Carnegie Peace Fund Used In Toll Fight
Washington March 13 The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace aided the repeal lobby against the Panama Canal tolls exemption. Dr James Brownscott secretary said over 30 0000 was spent to circulate pamphlets and 1 million copies of a pamphlet urging repeal were mailed nationwide along with 700 000 copies of Senator Root's speech.
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American Peace Society
Burton
Ohio
Carnegie Organization
Scott
Senate
O’gorman
Great Britain
United States
Reed
Panama Canal
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Carnegie Endowment For International Peace
Overman
Hot fight planned over toll exemption repeal
Senate and House leaders prepare a rapid battle over repealing the toll exemption clause of the Panama Canal act. Senator Owen introduces a repeal bill in the Senate to place the issue before the Interoceanic Canals Committee, facing opposition from Chairman O Gorman and other Democrats.
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Senate
House
Wilson
Owen
Oklahoma
O'Gorman
Students Strike for Clean Windows at Union High School
Two hundred Union High School students in Benwood West Virginia walked out over unclean windows. Leader Charles Riggs urged refusal to enter until washed. Principal F R Hanifan promised windows would be cleaned by Monday if students returned.
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Benwood
W. Va
Union High School
this @ Place
F. R. Hanifan
Siegel Stores to Offer 40 Cents on Dollar to Depositors
Henry Siegel & Co depositors to receive a 40 percent settlement offer tomorrow. The bank and private store operation face closure as 1,500 employees risk job loss. Attorneys Hoffmann and Vogel seek security terms while depositors press for regulatory relief after the bank’s collapse.
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New York
Henry Siegel & Co
Louis Hoffman
Henry Siegel
Frank E. Vogel
Siegel Department
Sint Bent
Siégel and
Vogel
Hoffmann
Siegel Bank
Boston
Henry Siegel Company
Pelletier
West Virginia
Savings Bank
Bryan Demands Guarantee From Rebel Chieftain
U S government vows to press General Carranza for fuller information on the welfare of foreigners in Mexico and will not relax efforts to protect them. Secretary Bryan to American consul Nogales relayed the demand, while noting anxious inquiries into the Benton case and Spanish citizen protection.
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Carranza
Bryan
Simpichat Nogales
Clarke affair and Ohio civil service indictments headline mix
Iowa City reports Horace G. Clarke, kin of former Governor Kirkwood, died after cancer and was buried in Iowa, with stories of his selfless acts. In Columbus, Dem leaders Finley Lattanner and others faced indictments for civil service law violations over political assessments, prompting swift trials and defense fundraising.
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Horace G. Clarke
Kirkwood
Milwaukee
Thomas H. Carson
Davenport
Commercial
Columbus
Spee
William L. Finley
Franklin County Grand Jury
Turner
Hogan
Finley and Ree
State Graves
Charles C. Marshall
Public Utilities Commission
Democratic State Executive Committee
Booth, Keating, Peters & Pomerone
Messrs
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Whattanner
Goller
Abernethy
Democratic Party
Wilson announces coming marriage of Eleanor Randolph Wilson
Washington March 13 The President and Mrs Wilson announce the engagement of their youngest daughter Eleanor Randolph to Hon William Gibbs McAdoo The White House release says the wedding is likely in June with McAdoo remaining at the Treasury post The engagement marks the fourteenth White House bride and follows sister Jessie Wilson Sayre’s November wedding
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Wilson
Eleanor Randolph
William Gibbs McAdoo
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Eleanor
McAdoo
France
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President Wilson
Jessie Woodrow Wilson
Francis Bowes Sayre
Armed robbers hold up jewelry salesman in Chicago
Two armed men pepper sprayed Daniel Epner a New York jewelry salesman and robbed him of a suitcase with jewels valued at 55000 Epner said they tailed him from a West Side store and compelled him to a secluded spot where the theft occurred He said he worked for his brother S Epner of Canal Street New York and lived on Thirg Avenue New York.
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Chicago
Daniel Epner
New York
Epner
West Side
S. Epner
Canal Street
Thirg Avenue
Arrest of Brem Germany native as undesirable alien in Jacksonville
Arthur Vite, son of a Brem steamship owner, was arrested as an undesirable alien. Reports say he is epileptic and that he was smuggled into the United States.
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Fila
Arthur Vite
Brem
Germany
Vite
United States
Clinic Established for Women Smokers in Chicago
The Anticigarette League opened a clinic for women smokers in Chicago on March 13. Fifteen women have been treated with a nitrate of silver throat spray, producing aversion to cigarettes. The league plans to treat women sent to the House of Correction.
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Anticigarette League
Lucy Page Gaston
League
House of Correction
Pastor Dahlstrom Convicted Under Mann Act in Seattle
Rev. Albert Dahlstrom founder of the Heliga sect with about 10 000 members in the United States was convicted in Seattle of transporting Edna Englund of Tacoma from Fresno to Washington under the Mann Act. Evidence included excerpts from his books and pamphlets. Edna Englund and Hilda Englund testified with their mother present for the government.
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Wash
Albert Dahlstrom
United States
Ednaglund
Tacoma
Fresno
Cal
Edna Englund
Dahlstrom
Hilda
Edna
Noted Educator Dr. James J. Sheppard Dies
New York reports the death of Dr. James J. Sheppard a leading New York educator and longtime principal of the High School of Commerce since its 1902 founding He died today at his Morsemere New Jersey home leaving a legacy in urban schooling and civic education.
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James J. Sheppard
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High School of Commerce
Morsemere
N. J
Solons Criticise Methods Of Correspondence Schools
Boston lawmakers clash over the International Correspondence Schools of Scranton and its ties to big capital firms. The bill would require by law filings, bonds and damages for false advertising, amid claims of stock marketing through scholarship agents and calls for legislative scrutiny.
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Boston
International Correspondence Schools
Scranton
Legislative Committee On Mercantile
Friends of
Clarence A. Barnes
State House
Barnes
International Text Book Company
Sulzer Loses in Fight for Governor Salary
In Albany on March 13 the Appellate Division Third Department upheld Justice Chester in denying William Sulzer a writ of mandamus to force Comptroller Lohmer to pay Sulzer’s salary since impeachment. Preparations started to seek Court of Appeals review and Sulzer hopes the U S Supreme Court will weigh in on impeachment validity.
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Appellate Division
Third Department
Supreme Court
Chester
William Sulzer
Lohmer
Court of Appeals
Sulzer
United States Supreme Court
Three-Year-Old Burned to Death in Newark Fire
In Newark Ohio on March 13 a three year old child of Mr. and Mrs. award Amdés died after being burned while playing with matches.
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Newark
Charles
Award Amdés
Court fixes date to try viaduct case in Cincinnati
City Solicitor Schoenle won permission to amend the petition in the suit against Cincinnati Street Railway Company for seven thousand dollars. The dispute centers on payment due under a contract tied to the Liberty Street Viaduct's ability to bear heavy vehicular and streetcar traffic. Judge Geoghegan approved May 18 as the trial date.
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Cincinnati Street Railway Company
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