Rules limiting trade profits for frozen poultry and eggs
The Food Administration issued rules to limit profit margins in trading frozen poultry and cold storage eggs to curb speculation and stabilize distribution. Advanced costs allowed vary by role, with six percent for storers and limited margins for commission merchants wholesalers and jobbers, while candled storage eggs carry higher advances.
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Union News Service
Washington
Food Administration
Ground strewn with dead as Americans repulse German attack
London reports heavy fighting north of Toul where American troops repelled a German assault in close combat. Several Americans were killed or wounded including a captain from West Point who graduated last year. German losses were heavy with 10 bodies found in the trenches and three prisoners captured.
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London
Toul
West Point
Germans Capture Large Russian Losses Reported
Official headquarters statement cites 6 800 officers and 67 000 men captured in Russia along with 2 400 guns 5 000 machine guns thousands of motor vehicles 800 locomotives and thousands of railroad cars in the German advance.
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Russia
General Headquarters
Marconi Urges Action on Italy U S Aid Probes
In Rome Senator William Marconi urged the Italian government to take energetic measures over reported irregularities in purchases by the Italian mission in America as the United States increases aid to Italy.
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Rome
America
Italy
William Marconi
Packers Secrets Exposed in Letters
Letters read to Examiner Manly in the FTC inquiry into the packing house industry touched on Argentina labor troubles leaky cans of corned beef navy bacon specs soap and toilet gifts and a large navy rejected ham shipment. The reading consumed more than the usual session.
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Chicago
Federal Trade Commission
B. M. Manly
Francis J. Hoeney
Argentina
Army
Navy
PLAN ZONE SYSTEM FOR COAL Washington
Director General McAdoo and three regional directors discussed a proposed zone system to distribute coal from mines. The plan, developed by Railroad and Fuel Administrations officials, was reviewed by McAdoo and his advisory board and likely to be enacted in a few weeks with several routing changes suggested.
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Washington
McAdoo
A. H. Smith
East
R. H. Aishton
H. Markham
Railroad and Fuel Administrations
Germany ready to force Austria over Eastern crisis
An official dispatch from France reports Germany will take violent measures to compel Austria to terms amid a split over East affairs. Austria’s Premier Czernin reiterates Austria will not join military action against Russia or Roumania nor send troops to the Ukraine. The breach between allies widens and a serious conflict looms following the February 22 meeting between Emperor Charles and William.
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Washington
Germany
Austria
East
France
Czernin
Russia
Roumania
Ukraine
Charles
William
Japan to Act in Far East Allies Seek Japan Involvement
The Daily Mail reports allies plan to ask Japan to take steps for protection of Allied interests in the Far East. Britain and Japan view Japan’s Russia involvement not as hostility but to safeguard stores and munitions at Vladivostok and help relieve the burden of German rule on Russia.
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London
The
Daily Mail
Far East
Japan
Russia
Vladivostock
Embezzler Willards Allen Dies in New Mexico
Willards Allen, indicted fifteen years ago in Boston for embezzling 110000 from the Preachers' Aid Society, dies at Santa Fe New Mexico. The society aided sick and aged members of the New England conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Announcement came via a letter received.
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Boston
Santa Fe
N. M
Willards. Allen
Preachers’ Aid Society
New England Conference
The
Methodist Episcopal Church
Anti-War Literature Seized in Mattoon Case
In Mattoon Illinois United States Commissioner D T McIntyre issued an order banning distribution of alleged anti war literature by members of the International Bible Students Association. He also held W G Walters and Miss Emma Timm to the grand jury on alleged disloyal utterances. Both posted bonds of 1009 dollars. Walters asked protection claiming mob violence threats.
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Mattoon
International Bible Students’ Association
D. T. McIntyre
United States
McIntyre
W. G. Walters
Emma Timm
Walters
House Passes Railroad Bill Power Shifts to President
The House approved the administration railroad bill 337 to 6 setting two years postwar for government hold and granting the president sole rate making authority. Amendments to restore private ownership or ICC control failed. conference talks begin with aim to finish by March 4. The six opposing votes came from Chandler, Denison, Gordon, Thomas, Haugen, and Ramsey.
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Washington
House
Administration
Sweet
Iowa
Interstate Commerce Commission
Sims
Representative Esch
Wisconsin
Congress
Chandler
Oklahoma
Denison
Illinois
Gordon
Ohio
Thomas
Kentucky
Haugen and Ramsey
Bryan blocked from Massey Hall prohibition meeting
William Jennings Bryan was denied a hearing at Massey Hall in Toronto during a Dominion Alliance prohibition meeting. Returned soldiers disrupted the event shouting phrases including What about the Lusitania, while the chairman announced the Anti-Saloon League of America's fraternal delegate would speak.
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Toronto
William Jennings Bryan
Massey Hall
Dominion Alliance
Bryan
Anti- Saloon League of America
Photographers Sought for Air Division Aerial Work
Columbus Ohio urgency call for aerial photographers with photography knowledge. The aviation section's Photographic Section needs men from Ohio to fill 50 slots.
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Columbus
Air Division
Ohio
Soldiers sentenced to death by Pershing in France
Four American soldiers caught sleeping on sentry duty in the first line trenches have been sentenced to death. General Pershing has referred their cases to the War Department for review. This is the first such instance since American forces arrived in France. One soldier was already executed for an offense against a French child, with Pershing acting swiftly in that case.
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Pershing
Washington
General Pershing
War Department
France
Will Save Vast Supplies in Siberian Plot
Washington and Tokyo have asked Entente Powers and the United States to test support for joint military operations in Siberia to protect war stores at Vladivostok and along the Trans-Siberian line. Domestic criticism of Japan's limited wartime role is cited as a factor guiding talks, which officials will not publicly discuss.
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Washington
Japan
United States
Siberia
Vladivostok
Siberian
America
Government orders to commandeer platinum supply
Washington issued orders to seize all crude and unworked platinum held by importers, jobbers and wholesalers for war needs. Officials say platinum is vital for munitions and the world supply is small and declining, with Russia’s internal troubles reducing primary sources. The War Department will carry out the action.
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Washington
War Department
Russia
German aircraft materials found inferior in captured planes
Washington reports that captured German aircraft were built with inferior materials and show shortages of spruce and linen. Wing beams were thin, some under an inch, joined with glue and nails, indicating poorer construction than American standards.
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Washington
Turkish massacres reported in Armenian district
London based corre spondent quotes Turkish soldiers killing in an Armenian district abandoned by Russian forces. Hjalmar Branting of the Social Demokraten says he has urged two German Socialist parties to press the German government for action.
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London
Copenhagen
Exchange Telegraph Company
Armenia
Hjalmar Branting
Social Demokraten
New York Suffering From 84 Mile Gale
An 84 mile gale hit New York and New Yorkers, blowing over tinsel roofs and signs, ripping trees and chimneys, and damaging ships off the harbor. A collision between two tugboats near the Statue of Liberty saw one sink as debris and debris-filled blasts toppled pedestrians.
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New York
New
Elimination of Poreless Days and Bread Stuffs Urge Reduced
The Food Administration lowers meatless meals and porkless Saturdays as conditions improve. Hoover urges further breadstuffs reduction to meet Allied demands amid Argentine shortages, with beefless and porkless Tuesdays remaining until further notice.
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Union News Service
Washington
The
Food Administration
Argentina
Hoover
Japan Seeks Adequate Steps If Peace Emerges
Tokyo February 24 report cites Japanese Foreign Minister noting discrepancies in Russo German peace reports. He warned it is hard to gauge a possible peace conclusion and affirmed Japan would take decisive steps if peace is reached. Uchida's Petrograd withdrawal linked to danger, not rupture. Consul General Moscow to represent Japan post-withdrawal.
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Japan
London
Tokyo
Viscount Motone
Reuter
Uchida
Petrograd
Russia
Great Britain
America
Moscow
British Embassy Looted By Russians In Petrograd
A Petrograd dispatch via Düsseldorf and Amsterdam reports Russian troops under a Colonel looted the British embassy after staff left Petrograd. Another account says troops entered while the British chargé d affaires remained and burned documents and seized others. Leon Trotzny denied government responsibility.
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London
Petrograd
Dusseldorf
Amsterdam
Leon Trotzny
Shell Kills Americans Near Front Behind Lines
Report from France that several Americans were killed and others wounded by shell fragments when Germans scored a direct hit on a half-ruined house in a village just behind American lines. The incident underscores ongoing shellfire risks for U S troops in the area.
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France
Bombs Hit Venice Historic Structures
Italian statement says Teutonic air raiders gravely damaged priceless art and historic buildings in Venice while selecting monuments as targets. casualties reported as small.
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Rome
Venice
Help For Farmers Called For Washington
Secretary Houston of the Department of Agriculture urges urban residents to study the farm labor situation and to provide assistance to farmers during the upcoming crop season.
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Washington
Houston
Department of Agriculture
Foodstuffs Exported to Germany via Switzerland
Italian deputies and merchants claim that foodstuffs have been exported to Germany through Switzerland in the last two years. They note Switzerlandbound exports rose to 407 million lire in 1917, up from 396 million in 1916 and 314 million in 1917, with half the exports last year consisting of silk and cotton used for war supplies.
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Germany
Rome
Switzerland
Italy
Dr Pierce's Medical Discovery and Pleasant Pellets Sold Locally
An old advertisement extols Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery as a blood and nerve tonic for vigor and endurance. It promotes a spring house cleaning with May apple laxative pills and aloe leaves pills, urging weekly use to purify the intestines and body.
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Dr. Pierce
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