Germans could have won war letter reveals danger if declared
Colonel Robert A. Thompson quotes Admiral Beresford on a hypothetical German surprise war. The letter warns Germany might have sunk British ships and crippled trade without a formal declaration, risking Britain’s defeat in weeks unless naval forces and dreadnoughts were ready. A Washington Burns note adds 1772 Fairfax County home destroyed by fire, once linked to George Washington.
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Robert A. Thompson
Navy League
Lord Beresford
Germany
Sears
Tirpitz
Berlin
Junkers
Hhe Hiad
von Timitz
Huntieb
Son Tirpitz
Paris
France
St Petereburs
Europe
Washington, Burns
Bfarfield Farm
Fairfax County
George Washington
Samuel Washington
James M. Duncan
Neutral Case Stated in a War Time Cartoon
A Baltimore American cartoon mocks neutrality during wartime. It shows a narrator claiming impartiality while major powers push their own agenda, dropping metaphorical bombs and forcing the neutral party into conflict, fearing punishment for not taking sides.
Economic impact of road improvements on farm land values
A survey by the Office of Public Roads and Rural Engineering analyzes eight counties from 1910 to 1915 to gauge how upgrading main market roads raises land prices. Findings show increases from 63 to 194 percent in Dinwiddie Virginia and 50 to 100 percent in several other counties, with gains extending within one mile of improved roads and sometimes exceeding twice the cost of bonds issued.
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Office of Public Roads
Agricultural Department
Spotsylvania County
Dinwiddie County
Lee County
Wise County
Franklin County
N. Y
Dallas County
Ala
Lauderdale County
Miss
Manatee County
Fla
States go dry as Alaska joined list of dry states
Twenty five states now dry after last Tuesday’s elections joining Michigan Nebraska South Dakota Montana Utah and Florida. Alaska also added to dry possessions while California and Missouri voted against liquor prohibition.
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Union
Michigan
Nebraska
South Dakota
Montana
Utah
Florida
Alaska
United States
California
Missouri
Transforming Waste into Wealth Through Science
From Shodoggan Wisconsin comes news that three companies have formed to make furniture from sawdust or paper derived from sawdust using Madison laboratory processes. The piece notes how waste becomes valuable, with hints of broader industrial waste recovery stories.
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Athens
Chicago
Automobiles blamed for infantile paralysis epidemic
Dr Thomas F Hartington Massachusetts deputy labor commissioner told the American Public Health Association in Cincinnati that auto fumes from burning oils and fluids are the chemical cause of infantile paralysis. He argued the disease is chemical not microbial, affecting infants and the elderly most, and linked its epidemic form to widespread automobile use.
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Thomas F. Hartington
Massachusetts
Cincinnati
American Public Health Association
Dr. Hartington
City of Savannah Ends 30 710 Mile Voyage After Fire
Savannah liner City of Savannah returns to Tompkinsville New York completing a voyage of 80 710 miles twice around the Cape of Good Hope. Inicio last December via Durban Rangoon Bombay Calcutta she caught forehold fire near Mozambique channel amid hide cargo flooding engine room and mud. 5000 notices protested odors as hides were discharged before heading to Cape Town then New York.
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City of Savannah
Tompkinsville
New York
Cape of Good Hope
City of
Savannah
Durban
Rangoon
Bombay
Calcutta
Indian Ocean
Mozambique Channel
Madagascar
Lourenco Marquez
Cape Town
Bellboy Leaves Job to Seek Million Dollar Fortune
Harold Van Buren twenty years old quits his Rockwell House bellboy job in Glens Falls New York and heads to New York to claim a rumored six million dollar estate left by an uncle. He had lived with the uncle, then worked at a White Mountains hotel under the alias Nerman Schwers and learned a search was underway for him.
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Harold van Buren
Rockwell House
Glens Falls
N. Y
New York
White Mountains
Nerman Schwers
Son Reunited With Mother After Fourteen Years
Clarence Hecker, carried away by his father at age seven after a parental split, was believed dead by his mother. A telegram from Elmira to Lewisburg, then a funeral in Lewisburg for his grandfather, led to the discovery that his mother is alive in Dayton. Hecker plans to return with his mother to Elmira.
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Dayton
Clarence Hecker
Elmira
Hecker
Lewisburg O
Lewisburg
Proua Parents Welcome Large Arkansas Family
Nineteen boys born to Mr and Mrs Frank Scott in Corning Arkansas over ten years three sets of triplets and four sets of twins each given a name starting with A.
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Proua
Frank Scott
Corning
Ark
Dr Bell's Pine Tar Honey Promises Cold Relief
Dr Bell's Pine Tar Honey contains soothing pine forest elements that heal irritated membranes and loosen phlegm. It claims to ease stuffed-up feelings chest tightness and sore throat, preventing a hacking cough. available at druggists for 25 cents.
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Dr. Bell
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Keifer Drug Co
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