. The ground claim cites Lenin as the representative of the Russian people and his world peace ideal of harmony fraternity and cooperation.
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Constantinople
Nikolai Lenine
Russia
Stockholm
Lenine
Tere
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