Navy to raise enlisted strength to eighty seven thousand
President signs order to boost Navy strength from 74 000 to 87 000 with an immediate appeal for recruiting. Secretary Daniels urges newspapers to publish the move and editorial support. General Bell to head one new Atlantic department. Leggett moves from the Philippines to San Francisco.
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Washington
Atlantic
General Bell
San Francisco
Hunter Leggett
Phillipines
Bell
Daniels
United States
Congress
Navy
Josephus Daniels
Preas Washington
Assur
Department orders out 20 regiments for federal service
The War Department ordered 20 additional infantry regiments and five separate National Guard battalions into federal service for property protection and potential internal trouble. Eighteen regiments hail from western and middle western states. California units mobilize with Fifth and Seventh regiments reporting from multiple cities. a Fifth Machine Gun Company mobilizes in San Francisco. Captain G Magagnos of Alameda dies of heart trouble after supervising mobilization.
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Washington
War Department
National Guard
California
Sacramento
Ifornia Guard
Oakland
Fifth California
Akaneda
San Jose
Livermore
Petaluma
Palo Alto
Los Angeles
San Francisco
Fifth ‘Egiment
Fred Marrett
Alameda Alameda
G. Magagnos
Navy recruitment increases to full war strength in 17,400 Marines
A Senate report notes cooperation from New Mexico and nationwide areas to recruit the navy to full war strength. An automobile detachment will tour towns villages and farms to locate available men. The president authorizes Marine Corps recruitment to 17,400.
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Arsa
Geaver
Marine Corps
Washington
Enthusiastic Overland Trail Local Branch Organized in Elko
A local Overland Trail club branch was formed in Elko at a lively Saturday night meeting. Members touted a Nevada route parallel to the Southern Pacific as a safe efficient highway linking California and Utah with water, telegraph lines, and railroad nearby. The organization, led by Morley Griswold, will push for a statewide boulevard from California to Utah with dues set at 3.50 for auto owners and 2.00 for others.
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Overland Trail Club
Elko
Nevada
America
California
Californ
Utah I
Attorn Morley Griswold
J. A. McBride
George TB. Russell
R. W. Hesson
Treasuri
Hesson
Morley Griswold
Wm. Mayer
Robi. Hesson
J. W. Puett
Winnemucca
Reno
Congress
Sid
W D. Mason
E. Ennor
A. J. Hood
Another Rich Strike Made At Jarbidge
The Legitimate mine tunnel shows a seven foot across vein with no wall yet. Mannings across pan gold indicates ongoing depth extension similar to other district mines. Winter has strained supply and roads but new route aims to ease transport as a volunteer fire department forms and a motorized pump is promised. Wes Fisk dies in Tonopah hospital. avoid travel unless roads open and you can bring bed and grub.
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Thomases
Jarbidge
Touse Creek
Cedar Creek
Devil Creek
Jarbidee
den Ict
Winthrop W. Fisk
Wes, Fisk
Tonopak
Three Creek
Ruhl
St Louis Reaches Destination First Armed Merchantman
Washington announced that the St. Louis, an armed American merchantman, reached her Atlantic destination safely. She left New York on March 5 with 31 passengers, including 17 American citizens, and a crew of 131 Americans aboard, relieving anxious relatives.
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Washington
St. Louis
Daniels
Phin
New York
Miss Blind Masterson Heads Home After Typhoid Recovery
Miss Blind Masterson a noted nurse who has been ill with typhoid fever for weeks leaves Saturday night for Kiaund her home to recover further then plans to return to Elko to resume her nursing. Mr Laura Jameson and daughter Helen accompany her to Oakland for a short stay. She thanks Elko friends for their kindness during illness.
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Blind Masterson
Kiaund
Elko
Laura Jameson
Helen
Mixa Masterson
Oakland
Miss Masterson
Newspaper Man Sentenced as Spy
Oral court today sentenced Vaux Bacon, an American newspaper man, who pleaded guilty to going to England to act as a spy for Germany, to one year and one day in prison and a one dollar fine.
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Wyortk
Vaux Bacon
England
Germany
Mormon Senator Willan Uf King and Evangeline Visit
The passage references Senator Willan Uf King of Sol Lake City and Evangeline home from college. It describes a late afternoon rainfall scene and Evangeline’s remark that she faced only part of the downpour in her vicinity, with political mentions of Senator Goorutherland and Senator Smoot in a Mormon context.
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Willan Uf King
Sol Lake City
Goorutherland
Kig
Smoot
Evangeline
Teutons Menace Petrograd Threat From German Forces
London dispatch reports German troops massing along the northern front in a possible campaign against Petrograd. Provisional government ministers and the Duma insist the capital will be defended and obeyed despite the alarming developments.
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Petrograd
London
Russia
Germ
Hindenburg
Duma
Railroad Ordered to Give Up Steamships in Canal Ruling
Washington March 26 The Supreme Court in a canal era case against railroads requires the New Valley Railway to relinquish its stakes in steamship lines including the Great Lakes Steamship Transportation line W Smith mining man of Bullion is in town on business
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Washington
Supreme Court
New Valley Railway Company
Great Lakes Steamship ‘Transportation Line
W. Smith
Wilson Deliberates War Plan and Bond Loan Option
Representatives Flood Harrison and Ragsdale met with Secretary Lansing who outlined two war options. One would aid France by financing the war with a large bond issue. The other would send a military force to the French front. The president has not decided which to urge in the April 2 message. Lansing said a bond issue to buy French bonds is the likely plan.
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Washington
Flood
Harrison and
Ragsdale
House Committee On Foreign Affairs
Lansing
France
Congress
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