German cruiser Prinz Bittel Friedrich docks at Newport News
The German cruiser Prinz Bittel Friedrich arrived at Newport News for coal supplies and repairs, carrying 826 prisoners of war. It previously halted the William P Frye after sinking her in the South Atlantic on January 27, with 193,582 bushels of wheat on board. The Frye, from Seattle, was valued at 430,000 dollars. its cargo valued at 280,000 dollars.
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Washington
Prince Litel Wriedrich
Newport News
William P. Frye
Seattle
Frye
Queenstown
Palmouth
Tatoosh
Wash
Prince Bitel Friedrich
South Atlantic
Kietine
Pring Eltel Friedrich
Chesapeake Bay
Coast Guard
Onondaga
Prinz Bittel Friedrich
Tsing Tao
Lloyd
South America
Charcas
Chile
Carranza replies to Bryan on Mexico City chaos
Vera Cruz March 12 General Carranza issued a reply to Secretary Bryan noting that Obregon did not incite outrages and that efforts to bring food into Mexico City continue. He pledged safe exit for foreign residents when evacuation occurs and advised all aliens to leave the country.
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Vera Cruz
Mex
Carranza
Bia
Bryan
Mexico City
General Obregon
Berlin Claims Big Victory In Champagne Fighting
Berlin reports a three week battle in Champagne ended in a victory surpassing earlier success against Russians in Mazurian Lakes. German losses exceed those in Mazurian actions, while French losses are estimated above 46,000 men, with substantial French ammunition used.
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Germany
Champagne
Berlin
Sayville
Mazurian Lakes
East Prussia
Night Riders Roundup Lands 6 in Hopkins County Jail
Louisville reports a roundup of night riders in Hopkins county. Officers surprised six men indicted by the grand jury and jailed without resistance, bringing total arrests to twelve on eighty five indictments.
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Louisville
Hopkins County
Horses Bring Big Money in 1914 U.S. Trade
Horses sold in America to European nations at war during the last five months of 1914 brought fifteen million dollars, according to Wayne Dinsmore secretary of the Percheron society.
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Chicago
America
Wayne Dinsmore
The
Percheron Society
Maniac Slays Seven in Brunswick Shooting Rampage
Ernest McDonald dies as Monroe Phillips a former state senator and real estate dealer goes on a shotgun spree in Brunswick Georgia killing seven and wounding 32 before he is killed. Among the dead are Harry Dunwoody W M Hackett Rex Deavers L C Padgett George W Asbell and a bank clerk. Phillips had been mayor and state legislator and is said to have turned insane by financial troubles.
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Trunswick
Ernest McDonald
Monroe Phillips
Gunner Tolmas
Phillips
Harry F. Dunwoody
Dunwoody
W. M. Hackett
Rex Deavers
L. C. Padgett
George W. Asbell
Padgett
Asbell
Hackett
Denvers
Brunswick
Georgia
Justice &. C. Atkinson
Georgia Supreme Court
Transatlantic fares drop to fifty dollars second class
London March 11 following Cunard line other transatlantic carriers slash second class fare Europe to America to 50 dollars. Berlin March 11 debate in Teichstag to be brief as government support agreed. New York March 5 Caussin says La Touraine fire out and she proceeds to Havre under own steam. New Orleans March 11 Campeche authorities seize American schooner Susie S Dantzler and hold Captain Dethlof on navigation-law charges.
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London
Cunard Line
Transatlantic
Europe
America
Berlin
Amsterdam
Teichstag
New York
Oscar R. Caussin
Compagnie Generale Transatlantique
la Touraine
Havre
New Orleans
Carranza
Campeche
Resta Wins Vanderbilt Cup In Peugeot Victory
San Francisco March 9 Darius Resta English driver won the tenth Vanderbilt Cup race in a Peugeot leading Howdy Wilcox Stutz to the tape. Burman Cleary and an unidentified spectator were injured. Resta averaged 67 4 5 miles per hour over 200 miles.
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Peugeot
H. Wilcox
Stutz
Abe
Eddie Pullen
Mercer
Ralph de Palma
Mercedes
San Francisco
Darius Resta
Howdy” Wilcox
Rob" Burman
Joe Cleary
Resta
Sealing Vessels in Peril Off Newfoundland Coast
Six hundred seventy six sealers are in peril aboard four vessels Diana Terra Nova Erik and Viking trapped in an ice pack driven toward shore amid a raging blizzard. Rescue attempts are blocked as other ships cannot reach them. The vessels were en route to the Gulf of St. Lawrence when ice trapped them.
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St. Johns
N. F
Diana
Terra Nova
Erik
Viking
Gulf of St. Lawrence
Dr Joseph B Griswold Dies in Grand Rapids
Dr Joseph B Griswold senior vice commander in chief of the Grand Army of the Republic died in Grand Rapids Michigan on Wednesday after a long illness due to advanced age.
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Joseph B. Griswold
Grand Rapids, Mich
Ehlat
Grand Army of the Republic
Charles A Schlieren, Ex-Mayor of Brooklyn, Dies at 73
Charles A. Schlieren, former mayor of Brooklyn, died at his New York home of pneumonia at age 73. He was born in Prussia and immigrated to the United States in 1856.
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Charles
Echleren
New York
Charles A. Schlieren
Brooklyn
Prussia
United States
Evacuations and diplomacy as Mexican crisis unfolds
United States officials announced Americans in Mexico City should depart with open communications. orders sent to ship Georgia and cruiser Washington to Vera Cruz to back Carranza terms. Carranza resents notes but will formally respond. Obregon and Carranza troops reportedly evacuated Mexico City as Zapata forces moved north. Dispatches say border contact to resume in six days, with naval leaders to confer on solution while landings remain forbidden.
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Washington
Bryan
Mexico City
Daniels
Georgia
Vera Cruz
Carranza
United States
Silliman
Obregon
Zapata
Villa
William L. Rodgers
Delaware
Progreso
John R. BR. Blakeley
Des Moines
Navy
Thaw Case Opens With Illegal Commitment Defense
John B. Stanchfield argued in the conspiracy trial that Thaw’s commitment to Matteawan was illegal because it failed to discharge him once he recovered, asserting he had been sane before August 17, 1912 and still restrained, thus challenging his guilt in escaping. The defense marked a brief early advantage as jurors were seated rapidly.
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New York
John B. Stanchfield
Matteawan
State Hospital
Nanity
Third Woman Wife of Mayo in Scranton Tale
Mrs Florence Mayo of Scranton claims to be the wife of Virginius J Mayo a New Haven manufacturer whose reported death of his clerk Miss Lillian May Cook triggered disclosures of a dual life in New Haven and Brooklyn. She says she has heard nothing from her husband in years and believed him dead.
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Scranton
Florence Mayo
Virginius J. Mayo
New Haven
Lillian May Cook
Brooklyn
Kleckhefer Defeats Kling In Interstate Billiards
Milwaukee report states Augia Kleckhefer beat Johnny Kling of Kansas City 60 to 43 in the interstate three cushion billiard league after 100 innings. Kling led until the 88th inning. In New York a divorce suit verdict favors comic opera actress Claudia Wheeler over her husband A G Wheeler Sr.
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Kleckhefer
Johnny Kling
Milwaukee
Wis
Augia Kleckhefer
Kansas City
Kling
New York
Claudia Wheeler
A. G. Wheeler
Chicago Millionaire P Grosseau Dies at 86
Chicago March 12 Zenophile P Grosseau a millionaire board of trade operator and leader of Chicago's French colony died of pneumonia. Born in Canada in 1840 he had been a broker here for many years.
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Chicago
Zenophile
P. Grosseau
Millionaire Board of Trade
Grosseau
Canada
British Ships Sunk by German Subs Near Scarborough Hastings and Liverpool
The Tangistan was torpedoed off Scarborough at midnight with 33 crew lost. only one survivor, James O'Toole, clung to wreckage for hours. A second vessel, the Blackwood, sank off Hastings at 6 am and a third, the Princess Victoria, went down off Liverpool at 9:15 am. Sixty crew members of Tangistan were Arabs and English.
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London
Scarborough
North Sea
Hastings
English Channel
Liverpool
West Hartlepool
James O'Toole
Seek Aid for Drug Victims in Chicago
Chicago reports show thousands opposing the Harrison antidrug act while doctors and health officials urge care provisions. At Psychopathic Hospital, 24 victims including nine women await help as dope supplies run dry and more are expected. Michigan City woman, 50, ended her life after morphine ran out.
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Chicago
Psychopathic Hospital
Thomas F. Scully
George B. Young
Michigan City
Ind
Mabel Hartman
Four Auto Bandits Taken in Chicago Raid
Four youths including two probationers confessed to being the "desperate auto bandits" who raided more than twenty women Thursday. Arrested are James Springer 2810 West Thirty-ninth Place nineteen Virgil Litzinger 2734 West Thirty-ninth Street eighteen Alvin Carlson 2731 West Thirty-ninth Street nineteen Garfield Sullivan 3712 Parnell Avenue seventeen. Sullivan boasted of his chauffeur skills. a girl heard him and alerted others.
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Chicago
James Springer
West Thirty-ninth Place
Virgil Litzinger
West Thirty-ninth Street
Alvin Carlson
Garfield Sullivan
Parnell Avenue
Sullivan
Olympics Move to America for 1916 Games
The International Olympic Committee decided in Lyons that the 1916 Olympic Games will be held in the United States instead of Berlin. This marks a major shift in location for the event.
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International Games Committee
Berlin
Lyons
Paria
America
International Olympic Committee
Damage to Liner Slight at Havre Fire
Havre France March 11 damage to the French liner La Touraine from a fire last Saturday morning caused only slight blight. Wireless calls for help aroused anxiety in Europe and the United States.
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Havre
France
la Touraine
Europe
United States
Woman shot, then killer turns gun on self in church row
In Cleveland Ohio on March 11 Allen 8 Taylor, fifty five, shot and wounded Mrs Lillian P Harris forty one church worker, then killed himself. A brother engagement was the cause of the incident.
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Self
Cleveland
Allen
Taylor
Lillian P. Harris
President to personally direct inquiry into Frye sinking
President Wilson announced a "most searching inquiry" into the sinking of the American ship William P. Frye by the German raider Prinz Eitel Friedrich. He will oversee the investigation and seek proper amends from Germany. The Frye, insured for 11,550, is tied to war risk coverage.
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Washington
Wilhon
Willam P. Frye
Prinz Esthel Friedrich
United States
Germany
Frye
Hes
William P. Frye
War Risk Insurance Bureau
Thaw Paid $6,000 to Escape New York
Harry Kendall Thaw testified before Justice Alfred Page in the New York supreme court detailing his escape from Matteawan and the subsequent flight to Canada. He denied conspiracy, claimed full credit for the escape, admitted paying Richard Butler $6,000 to reward others, and said he gave $1,000 to Richard alias Educated Roger Thompson, the chauffeur, plus daily wages. He said he was advised there was no crime in escaping, and that the plan was executed by agent H. A. Hoffman of Poughkeepsie.
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New York
Matteawan
Canada
Harry Kendall Thaw
Alfred Page
Supreme Court
Thaw
Richard Butler
Butler
Richard
Roger
Thompson
Gains in Flanders as British advance and rail line destroyed
London reports British forces made an advance on March 4 and pushed German trenches, advancing over a 4000 yard front by three quarters of a mile on Wednesday. The Indian corps captured seven hundred prisoners and occupied former German positions. A British airman destroyed the Courtrai Menin railway junction in West Flanders.
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London
Courtrai-Menin
West Flanders
War Office
Courtrai- Menin
Ritchie and Welsh Box to a Ten Round Draw
In Madison Square Garden Willie Ritchie and Freddie Welsh fought a tame ten round draw before a large crowd. Four Spaniards were assassinated in Mexico City and suburban homes were looted as reported to the state department. In Chicago, woman election officers face immediate ouster as men replace them, per County Judge Thomas F. Scully.
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New York
Willie Ritchie
Freddie Welsh
Madison Square Garden
Mexico
Washington
State Department
Senor Riano
Mexico City
Chicago
Thomas F. Scully
Exports Rise Again. January Figures Released
Washington March 13 The department of commerce reports a sharp rise in manufactured exports for January. Exports valued at 263 million dollars, signaling strengthening trade and industrial activity for the month.
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Wuashington
Department of Commerce
California Syrup of Figs Ad Claim Healthful Child Remedy
An old advertisement promotes California Syrup of Figs as a safe gentle laxative for children and adults. It describes symptoms of constipation in kids and sells a 60 cent bottle with directions printed on the label, urging mothers to buy at local stores.
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California
Wrong Impression Leads German To Dunn At Sweeny’s
A German seeking Mr Dunn who owed him money asked a youth near Sweeny’s eating house for 66 Chatham street. The youth directed him inside where a man by the window was Dunn. The German approached an Irishman and asked if he was Dunn, to which the Irishman replied Done. The German exclaimed that he had nearly died of the effort.
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Dunn
Sweeny
Chatham Street
Mr. Dunn
Pat
Philadelphia Record
Jad Salts Kidney Health Ad Sparks Water Remedy Claim
An old advertisement extols drinking plenty of water and using Jad Salts to flush kidneys, reduce kidney and bladder irritation, and prevent backache and headaches. It promotes a lithia-water drink made from grape and lemon acids and claims long standing efficacy for kidney cleansing and urinary health.
Going, Mia. Styles in a rough ride with miscast lines
In a comical exchange aboard a car, Mia Styles scolds Jen and King while Gardner Jenkins jokes about mishaps. The trio banters over rough roads and a missing husband as tensions rise briefly. The scene unfolds with playful misunderstandings and character quips.
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Mia
Styles
Jen- King
Jenkins
Sage and Sulphur Hair Remedy Promises Dark Hair
An ad promotes Wyeth's Sage and Sulphur Hair Remedy claiming gray hair darkens to any shade, becomes glossy, and stops dandruff with regular use. It advises applying with a sponge or brush, costing 60 cents. The copy ends with unrelated notes about a worm tube, a husband, and a crime statistic.
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Wyeth
Adv
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Frisco
Wilcox
Gars
Obragon
Wihi- Eon
Mayo
Wilson
U. 8
Alfred Henry Lewis
Flanders
Wiiné Ritchie
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