Alaska urged to boost food production for war effort
Delegates from Alaska appeal to newspapers to publish a call for increased home grown food during the 1918 season. CHAS. A. SULZER writes it shows Alaska’s loyalty through Liberty Loans volunteers and Red Cross work, urging consumption of home grown products to aid soldiers and Belgian civilians.
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Iditatod Pioneer
Department of Labor
Alaska
Red Cross
Aska
Belgium
Wee
North
Chas. A. Sulzer
Circus Train Crash Kills 100 in Gary Indiana
A Michigan Central railway collision near Gary Indiana killed about one hundred people when an army equipment train crashed into the Hagenback Wall circus train early this morning. The incident disrupted travel and raised concerns about wartime prices and supply.
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Gary
Ind
Michigan Central Railway
Hagenback- Wall Circus
Gray Demonstrates Confidence On Capitol Steps
J C Gray of Albany New York rode a horse to halfway up the capitol steps before police stopped him He told captors the country needed confidence and horse sense He was taken to a detention ward for mental observation by officers who agreed with him on the horse sense refrain
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Washington
J. C. Gray
Albany
N. Y
Capitol
Gray
J. C
Exchange Prisoners Shifting in Paris Amid War News
Paris reports French prisoners in Germany since August 1914 will be exchanged on June 24 per the Petit Journal. A Seattle letter, dated May 17, notes booming shipyards and ready work, with higher wages offsetting higher living costs. It forecasts Seattle’s industrial rise with $150,000,000 in government ship orders and a concrete plant boom.
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Paris
Germany
Petit Journal
Seattle
To the Farm for Ike Loomis
Ike Loomis a Alaska freighter staying at the Frye hotel plans to move to Southeastern Saskatchewan with two other Alaskan men to farm 1500 acres. They bring a full outfit of farming equipment and stock, betting on wheat as a lasting profitable venture despite the wartime outlook.
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Seattle P.I
California
Florida
Ike Loomis
Alaska
Frye
Saskatchewan
William Admark
Richard Agassiz
Germany threats over Holland seized by German officer in Rotterdam
A Rotterdam row between a German major and a Dutch landlady sparked excitement. The major warned of August 1 as the day Germany would take Holland, claiming officers should be treated with courtesy and taught German. The Cologne Gazette is the source of the threat.
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Rotterdam
Germany
Holland
Cologne
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Democratic
Mr. Loomi
John Duro
Washington, D. C
McAdoo
Sulzer
Charles A. Sulzer
Ike
Wada
Mitchell Lumber Co
Merchants’ Cafe
Robt
Soutar Piap
Tarod Meat CO. Enhoneis
Michigan
Sure Killer
Supy Farrell
Mrs. Young
J.L. Sale
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