Harry K Thaw Returns to Tombs in New York Prison
Onetime Pittsburgh millionaire Harry K Thaw is back in the Tombs prison after an absence of seven years and a brief escape from Matteawan. He faces a conspiracy indictment and has been placed in Cell No 220 awaiting court action. He appeared seedy in threadbare clothes, asked to see his secretary, and was photographed in the Tombs before transfer to Boston.
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New York
Harry K. Thaw
Tombs Prison
Matteawan State Asylum
Stanford White
Harry Thaw
Pittsburgh
Madison Square Roof Garden
Boston
New Hampshire
Thaw
Belmont Hotel
City
Bruener
Hanley
White
William Travers Jerome
Franklin Kennedy
United States Supreme Court
Tombs
Frederick Hornbeck
Dutchess County
Drew
Coos County
N. H
Felker
King Victor Converts Caserta Palace to Refuge for Earthquake Survivors
Rome reports King Victor Emmanuel visited the quake area where shelters struggle with cold and rain. Survivors will be moved to Caserta palace now a refugee home. Donations exceed $1,000,000 plus clothing provisions and timber for buildings already provided.
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Caserta
Rome
Victor Emmanuel
Royal
World News Condensed Form War Prices Rise Locally
World news briefs report wheat prices spiking to 1.45 6 8 per bushel as European hostilities continue. Pittsburgh Steel Co hires all workers at Charleroi and Monessen with full plant operation. Icelandic Parliament bans liquor sales. Baldwin Locomotive Works secures 100 French government locomotives. U S to census unemployed workers per Labor Secretary plan. Carteret funeral draws 25 thousand attendees for two shooters shot at Roosevelt.
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Pittsburgh Steel Co
Charleroi
Monessen
Copenhagen
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Baldwin Locomotive Works
Washington
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Carteret
N. J
Hunpersons
Roosevelt
New York
Secessee
Cseenee
TSG
State
Uirby Fey
Hennery Brown
Fey
Phila
M ¢ Briers
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Jerusalem
Yellow Eye
Lima
Cal
Maine
Long Island
Jersey
Southern
H. P
McIntosh
Jonathan Wee Enne
Co Snow
A Sane
Northern Spy
Hubbardson
Baldwin
Cape Cod
New Jersey
Niagara
Milagara
Havana
R. C. Caisses
Rockefeller Jr on the Stand Before Congress
John D. Rockefeller Jr testified for five hours to the U S Committee on Industrial Relations touching Colorado Fuel and Iron last year. He argued responsibility in large enterprises rests with executives and that labor should have a voice, but workers should not dictate management. He noted his father would have saved $4 900 000 by placing surplus in a savings bank and emphasized industry improvements, higher wages, and workers’ living conditions as goals.
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New York
John D. Rockefeller, Jr
United States Committee On Industrial Relations
Colorado Fuel & Iron Co
Jail Twenty-Seven Deputies Charged With Strikebreakers Murder
Jersey County authorities arrest twenty-seven deputies serving as strikebreakers for the Jerry OBrien Strike Breaking Detective Agency. They are charged with murder over the deaths of two strikers at the Williams Clark plant near Castoret, following a clash that left eighteen others wounded.
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Jersey
Roosevelt
N. J
Jerry O’brien
Middlesex County
Edward Houghton
Williams & Clark
Casteret
Women Wear Field Gray In German Spring Fashions
German dressmakers met in Frankfurt to adopt Spring styles. They decreed field gray as the prevailing color of the German uniform and military cuts for outfits. Heavy brown military leather footwear completes the look for the season.
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Copenhagen
Frankfort
U S Silk Plant for Canada Opens Sherbrooke Factory
The first American manufacturing firm to locate a Canadian branch since the war began inks an agreement with Sherbrooke Quebec to establish a plant producing silk hosiery and gloves. Previously the company shipped goods to Canada from German factories.
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Montreal
Canada
Sherbrooke
Quebec
British Fleet Defeats German Bluecher and Sinks With 700 Lost
London reports the German armored cruiser Bluecher and several battle cruisers were attacked by British forces in a North Sea clash lasting over three hours. Bluecher sank with about 700 lives lost. only 123 of 885 crew were rescued. Other German ships sustained heavy damage as British force drove them back to safety behind land defenses.
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North Sea
David Beatty
Helgoland
Scarborough
Kaiser
Derfflinger
Seydlitz
Moltke
Bluecher
Lght
Tiger
Lion
Princess
Royal
New Zealand
Indomitable
Mauretania
Alsace
Paris
France
Verdun
Apremonit
St. Mihiel
le Pretre
Metz
Argonne
Fontaine Madame
Marie Therese
Thann
Muelhausen
Cernay
Sennheim
Submarine opens war on British food supply
London reacts as Germany sinks the Durward of 1 800 tons torpedoed by U-19. After forcing crew into lifeboats, the submarine towed them for hours toward the Dutch coast. Von Tirpitz argues Germany can starve England by attacking merchant vessels.
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London
Germany
Durward
von Tirpitz
England
Pith of the War News Headlines in Brief
Berlin concedes a Zeppelin failed to return after raids on Yarmouth and King’s Lynn. Russian advance hampered by eastern snows in the Carpathians. Fighting center shifts to Valspoutna on the Transylvanian border. Kiel gears up for a possible English fleet raid with three new dreadnoughts. Italy and Roumania moving toward the Allies, despite Kaiser efforts. Austro German forces in Galicia poised to offensive. Gen Brojevitz receives Hungarian and German reinforcements. Bucharest notes accuse Roumania of mobilization and intent to wage war on Austria Hungary.
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Khorasan
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Argonne
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Austria
Croatia
Hartmansweiler Kopf
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Yarmouth
King's Lynn
Norfolk Coast
Valspoutna
Kiel
Italy
Roumania
Kaiser
Franz Josef
Austria-Hungary
Prisoners Too Free In Paris Says Intransigeant
The Paris paper claims German officers in captivity enjoy undue freedom and roam the streets. It reports an incident where officers visited a shop with gold postcards of German atrocities, insulted the proprietor, and pressed for removal of the cards from the display.
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Paris
New Jersey News Roundup and Local Notices
A compilation of briefs from across New Jersey covers floods and repairs at a mill pond, tax delinquencies in Pitman, and community efforts in Glouster, Wenonah, Englewood, and Hammonton. It notes school projects, road maintenance costs, post office doubts at Turnerville, a fatal fall at Paulsboro, and local civic groups planning events and improvements.
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Clayton Grassblowers’ Union
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