Sister of Czar Found In Box Car Near Novorossiysk
Grand Duchess Olga sister of the Russian czar was found by American Red Cross workers in a box car near Novorossiysk South Russia amid thousands of refugees. She aids others while in rags and grateful for food and clothing. The Red Cross notes she is one of three surviving Romanoffs and that Exenta lives in London and the dowager empress in Copenhagen.
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Olga
Nicholas
Russia
Red Cross
Novvorosiysk
American
Instezor
Tassia
House of Romanoff
Novorossiysk
American Red Cross
Prince Oldenburg
Rostov
Mme. Koulinkavsky
Grand Duchess
Exenta
Lves
London
Romanoff
Hyes
Copenhagen
Navy fuel oil bids fall short of demand
Navy bids on fuel oil covered less than one-fifth of the 6,000,000 barrels sought and priced above current contracts. Texas Oil offered about 4.20 per barrel for 600,000 barrels at Atlantic coast ports, Standard Oil 3.65 per barrel for 60,000 barrels. Secretary Daniels said he would push for an adequate supply at reasonable prices.
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Washington
Navy Department
Atlantic Coast
Texas Oil Company
Standard Oil Company
Daniels
Payne Takes Up New Duties As Interior Secretary
Washington on March 16 John Barton Payne retired as shipping board chairman and was sworn in as secretary of the interior succeeding Franklin Lane who retired March 1 Payne was replaced on the shipping board by Rear Admiral William Benson Benson was appointed only a member but expectation exists that he will be elected chairman.
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Washington
John Barton Payne
Shipping Board
Indictments in Weissman Dry Goods Failure
Indictments have been returned against 23 men tied to the $1,000,000 Weissman failure in New Haven. They are alleged to have concealed assets of the bankrupt firm. Most defendants are from New York and had testified at bankruptcy hearings. Roumanian Cabinet Resigns in Bucharest as Vaida-Voevod quits March 16. The king asks interior minister Foroza Averezoo to form a new ministry.
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New Haven
Conn
Joseph Weissman
New York
Roumanian
Realgns
Bucharest
Alexander Vaida-Voevad
Gen
Foroza Averezoo
Skilled Surgeons Leave U S Health Service
Washington March 17 Low pay has depleted the professional personnel of the public health service Surgeon General Cumming said 12 000 discharged soldiers sailors and marines are in hospitals with an insufficient force He notes the corps cannot attract lower grade doctors or needed specialists for tuberculosis and mental illness Vacancies rise as about 10 percent of officers resign and duties in quarantine research and health service hospitals suffer without adequate pay and staff
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Washington
Public Health Service
Cumming
Europe
Asia
Great Uprising in Turkey News Flash
London reports a Turkish nationalist uprising led by Colonel Jartayar in Thrace and Adrianople. A provisional government is claimed as the movement spreads through Asia Minor and denounces the armistice with threats to oppose terms not acceptable to Turkish nationalists.
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London
Not Guilty Verdict in I W W Case in Montesano
A jury appointed by labor organizations returned a not guilty verdict at Montesano Washington in the Armistice day shooting case involving IWW members charged with murder at Centralia The verdict was stated as unanimous in a prepared accompanying note
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Tacoma
Wash
Montesano
Centralia
Barges Sink Off Block Island Killing Six
Six men die when two coal barges, Nos. 7 and 10, part from a three-barge tow and sink six miles northwest of Block Island Rhode Island. Capt James MacWeeney of Charleston Massachusetts drowns and one other man is missing. The barges belonged to Consolidated Cog Company of Boston and were traveling from Norfolk to Boston.
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James MacWeeney
Charleston
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Norfolk
Boston
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Kapp Regime Falls Amid Berlin Red Uprising Battles
Soviet led Spartacists crush a National Guard battalion and seize artillery in the Ruhr as General Von Seeckt assumes control in Berlin. Red control expands across Ruhr and Stuttgart, while Kapp's government collapses amid calls for loyalist movement and a new German government.
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Ruhr
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Berlingen
Strausberg
Vogelber
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Essen
Krupp
Germany
Stuttgart
Wuerttemberg
Friederich Ehert
Kapp
Ebert
Gustav Noske
von Seeckt
Thorders
Hindenburg
Williams in Roper's job in revenue bureau change
Washington March 16 William Martin Williams of Alabama will succeed Daniel O Roper as commissioner of internal revenue. Changes in personnel of the internal revenue bureau were made by John A Callan assistant to the retiring commissioner. Deputy Paul F Meyers becomes deputy commissioner and V Newton assistant head of the income tax unit takes charge. Franklin D Parks was named to succeed Newton.
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William Martin Willams
Alabama
Daniel O. Roper
Internal Revenue
Internal Revenue Bureau
John A. Callan
Daniel
Schleswig Schleswig plebiscite results favor Denmark
Copenhagen reports unofficial plebiscite tallies for Schleswig second zone. Denmark receives 13,026 votes versus 48,148 for German control. Danish majorities appear in Gotting, Hadzensum, Utersum, and Regalta districts. northern zone voted February 10 to rejoin Denmark.
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Schleswig
Denmark
Goting
Hadhensum
Utersum
Regalta
Five Die In North Dakota Blizzard In Threatening Storm
Bismarck North Dakota March 16 five persons died as a two day blizzard ravaged the state the worst in eighty years Hazel Miner an eighteen year old girl wrapped a coat and blankets around her younger siblings after their sleigh wrecked and perished before help arrived Adolph Wohtka son of Gust Wohtka a Ryder area farmer died after driving his brothers to safety and failing to reach home as the others froze in deep snow drifts
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N. D
Hazel Miner
Hazel
Adolph Wohtka
Gust Wohtka
Ryder
Wealthy In Illinois See Record Million Dollar Incomes
Chicago March 10 Evidence of Chicago district wealth shows 31 more incomes of 1 million dollars or more this year than last The district includes the area from the north state boundary to Peoria and now 731 persons pay taxes on million dollar incomes The increase is described as the largest in the nation.
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Department of Internal Revenue
Peoria
Averals
Pershing's Rescuer Dies in Utlen New York
Mrs Augusta A Parker, who claimed to have saved Gen Pershing from drowning when he was a young lieutenant at Fortress Monroe, died at her home. She said her husband Col Francis Henry Parker was stationed there and she pulled Pershing from the water, keeping his head above until aid arrived.
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Utlen
N. Y
Augusta A. Parker
Gen. Pershing
Fortress Monroe
Francis Henry Parker
John
Annie
Army Appropriation Passes House in 240 to 92 Victory
Washington reports a 200000 enlisted army and 17800 officers approved by the House in a 240 to 92 vote. The measure advances to the Senate for confirmation. In Memphis an air show tragedy claims Grover Ragsdale and Roy Bell killed as a stunt plane crashed 1200 feet amid wind and low visibility.
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Washington
Senate
Memphis
Grover C. Ragsdale
Sarah, Miss
Air Force
Rockwell Field
San Diego
Roy H. Bell
Senatobia
Miss
Bayer Aspirin Instructions Highlight Safety and Brand
Aspirin tablets with the name ayer or Bayar are presented as genuine and safe, with physicians recommending use for many pains. Always drink water after taking tablets and say Bayer when purchasing. Look for the Bayer Cross on the package and tablets for authenticity. Pack sizes vary from twelve tablets to larger boxes.
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Hayer
Bayar
Bayer
Drugglata
Family Best Regards Are Hard Yet Worthwhile
The remark notes the effort needed to share warm regards within families. It suggests that though simple, expressing care strengthens kinship and fosters gentler interactions among relatives.
Old clothes dyed make new garments ad card
An advertisement promoting Diamond Dyes promising rich fadeless color for all fabrics including tea wool silk linen cotton and blends. It mentions a direction book and a Diamond Dye Color Card. A closing joke edits a girl recalling her first kiss after reaching the age where kisses count.
No woman is a thing of beauty to her maid
A terse saying posits that beauty is not perceived as a constant by those who serve. The statement reflects social manners and standards of appearance from a perspective of service and value.
Hall's Catarrh Medicine and Garfield ad brief
An old advertisement touts Hall's Catarrh Medicine promising to cure catarrh and improve health with internal use. It offers a $100 reward for any cure failure and notes Garfield Ten as a liver stimulant and laxative, claiming universal drug availability and a claim about census gender balance.
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Hall
Nature
J. Cheney & Co
Toledo
Ohio
Bowery Decline Marks End of Old Time District
Changes sweep New York city’s Bowery as famous dives vanish under prohibition era shifts. Once known as a driftway for wreckage the Bowery now shows a rising tide of casual work and cash, leaving behind the era of the Bowery bum and tantrums of old roadside desperadoes.
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Bowery
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