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Secretary Bryan and Ambassador Jusserand sign general arbitration treaties marking Bryan's first official act. Reports cover vaccination order at the war department, executions of legal actions, violent storms, thefts, accidents, and global political shifts from Washington to Europe and Asia with numerous named officials and incidents.
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Bryan
Jusserand
France
French Republic
Garrison
War Department
Department
Central Division Ill inois Teachers Association Meet
Springfield hosts the twenty-ninth annual session of the Central Division Illinois Teachers Association from Friday March 28 to Saturday March 29 with national figures like Governor Edward F. Dunne Missouri former governor Herbert S. Hadley and George E. Vincent among speakers. The program includes addresses on school roles in community welfare vocational guidance and educational pioneering with receptions at the Executive Mansion and numerous section meetings across venues in Springfield.
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Springfield
Illinois Teachers’ Association
Dunne
Herbert S. Hadley
Missouri
George E. Vincent
Minnesota University
F. G. Blair
State Conference of Charities
Rockford
Committee On
A. L. Bowen
State Board of Charities
Julia Lathrop
Washington
National Children's Bureau
Bernard Flexner
Louisville
Father Thomas Ryan
St. Paul
The
Arsenal
Commercial Association
Pupi
Harriet Cantrall
Incorporation Certificates Issued by Secretary of State
Secretary of State Woods issued certificates of incorporation for two firms West Frankfort House Furnishing Company and Galesburg Writing Machine Company. Incorporators include L. C. Dorris, R. Thienes, E. R. Brown, G. W. Griffin, and Charles T Childer, Harry A Bates, Amelia H Childers, Gertrude Hill Bates.
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State Woods
West Frankfort House Furnishing Company
West Frankfort
L. C. Dorris
R. Thienes
E. R. Brown
G. W. Griffin
Galesburg
Charles T, Childer
Harry A. Bates
Amelia H. Childers
Gertrude Hill Bates
Wilson Sets Extra Session Apr 7 To Tackle Tariff Plan
President Wilson issues a formal proclamation convening Congress in an extra session at noon April 7. He will present a first message outlining administration tariffs aims and schedules, with currency legislation to follow and a caucus before House consideration.
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Washington
Congress
Wilson
Representative Underwood
Underwood
Ways and Means
House
Ways and Means Committee
Supreme Court Enjoins Publicity Act Enforcement
The Supreme Court granted a restraining order to block Postmaster General Burleson from enforcing the publicity law while its constitutionality is reviewed. The injunction was requested by Robert C. Morris for the New York Journal of Commerce, which challenges the act. The court set a recess to April 7 after March 24.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Burleson
Robert C. Morris
New York Journal of Commerce
McCombs Nominatd for France Ambassadorship Held Back
The White House prepared William F. McCombs nomination to be ambassador to France but withheld transmission at his request. McCombs has decided to accept the post and the delay does not indicate a change in plans.
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Washington
William F. McCombs
Democratic National Committee
France
White House
Senate
McCombs
Hyde jury discharged after long deliberation in Swope murder case
The Hyde murder trial jury reported a disagreement after eighty six hours and thirty five minutes. nine jurors favored acquittal and three for conviction. In London, Harry Lewis of Philadelphia KOed Jack Harrison in the third round of a scheduled twenty round bout at the National Sporting Club.
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Kansas City, Mo
B. Clarke Hyde
Thomas H. Swope
Lewis
Harrison
London
Harry Lewis
Philadelphia
Jack Harrison
England
National Sporting Club
U.S. Warships Leave Havana for New York
The United States Atlantic division vessels sailed from Guantanamo Bay for New York on Monday. Two thousand marines were left in Cuba to remain until the inauguration.
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U. S
Havana
United States
Atlantic Division
Guantanamo
New York
Cuba
Begin Bribe Inquiry In New Hampshire Senate Race
A legislative committee in Concord opens hearings Monday to investigate corruption charges in the state senate contest for the U S seat. The inquiry aims to uncover improper influence and possible bribery in the legislative selection process.
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Concord
N. H
United States
Charlotte Corday Called a Great Damn All Right
The speaker praises Charlotte Corday from French history saying she was a great figure. He notes she killed a man who was taking a bath, framing the act in a casual conversational memory.
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France
Charlotte Corday
Universal Hero of America John Hampden in Tax Protest
The Kansas City Times asserts the universal American hero is John Hampden for opposing taxes. It notes debate over other figures like Napoleon Washington Lincoln, but concludes Hampden embodies the ideal defiant stance against taxation.
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America
Napoleon
Ingersoll
Washington
Wendell Phillips
Lincoln
John Hampden
Kansas City Times
Hat as object of girl stumps student in grammar lesson
An overgrown schoolboy struggles with diagramming the sentence The girl pur chased a hat. When asked which word hat is the object of, he correctly answers that hat is the object of girl, prompting a mixed reaction from the teacher.
Tea Drinker Avoids Paralyzing Fear with Postum Switch
A Illinois woman describes severe nervous symptoms and fears of paralysis from tea use. She quits tea after twenty five years and turns to Instant Postum, reporting relief from headaches night numbness and heart troubles, and notes Postum’s ease of preparation and availability.
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Postum Cereal Co., Ltd
Battle Creek
Mich
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