Maizeville Faces Destruction Over Mine Subsidence Threats
Maizeville, Pa. warns residents that homes may collapse into coal mines after spring thaw as companies refuse liability. Miners vow pillar protection and protest if demands to compensate and halt pillar robbing are ignored.
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Union
Schuylkill County
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Los
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Peary warns nation of imminent air threat and limited defense
Rear Admiral Robert E. Peary warns that the United States faces an immediate danger from air attack and that adding troops or ships would not avert it. He cites past German surprises and foresees a possible coordinated air and submarine assault from the Atlantic, with high explosives in major coastal cities.
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Nantucket
New York
Boston
Philadelphia
Baltimore
North Sea
Peary
Atlantic
War Plan Failed as Paris Defeat Ends German Strategy
Prof. Dr. Friedrich Meinecke of Friedrichs University Frankfurt argues Germany’s plan to quickly crush France and then pivot to Russia and England collapsed at Paris in the Marne. He says the broader aims would have required strict unity and abandoning East Prussia.
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Friedrich Meinecke
Freiburg University In Frankfort Zeitung
France
Russia
England
Kingland
Paris
The
Marne
East Prussia
Musketry School Opens At Fort Sill For Spring Term
Fort Sill Oklahoma opens its Musketry School for spring term with over 150 soldiers enrolled. The unique institution will test several new small arms styles for the first time, drawing attention in military circles.
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Fort Sill
Okla
United States
Famous Novelist Howells Reaches Eightieth Birthday Milestone
William Dean Howells aged 80, a leading American writer, was born March 1, 1837 in Martin's Ferry Ohio. He rose from poverty through hard work and literary genius, wrote for Atlantic Monthly as a youth, studied Greek and Latin, and became a noted editor and novelist. He shows no plan to stop writing.
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New York
William Dean Howells
America
Martin’s Ferry
Ohio
Hamilton
Howells
Atlantic Monthly
Cleveland
Cincinnati
Lincoln
Venice
George Washington Indoor Track Meet Promises Strong Attendee Turnout
The annual George Washington University indoor track and field games at Washington begin tomorrow night drawing several hundred athletes from leading east coast colleges and athletic clubs. The relay event entries are notably strong and the program includes additional exciting competitions.
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Washington
George Washington University
Tennessee's dry law to curb liquor shipments takes effect
March 1 Tennessee enforces a bone dry law aiming to stop all liquor shipments into the state. Previously residents could import a gallon per person for personal use, but the new rule restricts distribution to end shipments. Potatoes are rising as New York dealers warn of a $40 a barrel ceiling despite large Maine stockpiles and falling exports.
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Nashville
Tenn
New York Dispatch
Markewich
Oscar Frommel
West Thirty-fourth Street
Frommel
Maine
New Jersey
Colonel James S. Rogers Retired After 40 Years Service
Washington March 1 Colonel James S Rogers a longtime infantry officer attached to the 18th Infantry was placed on the retired list on his own application He is a Pennsylvania native and West Point graduate class of 1880 His career has been in the infantry branch of the U S Army.
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Washington
United States Army
James S. Rogers
18Th Infantry
Rogers
Pennsylvania
West Point
Clever Young Man Outran Three Police For Speed
A Detroit Free Press item reports a young man so slick he joined a night ride and allegedly jalned three traffic policemen out of complaints for speeding. The anecdote emphasizes his cleverness and boldness in evading enforcement.
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Detroit Free Press
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