Erzerum Falls to Forces After Prolonged Assault
The fortress of Erzerum, long a formidable Turkish stronghold, falls after five days of intense bombardment and bayonet charges. Russian troops, backed by Caucasian divisions, capture key forts and disrupt Turkish lines, signaling a major shift in the Caucasus campaign and threatening Constantinople.
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Freerum
Arin Minor
Zere
Nikeala
Treha
von Goater
Temla
Caucasus
Caes
Erserum
Sivas
Onit Avalleaaps
Erzerum
Mesopotamia
Constantinople
Erzerunm
Urfa
Murah Jond
Nicholaa
Kxenmyal
Lemberg
Erexeram
fHireerum
Crar
Enormous War Loan Sought by Britain
Premier Away to unveil a new credit of about 400 million pounds in the House of Commons. The loan would raise total war appropriations to roughly 2.062 billion, as Britain seeks funds for ongoing military operations.
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Britain
Tandon
Orm
House of Commons
Brazil to Move Coffee Transports Amid Trade Tensions
Washington reports that Brazil will supply freight for its coffee cargoes to avoid delays. The government fines state transport firms and directs exports from Acre and other ports. Orders call for 80,000 bags for the Sindhen and 30,000 for the van LONEMy, with facilities for American goods under scrutiny.
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Washington
Mab. beeIn
Brasil
United Estates
Coneul General Oottwehalk
Kio
Ottumerk Mogsuro
Guahuba
Ne's Only Quaker in U S Congress
Congressman Charl Bateman Timberlake, a Quaker from Colorado, is described as a large farmer and ranchman. He stands as the only Quaker in the U S Congress, and is not from Wil lam Penn.
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U. S. Congress
Charl. Bateman Timberlake
Willam Penn
Colorado
Berlin Will Not Yield On Submarine War Decree
A Berlin foriegn office stance confines any concession on submarine warfare to a full agreement covering all U S demands. Ambassador Von Bernastorff reports Washington insists on assurances that future acts comply with international law. Germany says its declaration to sink armed ships remains binding.
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von Bernastorff
Berlin
Germany
United States
Lusitania
Lansing
State Department
Ancona
Persia
Austria
Great Britain
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Senator Sterling
South Dakota
Benates
America
Venecia
Navy Up to Date House Committee Informed
Washington February 18 Captain McKean of the bureau of operations told the House naval committee war planes for navy emergencies are kept up to date. An Admiral Dewey letter to Chairman Padgett supported the statement. McKean saw no benefit from creating a general staff. Dentie the flat American oit adopt electric taskaba having 27 sp ree and 20 mere under construction.
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Washington
Navy
McKean
Bureau of Operations
House Naval Commtitten
Dewey
Padgett
Dent Ie
Plot to dynamite big plant investigated in Detroit strike
Detroit, Feb 19. The plot to dynamite the American Car and Foundry plant will be turned over to the department of justice. Police and prosecutors have obtained key evidence in the arrest of two former foundry workers Otto Bartholma 16 and Ernest McCord 22. Investigations show Bartholma corresponded with a consul of a nation at war.
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Detroit
Mich
Threstienson
American Car & Foundry Company
Department of Justice
Otto Bartholma
Ernest McCord
Harthelma
Aviation Service Defective, Army Aviation Corps Exposed
Senator Robinson shown letters alleging secrecy and faulty gear in the aviation corps at San Diego. A 1915 memo asks for armor plates under seats to claim armored planes, while Captain Cowan warns of the rotten handling if exposed to outside inquiry.
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Washington
Army Aviation Corps
Robinson
Arkansas
Senate Military Committee
Reber
Cowan
San Diego
Mississippi Valley Flood Spreads Refugee Crisis Expands
New Orleans reports preparations to shelter hundreds more refugees from the Buckridge crevasse as rescue boats arrive in Natchez. Flood waters threaten cattle on Sicily Island near St Joseph while isolated groups concentrate near Newellton. No new levee breaks. death toll holds at three, all unidentified.
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Buckridge
Natchez
Miss
Vidalia
Loa
Sicily Island
St. Joseph
Newellton
Schmidt Dies in Chair for Murder of Girl
Ossining N Y February 19 Haons Schmidt former priest was electrocuted at Sing Sing prison for the murder of Anna Aumuller He faced 17 witnesses and forgave those harmed before taking his seat in the electric chair after prayers and a brief nightUntil his death occurred within minutes with three applications of current and a morning breakfast prior vigil
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Ossining
SN. Y
Haons Schmidt
Sing Sing
Anna Aumuller
Schmidt
Father Cashin
House Caucus Backs Extending Sugar Tax Repeal
The Democratic House caucus approved repealing the free sugar clause of the Underwood tariff law by a vote of 84 to 20. Sugar would again be on the free list May 1, costing about 40 million dollars in annual revenue losses. Majority Leader Kitchin outlined funding ideas, proposing to cover expenses with minimal burden on the public, including income tax and selective levies.
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Washington
House
Democratic
Kitchin
Caucun
Wea Kolng
Mayor Jost Nominated by Kansas City Democrats
Kansas City mayor H Henry L Jost was nominated by the local Democratic party in a decisive primary win. The returns show Jost leading in most city wards with opponents failing to gain traction.
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Mayor Jost
Kansas City Demos
Kansas City
H.henry L. Jost
Joe
Hulley
Sterling and Lodge Defend Armed Merchantmen Policy
Washington February 19 Senators Sterling and Lodge forcefully opposed surrendering rights to sail and travel on armed merchant ships. They warned a neutral capitulation could propel the United States toward war and undermine long standing maritime law.
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Senator Ledge
Foreign Relations Committee
Senate
United States
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Lodge Cald
Lansing
Austria-Hungary
Lanning
Harvester Firm Backed Rebels in Yucatan Fight
Washington reports charges that the Harvester company financed arms for insurgents in Yucatan to aid the Ortega Arguido revolt against the Carranza government. The claim arose during Senate agriculture committee probes into monopoly control of the sisal market.
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Washington
National Harvester Company
Ortex
Yucatan Commission
Harvester Company
Yucatan
Mayer
Fisher
New York
Sweden Protests British Blockade Policy
Sweden forwards a note to the U S state department via Minister Ekengren seeking neutral wartime cooperation to uphold international law protecting neutral commerce and navigation. The protest targets Great Britain for detention of Mali and other alleged trade aggressions. Becky Lansing conveyed that Ekengren could not reply until the Lusitania dispute with Germany is resolved.
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Washington
Sweden
State Department
Ekengren
United States
Great Britain
Mali
Becky Lansing
Germany
Sweden probes Baltic trade as inland sea closes
A royal commission will ban transporting goods forbidden for export through Swedish waters harming Danish merchants. The move aims to close the Baltic further amid new German mine fields. The Swedish Social Democrat questions if mine laying allows small ships to round Sweden and Sweden may protest if Baltic traffic falls under German control.
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Baltic
London
Copenhagen
Exchange Telegraph Company
Smaellen
Sweden
Swedish Social Demokrat
Russian recruiting scandal shocks Petrograd officials
A Russian newspaper details illegal exemptions from military service with arrests of a Petrograd recruiting committee secretary and many military surgeons. They allegedly took up to 10 000 rubles each. Reports also accuse refugee relief funds of misdirection totaling 900 000 rubles in late 1915 and early 1916. The leakage sparks Duma opposition and a failed attempt by Premier Sturmer to win leaders’ favor.
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Berlin
Sayville
Overseas News Agency
Petrograd
Moscow
Prince Troubetskoy
Duma
Goremykin
M. Sturmer
Hungary Arranges to Borrow From Germany
The Mongar minister of finance secured a loan from a group of German banks amounting to 160,000,000 marks. The debt will be covered by treasury bonds bearing interest, redeemable in about two and a half years. The dispatch notes Japan’s fertilizer starfish content.
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Heriin
Mongar
Journal proprietors fined for published cartoon in London
The Weekly Journal Byatunder proprietors were fined 100 pounds, editor Vivian Carter 60 pounds, and Lieutenant Bernard the cartoonist 60 pounds for publishing a cartoon showing a British soldier intoxicated under a tree with a bottle of rum and the caption Reported Missing.
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London
Byatunder
Vivian Carter
Bernard
Invention traces language roll shown alongside phonograph
A student hears a spoken word by the phonograph and sees it printed on a roll as part of a French language invention. The device links oral and printed forms, demonstrating early language learning aids and the phonograph collaboration.
Rumania to Enter Soon in War as Forces Align
Dispatches from Bucharest indicate Rumania will intervene early as Frze rum is reported captured by Russians. Rome says March will see Russian troops concentrated in Thessaly to permit Romanian transfer to the Bulgarian frontier, while allies push Serbian Albanian and Montenegrin forces toward a joint offensive with French and British troops.
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Black Sea
Alasegerd
Mesopotamia
Althouel
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Bucharest
Frzerum
Rumania
Rome
Exchange Telegraph Company
Thessarabia
Baloniki
2030 Vessels Under Construction Prompt Officer Training Changes
Washington on February 19 Secretary Redfield urged the steamship inspection service to prevent a shortage of officers for the 2030 ships under construction the highest volume in U.S. history. He proposed changes to training to produce officers faster than current output.
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Washington
Redfield
Steamship Inspection Service
Winters Girl May Be Found Father Learns
Newport Kentucky February report says Dr W A Winters travels from Newcastle to examine a girl believed to be his daughter Catherine Atkins, 80 year old John Atkins’ child. Humane Society officials question the birth details while Atkins and family arrived weeks ago.
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Father
Newport
Newcastle
Lind
W. A. Winters
Campbell County Human Society
Catherine
Lucy Atkins
John Akio
Atkins
Humane Society
Colonel Arrives and Refuses Political Talk at St. Thomas
Col. Theodore Roosevelt arrives by steamer Guiana and dines with the governor's secretary in Bt. Croix. He declines interviews on politics, saying he is there for rest. He will depart St. Thomas tomorrow.
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D. W. II
Theodore Hoosevelt
Guiana
Bt. Croix
St. Thomtie
Ford Collieries Miners Win Seven Percent Raise
Nine hundred Ford Collieries miners at Curtinville, Pittsburgh area, won a seven percent wage increase after a week long strike over powder prices. The settlement comes as workers protested the cost of blasting powder.
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Pittsburgh
Ford Colleries Company
Curtinville
VICE FIGHTER MARTELL DIES IN PASADENA EVENT
Pasadena obituary reports death of Rev Morton Culver Martell a noted figure in old frontier districts and harbor programs. The veteran fighter against vice passed away late last night in Pasadena California.
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Cal
Morton Culver Martell
Chicago
Warhop to Cardinal B Freeport Scoop
Jack Warhop, former pitcher for the New York Americans, reportedly aligned with the Louis North Thomas faction in Freeport as of today.
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Cardinalb
Freeport
Jack Warhop
Piiehor
New York Americans
The
T Loule Ngthomas
Poisoner threats prompt police alert in New York
New York officials faced a crisis as Jean Crones, an anarchist chef, was linked to letters claiming plans to attack churches and mass events. Police fortified Madison Square Garden for a Knights of Columbus ball as federal agents traced handwriting, fingerprints, and letters while Chicago warned churches to guard premises amid a wider anti clerical plot.
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Jean Crones
Mundelein
Chicago
Madison Square Garden
Knights of Columbus
Whitman
New York Times
Bry Crones
The
Times
John M. McCourt
United States District
Scranton
Crones
Police Department
Europe
Free
Buffalo
Federn
Secret Service
Universality Club
George W. Mundelein
University Club
Anar
Tle
Balida
Colo
United States
Denver Crones
Iain Hunt
Expertin
Wool
Meyer Sentenced to 16 Years for Daughter-in-Law Murder
Mrs Meyer, 60, was sentenced by Judge Appin at Winterset to 16 years in the penitentiary for the murder of her daughter-in-law. She showed visible distress as the verdict was read while her husband wept.
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Dew Moines
Meyer Wen
Appin
Winterset
Won Wan
Meyer Ia
Dave
Resume Traffic Trains to San Diego Amid January Delays
Disjointed OCR fragment notes trains running to San Diego from Los Angeles to resume service after January delays. Fragment mentions ongoing schedule adjustments and uncertain timing. No clear dates, organizations, or personnel names are readable.
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Cal
San Diego
Jens Tarenes
Janie
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