Total War Losses French Lead West Before English Arrival
Western Newspaper Union News Service reports a first complete tabulation of World War I losses. Total killed wounded captured or missing exceed 10 million, with Entente and Central Powers suffering heavy tolls and differing recovery rates.
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Nowspaper Union News Service
Washington, D. C
Balkan
Armenia
Entente
France
Russia
Mazurian Lakes
Carpathians
Rumania
Germany
British occupy Bagdad in Mesopotamia
London General Frederick Stanley Maude reports the British occupation of Bagdad, the main Turkish stronghold in Mesopotamia. The capture occurred with little resistance and heavy Turkish losses are feared. Turks had held about 30,000 square miles of Persian territory, while Russian pressure threatens a British Russian junction alliance.
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Mesopotamia
London
Frederick Stanley Maude
Bagdad
Turkey
Persia
Kirmanshah
Erzerum
Storm Devastates Newcastle Ind Killing Many
A tornado devastated Newcastle Indiana killing more than a score of people and injuring about 150. The storm destroyed 300 residences and caused around 2 million dollars in damage as it swept southeast across the city. Communication was cut for hours and residents dug through ruins to find missing relatives.
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Newcastle
Ind
Carranza Landslide Wins Mexican Presidency
General Venustiano Carranza elected president of Mexico by an exceptional landslide with voters drafting or declaring any name. Estimates place the count from hundreds of thousands to about a million, with no reported disturbances or intimidation.
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Carranza
Mexico City
Venustiano Carranza
Mexico
Republic
Congress Called for April Sixteen to Arm Merchant Ships
President Wilson orders arming of American merchant vessels under constitutional authority and calls a special session of Congress for April 16. Navy to place guns, secrecy urged on ship names, and navy reports readiness as the government increases war risk bureau funding to 15 million dollars. Tumulty states early session needed for defense of the merchant marine.
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Congress
Washington
Wilson
Navy Department
Gregory
Lansing
Navy Yards
Atlantic
House
Senate
War Risk Bureau
Taunlty
Tumulty
White House
United States
Germany
Champ Clark
War in World News Echoes from Atlantic to Canal
Reports detail German submarine warfare policy as Zimmermann declares full war effort While Mexico cites inability to contact Germany Chapultepec wireless plant unable to send messages to Berlin Fifty nine Americans released from quarantine after Yarrowdale voyage and sent toward the Swiss frontier Germany plots to reach the Panama Canal using Hindu labor and seeks to arm American ships President Wilson approves arming merchant vessels Dr Chakraberty and Dr Schunner fall to conspiracy charges in New York Berlin returns most subs for overhaul Austria signals openness to talks while defending unrestricted warfare and stating Austrian subs operate in Atlantic and Mediterranean
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South Atlantic
Swinemuende
Germany
Austria
Washington
Atlantic
Mediterranean
French attack on Champagne fronts gains ground reports Paris
European War notes say French forces advanced on a front of 1850 yards in Champagne with depths from 540 to 720 yards. British cavalry near nine miles from Ctesiphon on the Tigris. Russian cruiser Rerik struck a mine in the Baltic, heavy damage. Cassini torpedoed by a submarine. Powder magazine explosion kills captain and 100 crew. Eighteen enemy planes shot down by German guns.
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Champagne
Paris
Ctesiphon
Tigris
London
Pbagdad
Laji
Rerik
Rurik
Finland
Stockholm
Transocean
Berlin
Cassini
Mediterranean
Cuban Government Reclaims Santinago Stronghold Amid US War Talk
Washington dispatches report Cuban forces retook Santinago, with Governor Munoz acknowledged by President Menocent as head of the recognized Cuban government. Senate adopts cloture 76 to 3, ending fierce debate. Federal Reserve notes stronger gold reserves and readiness for credit. new Congress expected to back President Wilson on armament steps. George W. Guthrie dies in Tokyo. Count Zeppelin dies. Adolphus Williamson Green and Ben G Brinkman noted. Multiple legal and international developments follow as policy moves unfold.
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Oficial
Navy Department
Washington
Santinago
Menocent
Munoz
Senate
Wilson
Cummins
Iowa
Sherman
Wulinofs
la Follette
Wisconsin
Grenna
North Dakota
C i G
Judge Baldwin rules press need not reveal source in contempt case
In Chicago, Judge Jesse A Baldwin rules newspapers need not disclose source of information published. A Joliet area fire destroyed the Elwood Farmers' Grain elevator containing 30,000 bushels of corn and oats.
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Jesse A. Baldwin
Chicago
Elwood Farmers’ Grain Company
Joliet
Foreign Marines Seize Santiago as Sugar Mills Burn
Four hundred men aboard American warships have landed in Santiago Cuba and assumed charge. Cane fields and the Union Sugar mill at San Luis ten miles north are burning. In London Premier Lloyd George defended a settlement that gains Ireland wider consent and avoids forceful imposition.
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Santiago
Cuba
Union
San Luis
Santiage
Canada offers 160 acre homesteads to lure farm laborers
Canada faces a farm labor famine as Western Canada needs about thirty thousand workers for the 1917 crop. Ottawa proposes enticing laborers by granting 160 acre homesteads and counting wages as residence time, reducing required occupancy from three years to two to qualify for land title.
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Canada
Ottawa
Bee honey adulteration raid in Manhattan basement plant
Health inspectors uncovered a full honey processing setup in a private Manhattan basement. No bees were present but six women and one man operated a stove boiling a mixture mainly of sugar with about ten percent genuine honey. The find followed complaints of adulterated honey from buyers.
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Health Department
Manhattan
New York Mail
Cascarets offer relief from bilious headache and constipation
An advertisement promoting Cascarets capsules as a cure for headaches, biliousness, dizziness, coated tongue, foul breath, and digestive issues. It claims the product cleanses the stomach, removes sour food, reduces bile, and expels waste, promising a clear head by morning from a 10 cent box.
Barber Uses Photo Pattern for Reopening Boston Shop
A man with a long beard and broad western hat visits a Parker House barber shop in Boston. He claims five years ago he got a shave and haircut there, produced a photograph as a pattern, and asks the barber to recreate the look exactly. The barber begins work using the photo as a guide.
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Parker House
Boston
Harber
Not Always Doctor and Recruit Exchange During Exam
A brief exchange shows a doctor asking about stuttering and a recruit replying that the stutter occurs only when talking, indicating a moment of anxiety or speech issue noted during the examination.
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Ernest Schunner
New York
China
Amsterdam
Federal Reserve Board
George W. Guthrie
Pittsburgh
Tokyo
State Department
Japan
Adolphus Williamson Green
National Biscuit Company
Ben G. Brinkman
St. Louis
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Deerfield-Pope Manfacturing Company
Mountain Mills
Joe Vinardi
Mike Gillo
Crowsburg
Kaw
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Indiana
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