Improvement in Business Shown Cotton Price Advancing
Washington reports national bank examiners from the treasury department indicate widespread improvement in business conditions across the United States. Eighty of ninety examiners note marked gains, with agriculture excellent, commercial lines expanding, manufacturing rising, and rail and structural orders active. The South shows strong improvement as cotton sales rise, prices advance, and overall economic activity strengthens, while New England and mid-Atlantic areas show less pronounced gains.
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Treasury Department
United States
Western
Pacific States
New England
Middle Aton
Central Est
Lhough
South
Turkey Better Prepared Says Von Der Goltz In Vienna
Field Marshal Von der Goltz, en route to Constantinople, reports Emperor Francis Joseph in a serious but confident mood. He notes Turkey has about 1.25 million trained troops plus reserves, rejects entente overstatements of fortress losses at Sedd el Bahr and Kum Kale, and says Constantinople remained calm and unalarmed.
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Dardanelles
Vienna
London
Sedd-El-Bahr
Kum- Kaleh
Constantinople
Turkish War Office Reports Dardanelles Action
The Turkish war office states no serious Allied attack occurred on April 8 at the Dardanelles. The day prior two enemy cruisers bombarded the straits entrance but achieved nothing. One cruiser and a torpedo boat were hit by Turkish shells.
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Constantinople
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Russians Seize Carpathian Passes as Hungary Turmoil Grows
Russian forces push through the Carpathians gaining control of key passes and threaten a descent onto the plains of Hungary. Austrian and German corps brace for continued resistance while Italy weighs intervention. British critics hail Russian maneuvering as Austro German lines thin, risking a broader collapse in East Galicia and Bukowina.
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Carpathian
Hungary
Austria-Hungary
Italy
Germany
Austria
Francis Joseph
Pope Benedict
Russia
Carpathians
Polianka
Bartfeld
Dukla Pass
Dukla
Mezalaborez
Galicia
Bukowina
Austrians Quit Front in Bukowina Front
Petrograd dispatches report the Austrians attempted a two pronged lightning advance from Czernowitz toward Chotin and the Dniester while pressing along the Dneister fortifications. The Chotin attack failed and the retreat of the second group casts doubt on any success of the plan despite ongoing operations and encircling efforts.
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London
Chotin
Bukowina
East Prussia
Czernowitz
Sadogura
Dniester
Dneister
Zale Sacysky
Physician Dies From Typhus in Serbia Red Cross Unit
Washington reports the death of Dr. Ernest P. Magruder a leading physician in the American Red Cross unit in Serbia from typhus fever. He is the second American surgeon to die in the Serb typhus campaign after Dr. Joseph F. Donnelly of Brooklyn. Of six American surgeons and twelve nurses, only Dr. G F Butler remains untouched by the disease.
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Washington
Ernest P. Magruder
Red Cross
Serbia
Belgrade
Magruder
Servia
Joseph F. Donnelly
Brooklyn
G. F. Butler
Two Farmers in Weakley County Die by Suicide
Dresden Tennessee reports two leading farmers in Weakley County, Steve McWherter aged 38 and Frank Jones aged 41, died by suicide within days of each other. McWherter used a forked stick to discharge a shotgun in a palmersville home, while Jones hanged himself from a barn loft rope. Both men left grieving wives and children. no note was found.
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Weakley County
Steve McWherter
Palmersville
Frank Jones
Latham
McWherter
Memphis
Jones
Six Weeks Supply on Hand Warns of Textile Collapse
A gloomy White House briefing warns that without a six week dyestuff shipment, 270 mills would close and 260000 textile workers lose jobs as Britain’s blockade and German trade limits tighten. Officials doubt a workable plan with Britain and Germany, amid talks with Count von Bernstorff and a call to threaten non-contraband cargoes to Britain.
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Count von Bernstorff
United States
America
Berlin
Jury convicts 27 in Terre Haute election fraud case
In Indianapolis federal court Mayor Donn M. Roberts of Terre Haute and 26 co defendants were found guilty of conspiring to corrupt Terre Haute’s election last November. The judge said he would sentence the convicted men, while 189 others had pleaded guilty on April 12.
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Terre Haute
Ind
Donn M. Roberts
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Bave
German Commander Interns Prinz Eitel Friedrich at Newport News
Commander Max Thierichens of the German auxiliary cruiser Prinz Eitel Friedrich agrees to intern the ship and crew in Newport News after denying delivery to British and French warships off the Virginia capes. The decision lifts embargoes on allied merchant ships, allowing several cleared vessels to depart.
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Prinz Eitel Friedrich
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Virginia Capes
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Hampton Roads
Orient
William P. Frye
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Washington
Hamilton
Friedrich
American
Thierichens
Norfolk
Fails for twelve million J B Greenhut Co receivership
New York firm J B Greenhut Co with 12 million in outstanding securities and two department stores on Sixth Avenue enters receivership after an involuntary bankruptcy petition by three creditors totaling 3 million. Claims range from 3.5 to 12 billion in liabilities with assets cited around 7.5 million to 6 million, depending on estimate. Receivers Walter Noyes and William Marble named under 100 thousand bond, business to continue. Central Trust Co of New York acts as trustee for 6 million bond issue with 150 thousand retirements yearly.
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J. B. Greenhut Co
Sixth Avenue
Monmouth Securities Company
Walter C. Noyes
William A. Marble
J. B. Greenhut Company
Central Trust Company of New York
Thompson elected Chicago mayor by large plurality
William Hale Thompson won Chicago’s mayoral race by an estimated 130000 votes as 1400 of 1566 precincts reported. The Republican slate swept the city, women voted for the first time, and turnout reached about 85 percent of the nearly three-quarters of a million registered voters. Thompson carried Democratic strongholds and even Sweitzer’s precinct in a West Side ward.
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William Hale Thompson
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Robert Sweitzer
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West Side
State capital notes on false billing indictments and rail fare relief
Federal grand jury in Aberdeen charges eight Mississippi cotton concerns with false reshipment billing under interstate commerce rules. Indictments name firms in Corinth Tupelo Okolona and nearby towns. The Mississippi railroad commission grants permission for reduced rates to Belhaven College summer school attendees, with advance approval to avoid objections.
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Christian Workers’ School
Mississippi Synod of the Presbyterian Church
Belhaven College
Railroad Commission
G. H. Bowers
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J B. Hutton
First Presbyterian Church
Belhaven
Bowers
Quarterly Meeting Of State Bank Examiners
The board of bank examiners met in the state house banking department with E. F. Anderson chairing, joined by J. S. Love S. S. Harris and assistants John K. Armstrong H Knox Waller. They reported improvements in bank conditions at all institutions visited and plan a second round by early May. They do not expect a large list of banks to close when the 1914 deposit guarantee becomes compulsory on May 15.
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Banking Department
State House
E. F. Anderson
Clinton
J. S. Love
Hattiesburg
S. S. Harris
Tupelo
John K. Armstrong
Louisville
H. Knox Waller
Prentiss
Mississippi examiners mark fifteen earn licenses
Fifteen of the thirty applicants passed the state board of pharmacy examination in Mississippi, with Mrs. Helen C. McGowan of Quitman achieving the highest score as the sole woman test taker. President May Accept. The Southern Conference for Education and Industry will meet in Chattanooga from April 27 to 30, with Mississippi leaders seeking broad county participation and a possible Woodrow Wilson address. officials expect his acceptance. Frisco Is Fined. The railroad commission fined Frisco Railroad $600 for failing to build a new depot at Amory within the required 90 days, with potential additional penalties if delays continue.
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Helen C. McGowan
Quitman
Southern Conference For Education and Industry
Chattanooga
Tenn
Mississippi
Hart Brewer
W. H. Smith
Woodrow Wilson
Frisco
Railroad Commission
Frisco Railroad
Amory
Ttis
Mississippi briefs on industry battles and civic events
Gulfport reports a new shrimp catching device for power boats. Rumors claim cotton bought by Boyce & Co. of Memphis would load on the Huso for England. J J Moore, 77, found dead in Magnolia hotel. coroner’s inquest returns natural causes. Dr Anna Howard Shaw spoke in Meridian under the Equal Suffrage association. Relatives of Dan Sullivan sought. body sent to Patterson, Miss. Tate County ag school trustees pick Prof A G Gainey for 1915 16. Tick eradication plans discussed in Warren county. Whitworth College trains to California expo. 125 travelers expected. J T Ryan found guilty of murder. life sentence requested in Vicksburg. Schlater fire causes $40,000 loss. origin unknown. Spring boosts peanut orders to Gloucester. W T Stegall’s 81st birthday celebrated in Pontotoc with four generations. Mississippi Sunday school delegates parade in Tupelo. Egg classing and marketing class taught at A M M C. May 14 commencement address at Bolivar high school planned. Confederate Memorial building dedicated in Greenwood. Democratic state executive committee to meet to set 1915 primaries dates and fundraising plan.
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