British Isles Hurricane Causes Widespread Damage
A fierce storm across the British Isles caused millions in damage. Ten fishing smacks and crews totaling eighty are missing. Warships sheltered in harbors as mines drift and threaten waters. The Norwegian steamer Hjordis ran aground near Forfolk with ten drowned, and the Narcissun grounded at Port Cawl with three drowned.
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Pac
Int'l News Service
London
British Isles
Hjordis
Forfolk
Narcissun
Port Cawl
PLAN IMPROVEMENTS AT PRISON FARM
The Prison commission and Warden Dickerson consider reclaiming about 400 acres of swampy land at the ranch end. A drain ditch and river-side levee would use convict labor. Surveys will test feasibility, with potential to raise ranch value by thousands, following a 1915 net profit of $1197.
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Prison Commission
Dickerson
Florida Seaboard Special Wrecked Again
Richmond, Feb 17 The north bound Florida Flyer was wrecked near Chester this morning. Reports say many passengers were killed or injured and that nurses and physicians are rushing to the scene. This is the second wreck of the same train within ten days.
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Pac
Int'l News Service
Richmond
Chester
Japan Panama Maru Afire at Sea
The Japan ese Panama Maru is afire at sea and sending out an S O S. The Maru sailed from San Francisco for Kobe on January 23. Several vessels have been sent to her rescue.
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Yorkohoma
San Francisco
Kobe
Profit projections for the ranch farm operations 1915 to 1916
A report notes that after deductions for prisoner labor, the farm shows a loss of 989.30, but without this deduction the operation would show a profit of 4790.70. The figures reflect only cattle increases and exclude cattle sales, with improvements and stock additions planned. The commission expects higher revenue in 1916 than in 1915.
State of Nevada Convicted in Court
A humorous note on a Nevada court mix up where the state is described as convicted of assault and battery after a Tuscarora justice court verdict. The piece riffs on legal consequences, possible remedies, and the absurdity of a state being jailed, citing the Emmet Johnson case and the lack of precedent.
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Nevada
Justice Court of
Tuscarora
Supreme Court
Disciples of Blackstone
Board of Pardons
Commonwealth
Emmet Johnson
Durance Vile
British Lose 8000 at Kut El Amara
Reports from Constantinople say British forces suffered about 5000 casualties in three days of heavy fighting around Kut El Amara. Separately Norfolk notes the battleship Pennsylvania began maiden speed tests en route to Rock Island Maine.
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Kut EL Amara
Constantinople
Pac
Int'l News Service
Norfolk
Pattleship Poennsylvania
Hampton Tlonda
Rock Island
Maine
Submarine Warfare Talks End Without Agreement
Washington embassy talks between Ambassador Von Bernstorff and Secretary Lansing fail to yield a statement. United States demands a written pledge that armed passenger liners are immune from unwarned attack, while Germany insists on its right to sink armed merchantmen with ships and liners excluded. The dispute centers on whether armed liners may be searched or attacked without breach of international law, leaving an impasse.
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Pac
Int'l News Service
Washington, D. C
von Bernstorff
Lansing
United States
Germany
von Bernstorf
Rabies Not New Yet Pervasive Across History
An Agricultural Extension bulletin summarizes rabies as an ancient disease with early mentions dating to 326 BCE. It notes Aristotle described dogs mad with fury and biting others, with Celsus giving the first complete account in the first century AD, and later medical writings continuing references through the Middle Ages.
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Service Bulletin
Agricultural Extension Division
University of Nevada
Stephen Lockett
Aristotle
Celsus
Dogtown Revu headline at Bradley Tonight
Bradley Opera House presents Teddy Osborn Co. with Dogtown Revu and six reels of cinema. Twelve trained dogs and a monkey perform unassisted on stage, fresh from the Pantages circuit, followed by Essenay Canimated News and Lubin feature In Love's Own Way. Two-show night at 10 and 25 cents.
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Bradley Opera House
Teddy Osborn & Co
Elko
Salt Lake City
Essenay
Flood Victims Arrive in Natchez as Relief Train Reaches
The first relief train loaded with refugees arrived Natchez Mississippi this morning carrying twenty five coaches of flood victims. Five parishes in southern Louisiana are completely inundated with four to six feet of water. In district court W W Booher filed his seventeenth annual guardianship statement for the estate of Mrs. Matie Allen confined in Nevada Hospital for mental disease.
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Pac
Int'l News Service
Natchez
Miss
Louisiana
W. W Booher
Matie Allen
Nevada Hospital
Suppressing Muzzling Orders and Eradicating Disease
The article discusses historical disease suppression in Europe and argues for similar action in the western country. It highlights Britain's success by muzzling dogs, notes its eradication by 1900 in England and 1902 in Great Britain and Ireland, and suggests concerted, wide-area efforts in the western country. It calls on desert men, hunters, and rangers to contribute ideas and participate in organized hunting, trapping, poisoning, and uniform bounty programs as auxiliary measures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Great Britain
England
United Kingdom
Ireland
Military Committee Drafts Army Bill Calls for 135000
Washington February 17 The house committee on military affairs has drafted a skeleton army bill proposing a standing army of 135000 men It omits Garrison s continental army plan and raises the militia to half a million with pay for the force It also extends reserve duty to age 45 for men not on active service
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Pac
Int'l News Service
Washington, D. C
House Committee On Military Affairs
Continental Army
Russians Capture 40 000 Prisoners in Erzerum Fall
Pac and Int'l News Service reports from Petrograd that Grand Duke Nicholas captured 40 000 Turkish troops and 110 guns when Erzerum fell yesterday. Turkish casualties reached 25 000. remnants of the 150 000 strong garrison flee westward.
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Petrograd
Nicholas
Erzerum
Garison
Greece protests over Italian troop landing at Corfu
Athens notes protest to entente powers after Premier Skouroudis reports that twenty Italian regiments have landed at Corfu. The move heightens tensions between Greece and Italy amid allied powers involvement.
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Greece
Pac
Int'l News Service
Athens
Skou-roudis
Corfu
Turks Defeat English Troops on Ira Front
The war office announced the British were defeated on the Ira front yesterday with about 2000 men killed. A detachment was annihilated near Aden as Turkish aeroplanes bombed Kut El Amara, damaging several batteries.
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Pac
Int’l
Constantinople
War Office
Ira
Aden
Kut el Amara
Wilson signs defense bills to boost navy cadets and shipyards
President Wilson signed two national defense measures increasing the Naval Academy entrance class by 300 cadets and making 600 000 dollars for Mare Island and New York yard facilities available. Rear Admiral Blue notified 529 lawmakers that each may appoint an additional applicant now with exams set for April 8 and the option to delay appointments until next year.
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Washington
Wilson
Naval Academy
Mare Island Navy Yard
New York Navy Yard
Blue
Bureau of Navigation
Lill
Crown Prince Commands German Forces in West
Paris reports the Crown Prince is in command of the German army in Alsace Lorraine as well as at Argonne. The assertion places him at the head of German operations on the western front.
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West
Pac
Int'l News Service
Paris
Alsace
Loraine
Argonne
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Candale
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