Flotilla Joins Battle Ships in Harbor of Rio
The American battleship fleet arrives at Rio de Janeiro harbor joining the torpedo boat flotilla. Lieutenant Commander Cone reports generally good health aboard and the flotilla plans to sail for Buenos Aires after four days.
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Rio
Rio Janiero
Pernambuco
Coney
Bremen
Cone
United States
Hopkins
Arethusa
Buenos Ayres
Berlin
Evans
Punta Arenas
France Wrestles With Hafid Power Shift In Morocco
Paris reports growing Moor fanaticism for Mulai Hafid pressures France as Abd-el-Aziz backing wanes. In Settat, Mulai Rachid force losses of 150 killed and 300 wounded blunt Hafid’s route to Fez, prompting a shift to nominal neutrality and renewed policing around Casablanca. FEZ patrols guard streets near foreign consulates to prevent European pillage.
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Paris
Mulai Hafid
France
Morocco
Mulai Hafida
Algeciras
Abd-el-Aziz
Foreign Office
Settat
Mulai Rachid
Casablanca
Hafid
d’Amade
Fez
Europe
Spain
Hettat
M. Jau
Chamber of Deputies
Abd-el- Aziz
Pichon
D’ Amade
Drude
M. Pichon
Thaw Trial Nears Crisis Over Private Testimony
Evelyn Thaw and Mrs. Thaw testified as prosecutors call for excluding the public from recounting the defendant's life story. Judges and attorneys clash over open hearing rights as witnesses describe Thaw's irrational conduct and a dramatic courtroom scene continues.
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Commercial Tribune
New York
Thaw
Evelyn Thaw
William Thaw
Paris
Jerome
Martin W. Littleton
Ready For The Race Hon ors Readers To Vote
The Commercial Tribune invites readers to vote on the better novel starting tomorrow. Each reader may cast a vote and submit a one hundred word criticism. Prizes awarded weekly for best criticisms, with top prize funded by National Criticism prizes from The New York.
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Commercial Tribune
New York
Walsh Jury Ends Its Deliberations In Chicago Case
In Chicago on January 18 the jury in John R. Walsh's trial signaled readiness to verdict by summoning a bailiff and ink. Judge Anderson had stated he would not receive the verdict before 10 a.m. The jurors fell silent after midnight, ending hours of debate as they prepared to deliver a decision.
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Justice Dowling
Jerome
Evelyn Thaw
Alice GC. Fletcher
Washington
Harry
Catherine O'Neill
Thaw
Commercial Tribune
Chicago
John R. Walsh
Anderson
Henry Watterson
North
Booker T. Washington
Tuskegee
Kentucky
Tobacco Belt
Injunction Sought Against Strikers at Paper Plant
The Champion Coated Paper Company asked the Common Pleas Court for an injunction against striking workers led by International President J. T. Carey and Local No. 49. The filing cites violence and harassment at the plant and seeks to bar pickets from congregating or attempting to persuade employees to break contracts. Peter G Thomson, College Hill financier, is noted as president and manager of the firm.
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Commercial Tribune
Hamilton
Champion Coated Paper Company
Cincinnati
Common Pleas Court
International
J. T. Carey
International Brotherhood of Paper Makers
Frank Menchen
Andrew Miller
College Hill
Peter G Thomson
China Quietly Orders Quick Firing Guns in Paris
Paris reports an urgent Chinese order for quick firing guns, with speculation that it stems from tension with Japan or domestic Chinese turmoil. No confirmation on the buyer or exact fate of the weapons.
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Paris
China
Japan
Woman jumps from 13th-story St. Regis window in crisis
Mrs. Herbert M. Sears of Boston, a guest at the St. Regis, leaped from a thirteenth story window. She suffered from a long nervous disorder and had been in New York nine days for treatment. Dr. Joseph Collins noted a temporary insanity episode. The body fell onto a adjoining building roof, 100 feet below.
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Boston
St. Regis
Commercial Tribune
New York
Herbert M. Sears
Sears
Hisoak
Collins
Tribune
Herbert .M. Sears
Philip ‘S. Sears
Commonwealth Avenue
Pope Suffers An Attack Of Gout In Rome
Jan 17 reports spread about Pope Pius health after an acute gout flare. Doctors advised rest and canceled today and tomorrow's engagements, though initial rumors overstate the illness.
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Pope
Rome
Pope Pius
Pe Hig
Moving Picture Shows Stopped In Mobile
Mobile officials led by Mayor J P Lyons ordered all moving picture shows closed after an inspection found fire exits dangerous. Fire department and inspectors reported only one exit in five stores, forcing some venues to permanently shut.
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Mobile
Ala
J. P. Lyons
McCalla urges immediate naval reorganization
Rear Admiral Bowman H. McCalla calls for radical and immediate reorganization of the navy. He criticizes civilian leadership at the Navy Department, warns of insufficient officers and arms, and urges a stronger fleet and a skeletal army ready for swift mobilization.
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Commercial Tribune
Santa Barbara
Cal
Bowman H. McCalla
Blockade Placed On Haitian Ports Gonaives and St. Marc
Government declares ports of Gonaives and St. Marc blockaded as insurgents hold them. Preparations to bombard underway. The yacht Eagle and Commander George Marvell arrived and met with the American Minister Dr. Furniss before heading to St. Mare.
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Port AU Prince
Haiti
Gonaives
St. Marc
Eagle
George Marvell
Furniss
St. Mare
Noted plea for negro uplift at Carnegie Hall in New York
A diverse audience heard Henry Hughes and Booker T. Washington urge support for Tuskegee Institute at Carnegie Hall. Governor Hughes argued equal rights and opportunity for all citizens, while editor Henry Watterson stressed the negro question and the need for education and self improvement.
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Commercial Tribune
New York
Carnegie Hall
Cardinal Gibbons
James Bryce
Tuskegee Institute
Henry Watterson
Booker T. Washington
Armstrong Association
Tuskegee
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Evelyn Nesbit
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Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
WALSH
Hamilton Paper Company
Vatican
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Comercial Tribune
Mpcalla
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York
Seth Low
Low
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Isaac N. Seligmann
John D. Rockefeller
Henry H. Rogers
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Robert C. Ogden
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