Filibuster over Shipping Bill Splits Senate Power
Senators Lodge and Perkins warn the shipping bill could trigger war with four nations as a marathon Senate fight stretches into a second night. The session features bed in the committee room and a tense exchange over recess and continued debate, with Alden Smith delivering a biting critique of administration policy.
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Simmons
William Alden Smith
Michigan
Smoot
Smith
White House
German Sub Sinks Three Ships Far from Base
A German submarine on its fourth war patrol sank three ships far from its base. The vessel, 1 978 tons register, belonged to Morrison Shipping Company and was en route from Orkney Islands to Liverpool with a general cargo. Fleetwood is named as a principal port in the report.
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Morrison Shipping Company
Orkney Islands
Liverpool
England
Mindset of Georgia pastor bribe case emerges in court
The report details bribery accusations in Atlanta involving Rev C and Ragsdale with witnesses including I H Hirsch who testified that Ragsdale claimed his mind was dazed when signing a false affidavit and that $209 was paid for the falsified document as the trial proceeded.
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Atlanta
Lehon
B. Ragsdale
L. Barber
Thurman
Ragsdale
Barber
Tedder
Boston Plans a Franchise Precedent
Boston embraces a cooperative approach with public utilities to control light rates and capital costs. The shift mirrors Cincinnati's history, moving from fixed company rates to municipal engagement, with the city seeking mutual profit and consumer protections. The article notes a growing city strategy, planting the seed of city company cooperation.
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Step Bay State
Boston
Cincinnati
Assur
Herald
Assurt
Light‘ing
Shipping bill sparks war risk warning in Senate debate
In Washington on January 30 the shipping bill debate featured Senator Lodge warning that buying imprisoned ships could draw the United States into a four-way war with Britain France and Russia. Senator Perkins urged a national conference and argued private shipowners must not be forced out. Officials denied a state Dept note from Sir Edward Grey and noted British opposition to transferring flag, with Russia and France also against such moves.
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the Commercial Tribune
Washington
Senate
Lodge
United States
Great Britain
Gallinger
Mr. Lodge
Russia
France
State Department
Vera Cruz
Perkins
Smith
Michigan
Sir Edward Grey
Sir Edward
Bryan
England
New Era Dawning For Wage Earners Says Champ Clark
Special Dispatch reports Champ Clark, Speaker of the U S House, said in Chicago that 20th century statecraft and humanitarianism will spread profits fairly and prevent monopolies. He cited 118 years of growth to 140 billion dollars and praised profit sharing, pension plans, and peaceful labor capi tal relations.
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Champ Clark
The
Commercial Tribune
Chicago
National House of Representatives
N. O. Nelson
St. Louis
War on Whisky Birds Declared in Virginia
Virginia Senate in 1916 votes to curb illicit liquor flights from Ohio into West Virginia. Newport News Senator Saxon W. Holt introduces a resolution warning against air transport of spirits and pledging a crackdown with possible hunting action to deter such flights. Citizens are urged not to drink from aircraft and to beware dangerous falls.
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Virginia
The
Commercial Tribune
Richmond
West Virginia
Ohio
Saxon W. Holt
Newport News
State Senate
Diamonds Stolen in East Side Pawnshop Hold Up
Three men in an automobile robbed the Adolph Stern pawnshop on the upper East Side. They bound and gagged three clerks, took $40,000 to $50,000 worth of diamonds and fled in three suitcases. One clerk freed the others about 15 minutes later.
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Adolph Stern
Upper East Side
Church Burns Down In Bellefontaine Fire
Fire destroyed the Christian Church in Bellefontaine Ohio a brick building twenty years old insured for 7300. Pastor Rev Traverse Harrison was serving the church. The nearby Samuel Harshman residence was razed and several other homes endangered but saved.
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Commercial Tribune
Bellefontaine, O
Christian Church
Traverse Harrison
Former Mrs Gould Inherits 4 Million From Henry Hill Thomas Will
The will of Ralph Hill Thomas, New York banker who died December 21, is filed in probate at Mineola Long Island. The estate is unofficially valued at about 4 million dollars. The widow Helen Kelly Thomas, formerly divorced from Frank J Gould, receives the bulk of the estate.
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Ralph Hill Thomas
New York
Minneola
L. I
Helen Kelly Thomas
Frank J. Gould
Three Armies Contend For Rule In Mexico
News from January thirtieth reports Zapata forces defeated and driven from Hermita near Tacubaya while Carranza adherents pursue the retreating troops. Obregon issues a decree voiding Villa era paper money as three independent movements vie for control. Carranza remains near Vera Cruz, Mexico City’s capital status unsettled.
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Mexico City
Zapata
Hermita
Tacubaya
Carranza
Vera Cruz
Villa
Convention
Robles Lucio Blanco
Aguirre Benavides
Eulalio Gutierrez
Carranza Movement
Gutierrez
Obregon
Puebla
State Department
Victory in Carpathians Is Claimed by Austrians
London Jan 30 The end of six months of war sees Austro German forces claiming victory in the Carpathians while broader campaigns unfold across Flanders France Central Poland and the Caucasus. Russian armies push toward Tilsit Thorn Warsaw and towards Galicia as fighting and preparations continue.
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Europe
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Meiel
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Thorn
Warsaw
von Hindenburg
Galicia
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Nicholas
Caucasus
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Tabriz
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