Fire destroys Fort Leavenworth military prison
A midnight blaze partially destroyed the Fort Leavenworth prison in Kansas. About 200 prisoners were moved under guard to safety as fire spread from the tailor shop to other buildings. two guards were wounded, water pressure hindered firefighting, and records were removed while troops secured the site. Some inmates returned to half the cell houses at 2 AM, with remaining prisoners to be moved at daylight.
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Fort Leavenworth
Kay
Herberty
Buderal
Est. Mittal
Tallor
Waly
Sven the Dames
Uhey
Cella
Port Leavenworth
Baby's Body Found in Basket in Cleveland Inn Area
Walter Johnson Jr carried a basket containing a baby girl for hours, believing it held groceries. He bought groceries at markets, slept without opening the basket, and left it on a dining table. The father discovered the contents later. police suspect the body was left there after exposure.
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Steveland
Walter Johnson, Jr
Cleveland Inn Lasket
Johnson
Tila
Anti Toe Cave
Mine Agreement or Wage Cut Sparks UMW Tension
Local operators in touch with President Macr of the United Mine Workers three anthracite districts warn that without a new three year contract, coal companies will revert to the old scale. Officials in Shamokin vow to push for wage cuts ending the sealing scale and a 20 percent reduction.
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Hier
Macr
Tending Rothway
Morrie William
Pennsylvania Coal Company
Warner
Shamokin
United Mine Workers
Anthracis
New Cuban Envoy in Office
Menor x Wegeanetnor Wont dasataans and ken Charge of Lowadlon as Cuban minder. Carlus Garela Veles succeeds Sever G Quesad and has coached Wash ates from Haven. He will reside there for several warks to foster cordial relations between Cuba and the United States.
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Menor x
Cuba
Murder of Ethnologist Dr William Jones in Luzon Highlands
Dr William Jones of Chicago, a Field Museum ethnologist, was killed by head hunters in the Luzon mountains. Troops and Philippine constabulary were dispatched to the Damo Dato area near Cagayan province to recover remains and determine the motive. The investigator had spent two years among Deangots studying local customs and religions for Chicago interests.
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William Jones la Virtin
Honwete
Chaytives
Omerder
Wilton Joos
Chicago
Field Museum
Luzon
Philippine Constabulary
Damo Dato
Cagayan Iilver
Teabella
Idant
Jones
Luger
Man claims to be Charlie Ross in drastic kidnap tale
Brakeman Velen Sedequal Pyne Kidnaped Bay Ary Attentions. Williams Grant Eyester of Melsec's Rocks in Vittsburg says he believes he is Charlie Ross, kidnapped from Gerwantown thirty five years ago. He claims to match the description, including moles, and recalls the Rose home, but offers no proof and rejects contacting likely families.
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Velen Sedequal Pyne
Williams Grant
Melsec's
Charlie
Rose
Shamokin
Bis
Becauve
London Declaration Sets Free Contraband Rules In War Time
The London declaration outlines wartime trade rules with free articles including raw materials. It designates absolutely contraband such as arms and military gear and conditional contraband like food. It limits blockades to enemy coasts and requires neutral vessels to be sent to proper ports. It covers arrest of enemy armed forces members on neutral ships and clarifies seizure procedures. It also notes a political purge within Russian revolutionaries following the arrest of a prominent figure linked to revolutionary literature and the police.
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London
St Fx
Aanson
Shilett
Maimety
Hue Gene Eet
Giros Verte
Hersung
PIANIST PADEREWSKI ENDS AMERICAN CAREER SOON
Ignace Jan Paderewski announces a major career shift blaming a piano player's cramp and rheumatic pain. He will devote most of his life to composition and may never return to America. The famed pianist, traveling with his wife aboard the Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse, spoke sadly of possible permanent injury.
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Ignace Jan Paderewski
America
Athet
Priest Big Bankrupt in Cleveland Church Pastor Files
Rev William McMahon pastor of St. Bridget's in Cleveland filed a voluntary bankruptcy petition in federal court Wednesday. His total liabilities are listed at 1 005 141 03 with assets of 75 201 08 including 71 200 in real estate. Secured claims total 46 025 79, unsecured 371 207 01, and 183 15 in commercial paper. He was a director of Fidelity Funding Co of New York, now in receivership, leading to his name appearing on many papers.
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Liahbilithea
Ev. W. McMahon
William McMahon
St. Bridget's Roman Catholic Church
Cleveland
The
Catholic Universe
United States
McMahon
Fidelity Funding Company of
New York
Kieran
Jain
Admiral Converse Dead at 75 in Washington
Rear Admiral George A. Converse died at his Washington home from uranium poisoning though recently retired he remained active as president of the naval construction board. He led the bureau of navigation and oversaw the assembling of the 16 vessels including the globe entering battleship fleet. Survived by widow from New York and four daughters Maud Olga Colt and Jackson. Born Norwich Vermont.
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Masane
George A. Converse
Washington, D.C
Board of Construction of the Navy
Bureau of Navigation
Heet
Globe
Alx
Mixa Wlood
New York
Maud
Olga
Colt
Bristol
K. 1
Jackson
Baltimore
Admiral Converse
Norwich
Noted Chicago Opera Leader William Castle Dies at Home
William Castle, over twenty years director of the Chicago Musical College School of Opera and famed for tenor roles, died at his Chicago home. He led the Castle Campbell Opera Company, an early English opera troupe in America.
Wealthy farmer in fatal city carriage incident
Maynard, a wealthy farmer from Wawon, Washington, drove with his wife into Bellingham. He said after leaving home she swayed in the carriage seat and he kept his arm around her until they reached the city, where he discovered she had died.
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Flads
Wawon
Headore Maynard
Bellingham
Wash
Premature explosion kills eight on Ohio railroad
Eight men died and several injured when a premature blast struck a construction crew working on the Norfolk and Western Railway line five miles south of Kilkenny, Ohio. The workers were part of a double track project.
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Bleht
Joy
Kiletenthe
Ohio
Tariff Debates Dominate Senate and House Sessions
The text reports a multisession congressional week with Senate debates on oil and lumber tariffs and House discussion of the Payne bill. Speakers include Vreeland, Kitchen, Mann, Larrinaga, and others, with arguments from Southern and Midwestern representatives. The session features contention over tariff methods, committee procedures, and calls for a tariff commission, ending with adjournment.
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Senate
Payne Turist
House of Representatives
Pulp
Louisiana
Thomas
North Carolina
Mann
Milnels
Larrinaga
Messrs. Morgan
Missouri
Brantley
Georgia
Douglas
Ohio
Kathermel
Pennsylvania
Lovering
Massachusetts
Sulter
New York
Mondell
Wyoming
Priest
Payne
Pablo Ocampo de Leon
Telegraphic Briefities and Notable Remarks
Three men were killed in an explosion at the Coeur Alene powder works plant in Wallace Lituho. Count Leo Tolstoy again suffers from destination of the genes in his leg, but his condition is not serious per St. Petersburg reports. Dr Ehner S. Lew told the Medical Society in New York that Americans take too many baths and noted a respected man in attendance who had not bathed in twelve years.
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Coeur Alene
Wallace
Lituho
Leo Tolstoy
St. Petersburg
Ehner S. Lew
Medisco-Legal Society
New York
Ode of Comfort and Faith in Times of Grief
A devotional verse from John Newton depicts a mourner at Laytonr's tomb at dawn. The speaker asks why the heart grieves as sorrow and tears abound while a beloved oxen helper remains near. The poem frames enduring hardship, prayerful solace, and the promise that morning brings relief through faith and divine care.
Tom Brennan Saves Nuns and Orphans in Easter Fire
In a crowded city, Tom Brennan, famed as the handsomest fireman, battles a blaze at a convent and adjoining orphanage on Easter morning. He rescues children and nuns, his heart torn by a former love, Maggie, who became a nun. The story follows his brave, tragic devotion as flames rage and danger escalates. The wife-to-be Maggie is referenced, and Dooley Bryan and Larry Finn gossip about past love and fate.
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Tom
Larry Finn
Tom Brennan
Book and Ladder Company No
Dooley Bryan
Dununo
Thian
Larry
Dooley
Mr. Bryan
Maggie
Darlin
Bho
Hong
Sister Mary Beatrice and the Convent Miracle
A dramatic scene unfolds as Sister Mary Beatrice prays from a rooftop window while a crowd watches Tom Brennan, engulfed in smoke and excitement. She proclaims the crippled boy Tom first, then braces herself as Brennan reaches the window. A mighty cheer erupts as the crowd witnesses a pivotal, tragic moment in a chaotic vigil at the convent.
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Mary Beatrice
Brennan
Tom
Tom Brennan
Easter in Russia and Paris Easter gown trends
The article notes Russia’s Easter rites with midnight processions and candles, then shifts to social scenes in Paris with a high priced tailor made gown. It describes Easter wedding trends using a prayer book with flower markers as bouquet substitutes and reports New York church collections totaling about $250,000 on Easter morning across Greater New York.
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Russia
Christ
Evelyn
Myrtle
Paris
New York
Bose
New York Times
Easter Dress Hats Shoes and Fireworks Fund Message
Read Easter shopping lines listing costs for dress forty dollars hat twelve dollars and shoes and gloves zero dollars. A man mutters about singing in church next Sunday and a child jokes about selling Easter eggs for seven cents to fund Fourth of July fireworks.
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Mia Ewater
Jenny
Willle
Wille
Willie
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Hale
Messrs. Gaines
W. Va
McCall
Masa
Ways and Means Committee
Philippines
Desux
Shin
John Newton
Tom Grogan
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