Navy to Mobilize for War Game Off Newport
The navy outlines a major Atlantic fleet mobilization for a Newport based war game to test a coast to Long Island sound scenario. Submarines destroyers and aircraft will participate along with mine sweepers as three new admirals are elevated in command.
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New York City
Washington
Navy Department
Naval Aviation Corps
Newport
War College At
Nantucket
Montauk Point
Long Island Sound
Navy
New York
Guantanamopa
Cuban
Chesapeake Bay
Tangier Bay
Guantanamo
Pensacola
Fla
Congress
Daniels
Walter C. “Eles
F. Fletcher
Atlantic
Thomas B Howard
Pacific
Admiral Fletcher
Have You Americanitis Overworked Overeating Cure
Dr William Sadler says Americanitis a mental illness from excess work food and inactivity accounts for most illnesses. He warns banks may soon assess borrowers physical health as closely as financial standing and cites baseball golf or walks as cures.
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Chicago
William 8. Sadler
Sadler
Music Makes Hair Grow Winked By Dr Smith
In Boston a Back Bay physician Dr R Kenrick Smith claims music fosters hair growth for bald men. He notes calming effects of music bring tranquillity, asserting only one in a hundred music devotees is bald versus eleven in a hundred in other professions. He cites habitual hair brushing backward as a possible factor.
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Boston
R. Kenrick Smith
Back Bay
Mother at college with three children in tow
Mrs. W. 8. Aldrich of Rochester and the University of Minnesota urges mothers with graduating high school children to enroll in college and even join as students themselves. Her family, including two daughters and a son, are all freshmen in the class of 1918 at the university.
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St. Paul, Minn
W. 8. Aldrich
Rochester
University of Minnesota
Mrs. Aldrich
Aldriches
Wars With Thirty Peoples
A Nord deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung statistician tabulates Germany as fighting thirty nations and tribes. The list includes English French Russians Australians Japanese Canadians Scots Montenegrins Turkomans Anamites Cossacks Yakuts Gonds Senegalese Belgians Fijis Welshirmen Zulus Irish Burmese Portuguese Rajputs Sikhs Kyhert Tartars Usbegs Kalmucks Kerghis Baluchi Basuras.
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Germany
Berlin
Norddeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung
Germans Flee War Pressure to Sweden and Norway
London reports affluent Germans avoiding military service by fleeing to Sweden and Norway to reduce the burden on Germany during the war.
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London
Sweden
Norway
Obregon Emerges as Mexico's Stabilizing Leader
In Mexico City a new leading figure emerges as Alvaro Obregon, Sonora farmer turned military chief, gains influence by routing Villa forces, occupying Puebla, and seizing Mexico City. He is praised as educated and peace seeking though his military prowess drives ongoing conflict with Villa. Obregon is portrayed as poised to return to his ranch while steering the nation through revolutionary turmoil.
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Mexico City
Mexico
Alvaro Obregon
Sonora
Puebla
Villa
Porfirio Diaz
Madero
Pascual Orozco
Victoriano Huerta
Carranza
Obregon
Napoleon
West
Orozco
el Paso
Francisco Elias
New York
Pueblo
Villista
Zapata
Baneit Zapata
Adolph Saves Words in Letters From Front to His Wife
A Baden peasant serving in Flanders sends letters to his wife Bertha describing survival and a wartime Iron Cross award. He notes being wounded, returning to health, and a simple explanation of how the medal was pinned on by a major, with greetings from Adolph.
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Frankfort
Baden
Heidelberg
Bertha
Adolph
Jap Potatoes King Rises From Credit Rebuffs
Lodi merchants recall George Shima the potato king visiting Los Angeles. Once denied credit as a newcomer, he now controls 387000 acres in California and 6000 acres personally, with large bank credit. He owned about a quarter of California’s 4 million sacks of potatoes last July and now holds half of the state’s 500000 unsold sacks.
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Lodi
Cal
George Shima
Los Angeles
Shima
California
Austrian Children Trained as Farmers
Advices from Vienna report Austria-Hungary mobilizing scarce labor for harvests. Children aged twelve to fourteen are excused from school to work in agriculture, with older boys acting as officers. Refugees from Galicia are blamed for food-stuff speculation, while peasants resist higher wages and lawmakers compel labor at old rates.
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Venice
Italy
Vienna
Austria-Hungary
Budapest
Galicia
Diver Wins Permit to Salvage Neva Goldoff Alaska
Port Townsend marine diver C F Stagger has official war department authority to salve the Russian sloop Neva wrecked near Sitka Alaska sixty years ago. The ship carried about 200000 dollars in gold for Sitka government crews. After striking a reef the Neva sank and was later lost in deep water. Work starts about May 1.
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Port Townsend
Wash
C. F. Stagger
War Department
Cape Edgecombe
Sitka
Alaska
Stagger
Prisoners Married Before War in Wedding Luncheon Scene
Four German prisoners of war, escorted by armed guards, left a prison ship at Southend to wed fiancées whom they had engaged before the war. The couples held a wedding luncheon with guards as guests before the brides returned to London and the bridegrooms to the prison.
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London
Southend
Sloan's Liniment touted for rheumatic relief
The ad promotes Sloan's Liniment as fast relief for rheumatism and joint pain, advising surface application without rubbing in. It claims quick pain draw and near instant relief, with a 25 cent bottle from any druggist and a money back promise. The note ends with a separate line about Centralia gaining a modern milk pasteurizing plant.
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Sloan
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Fletcher
Cowles
Howard
American Press Association
Man
General Obregon
Limelight
General Alvaro Obregon
Sloan’s
Centralia
F.L. Coe
Harrington
Leavenworth Mercantile Co
Leavenworth
Lamb
Davis Lumber Co
Peshastin
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