Naval and War Zone Movements Across Fronts Report
A sweeping World War I update lists sunk ships including British battleship Formidable and cruiser Bluecher, Allied retreats at Soissons and La Bassee, German advances in East Prussia and Galicia, Dardanelles bombardments, and naval blockades. It notes Lusitania, I-29, and multiple submarine actions near the British coast, plus Italian and Austrian maneuvers and air raids on Karlsruhe.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
English Channel
France
Soissons
Aisne
la Bassee
Bluecker
Lion
Irish Sea
Clan MacNaughton
Turkey
Sues Canal
Ismailia
Egypt
East Prussia
Johannisburg
Czernowitz
Bukovina
Evelyn
Poland
Przasnysz
Warsaw
Dardanelles
Dardanelles Strait
Constantinople
England
Germany
Prince Estel Friedrich
Newport News
W. P. Frye
Bayamo
Scotland
Dresden
Falkland Islands
San Juan Fernandez Island
Chile
Great Britain
Irresistible
Ocean
Bouvet
Darcanelles
Przemysi
I’rzemysi
Galicia
Lord Nelwon
London
Les Eparges
Meuse
Hartmannsweilerkopf
Vosges Mountains
Ypres
Leon Gambetta
Strait of Otranto
Belgium
Nieuport
Dunkirk
French
Cunard
New York
Liverpool
Port Arthur
Tex
Scilly Islands
Kinsale
Munster
Ireland
Italy
Jaroslav
San River
Carpathian Mountains
Austria-Hungary
Triumph
Majestic
Weddigen
Lemberg
Halicz
Dniester
Admiralty
United States
Russia
Grand Duke
Nicholas
Caucasus
Czar Nicholas
Baden
Rhenish
Prussia
Lorraine
Vilna
Balkans
Bulgaria
Verdun
Souchez
Champagne
Greece
Servia
Austria
Saloniki
Venizelos
Constantine
Alexander Zaimis
von Mackensen
K. Bulgaria
Delcasse
Nish
Belgrade
Buleari
Prinz Adalbert
Trieste
Venice
Aristide Briand
Servisterman
Hraguievatz
War inflation ends with postwar trade shift warns official
Secretary Redfield warns in a memo that war era inflation and booming commerce will fade after the war. He says the United States must grow exports prudently, avoid overreliance on wartime gains, and prepare for a normal peace economy with strong finance and global trade leadership.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Redfield
Wilson
United States
Oddities and incidents collage from across states
A collection of brief curiosities and mishaps including a snowball fire drill in Stevens Point, a sixty year old man winning a bride in Princeton, strange wildlife notes in Connecticut, a fatal fall in Minneapolis, a paroled inmate seeking a new cork leg in Kansas, a deaf man signaling a warning in Brooklyn, and a Missouri man searching for his wife in Kansas City.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas
Engineers Find Source of Roosevelt's River of Doubt
Berkeley engineers George and Stephen Gester of Standard Oil, after an expedition into the Cordillera Geral, report reaching the headwaters of the River of Doubt high in the Andes. They crossed at 17,500 feet, found glaciers at 12,000, and say the 900 mile river rises near Bolivia and flows into the Madeira. They faced fever country, insects, and large serpents in dense forests.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rio Dubina
Theodore Roosevelt
South America
George and
Stephen Gester
Berkeley
Cal
Standard OW Company
Cordillera Geral
Andes
Jima
Peru
Mr. Roosevelt
Baron Astor of Hever to take baronial title
William Waldorf Astor will be raised to the peerage as Baron Astor of Hever Castle in Kent. Admiral Lord Charles Beresford may become Baron Beresford of Metemmeh and Curraghmore, linking to historic Tudor palace and Beresford family seats.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Waldorf Astor
George
Baron Astor
Hever Castle
Charles Beresford
Baron Beresford
Metemmeb
Curraghmore
Lever Castle
Kent
Anne Boleyn
Henry VIII
England
Metemmeh
Lord Beresford
Egypt
Marquis of Waterford
Beresford
Nationwide Baby Week Aims to Cut High Infant Death Toll
The Children's Bureau announces plans for a national baby week in March adopted by over 4 percent of communities. The campaign seeks public awareness and better infant care to reduce 300000 yearly infant deaths. Organizations like the General Federation of Women’s Clubs back the effort with university extensions offering rural support. A practical booklet will be distributed free of charge.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Children’s Bureau
Department of Labor
General Federation of Women's Clubs
Girl's Ankles Save Two From Drowning at Van Cortlandt Park
Miss Rose Krauss eighteen of New York rescued two Yonkers boys from drowning after they fell through ice on a pond near the Swamp at Van Cortlandt Park. Clarence twelve and John ten clung to the ice as the girl reached them by lowering herself over a bridge railing to pull them to safety.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rose Krauss
New York
van Cortlandt Park
Clarence Carpenter
John
Yonkers
Clarence
Miss Krauss
British Aviator Evans Returns Facing Death In War
Lieutenant W. K. Evans of the British army flying squadron returns from Chicago to rejoin his unit in France. He spent two months there recovering from injuries suffered over Flanders while his observer was killed when his shell burst. He says he does not expect to come out of the war alive.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Evans
Alsive
W. K. Evans
British Army
Chicago
France
Flanders
Wounded Veterans Share Light Moments From War Fronts
Letters from the front recount humor and humanity amid hardship. Soldiers describe Archibald the arm scene, dinners with wounded friends, and a nursemaid’s gift of resilience. An Australian trooper near London pursues a Dundee romance, while a colonel steadies a brave soldier’s nerve and duty.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
King’s Cross
London
Gallipoli
Scotland
Dundee
Miss of Thundee
Australia
Tight Shoes Cause Fatal Wound For Visitor
Sedgwick W. Vogan of Chicago died after wearing two pair of tight shoes at the Panama-Pacific Exposition in San Francisco. A blister formed and gangrene followed, leading to his death per coroner’s jury verdict.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Weaver
Sedgwick W. Vogan
Chicago
Vogan
San Francisco
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Przemysl
Montfalcone
Bembe
Karlsruhe
Ger
Radom
Giuseppe Garibaldi
Adriatic
L’oland
Baltic Sea
Gulf of Riga
Barbarossa
Sea of Marmora
Royal Edward
Aegean Sea
Cape Clear
Novo Georgievsk
Ven Hbeseler
Brest-Litovsk
Ancona
Mediterranean
Riza
Verona
Teutons
Mitrevitza
Kossove
Servie
Goritz
Frisrend
Bagdad
Mesopotamia
Monastir
Salonikis
Stevens Point
Wis
Princeton
Ind
Connecticut
Wan
Minneapolis
Brooklyn
Springfield
Kansas City
Roosevelt
Baron Astor OF
Hever
Ohs
Archibald
Hinmer
Inseryood
Belgrave Square
Piccadilly
Stefan Dettre
Dr. Dettre
Eitebens
Sandbag
Brown
Ake
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