British Drive Near Bapaume and Kut-el-Amara Advance
The British report a 66 mile depth along an 11 mile front near the Ancre, marking the greatest territorial gain since the Marne. Haig’s forces near Bapaume as German retirement is predicted. Kut-el-Amara falls after Turkish front operations. German destroyers bombarded Broadstairs and Margate, killing a woman and a child and injuring two others.
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Ancre
France
The
Marne
Sir Douglas Haig
Bapaume
Aew
Bonar Law
Tigritver
Samaiyat
Kut-el-Amara
F' Kut-el-Amara
Broadstairs
Margate
England
House of Commons
Edward Carson
Admiralty
Bomb wrecks hotel in Fairhance Pennsylvania panic
A dynamite bomb exploded 11 miles away causing the East Side of the Bion Hotel to shatter windows within a mile. No one hurt seriously though proprietor M J Riggs was bruised. Damages listed at 3000 to the hotel and 2000 to nearby buildings. Police used bloodhounds from Point Marion to pursue culprits.
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Bion
Fairdhance
Buddgs
Seri Usly
M. J. Riggs
Tel
Governor Brumbaugh Vetoes Sproul Investigation Bill
The Pennsylvania governor vetoed the Sproul resolution to probe the administration, asserting calls for a fair inquiry require his consent and vowing no effort to override the veto. Also notes a forecast of a potato shortage next year in eastern Ohio due to high costs and low returns.
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Brumbaugh
Sproul
Pennsylvania
Senate
Ohio
Laconia Sunk Offshore Irish Coast Sheds Light
The Cunard liner Laconia, 18 090 tons, sailing from New York to Liverpool, sank off the Irish coast with 76 passengers and 216 crew aboard. Among the dead and missing are 26 Americans including Mrs Foy and daughter. Survivors report 267 rescued from eight boats and cargo listed as war supplies with no explosives aboard.
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Laconia
New York
Liverpool
Queenstown
Foy
Mary ‘Hoy
Elizabeth Hoy
Chicago
United States
Floyd P. Gibbons
Chicago Tribune
F . Harris
Frank EB. Harris
United States Coast Artillery Corps
Arthur I. Kirby
Bambridge
N. Y
Mary J. Hoy
James Wareing
Norfolk
St. Louis
Ryndam
Cunard Line
Mediterranean
Admiralty
Live Stock and Grain Prices Across Markets
Live stock and grain price notes from Pittsburgh and Cleveland on February 27 show butter tubs at 43 to 45 cents, prime cattle around 10.50, hogs in the 12.60 to 13.60 range, and sheep and lambs with prime wethers at 11.50 to 11.75. Chicago listings include hogs at 12.60 to 13, cattle at 7.90 to 12.15, and wheat May futures at 1.77 and corn at 1.00.
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Pittsburgh
Cleveland
Chicago
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Ban
American Press Association
Enrique J. Varona
Goodyear
Goodrich
Fisk
Firestone
Stewart
Congress
Pullman
Diamond
Wilmer Stewart
MAKER
Vesge
United States Mall
Ford
Detroit
Ford Motor Co
Sutton-Miller Co
Penn
Homer City National Bank
Homer City
Jor J. Campbell
C. Steele
Geo. K. Douglass, Asst
Geo. D. Leydic
Undertaker
Philadelphia Street
Moore
Indiana, PA
DELCO
Delco-Light
Mammoth Cave
Kentucky
Delco- Light
Delco Light Products
J. R. Holiday CO
M. B. White
B. Dayton
Deuce
Tammg
Lackawanna Terminal
Main Street
Buffalo, N. Y
Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburgh Railway
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