Anarchists Target Root Mission Train in Russia
Eyewitness account by Mrs. Mason recounts two failed attempts to wreck the Root Commission train near Viatka, Russia, including a bridge fire and a warehouse blaze. Russian soldiers and civilians react with hostility toward American capitalists as trains are diverted, delays mount, and German prisoners mingle with locals amid growing anarchic violence.
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Livegory Mason
New York
Japan
Russia
Root Commission
Tcheptsa
Mr. Root
Petrograd
Viatka
Charles Howard Russell
Stanley Washburn
Washburn
Basil Miles
Czar's
Winter Palace
General Scott
Colonel Mott
Senator Root
Siberia
Wil- 4 Judi
Hive
Vladivostok
Harbin
Korea
Chita
UV. S
Manchuria
Marooned on Isle Survivors Rescued After Sea Loss
Three women and eight children, last of a Mexican party led by Captain Ramon de Arnaud, were rescued from a remote island after enduring starvation and scurvy. De Arnaud died at sea. others perished. Survivors subsisted on seabirds until rescue. a wartime ship crew raised 200 dollars for relief as they were landed at a Mexican port.
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Ramon de Arnaud
de Arnaud
Crippled Girl Earns Diploma Through Determination
Margaret Collins of the Plum Creek district Kansas defies odds after a fall left her unable to attend school for over a year. Teacher Fred Brayer housed with the family and supported her studies as she passed all exams, earned a county diploma, and plans further education.
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Margaret Collins
Plum Creek
Kansas
Margaret
Fred Brayer
Ambulance Driver Seeks Fight Role in War
Edward Howard McCrahon from Brooklyn, 24, after serving as an ambulance driver with the American Red Cross on the French front since May, hopes for an officer’s commission at Plattsburg. He recounts torpedo and shell exposures, gas attacks, a near-death illness, and the perilous ground war around St. Quentin. He praises French officers and recalls the need for fighting units.
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Plattsburg
Edward Howard McCrahon
Brooklyn
American Red Cross
America
Young McCrahon
McCrahon
Acme Die Casting Corporation
Bordeaux
Paris
McCrabon
Witzsel
Miss Levy
St. Quentin
College Girl Heads Sheep in Practical Philosophy Test
Theresa Tromp a University of Washington senior from Lynden plans a summer of field work to test her philosophy. She worked briefly as an attendant at the Medical Lake insane hospital and will soon herd sheep near North Yakima. She aims to gain diverse experiences to test classroom theories.
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Spokane
Wash
Theresa Tromp
University of Washington
Lynden, Wash
Miss Trump
Medical Lake
North Yakima
Miss Trom
Returning Russians Deceived by Sand in Supposed Literature Shipment
In Yokohama nineteen boxes from the United States to Russia were found to contain sand instead of socialist literature. Russians claimed American police replaced the pamphlets during travel, intending to enlighten citizens at home. A steady flow of Russian workers returns to their fatherland, moved in batches to Harbin for Russian authorities.
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Yokohama
United States
Russia
Pamphets
Japan
Harbin
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Nicholas II
Charles Edward Russell
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Isle
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Lucile Patterson
National League of Woman's Service
Fifth Avenue
Forty-second Street
Joan of Arc
Venizelos
Greeknuig
Greece
Eleutherious
Constantine
Sarrail
Salonica
Macedonia
Erie
Falo
Buffalo
Cleveland
Burraro
Cleveland - S
Bufralo
Cedar Point
Put-in-Bay
Toledo
Detroit
C. & B. Line
The
Buffalo ‘Transit Company
Cleveland, Ohio
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