Russians Hold Polish Front Along Sixty Mile Front
Petrograd reports Russian forces hold a sixty mile front from Ciechanow to Dobrzyn on the Vistula with heavy artillery battles along the line. The fight for the Vistula left bank extends forty five miles from the Bzura junction at Wiazogrod toward Dobrzyn as Russians press east Prussia.
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Petrograd
Ciechanow
Mlawa
Dobrzyn
Vistula
Plock
East Prussia
Bzura
Wiazogrod
Nowa Georgiewsk
Warsaw
Germans Capture Trenches and Prisoners Near Arras
Berlin reports yesterday's gains include a trench 200 yards long northwest of Arras with several prisoners and two machine guns. Additional trenches fell in Argonne. Altzstein taken with forty two captives as Alsatian operations advance. Belgium shows only artillery exchanges. eastern front quiet.
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Berlin
War Office
Arras
Argonne
Belgium
Altzstein
Cracow Evacuations Ordered as War Pressure Mounts
Geneva reports Cracow's governor ordered a partial evacuation of city and suburbs for noncombatants within forty eight hours. Men unfit for service join civic guards while fit soldiers are mobilized. Banks move to Vienna and Austria orders all landstrum aged sixty and older to depart amid scarce provisions.
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Geneva
Budapest
Cracow
Vienna
Landstrum
Dutch Patrol Boat Tottan Sinks After Mine Strike
The Dutch naval patrol boat Tottan struck a mine off Nieuwslus while searching for mines and sank. An officer and four men were lost, with many fresh floating mines reported along coast places.
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the Hague
Tottan
Nieuwslus
Night Attack at Shat el Arab Ends in English Setback
During a night assault on English forts along the Shat el Arab in Arabia, the enemy was surprised and reported as one hundred killed and wounded. An English cavalry venture against a Turkish unit near Kurne failed, with heavy English losses, and a gunboat withdrew under covering fire.
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Constantinople
Shat el Arab
Arabia
Kurne
Indian expeditionary force operates at head of Persian Gulf
London reports an Indian expeditionary force is active in the region at the head of the Persian Gulf. The embassy said in December that Turkish forces at Kurnah surrendered unconditionally, and that area was then occupied by the British, securing control from the junction of the Tigris to the Euphrates and to the Persian Gulf.
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London
Persian Gulf
Kurne
Tigris
Euphrates River
German rail chief takes over Germany's rail network
Albert Ballin, director general of the Hamburg American Steamship Company, upon Emperor William's request, assumes control of Germany's entire railroad system to coordinate delivery of food supplies to the German army.
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London
Exchange Telegraph Company
Copenhagen
Albert Ballin
Hamburg-American Steamship Company
Emperor William
Germany
Artillery Progress in French Fronts Repelled German Attacks
Paris reports slight progress in artillery actions with readouts. At the Yser mouth German efforts to destroy a bridge were repulsed, while the Argonne assault was defeated after heavy fighting with no net gain for either side.
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Paris
Yser
Argonne
Washington Day First Next Year Declared Dry
Olympia January 20 The state legislature rushed through both houses a resolution opposing a special election in 1915 on liquor or any other question. The outcome sets Washington on a dry path in January 2016 under the initiative bill pushed by voters last November. Senate vote 36 to 6 with one dissent in the House.
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Olympia
Wash
Washington
Senate
House
Idaho Loan & Investment Company Holds Annual Meeting
The Idaho Loan and Investment Company elected O. B. Steely J. C Weeter W. D. Service 4. T. Young Ezra J. Merrill as directors. The meeting praised gains last year and mortgage loans to home builders exceeded thirty thousand dollars. The firm plans to expand into adjoining states with a large agency force and maintain an eight percent annual dividend. Mortgages are held by Farmers & Sanders Bank of Pocatello in trust for investors. Construction reports show strong early spring business.
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Idaho Loan & Investment Company
O. B. Steely
J. C Weeter
W. D. Service
T. Young
Ezra J. Merrill
F. G. Caldwell
Chas. J. Kleeman
Farmers & Sanders Bank of Pocatello
Murder Charges Against Officers In Riot At Plant
Roosevelt New Jersey January 20 mayor announces warrants for twenty deputy sheriffs involved in the shooting of nineteen striking laborers at the American Agricultural Chemical plant. Manslaughter is charged as the federal industrial relations commission opens hearings in New York. One striker died, several others critically injured.
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Roosevelt
N. J
Hermann
American Agricultural Chemical Company
Federal Commission On Industrial Relations
New York
Seven Conspirators Plead Guilty in Prairie Creek Case
In Fort Smith Arkansas seven defendants in the Prairie Creek coal conspiracy pleaded guilty to conspiracy against the government as a federal trial began. Peter R. Stewart former United Mine Workers district president pleaded guilty. the government nolle prossed against W R Roberts and eleven others. John Edwards case for witness intimidation remained undecided. The government had three hundred witnesses and anticipated a weeks long trial.
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Fort Smith
Ark
Prairie Creek
Peter R. Stewart
United Mine Workers For
District 21
W. W. Roberts
Mansfield Telephone Company
John Edwards
Hartford
Dee Manufacturing elects new board and pushes product line
At the annual stockholders meeting held at the company office on Monday the board for the coming year was elected. New officers include Fred H. Stedfeldt as president Chas H Sell as vice president J C McNichols as treasurer and W W Woolard as secretary. The firm plans to promote its adjustable grate and improved grate bars with salesmen on the road and large jobbers already placing orders.
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Dee Manufacturing Company
F. J. Stedfeldt
C. H. Sell
J. C. McNichols
F. J. Herwick
Williams
Capt
H. H. Phillips
Shoshone
Fred H. Stedfeldt
Chas. H. Sell
W. W. Woolard
May Wheat Closes at 1 43 on Chicago Market
Chicago January 20 May wheat finished at 1 43 per bushel marking a firm close as traders watched demand and weather signals. The report notes price stability on the Chicago grain exchange with slight shifts in nearby contracts.
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Chicago
Tris
Idaho Senate approves prohibition amendment and land bill
Boise Idaho January 20 The Idaho legislature passed the anti alien land ownership bill in the house and the senate adopted a constitutional amendment to make statewide prohibition effective May first 1917 with a single dissenting vote.
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Boise
Idk
House of Representatives
Idaho
Senate
Talking Over The Game Bill
Local sportsmen receive House Bill No. 35 proposing a game commission and bag limit changes. The House committee will meet in Boise tomorrow. a Tribune discussion tonight at 8 p.m. will advise recommendations to Boise for the gate committee.
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Game Commission
House of Representatives
Kiger
Koelseh
Game Committee
House
Boise
Tribune
Eight-Team Idaho Baseball League Planned
Arrangements for an eight club league include Blackfoot Idaho Falls Pocatello American Falls from the Three B league plus four of the Twin Falls Buhl Barlow Ashton Bancroft and Weier. Towns must finish the season maintain ball diamonds and grandstands. Meeting to form schedule by laws and elect a president will be held next week with J M Virgin Blackfoot initially serving.
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Blackfoot
Idaho Falls
Pocatello
American Falls
Twin Falls
Buhl
Barlome
Ashton
Bancroft
Weier
Mr. Bradshaw
Mr. Unger
Frank Garvin
D. F. Arthur
Joe George
Gi. W. Fox
Jack Taylor
Bob Glenn
Gate City
Snake River Valley
J. M. Virgin of
Idaho
Bombing of England Shocks Yarmouth Residents
Reports from Yarmouth and Norfolk detail a night raid by German aircraft dropping five bombs. Casualties include a man crushed by a blast and a dead woman, with damage to property and glass storefronts amid blacked out streets and emergency crews deployed. King George VI and Queen Elizabeth had left Sandringham earlier.
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Lynn
England
King George's House
Sandringham
Queen Mother Alexandria
Snettisham
Royal Railroad
Royal Residence
Yarmouth
London
Norfolk Square
Sea Front
York Road
National Reserve
Trinity
St. Peter's Plain
Samuel Smith
German air raid over England reports eight towns hit
London reports that German airmen conducted an eight-town raid in four hours with several killed and wounded. No confirmation on Zeppelins. most damage blamed on private homes. Attacking pilots shown fine skill and accurate bombing despite darkness.
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London
England
Bomb raids on Norfolk towns reported by Central News
A King's Lynn dispatch states that bombs dropped by a Zeppelin over King's Lynn and near Sandringham palace caused multiple explosions. Four killed at Yarmouth, others in Sandringham area. Cromer and Yarmouth attacked. Ameland origin suspected for the aircraft.
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London
Central News
King’s Lynn
Sandringham
Sandringham Palace
Press Association
Zepplin
Hunstenton
King's Lynn
Yarmouth
Cromer
Norwich
Norfolk
North Sea
Great Yarmouth
King Edward
Ameland
Cuxhaven
Distiller Ledowsky's Alleged Forged Receipts Taint Chicago Case
Charles E. Ledowsky president of Fox River Distilling faced an involuntary bankruptcy filing showing $20,000 assets against $300,000 liabilities. He allegedly forged warehouse receipts for whiskey valued at $250,000 to $300,000 and disposed of them through banks. He died by self inflice on a railroad track as the train arrived in Chicago.
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Chicago
Ill
Charles E. Ledowsky
Fox River Distilling Company
Ledowsky
Bombs Hitting King’s Lynn Homes Kill Boy in Night Attack
Police report two houses demolished by bombs dropped from a hostile aircraft in King’s Lynn. A 17 year old boy was killed. his father buried in rubble but rescued and hospitalised. A mother and baby were injured in another blast. five to seven bombs fell.
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King's Lynn
London
Bentine Street
German airships pass Ame land island in North Sea
Three German air ships moved over Ame land island in the North Sea at 2 30 this afternoon according to telegrams from Nois, reporting they were flying westward.
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Amsterdam
London
Ameland
North Sea
Nois
English Steamer Cheenbrier Stopped By British Requisitor
The state department seeks explanation from the British embassy for why the American steamer Cheenbrier sailing from New York to Bremen with cotton and under a British consul certificate was halted at a British port for two days. Washington asks why the Greenbrier was searched despite her certificate and why a neutral merchant vessel lowered its flag when not under a prize rule.
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Washington, D. C
State Department
New York
Bremen
Cutright Recalled as U S Consul Over War Remarks
Washington reports John L. Cutright American vice consul at Nottingham England was recalled by Secretary Bryan after a Nebraska letter published remarks on the war. He left Nottingham after learning the mayor said he was no longer acceptable.
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Washington, D. C
John L. Cutright
Nottingham
England
Bryan
Cutright
Nebraska
Nottingsham
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Sullivan
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