War Congress In Session With Wilson War Agenda
Washington reports the sixty fifth congress convened with prospects of Champ Clark securing a speaker's majority. President Wilson plans a concise war message calling for a state of war, expanded army to 1 660 000, navy growth, espionage and censorship bills, and broader aid to Allies to deter German aggression.
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Sixty-fifth
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Champ Clark
Wilson
United States
Germany
U. S
Cress
Navy
Marine Corps
Navy Department
Memphis Tornado Damages Churches Hospitals and Homes
A tornado struck Binghamton outside Memphis on April 2 injuring four people fatally and leaving about fifty hurt. The cyclone damaged two churches while worshipers were inside and struck the general and Baptist hospitals, shattering windows and tearing parts from the buildings. Most hospital patients escaped injury.
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Memphis
Tenn
Binghamton
General Hospital
Baptist Hospital
Pro German Field Day Dominates Wisconsin Elections
Milwaukee reports show strong German American influence shaping local races as the pro German American alliance backs school board candidates and Socialists largely align. Monroe Sheboygan and Mayville cite German American platforms with war referendum in tentative notes as license votes loom in nearly one hundred towns.
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Milwaukee
Congress
Germany
Wisconsin
Monroe and
Sheboygan
Mayville
E. H. Naber
The Leaders Champ Clark and J R Mann Speakership Nominees
A political item notes Champ Clark and J R Mann as leading candidates for the Speakership. The piece frames their prominence within party discussions and leadership possibilities.
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Champ Clark
J. R. Mann
United States Withdraws Envoy from Austria Hungary
Washington reports the United States has withdrawn Ambassador Penfield from Vienna. The US embassy is now handled by the charge of the first secretary while Austria-Hungary is not expected to declare war or recall its embassy. Penfield left Vienna after the US refused to receive Count Tarnowski in Washington.
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Washington
Austria- Hungary
United States
Penfield
Vienna
Lansing
Count Tarnowski
Danish Islands Now Ours After Long Purchase
The United States completed the purchase of the Danish West Indies with a $25.1 million treasury warrant handed to Danish Minister Brun at the state department. Copenhagen and Washington sent wireless messages to lower the Danish flag and raise the American flag as the Virgin Islands were designated United States territory.
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Washington
Wilson Calls 7009 Guardsmen From Six States Into Service
The War Department ordered about 7009 National Guardsmen into federal service for police protection. Units named include Oklahoma First Infantry, Louisiana First Infantry, District of Columbia Third Infantry, Texas Second Third and Fourth Infantry, First Separate Squadron of Cavalry, Arkansas First Infantry, and Rhode Island Second Fifth Twelfth and Fifteenth Coast Artillery.
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Washington
War Department
Federal Service
Oklahoma
Louisiana
District of Columbia
Texas
Arkansas
Rhode Island
Coast Artillery
Who's Who In Russia New Citizen Renounces Allegiance
Davenport area report describes John Z Mond of Moline applying for first citizenship papers. Deputy clerk Louis Link debated whom Mond must renounce allegiance to amid Russia’s political structure. The clerk finally required renunciation of allegiance to the republic and government of Russia, the Duma, and Nicholas II.
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Duma
Davenport
John Z. Mond
Fast Moline
Rock Island
Louis Link
Russia
Republic of Russia
Nicholas II
Democrats Draft War Resolution Against Germany
Democratic members of the foreign affairs committee drafted a resolution declaring a state of war with Germany following Secretary Lansing’s suggestion that the President was prepared to act. The text mirrors the 1846 Mexican War resolution and authorizes the President to employ militia and naval and military forces to prosecute the war.
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Washington
Foreign Affairs Committee
Lansing
Germany
United States
House of Representatives
United States of America
Congress
Senate
Germany Calls All Men 45 and Older to Arm
Copenhagen reports Germany calls all men forty five years old and up to join the colors. Berlin announces Hindenburg is massing strength for a major push to end the war victoriously by year’s end. Labourers are being released to the front. The next months see German armies at maximum strength. Authorities aim to spare no man able to bear arms regardless of age.
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Copenhagen
Germany
Berlin
Hindenburg
Gardner Bolts Caucus Nomination for House Speaker
Washington April 2 Representative Mann of Illinois was nominated by the Republican conference as speaker candidate. Representatives Gray of New Jersey and Gardner of Massachusetts left the caucus. Gray said he could not be bound by the caucus action and Gardner failed to win adoption of a resolution relieving members from backing the nominee.
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Washington
Representative Mann
Illinois
Representative Gray
New Jersey
Gardner
Massachusetts
Gray
Federal land banks plan $200000000 loan for farming defense
The Federal Farm Loan Board announces more than $200 million will be loaned out by the federal land banks in the coming year to intensify farming nationwide as a measure of national defense.
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Washington
Federal
Federal Farm Loar Board
Thomas F. Smith Nominated by Tammany Hall for Congress
Thomas F. Smith, secretary of Tammany Hall, has been nominated to run for Congress. The nomination signals party backing and indicates Smith will seek a seat representing the district in the upcoming election.
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Tammany Hall
Congress
Thomas F. Smith
Tamemany Hall
Michael F. Conry
German worker jailed after threat to blow up factory
Hellmut Metzdorff, 21, employed ten days at a Newcastle mobile factory, warned he would blow up the plant if war occurred. Held in county jail as Federal investigators in Indianapolis review his claim after coworkers reported the remark. He says he served as a sailor on a German merchant ship interned at Seattle when war began.
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Newcastle
Ind
Hellmut Metzdorff
Metzdorff
Indianapolis
J. P. Timmons
Seattle
Republicans push Buck-Uan croft amendment in civil service debate
Springfield April 9 Republicans back a civil service amendment to raise exemptions and allow department heads to discharge employees for inefficiency without trial. They plan to ask the house to refuse concurrence in an unfavorable committee report after the measure had been killed in a prior session.
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Springfield
Ill
House
Senate
Mrs. Pankhurst "Serve Your Country" Recipe for Votes
Hatfield campaign card presents Emmeline Pankhurst urging women to serve their country to win votes. The piece frames suffrage as patriotic duty and civic participation, calling for organized voter mobilization and public support.
Hammond merchant rescued after mud ditch close call
In Hammond Indiana on April 2 Joseph Gasper a local merchant was found with his head buried in mud in a roadside ditch after a near collision. A passing motorist reported an overturned car nearby and Gasper was thrown through the windshield to avoid impact. He was rescued from suffocation.
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Hammond
Ind
Joseph Gasper
Gasper
Flag Painted on Refusing Student at Normal College
At Marion Indiana April 2 students distributed flags but one student refused. Others grabbed him and painted the national colors on his face as rebuke to his refusal to recognize Old Glory. The student is American born with German forefathers.
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Marion
Ind
Normal College
Milk Price Rise and Bottle Hygiene Notice in Gary
Gary Indiana April 2 price of milk rises from 9 to 11 cents per quart as changes reach Indianapolis. Consumers urged to wash bottles after use and to pay bills every two weeks instead of monthly.
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Gary
Ind
Indianapolis
Plot to restore autocracy shocks Tsarskoe Selo
Russian provisional government moves to transfer all prisoners from Tsarskoe Selo to the fortress of St. Peter and Paul isolating the ex premier and ex empress. Arrests of Grand Duchess Marie Pavlovna and others reveal a plot to crown Grand Duke Nicholas emperor of Russia.
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Nicholas
Russia
Nicholas Nows
Crimea
Olga
Duke of Oldenberg
Koudikowsk
Koudikowski
House of Romano
Sofia
Radoslavoff
Duma
Bulgaria
Paris
Count Ignatieff
Wich
Smirnoff
A. P. Isvolaky
Front
Fifty More Ships Sunk by U Boats
Berlin reports a new submarine tally with 34 steamers 4 fishing craft and 2 sailing vessels sunk. Among the 90 000 tonnage loss are 24 British vessels including an auxiliary cruiser, 13 Norwegian ships and 2 Dutch. Some vessel names could not be learned.
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Berlin
Provisional Government Abolishes Death Penalty
Petrograd April 2 The Provisional government abolishes the death penalty substituting penal servitude for life or for a term. A measure to modify laws affecting public companies removes restrictions on Jews and all aliens except subjects of hostile powers.
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Petrograd
Russia
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