Germany Losing Big Dye Trade
New York May 19 Manufacture in America of dyestuffs once German dominated has surged. Dr Thomas H Norton reports the US now has 150 dye makers and aims to supply most domestic needs from coal tar by 1920. He foresees reduced German exports and growing US leadership in synthetic colors.
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New York
America
Germany
Thomas H. Norton
Customs House
Washington
Norton
United States
South America
Austria
Great Britain
France
Japan
Holland
Russia
Italy
Dr. Norton
Great National Tragedy in Ruined Villages of France
London correspondent Gibbs reports from liberated French villages on the west side of the Hindenburg line. He portrays widespread devastation, displacement, and terror behind German retreat, detailing looting, forced labor, dispossession, and the suffering of elderly, women, and children amid British and American relief efforts.
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France
London
Mayep Gibbs
Telegraph
Hindenburg Line
Vermand
Tam
Guardsmen Break Up Meeting at Emma Goldman Speech
May 19. More than twenty national guardsmen tried to disperse an anti conscription meeting led by Emma Goldman. Police guarded the venue and guardsmen quit after pounding on the stage door, under the Non Conscription League auspices.
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New York
National
Peet Heads Party Sent From Turkey
A 33 member American missionary party led by William W. Peet arrived in Switzerland from Turkey. Dispatches from Berne report his leaving Turkey amid Turkish government inquiries. As treasurer of Armenian and Syrian relief, Peet oversaw over 1.3 million dollars last year. relief funds distribution will shift to the Swedish embassy.
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Boston
Switzerland
Turkey
William W. Peet
Berne
American Board of Commissioners For Foreign Missions
Peet
American Committee For
Flames light up Lens as British advance at Gavrelle
Dispatch reports fires in Lens amid German burning policy as British lines threaten to trap retreating forces. Rain turns terrain to mud with minor operations near Bullecourt quiet after its capture while Gavrelle action proceeds and a German aircraft is shot down by machine gun fire.
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Lens
France
Bullecourt
Gavrelle
Grave dangers cited in home rule talks in Ireland
Viscount Middleton, former secretary of state for India, reports to the prime minister that unionist representatives in the west and south of Ireland oppose home rule for any part of Ireland. They warn it would bring imperial dangers and bolster the Sinn Fein movement, which they call actively seditious and pro-German.
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London
Viscount Midleton
India
Ireland
Sinn Fein
Libau Ice Free Port of Russia
Libau a Baltic seaport with 90 000 people and a Jewish minority is described as a key Prussian port near Petrograd. The bulletin notes its location on a sand peninsula with the Libau Lake, a 1703 channel linking sea and lake, and historic fortifications and industries. It cites trade in grain lumber eggs coal and herring and notes steamship connections to Copenhagen Stettin Reval and Petrograd with rail links to Riga.
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Washington
Libau
Baltic
Petrograd
National Geographic Society Geography
Libava
Courland
Bulletin
Baltic Sea
Russia
Prussia
Alexander III
Brothers of the Sword
Charles XII
Sweden
Macdonald
Wagram
Moscow
Copenhagen
Stettin
Reval
Riga
Eye Ear Nose and Throat Doctor Stan nu s Listed in Quincy
Local notices name Dr Stannus at 601 4 Hampshire Street with repeated references. Various residents visit or return from hospitals and schools including Mrs Fritz after appendix removal and Miss Perkins from Keokuk. A coroner and other city figures are mentioned along with social events and a taxi company.
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Stannus
Hampshire Street
V. A. Chapman
David Wilcox
Gem City Lodge
I. O. O. F. Hall
Snyder
R. P. Fritz
Maine Street
St. Mary Hospital
Richard Westerman
Urbana
Fred Mueller
South Ninth Street
Gem City Business College
L. L. Boyer
Liberty
Dora Lewton
Plainville
St. Mary's Hospital
Lawrence Amen
E. L. Browning
Mt. Sterling
Quincy
Charles V.1 Gay
Gamp Point
Arthur Roy
Springfield
Edith Perkins
Keokuk
W. P. Sodeman
Chicago
L. A. Morest
Quincy Hotel
Fred Beatte
Lima
C. L. Hawkins
Golden
Sharp Spanish protest over U boat sinkings
Madrid through Paris May 19. A cabinet note protest to Germany over the sinking of the Spanish steamer Patricio was drafted and presented by King Alfonso. Premier Afrieto announced the note is couched in terms the occasion demanded and will not be published at present.
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Madrid
Paris
Germany
Patricio
Alfonso
Afrieto
Stows Picture of Kaiser in Hold Averts Burning
Navy officials consider what to do with a picture of Kaiser Wilhelm aboard a warship. The captain stored the portrait in the hold and asked permission to burn it, but the Navy decided that stowing the image suffices as proper disposition.
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Kaiser
Washington
Navy Department
W. Hohenzollen
Making Food Gardens Borough of Richmond Work Begins
In New York on May 19 the may ors committee on food gardens began converting 375 acres of city and private property in Staten Island into gardens. Labor will be performed by boy scouts and high school youths under supervision.
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New York
Borough of
Richmond
Staten Island
Nikola Tesla Receives Edison Medal in 1916 Award
New York May 19 Nikola Tesla inventor contributed more to electrical science during 1916 than any other man the American Institute of Electrical Engineers has decided at its annual meeting in awarding him the Edison medal presented each year to the man foremost in the electrical world
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New York
Nikoola Tesla
American Institute of Electrical Engineers
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