American surgeon recalls Mantola torpedoing by U boat
Earl M. Rice of Portland Oregon, ship's surgeon aboard the Mantola, survived the torpedo attack off southwest Ireland on February 8. He describes the explosion, the first use of S O S by the wireless team, and the submarine shelling as lifeboats pulled away. The Mantola sank that evening with eleven lives lost.
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Washington
Earl M. Rice
Salmon Street
Portland
Oregon
Fastnet
Ireland
Frost
Queenstown
State Department
London
Ore
Mantola
Chavas
Lincoln Birthplace Preserved At Hodgenville Memorial
The story recalls President Wilson accepting Lincoln's tiny Kentucky log cabin for the United States Government. The one room cabin with a leaky chimney stands at the Lincoln Farm within Hodgenville Memorial Hall as a priceless relic, marking Abraham Lincoln born February 12 1809.
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Wilson
United States
Lincoln Farm
Memorial Hall
Hodgenville
Kentucky
Abraham
Thomas
Nancy Hanks Lincoln
Lincoln
Mr. Oldroyd
Washington
Abraham Lincoln
White House
Ambassad or Gerard Flexes Code Demands in Negotiations
Copenhagen dispatch reports Ambassador Gerard refused to sign any treaty after ceasing diplomatic duties and telegraphing for instructions only if permitted to use code, a stance that led Count Montgelas to react.
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Copenhagen
London
Gerard
Count Montgelas
Ambassador Gerard Rejects Pressure Over German Protocol
The text notes a threat to Americans in Germany tied to a protocol that could affect departure rights and detention risk. It cites Gerard’s refusal to bow to pressuring Americans or to be part of such tactics, while indicating no further news on the protocol after his stance.
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Germany
Gerard
Count Montgelas
Foreign Office
Zimmermann
Mutual Treatment Provisions Expanded in Reratified Treaty
The text notes reratification of the 1769 and 1828 treaty provisions on mutual treatment of nationals found in a belligerent country during war, detailing several important additions and expansions to the agreement.
Lincoln associate is dead
Judge Samuel C. Parks aged ninety seven died in Kansas City Missouri. He formerly practiced with Abraham Lincoln in a Springfield Illinois law firm. Born March 25 1820 on a Vermont farm he studied at Indiana State University and was its oldest alumnus.
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Kansas City
Samuel C. Parks
Springfield
Ill
Abraham Lincoln
Mr. Parks
Vermont
Indiana State University
Shipping Board seeks use of Army transports for freight relief
The United States Shipping Board asked President Wilson to allow the War Department to use Army transports to ease congestion in ocean freight. The board plans to charter vessels and deploy them to the Gulf and Pacific trades where the bottleneck is sharpest.
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Washington
United States Shipping Board
Wilson
War Department
Army
Capital hears no peace move in German submarine war
Washington February 12. President Wilson and advisers study dispatches from Europe as word of a possible German peace offer remains unconfirmed. The Mantola sinking is the only official news. U S stance remains firm against recognizing ruthless submarine warfare and no talks will occur while it continues. A State Department source calls the peace rumor unknown and potentially German propaganda.
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Frost
U. S
Washington
Germany
Wilson
Europe
Gerard
Mantola
War and Navy Department
Baker
Daniels
Polk
State Department
Department
Mantela
United States
Death calls Judge Gibbons in Chicago
Judge John Gibbons of the circuit court died of pneumonia at Presbyterian Hospital. Born in County Donegal Ireland he studied at Notre Dame and was admitted to the bar in 1870. He served as city attorney before moving to Chicago in 1880 and was repeatedly elected to the circuit bench through 1915.
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Chicago
John Gibbons
Circuit Court
Presbyterian Hospital
Jo Gibbons
County Donegal
Ireland
Notre Dame University
Keokuk
Iowa
Railroad Earnings Slide in December Across Major Lines
Washington reports railroad earnings for December fell by more than 2 million dollars among the 144 largest railroads in a partial summary released by the Interstate Commerce Commission. In contrast the leading express companies showed an increase of over 12 million dollars in October business according to additional reports from the commission.
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Washington
Interstate Commerce Commission
Postponed German Bazaar in Milwaukee Indefinitely
A Milwaukee bazaar planned for May to aid German and Austrian war sufferers was postponed until amicable relations between the United States and Germany are re established. The decision was taken by the bazaar directors at a meeting.
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Milwaukee
Germany
Birth Control Question Spurs Legal Revision Push
Governor Whitman appoints a commission to study birth control amid hunger strikes and jail service. Physicians writers clergy and philanthropists sign a statement urging amendments to federal and state laws that criminalize distributing birth control information.
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New York
Whitman
Juliet Barrett Rublee
National Birth Control League
Rainey Names Baking Heads in Food Probe
Washington reports Congressman Rainey proposed summoning key figures in the baking industry to testify on price fixing. Suggested witnesses include Paul Schulze of Chicago, S F McDonald of Memphis, J M Bell of Chicago, John Lind of Minneapolis, and The Modern Miller editor, amid talk of a nationwide move to ten cent bread.
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Washington
Federal Trade Commission
Department of Agriculture
Wilson
Henry T. Rainey
Ilinois
Commission
Houston
Rainey
Paul Schulze
Chicago
S. F. McDonald
Memphis
National Master Bakers Association
J. M. Bell
John Lind
Minneapolis
Wheat Millers
Modern Miller’ of
St. Louis
Salt Lake City
Wreckage Washes Ashore Near Pernambuco Coast
Wreckage including wireless apparatus a tin box with explosive cylinders planks and provisions has washed ashore near the mouth of the Parna huba in Pernambuco Brazil over the past few days.
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Pernambuco
Brazil
Parnahuba
United States Considers Arming Merchant Ships
State Department signals authority exists to arm American line steamships and passenger vessels held in port. Guns and crews could be provided without Congress, with ships allowed to defend themselves but not act as convoyed auxiliaries. Germany would likely protest but armed ships would be allowed to resist submarine attacks.
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State Department
Washington
United States
American Line
Germany
Navy Department
Naval Reserve
Wilson
Congress
Inventor Sells Torpedo Secret to Marlin Arms
Monroe Wisconsin February 12 inventor Lester Barlow of torpedo fame sells his secret to Marlin Arms for 50000 dollars cash plus a seventeen year royalty guaranteed not less than 50000 annually and a 100 per week salary as superintendent of manufacture. Barlow born and raised in Monroe now resides in Clear Lake Iowa and is visiting.
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Monroe
Wis
Lester Barlow
Marlin Arms Company
Barlow
Clear Lake
Iowa
Indiana Girl Becomes Heiress
Lillian Groff a Chicago area graduate inherits the estate of her grandfather Dr Emil Schincke who died recently in Rochester Indiana Police received the information via telegram from Bruce Love police chief of Rochester Indiana
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Chicago
Lillian Groff
Emil Schincke
Rochester
Ind
Bruce Love
Indiana
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