Germans Resume Shipping Warfare Across Atlantic Routes
British and Russian steamers Edale and Svorono were sunk off Scilly and Blasket islands respectively as German submarines resume attacks on traderoutes. Caution and warnings to American travelers accompany renewed German raids amid evolving front lines in Europe.
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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 trigger New road project growth
Washington reports construction to begin soon on the Alaska railroad line with a 1 million dollar expenditure planned this year as part of a broader push to develop Alaskan infrastructure. Attempts to close saloons in Lineule Nebraska affect municipal revenue and licensing deadlines. Coast guard crews rescued Victoria shipwreck survivors after it foundered near Coronado islands with help from the schooner Fiver.
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Washington
Uncle Bain
Alaska
San Diego
el —Bleves
Victoria
Coronado Islands
Fiver
Unclear historical note on arrest and charges emerges
Fragmentary OCR details reference an arrest and alleged charges linked to a person named Mire GB. The text hints at a treasury related matter and a legal proceeding but lacks readable names, dates, or locations to confirm specifics.
US under no plan to recognize Carranza regime
Washington officials say recognition of any Mexican government is not contemplated amid unsettled affairs. Secretary Bryan and President Wilson have not been asked to consider recognition and no official statement supports such a move. Carl anza ally Richard H. Cole declined to reveal his purpose in visiting Bryan.
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Washington
Mexico
United States
Carranza
Bryan
Wilson
Richard H. Cole
Los Angeles
Cal
Hhe
Woman Appointed to Labor Distribution Branch in New York
President Wilson issued an executive order waiving civil service rules to appoint Mrs. Lucy Jones Harris of Morganfield Kentucky to lead immigration service labor distribution work in New York. The move marks a female- led approach to immigrant work amid ongoing service challenges.
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Washington
Immigration Service
Wilson
Civil Service
Mra
Lucy Jones Harris
Morganfield
New York
Captain Thierfelder Leads Kronprinz Wilhelmine Rescue Mission
Fragmentary report notes Captain Thierfelder, commander of the German cruiser Kronprinz Wilhelmine, in port at News, Virginia for repairs and supplies after a raid. Scattered lines mention crickets mowing crops and a British steamer sunk by a submarine near Lewis with crew landing at V erloway.
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Thierfelder
Kronpring
Sioreawey
Scotland
Lewis
Verloway
Weather and stock losses sweep western states with severe storm
A brutal storm lashes the West causing 400 sheep to survive in Oregon out of 1 600 as wind snow and hail batter ranches. Icicles cling to California fruit trees while Arizona records its first snow in memory. Damages exceed 1 million with potential multi million losses. Coastal craft ashore and two San Francisco youths die from a live wire. Temperature plummets across Idaho eastern Washington and Montana.
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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 Across Railways
An arbitration award boosts pay for 84,000 locomotive engineers and firemen on 98 western railroads, effective May 1 for one year, with the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers criticizing the ruling as inadequate under U.S. law. The decision postpones further increases for 12 months.
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Chicago
United States
Canada
Hitness Central
Great Lakes
Brotherhood of Enginemen
Newands
Ely
Oregon Range War Renewed After Sheep Ranch Attack
Four masked men attacked Isidore Meyers's sheep range on Crooked River near Psalinebutte Crook County Oregon. They burned a camp as 30 head of sheep were killed and guns and ammunition were stolen. The incident follows earlier anti sheep farm violence tied to cattlemen.
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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 Suffer Heavy Losses In Battle Report
Casualties reported among allied forces with heavy fighting described and a list of names including Marge Fortune and Phylis Langhoree Brooks. The report notes casualties as killed, wounded, and missing with a note on a captain and a Virginia resident from Greenwood.
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Ollows
Olliere
Marge
London
Grevpwood Va
Gureminberite
Death of Captain After American Steamer Sinks
The American steamer Gunfight was torpedoed near the Scilly Islands by a German submarine. Thirty six crew members were aboard. thirty three were saved, two drowned, and the captain died later of heart failure from shock. The ship carried naptha from Port Arthur to Bowen and was towed to Crow sour and beached.
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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
China replies to Japan with partial acceptance and strong rejections including group 6 while offering further concessions. Prime readers say M Hick! finds it far from meeting the twenty four demands after Yuan Shi Kai's cabinet review of the situation. Ottawa reports Canadian casualties near Ypres totaling about 6000 with 3000 missing and 700 killed.
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Peking
China
Eki Hick
M. Hick
Yuan Shi Kai
Ottawa, Can
Ypres
Montreal Highlanders
St Julien
Famous Sitka rector dies in Seattle hospital
Rev. Sergius George Kostrometinoff, rector of St. Michael cathedral Sitka Alaska, who served there since 1886 and was among the last survivors of the Alaska transfer era, died in Seattle at age 61. The Sitka ceremony took place when Alaska was the U.S. territory. In Paris, French officials say a great German gun previously bombarding Dusseldorf area has been knocked out of action.
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Seattle
Wash
Sergius George Kostrometinoff
St. Mchael
Sitka
Alaska
Inet
Huse
Paria
French War Department
Seye Itle
Ilale
Mets
Lorraine
Unclear OCR fragment on naval encounter reported
A damaged OCR fragment mentions a German submarine and an American tanker in the North Ocean area with a captain named Lars Herland aboard the vessel Ouse ig, but the details are garbled and unclear.
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The
Hague
Oushe Og
Lars Herland
Ouseig
Salt Lake and Utah News In Briefs Across Topics
A jumble of figures and notes from Utah and nearby: costs for federal actions in Utah and for public schools in Salt Lake, 1914 marriage licenses and 872 divorces, Yellowstone Park preparations for 1915, Ogden refugee Harry Brandon valued at 31,000, Nevada Mine Owners meeting in Reno, Nevada Short Line railway near completion, Emma Pemerteon and Elsie Christiansen abandon bike plan, projected tourist traffic to Salt Lake, coke oven plans in Utah, legal cases including the Tonopah shooting and habeas corpus, Eastern wool buyers, and a fatality on the Northern Pacific line in Idaho.
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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
Nevada
Balt Lake
Hon
Gorda Taylor
Idaho
O’ Bute
Sein Oteler
United
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