Fires by Spies Cause Multi-Million Losses Across Nation
A nationwide study shows enemy incendiaries and suspicions origin fires since April 1 have caused more than 50 million dollars in losses to munitions, grain, oil, timber, and marine properties. Eleven fires exceeded 1 million dollars with October Baltimore pier damage at 8.5 million. The five-year 1917 total around 276 million, well above prior years, with significant hits in Chicago grain elevators, Montana mines, Reading Pa auto plant, and Brooklyn piers.
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National Board of Fire Underwriters
Baltimore
San Francisco
America
Journal of Commerce
Tigatine
Chicago
Neerors
Montana
Reading
Shell and Shipbuilding
Gary
Ind
Brooklyn
Italy Forms War Council to Accelerate Victory
Premier Orlando leads a new war council including top ministers and two chiefs of staff to speed urgent executive measures. He vows no compromise with antiwar factions and cites food agreements with the United States and Argentina as proof of allied sustenance amid Austro German peace proposals viewed as dangerous.
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Orlando
War Council
Italy
Navy
Treasury
Army
Senate
House
Thos
Signor Crespi
United States
Argentine Republic
Tralians
Girl Heroism Medal After Powder Plant Explosion
Miss Gladys Herrington, twenty, earned the British Empire Medal for risking her life at a munition factory. She mixed dangerous powder alone from 9 PM to 6 AM, survived a severe explosion that burned her arms and face, and helped detect foreign substances in the powder while recovering in hospital.
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London
Gladys Herrington
Miss Herrington
Preacher’s Hens Are Good
The Rev C B Dennison of the Methodist Church comments on 1917 egg production from flocks in Janesville and North Dakota. He notes 24 hens produced 248 dozen eggs and 35 hens produced 895 dozen, while his own 16 hens laid 191 dozen, averaging 148 eggs per hen. He cites S C Rhode Island Reds as his flock stock.
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S. C. Rhode Island
Bear Meat On Market Lowers Living Costs In Rockingham
Carrison residents in Rockingham county Penn urg and nearby towns face high prices for beef veal and pork. Bear meat has entered markets at lower prices as hunters bag bears from the county mountains. A party delivered two bears weighing 500 and 250 pounds. hides valued at about 25 dollars each will be tanned into overcoats.
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Carrison
Rockingham County
Pennurg
Enits
London crime surge targets homes during air raids
The police describe a new theft method during air raids where bands raid empty homes while families seek shelter. Authorities warn residents to secure premises and report suspicious activity immediately.
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London
Supreme Court rules pedestrian need only one look
Olympia Ws state supreme court upholds a $250 judgment against jitney driver Oscar Peterson for striking John Redick. The ruling confirms liability despite Redick’s claim of contributory negligence in failing to see the vehicle while crossing, rejecting the driver’s argument that Redick did not exercise proper caution.
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Olympia
Wash
State Supreme Court
Oscar Peterson
John Redick
Redick
Khaki transforms artist Ted Shawn at Camp Kearny
Ted Shawn, famed choreographer and artist, dons khaki as he serves with the One Hundred Fifty-eighth Ambulance Company at Camp Kearny in California during military mobilization.
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Ted Shawn
United States
One Hundred and Fifty-eighth Ambulance Company
Camp Kearny
Se rena Knapp Marries Far Afar After 7000 Mile Journey
Miss Serena Knapp left Sunbury for Liberia and South Africa to wed Rev. Charles H. Brosious, a Lutheran minister who once lived in Sunbury. The couple met during his vacation visit to the town.
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Sunbury
Serena Knapp
Liberia
South Africa
Charles H. Brosious
Brosious
English pheasants released for New Jersey by warden
Cape May Court House, N J March 26 Game Warden Steel has released 75 mated pairs of English ringneck pheasants from the state hatchery at Forked River. He notes quail pheasants and other game wintered well thanks to farmer support. No dead birds reported.
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New Jersey
Cape May Court House
N. J
Steel
Forked River
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