Ford peace plan reaches workers as divorce case looms
Chicago report details Henry Ford promoting peace at home as a court battle unfolds over Daniel L. Smith seeking $35,500 of a $50,000 fee tied to freeing John Bross Lloyd from guardianship and a trust. Lloyd faces a major suit while exhibits and Hammond's master report influence the proceedings.
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John Bross Lloyd
The
Chicago Tribune
Harvard
Globe Trotter
Ida J. McGraw
Everett
Supreme Court
Daniel L. Smith
Boston
Lloyd
Franklin T. Hammond
Walter Bb. Grant
Smith
J. J. Kaplan
Mexican Leader Hopes to Catch Bandit with Troops
Carranza aims to capture the bandit with his own forces to avoid an American invasion. Obregon to direct a campaign against Villa. Border towns report better sentiment as Mexican troops are withdrawn.
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Obregon
Villa
Strict Censorship On News Of U S Troops
El Paso reports that Pershing led a punitive expedition across the Mexican border at 2 30 this morning from a Deming source. Also Obregon plans to visit Juarez to assume charge of the Carranza campaign against Villa, seen as Villa's ancient enemy and the first to show he is not invincible.
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EL Paso
Texas
J. J. Pershing
Mexico
Deming
Columbus
Tex
Alvaro Obregon
Juarez
Carranza
Villa
Obregon
Peace leader rules force divorces or quitting work
Henry Carter at a Ford plant received a divorce for desertion under a company rule that workers and their wives must separate or lose five dollar daily wages. Walter May, ex superintendent of the sociological department, testified the policy aims to keep the man from poor performance. The judge affirmed that Carter must obtain a decree to retain his job, as the company does not want to lose him.
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Peace Leader
Henry Carter
Walter G. May
F Evanston
Ford Works
May
Carter
Ags
Missing Son Suspected in $500 Cash Theft Report
Mrs. Marcaline Robison of Washington avenue South Boston reported to police that $500 in cash disappeared from her home sometime Monday. Her son James aged 26 has been missing since then and authorities are seeking him.
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Marcaline Robison
Washington Avenue
Boston
James
Harvard Guarded Case Tells of John Bross Lloyd
The master's report records John Bross Lloyd arriving in Cambridge from Chicago on January 6 1907. A letter by his brother William Bross Lloyd says John was introduced to Mrs McGraw to be cared for by her. John, admitted to Harvard College as a dropped freshman on probation in 1906, became involved with Mrs McGraw, a married Everett resident with husband and daughter.
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John Bross Lloyd
Cambridge
Chicago
William Bross Lloyd
John
McGraw
William
Harvard College
Everett
Prisoner Faces Insanity Plea In Violet Mooers Murder
Clifford Manicure appears in police court charged with the murder of Mrs. Violet Mooers. Family testify he had shown strange behavior for a year. An unclaimed body is in the morgue as the case proceeds.
Manicure parlor death and Newtonville grocer arraigned
Violet C. Mooers was fatally shot in a Winter street manicure parlor and lay unclaimed at North Grove morgue. Irving F. Olmstead of Newtonville Brewster was arraigned on murder charges and held for a March 21 hearing after death occurred at Relief Hospital. His wife wept at Court square police station and forgave him.
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Violet C. Mooers
Winter Street
North Grove Street
Relief Hospital
Irving FE. Olmstead
Newtonville
Brewster
Olmstead
Court Square
Third Verdun Onslaught Repulsed With Heavy Losses
German forces launched a third major assault against Verdun this afternoon after a prolonged bombardment. The attack was repulsed by French defences, with the official war department reporting great losses to the German infantry.
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London
Verdun
French War Department
Verdun Assault Narrowly Repulsed At Le Mort Homme
German forces launched a third great offensive against the Verdun fortress aiming to seize high ground northwest of Verdun to push their right flank forward and shell inner defenses. The bombardment and attack near Le Mort Homme and Bethincourt lasted three days, but the assaults were repulsed except for two footholds in French trenches.
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Verdun
le Mort Homme
Dead Man Hill
Bethincourt
Trapped in Tomb with Wife and Bodies
Montpelier Vermont reports P Chenette survived a night locked in the receiving vault with his wife’s body and five other caskets awaiting burial. He found the vault door unlatched and told the cemetery committee who then asked him to repair it.
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Montpelier
P. Chenette
Trapped in Tomb Chenette Smashes Door Fights Freezing Night
In freezing silence Chenette seeks escape from a tomb where his wife's body lies. He fixes an outer door, fails to close an inner door, and tears at the frame. His efforts end with a snapped knob, bleeding fingers, and a perilous struggle to stay alive until rescue or dawn.
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Chenette
Mail Order Proposition Inquiry Ad
Open for a good mail order proposition seeking manufacture and sale of a useful legitimate article. Prefers new invention if possible and sales through agents or mail with liberal profit. Provide full particulars. If you have a telephone number, include it. Address P. O. Box 1245 Boston Mass.
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Boston
Mass
Withdrawal of Mexican Troops From Yaqui Campaign
Large detachments of Mexican troops with artillery have been withdrawn from the Yaqui campaign in southern Sonora and started north. Raids by the Yaquis upon American settlements are feared, according to radio advices received in San Diego.
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San Diego
Cal
Sonora
Night Sky and Weather Details for Portland and Newport
The notice lists moon phases from early April with full moon on April 18 and new tides. It notes Venus in the west and Mars in the east at sunset, plus Saturn’s position. It records auto and vehicle light times, and marks anniversaries including the French and Indian War start in 1744, Andrew Jackson’s birth in 1767, and Maine’s 1820 statehood.
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Moo Wilset
Venus
Mars
Saturn
Andrew Jackson
Maine
Samoa
U. S
British Admiralty
Dresden
Juan Fernandez Island
Boston Area Weather Forecast: Snow or Rain Wednesday
Washington forecast notes southern New England to have snow or rain Wednesday with colder night, then Thursday fair and colder. Winds shift from easterly to westerly. Northern New England sees snow Wednesday, colder at night, Thursday fair with snow in eastern Maine.
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Boston
Washington
New England
Wight
Maine
Temperature report from Thompson's Spa shows yesterday's average
Yesterday's average temperature at Thompson's Spa is listed as 85 with a region wide comparison showing averages for yesterday and a year ago. The document then lists temperatures for several U S cities including Albany Atlantic City Baltimore Chicago New York Philadelphia Denver and others with varying values. It reads like a weather summary page from a metropolitan area.
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Thompson's Spa
Albany
Disgigt
Nose Nies Ae
Atlantic City
Montreal
Baltimore
Nantecket
Bismarck
New Orleans
New York
Charleston
Philadelphia
Chicago
Pittsburg
Denver
Portland
Des Moines
Ore
Eastport
San Francisco
Galveston
San Diego
Hatteras
Trioos
Bias
Yicekbebeiee
Gaomie Sa
Eterna Jacksonville
Titts
PRB
Kansas City
Washington
U S Army Placed On War Footing For Mexico Campaign
Washington March 14 The Wilson administration moved to a full war footing with 19 947 additional troops approved by the House to bolster border forces and deploy mobile units for an extended campaign in Mexico and pursuit of Villa.
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Washington
Mexico
United States
Wilson
Baker
Villa
Army to push enlistments as Senate action looms
The War Department sent telegraphic orders to recruiting officers to enlist vigorously while awaiting Senate approval of a House backed resolution authorizing up to 100000 enlisted men. The measure, aimed at filling gaps on the Mexican border, would raise all units to the maximum strength when an emergency exists, with 1947 additional troops allocated to continental forces.
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Senate
War Department
House
Congress
United States
Philippines
Hay
Mexican
Mexico
Villa
House of Representatives
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