Germans Capture Thousand French in Sunday Night Raid
An official report says Germans captured 14 French officers and 934 men after Saturday night and Sunday clashes near Vermiliez with heavy mining activity noted NE of Vermelez. British infantry losses were heavy in the same region while other fronts saw quiet fighting.
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Mesopotamia
Constantinople
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Turk Port
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Bryan 10 Fight the Administration
Washington reports William J. Bryan to host a lunch with twenty lawmakers in favor of the Gore resolution urging citizens to avoid armed merchantmen. Many guests’ names leaked. Kitchin declined due to prior engagement. Bryan poised to take action against current preparedness policy. Isaac Griswold arrived from Wells to attend county board meeting and destroyed several Turkish ships claimed undamaged. Zeppelins raid London casualties listed. three raids dropped 40 bombs, war experts note seeks ships. Paris reports no infantry attacks last night with heavy Meuse artillery on the left bank.
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Paris
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Floods threaten million dollar grain area
Tulare Lake rises swiftly threatening a million dollars in grain as the Elrico levee protecting 20,000 acres may fail. The Goldber levee has already broken and six sections of land lie underwater.
Vermont Referendum on Primary Question
Vermont will hold a referendum tomorrow on adopting the primary law recently passed by the Legislature. If accepted, Vermont joins nineteen states using direct primary to pick presidential delegates. The state has eight delegates to the Republican convention.
Boilermakers Vote On Big Strike In San Francisco
Five hundred boilermakers will vote on a strike Thursday after employers ignored wage demands. They seek a minimum of four dollars per day for new work and four fifty for old work while helpers push for three dollars daily. Packing House raises wages in Chicago increase annualized by one point five million for thirty thousand workers.
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Int'l News Service
San Francisco
Howe Announces His Candidacy for Senate
A. H. Howe of Goldfield submits a declaration of principles to announce his senate bid. The communication includes a note urging consistent support. The editor dismisses the piece as waste, citing lack of personal interest and the value of space.
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Goldfield
Senate
Howe
Melba Denounces Nevada Impostor as Fraudulent Son
Madame Nellie Melba arrives in San Francisco en route to Australia and sues a Nevada man claiming to be her son George Armi. She says he is 35 and obtaining money by the deception, noting her own marriage timeline as proof of the fraud.
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Nellie Melba
San Francisco
Australia
Madame Melba
eGorge Armi
Fran
Steamer Wand Wrecked Off Puget Sound
The steam schooner Thomas A Wand bound from Eagle Harbor to San Pedro with lumber was disabled in a heavy gale off the entrance of Puget Sound. Both masts were carried away and the vessel could not return to the bay.
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Seattle
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Eagle Harbor
San Pedro Inden
Puget Sound
Bay
Baker Offered War Secretary Position by Wilson
Newton D. Baker, former Cleveland mayor, has been offered the secretary of war post to fill Lindley M. Garrison's vacancy. Baker has accepted the nomination and plans to travel to Washington to confer with President Wilson. he is described as a pacifist turned pro preparedness and will not discuss policy details.
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Wilson
Lindley M. Garrison
Newton D. Baker
Cleveland
Ohio
John Hopkins Institute
Baker
Tom L. Johnson
Johnson
Silver service to travel Nevada in private car tour
The silver service for the battleship Nevada, long housed in Governor Boyle's office, will soon depart for an exhibition tour across the state. Tonopah is expected first, with six packing cases reduced risk by rail lines offering a private car for display and guarding the precious service.
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Boyle
Tonopah
Carson News
Army Bill Reaches House in Reform Effort
The new army bill proposes 170000 in peace time and 260000 in war time, introduced in the house and favorably reported by the senate military affairs committee. A prior correction clarifies that a county road through John Puett's property was cut off by the U P railroad, prompting an apology for an earlier error.
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Washington, D. C
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Senate Committee On Military Affairs
Edward Lytton
George Banks
Carlin
John W. Puett
Puett
U. P
Price of dynamite soars skyward in wartime shock
War driven price spikes hit everyday goods as dyes inks and hardware rise. A local store report shows Hercules powder leaping from 14 cents to 22.04 wholesale. Paper tinting and ink costs climb. experts say war manipulation, not just shortages, fuels the trend. In other news polished diamonds valued at 9 million dollars were exported to the United States from Amsterdam in 1915, down 4 million from the previous year.
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United States
Amsterdam
Netherlands
State Department
Supreme Court upholds Florida trading stamps ban law
The Supreme Court of the United States upholds the Florida law prohibiting trading stamps and profit sharing certificates as constitutional. Rearguments were ordered in the five percent case testing the validity of the discriminating duty in the Underwood tariff section.
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Int'l News Service
Washington
Supreme Court of the United States
Florida
Alaska trade climbs as mining and rail projects expand
A March 6 report from Juneau shows Alaska’s trade rose by 12 million dollars in the last year due to mining development and railroad exploitation. Exports of placer gold declined while the favorable balance grew to 27 million. Gold and silver shipments to the United States reached 16 million, with US goods valued at 23 million and only 0.5 million imported from abroad.
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Mexican capital starving masses report by Turkish merchant
Samuel Saleby, a wealthy Turkish merchant of Mexico City, says about one thousand people are starving to death each month in the capital. He notes severe food shortages with only the rich able to secure enough to eat after arriving on the steamer Newport.
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Int'l News Service
San Francisco
Samuel Saleby
Mexico City
Newport
McLemore Resolution Heads to House Floor Tomorrow
The rules committee in the House reported favorably to bring up the McLemore resolution tomorrow. Five half hour debates are set before a motion to table the bill. The measure mirrors the Gore bill previously tabled in the Senate, urging Americans to stay off armed merchant ships of belligerent nations.
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Int'l News Service
Washington, D. C
Committee On Rules
House of Representatives
McLemore
Gore
Senate
Principe de Austrias Sinks After Rock Collision Near Spain
The Spanish steamer Principe de Austrias of 8371 tons, traveling from Barcelona to Buenos Aires, struck rocks east of San Sebastian and sank this morning. Three hundred thirty three passengers and 107 crew members are missing, per Lloyds dispatches from Santos, Spain.
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Int'l News Service
London
Principe de Austrias
Barcelona
Buenos Ayres
San Sebastian
Spain
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Santos
Washington Street Cars Tied Up
Washington D C March 6 Three fourths of the street cars of the city are tied up this morning by a strike. It is reported that many strike breakers are on their way here and trouble is looked for unless a speedy settlement is reached.
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Int'l News Service
Washington, D. C
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May Robson in Night Out Captures Cabaret Realism
In Vitagraph comedy A Night Out director George D. Baker enlists Eva Taylor to dance Mitza. Taylor, a vaudeville star, overcomes camera limits to render a cabaret scene rivaling Broadway tango parlors, with May Robson featured among a strong Vitagraph cast.
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George D. Baker
Eva Taylor
Mitza
Miss Taylor
Broadway
Died at Elko Hotel From Heart Failure
W F Bennett, 33, a Tennessee native, was found dead in his bed at the Elko Hotel Sunday afternoon. Death attributed to heart failure. Bennett had been in Elko about two weeks and was active Saturday night. His father George B Bennett of Altoona wired to ship the body home.
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