America protests British interference with neutral mail
The United States releases its note to Britain denouncing British treatment of diplomatic and consular pouches as unwarranted interference and demanding a prompt reply. It asserts neutral mail exemptions, rejects Britain’s authority over neutral ships, and warns of impact on drafts and international banking. Britain’s interim reply says allies will be consulted and delays are possible.
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Washington
Great Britain
United States
Parcal Post
Ambassador Page
London
Provost Guards Withdrawn Sparks Bridge Tension
Flashing dispatches report Gen Pershing ordering removal of provost guards near international bridges after a guard shot a Mexican. Customs inspectors fear renewed unrest at the border as tensions rise in El Paso and surrounding points.
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Paso
Tex
International Bridges
J. J. Pershing
New York
Gridiron Club of
Washington
Rockford, II
Paris
International Red Cross Commission Exchange
WIFE AND DAUGHTER SLAIN IN BRONX MURDER SUICIDE
Nathan Pullman a Chicago real estate man allegedly killed his wife Mrs Bozolla and his daughter in a Bronx furnished room at 774 Dawson Street on Wednesday. He then leaped from a third story hotel window at Forty third Street and Third Avenue and died fifteen minutes later. Also reported is that Dr Albert Purvall of Brooklyn, ill with sleeping sickness from a tsetse fly bite, was much improved.
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el Paso
Tex
Benjamin
Snell
Frank ‘Woods
Chihuahua
New York
Eugene van Schaick
Knickerbocker Oil and Gas Company
Col
Theodore Roosevelt
Enat Party
Second Street
van Schaick
Nathan Pullman
Chicago
Bozolla
Dawson Strat
Bronx
Pullman
Forty-Third Street
Third Avenue
A. C. Purvell
Albert © Purvall
Brooklyn
British Attack Fails in Mesopotamia Action
Berlin dispatch reports an official Turkish statement that British forces launched another attack in Mesopotamia but abandoned the effort after suffering severe losses.
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Berlin
Mesopotamia
Draft Bill Passed Conscription Across Great Britain
London Jan 28 all that is needed for compulsory military service is the king's signature as the conscription bill passed the Lords on the third reading by 383 to 36 after Commons approval. England Scotland and Wales included. bachelors and widowers 18 to 41 may be drafted with several exemptions. Bristol Jan 28 the British labor conference endorsed the government bill by 1,847,000 to 206,000 amid cheers.
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London
Great Britain
House of Lords
House of Commons
Treland
England
Scotland
Wales
Asquith
George
Bristol
British Labor Conference
Germans Cut French Line Near Yser and Arras Road
German forces renewed attacks after a failed attempt to breach the Allied line near the Yser mouth gaining footholds on the Arras-Lens road though French troops largely repelled them. Berlin reports destruction of Nieuport cathedral and Cempo tower. Dunkirk shelled by German planes with two aircraft in the squadron. Hospitals described as being at Dunkirk.
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Yser
Arras-Lens
Berlin
Nieuport
Cemplo
Neuville
Nancy
Baccara
Dunkirk
France
Admiralty
Mann Sees England as Foe in National Preparedness Speech
Congressman Mann of Illinois urged national preparedness in the House, arguing for readiness against future trouble. He said he preferred a smaller navy but warned against underpreparing, noting greater fear of war with England than with Germany and endorsing readiness despite cost.
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Washington
Mann
Ilinois
House
England
Germany
Kaiser Celebrates 57th Birthday With Troops
Kaiser Wilhelm marked his fifty seventh birthday in the field with his troops in Berlin. At his request the elaborate prewar celebrations were not repeated this year.
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Kaiser
Berlin
Kaiser Wilhelm
French Losses Reported at 800000 Killed 1400000 Wounded
At a British trade union conference in Bristol on January 23 M Long ust a French Socialist deputy said France suffered 800000 killed 1400000 wounded and 300000 captured during the war.
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Bristol
England
M. Longust
Turkish push stalls British at Kut el Amara as Russians hammer Turks
London reports say British losses around Kut el Amara total thousands as Turks falter under a Russian drive. Russian forces reportedly captured 4,000 Turks with heavy casualties and seized machine guns and munitions. British and Turkish statements differ regarding dead and wounded, with ongoing engagement near Meulare east of Kut el Amara.
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London
Kut-el-Amara
Townshend
Hrzerum
Reuter
Kutel-Amara
Imam Ali ‘Gherhi
Meulare
Kut el-Amara
Tigris
Sheik
Wilson Speaks in Gotham on Army Readjustment
President Wilson warned before 1,500 New York clergy and a 200-member Congressional Union audience that the United States must act quickly to readjust and expand its army and navy. He stressed peace with justice at home and opposed federal action on woman suffrage, offering state-by-state support instead.
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New York
United States
Wilson
Railroad Business Association
Waldorf Hotel
Camp Aien
America
Congressional Union For
Montenegrin Generale Surrender Reported at Danilovgrad
Vienna advices report General Vuitotiteh surrendering to Austrian forces at Danilovgrad along with several Montenegrin generals. The news comes via Berlin and wireless relayed to Sayville.
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Berlin
Sayville
Vienna
Vuitotiteh
Danilovgrad
Russia to send Duma members on Easter visit to England
Petrograd dispatch says both chambers of the Russian parliament will soon discuss a visit by Duma members to England. The trip is expected to take place around Easter as a formal exchange between nations.
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England
Petrograd
Duma
Supreme Court Upholds Income Tax Law
The Supreme Court on Monday upheld the constitutionality of the income tax law in the Brushaber case. Chief Justice White rejected multiple challenges, ruling the tax valid, nonretroactive in effect, and not based on a new power but a longstanding government authority.
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Washington
Supreme Court
White
Frank R. Brushaber
Union Pacific Railroad
Mexicans seize U S soldiers in Rio Grande incident
In Brownsville Texas on Wednesday two American soldiers were seized by armed Mexicans while four others were swept away and drowned in the Rio Grande near Progreso. Three US army officers who led a rescue mission into Mexico were placed under arrest. Missing are Private William C Wheeler and Private B Peterson. Drowned are Sergeant Owen L Clement Corporal Michael F King Private Henry A Rohde and Private Charles D Wilton. A relief expedition failed to locate the captured men or the Amore jenna.
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Brownsville
Tex
Fred ‘Upon
Rio Grande
Progreso
United States Army
Mexico
William C., Wheeler
B. Peterson
Owen L. Clement
Michael F. King
Henry A. Rohde
Charles D. Wilton
Robbery at Washington Park National Bank in Chicago
Five youths in an auto robbed Washington Park National Bank of fifteen thousand dollars on Thursday. Bank president H. W. Mahan said the bank was fully insured against loss. The bandits fled the scene in an automobile. In Canada, Winnipeg, the legislature passed a women's suffrage bill granting voting rights to women over twenty one, a historic first.
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Chicago
Washington Park National Bank
H. W. Mahan
Canada
Winnipeg
Man
Dynamiter George Anderson Released From Federal Penitentiary
George Anderson, tied to the 1912 Indianapolis dynamite plot, completes a three year term and is freed from the federal penitentiary in Leavenworth Kansas on January 29.
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Leavenworth
Kan
George Anderson
Indianapolty
Federal
United Mine Workers Adopt Scale Demands For Raises
The United Mine Workers of America adopted a scale report calling for a ten percent raise for bituminous miners and twenty percent for anthracite workers. Demands specify weighed coal and mine run pay, eight hour day, weekly pay, and uniform day rates. The plan targets bituminous talks in Mobile on February 8 and anthracite talks in New York on February 21.
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Indianapolis
United Mine Workers of America
van Bitner
Pittsburgh
Mobile
New York
Faor
U.S. Proposes Declaration on Merchant Vessel Rules
Washington on January 31 outlines a plan to have belligerents join a declaration of principles governing attacks on merchant ships and banning arming such vessels. The notes urge acceptance of protections for noncombatants, required warnings, and limits on sinking ships, with armed merchantmen entering U.S. ports treated as war vessels under international rules.
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Washington
United States
Brandeis Nominated to Supreme Court by Wilson
President Wilson sent to the senate the nomination of Louis Dembitz Brandeis of Boston to the Supreme Court to fill the Lamar vacancy. Brandeis, 59, the first Jewish nominee, has been senior partner in Brandeis Dunbar Nutting since 1897 and active in major cases including freight-rate and women’s ten-hour law matters. Also, Johnson Willard prize fight films barred. appeals court bans their import.
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Washington
Wilson
Senate
Louis Dembitz Brandeis
Boston
Supreme Court
Joseph Rucker Lamar
Brandeis
Brandeis, Dunbar & Nutter
Interstate Commerce Commission
Oregon
Six Hurt In Powder Plant Explosions In Philadelphia
Four blasts hit the DuPont Powder plant in Carney's Point New Jersey No 3 plant causing injuries to six workers, three seriously, in a rapid sequence.
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Philadelphia
Carney’s Point
N. J
DuPont Powder Company
No. 3
Woman Avoids Operation After Pinkham Remedy Help
In Astoria New York Mrs Mia Komnig describes years of illness with back pain stomachaches and fatigue. She declined surgery and credits Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with improving her health within two weeks and avoiding an operation. The Pinkham Laboratory reports many similar letters advising operations that were unnecessary or ineffective and promotes its remedy for women's ailments.
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Storia
N. Y
Lydia E. Pinkham
Mia
Joan A. Komnig
Flushing Avenue
Astoria
N.Y
Scandal Spreads Over Brown County Pipe Rumor
Indianapolis readers learn of a rural scandal as gossip travels from cottages in Brown County where Mrs H is alleged to smoke a cob pipe. In Indianapolis, a shop proprietor riffs on a minister’s identity, while mining data notes California gold mines totaling 653 properties with 277 gold mines listed.
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Brown County
Naghvilie
Joah
Josh
Indianapolis News
California
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