Germans Resume Shipping Warfare In Atlantic Routes
English papers report German submarines return to the west coast routes, sinking two ships Edale off Scilly and Svorono off Blasket. Crews saved. Warnings issued to American liners amid ongoing blockade. Dunkirk bombardment continues, prompting evacuations. Eastern front sees renewed fighting near the Meuse Moselle and in East Prussia. Russians claim gains near Stry, Uzsok, and Szawale.
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North Sea
Ireland
England
Edale
Scilly Islands
Svorono
Blasket Islands
Admiralty
Dunkirk
Nieuw Port
Meuse
Moselle
Dardanelles
Russian Battie
Szawale
Mitna
East Prussian
Poland
Carpathians
Uzsok
Stry
Wyeskow
Alaska railroad plans spark $1,000,000 year effort
Washington advances a Panes coal fort project and Alaska railroad provisioning. constede constraint on the line to begin soon with a $1,000,000 expenditure this year. Saloon closures Impact Lincoln Nebraska amidst May 1 municipal year end. Crew rescued after steamship Victoria foundering near Coronado Islands. salvaged by schooner Fiver providing rescue.
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Washington
Uncle Bain
Alaska
San Diego
el —Bleves
Victoria
Coronado Islands
Fiver
Fragmentary OCR Leads to Unclear Historical Event
The readable portions mention a person named Mire GB and an arrest, but the fragments are too incomplete to identify a clear event, date, or location. No determinate facts emerge beyond a presumed legal action and a noted individual.
United States Seeks No Recognition of Carranza Claims
Washington reports that the U S government does not contemplate recognizing Mexican leaders amid Mexico's unsettled state. Secretary Bryan says no formal request or sufficient basis exists for recognition and the matter remains unsettled until a consensus among principal leaders is reached.
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Washington
Mexico
United States
Carranza
Bryan
Wilson
Richard H. Cole
Los Angeles
Cal
Hhe
Woman in immigration service appointed by executive order
President Wilson issued an executive order waiving civil service rules to appoint Mrs Lucy Jones Harris of Morgantown field Kentucky to lead labor distribution work in the immigration service in New York. The move assigns a woman to address ongoing problems in the service.
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Washington
Immigration Service
Wilson
Civil Service
Mra
Lucy Jones Harris
Morganfield
New York
Captain Thierfelder and the Kronprinz Wilhelmine
Captain Thierfelder, youthful commander of the German cruiser Kronprinz Wilhelmine, returns to News, Virginia for repairs after months at sea. A separate note from Scotland mentions a British steamer sunk by a submarine near Lewis and crew landing at Verloway.
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Thierfelder
Kronpring
Sioreawey
Scotland
Lewis
Verloway
Storm Devastates Western Rangeland and Inland Regions
A major storm cripples Morrow County flocks with 400 of 1,600 sheep alive after two days of wind snow sleet and hail. Damage totals exceed 1 million with potential for millions more from frost threatens to ruin apples prunes and fruit crops. Coast vessels driven ashore two boys killed by a live wire in San Francisco. Lambs frozen to death in Idaho. Temperatures drop as much as 25 degrees in eastern Washington Idaho and Montana. Los Angeles records 44 degrees, coldest since 1901.
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San Francisco
Morrow County
Oregon
United
Rocky Mounttains
Monterey
Cal
California
Salt River Valley
Arizona
Nevada Desert
Idaho
Washington
Montana
Los Angeles
Wage Increase Grant Sparks Arbitration Ruling Amid Rail Labor Strife
Arbitration award boosts wages for 84 000 locomotive engineers firemen and hostlers across 98 western railroads stretching from the Great Lakes to the Pacific. The ruling effective May 6 covers one year, but the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers denounces it as inadequate. Also reported are a Colón ore disaster killing ten and injuring hundreds with enormous losses, a Calaveras murder case and related fires in Selma and Fresno, plus a Chicago wage dispute over proposed increases.
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Chicago
United States
Canada
Hitness Central
Great Lakes
Brotherhood of Enginemen
Newands
Ely
Oregon Range War Renewed After Sheepmen Attack
Four masked men attacked Isidore Meyers on his Crooked river sheep ranch near Paulinebutte Oregon burning camp firing 100 shots and killing at least thirty sheep while wounding others fueling a renewed conflict between sheepmen and cattlemen amid recent tensions over hay and attacks.
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Prineville
Ore
Isidore B. Meyers
Tost
Crooked River
Psalinebutte
Crook County
Meyers
Sheriffs Office
Montgomery
J. N. Williamson
Congress
Williamson
Pauline Butte
Canadiens Lose Heavily In Casualty Report
Casualties among troops reported in a Wednesday dispatch with hundreds feared killed or wounded. The piece names Marg Fortune and Phylis Langhoree Brooks of Greenville VA among those mentioned as part of the loss and damage while a Captain is cited in connection with a large sum of money.
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Ollows
Olliere
Marge
London
Grevpwood Va
Gureminberite
Sinks American Steamer and Other British Vessels Hit by German Submarine
Reports say the American steamer Gunfight was torpedoed near the Scilly Islands with 36 crew pages. Thirty three were saved, two drowned, and the captain died of heart failure after the shock. The Europe and Fulgent were also torpedoed and sunk nearby with crews rescued at sea.
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London
Eta Lighthouse
Scilly Islands
Fellty
Crow Sour
Port Arthur
Bowen
Seilly Islands
Cornwall
England
Europe
Parry
St. Lasaire
Fulgent
Skelling Rocks
County Kerry
Ireland
China Rejects Key Japanese Demands in Note
Beijing replies to Tokyo’s twenty four demands with partial concessions but refuses crucial group six. M HickI argues the reply fails to meet the full list after Yuan Shikai reviews the situation with cabinet. Ottawa reports Canadian casualties near Ypres totaling about six thousand with 700 killed and 100 wounded.
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Peking
China
Eki Hick
M. Hick
Yuan Shi Kai
Ottawa, Can
Ypres
Montreal Highlanders
St Julien
Famous Sitka rector dead in Sitka Alaska
Rev. Sergius George Kostrometinoff rector of St Michael cathedral Sitka Alaska died in Seattle hospital. He born in Sitka to Russian parents survived the Alaska transfer era and served since 1886. The service was held at Sitka the former capital. French report says German long range gun at Metz palmported is out of action after bombardment.
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Seattle
Wash
Sergius George Kostrometinoff
St. Mchael
Sitka
Alaska
Inet
Huse
Paria
French War Department
Seye Itle
Ilale
Mets
Lorraine
Noted Described Naval Incident In North Sea
Fragmentary report describes a North Sea encounter involving an American tanker Oushe og and a German submarine. Captain Lars Herland of the Ouse ig provided preliminary statements about the event dated Sunday.
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The
Hague
Oushe Og
Lars Herland
Ouseig
Utah and Nevada News Digest From 1914 to 1915 Era
A compilation of scattered items reports government costs for federal pursuits in Utah and for public schooling in Salt Lake City, migration and park plans, a Reno mining meeting, a plan to build coke ovens, and unrelated local incidents. Notable figures include W. H. Pancroft and James Lane, with various dates and locations in Utah, Nevada, and Oregon.
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Tema
United States
Fall
TeoNe
Utah
Wan
W. If. Pancroft
Salt Lake, Ie
Board of Education of
Salt Lake
Yellowstone Park
National Reserve
Harry Brandon
Mexico
Ogden
Madero
Mor
Lane
Nevada Mine Owners’ Association
Reno
Nenrel
Southern Pacific
Rochester Mines Company
Lower Rochester
Emma Pemerteon
Elsie Christiansen
Lents
Ore
G. T. Bindbeutel
Motor Print
Bindbeutel
Piuteburgh
Wyoming
Pacif E
Intermountain
Robert E. Lee Jefferson Davie Biegal
Jack Whyte
Industrial Workers of the World Organiser
Tonopah
Nto Morse
Whyte |S
Steyn
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