Premier Tisza Explains Stand On Submarine Warfare
Budapest dispatch reports Count Tisza defends unrestricted submarine warfare as a new weapon requiring updated international rules. He cites British mine fields and U S protests, urges peaceful basis for world peace while defending Hungary to use all just means to ensure survival.
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London
Reuter
S .Amsterdam
Budapest
Count Tizsa
United States
Great Britain
Wilson
University of Illinois offers facilities for national war effort
In a telegram dated February 7 President Edmund J. James asked Governor Lowden on behalf of the trustees and faculty to lend the University of Illinois facilities and laboratories to the federal government for wartime technical problems.
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University of Ilinois
Edmund J. James
Lowden
United States
University of Illinois
Republicans Stall Grayson Vote In Senate Debate
Washington February 7 Republicans opposing the confirmation of Dr Cary T Grayson Wilsons naval aide and physician to be medical director with rank of rear admiral kept the senate in debate for over four hours and prevented a vote Democrats said the opposition lacked the votes to reject the nomination and was filibustering
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Washington
Cary T. Grayson
Wilson
Senate
St Jacobs Oil Promises Fast Rheumatism Relief
An old advertisement claims rheumatism is mainly pain and urges rubs with St Jacobs Oil for instant relief. It touts the product as harmless and skin friendly, offering a trial bottle from drug stores and citing widespread past cures for rheumatism sciatic neuralgia and back pain.
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St. Jacobs
Illinois Assembly Backs Wilson in Crisis
Springfield reports the 50th Illinois General Assembly pledged support to President Wilson during the German crisis. Gov. Lowden urged a joint-session resolution affirming unqualified backing and highlighted historical parallels to Port Sumter. The Senate adopted Hulls resolution urging state loyalty and transmission to the president.
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Illinois General Assembly
Wilson
Springfield
Ihneis
Germany
United States
Illois General Assembly
Frank C. Lowden
Illinois
Casis
Port Sumter
Stephen A. Douglas
Ilinois
Senate
Hull
German Empire
Washington
House of Representatives
New York Plans Large Scale Cadet Training and Suffrage Involvement
New York announces a state wide program to train thousands of boys aged 16 to 18 for a cadet corps potentially reaching 240,000 if work requirements are not exempted. About 500000 women offer suffrage support, and an auxiliary fire fleet of 143 tugboats is formed to defend the waterfront with enhanced bridge security against bombs and mines.
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New York
New York State
State Military Training Commission
John F. O'Bryan
National Guard
New York State Women Suffrage Party
Whitman
Fiscos Set Bowling League Records In Tough Showdown
The Fiscos defeated the S. P. GC. A. team in a hard fourth match, posting a high single of 95 and a three game total 25599 to set league records. Clark led with 221 in three games while averaging 198 as the Sterns beat the Romans in Turner hall play Tuesday night.
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Fiscos
Sterns
Clark
Bridge to Open Across Mississippi March 15
President Arthur of the Citizens' Bridge Company announces the new Mississippi River structure at Burlington will open to traffic on March 15. The project completes a key link for regional travel and commerce.
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Burlington
Arthur
The
Citizens’ Bridge Company
Mississippi River
Queer Names In British Trades Expose Odd Wartime Jobs
London reports from military tribunals reveal a host of unusual trades among exemption applicants. From saurer and asplancher to monkey-runner and bull-dogger, workers in quarries, mills, breweries, and coal mines show a surprising diversity of roles amid wartime labor needs.
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London
Walker
Bobby Lad
Deaths and community notes from Pittsfield Illinois region
Miss Anna Winterbotham in Salina announces death of Uncle Dr William H Winterbotham age seventy a prominent Salina physician who founded an early hospital in Schina and was a Mason and Episcopal. Survived by wife children and two sisters. Also local notices of influenza victims Rev Landenberg medical update social visits and birthday celebrations amid cold weather church closures and visitors from St Paul and Texas.
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Anna Winterbotham
Cordelia Philips
Salina
Kansas
Jor
William H. Winterbotham
Pike County
Winterbotham
Baylis
Efe
Schina
Episcopal Church
Margaret Quincy
Chicago
J. He. Winterbotham
George Winterbotham
Nellie
Will Freeman
Themias Hartman
Aura Perry S. Landers
Alice Shriver
Helen Doocy
Edward Doocy
Champaign
U. of
Rev. Landenberg
Maysville
Sunny Till
Margaret
Sadie Cutts
St. Paul
Minn
James Hornback
J. W. Brand
Cleburn
Texas
Ed Willsey
Latin America urged to protest German measures
Diario denounces the ettitade of Germany and calls Latin American nations to make energetic protests against proposed German actions.
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LA Paza
Olivia
Diario
Ettitade
Germany
Latin America
Japan urged to form China alliance by publicist
T Yamamoto, a noted publicist, argues in Japan Magazine for a Japan China economic alliance. He says western powers are preoccupied with Europe, making now the opportune moment to resolve China questions. He cites China’s need for funds and Japan and America as key lenders, warning of risks from reliance on foreign debt.
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Japan
China
T. Yamamoto
Europe
America
Million Women Enter War Work In Britain Survey Shows
London February 7 The British war effort has pushed about 988000 women into positions formerly held by men with 943000 replacing those sent to the front. In total 3,231,000 women are now employed across industry and commerce, including banking finance government offices and ammunition works, reflecting a widespread shift in labor patterns during the war.
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London
Tabor Department
War Word Totals Transmitted by Wireless Telegraph
A 1916 report from Madrid notes the Spanish Wireless Telegraph company logged over £900,000 words from belligerents. Bulletins issued in Madrid and Barcelona carried Entente news in blue and Austro German news in yellow, three times daily. Entente words far surpassed Central powers, 2,529,158 vs 1,621,005.
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Madrid
Wireless Telegraph Company
Maded
Barelona
Central Empire
Rats Threaten Front With Jaundice Epidemic Alert
Paris Feb 7 The Allied advance against rats on the French front stalls as vermin remain plentiful despite losses. Rats in trenches carry a microbe linked to jaundice in humans, prompting fears of an epidemic and urging counteracting measures.
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Paris
Japanese Private Wins British Medal
London February 7 Japanese Private Tarry Ohara who has served on the Western front since the war’s outbreak received the British Medal. He has endured six hospital visits including twenty shrapnel wounds and fought initially with the Sikhs before serving with a Middlesex regiment. He now hopes to enlist in the flying corps after discharge.
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London
Tarry Ohara
Ohara
Middlesex
Flying Corps
Suffrage Resolution Reported in Senate in Springfield
Senator Barbour's proposal to amend the constitution to grant full suffrage to women was reported with recommendation for adoption. Lieutenant Governor Oglesby announced it will appear on the calendar. Senator Wood's state wide prohibition bill was read a second time and ordered engrossed with no amendments offered.
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Springfield
Barbour
Oglesby
Wood
Pontine City Voters Reject Commission Form
BLOOMINGTON Feb 7 Pontine residents vote against changing city government structure. Pontine defeated the proposition to adopt the commission form by 861 to 305 with a clear majority opposing the change.
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Bloomington
City of
Pontine
Milk Producers Favor Increases in Chicago District
P E Volt of Pleasant Prairie Wisconsin was elected president of the Milk Producers Association of the Chicago dairy district at a Tuesday meeting. Delegates favored higher summer contract prices than last year's 1.4 per hundredweight. For six months ending March 31 the producer price stands at 2 per hundred pounds. F H Reese of Dundee Iowa was elected treasurer.
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Chicago
P. E. Volt
Pleasant Prairie
Wis
Milk Producers’ Association
Chicago Dairy District
F. HT. Reese
Dundee
Austria Seeks Peace Stance From Hungarian Premier
Vienna reports Count Stephen Tisza told the Hungarian parliament that the Central powers are still ready to negotiate peace. The remarks came as specials from Vienna via London.
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Amsterdam
London
Vienna
Stephen Tisza
Old Red Trousers in Prison Camps in Geneva
In Geneva Switzerland a large group of French prisoners of war wear red trousers from prewar uniforms while horizon blue dominates the newer French attire. About 15 000 interred French soldiers study or are educated in Swiss universities under Germany’s arrangement, with Belgian and English peers also taking courses. German prisoners also number around 10 000 in Switzerland, many attending schools in Bern and Zurich. The article notes the beneficial mental state of internees and suggests using capable French internees for projects such as the Rhine to Rhone canal under Swiss Red Cross leadership.
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Geneva
Switzerland
Marne
Yser
Germany
Charbeori
Morhakg
Lausardne
Neuchatel
Fribourg
Berne
Bern
Zurich
Rhine To
Rhone
M. Ader
Swiss Red Cross
Three Norwegian Vessels Sunk. Lloyds Reports
Lloyds reports three Norwegian ships sunk with crews saved. The Rigel, a LUT ton steamer, 22 crew rescued at sea. The Wasdale, 1 856 tons, 25 crew saved. The Sonedid, 38 5 tons, 25 crew rescued.
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Lloyds
London
Lioyrds
Rigel
Wasdate
Sonedid
Wasdale
Sonpdal
Austrian harvest supplies are going to end
Austria nears the end of its supplies from the last harvest, reports the Neu Freie Presse. Frost has reduced potato stocks while the Austrian food controller notes Germany will ship Romanian supplies in March.
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Amsterdam
London
Austria
Neu Freie Presse
Vieona
Hoefer
Germany
Rumania
Collision injures riders in Springfield yards
Roya Buckmaster of Chicago suffers a broken leg after a Baltimore & Ohio coal train collides with the Chicago & Alton limited in Springfield railroad yards. Eugene Coachman, a porter, also injured in the crash.
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Springfield
Roya Buckmaster
Chicago
Baltimore & Ohio Cop
Chicago & Alton Limited
Eugene
Porter Walso
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