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  • World War. Submarine warfare. 1918-10-12
  • Northwest history; World War 1; submarine warfare; naval warfare; German u-boats; submarine ships; submarines; Germany; Leinster; survivors; sunk; sinkings; American people; women; children; deaths ;
  • Of the 150 women and children aboard the steamship Leinster when she was destroyed by a German submarine only 15 have been accounted for. Several of these have died since they were brought to port.
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  • World War. Revolutions. Russia. 1918-01-07
  • Northwest history; World War 1; revolutions; Russia; Russian revolution; Bolsheviks; Bolshevik army; food surpluses; hoarding; Petrograd, Russia; Saint Petersburg, Russia; economy; peace negotiations; Brest-Litovsk, Belarus; treaties ;
  • The search for food conducted by the Bolshevik authorities in Petrograd disclosed nearly 100,000 pounds of butter with had been hoarded by speculators. The authorities also found 150 carloads of matches, 150,000 gallons of kerosene and large...
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  • World War. Reparations. 1921-05-18
  • Northwest history; World War 1; war reparations; peace terms; peace negotiations; treaties; post-war; Germany; German government; war debts ;
  • The reparations commission officially announced today Germany had placed at its disposal 150,000,000 marks, partly in gold and partly in foreign currency. It was added that the reparations commission was making arrangements to accept delivery.
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  • World War. Red Cross. 1918-05-29
  • Northwest history; World War 1; Red Cross; war relief; wounded; humanitarian relief; American Red Cross. Pacific Division; war mercy fund; fundraising ;
  • Final figures on the second American Red Cross $100,000,000 war mercy fund still were incomplete tonight, but on the face of latest returns the fund was oversubscribed $48,833,367. Figures yet to be received were expected to carry the total to...
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  • World War. Railroads. 1919-01-02
  • Northwest history; World War 1; railroads; railways; transportation; deficits; financial issues; post-war; operating costs; revenue ;
  • The government's loss in operating the railroads in 1918 is calculated by railroad administration officials at less than $150,000,000. This represents the difference between the amount the government will be compelled to pay railroad companies at...
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  • World War. Railroads. 1919-01-02
  • Northwest history; World War 1; railroads; railways; transportation; deficits; financial issues; post-war; operating costs; revenue ;
  • The government's loss in operating the railroads in 1918 is calculated by railroad administration officials at less than $150,000,000. This represents the difference between the amount the government will be compelled to pay railroad companies as...
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  • World War. Politics. 1917-12-22
  • Northwest history; World War 1; politics; United States; American government; military draft; voting; elections; Prime Minister William Morris Hughes of Australia; American soldiers ;
  • Unless the soldier vote on the various fronts, which has not yet been counted, offsets the vote in Australia, the government's conscription scheme has been defeated in a referendum by a majority of 150,000. This is believed to be hardly likely,...
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  • World War. Photographs. 1919-04-16
  • Northwest history; World War 1; photographs; portraits; Morris Hillquit of New York; Socialist party of America ;
  • Announcement has been made by Santeri Nuorteva, secretary to the soviet mission established in this country by L. A. Martens, that legal steps would be taken at once to obtain approximately $150,000,000 in money and property now held here under the...
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  • World War. Navy. Inspections. 1919-08-08
  • Northwest history; World War 1; United States Navy; Navy inspections; USS Oregon; Bremerton, Washington; repairs ;
  • That the famous old battleship Oregon, once pride of the American navy, can steam from Bremerton to San Francisco to participate in the welcome to the Pacific fleet there, $150,000 worth of work will have to be done on the warship, it was learned...
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  • World War. Navy. 1918-05-31
  • Northwest history; World War 1; Navy; United States navy; American sailors; size; rankings; United States army; British army; General John J. Pershing; ammunitions; weapons ;
  • The American navy, said Senator J. Hamilton Lewis in an address here today, has climbed from the fourth to second position among the world's fleets. The United States has 150 warships in European waters and 50 others of a war character; there are...
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  • World War. Miscellaneous. 1918-10-01
  • Northwest history; World War 1; Gonzaga University, Spokane, Washington State; Students Army Training Corps; SATC; National Army Training Detachment; enlistment; enlisted; education; Captain T. B. Steele; Charles A. Fleming; President Woodrow...
  • Two hundred and fifty young men of the student army training corps at Gonzaga university and the students of the Modern Automobile school, United States army training detachment along with 150,000 other students, representing 500 colleges and...
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  • World War. Mail. 1917-10-02
  • Northwest history; World War 1; mail; American soldiers; support of troops; France; letters; front lines ;
  • To make sure that American troopers abroad get their letters from home, 150 postal clerks will be dispatched to France and the war department has given orders that all transports bound toward the battle front shall carry all the accumulated mail...
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  • World War. Financial affairs. 1919-05-07
  • Northwest history; World War 1; financial affairs; Victory Liberty loan ;
  • Total subscriptions to the Victory Liberty loan had reached approximately $2,150,000,000 today. This was an overnight increase of about $90,000,000.
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  • World War. 1921-05-19
  • Northwest history; World War 1; miscellaneous; uncategorized; post-war; Germany; reparations; United States government; German-American relations; Ambassador Wilhelm Mayer of Germany; German government; war debts ;
  • Of Germany's first payment of the equivalent of 150,000,000 gold marks to the reparation commission, 10,000,000 gold marks possibly will be sent to the United States, where the gold would have its greatest value it was indicated today.
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  • World War. 1919-12-20
  • Northwest history; World War 1; miscellaneous; uncategorized; John H. Lange of Seattle, Washington state; Captain C. A. Abele; Warsaw, Poland; foreign aid; food shortages; Polish people; post-war; Polish-American relations ;
  • More than 350,000 tons of foodstuffs and raw cotton have been shipped to Poland via Danzig front he United States since last February. For a time these supplies were arriving at the rate of 5000 tons daily. A shipment of 150 locomotives is expected...
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  • World War. 1919-08-26
  • Northwest history; World War 1; miscellaneous; uncategorized; United States. Congress. House. Interstate commerce committee; legislation; post-war; United States army; United States navy; American soldiers; American sailors; veterans; wounded;...
  • Increases ranging from 50 to more than 150 per cent in the monthly compensation paid under the war risk insurance act to disabled soldiers and sailors, are provided by a bill recommended for passage today by the house interstate commerce committee....
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  • World War. 1919-04-01
  • Northwest history; World War 1; miscellaneous; uncategorized; post-war; Budapest, Hungary; Hungarian government; Hungarian people; riots; looting; violence; executions; Bolsheviks; Bolshevik party; Hungarian revolution ;
  • The plunge of Budapest into anti-capitalism continues with feverish efforts to show that the reign of law and order is undisturbed. The city is outwardly quiet since the first few days in which there was much looting, especially of jewelry shops....
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  • World War. 1919-03-28
  • Northwest history; World War 1; miscellaneous; uncategorized; Aleppo, Syria; Armenia; Armenian people; Armenian genocide; massacres; deaths ;
  • Advices from Constantinople state that a massacre of Armenians by Moslem gendarmes occurred recently at Aleppo. It is reported that 400 Armenians were killed, 111 seriously wounded and 150 slightly injured. It is alleged that the gendarmes attacked...
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  • World War. 1919-03-15
  • Northwest history; World War 1; miscellaneous; uncategorized; post-war; United States army; American soldiers; returned; returning; demobilization of troops; Hollandia; transports; New York, New York; Brest, France ;
  • The steamship Hollandia arrived here today from Brest with 1025 troops. Unites included the 102d field battalion signal corps, complete, 11 officers and 477 men; mobile hospital No. 101, eight officers and 43 men for Camps Grant and Dodge. There...
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  • World War. 1918-12-10
  • Northwest history; World War 1; miscellaneous; uncategorized; post-war; Switzerland; Swiss government; Germany; German army; German soldiers; demobilization of troops; political borders; border patrol; border crossing; regulations ;
  • From 25,000 to 35,000 Germans soldiers who formerly lived in Switzerland are in waiting along the Swiss frontier, anxious to return to their homes. The Swiss government, however, has made strict regulations regarding the crossing of the frontier by...
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