Brilliant French victory in Lorraine front advance
Paris reports a French assault across a long front in Lorraine near the Franco German border south of Chateau Sirens resulting in 400 plus prisoners and heavy German losses. American and Entente air fighting continues with 20 German machines brought down. raid activity and artillery bombardment persist on multiple fronts.
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Entente
Germany
Paris
War Office
Germans Fight for "Outraged Liberty" Amid War Dispatches
London reports an intercepted German wireless message, via Petrograd, quoting Prince Leopold of Bavaria denouncing moral infection from Russia and calling to defend outraged liberty. It notes air activity over the front, plans to keep American pilots out of quotations, and the aim to wrest air control by overwhelming force. New Zealanders raid east of Polygon Wood and take a few prisoners, with enemy artillery active near Flesquieres.
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Reuter
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Leopold of
Bavaria
Russia
Trotzky
Germany
New Zealand
Polygon Wood
Flanders Front
War Office
Flesquieres
Berlin
Revo
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Pinsk
von Linsingen
Pskof
Hapsal
Hathonia
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Ruslan
Niyala ‘Viedomsty
Molodezhno
Minsk
Pravda
Cms
Preas
Vitebsk
Pskom
Reval
Regisa
Red Guards
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Lenine
Krslenko
Drinsk
Plan to Conserve Coal in Advance for Next Winter
A Kansas City meeting of state and local fuel administrators, rail executives, and mine operators led by HN Taylor explores a central west coal conservation plan. The aim is summer coal stocking to free rail cars for war transport and prevent heatless and lightless days next winter, with focus on distribution and quality.
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Central West
HN. Taylor
Emerson Carey
Kansas
Wallace Crossley
Missouri
John L. Kennedy
Nebraska
Charles Webster
Iowa
H.C. Couch
Arkansas
J. W. Hinton
Oklahoma
Not Guilty Verdict In Dr. Longshore Trial
A district court jury returned a not guilty verdict for Dr. Anna Longshore after a trial on charges she caused the death of Minnie Ballard of Tripoli through an illegal operation. If found guilty she faced 10 years to life in prison.
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Anna Longshore
Minnie Ballard
Tripoli
Longshore
Dr. Longshore
Revised Overman Bill Approved by Senate BOD
Washington to report next Monday on a compromise war reorganization bill. The Senate judiciary subcommittee approved amended draft 8 to 2, aiming to extend Wilson era authority to coordinate agencies and abolish legislative restraints on consolidation in the executive branch.
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Washington, D. C
Wilson
Senate Judiciary
Gverman
North Carolina
Fletcher
Florida
Nelson
Minnesota
Reed
Missouri
Dillingham
Vérmont
Plan Embargo on Coal for Dakotas
Washington Feb federal fuel administration prepares to embargo lake shipments of bituminous coal to North and South Dakota except for public utility needs. Springfield Feb 21 Chicken Joe Campbell, a Negro sentenced to death for the murder of Mrs Qolette B Allen, wife of former Warden Edmund M Allen of Joliet Penitentiary, was declared by Supreme Court. Execution fixed for April 12.
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Washington, D. C
Federal Fuel Administration
North
South Dakota
Springfield. I
Chicken Joe” Campbell
Qolette B. Alen
Edmund M. Allen
Joliet Penitentiary
Supreme Court
Explosion at Farley and Loetscher Plant Injures, Hurts Two
In Dubuque Iowa three men were seriously injured and two are missing after a blast in the engine room of Farley and Loetscher Manufacturing. The wall blew out as a fire fed on sawdust conveyors, causing extensive damage to the plant. A similar fatal explosion occurred there months earlier.
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Dubuque
Farley & Loetscher
Shoemaker Named as New Secretary
H. B. Shoemaker has been appointed secretary of the Waterloo Retail Merchants' association to succeed Fred Fenton, who resigned. He came from Tripoli after working in the telephone business about a year ago and now lives at 2123 Fourth street west. He is the brother of George E. Shoemaker, secretary of the Waterloo waterworks.
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H. B. Shoemaker
Waterloo Retail Merchants’ Association
Fred Fenton
Mr. Shoemaker
Tripoli
Fourth Street West
George E. Shoemaker
Waterloo Waterworks
Indicted in New York on Army Clothing Fraud
A federal grand jury indicted 13 men including a quartermaster clerk in New York on charges of fraud tied to a nationwide plot to steal army cloth. Investigators say loot could total about 5 million dollars, with raids and further probes expected in other cities. The list of defendants includes Horwitz and Moskow, Pursch and Levine, and Robinson and Alewitz. several are charged with perjury or destruction of receipts.
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New York
Federal Grand Jury
Quartermaster’s Department of the Army
Federal District Attorney's Office
Louis Davidson
Universal Cloth
George D. Barnitz
New York Police Force
Frank M. Roosa
United States
Barnitz
Davidson
Hrman Horwitz
Benjamin
Horwitz & Moskow
Barnet Tietz
B. Tietz & Co
Jacob Weinstein
Abraham Pursch
Leon Levine
Chicago Saloons Face Army Decree Closures
Chicago may see saloons near military posts shuttered under a federal wartime order. Officials debate whether lakefront naval camp, Army club, Navy clubs, and naval training ship count as military posts. If labeled posts, hundreds of saloons could close for the war’s duration or until posts move.
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Chicapa
Pourly & Y Satoon
Marrlet
Sust Whee
Washington
Bolt
Lake Front
Army Headquarters
Michi-gan Avenue
Naval Intelligence Bureau
Federal
Army Club
Navy Club
Senate Expected Top AGS Railway Bill by Tonight
Washington dispatch notes Congress works on wartime federal rail control bill. Senate debate opens with Senator Lewis predicting the measure as a step toward permanent government control influencing the 1920 campaign. House debate by Representative Esch opposes the bill as drafted. Amendments seek lower compensation rates, a definite control period after peace, and who fixes rail rates.
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Washington, D. C
House
Congress
Senate
Lewis
Tlinois
Esch
Wisconsin
Interstate Commerce Commission
Liberty Bonds Rally on Rumor of Higher Interest
Liberty bonds surged in early trading as the second 4s rose 1.10 percent and the first 4s gained .64 percent, placing both at 97.20. Reports circulated that the next liberty loan could be at 41 2 percent with convertibility of existing issues, cited as the rally’s cause.
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New York
15 British Ships Week U Boat Toll Presses Chicago Flour Shortage
German mines or submarines in the past week destroyed 15 British merchantmen, including 12 over 1,600 tons, a week drop from prior totals. Chicago considers flour shortage relief at a millers and distributors meeting led by Harry A Wheeler. Plans seek commandeering of four ships here for equitable food distribution. The milling division requests BR H Aishton arrange railcars to bring about 16060 barrels of flour from the northwest.
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Chicago
Harry A. Wheeler
Illinois
Wheeler
Food Administration
The
BR. H. Aishton
Western
Railroads
Northwest
Housewives May Bake in Own Way
Washington February 21 The food administration clarified that housewives may use wheat flour substitutes in any manner. Some grocers wrongly required 50 percent other cereals in home bread. Households must buy substitute cereals with each pound of wheat flour but may use substitutes freely. Women are urged to bake a Victory bread containing 20 percent or more wheat flour substitutes.
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Washington, T. C
Fond Administration
The
Food Administration
Germans Arrive to Fight in Finland
Four German ships reached Vasa in the Gulf of Bothnia carrying Finnish soldiers who had served with Germany and a large number of German volunteers. The ships carried guns, machine guns, rifles, and munitions as reports say a strong offensive will be launched against Tammerstors and Wiborg.
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Haparanda
Sweden
Vasa
Gulf of Bothnia
Germany
Tammerstors
Wiborg
Peace Talk a Full of Peril Declares Root
Chicago, Feb 21 A letter read at a congress of national service warned Americans to stay focused on winning the war and avoid peace talk. Ehu Konot of the National Security League urged loyalty, noting Bolshevik Russia’s stance at Brest Litovsk and stressing moral support for wartime effort. Leaders including Lowden Menken and Taft spoke as the three day Medinah temple gathering opened. The address by Frank O. Lowden, Menken, and Taft urged civic vigilance and national unity.
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Chicago
Congress of National Service Today
Ehu Konot
National Security League
Medinah
HL. H. Merrick
Frank O. Lowden
Ilinois
Stanwood Menken
William Howard Taft
United States
Russia
Hoot
Brest Litovsk
Germany
Baltic
Congress
Menken i
America
Famed French Airmen Escape Enemy Prison
Amatertum Feb 21. Lieut Roland Garros and Lieut Antoine Marchal, two renowned French aviators, escaped from a German prison and reached Holland yesterday. Marchal reportedly flew from Wrench soll to Bertin in 1916, then toward the Russian lines before engine trouble forced a Poland descent. he was captured by Austrians after a long 800 mile ordeal. Garros, a prewar air ace with multiple world records, was captured in spring 1915 after shooting down several German planes.
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Amatertum
Roland G. Garros
Antoine Marchal
Berlin
Holland
Lex Nouvelles
Manateleht
Lieut
Marchal
Wrench Soll
Bertin
Ifo
Poland
Theut. Garros
Geerman
Railway Chief Signs Agreement With Labor Men
Washington D C Feb 21 An accord between Director General McAdoo and A O Wharton head of the railway employees department of the AFL aims to speed locomotive and rolling stock repairs by lengthening hours promoting apprentices and maintaining open shop. It affects more than 300000 workers and may raise hours to seven days in shops now under 70 hours weekly with possible 10 or 11 hour shifts with overtime where congestion is severe. Local hours to be set by railroad executives with unions. promotions from apprentices and helpers to mechanics are allowed at current wage rates, with limits on promoted helpers to 20 percent of mechanics per shop and promotions linked to war emergency.
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Washington, D. C
McAdoo
A. O. Wharton
American Federation of Labor
Washington
New York
Chicago
St. Louis
Southerm
Railroad Administration
A. H. Smith
East
New York Central
Pennsylvania
Baltmore & Ohio
Russians Collapse After Dvinsk Loss and German Advance
German forces seize Dvinsk and advance toward Pskof as rail hubs and highways fall under occupation. Reports say trains filled with food and war materiel, plus aircraft, were captured. Civilian flight blocked, and demoralized Russian units largely demobilize. Premier Lenin initially opposes peace terms but accepts them to enable reconstruction.
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