World events on many fronts fill the globe
In Washington a suffragist parade marched with tableaux on the treasury steps. Reports question the dissolution of the Standard Old trust. President elect Wilson’s secretary may earn 7600 annually. The House backed interstate commerce and currency reform measures despite a veto, while a major money trust inquiry produced three divergent reports.
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Washington
Treasury Building
House of Representatives
Pujo
Inauguration Day Parade for President Wilson
Washington March 4 Woodrow Wilson inaugurated as president with Vice President Marshall taking oath in the senate chamber A grand parade followed from capitol to the White House featuring military divisions Grand Army veterans and civilian contingents led by Maj Gen W W Wotherspoon and Robert N Harper Thousands of spectators filled Pennsylvania Avenue as bands played The event included Taft riding beside Wilson and a Jeffersonian parade atmosphere with national heroes and student contingents colored by uniformed groups
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Woodrow Wilson
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Edward Douglass White
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Wilson
Thomas Riley Marshall
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Ufe
William Howard Taft
Mr. Wilson
White House
William H. Taft
Pennsylvania Avenue
Woodsa
United States War Department
Grand Army of the Republic
Union Veteran League
James B. Stuart
Chicago
Harper
Robert N. Harper
Tammany
Tn Braves
Boston
Philadelphia
Baltimore
United Hunt Clubs of America
Inefferson
Snefferson
Princeton
Four auto thieves face guillotine in Paris terror plot
Foreign death on the guillotine was the sentence pronounced on four automobile bandits who terrorized Paris and its suburbs for months. Condemnation to long terms of imprisonment is the fate of thirteen others. One committed death by his own action in his cell after a life sentence. The Mexican minister of war asks Gen Porfirio Diaz to return to active service. A German aviator, Sgt Helferander, was killed and Lt Linke seriously injured at Muelhausen. Irwin B Laughlin confirmed as first U S secretary of embassy at London. The Women's Industrial exposition opened in New York by Mrs J Borden Herriman.
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Paris
France
Cairo
Egypt
Porfirio Diaz
Republic
Irwin B. Laughlin
United States Senate
United States
London
New York
J Borden Herriman
Congressional Doings in Senate and House Deliberations
Washington March 4 The senate spent two hours in a solutive session to break the deadlock over Maj Beecher Ray for promotion in the army pay corps. Conference reports on the District of Columbia and Military Academy bills were agreed to. House action covered nine of fifteen big appropriations while several measures remain unfinished. The Panama expo appropriation was cut to 500000 and the naval bill awaits shipbuilding battleships.
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Washington
Senate
Maj
Beecher Ri. Ray
District of Columbia
Miliary Academy
Fall of
New Mexico
Hoke Smith
House
San Francisco
Robbery Victim Fleeing From Police Mystery
Mrs Mahe Milla of San Antonio Texas said she lost 43500 in Evanston and then disappeared from St Francis hospital after refusing to help police. Chicago police expressed deep bewilderment as the village's greatest enigma grows more puzzling with her sudden vanishing and trackless movements.
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Chicago
Mahe? Milla
San Antonio
Tex
Evanston
St. Francis Hospital
Twenty Injured In Wreck Cayuga Ont March 4
Five coaches of a Wabash train bound from Detroit to Buffalo plunged down a 20 foot embankment at Cayuga Ontario. Rail spreading caused the crash. Seriously injured were Mrs L L Morris of Chicago Miss Estelle Snyder Chicago Mrs Matilda Shipman Kansas City D A Watts Chicago H H Hamilton Chicago Emanuel Hillman and Hillman child, both Chicago.
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Cayuga
Detroit
Buffalo
LL. D. Morris
Chicago
Estelle Snyder
Matilda Shipman
Kansas City
D. A. Watts
H. H
Hamilton
Emanuel Hillman
Body of Illinois farmer found near Centralia
The body of A. J. Smothers, a Marion county farmer, was found in a ravine two miles from his farm. Seven hundred fifty dollars he carried when last seen is missing. Smothers disappeared two weeks ago after leaving Salem to record a farm sale and deposit 759 in the bank.
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Centralia
A. J. Smothers
Marion County
Bla Farm
Smothers
Salem
Fire destroys Swavely buildings leaving hundreds homeless
A great fire in Swavely Huntingdonshire on March 4 destroyed many structures and left hundreds of people homeless. The damage is described as heavy with extensive property loss and displacement.
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London
Swavely
Huntingdonshire
Wilson Cabinet List Reported for Senate Confirmation
Washington: President-elect Woodrow Wilson may send his cabinet selections to the Senate today. The list includes Bryan as Secretary of State, McReynolds as Attorney General, Lane as Interior, Garrison as War, Bueston Agriculture, Redfield Commerce, Wilson Labor, McAdoo Treasury, Daniels Navy, and Burleson Postmaster General. Lane Hueston and others were previously considered but not confirmed.
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William Jennings Bryan
Nebraska
James 8. McReynolds
Tennesse
Interior
Franklin K. Lane
California
Lindley Gun Rigan
New Jersey
Agriculture
David 8. Bueston
Missouri
Commerce
W. C. Redfield
New York
W. B. Wilson
Pennsylvania
Treasury
W. G. McAdoo
Navy
Josephus Daniels
North Carolina
A. S. Burleson
Texas
Washington
Wilson
Tumulty
Woodrow Wilson
Cabinet Makers’ Union
Interstate Commerce
David S. Hueston
Lindley Garrison
Lane
Ohio
Governor Norris
Montana
Office of Agriculture
Hueston
Thaw Still Unfit for Release, Affidavit Says
Albany March 4 Harry K Shaw the slayer of Stanford White remains of unsound mind and would be dangerous to the public if released from Matteawan state hospital says an affidavit by Dr Roy L Leak acting superintendent. The affidavit accompanies the state's return to the writ of habeas corpus directing Thaw to be produced before Justice Giegerfelt in New York Thursday and show cause why he should not be freed.
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N. J
Harry K. Shaw
Stanford White
Matteawan State Hospital
Carmody
Roy L. Leak
Count and barber clash in Paris anecdote
A returning tourist recalls meeting the Count de Pompadour in a Rue du Saint Gerard barber shop in Paris. The count greeted him with a bow and a knowing remark, recalling his social prominence from Atlantic City last year. The anecdote hints at lingering tensions from past encounters.
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Rue du Saint Gerard
Paris
Count de Pompadour
Atlantic City
Monsieur
Too Well Known Neighbor Lively Exchange
A witty East End woman reveals a speaking acquaintance with the neighbor she knows so well she does not speak to her at all. The remark delivers a sharp, humorous portrait of local social friction.
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East End
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