Carranza Lets Mexico Starve in Oil Turf Fight
Rebels clash near Ebano as Villa advances toward Tampico. Carranza faces tax disputes with Gonzalez over petroleum revenues while selling gold stores of food from Veracruz to fund operations. Mexico City and Vera Cruz report shortages as conflicts widen.
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Washington
United States
Gen. Villa
Monterey
Mexico
State Department
Carothers
Carranza
Vera Cruz
Mexico City
Villa
Chao
Ebano
Tampico
Chad
Gonzales
Gonzalez
Billy Sunday Revival Ends in Philadelphia Crowd
Billy Sunday concluded his Philadelphia campaign with 60 000 hearers and 41 724 converts over eleven weeks. The city sent a 51 136 85 free will offering, the largest yet for Sunday, as 25 000 gathered at the station to bid him farewell.
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Philadelphia
Billy Sunday
Cvangelist
Tabernacle
Evangelist
Wilson to review fleet in New York maneuvers
President Wilson plans to review the Atlantic fleet when it gathers in New York for maneuvers in May. He has not fixed arrangements but is expected to attend the ceremony unless official duties require him elsewhere.
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New York
Washington
Wilson
Atlantic
United States Leads Belgium Relief Fund Contributions
Up to January end United States contributed 6,200,000 for Belgian relief, with Britain 920,000 and Canada 800,000. New Zealand 390,000 Spain 20,000 Italy 20,000, totaling 8,460,000. This report details early 20th century aid from multiple nations.
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United States
Havre
Belgium
Great Britain
New Zealand
Canada
Spain
Italy
Export Menace: Wheat and Flour Exports Threaten US Supply
Washington warns heavy export pace cannot continue without harming domestic food and seed needs. March 1 stocks show a 14 million bushel drop in apparent supply, with 91 million bushels planned for export in four months. New York wheat flour exports surged to a record 155 000 barrels as European demand grows.
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Washington
Department of Agriculture
Department
United States
New York
Grain Exchange
Banker Kills Wife and Self in New York Home
Howard Boocock treasurer of Astor Trust shot his wife Adele as she played the piano at their 36 East Seventy-fourth Street home about 8 50 p.m. and then killed himself. Police could not determine a motive. Maids in the basement heard nothing beyond a dinner dispute. Boocock had undergone recent intestinal surgery and appeared nervous.
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Howard Boocock
Astor Trust
New York
Ddward Boocock
Assor Trust Company
Adele
East Seventy-fourth Street
Trust Company
Boocock
Prisoners of War Totals Reach 801000 in Germany
World news brief reports 801000 POWs held by Germany. Other items note Canadian Atlantic traffic halted by Admiralty seizure of fleets, Spanish shipwrecks with heavy loss, British female labor mobilization, Dardanelles losses, and shore leave for Prinz Eitel Friedrich crew with escort.
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Berlin
Germany
Ottawa
George Foster
House of Commons
Madrid
Spain
London
Dardanelles
Newport News
Russians Capture Przemysl Fortress After Six Months Siege
Petrograd reports Przemysl fell after a prolonged siege with heavy Austrian losses. About 54 000 Austrian troops were said captured or killed, while the fortress communications were cut. Simultaneously Zeppelins bombed Paris, and naval battles off the Dardanelles involved Bouvet Ocean and Irresistible with heavy losses on both sides.
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Przemysl
Austria
Paris
Galicia
Przemys
Galician
Cracow
Przenysl
Carpathian
Dukla
Ustok
Supoka
French Allies Break Through in Champagne and Verdun Gains
Official dispatches report Allied gains northeast of Mesni-les-Hurlus and two trenches seized north of Verdun with many prisoners. French forces advance near Hartmannsweiler Kopf after early setbacks, while Germans reinforce Alsace defenses and build new rail links. Zeppelin raid on Calais kills seven railway workers. Russians advance into East Prussia and pressure Warsaw and Galicia as German retaliation escalates.
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Paris
Champagne
War Office
Mesni-les-Hurlus
Verdun
Hartmannsweiler Kopf
Alsace
Geneva
Largue
Volkensberg
Farette
Muelhausen
Altkirch
Basel
Lorraine
Calais
East Prussia
Memel
Suwalki
Warsaw
Galicia
Netherlands protest over German submarine seizure
The Netherlands government after a State Council meeting sent a telegram to Berlin seeking an explanation for the German submarine action that seized Dutch steamers Batavier V and Zaanstroom and confiscated their cargoes. Dutch newspapers view the act as arbitrary and serious.
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The
Hague
Netherlands
State Council
Berlin
Batavier V
Zaanstroom
Allied Admirals Plan New Dardanelles Offensive
The council aboard the Suffren agrees to a fresh general attack at the Dardanelles with all warships taking part. German forces push in central Poland toward the Pilica River as heavy fighting rages along the western front from the North Sea to Alsace. The British prize court orders $600,000 paid on detained American flour and wheat shipments aboard several steamers. Rumors place a Russian advance toward Cracow as Austrians retreat to the Carpathians.
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Suffren
Dardanelles
Sentral
Poland
Pilica River
Alfred Nobel Kim
Bjornstjerne Bjornson
Fridland
Gloucester and Nearby Towns Face Tuberculosis Exhibit
Statewide items report the Gloucester City tuberculosis exhibit opening at City Hall under the Board of Health, with evening speeches by noted men. Other notes cover church fundraising, a Woodbury fire reunion, road and rail projects, netting, and local civic and educational activities across many towns.
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Gloucester
Board of Health
Market snapshot from New York wholesale prices report
Live Stock prices show dressed beef steady at 10 1 4 to 12 1 4 cents per lb. veal at 8.00 to 12.25 per 100 lbs city dressed veals up to 18 cents. Sheep and lambs dressed 10 1 4 to 14 1 2 cents, hot house lambs 7.00 to 8.50 per carcass. Hogs lightweights 7.70 per 100 lbs, country dressed 9 1 4 0 cents per lb. Wheat oats flour and tobacco prices noted with missing quotes and unclear figures.
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Reeves
Havana
Baltimore
Ohio & Mich
Tenn & Ky
Texas
Ohio
Michigan
Barre
Express
N. O
Norfolk
N.C
Jena
Lima
Cal
Southern
New
Maine
Jersey
H. P
Ry Steee
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West Jersey and Seashore Railroad Company
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New Jersey
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Pitman
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Pennsylvania Railroad Company
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Crown Point Road
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Sheriff Mead
Cape May
George W. Senft
Egg Harbor City
Samuel Wood
Westmont
Cape May City
Pensauken
Collingswood
Loder
John L. Watson
Watsontown Church
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Collingswood Board of Education
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Winfield Sparks
Timber Creek
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W. A. Stanton
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