Russians Call for Every Russian to Defend Fatherland
Bolshevik leaders in Petrograd urge all Russians to resist the German advance and defend the republic to the death. The proclamation orders peasants and workers to prevent property losses, protect railways and food stocks, and keep Germany from crushing Russia and the Ukraine. Petrograd is under siege and the call coincides with dire notes on morale, naval disorganization, and fears of a capitulation or negotiated peace with Germany.
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Germany
Russia
Petrograd
Great
Ukraine
Associated Press
Rugatans
Smolny’ Institute
Bnelen Krylenko
London
Fev
Reuters Petrograd
Commiejoners
Marcie
Ruvala
Morning Post
Petrograf
Ama
Tour
Allice
Daily Mail
Tenine
Trotsky
Daily News
Bolahoviki
Raya
Council of Peoples Commensaries
Mige
Ienemien
Times
Brest
Bitowalk
Tor Dvinsk
Jetrograd
Kiev
Hoprscols
Finland
Walsh Shows Packing Plant Statistics
Chicago observers report Frank P. Walsh presenting wage‑earnings data in the packing house wage arbitration. Testimony cites Swift and Company profits and wages per pound, with figures for Armour and Morris mills, showing mills per pound and annual wages. The hearing outlines expected evidence on eight hour day feasibility and plant conditions.
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Chicago
Alschuler
Frank P. Walsh
Alachuler
Armour and Company
Swift and Company
Morris and Company
Frank 2. Walsh
Semiveitt and Company
War Summary of Bolshevik Move Against German Advance
AP reports Bolshevik government shifts tactic urging defense as German forces push into Russia. Lenine Trotzky sign proclamation. Petrograd in state of siege. German naval foray at Reval with 45 ships. Russian navy scattered, Minsk and Rovno cited as German gains. peace negotiations and socialist pressure fuel political tension across France and Italy, Austria also faces dissent.
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Associated Press
Great Russia
Lenine
Enalen Krytenko
Petrograd
Esthenia
Reval
Gulf of Finland
Helsingfors
Krommtadt
Minsk
Rovno
Troteky
Trotzky
Herlin
Lenine-Trotzky
France
Italy
United States
Bakers Urged to Use 20 Percent Wheat Substitutes
Washington officials ordered state food administrators to enforce the rule requiring bakers to use 20 percent wheat substitutes in bakery products by February 24. The telegram stresses this is a key link in the wheat conservation program to aid the Allies and ensure sufficient flour for victory.
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Washington
Food Administration
Chicago Trolley Poles Destroyed by St Paul Men
St Paul men destroyed a dozen Twin City Rapid Transit trolley poles and stoned cars in Chicago, damaging windows and injuring a passenger. Police report the acts may be linked to union sympathy for car workers, tied to a federal mediation board inquiry.
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Chicago
ST. Paul
Minn
Med
Twin City Rapid Transit Company
Poice
Intelc
Postes
Federalmediation Board
Washington's Birthday Parade Draws 5000 New Illinois Guard
Chicago marked Washington's Birthday with a military holiday parade featuring 5000 New Illinois reserve militia. Governors from seven states attended the event for the Nations Service congress and reviewed the parade from the viewing stand alongside military officers and prominent figures.
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Chicago
Washington
Illinois Reserve
States
Congress of Nations Service
Lowden
Illinois
R. J. Manning
North Carolina
C.H. Brough
Arkansas
W. J. Harding
Iowa
J. A. A. Burnalst
Minnesota
C. 8. Whitman
New York
W. E. Lindsey
New Mexico
Canadian Army To Discharge Americans
Canadian Army will discharge Americans drafted to the Winnipeg depot who were born in the United States and never naturalized in Canada. They will be struck off strength with proof from the American consul general accepted. There are several hundred such cases in western Canada. Weather forecasts predict fair and warmer conditions in Minnesota tonight and Saturday and warmer south portions Saturday.
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Winnipeg
Man
United States
Canada
Maximum price set at 99 cents for Winnipeg oats
Winnipeg Man February 22 grain exchange set a 99 cent maximum price for oats with no trades allowed above that limit. The move caps the market and establishes an upper trading boundary for the day.
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Winnipeg
Man
Grain Exchange
Engineers and surveyors meet in Duluth for annual convention
Duluth Minnesota February 22 engineers and surveyors from across the state gather for the Minnesota surveyors and engineers society meeting. Fifty representatives attend as programs include state resources highway committees and a plant inspection. Evening events feature a joint engineering board meeting and banquet with welcome address by the mayor and lectures by C E Draper W T Darling and others.
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Duluth
Minn
Minnesota Surveyors’ and Engineers’ Society
F. H. Baws
Minneapolis
Charles A. Forbes
St. Paul
Minnesota
John H. Mulfen
Universal Portland Cement
Joint Engineering Board
C. E. Draper
Cleveland Engineering Societ
W. TL. Darling
United States Railway
Russia
Dean Allen
University of Minnesota
George L. Wilson
Minnepolis
Milner Urges Allied Unity For National Salvation
In Plymouth Viscount Milner declares in a war cabinet speech that allied cooperation and total effort are essential. He warns of greater hardships ahead but promises unity of purpose and suppression of domestic discord as the path to achieve a supreme objective and victory over Germany.
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London
Viscount Milner
War Cabinet
Plymouth
Another Soldier Dies at Camp Grant
Rockford Feb 22 Private Benj H Smith Battery C 33rd field artillery died at Camp Grant base hospital last night of acute pericarditis. His home was in Lodi Wisconsin. There are 757 patients in Camp Grant hospital today. The hospital has a new ambulance presented by the pupils of Stickney school Chicago.
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Rockford
Benj. H. Smith
Inteld Artillery
Camp Grant Base Hospital
Lodi
Wie
Camp Grant Hospital
Stickney School
Chicago
Embargo Lifted on Canadian Fish Shipment
Winnipeg Man February 27 Fifty carloads of fish destined for export to the United States were held in Winnipeg by a railway embargo. The embargo ran from February 16 to February 20 and began lifting as stock began to move north today.
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Winnipeg
Man
United States
United States Railways
Fishegan
Wisconsin House Kills The Skimmed Milk Cheese Bill
Madison Wis Feb 22 The Wisconsin house voted 64 to to approve the Grell bill for skimmed milk cheese manufacture in the state It also concurred in the Burke bill prohibiting enlistment discouragement and adopted the judiciary committee report against the dismissal of Assemblyman EJ Labach urging the matter be presented to Dodge county courts The senate passed a resolution removing German imperial insignia from a painting over the president's desk with no new senatorial developments as the legislature aims for adjournment by Saturday night
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Madison
Wis
House
Burke
Assembly Judiciary Committee
EJ. Labach
Assembly
Dodge County
Senate
Legisl Sture
American Troops Reported On Chemin Des Dames Front
American patrols in the Chemin Des Dames sector killed one German and captured another, with one American slightly wounded. A single English-speaking frontline fighter from New England reportedly brought in the prisoner after dropping into a shell hole and subduing the German. The entry marks the first public acknowledgment that American units have joined the line in this western sector. Jericho is taken by British forces, giving control of the Jordan valley and routes from Damascus to Mecca.
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Chemin Des Dames
Lorraine
St. Mihiel
Champagne
Aisne
Jerusalem
France
Associated
Prems
Rps
New England States
Marne
London
Jordan
Damascus
Mecca
Turkat
Arabia
Jericho
Dead Sea
Washington Day Program At Capital
Washington marking memory of George Washington with more than one speaker including French ambassador M Jusserand and Senator Warren G Harding of Ohio. The commemorative mass meeting, held under the Sons and Daughters of the American Revolution, stressed Washington as a model for unity and steadfast resolve in national emergencies.
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Washington
M. Jusserand
Warren G. Harding
Onto
Sons and Daughters of the American Revolution
Harding
Prohibition Party of Wisconsin Moves to Merge with National Party
Oshkosh Wis Feb 22 The prohibition state convention adopts a resolution merging with the National party Also endorses Wilson administration for war measures to curb whiskey barley and grain for liquor and nominates a U S senator candidate with a pledge to withdraw if another party nominates a pro constitutional amendment candidate Camp Dodge Iowa prepares for 14900 soldiers to report within five days Fifteen officers named to oversee registration and 50 to assist as 6300 come from border states and Minnesota
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Oshkosh
Wis
Wisconsin
National Party
State Prohibition Party
Wilson
United States
Camp Dodge
Towa
Minnesota
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Ims
Red Guards
Abo
Aland
Russ Commission
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Bakers
North Dakota
Engineers and Surveyors
AGE
Camp Grant
Palestine
Hapsal
Finland Gulf
War Office
Paris
Forest of
Pinon
Chevreux
Californie Pisteag
Algne
Butte du Mesni
Champagne Front
Hartmannwieler-Kopf
Alsace
Yprea-Roulers
At-Capital
Prohibition Party OF
Bartles
Mobilene
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