British and U S Air Flotillas in World War I Raids
The report details Ostend to Bruges air and naval operations during the war. It notes enormous explosive quantities requiring 25 freight cars, daily raids by Dover and Dunkirk aviation squadrons, submarine patrols, and German defenses including eight inch guns, searchlights, anti-aircraft guns, kite balloons, and nets. From 1915 to 1917 the combined forces destroyed or forced down 1,193 enemy aircraft, with additional losses in 1918 until the armistice.
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Bruges
Brugge
Dover
Feck
Ghent
Hruges
Ostende
Zeebrugge
Dunkirk
Felgian
Army
Morrison Says Preliminary Drafts Copyrighted in Connecticut
Hartford February 21 Henry W Morrison assistant secretary of the state board of education and father of the Morrison bill said his whole bill was copyrighted He said he had preliminary drafts copyrighted to prevent theft and premature circulation He claimed the aim was to protect his ideas while final copies were widely distributed starting January 1.
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Morrison
Hartford
Henry W. Morrison
State Board of Education
Connecticut
Butter Prices Seen Dropping Again Amid Large Cold Storage Stocks
Washington reporting that the United States holds abundant creamery butter in cold storage with prices expected to fall. On February 1, 1919, storage reached 36,815,795 pounds, up from 26,725,815 pounds a year earlier, plus 13,796,954 pounds held by the government for military and allied use, per the bureau of markets.
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Washington
United States
Army
Navy
Bureau of Markets
Department of Agriculture
New American Express Co Inc Incorporation in Hartford
A certificate filed with the secretary of state yesterday creates the American Express Co Inc with 6 million dollars fully paid in. The firm will be a subsidiary of the American Express Company and will conduct business in foreign countries.
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New
Hartford
Secretary of State
American Express Co., Inc
American Express Company
Wesleyan and Trinity to meet twice on baseball schedule
Wesleyan and Trinity will play two extra games this season as part of the 1919 baseball schedule. The first contest will be in Hartford on May 8 and a return game at Andrus Field on May 21. Athletic plans also include seven football games with four at Middletown and notable opponents like Williams and Amherst. The rifle team of Company D defeated Deep River, while Tex Rickard forecasts a possible Wilard Dempsey bout in Reno if a new 25 round law passes.
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Trinity
Hartford
Capitol City College
Hap” Harmon
Anderson
Athletic Council
Andrus Field
Worcester Tech
Middletown
Rhode Island State College
New York University
New York
Union
Williams
Amherst
Columbia
Newark
Reno
Tex Rickard
Nevada
Willard-Dempsey
Rickard
Cone
Middlewestern
Jeffries Johnson
Monsignor Fletcher Dead at Mercy Hospital in Baltimore
Baltimore February 21 Monsignor William A Fletcher rector of Baltimore Cathedral and close ecclesiastical associate of Cardinal Gibbons died this morning at Mercy Hospital after a heart attack in September He was vested with the purple in 1914 and had served 29 years in the priesthood, 24 with Cardinal Gibbons in the Cathedral household Also in brief Buenos Aires port threatened as dock and ship workers strike spreads with political attack on President Iragoyen American and British ships moved to Montevideo Bolshevism and pro Germanism blamed Head Waiter Dead at Fifth Avenue Hotel Tom Gay, famed head waiter and friend of Lincoln and Civil War generals, dies in New York David H Moffat once took Gay to Europe and gave him a ranch as a gift
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William A. Fletcher
Cardinal Gibbons
United Sttes
Mercy Hospital
Monsignor
Fletcher
Buenos Aires
Washington
State Department
Iragoyen
Montevideo
New York
Tom Gay
Fifth Avenue Hotel
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Winfield Scott
William Tecumseh Sherman
Phil Sherman
David H. Moffat
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Europe
Baltimore Editor Dies at 62 in City Home
Major Walter Edgar McCann long time editor of the Baltimore Ev News died at his home in Baltimore from congestion of the kidneys. He was 62 and had served on the paper's staff for four decades.
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Baltimore
Walter Edgar McCann
Baltimore Ev News
Deaths surpass births in England and Wales
London reports a birth rate of 15.8 versus a death rate of 18.7 per 1000, marking the worst birth rate on record. Officials and citizens seek solutions to the illegitimacy problem, with meetings led by the lord mayor and calls for sympathetic aid to unmarried mothers as a practical remedy.
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London
England
Wales
C. W. Saleeby
Registrar General’s Office
Charles Wakefield
Tax on liquor boosts price on cocktails in Boston
Boston readers learn that highballs and other gin or whiskey drinks will rise at least five cents per glass once President Wilson signs the $6 billion revenue bill. Liquor dealers say the new tax will push whiskey and gin to about $6.40 a gallon, with family wines about $2.88 per dozen bottles, and sherry, port, and clarets priced higher.
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Boston
Wilson
Happenings in This Vicinity 25 Years Ago Feb 12 1994
Local column recalls events from February 12 1969 to celebrate Washingtons Birthday. Mentions William H Hall advertising meat prices at corner Main and Church streets. Other items include sick message from Thomas Murphy, hunting flags for schools, Middlesex Rubber Co stock, proposed electric car link between New Britain and Berlin, Adams Express agent Pattison ill with appendicitis, Ernest Buck long tenure at post office, Portland Stone Temple of Honor celebration, banks and schools closed, skating on the river, icehouse work by BE N Hubbard, and the Brownstone ferry dressed with flags.
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William H. Hall
Main
Church Streets
Thomas E. Murphy
Middletown T. A. B. Society
Middlesex Rubber Co
New Britain
Berlin
Robert T. Pattison
Adams’ Express
Ernest Buck
Stone Temple of Honor
Portland
EB. W. Ellsworth
Lodge
Washington
Easter Monday Declared Holiday For Dublin Rebellion
Sinn Fein executives announce Easter Monday will be a holiday in memory of the Dublin rising and the party dead. A message from Prof. de Valera, recently escaped, asserts he will continue Ireland’s work.
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Doublin
Sinn Fein
de Valera
Ireland
Sinn. Fein
Paris
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