Austro Hungarian Row Sparks Hungary Independence Talks
A Bucharest dispatch reports Germany warns Romania to halt mobilization else war. Pan Slavic elements rise in Hungary with meetings banned as diplomats note possible push toward independent peace with the Allies. Baron Burian's Germany visit, Stuergkh resignation, and Archduke Charles Francis at German HQ fuel crisis talk. Lloyds differentiates peace insurance rates for Germany Britain and Austria.
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Party pledge broken in House attack on Wilson renomination
Representative Mann accuses President Wilson of building a personal machine to secure renomination and violating Democratic platform pledges to one term. He cites the Baltimore platform and compares past proposals on term limits with current administration practices.
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Senator Penrose Illness Forces Home Confinement
Philadelphia January 23 A bronchial affliction affecting Senator Penrose since his return to the Senate has worsened to confinement at home He was forced to bed and cancel engagements His brother Dr Charles B Penrose and Dr H B Carpenter attend him with the family physician attributing the illness to indoor and outdoor exposure in cold air
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Morgan Urges Passage of Agricultural Credit
Representative Morgan Republican read a concurrent resolution urging a special session of Congress to enact rural credits legislation. The resolution states that if the Sixty third Congress adjourns without rural credit laws, the Sixty fourth should be convened in extraordinary session to consider agricultural credit.
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Arizona approves widowers pension plan for dependent men
Arizona lawmakers unanimously passed a mothers pension bill providing widowers over 60 with children monthly pensions of 15 dollars for the widower and six dollars per child. The measure repeals a prior mothers pension act adopted by initiative at the nonmember election amid voters’ bloc against repealing or amending initiated measures.
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Abe Lincoln’s Chum Weds in Old Age
Josiah Millard aged 89, longtime friend of Abraham Lincoln and foreman of the grand jury that indicted Jefferson Davis, married Martha E. Streeks age 63 in Baltimore. The wedding followed the late wife’s wish expressed before her death five years ago. Millard and his first wife cohabited for sixty three years.
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Ohio Republicans Push License Decentralizing Bill
Ohio Republicans move to decenter liquor licensing by abolishing Cox era State and County License Boards and transferring licensing authority to county ex officio boards led by elected officers. The bill keeps fees and aims for rapid passage with Democratic support in solid counties.
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Thaw Arrives in Boston amid Surging Welcome
Harry K. Thaw, the Stanford White slayer, arrives at Boston North Terminal from Concord after surrender to New York authorities. Thousands cheer as police manage the crowd. Thaw heads to a hotel with his party.Special Deputy Attorney General William Jerome stays in Boston overnight. Thaw issues a statement thanking NH residents and noting submission to the Supreme Court's decree.
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Cavite insurgent leader Noriel ordered executed
Governor Harrison issues order to put General Noriel to death on January 27 in Manila. The insurgent leader, a Cavite native, was convicted of murder at a cock fight and had prior delays from a jurist. A pending measure to abolish capital punishment presents the only hope for clemency.
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Toledo Woman Burns Self to Death in Home for Girls
The body of Mrs. Agnes Yoder, 25, wife of Edward Yoder, a Milford Michigan lay preacher, was found in a bathroom at a girls' home. Coroner ruled suicide by saturating clothing with coal oil and igniting it. Mrs. Yoder, a telephone operator in Toledo, was under treatment for a nervous disorder.
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Edward Yoder
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America and Europe by Calvin Dill Wilson
Poem praising American and European unity across seas. It declares liberty, progress, and divine guidance shaping a free, growing civilization. It contrasts Old World stagnation with new world vitality and asserts seas as both divider and connector. Glendale Ohio January 28 1915.
California Governor Johnson Opposes Alien Land Clause Change
Governor Hiram W. Johnson spoke against amendments to the 1913 anti alien land act. He warned the Sharter bill to end the three year leasing clause would be vetoed if passed, citing labor groups support and fears for Japanese and other aliens leasing land. The governor recalled past debates and claims of offending a friendly nation and treaty tensions.
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Soissons Fight Won With Aid Of Autos
Berlin reports that a German counterattack at Soissons was repelled after a reinforcements column of over 200 automobiles arrived on January 12. The motor convoys were driven to Vregny where they joined the left flank and helped drive French forces from the plateau. The article notes that cars previously used mainly for rifle transport in cavalry units accelerated troop movement in this critical engagement.
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Vregny
Bomb strikes near American Consulate in Dunkirk report
London dispatch says one of twelve to thirteen bombs by German aircraft hit near the American Consulate, destroying windows and furniture but causing little other damage. French and British pilots claimed a German plane over the Belgian frontier and captured its crew.
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England Is Held Germanys Only Foe
A Hamburg Nachrichtens report cited by Reuters from Amsterdam says the Reichs Anzeiger lists prizes for military achievements against England. Three of four awards pay 125 to 626 dollars to the first sailor to set foot on Great Britain, the crew of an airship to reach the English coast and drop a bomb, and the aviator who drops the first bomb on Dover.
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Clergy in Belgium informed on German salary pledge
Amsterdam Jan 23 The Maas Bode publishes a statement vouched by the Vicar General that Belgian clergy were told by German authorities their salaries would be paid by Germany if they signed a declaration to abstain from certain activities.
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