Inquiry on 10 Berlin Eighty Six Missing Sailors in Crisis
Washington reports focus on American citizens in Teutonic ally countries amid German crisis. A demand for the release of 72 Yarrowdale sailors was withheld awaiting official advices. The German government claimed liberty for the prisoners while consular departures faced delays. President Wilson and cabinet discussed the situation as Navy plans to arm merchant ships with reserve guns proceeded in abeyance.
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Washington
United States
Germany
State Department
Switzerland
Gerard
Berne
Yarrowdale
Brand Whittock
Belgium
Austria
Bulgaria
Turkey
Paris
Can
Wilson
Navy Department
Dangerous North Sea Area Declared By British Authority
Washington on February 19 reported a British notice declaring a dangerous area in the North Sea due to operations against Germany. The February 18 note warned that after February 7 waters off Germany and parts of Holland and Denmark would be опасen and should be avoided because of unrestricted German warfare and submarine activity.
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Washington
North Sea
Germany
Audmitraty
State Department
Tolland
Denmark
Germans Gain in West Berlin Front Attack Reported
Feb 19 Berlin dispatch reports German forces advancing in Champagne area with ground gained up to half a mile deep over a front of 1.5 miles and 858 prisoners taken. London obituary notes Gen Benjamin Franklin, king’s honorary physician and former director general of Indian medical service, died at 73.
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Champagne
Berlin
War Office
King George
London
Benjamin Franklin
The
Indian Medical Service
One Dead Two Hurt In Terre Haute Bus Crash
In Terre Haute Indiana on February 20 John Heppner died and his wife and daughter were injured when a jitney bus returning from the home of Mrs Heppner s sister collided with a passing train.
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Terre Haute
Ind
John Heppner
Nets Guard Harbor as Fourteen Ships Reach New York
Washington reports extensive submarine nets and tests in harbors amid wartime. Secretary Daniels says nets are ready to protect key ports within an hour.14 vessels totaling nearly 50 000 tons pass the outer harbor safely. Cunard liners Laconia and Ascania load for Liverpool while other ships prepare to sail.
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Washington
United States Navy
Havre
Orleans
Rochester
Darby Line
Tnebta
Roman Prince
Texel
Mar Negro
Mouro
Helsingborg
Algonquin
American Star Steamship Company
Norberg
New York
Four Ships Sunk By U-Boat Warfare Report
Lloyds shipping agency announced the sinking of three British steamers totaling 12 008 tons and Berlin reported the sinking of the Italian steamship Ulisagno of 2 252 tons in the Atlantic on January 12. Two crewmen from the Valdes were killed, nine missing, with the captain and others landed. The Valdes was torpedoed and sunk with no warning. Fate of other crews not specified.
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London
Lloyds Shipping Agency
Berlin
Atlantic
Victims of U boats and wartime ship losses
Daily tally shows British ships Younaga Worcestershire Tavs Romsdalen LoS Valdes and Bisagno sunk by U boats. US total tonnage for the day and since February 1 list key neutrals and belligerents with numbers of vessels sunk to date.
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Younaga
Worcestershire
Tavs Romsdalen
Los Valdes
Theau Tota
Amovicus Wee Eee
Jesuk
Seer Ph Gawd Ba
National Guard Demobilization Ordered at Border
Washington Web February 20 The War Department orders the entire guard force of about 53 000 men returned from the border in double quick time. With their departure border guarding duty passes to the regular army vestigig troops numbering around 50 000 men.
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Washington
War Department
Vestigg
Fire damages Watertown paper mill seeks aid from Carthage
A fire at the International Paper plant in Watertown New York caused about 100000 in damage Saturday night. Firefighters limited the spread and the plant's facilities were affected. An investigation for aid or responsibility was pursued with officials from Carthage involved.
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Watertown
N.Y
International Paper Company
Carthage
Keokuk Slayer Guilty in Murder Case
Keokuk Iowa February 20 after 11 hours deliberation the jury found Yorrest Dillman guilty in the second degree of the murder of Edward Scarrett last September and sentenced him to the penitentiary for fe.
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Keokuk
Yorrest Dillman
Edward Scarrett
Warns Cuba on Revolt as Three Americans Die
Washington reports reveal Secretary Lansing warned that the United States will not recognize governments seized by violence in Cuba. The aid message to Havana urged legality and constitutional methods. The Menocal regime says the uprising is limited to a small area and brief. Three American cowboys are found slain near Monument No. 0.
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Washington
Cuba
Lansing
Republic
United States
Gonalex
Havana
Baker
Menocal
Jiachita
Andrew VP. Peterson
Hugh Acord
Burton Jensen
Hordor
Monument No Oad
Corner Ranch
Lem Spillsbury
Pershing
Spillsbury
Acord
Andrew Peterson
Peterson
U S to Fix Paper Price by Government Arbitration
Washington reports that major newsprint producers in the United States and Canada have proposed price fixing under a government arbitration plan. The Federal Trade Commission may set a maximum price by March 1, with industry backing to abide by the declared fair and reasonable rate. Small newspapers warn of possible suspensions as paper costs have jumped 100 to 500 percent over 18 months.
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Washington
Federal Trade Commission
United States
Canada
Commission
Bryan Attacked Over War Referendum Plan in House
In Washington on February 17 pacifists and William Jennings Bryan faced sharp critics in the House. Representative Gardner of Massachusetts defended the allies then attacked pacifists for appealing to alleged cowardice. Gardner argued Bryan’s proposal to submit war decisions to a referendum would deepen the nation's divisions.
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Washington
William Jennings Bryan
Gardner
Massachusetts
Moore
Pennsylvania
Great Britain
United States
Bryan
Sentry Kills Civilian at El Paso Outpost Incident
A Second North Carolina Infantry sentry on outpost duty at the smelter near El Paso Texas shot and killed an American civilian who refused to halt. The sentry was arrested following the incident.
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el Paso
Tex
Second
North Carolina Infantry
Gerard's Aid Sent to Vienna and Paris
Joseph Grew, secretary to the American embassy in Berlin and recently chargé d affaires, was ordered to Vienna to assist the American mission, following Ambassador Gerard's absence in the United States, with supervision en route to Paris.
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Gerard
Vienna
Paris
Joseph
Grew
Berlin
United States
Osslat
Penfield
Indictments go out against about 160 voters in Indiana
Indianapolis February 16 federal grand jury returned indictments against about 160 voters for election law violations. The investigation led by Frank C Dailey named no accused publicly yet but reports say high Indianapolis officials and both Democratic and Republican leaders in Evansville Frankfort and Gary are among those affected.
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Indianapolis
Frank C. Dailey
Repubiicans
Evansville
Frankfort
Gary
Alleged German Spy Held in Nogales
Fred Kaiser, described as a German subject, was arrested in Nogales Arizona on a charge of violating the national defense law. He allegedly entered a warehouse legally and sought military information. Bail was set at 2000 dollars and he was sent to the county jail. Kaiser had been foreman at a local building supply company warehouse. Walser declined to discuss the case.
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Nogales
Ariz
Fred Kaiser
I Kaiser
Ohio women win presidential ballot in senate vote
The Ohio senate passed the Reynolds bill granting women the vote for president by a 20 to 16 margin after the house and governor Cox signaled a cautious stance. In other items Paris reports Brazil warns Germany over ships, while Ottawa lists two Americans wounded in the war, including Private W. Heard of Prospect, Ohio, and F. Stewart of Detroit, Michigan.
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State Senate
Mersure
Columbus
Ohio Senate
Reynolds
Ohio
House
Cox
Ottawa
Ont
W. Heard
Prospect
F. Stewart
Detroit
Mich
Seamen's Law Upheld in Federal Ruling at Mobile
Federal District Judge Ervin upheld the seamen's law as valid in Mobile Alabama on Friday. The decision is noted as the first interpretation of the act's constitutionality in the record. The ruling reinforces the act's applicability to maritime workers and their rights under federal law.
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Mobile
Ala
Federa District
Ervin
Iowa First Official Auto Census Reveals County Car Counts
Des Moines reports 198,587 registered cars in 1916 with total state auto fees of 1 079 924. The study lists per county ownership, noting Polk at 8 416 cars and 71 125.20 collected, but county fund shares often lag. Sixty two of 99 counties receive more than they pay in, with rural counties sometimes showing higher per capita car rates.
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Des Moines
W. 8S. Allen
General Assembly
Iowa
Polk County
Iowan
Noted Iowa Woman to Wed Shenandoah Bride
Miss Jessie Field a prominent Iowa educator and national YWCA official will marry Ira Shambaugh a miller farmer and businessman in Clarinda Iowa. The date is set for this summer after Field finishes her YWCA duties and returns from New York. Field formerly lived in Page County and has long known her future husband.
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Shenandoah
Jessie Field
Iowa
Ira Shambaugh
Clarinda
Miss Field
Literary Digest
Young Woman’s Christian Association
New York City
Page County
Farm Boys Learn Concrete in Rural Schools
Iowa State College engineering extension will add concrete work to rural consolidated schools. An experiment at Sanderlor consolidated school in Dickinson county proved successful. If demand exists, course may be offered for teachers at the summer session and 210 consolidated schools could benefit statewide.
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Ames
Engineering Extension Department
Iowa State College
Sn- Derlor
Dickinson County
Des Moines Offers Path from High School to Army Officers
Captain James F. McKinley, adjutant of the cavalry and Pershing era veteran, announced in Des Moines that 169 noncommissioned officers, largely high school graduates, have taken exams and been promoted to commissioned ranks. He says high school graduates also have a strong chance to advance to West Point from the ranks.
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Des Moines
James F. McKinley
Cavalry
Pershing
Mexico
Iowa
Nebraska
McKinley
West Point
Gas In Decatur County Décatur City Well Burst Of Gas
Workmen digging a new well in Decatur City, Decatur County, struck gas that roared loudly for miles. Prof. A. W. Hixson of Iowa University’s mining department examined the site and explained the gas arises from organic debris under the county, forming a largely nitrogen mix when in contact with running water. Earlier, a man found gas while cutting a hollow tree last spring.
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Decatur County
Leon
Decatur City
A. W. Hixson
Iowa University
Cascarets Ad Promises Clean Bowels Liver and Stomach
A vintage advertisement touts Cascarets as a 10 cent box that cleanses and regulates the stomach, removes sour food and bile, and eliminates foul gases while you sleep. It claims quick morning relief with no inconvenience and asserts millions use Cascarets to prevent headache biliousness coated tongue indigestion sour stomach and constipation.
Boy cries in doorway over papers in Nashville Penn
A boy sobbing in a Nashville doorway hopes to sell his papers to help his sick mother. An editor, unseen by the youth, urges him to cry out the headlines in the street rather than whisper in the corner, prompting the boy to insist there is nothing in the paper.
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Nashville
Penn
Minister's Confession Endorses Dodd's Kidney Pills
Rev W H Warner of Myersville Maryland writes that his back pain neuralgia cramps and head pain were symptoms of kidney trouble. After taking Dodd's Kidney Pills he says the medicine saved his life and restored him to perfect health. He urges readers to use DODD'S three D's for diseased kidneys.
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W. H. Warner
Myersville
Dodd
Rev. Warner
Puts Auto Above Railroad
A national automobile organization finds cars do more miles per ton than all railroads combined and estimates the passenger service value at nearly one billion dollars annually.
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National Automobile Organization
America
United States
Danderine Hair Tonic Promises Lush Hair Growth
An old advertisement touts Knowlton's Danderine claiming it cleanses the scalp, removes dandruff, and stops hair loss. It promises immediate beautification and in weeks even new hair growth, urging readers to buy a 25 cent bottle from any store.
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Knowlton
Natural Mistake and Oddities from a Fractured Page
A fragmented OCR segment mixes dialogue about hatpins and garbled names with claims about Garfield Tea curing rheumatic and digestive ailments. It notes a fire in an Ohio grain elevator burning for over a year, reflecting scattered, era notes and sensational health claims.
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Ohio
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