Drastic Spy Bill Passes Senate With Severe Penalties
The Senate approved a sweeping spy measure that imposes up to life imprisonment for certain wartime disclosures and two years or a 10000 dollar fine for actions relating to national defence. The bill also empowers the President to seize munitions and regulate foreign ships in emergencies. Officials anticipate the President seeking broad authority next week to respond to the submarine crisis.
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Congress
United States
Germany
Wilson
Senate
Relieve Catarrhal Deafness with Parmint Mixture
If you suffer from catarrhal deafness or head noises, obtain 1 ounce of Parmint double strength from a druggist. Mix with 4 pints hot water and 4 ounces granulated sugar. Take 1 tablespoonful four times daily to ease head noises, open clogged nostrils, ease breathing, and stop mucus drops. Easy to prepare and inexpensive.
Free Cooking Class Promises Savings and Skills
Mrs A Louise Andrea Gold Medal winner at Panama Pacific Exposition offers a free home based cooking course by mail. The program claims to cut living costs through real food values and efficient kitchen work and invites readers to enroll by writing to The Gentlewoman Cooking Class New York.
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A. Louise Andrea
West
Dept
New York City
Union opposes spy bill seeks Wilson veto
A committee led by Amos R. E. Pinchot was formed by the American Union Against Militarism to urge President Wilson to veto the espionage punishment bill in its current form. The group opposes section three for barring peaceful agitation and war criticism.
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New York
Amos R. E. Pinchot
American Union Against
Wilson
Congress
Senate approves 15000 for telephone rate probe
The State Senate passed to engrossment a 15000 appropriation for the Public Service Commission to investigate the rates and finances of the New England Telephone and Telegraph Company. The Ways and Means Committee opposed it but Senator Cavanagh won the vote 17 to 6, sending the measure back to the House with two Senate amendments. The note then advanced to a third reading.
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State Senate
Public Service Commission
New England Telephone & Telegraph Company
Ways and Means Committee
Cavanagh
Everett
Senate
House
Man Plunges From Bridge To Ice In Boston Tragedy
A well dressed man about 25 years old walked onto the Cam bridge side of the West Boston bridge and 35 feet above the river plunged head first onto the ice. He survived the initial fall but then died after sliding 400 feet to open water and slipping over the edge. The body was recovered.
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Cambridge
Boston
The
Charles
Broad Sound
Discharge of Chelsea Coast Artillery Guards After Inspection
After four hours on guard duty, the Fifth Company Coast Artillery Corps at Chelsea was dismissed following an inspection of sentries along the conduit linking the federal wireless station to Charlestown navy yard. The inspection was conducted by Adjutant General Gardner W. Pearson Captain George T Latimer and Captain Fred R. Robinson.
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Coast Artillery Corps
Chelsea
Charlestown Navy Yard
Gardner W. Pearson
George T. Latimer
H Company
Fifth Regiment
Charlestown
Fred R. Robinson
Duty call for Chelsea conduit protection by Latimer unit
Heavies and H Company of the Fifth were mobilized Monday night to guard a conduit. Captain Latimer’s force reported promptly, leaving only one man unreachable by 8 p.m. A senior officer appointed three four hour shifts with details led by First Lieutenant Patrick F. O'Brien, Second Lieutenant James I. Kearney, and Second Lieutenant Donald M. Hastings.
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Latimer
Patrick F. O’brien
James I. Kearney
Co. A. C
Donald M. Hastings
New War Pictures Show Japanese Land and Sea Action
Exclusive preview in the Sun Day Post reveals fresh Japanese artistic perspectives on warfare. Artists depict battles on land and sea, offering a novel visual interpretation for readers.
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Next Sunday Post
Norwegian Submarine Survives British Pursuit in North Sea
The U-boat halted a steamer and fired a torpedo triggering a fierce explosion. A British destroyer rushed in as the sub dived, losing maneuverability but escaping major damage. Crew endured dives and cold, with 42 men aboard and a triumphal Helgoland harbor return as civilians populated the island.
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North Sea
Jacobsen
Horn’s Reef
Helgoland
Solveig
Unofficial Captain Named for Lusitania Sinking
The article states no official commander has been named for the Lusitania sinking. It mentions an unofficial claim naming Captain Max Valentiner, described as son of the dean of Sondersburg Cathedral.
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Lusitania
Max Valentiner
Sondersburg
West End Women Rally Over Food Shortages in Hunger Crisis
Mrs Eva Hoffman convened a Mothers Club meeting at 125 Leverett street as fear of riots loomed. Women described children starving for days, prices soaring from 80 cents to 1.15 for potatoes, onions up, and stores hoarding goods to push costs higher.
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Eva Hoffman
Mothers’ Club
Leverett Street
Max Weinert
Brighton Street
Anna
Blossom Street
Jennie Lefkowitz
Russell Place
Fannie Barnes
Barton Street
Hoffman
West End
Spring
Chambers Street
Spring Street
Post
Anna Weinert
Food Price Spike Hits Boston Stores
Sugar rose to eight cents a pound in large Boston shops with some small stores asking up to twenty cents. Potatoes climbed to ninety cents or more amid limits on purchases per customer. Governor McCall urged national price action at a dinner, while Ida M. Hebbard of the Housekeepers’ League planned to press him to intervene. Roxbury stores displayed potatoes in windows at inflated prices with strict per-customer quotas.
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Boston
McCall
Ida M. Hebbard
Housekeepers’ League
Riots Hit New York as Women Rioters Confront Vendors
In New York City a food riot erupts around City Hall and tenements as women assault pushcarts selling onions and potatoes at high prices. Commissioner Hartigan calls for federal food control plans while shopkeepers face mobs and Mothers' Vigilance League pushes school closures to lower costs.
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New York
Joseph Hartigan
Congress
Food Control Commission
United States
Bureau of Weights and Measures
Upper East Side
Ida Harris
Mothers’ Vigilance League
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