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  • World War. Vocational training. 1919-08-10
  • Northwest history; World War 1; vocational training; disabled veterans; war veterans; disabilities; education; William P. Wise of Seattle, Washington State; post-war; United States army; American soldiers; Washington State College; Spokane,...
  • "Twenty-five wounded service men of Spokane and neighborhood have taken advantage of my short visit here to be placed in institutions for vocational training," said William P. Wise of Seattle today.
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  • World War. Treaty of Versailles. 1920-02-12
  • Northwest history; World War 1; Treaty of Versailles 1919; peace treaty; treaties; peace negotiations; post-war; Crown prince Frederick William Victor Augustus Ernest of Germany; Kaiser of Germany; sons; children; German Emperor Wilhelm II; German...
  • It is declared in reliable quarters that former Crown Prince Freidrich Wilhelm was serious in making his offer to the entente governments to surrender himself in place of the Germans on the extradition list and that he is inclined to believe that...
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  • World War. Treaty of Versailles. 1920-01-07
  • Northwest history; World War 1; Treaty of Versailles 1919; peace treaty; treaties; peace negotiations; post-war; President Woodrow Wilson; United States. Democratic national committee; Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan ;
  • A resolution endorsing President Wilson's stand on the peace treaty and commending his efforts to establish a league of peace is to be laid before the democratic national committee at its meeting tomorrow with the backing of the committee officials.
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  • World War. Treaty of Versailles. 1919-04-14
  • Northwest history; World War 1; Treaty of Versailles 1919; peace treaty; treaties; peace negotiations; post-war; league of nations; Germany; German delegation; President Woodrow Wilson; Leon Bourgeois of France; French delegation; Prime Minister...
  • The peace treaty and the league of nations undoubtedly have reached the final stage of negotiations, but it is not clear that they are out of troubled waters, as they must pass the ordeal of a plenary session of the peace conference and then go...
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  • World War. Treaty of Versailles. 1919-01-20
  • Northwest history; World War 1; Treaty of Versailles 1919; peace treaty; treaties; peace negotiations; post-war; Ambassador William Graves Sharp of United States; President Woodrow Wilson; American delegation; photographs; portraits ;
  • Ambassador William Graves Sharp, at left, and son, William Jr., photographed on ambassador's recent arrival at his home in Elyria, Ohio.
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  • World War. Taxes. 1918-01-07
  • Northwest history; World War 1; taxes; Secretary of the Treasury William Gibbs McAdoo; treasury certificates; subscriptions ;
  • Subscriptions for the latest issue of treasury certificates of indebtedness, planned in anticipation of tax collections next June, were increased today to nearly $300,000,000. Additional subscriptions have come freely since Secretary McAdoo...
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  • World War. Taxes. 1917-12-05
  • Northwest history; World War 1; taxes; legislation; Senator Reed Smoot of Utah; Senator William Musgrave Calder of New York; post cards; postal service; Senator Atlee Pomerene of Ohio; income taxes ;
  • Amendments to the war tax law began piling in today with the first active work of congress. Repeal of the postal rate increases was proposed by Senator Smoot. Senator Calder introduced an amendment for one cent postcards.
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  • World War. Supreme council. 1919-07-02
  • Northwest history; World War 1; Supreme Council of Peace; peace negotiations; post-war; President Freidrich Ebert of Germany; German government; inter-allied conferences; Society of Nations; Secretary of State Robert Lansing; United States; Serbia;...
  • The allied premiers, who will meet this afternoon as the supreme inter-allied war council, probably will fix new terms to be imposed upon Germany, whose tactics of obstruction and recrimination are said to have reached a climax in a threat made at...
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  • World War. Statistics. 1918-01-21
  • Northwest history; World War 1; statistics; Surgeon General William C. Gorgas; United States army; American soldiers; training camps; death rates; deaths ;
  • Health conditions in the army camps and cantonments in this country for the week ended June 14 continued "very satisfactory," said the weekly report issued tonight by Surgeon General Gorgas. Deaths totaled 115, as against 94 the week before.
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  • World War. Revolutions. Russia. 1920-02-07
  • Northwest history; World War 1; revolutions; Russia; Russian revolution; Bolsheviks; Bolshevik army; post-war; Vladivostok, Russia; Major General William S. Graves; United States. Department of defense ;
  • Good order is being maintained and quiet prevails in Vladivostok, Major General Graves, commanding the American expedition in Siberia, said in a dispatch received today at the war department. Officials here interpreted the dispatch as indicating...
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  • World War. Revolutions. Russia. 1919-10-03
  • Northwest history; World War 1; revolutions; Russia; Russian revolution; Bolsheviks; Bolshevik army; post-war; Omsk, Russia; Vladivostok, Russia; Cossacks; Russian government; Major General William S. Graves; Russian newspapers; media ;
  • Major General William S. Graves, commander of American forces in Siberia, in retaliation for alleged scurrilous articles published in a Vladivostok newspaper and hostile acts of Cossack chiefs in the far east, has held up shipment of 14,000 rifles...
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  • World War. Revolutions. Russia. 1919-09-07
  • Northwest history; World War 1; revolutions; Russia; Russian revolution; Bolsheviks; Bolshevik army; post-war; Siberia; Siberian army; United States army; American soldiers; Ambassador Roland S. Morris of United States; Major General William S....
  • Roland S. Morris, United States ambassador to Japan, and Major General William S. Graves, commander of the American expeditionary force in Siberia, arrived in Vladivostok last night from Omsk after a visit to the seat of the anti-Bolshevik...
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  • World War. Revolutions. Russia. 1919-06-30
  • Northwest history; World War 1; revolutions; Russia; Russian revolution; Bolsheviks; Bolshevik army; post-war; United States army; American soldiers; deaths; casualties; Major General William S. Graves; Admiral Aleksandr Kolchak of Russia; battles ;
  • Eighteen American soldiers were killed, one officer and seven men severely wounded, and 17 slightly wounded in an engagement with anti-Kolchak forces under Romanovka on June 25.
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  • World War. Relief. 1919-11-15
  • Northwest history; World War 1; war relief; humanitarian relief; post-war; Colonel William N. Haskell of France; Armenia; Armenia people; starvation; famine; food shortages ;
  • Half a million persons will starve in the Caucasus this winter unless immediate relief is provided, in the opinion of Colonel William N. Haskell, allied high commissioner to Armenia, who left Paris last night for Tiflis, after having conferred with...
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  • World War. Red Cross. 1918-05-14
  • Northwest history; World War 1; Red Cross; war relief; wounded; humanitarian relief; General John J. Pershing; American Red Cross; fundraising; campaigns; France; Great Britain; Canada; Australia; French soldiers; British soldiers; Canadian...
  • Led by General Pershing's 50 veterans and 200 wounded, French, British, Canadian and Australian officers and privates, some 7500 speakers are to bring the needs of the American Red Cross home to the country next week during the drive for a second...
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  • World War. Red Cross. 1918-01-24
  • Northwest history; World War 1; Red Cross; war relief; wounded; humanitarian relief; American Red Cross; United States army; American soldiers; William R. Castle Jr. of Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts; E. Gerry Chadwick of New York, New...
  • A new American Red Cross bureau has been organized to give relatives of soldiers killed, wounded or missing at the front fuller information than is carried in the official casualty lists of the war department. The appointment of William R. Castle...
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  • World War. Railroads. 1918-06-18
  • Northwest history; World War 1; railroads; railways; transportation; Great Northern railroad; Spokane, Washington State; Fort Wright, Kentucky; expansion; Secretary of the Treasury William Gibbs McAdoo ;
  • A second track on the Great Northern railroad between Spokane and Fort Wright will be built immediately in order to expedite the transportation of soldiers from the military reservation to the main lines of the transcontinental roads, according to...
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  • World War. Railroads. 1918-06-13
  • Northwest history; World War 1; railroads; railways; transportation; freight trains; production; Secretary of the Treasury William Gibbs McAdoo ;
  • Modifications of the recent freight rate increase order, announced today by Director General McAdoo, provide that the plan by which intrastate rates would have been canceled when in conflict with interstate rates shall be rescinded; that the...
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  • World War. Railroads. 1918-03-29
  • Northwest history; World War 1; railroads; railways; transportation; salaries; wages; railroad workers; Secretary of the Treasury William Gibbs McAdoo ;
  • Director General McAdoo soon will fix a limit for high salaries of railroad officials and require the railroads which wish to exceed it to make up the difference out of their own pockets. There is no disposition, it is said, to reduce their pay to...
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  • World War. Railroads. 1918-02-22
  • Northwest history; World War 1; railroads; railways; transportation; Secretary of the Treasury William Gibbs McAdoo; United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Railroad Administration; government control ;
  • In a general order tonight designed to clarify the relations between the railroad administration and employs of the roads Director General McAdoo emphasized that officials and workmen no longer are serving private interests, but the government and...
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