War News Roundup From The Western Front And Beyond
A condensed weekly foreign war digest reports British Suez guarding with 300000 troops and Dardanelles losses. German gains include 1500 prisoners at Hartmanns-Weillerkopf. Yasuka Maru sunk with one American aboard. no lives lost. Submarine actions sink Leros and threaten Marmora. Greece told Teutons to reach Saloniki by Jan 15. evacuation promised after task. Russian naval moves shell Varna and land troops. Britain seeks 4,000,000 army. London posts staff shakeup and casualty figures.
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Union News Service
Great Britain
Suez Canal
Dardanelles
Hartmanns-Weillerkopf
Western Front
Athens
Leros
Sea of Marmora
North Atlantic
Rotterdam
United States
Germany
Greece
Saloniki
Berlin
Russia
Bulgaria
Varna
International War News and Domestic Dispatches
Paris reports actress Sarah Bernhardt near death while Juarez rioters injure several. Guatemala endures earthquakes with no serious damage. Amsterdam notes 300 of 600 Muenster mill workers killed. Reichstag backs war credits of 10.0 billion marks as socialists abstain. John Redmond vows opposition to conscription. Asquith raises troops to 4 million. Greek voters participate in elections. German mothers urged to bear more children. Woodrow Wilson Soldiers home dedication held in Berne with officials present. De Wet released in South Africa. Willie Ritchie defeats Eddie McAndrews in Philly. Briton Jack Britton to substitute against Griffiths. Cubs sale questioned by Taft comment. Willard expects tough title fight en route to Chicago. Compton signs life contract. honeymoon planned in March. Giants sale to Sinclair rumored. Denver Revolver Club second. Pennsylvania police win. Charlies Christie dies in New York. U.S. deaths reach 8000. Fisk recovering in Missouri. AMA may reorganize after Supreme Court ruling. Ohio Oil takeover rumors swirl amid Midwest Oil Company chatter.
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Muenster
Reichstag
Socialista
John Redmond
House of Commons
John Dillon
Asquith
Havas
Athens
Saloniki
Germany
Willie Ritchie
Eddie McAndrews
Philadelphia
Jack Britton
Chicago
Freddie Welsh
Akron
Ohio
Johnny Griffiths
Charles Weeghman
Cincinnati
Corpus Christi
C. P. Taft
Chicago Cubs
Jess Willard
Kansas City
Los Angeles
Fulton
Pete Compton
Boston @iNationala
Miss Far Smither
Miami
Mia
Braves
New York World
New York Giants
Harry S. Sinclair
Denver
United States Revolver Association
New York
Pennsylvania
Affidavits Cite Attacks on Mexican Convents
Reports from ecclesiastics arriving in New York allege that maternity wards in New York style hospitals in Mexico City area are crowded with nuns about to become mothers. Affidavits from US Army officers support claims of convents invaded and nuns violated during the Mexican conflict, with broader violence following the fall of Diaz and during Villa’s offensives.
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New York
Mexico
Mexico City
United States Army
Diaz
Madero
Wyoming Crop Report Shows Slight Price Dip with Higher Production
Western Newspaper Union News Service reports Wyoming crop estimates from the Bureau of Crop Estimates. Total production rises about 18 percent from last year while December 1 prices fall about 4 percent, lifting total crop value by roughly 13 percent. Acreage and output figures cover wheat oats barley rye potatoes hay and flaxseed with prices given for December 1 and 1915 data.
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Wentern
Union News Service
Cheyenne
Wyoming
Bureau of Crop Estimates
Weather Bureau
Department of Agriculture
Washington
Sa U
U S to Give 64000 for Park Roads
Cheyenne reports Congress the Wyoming road plan totals 64200 with 38700 for park belt line roads, 13500 east, 10000 south. Irrigation requests total 1867000 with 260000 Interstate canal, 850000 Fort Laramie unit, 767000 Shoshone. Public building starts listed for Buffalo 30000, Cody 15000, Basin 5000.
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Cheyenne
Wyoming
Yellowstone Park
Congress
Park
Fort Laramie
Buffalo
Cody
Basin
Villa's Last General Quits as Rodriguez Surrenders
General Rodriguez and 800 Villa soldiers at Casas Grandes surrender after talks in El Paso with Obregon and Cabedr a. ending organized resistance to Carranza rule in Chihuahua. The deal mirrors the Juarez garrison settlement and removes the final substantial Villa faction.
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Rodriguez
Carranza
el Paso
Tex
Cabedra
Casas Grandes
Alvaro Obregon
Jose Rodriguez
Villa
Juarez
Rodrigues
Chihuahua
Laramie Girl Missing Before Christmas Visit
Grace Slaughter 19, who went to Denver five weeks ago to buy gifts for family, disappeared after saying she would check her grip at the depot. Her father aided by police searched Denver while Miss Slaughter's relatives await news.
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Laramie
Denver
Miss Grace Slaughter
Miss Slaughter
James H. Slaughter
Woman Without a Name given heavy Cheyenne sentence
Police Judge Graham Fletcher fined The Woman Without a Name $100 and ordered 60 days in the city jail. The prisoner had tried to dig out of the women's quarters, buried bricks by the windows, and damaged room fixtures.
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Cheyenne
Graham Fletcher
German attack near Ypres and Armentieres loses 8000 troops
Dispatch reports that on December 21 German forces suffered more than 8000 casualties without gaining ground. Severe fighting occurred with extensive use of asphyxiating gas while English forces held firm. The clash may precede a larger offensive or test Allied strength.
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Kaleor
Faille
London
Ypres
Armentieres
la Liberte
Trafton Receives Five-Year Robbery Sentence
Edward B. Trafton, aged outlaw, convicted of holding up nine stagecoaches in Yellowstone National Park on July 29, 1914, robbing 100 passengers of currency, coin and jewelry valued at $15,000, was denied a new trial and sentenced to five years at Fort Leavenworth.
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Trafton
Cheyenne
Edward B. Trafton
Yellowstone National Park
Rider
Fort Leavenworth
Aged Blind Man Slays Himself in Hyatville Home
An eighty six year old blind man named William Robert, without a relative, killed himself by cutting his throat at the home of Mrs. R. A. Waln where he boarded and died from the wound after months of waiting for death.
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Hyatville
William Robert
Pioneer Stockman
R. A. Waln
Nine Die as Storm Slams the East Coast
A rare East Coast storm unleashes rain hail snow and thunder with a 90 mph gale. It killed nine people and disrupted telegraph lines shipping and railroad traffic, following a Christmas fog.
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New York
East
Bounty Paid for Coyotes in Rawlina Passage
Eight hundred twenty five coyote pelts were presented here for state bounty in the last thirty days. More than $1,500 of state bounty was paid on these hides.
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Rawlina
Family in Italy Denied Citizenship at District Court
In Sheridan a man named Prank Magne was refused American citizenship because his wife and children were living in Italy. His petition was continued in district court.
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Italy
Sheridan
Prank Magne
Burglar Shot Dead in Montpelier. Three Arrested
A burglar was shot to death in Montpelier and three people were placed under arrest. Police did not release additional details, and the investigation is ongoing.
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Kemmerer
Montpelier
Pale
Wyoming State News Highlights January 1922
A roundup of Wyoming events including a Poultry and Pet Stock Show in Laramie and Sheridan, a Pay-Up Week starting February 21, notarial commissions for L B Maupin and Ruth I Kingham, and the completion of Lander city hall brickwork. Oil wells, wildcat captures, a Cheyenne Capitol Avenue theater fire, Thermopolis waterworks bonds, and land and mining news across Baggs, Upton, and Newcastle accompany investor and political notes from across the state.
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Sheridan
Cody
L. B. Maupin
Baggs
Lander
Hudson
Cheyenne
Capitol Avenue
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