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Newspaper
Fairfield Journal
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 01, 1917
Page
9
President Wilson urges allies to strike U S enemies abroad. The article cites evidence of duplicity by Von Bernstorff and Secretary Zimmerman as the basis for actions.
Washington reports suggest Mexico relayed Berlin's attack proposal to Japan but Tokyo reacted unfavorably. Analysts think Germany’s Pacific withdrawal plan was timed to lure Japan into their broader strategy to claim Pacific possessions and expand influence.
Washington reports Germany drafted an alliance with Mexico and Japan to wage war on the United States if neutrality ended. Zimmermann instructed Eckhardt to propose terms, promising financial aid and Mexican recovery of lost territories in New Mexico Texas and Arizona. Bernstorff carried instructions. document in US hands since broken relations.
Dr Frank Crane notes Miss Jeannette Rankin of Missoula, Montana will enter the House as a symbolic advance for democracy. He compares her landmark seat to historic milestones and calls it a triumph of reason, signaling women and children gaining prominence in government and policy.
Washington March 1 The House Foreign Affairs Committee favors a limited armed neutrality bill while the Senate stalls. The administration seeks full authority to arm merchant ships and protect U S rights at sea but insurance for ships carrying munitions is not extended. President confident Congress will approve.
Philadelphia report to Captain Tate states Harry K Thaw is a physical and mental wreck after examination by New York alienists. Police surgeon Dr John Wanamaker attended the hospital evaluation and says it would be impossible to remove him from the institution at present.
Vincent Astor proposes to donate his palatial yacht to the government as a public asset. The offer aims to aid national maritime needs and showcase private wealth for public service, signaling a philanthropic gesture amid postwar naval modernization.
Valparaiso Indiana faces a Republican only city election with A. W. Lytle Civil War veteran and ex postmaster as mayoral candidate. Six Republicans run for alderman across four wards and two at large with Democratic committee meetings yielding no candidates.
Governor James P. Goodrich signed a partial suffrage bill granting Indiana women the right to vote for presidential electors and delegates to the constitutional convention, and for most state, county, city, and township offices, excluding the governor, lieutenant governor, secretary, treasurer, and auditor.
Three Des Moines men were commissioned in the federal reserve with H. H. Pick named major of cavalry C A Watrous promoted to lieutenant in the quartermaster corps and Hal B Ray to captain in the quartermaster corps. Five other Des Moines residents including Mayor John Macvicar passed examinations for commissions.
Roy Lockwood died after a Saturday night shooting in Terre Haute Indiana with no identified shooter. A mysterious woman appeared at his side begging forgiveness and asking him not to leave her, then vanished.
Morris Jagow, claiming to be a nephew of the former head of the German foreign office, filed for naturalization papers in Lake Charles Louisiana. He works in a Reeves lumber camp and says he served years in the German army but intends to settle in the United States.
The month totals 471 910 tons from 190 ships. seven Dutch merchantmen torpedoed off the English coast are listed as sunk or later accounted for by Holland. Germany offers to replace the Dutch ships with German freighters until war’s end, conditional on Holland buying them afterward.
New York reports indicate passenger traffic on all British vessels leaving England for America and France has been suspended. James F. Egan of Philadelphia and Robert Wilson of New York claim the British admiralty will use passenger ships and freighters solely to transport supplies or move troops. They say this practice has begun across the British channel and may continue for an undetermined period.
Chicago on March 1 reports James I. Paisley and Oliver F. Paisley were each sentenced to three years in the penitentiary and fined 1400 dollars after being found guilty of receiving deposits while their banks were insolvent. Their father William H. Paisley received one year in prison with jurors recommending mercy. The three owned the Summerdale North Shore and Grace Street banks which closed September 19 1916.
Embargo announced by Mallory Steamship line on rice shipments through Galveston to New York and beyond. A Morgan line embargo already in force, affecting similar cargo movements in the port.
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