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  • World War. 1917-05-12
  • Northwest history; World War 1; miscellaneous; uncategorized; United States army; American soldiers; Mexico; Mexican-American relations; Ambassador Henry P. Fletcher of United States; military draft; immigrants; immigration; Mexican laborers;...
  • The American ambassador, Henry P. Fletcher, has notified the foreign office that there is no intention on the part of the American government to draft Mexican laborers in the United States into military service.
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  • World War. 1918-02-08
  • Northwest history; World War 1; miscellaneous; uncategorized; German u-boats; submarines; Ireland; Irish Sea; Liverpool, Great Britain ;
  • The number of German submarines working at one time at commerce destroying in the prohibited zone had until recently been surprisingly small, according to reliable information received by a correspondent of the Associated Press recently returned to...
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  • World War. 1921-07-19
  • Northwest history; World War 1; miscellaneous; uncategorized; United States army; higher education; universities; colleges; University of Washington; awards; honors; University of California; Oregon Agricultural college ;
  • Thirty-four educational institutions in the United States were named by the war department today as the "distinguished college and honor military schools, respectively, for the year 1921."
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  • World War. 1918-01-19
  • Northwest history; World War 1; miscellaneous; uncategorized; illness; diseases; shipping; horses; mules; deaths; losses; influenza; United States army ;
  • "Shipping fever" and its complications, for which no satisfactory prevention has been found, has caused the loss of 4777 horses and mules in the army remount service. An announcement today said the loss amounted to $835,975. Steps have been taken...
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  • World War. 1918-05-25
  • Northwest history; World War 1; miscellaneous; uncategorized; Germany; German army; offensives; France; French army; Prime Minister David Lloyd George of Great Britain; British army; battles; United States army; American soldiers ;
  • Renewal of the German drive in France, indicated by Premier Lloyd George today to be imminent, finds American military opinion here absolutely confident of the outcome. There is not a doubt in the minds of high officers familiar with the situation...
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  • World War. 1918-02-12
  • Northwest history; World War 1; miscellaneous; uncategorized; Senator Robert L. Owen of Oklahoma; Senator Knute Nelson of Minnesota; legislation; President Woodrow Wilson; presidential power; delegation of powers ;
  • Prompt action on the bill authorizing the president to reorganize and coordinate executive departments and other agencies for the war period was urged by President Wilson in conference tonight with Senator Owen, chairman, and Senator Nelson,...
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  • World War. 1919-01-26
  • Northwest history; World War 1; miscellaneous; uncategorized; Brigadier General Samuel T. Ansell; Army Judge Advocate General corps; Chicago, Illinois; courts; United States army; post-war ;
  • Brigadier General Samuel T. Ansell, acting judge advocate general of the army, in an address before the Chicago Bar association today said the present system of military justice, in his opinion, is "in many respects patently defective and in need...
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  • World War. 1919-10-17
  • Northwest history; World War 1; miscellaneous; uncategorized; post-war; France; Germany; German public; German people; mobs; French army; riots ;
  • During a demonstration at Kaiserslautern in the Sarre region yesterday, a French official commanding a detachment of men was seriously wounded, according to a dispatch from Zurish to the Echo de Paris. The dispatch says the French soldiers opened...
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  • World War. 1917-12-29
  • Northwest history; World War 1; miscellaneous; uncategorized; Germany; German u-boats; submarines; naval warfare; submarine warfare; United States navy; American ships ;
  • Four German submarines were captured recently by 12 American destroyers, according to an American seaman who reached his home here from a French port tonight. The seaman, a former Boston newspaper man, was aboard a troop ship at the French port, he...
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  • World War. 1918-02-08
  • Northwest history; World War 1; miscellaneous; uncategorized; Secretary of the interior Franklin K. Lane; legislation; United States. Congress; United States army; American soldiers; United States navy; American sailors; United States marine corps;...
  • Secretary Lane today recommended to congress enactment of a bill designed further to protect soldiers, sailors and marines in the war who, before entering the service, had initiated desert claims on unsurveyed lands, coal claims, water power...
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  • World War. 1917-12-29
  • Northwest history; World War 1; miscellaneous; uncategorized; spies; espionage; zeppelins; Mandal, Norway; submarines; conspiracies ;
  • Use of Zeppelins in the connection with the German spy system in neutral countries, as well as for surveying navigation for the benefit of submarines, is described in an official dispatch received today from France. The message tells particularly...
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  • World War. 1919-04-08
  • Northwest history; World War 1; miscellaneous; uncategorized; post-war; memorials; colleges; universities; trees; United States army; American soldiers; deaths; casualties; arbor day; holidays; United States. American Forestry association ;
  • Commencement day at many colleges will have for part of the program this year the planting of memorial trees in honor of former students who gave their lives or offered their lives to their country in the world war. Arbor day will be more widely...
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  • World War. 1917-12-15
  • Northwest history; World War 1; miscellaneous; uncategorized; Germany; German propaganda; United States army; Mexico; Spain; USS Texas; superdreadnaughts; American government ;
  • The source of the latest crop of unfounded rumors of disaster to American forces at sea was located today in German propaganda operating in Spain through Mexico. For two days the rumor has been about that two American transports and a battleship...
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  • World War. 1919-04-08
  • Northwest history; World War 1; miscellaneous; uncategorized; Viscount Herbert John Gladstone of Great Britain; Montenegro; independence; post-war ;
  • Viscount Herbert John Gladstone, formerly secretary of state for home affairs and son of the great premier, William E. Gladstone, has put himself on record as favoring the independence of Montenegro.
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  • World War. 1917-12-14
  • Northwest history; World War 1; miscellaneous; uncategorized; Representative George R. Lunn of New York; United States. Congress. House.; resolution; Great Britain; British-American relations; Jerusalem, Israel; Palestine ;
  • Representative Lunn of New York today introduced a resolution to congratulate the people of Great Britain on the capture of Jerusalem and Palestine and the British government on its declaration "that it favors the establishment in Palestine of a...
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  • World War. 1920-12-14
  • Northwest history; World War 1; miscellaneous; uncategorized; Governor William L Harding of Iowa; President Woodrow Wilson; conferences; post-war ;
  • Governor W. L. Harding of Iowa today received from Woodrow Wilson a note stating that the president regretted being unable to attend the national conference on parks here next month.
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  • World War. 1920-04-19
  • Northwest history; World War 1; miscellaneous; uncategorized; Captain Augustus M. McMullen; post-war; veterans; deaths; United States army ;
  • Captain Augustus M. McMullen, stationed for 10 years at Fort George Wright and in the United States army for 48 years, died recently at Honolulu, according to word received yesterday at Fort Wright. The body will be taken to Vancouver barracks for...
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  • World War. 1918-02-21
  • Northwest history; World War 1; miscellaneous; uncategorized; United States. Shipping board; shipping; regulations; steamships; American ships ;
  • The shipping board tonight directed that after February 20 no American steamer of less than 2500 deadweight tons be permitted to clear for a transatlantic voyage or to engage in other long voyage trade voyages.
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  • World War. 1918-01-10
  • Northwest history; World War 1; miscellaneous; uncategorized; mail; Soldiers' Godmothers' league; United States army; American soldiers; bans; General John J. Pershing; regulations ;
  • General Pershing has put a ban on romance by urging the soldiers' godmothers' to cease its organized attempt to introduce into the American army the institution of Filleul and Marraine. He adduces as his chief reason that the correspondence between...
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  • World War. 1918-01-19
  • Northwest history; World War 1; miscellaneous; uncategorized; Russia; Romania; Romanian-Russian relations; Petrograd, Russia; war conditions; Chancellor Georg Friedrich Graf von Hertling of Germany; speeches ;
  • News from Russia in the morning newspapers adds nothing to yesterday's report of the Russo-Rumanian relations and the former emperor's escape, nor does it make cleaner whether the constituent assembly will meet today as reported previously.
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