War yearns and disasters wrap world weekly report
British casualties for week ending Jan 7 total 15 995 with ships sunk include British Twenty seven, Italian two and French one. German and French fronts see artillery and patrol actions across Piave. Hospital ship Rewa torpedoed near Bristol Channel. Tokyo/Stockholm reports and Bolsheviks fight in Russia. Senate backs suffrage, rail wages rise, and McAdoo boom. many war news items across Europe, Asia, Africa.
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Union News
Ersten
Lise
Piave
Rewa
Bristol Channel
Gibraltar
Mtalian
Ypres
Asia
Harry Luckenbach
New York
London War Office
Brest Litovsk
Holcheviks
Stockholm
Switzerland
Bulgaria
Russia
Turkey
Bolsheviks
Kaledines
Dutot
Mining and Oil News 1917 Production in Western States
Washington reports Utah leading silver output in 1917 with 14,315,300 ounces while California tops gold production at 1,006,969 ounces valued at 84.45 million dollars. Arizona advances copper with new works planned. Montana and Intermountain fields seen expanding with prospecting in Wyoming, Montana, Colorado and South Dakota. Output in Leadville Cripple Creek districts rises as cold weather eases labor, with Red Mountain near Ouray doubling shipments in 1917.
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U. 8
Washington
Utah
California
Bureau of the Mint
Geological Survey
Montana
F. J. S. Sur
Wyoming
Colorado
South Dakota
Dr. Foirween
ABS Associates
Aspen
Hazelton Mountain
Silverton
Leadville
Cripple Creek
Red Mountain
Ouray
Important crops for human food supply overview
The report ranks corn, sweet potatoes, Irish potatoes, rye, wheat, rice, soybeans, peanuts, oats, navy beans, cowpeas and buckwheat by their nutritional value and adaptability. It urges expanding cornmeal use, storage for sweet potatoes, and wider production of soybeans and peanuts to bolster food security and livestock feeds nationwide.
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United States Department of Agriculture
Y N
Michigan
Gulf Coast
Department of Agriculture
Mary
Virginia
Florida
Coastal-Plain
Texax
South
Large bonuses boost Bisbee miners and Arizona workers
The Warren district undertermining companies paid substantial bonuses to employees in Douglas and surrounding areas. Copper Queen and Phelps Dodge distributed tens of thousands to thousands of workers, with some receiving multiple checks. Company heads hinted at a permanent plan to reward continuous service, while other regional events included fires, tax updates, and public notices across Arizona.
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Siam
Supreme Court
Ellis H. Roberts
United States
Utica
Indiana Public Service Commission
Whiteland Telephone Company
Tucson
Arizona
Catalina Mountains
Joseph M. Shaffer
William G. McAdoo
Secretary of the Treasury
Railroads
Shaffer
Oberee
Bisbee
Warren
Douglas
Copper Queen
Phelps Dodee Corporation
Douglas Calumet
Arizona Company
Shattuck-Arizona
Dean-Arizona
G H Dowell
New Mining Developments Reported in New Mexico
The Deming Oil Gas and Development Company formed with a 1 million dollar capitalization. Materials arrive at Mogolon for Socorro Mining and Milling Company plant as mill and mine construction advances. Oaks Company at Mogolon works its new central shaft to link with Maud S lower workings. ore will be mined via this shaft. Santa Fe Gold Dredging Company installs a 200 thousand dollar dredge at Golden placer fields, while a 200 thousand dollar coal field shows strong production and Gallup mines yield around thousands daily.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Mexico
Deming Oil, Gas and Development Company
Mogolion
Socorro
Santa Fe Gold Dredging Company
Golden
Gallup
Best Medicine for Women Promoted by Testimony
Portsmouth Ohio letters praise Lydia E Pinkham’s Medicine Co as a remedy for women’s ailments. The ad features Mrs Sara Law of Portsmouth and Mrs Shaw endorsing health improvements after using the product. Also notes on catarrhal deafness and Halls Catarrh Medicine with free circulars. Includes miscellaneous ads and a note on Mrs Laura Berryhill’s divorce collection in Chattanooga Tennessee.
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Portemouth
Ohio
Sara Law
R. No. 1
Portsmouth
Lydis
Pinkham
Medicine Co
Lynn
Mass
Halls Catarre Mepicine
Cheney & Co
Toledo
Laura Berryhill
Chattanooga, Tenn
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Andrew Jackson
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Worth Bagley Daniels
Secretary of Navy
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Overman
North Carolina
Kenyon
Senate
John Lind
Minnesota
House of Representatives
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Chamber of Deputies
France
Santiago
Chile
Mercurio
Petrograd
Enrique Granados
London
Catholic General Hospital
Waterstreel
Ottawa
Ont
Putite
Paris
Sch
Germany
Grmany
Julen Siegfried
Aye D. Mack
Mediterranean Sea
Admiralty
Earl Reading
Rusela
Haig
Belgium
Enaum
Milwaukee
Wis
Joe Kagan
Boston
Bryan Downey
Columbus
Convention Hall
Kansas City
Fred Fulton
Rochester
Mina
Harry
Texas) Tate
Novaia
Okla
Joplin
Roy Wood
Cleveland Americans
Brough
Arkansas
Owen Moran
San Francisco
Australia
Herd
Owen Mor
Mining and Oil News
St. Louis
Calumet & Arizona
Campbell
Ray
Ray Consolidated
South London
Fair Blay
Arizona State News
Arizona News
B.A. Taylor
Johnson
Phoenix
L. M Brows
Gleeson
Pima
Elks Lodge
Prescott
Thomas D. Shaughnessy
Arizona State Pair Commission
Tejon
Hertha McGowan
Tonto Basin
Payson
Charles FE. Hardy
L. B. Angine
Miami
N. B. Shirk
James Davis
United States Circuit Court
Red Cross
San Carlos
Linda Vista
Cal
E. H. Pearson
A. R. Cleaveland
A. W. Peay
Glendale
District No. 1
H. J. Allen
Thomas E. Campbell
Oakland
Interme
Mescal
Benson
Maria Herrera
Anastacio Ryan
Jerome
Victor Vasques
B. A. Fowler
C. R. Green
Salt River Valley
Lydia E. Pinkham
God
John Ruskin
Kaiser
von Hindenburg
von Ludendorff
Caticura
Dept. X
Cecil Dean
Eiacok
Ernest Wiethoelter
Madison St
St. Charles
Smlsunn CO
Buffalo
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