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  • World War 1. Awards & honors. 1918-03-13
  • Northwest history; World War 1; awards; honors; United States Secretary of War Newton D. Baker; American Sergeant Walsh ;
  • Sergeant Walsh, one of the heroes of the German raid on the Toul sector, who later was awarded the cross of war with palm by Premier Clemenceau, has been selected as orderly to Secretary of War Baker. Walsh, who was 47, left the billet town where...
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  • World War. Financial affairs. 1918-03-13
  • Northwest history; World War 1; financial affairs; United States war department; United States district attorney Snowden Marshall; Major General Squier; Howard Wells of the Babcock & Wilcox ;
  • Announcement today by the war department of the appointment of a committee headed by Snowden Marshall, formerly United States district attorney at New York, to "make a survey of the government's aeronautical program with relation to industrial...
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  • World War. Relief. 1918-03-13
  • Northwest history; World War 1; war relief; humanitarian relief; American Red Cross. Pacific Division; Marshall Hale of California; Belgium; Belgian people; President Herbert Clark Hoover; French people; France ;
  • The American Red Cross will devote its organization for the week of March 18 to 25 in a nationwide campaign to secure a minimum quantity of 5000 tons of used and surplus clothing for the destitute of Belgium and occupied sections of northern...
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  • World War. Visitors. 1918-03-13
  • Northwest history; World War 1; visitors; Secretary of War Newton D. Baker; President Woodrow Wilson; General John J. Pershing; Paris, France; London, England, Great Britain ;
  • Secretary Baker's letter to President Wilson asking for permission to absent himself from his office long enough to make an inspection trip of the American expeditionary forces in France and a visit to London and Paris was made public here today,...
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  • World War 1. Labor relations. 1918-03-13
  • Northwest history; World War 1; labor relations; United States department of labor ;
  • Exaggerated reports of shortage of farm labor, the department of labor announced today, are hindering efforts of the government to place workers on the farms. Less talk about the shortage and more of the methods by which farmers can make known...
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  • World War. Miscellaneous. 1918-03-13
  • Northwest history; World War 1; inspections; Major General Peyton C. March; American soldiers ;
  • Major General March, acting chief of staff, plans to make a personal inspection of all troops in the United States in the near future. He said he expected to see all the men before they go over.
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  • World War. Miscellaneous. 1918-03-13
  • Northwest history; World War 1; Senator Robert M. La Follette of Wisconsin; Senator Atlee Pomerene of Ohio
  • Consideration of disloyalty charges against Senator La Follette of Wisconsin soon will be resumed by the senate privileges and elections committee, Chairman Pomerene said today.
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  • World War. Financial affairs. 1918-03-13
  • Northwest history; World War 1; financial affairs; Exchange Telegraph; Copenhagen ;
  • A new German war loan of 15,000,000,000 marks will be issued soon, an Exchange telegraph dispatch from Copenhagen says. The German war debt now amounts to 109,000,000,000 marks.
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  • World War. Financial affairs. 1918-03-13
  • Northwest history; World War 1; financial affairs ;
  • With its legislative riders authorizing sale of all enemy property in the United States and purchase by the government of the German-owned wharves at Hoboken, N. J., the urgent deficiency appropriation bill, carrying $1,800,000,000, was passed late...
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  • State history. World War. Army. Nurses & hospital units. 1918-03-13
  • Northwest history; World War 1; United States army; American soldiers; medical aid; physicians; doctors; nurses; hospitals; hospital units; Camp Lewis, Tacoma, Washington state; dentists; offices; buildings; construction; Mormons; Latter-Day...
  • With the completion of the new dental building on Oregon street, about April 1, army dentists will be quartered together with good equipment. The new building is but a part of the original plans for Camp Lewis.
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  • World War. Miscellaneous. 1918-03-13
  • Northwest history; World War 1; Norwegian-German relations; international trade; Norwegian-American relations; shipping; fish; fishing industry; neutral states; Scandinavia; Scandinavian nations; Northern Europe; Northern European nations ;
  • All contracts with Norway have been annulled by the German central purchasing company from March 16, according to a Bergen dispatch to the Tidens Tign of Christiania, as quoted in an Exchange Telegraph dispatch from Copenhagen. The reason for this...
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  • State history. World War. Army. Transportation (of Troops). 1918-03-13
  • Northwest history; World War 1; United States army; Army transportation; transportation of troops; Ortis Skaife of Colfax, Washington state; 346th field artillery regiment; France; letters; postcards ;
  • Ortis Skaife, son of Dr. R. J. Skaife, has arrived safely in France. A postcard was received today. Ortis is a member of the 346th field artillery, headquarters company.
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  • World War 1. Aviation and air raids. 1918-03-13
  • Northwest history; World War 1; aviation; air raids; Second Aerial Mechanic E. D. Talbot of Idaho; Major Lord Robert Innes-Ker; Lieutenant J. H. Mitchell; Toronto, Ontario; aviation training
  • Snow has no terrors for the Canadian aviators in the royal flying corps, 700 of whom have been making regular practice flights throughout the winter in the campus near Toronto, Ontario according to Second Aerial Mechanic E. D. Talbot, who was a...
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  • State history. Agriculture. Wheat. Crop control & allotments. 1918-03-13
  • Northwest history; Agriculture; Wheat; Crop control; Crop allotments; Planting; Acreage; Sown
  • Farmers are preparing to plant an unusually large wheat acreage this spring. It is estimated that the acreage sown to wheat will be three times that of any former year.
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  • World War. Loans. 1918-03-13
  • Northwest history; World War 1; loans; savings bonds; Berlin, Germany; Spain; Argentina; international issues; German supporters; Argentina
  • Spain has offered to lend to Argentina 500,000,000 pesetas, but the Argentine minister of finance said today that this offer probably would not be accepted because of "the difficulties attending the negotiations."
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  • State history. World War. Army. General. 1918-03-13
  • Northwest history; World War 1; United States army; general; Major General H. A. Greene of Camp Lewis, Tacoma, Washington state; u-boats; submarines; submarine warfare; British navy; Great Britain; British-American relations ;
  • Major General H. A. Greene, commander of Camp Lewis, Tacoma, and who recently returned from a visit to the battle front, in speaking at a dinner here tonight, declared that Admiral Jellicoe of the British navy told him that the U-boat problem would...
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  • World War. Miscellaneous. 1918-03-13
  • Northwest history; World War 1; Secretary of War Newton D. Baker; General Tasker H. Bliss; General William M. Black; Aviation; air raids ;
  • Secretary Baker was in conference with General Tasker H. Bliss, the American chief of staff, in a hotel suite when the air raid alarm was sounded, last night. Secretary Baker was not perturbed by the noise of the firemen's sirens or the barrage of...
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  • World War. 1918-03-13
  • Northwest history; World War 1; miscellaneous; uncategorized; Senator Henry Cabot Lodge of Massachusetts; Russia; Russian army ;
  • Belief that Russia would never be a factor in the war again and that the conflict would be won on the fields of northern France was expressed by United States Senator Henry Cabot Lodge before the Massachusetts senate today.
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  • World War. Railroads. 1918-03-13
  • Northwest history; World War 1; railroads; railways; transportation; United States. Congress. House. Interstate commerce committee; President Woodrow Wilson; presidential powers ;
  • The time within which the president may relinquish control of any railroad or transportation system would be extended from July 1 next to January 1, 1919, by a joint resolution introduced today by Chairman Sims of the house interstate commerce...
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  • World War. Miscellaneous. 1918-03-13
  • Northwest history; World War 1; A. C. Townley of Minnesota; Joseph Gilber of Minnesota; Martin county, Minnesota; censorship; military draft; United States Nonpartisan League; Fred A. Harding of Minneapolis, Minnesota; Senator Robert M. La Follette...
  • A. C. Townley, president of the national nonpartizan league, and Joseph Gilbert, manager, today were indicted by the Martin county grand jury on a charge of publishing and circulating seditious literature tending to discourage enlistments in the...
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