Violence and Disasters Mark Week Across West and Beyond
A rancher William H. Smith near Dbetse Idaho was shot and died hours later. A Bar View Oregon resort area was washed out by high tide with no occupants inside. John A Campbell a city oil salesman burned to death near Pueblo Colorado. I W W march in Seattle for Joe Hillstrom’s execution in Salt Lake City. Montana wins Panama Pacific apple prize. Pope Benedict XV thanked San Francisco benefactor for Belgian relief. Major political and labor news across US and abroad.
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Wiliam H. Smith
Dbetse
Idaho
Bar View
Ore
Lummer
John A. Campbell
Pueblo
Colo
Seattle
Joseph Hillstrom
Salt Lake City
Ted
Joe Hillstrom
Montana
Graud
Joseph Hillstro
Salt Lake
Chicago
William Holt
Joe Susaki
Nogales
Arizona
U. S. Cavalry
Poo
Clarkton
Edward H. Noyes
Chicago Board of Trade
Jeanne
New York
England
Proctor
Eddine von Klaefuss
Lincoln
Theodore Burton
Ohio
Nebraska
Louisiana
Sugar Planters’ Association
New Orleans
Benedict XV
A. E. Spreckels
San Francisco
Helen Blatchford
Winnetka
Lincoln Park
Lake Michigan
Luigi Matroni
Corfu
N. Y
Antonio Bolivia
National City Bank of New York
Kuhn, Loeb, Morgan and
Rockefeller
American International Company
John Cbd
Archbold
Standard Oie Company
New Jeresy
Tarrytown
London Globe resumes after apology for Kitchener resignation
The London Globe, suspended recently, issues a printed apology for its persistent claims that War Secretary Kitchener had resigned before resuming publication on Tuesday. A Turkish transport carrying 500 soldiers was sunk across the Sea of Marmara with nearly all drowned. A German dreadnought struck a mine in the Battle Sea. the ship sank but 33 sailors perished while the rest were saved.
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Kitchener
London Globe
Sea of
Marmara
Germany
Battle Sea
Internal tax rise urged to fund defense efforts
Secretary McAdoo argues for increases in internal taxation rather than bond issues to cover 1917 defense expenses. He estimates 112.8 million dollars in extra revenue needed, including 53.8 million for defense, proposing lower personal exemptions, higher surtaxes, and new taxes on gasoline, oils, and engines.
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Washington
McAdoo
The
Treasury
Congress
Army deserter captured arrives in New York
Heine Schultz, a private in the German army, reached New York Thursday as a deserter and stowaway aboard the Dutch steamer Noorderdyke. He wore a wahiform stained by trenches and asked customs to enter the United States to avoid further fighting. He is held by immigration authorities at Ellis Island pending decision. deportation could trigger capture by the British.
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New York
Heine Schultz
Noorderdyke
United States
Ellisland
Allied Offensive Reported At Dardanelles and Serbia Fronts
The Cologne Gazette cites a great Allied movement at the Dardanelles with fierce fighting near Seddul Bahr on Gallipoli and heavy pressure in western Serbia where Serbs and Montenegrins resist. Reports say Austro Hungarians push toward Pristina as Entente forces land reinforcements at Salonik and in Kamerun British and French troops capture Tibati.
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Rotterdam
Cologne
Dardanelles
Seddul Bahr
Gallipoli
War Office
Constantinople
London
Serbia
Drina
Lim
Ibar
Kossovo
Pristina
Berlin
Vienna
Monastir
Greece
Albania
Salonik
Kitchener
Goriza
Oslayla
San Martino
Flanders
Champagne
Styr
Dyinsk
Fetrograd
Tibati
Kamerun
West Africa
Handicraft Propeller Making and Rubber Stamp Craft
A detailed Victorian era guide teaches boys and girls to craft opposing handed propellers from a block cut to form a hub and blades, plus steps for winding, balancing, and finishing. It then covers making rubber stamps from discarded materials, assembling alphabet and picture stamps on spool ends with glue, carving, proofing, and printing straight lines for accurate letters and simple pictures.
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Mark
Tittle Girl
Rabies Patient Escapes Hospital Then Dies After Chase
Pittsburg-Johno Bukowa, 27, suffering from rabies fled a hospital on Thursday. He rushed through a busy street scratching and biting pedestrians until police, with a patrol wagon of officers, subdued him after a struggle. He was taken back to the hospital and died a few hours later.
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Pittsburg
Johno Bukowa
Plan to Regulate Rents in Britain Parliament
A bill introduced in the house of commons aims to curb wartime rents and mortgage foreclosures on small houses in key districts. The move targets landlord exploitation amid high demand near munitions centers, where resentment has grown over inflated charges.
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London
House of Commons
Fair Will Remain Open at San Diego Exposition
Salt Lake City officials received word that the San Diego exposition will stay open next year. President G A Davidson urged that the Utah State building remain open during 1916, in a letter to Gersten Spry.
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Salt Lake City
Gerstner Spry
G. A. Davidson
Utah State Building
Lost Jewels Recovered Near Granita
Jewelry and silver valued at 1500 dollars, believed stolen from Mrs. Jane McClurg Hamilton of Chicago aboard a Union Pacific train, were found in a suitcase by school children near Granita, eighteen miles west. The valuables were discovered beside the track and later recovered.
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Cheyenne
Wyo
Jane McClurg Hamilton
Chicago
Union Pacific
Granita Canyon
Buck Weaver badly burned in Mountain Motor Fuel plant blast
Denver reports Arthur Buck Weaver superintendent of Mountain Motor Fuel and noted ball player suffered serious burns when an explosion leveled the plant and caused a large fire. Authorities investigated causes as crews fought the flames and secured the site.
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Denver
Arthur
Buck”) Weaver
Mountain Motor Fuel Company
Murderer Given Life Term in Ottawa Fire Case
George David Stark ley, convicted of burning his wife and baby to death by setting fire to his house on an island in the Illinois river last spring, was sentenced to life imprisonment.
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Ottawa
George David Starkley
Illinois River
Squall Strikes Houston Causes Deaths and Damage
A brief but furious squall hit Houston area Thursday killing one person and injuring many. Numerous warehouses and sheds were blown down and extensive property damage reported across the vicinity.
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Houston
Texas
Shaw Warns on Diplomatic Aftermath of War in London
Bernard Shaw told the Fabian Society that a crushing German defeat could push Germany and the United States into a defensive alliance against Britain and Japan, if Britain remains the strongest naval power.
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London
Fabian Society
Bernard Shaw
Germany
Great Britain
United States
Japan
Schwab urges American shipbuilding to lead world trade
Charles M. Schwab head of Bethlehem Steel addressed about 1600 business men in Pittsburg urging the United States to become the industrial and financial leader by building American ships to carry American commerce.
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Pittsburg
United States
Fed
Charles M. Schwab
Bethlehem Steel Company
Train collision near Columbus leaves multiple dead and missing
Six people are killed, eighteen missing, and more than thirty injured after a head on crash between a passenger train and a show train six miles west of Columbus Georgia. Authorities report a high casualty event with several passengers trapped and awaiting rescue. The community mobilizes responders as investigations begin into the cause and sequence of the collision.
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Columbus
Here
Italians land on Albanian shores in Balkans dispute
London report says Italian troops have begun landing on Albanian territory per Chiasso dispatch to Journal La Suisse via Central News from Zurich. The move escalates tensions in the Balkans as foreign forces enter the region.
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London
Chiasso
Journal
la Suisse
Zurtieh
Hadley Seeks Senate Seat From Missouri in 1914
Herbert S Hadley former Missouri governor and attorney general announces his candidacy for the United States Senate in 1914 seeking election from Missouri amid Republican bids.
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Herbert S. Hadley
Missouri
United States Senate
State Bureau of Industrial Hygiene
Lower East Side
New York City
Progressive Party
Theodore Roosevelt
Hiram W. Johnson
Hadley
Tega
Kansas City
Herbert &. Hadley
United States
Senate
Execution Cost in Salt Lake County for Joseph Strom
Salt Lake County approved a bill totaling 371.80 dollars for Joseph Strom's execution. Of the amount, 250 dollars was paid to the Ava men who formed the firing squad.
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Salt Lake City
Salt Lake County
Joseph 2Illistrom
Ava
El Paso Preps for Annual American Live Stock Convention
The American Live Stock association sets January 25 26 and 27 in El Paso Texas for its annual convention. Officials announced the dates on Thursday.
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el Paseo
Texas
The
American Live Stock Association
el Paso
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Hamburger Volks Zeitung
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