Plan for War Dirigible With Seven Crew and Explosives
Complete plans for a home built war dirigible designed by Capt Thomas Baldwin with a 137 foot length and 19 foot diameter will carry seven men and over half a ton of explosives. It features wireless gear and a non rigid envelope resembling Parseval but with Zodiac type car and center gravity load. Navy tests possible. experts say U S would buy abroad.
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Europe
Washington Post
New York
Thomas 8
Baldwin
Washington
Smithsonian Institution
Besuta
Navy Department
Ldniteil
Armenians Rise Against Turks Across Front Fronts
A Tillasas dispatch reports Armenian volunteers clashing with Turkish garrisons near Van and along the eastern frontier. Turkish forces reportedly suffer losses as Kurdish troops, Persians placards, and Belgian officials are mentioned in related dispatches. American minister Caldwell notes arrests of Austrian cotsuls and Turkish officials in Teheran, treated as local diplomatic actions.
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Qmirrna
Tetrograd Nev
Sever
Turkey
Burial of Virginia Giantess in Virginia County
Mary Blakey widely known as the giantess of Pasa county was buried yesterday in Mapikayilla near Lucas. The 30 year old woman weighed about as much as eight men and her coffin measured about 60 feet long. Work crews reportedly moved her body from the dwelling to a waiting casket in the yard.
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Washington Post
Jauras
Mary Blakey
Giantesa
Pasa County
Mapikayilla
Lucas
Battles, Looting, and Submarine Hunt Described Across Front Lines
Reports from war zones describe German looting in Suwalki and nearby villages with houses burned, furniture seized, and provisions requisitioned while German officers and civilians clear homes. A British fleet hunt off Scotland sinks a German submarine after days of vigilant watch and pursuit. Crude war drawings in France reveal a coded system by German scouts using cow depictions to signal fort strength and troop directions.
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Suwatki
Suwalki
Prussia
Mindenberg
Prussla
Cade
Washington Post
Edinburgh
Scotland
Paris
Onne
Somme
Desolate Hebrew Settlements Amid War-Torn Lands near Ossovetz
A correspondent reports armies of Russian and German forces ravaging the Ossovetz region and Joruskienski watering place, leaving Hebrew villages bare of crops for miles. Trenches and wreckage scar the land as families lose food, with Kovno swelling to 60,000 residents, many Jews, including old and young, while Russians restrict emigration east and north of Vilna and WarSaw.
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London
Navy
Ossovetz
Joruskienski
Aelés
Kovno
Vilna
War
Cattle Plague Rift Sparks No Price Rise Claim
Packers say shortages will not raise dressed meat prices as disinfection of Chicago stockyards proceeds rapidly and wholesale demand climbs. Retailers push higher quotes to stay in step, while Ohio officials begin hoof and mouth eradication. Four hundred cattle killed near Galesburg as disease spreads.
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Chicago
Union
Menard
Mercer
Logan
Morgan
Galesburg
Bureau of Animal Industry
Haat St. Louis
Ohio
Toledo
A. P. Bandles
State Agricultural Department
J. R Mohler
United States Bureau of Animal Husbandry
Servian Crown Prince Wounded Leading Troops
A London report states the Crown Prince of Servia aged 26 was dangerously wounded while leading troops against Austrian forces. He became heir after his older brother Prince George, renouncing succession in 1909, faced prior violence allegations including a servant's death and suspected homicidal mania.
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Servia
London
Prince George
District Adjutant General Forms Militia Aiding Young Men
The Adjutant General of the District National Guard forms a board to devise attractive militia instruction for young men with social events and indoor rifle drills. Regulations specify preliminary rifle instruction, gallery practice, and safety tests before firing in the gallery.
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A. L. Parmerier
District National Guard
Field Artillery and Signal Corps
War Department
Parmetter Beloves
Parmerter
Three Men Behind the Gune War View Praised by Reader
A letter to the Public Forum Editor from J F P Walker, a retired U S Army captain, urges readers to study Charles K Teffers on Three Men Behind the Gun, arguing against war as horrible and unnecessary. He recounts his West Point stance and supports Jefferson’s conciliatory ideas with a proposed branch to arrest armaments worldwide.
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American Association For International Conciliation
Charles K. Tefferson
D. C
West 117Th Street
New York City
Jefferson
West Point
United States Military Academy
John W. French
Sherman
Mr Jefferson
J. F P. Walker
United States Army
Merry at the Expense of a German Ex Spy
A reader from Lynchburg VA argues there is no Suez Canal lock and describes why a German spy tale about impending canal action is implausible. He contends ships cannot operate in sand, trenches cannot be dug, and Turkish forces would face naval gunfire, with any alleged sabotage quickly repaired by dredging.
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Suez Canal
A. G. Allen
Hay's Hair Health Restores Natural Hair Color
Local druggists report remarkable results from Hay's Hair Health which claims to restore gray hair to its original color without dye. It supposedly works by natural means affecting oxygen in the air, with People's Pharmacy selling 25c to $1 bottles and offering refunds if buyers are not fully pleased.
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Basloagin Pa Petrograd
Suwalki
Niemen
Hay
Harmesa
Philo Hay Specialties Company
Newark
N. J
Fishermen Rescued Off Atlantic City by Steamer Ran
The steamer Ran, arriving from Philadelphia, rescued two Arctic Fishing Company fishermen 15 miles offshore Atlantic City after their boat lost its motor. They were drifting eastward when picked up yesterday and brought to port today.
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Atlantic City
New York
Philadelphia
Arctic Fishing Company
Ran
Oakdale Church Cornerstone Laid in Oakdale Maryland
The cornerstone of Emory Methodist Episcopal Church at Oakdale was laid this afternoon in Rockville Maryland with the Rockville lodge of Masons in charge. Joseph Reading served as master of ceremonies. Senator Blair Lee the Rev. Forrest J. Prettyman and the Rev. William T. Gover spoke.
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Rockville
Emory Methodist Episcopal Church
Oakdale
Austrians Retreat Deepens on Wartime Front
Russian forces press German positions along the Warthe while Austrians withdraw across San and Carpathians. After weeks of heavy action from Cracow to Vistula front, sizable Austrian losses and prisoner captures are reported as Russian troops advance, pursuing retreating enemy columns toward Dukla Pass and Warsaw.
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Czenstochows
Russian Poland
Warta
Andrejew
Mechow
Merzava
Galieia
Jaroslau
Przeworak
Harl
Sieradz
Warthe
Russian
Poland
Kalsa
Cracow
Staf
San
Prazemysl
San Anthi
Dukla
Carpathians
Praemyal
San Ia
Warsaw
Ivangorod
Kozlenica
Przemsy
Czernowitz
Transit of Mercury Observed in Boston under Clear Sky
The transit of Mercury was observed today in Boston under excellent conditions with clear air. The planet appeared distinctly through telescope views until it passed across the sun's disk, with two large sun spots also seen.
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Boston
Soya
Digestive Secrets The Body’s Juices Fuel Healthy Eating
A compact admonition on digestion and health asserts that the key to wellbeing lies in how the body supplies digestive juices to separate useful nutrients from waste. It emphasizes moderation and the body's natural processes as the core of proper eating.
The Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets Advertisement Script
An advertisement extols Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets as aiding digestion and supporting stomach health. It claims the tablets digest 3000 times their weight, build digestive juices and blood, ease irritation, and cure raw linings with natural action. Free samples are offered by mail from Stuart Co. Marshall Michigan.
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F Stuart Co
Stuart Bldg
Marshall
Mich
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