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  • World War. Miscellaneous. 1918-01-23
  • Northwest history; World War 1; Italian war office; communication; naval radio stations; Italian-American relations; Rome, Italy; Arlington, Virginia; diplomacy ;
  • Direct radio communication between an Italian government station in Rome and Arlington station of the United States navy here has been successfully established and is benign used daily for communications passing between the two governments and...
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  • World War. Miscellaneous. 1918-01-23
  • Northwest history; World War 1; American soldiers; front lines; Secretary of War Newton D. Baker; General John J. Pershing; alcohol; prohibition ;
  • There never has been a similar body of men to lead as clean lives as the American soldiers in France, General Pershing said in an cablegram today to Secretary Baker in reply to inquiries as to the truth of reports of immoderate drinking among the...
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  • State history. World War. Army. Transfers. 1918-01-23
  • Northwest history; World War 1; United States army; Army transfers; transfer of troops; Colonel M. E. Saville of Fort George Wright, Spokane, Washington state; Camp Lewis, Tacoma, Washington state; Lieutenant Colonel Allen Smith Jr. of Fort George...
  • Colonel M. E. Saville, formerly of Fort George Wright, who has been commanding the division trains, headquarters and military police at Camp Lewis, has started on a trip to the eastern states. He will be gone some time. His place at the head of the...
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  • State history. Politics. Republican Party, State of Washington. Campaigns. 1918-01-23
  • Northwest history; politics; government; Republican Party; campaigns; prohibition; commentaries
  • Sheriff Reid puts himself in a strong position before the voters when he announces that his campaign for reelection will be based on a promise of continued aggressiveness against the illicit sellers of whisky. Spokane county is a "dry" region, not...
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  • State history. World War. Army. Court-martials. 1918-01-23
  • Northwest history; World War 1; United States army; court-martials; court martials; spies; espionage; Adolph Judd of Germany; arrests ;
  • Charged with being an enemy alien and working in a maritime occupation without having first obtained a proper permit, Adolph Judd, 38 years of age, was arrested at the Milwaukee dock this afternoon by Boatswain W. B. Bleeker, U. S. N., and City...
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  • World War. Miscellaneous. 1918-01-23
  • Northwest history; World War 1; President Woodrow Wilson; United States. Congress. Senate; Senator George Chamberlain of Oregon; legislation; United States war cabinets ;
  • Neither the aggressive opposition of President Wilson nor the apparent certainly that their measures would have no chance in the house even if passed by the senate is halting the campaign of advocates in congress of bills to establish a war cabinet...
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  • State history. World War. Army. Letter (From Soldiers). 1918-01-23
  • Northwest history; World War 1; United States army; American soldiers; personal letters; personal correspondence; mail; Troop C of Wenatchee, Washington state ;
  • Relatives and friends of the members of troop C received today post cards and letters mailed "over there." The messages were written on board ship as it was anchored in a foreign port, the name of which was not made known. The letters were dated...
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  • World War. Submarine warfare. 1918-01-23
  • Northwest history; World War 1; submarine warfare; naval warfare; German u-boats; submarine ships; submarines; Germany; Salonica; Norway; Norwegian ships; sunk; sinkings; Madeira Islands, Portugal; France; French ships; cruisers ;
  • The captain of the Norwegian steamer Salonica, now in Hampton Roads, told agents of his line today that he had seen a French cruiser sunk of the Madeira Islands.
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  • World War. Miscellaneous. 1918-01-23
  • Northwest history; World War 1; Ambassador Walter Page of United States; British politicians; British government; diplomacy; British-American relations ;
  • To promote unity between America and her European allies during the war and prepare public opinion for a league of nations after the war is won is the purpose of invitations extended through Ambassador Page to eminent British statesmen and...
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  • Northwest history. Federal Affairs. General. 1918-01-23
  • Northwest history; politics; government; general; W. Clifford Edmundson; horticulture bureau; U. S. Department of Agriculture; University of Idaho ;
  • Moscow, Idaho, Jan. 22. - W. Clifford Edmundson left today for Washington, D. C., to accept a position in the horticultural bureau of the department of agriculture. He is accompanied by Mrs. Edmundson. Mr. Edmundson was born in Moscow. He is a...
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  • World War 1. Land warfare. 1918-01-23
  • Northwest history; World War 1; land warfare; battlefields; Austrian armies; General Szetozar Boroevic; Field Marshal Conrad von Hoetzendorf; German Field Marshal Haig; Thionville, France ;
  • On the fighting fronts comparative calm prevails, except for artillery duels and small patrol engagements. That all has not gone as planned with the Austrian armies in Italy is indicated by the fact that General Szetozar Boroevic has been chosen by...
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  • World War. Financial affairs. 1918-01-23
  • Northwest history; World War 1; financial affairs; war loans; state banks; federal reserves; gold reserves; Liberty loans ;
  • Effect of credit expansion on the general rise of prices and the part of the American people can play in counteracting inflation by war time economics were emphasized today by the federal reserve board in its annual report to congress.
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  • World War. Miscellaneous. 1918-01-23
  • Northwest history; World War 1; first Viscount Northcliffe Alfred Harmsworth; Times of London; Morning Post of London; Daily News of United Kingdom; Colonel Charles a Court Repington; journalists; war correspondents ;
  • The Morning Post announces that Colonel Repington, who resigned as military critic of the Times, has accepted a position as the military correspondent of the Morning Post. Some of the morning newspapers comment indignantly on the letter in the...
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  • World War. Legislation. 1918-01-23
  • Northwest history; World War 1; legislation; United States. Congress. Committee on Armed Services.; Representative Stanley Dent of Alabama; United States military; Army nurses; military draft
  • Legislation proposed by the war department to carry out recommendations of Provost Marshal General Crowder for changes in administration of the army draft was introduced in the house today by Representative Dent, chairman of the military committee....
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  • State history. World War. Army. Transportation (of Troops). 1918-01-23
  • Northwest history; World War 1; United States army; Army transportation; transportation of troops; Wenatchee, Washington state; France; letters; post cards ;
  • Relatives and friends of the members of troop C received today post cards and letters mailed "over there." The messages were written on board ship as it was anchored in a foreign port, the name of which was not made known. The letters were dated...
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  • World War. Politics. 1918-01-23
  • Northwest history; World War 1; politics; United States. Congress. Senate; American government; President Theodore Roosevelt; Senator William Joel Stone of Missouri; Senator W. S. Kenyon of Iowa; Senator Warren G. Harding of Ohio; Senator George...
  • Senator W. S. Kenyon, in an address today, criticized the speech of Senator Stone for injecting politics into the senate for the first time during the war. "It is comedy to think of old Bill Stone accusing Theodore Roosevelt of not being patriotic...
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  • World War 1. Aviation and air raids. 1918-01-23
  • Northwest history; World War 1; aviation; air raids; French aviators ;
  • More American observers have begun work at the front with French pilots in French airplanes. While their flights are in the nature of instruction, they are carried out under actual battle conditions.
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  • World War 1. Awards & honors. 1918-01-23
  • Northwest history; World War 1; conspiracy; espionage; trial of Franz von Rintelen; fire bombs ;
  • Antipathy to Germany today threatened to interfere with the selection of a jury in the trial of Franz von Rintelen, German naval reservist, and nearly a dozen other defendants charged with conspiracy to place fire bombs aboard steamships sailing...
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  • State history. World War. Army. Camp life. 1918-01-23
  • Northwest history; World War 1; United States army; American soldiers; army camps; camp life; military training; Camp Lewis, Tacoma, Washington state; shipyards; protection; guards; patrols ;
  • Nine trucks bearing 200 soldiers of the 44th infantry were sent into Tacoma tonight at the request of federal authorities to assist in guarding warehouses and docks along the Tacoma waterfront. The dispatching of the troops followed a conference...
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  • World War 1. Aviation and air raids. 1918-01-23
  • Northwest history; World War 1; aviation; air raids; United States General John Pershing; First Lieutenant William H. Cheney; First Lieutenant Oliver P. Sherwood; Private George A. Beach ;
  • First Lieutenants William H. Cheney and Oliver P. Sherwood and Private George A. Beach were killed Sunday in a collision of airplanes over an American aviation school in France, the war department was advised tonight by General Pershing.
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