Public Answers From Allies on Protection of American Ships
Washington reports from March 19 reveal Britain and France claim a blockade of Germany’s ports but will refrain from enforcing naval penalties. Neutral ships face seizure only if carrying contraband. discharged cargo may be returned or held, and German-owned goods sequestrated. Secretary Bryan released the notes alongside America's inquiry. Britain rejects the proposed agreement on food shipments in exchange for ending mine and submarine warfare. Germany’s conciliatory reply is already public.
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Washington
State Department
Great Britain
France
United States
Germany
Bryan
Friend of Beachey Killed in 200 Foot Fall
Aviator Frank Stites died after his machine fell 200 feet at Universal City on Tuesday. A close friend of Lincoln Beachey, Stites had been despondent after Beachey’s fatal San Francisco crash. He had recently said he lost his nerve and, during a flight, lost control and hit the ground, suffering a broken leg and internal injuries.
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Los Angeles
Frank Stites
Universal City
Stites
Lincoln Beachey
Beachey
San Francisco
Carranza Abandons Progreso Blockade on U S Urgency
Washington reports General Carranza halted the Progreso port blockade after U S pressure. The Mexican gunboat Zara gosa was called off and two American ships carrying sisal cleared without interference. Rear Admiral Caperton's dispatches on relief crossed a U S note warning of ongoing determination to lift the blockade and to use the cruiser Des Moines if needed.
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Washington
Carranza
Progreso
United States
Zaragosa
Caperton
Des Moines
Judge Denies Thaw Motion in Conspiracy Case
New York March 18 Justice Page denied Thaws attorneys bid to send him back to New Hampshire after the conspiracy trial. The habeas corpus writ stayed his return, and he remained in sheriff custody until he appears before Justice Bljur next Friday morning.
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New York
Supreme Court of the United States
Justice Page
Supreme Court
Harry K. Thaw
New Hampshire
John B. Stanchfield
Thaw
Matteawan
Justice Bljur
Wheel Burnts One Dead At Illinois Steel Plant
Chicago March 19. One man was killed and several others were painfully injured when a 26 foot fly wheel burst at rat mill No. 1 of the Illinois Steel company plant in South Chicago.
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Chicago
Illinois Steel Company
South
American Bark Pasa of Bermuda Wrecked Near Syltraland
Bremen, March 19. The American bark Pasa of Bermuda is reported wrecked near Syltraland in the North Sea. The vessel, sailing from New York to Bremen, carried a cargo of cotton.
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Bremen
Pasa
Bermada
Syltraland
North Sea
New York
Beachey Killed In Bay Crash Of New Monoplane
World famed aviator Lincoln Beachey died after his new monoplane collapsed during a vertical drop at the Panama Pacific Exposition in San Francisco. Beachey and the craft plunged 2,500 feet into the bay and were buried in mud near the transports. Divers recovered the wreck and body after two hours as crowds watched in disbelief. Beachey, born March 3, 1887 in San Francisco, left behind parents in Ohio and Michigan.
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Lincoln Beachey
Beachey
San Francisco Bay
United States Army
Oregon
Soldier's
Dayton, O
Morene
Mich
Fires Ravage Tanner Store District Doors four houses lost
Middlesboro reports a blaze at Tanner's dry goods store destroying four business houses with an estimated 60000 dollars in losses. Other items note Berlin mourning the death of banker poet Thorlanga Neldmax Richter, Chicago health bulletin shows 874 weekly deaths, Aberdeen homicide at a home, Hinton mine inquiry, Pass of Balmaha wreck near Syltsland, and Woodbury Shoe Co factory No.2 fire in North Derry with 200000 dollar loss.
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Tanner
Berlin
Thorlanga Neldmax Richter
Ebeling
Chicago
Weekly Bulletin
Department of Health
Aberdeen
George W. Carlaw
Carlaw
Hinton
W. Va
Layland
New River
Pocahontas Coat Company
Bremen
Balmaha
Syltsland
North Sea
New York
Derry
N. H
Woodbury Shoe Co
Dresden Sunk After Five-Minute Naval Battle
The German cruiser Dresden was sunk off Juan Fernandez after a brief engagement with British ships Glasgow Orama and Kent. Heavy damage set the vessel afire and a magazine exploded as she surrendered after five minutes. Fifteen wounded crew were landed at Valparaiso. no British casualties.
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Admiralty
Dresden
Juan Fernandez Island
Glasgow
Orma
Kent
Valparaiso
Hill Heads Lobby for Higher Passenger Fares in Legislature
St. Paul March 18 James J Hill will head a railway lobby in the state legislature to ask for increased passenger fares.
Internad German Liner Escapes from Internment
London dispatch reports the German liner Macedonia interned at Las Palmas has escaped and sailed to sea with war supplies for German raiders. The item notes the incident as a major wartime development and attributes the assertion to newspapers in the city.
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London
Macedonia
Las Palmas
Last of James Gang Dies in Chicago Hushuroar
James D. Hanashaw aged eighty once fugitive Jim Burton claimed to be last of the James brothers gang. He died in Chicago on March 19 ending a 60 year fugitive legend.
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James Gang
Chicago
James D. Hanashaw
Jim Burton
Gunboat Status Sent to Mexican Port Amid Mexico City Turmoil
Washington reports alarm over foreigners in Mexico City as the Brutus sails from Vera Cruz to Progreso and the Des Moines offers asylum. Panic grows among Americans and other nationals while Sweden and Brazil seek safe departures. The Cleveland remains off Manzanillo as the new government tightens control under Roque Gonzales Garza.
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Navy Departments
Progreso
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Brutus
Vera Cruz
Des Moines
Admiral Caperton
Mexico City
Roque Gonzales Garza
Bryan
Sweden
Mexico
United States
McManus
Johan Oklund
Obregon
Gustav Lundholm
Manzanillo
Cleveland
Oldfield Wins Auto Race at Venice Speedway
Barney Oldfield led the 3014 mile Grand Prix at Venice Speedway in Los Angeles to victory without a stop. His 4 hours 24 minutes 9 seconds time at an 87 mph average left William Carlson second in a duplicate Maxwell and G E B Rustell third in a Mercer.
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Los Angeles
Cal
California
Barney Oldfield
Maxwell
Venice Speedway
Oldfield
William Carlson
G. Eb, Ruckstell
Mercer
Kentucky statute invalid in seeding machine case ruling
Washington March 16 The Supreme Court set aside Kentucky court conviction of American Seeding Machine Co at Richmond Ind for violating state anti trust laws by price fixing seeding machines. The court ruled the Kentucky statute invalid.
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Washington
American Seeding Machine Company
Richmond
Ind
Kentucky Courss
Supreme Court
Kentucky
Italy Pressured to Align With Allies or Germany Over Territorial Demands
Rome reports intense political pressure on Italy to declare its postwar course with Germany or the Anglo-French-Russian bloc. German ambassador von Buelow signals Austria would concede to Italy a wide northern Adriatic expansion including Pola, Trent, and Trieste, while Austria offers minimal concessions. Allies warn Italy would gain nothing if it stays out of the settlement.
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Chiagao
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Germany
Austria
Prince von Buelow
Albania
Mediterranean
Great Britain
France
Austria-Hungary
Adriatis Sea
Fiume
Pola
Trent
Trieste
Rockefeller Halts Burial After Sudden Change of Heart
John D Rockefeller and his son John D Rockefeller Jr decided to delay interment of the wife and mother. The body would stay at Pocantico Hills for several days. Sixty friends attended the services. A Rockefeller train collided with a freight train at Milford Virginia causing a crash but no injuries.
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John D. Rockefeller
John D. Rockefeller, Jr
John D. Archbold
Sleepy Hollow
Rockefeller
Pocantico Hills
Milford
Rockefellers
Dead Men Placed on Terre Haute Poll List
In Terre Haute hidden names appeared on the registration books last October, according to Ira Wallman Silas Brewear and Joseph G Elder who testified in the Terre Haute election fraud case. They verified the poll as taken from the registration book and found many registrations from vacant houses with impossible numbers and wrong addresses outside precincts, plus hundreds of names of men who could not be located.
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Indianapolis
Ind
Terre Haute
Ira Wallman
Silas R. Brewear
Joseph G. Elder
Fifty Thousand French Soldiers Said Killed in Belgium Front
Berlin reports claim more than 50,000 French soldiers killed since early February and 25,000 buried between firing lines in the five mile strip between Perthes and Bild in the Champagne district. Unofficial sources provide the details of the casualties and burials dated March 19.
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Berlin
Perthes and
Bild
Champagne
2000 British Slain in Sudan Rising, Fashoda Clash Report
A German traveler reports to Vossische Zeitung that the Sudan including Khartum is in dervish hands. He cites Hawley’s decimated force at Fashoda with 2000 British dead, tribesmen overrunning Fayum railways, and dervish control spreading to Nasser post, with telegraph lines cut.
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Germany
Sayville
L. L
Egypt
Sudan
Khartum
Nubia
Vossische Zeitung
Fashoda
Hawley
Pyramids
Fayum
Cairo-Assuan
Alexandria-Cairo
Danlanhur
Diggs Caminetti Convictions Upheld by Appeals Court
The U S circuit court of appeals affirmed the 1913 Mann act convictions of Maurice I Diggs former California archi tect and F Drew Caminetti son of Anthony Caminetti United States immigration chief. They were convicted for transporting Lola Norria and Marsha Warrington for immoral purposes. Diggs got two years on McNeil Island and a 2000 dollar fine, Caminetti 18 months and a 1500 dollar fine.
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F. Drew Caminetti
Anthony Caminetti
United States’ Commissioner General of Immigration
Maurice I. Diggs
United States Circuit Court of Appeals
Diggs
Caminett
Williams
van Fleet
Lola Norria
Marsha Warrington
Sacramento
Cal
Reno
Nev
McNeil Island
Caminetti
Envoy Seeks Curb on Villa Tax on Foreigners
The British embassy, after Monterey advice, asked the state department to protest Villa’s 1,000,000 peso levy on foreigners including the $35,000 tax on a Monterey light and power company owned by British capital. The United States also sent a protest to General Villa over the foreigner tax.
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Monterey
State Department
Villa
Light and Power Company
United States
General Villa
Austria Prepares to Fight Over Italian Frontier
Vienna dispatch reports Emperor Francis Joseph held a lengthy talk with General Ritter von Krobatin minister of war about fortifying Austria Hungary defenses on the Italian frontier amid rising tensions.
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Vienna
Messaggero
Francis Joseph
Ritter von Krobatin
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Kilbane Defeats Williams In Six Round Featherweight Fight
Philadelphia report states Johnny Kilbane defeated Kid Williams in a six round bout with Kilbane pressing the pace from the start. Williams, despite a brave effort, was outboxed and outfought as Kilbane retained his featherweight prominence.
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Johnny Kilbane
Kid Williams
Kilbane
Ship Seized in Blockade by British Patrol
London reports the first seizure under Britain blockade provisions as the Swedish steamer Gedel and Dacon bound for a German port is halted and towed to Lee. In Meyersdale a fire at the Donges theater destroys the building and damages 15 homes, with losses around 100000 dollars.
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London
Great Britain
Gedel
Dacon
Lee
Meyersdale
Johnstown
Red Cross aid asked for Mexico City relief efforts
Will Ald Red Cross in Vera Cruz reports General Catranza favoring a Red Cross request to send provisions to Mexico City for people in dire want. In Tokyo officials say a peaceful solution to Japan China negotiations is in sight with no further details released.
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Will Ald Red Cross
Vera Cruz
Mexico
Catranza Hee
American Red Cross
Mexico City
Tokyo
Japan
China
Schools Bar German Song In Ontario Classrooms
Ontario education department decides to remove the German patriotic song Deutschland Uber Alles from German readers in schools in Toronto on March 20. The move further reshapes curriculum amid wartime sentiment and cultural restrictions.
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Toronto
Ont
Ontario
Education Department
Cascarets Ad Promises Quick Relief from Indigestion
An advertisement touts Cascarets as a cure for liver stomach and bowel misery including constipation indigestion and headaches. It claims a 10 cent box provides health happiness and a clear head for months urging owners to cleanse inside organs and noting stores stock the product for both adults and children.
Its Only Meaning Uncle Roger and the patent medicines
An old acquaintance greets Uncle Roger who has long relied on various patent medicines. He explains that for six months most meals have been meager and scarcely enough, and he jokes about taking more medicine to feel better.
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Roger
Kidney health warning promotes rad salts remedy
An authority warns that excessive meat consumption clogs kidneys with uric acid and urges daily use of rad salts, a grape and lemon juice based acid flush, to cleanse and activate kidneys. The ad touts safety and enjoyment as a health tonic for urinary and bladder issues.
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Saya
Senator Spars on Ginger in Filibuster Debate
A dialogue focuses on ginger in speeches as Senator replies that topics become sticky in filibusters. Sorghum quips that men stick to topics and end up lacking zest, while seeking glue to hold arguments together.
Marine Eye Remedy Ad Promotes Eye Health
An early 20th century advertisement circulates for Marine Eye Remedy Co. Chicago promoting an eye care book and remedies. It asserts benefits for sore eyes weak eyes and eyelids, with claims including soothing and strengthening effects for adults and babies.
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Marine Eye Remedy Co
Chicago
Pogo
Doem
Ady
Her Narrow Escape Proposal Exchange
A brief dramatic exchange unfolds with a man admitting surprise at acceptance, and a woman confirming there would have been no second proposal if turned down, implying a tense moment of reconciliation or resolve.
Ontario Hosts Most Cheese Factories In Canada
The exchange claims Ontario is the liveliest province in Canada, cited as 1,002 cheese factories reported in the paper. This quip suggests Ontario’s bustling dairy industry and regional pride.
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Canada
Egbert
Ontario
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