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  • World War. Vocational training. 1919-06-29
  • Northwest history; World War 1; vocational training; disabled veterans; war veterans; disabilities; education; United States army; American soldiers; post-war; rehabilitation; Colonel Arthur Woods ;
  • Because of the failure of thousands of soldiers, crippled by the war, fully to understand their rights, particularly that involving re-education at government expense in callings suitable to their disability, Colonel Arthur Woods, assistant to the...
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  • World War. Spys. 1918-01-27
  • Northwest history; World War 1; spies; espionage; C. S. Thompson. United States. National defense society. Execution committee; Senator Philander C. Knox of Pennsylvania; Assistant United States District Attorney; executions ;
  • C. S. Thompson, a member of the execution committee of the national defense society, was questioned today by federal officials here regarding his statement that 14 spies had been executed in this country since the war begun. He said he refused to...
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  • World War. Shipyards building & launching. 1920-01-16
  • Northwest history; World War 1; shipyards; ship building; ship launching; post-war; Special Assistant United States Attorney General Bert Schlesinger; Special Agent Will H. Tidwell; investigations; fraud; workers; Seattle, Washington State; Oregon;...
  • Frauds involving many millions of dollars in connection with the building of ships for the government in Oregon, Washington, and California have been unearthed by government investigators, it became known today, when Will H. Tidwell, special agent...
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  • World War. Red Cross. 1919-10-18
  • Northwest history; World War 1; Red Cross; war relief; wounded; humanitarian relief; Poland; Polish army; Minsk, Belarus; American Red Cross; nurses; murders; deaths; Bolsheviks; Bolshevik party; hospitals; orphanages; food shortages; famine;...
  • The Polish government is compiling the story of the atrocities committed under the Bolshevik reign in the city of Minsk, now occupied by the Poles. The latest, brought by an American Red Cross worker who has just returned from a relief assignment...
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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. Red Cross. 1918-01-10
  • Northwest history; World War 1; Red Cross; war relief; wounded; humanitarian relief; Camp Lewis, Washington State; Margaret E. Scott of Los Angeles, California; nurses; hospitals; American Red Cross. Pacific Division; domestic support; women ;
  • Miss Margaret E. Scott of Los Angeles has resigned her position as assistant director of the woman's bureau of the Pacific division, American Red Cross, to become a field nurse in the service of the organization, it was announced here today. Miss...
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  • World War. Railroads. 1919-01-31
  • Northwest history; World War 1; railroads; railways; transportation; United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Railroad Administration; Washington State; Pacific Northwest; H. W. Byerly; Northern Pacific railway; St. Paul, Minnesota; C....
  • The United States railroad administration is arranging to issue an advertising pamphlet on Washington to attract settlers. H. W. Byerly, assistant supervisor of agriculture, of the Northern Pacific railway at St. Paul, is in Spokane conferring with...
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  • World War. Post war United States. 1919-02-01
  • Northwest history; World War 1; post-war; politics; United States navy; American sailors; demobilization of troops; peace negotiations; Admiral William Sowden Sims ;
  • Franklin D. Roosevelt, assistant secretary of the navy, after a conference with Admiral Sims on plans for the demobilization of the American navy in European waters, said tonight he was confident that with the exception of about 3000 men the...
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  • World War. Post war United States. 1919-01-11
  • Northwest history; World War 1; post-war; politics; United States army; American soldiers; United States. Congress. Senate. post office committee; undelivered mail; front lines; France; United States. department of defense; communication ;
  • From eight to 10 carloads of mail for American soldiers are undelivered in France, Second Assistant Postmaster Praeger told the senate postoffice committee today, and "thousands, and probably millions" or letters addressed to the men overseas will...
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  • World War. Post war United States. 1918-12-10
  • Northwest history; World War 1; post-war; politics; United States army; military supplies; weapons; artillery; innovation; army corps of engineers; guns ;
  • An eight-inch gun, self-propelling on its caterpillar track, and prototype of a fleet of similar monsters being constructed for the American army when hostilities ceased, was demonstrated here today before Assistant Secretary of War Crowell, Major...
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  • World War. Post war miscellaneous. 1920-08-14
  • Northwest history; World War 1; post-war; politics; Maxim Litvinoff of Russia; Bolsheviks; Bolshevik party; Russian government; Polish-Russian relations; international conflict; Poland; France; United States ;
  • Maxim Litvinoff, assistant foreign minister in the Russian Bolshevik government, during an interview today touched on France's recognition of General Wrangel and the Russo-Polish situation. After accusing the Poles of wasting three weeks "in a hide...
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  • World War. News items & editorials. 1918-05-17
  • Northwest history; World War 1; news items; editorials; F. S. Peabody of Chicago; United States. bureau of mines; Secretary of the Interior Franklin K. Lane; upper classes; domestic support; financial issues; American people; American public ;
  • Secretary of the Interior Franklin K. Lane tonight told captains of industries of their full duty and responsibility in the work of winning the war. He was the guest of F. S. Peabody of Chicago, assistant to the director of the bureau of mines. The...
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  • World War. Navy. Enlistments. 1918-02-28
  • Northwest history; World War 1; United States Navy; Navy enlistments; Spokane, Washington; Assistant Doctor J. S. Saurman of United States Navy; recruiting offices; quotas ;
  • Assistant Surgeon J. S. Saurman, U. S. N., officer in charge of the navy recruiting station, yesterday sent the weekly quota of navy recruits to the Coast. The names of those constituting the party were:
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  • World War. Miscellaneous. 1918-01-09
  • Northwest history; World War 1; United States Army corps of engineers; Alaska Road Commission; United States. department of defense; Camp Lee, Virginia; Brigadier General W. P. Richardson; Captain William H. Waugh; First Lieutenant Sidney L....
  • Army orders which today announce the permanent relief of Brigadier General W. P. Richardson, now commanding a brigade at Camp Lee, Va., from fourth duty with the Alaska road commission building roads and trails in Alaska also announce the...
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  • World War. Medical Corps. 1919-03-01
  • Northwest history; World War 1; Medical Corps; medical issues; J. H. Henry of Seattle, Washington; Washington State Health Commissioner John B. Anderson; Washington State Department of Health ;
  • Dr. J. H. Henry of Seattle, formerly connected with the state health commissioner's office, has been appointed assistant state health commissioner by State Health Commissioner Dr. John B. Anderson. Dr. Anderson assumes office as state health...
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  • World War. Army. S. A.T.C. (Students Army Training Corps). 1918-10-17
  • Northwest history; World War 1; United States army; American soldiers; S. A. T. C.; SATC; Students Army Training Corps; Professor Charles A. Isaacs of Washington State college; Pullman, Washington state; Washington State University; physics;...
  • Charles A. Isaacs, professor of mathematics and general secretary of the State College of Washington, has been granted leave of absence for the duration of the war to accept an appointment as one of the four assistant supervisors for the students'...
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  • World War. Army. S. A.T.C. (Students Army Training Corps). 1918-10-16
  • Northwest history; World War 1; United States army; American soldiers; S. A. T. C.; SATC; Students Army Training Corps; Pullman,Washington state; Vancouver barracks, Washington state; Emmet Alva Throop of Palouse, Washington state; Henry McClure of...
  • Seventy-three Whitman county men left this afternoon for Pullman to enter the student army training corps in charge of Neal McClure, son of Sheriff H. S. McClure, chairman of local exemption board, as leader, with Emmet Alva Throop of Palouse as...
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  • World War. 1919-08-02
  • Northwest history; World War 1; miscellaneous; uncategorized; Frank L. Polk of United States; American delegation; post-war; peace negotiations; Paris, France; Treaty of Versailles 1919; Aleksandr Kolchak of Russia; Russian government; foreign aid;...
  • Frank L. Polk, American assistant secretary of state and head of the United States peace delegates here, told a group of French newspaper men today that the United States senate committee on foreign affairs would complete its report on the German...
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  • World War. 1919-07-31
  • Northwest history; World War 1; miscellaneous; uncategorized; post-war; Germany; German government; war crimes; war criminals ;
  • A state tribunal is to inquire into and fix the responsibility for the war. It will be composed of the supreme court of the empire, whose president will be chairman. He will be assisted by the president of the military court and the judges of the...
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  • World War. 1918-01-06
  • Northwest history; World War 1; miscellaneous; uncategorized; Assistant Postmaster T. J. Smith; war stamps; financial issues; loans; war bonds; Boy Scouts of America ;
  • "The sale of war stamps has been at the rate of $2000 to $3000 daily during the last few days," said T. J. Smith, assistant postmaster, yesterday. "The total of sales has not been recorded. The men in charge of that department have been working...
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