Veto Approved Immigration Bill Debate Misses by Three Votes
Washington debate over the immigration bill lasted over five hours with many speakers. The House rejected the veto 361 to 116, failing to override as opponents needed six more votes. Representative Gurrett of Alabama chaired the proceedings while Gardner of Maryland and Moore of Pennsylvania spoke in support of the veto.
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Ye Sarrowest
House of Representatives
Oppo Fela
Representaive Kaho
California
Rep ‘Reerntative Gurpett
Alabama
Immigration Committee
Nd Royeesantative Gardner
Macay
Moore
Peonaylvanie
Cor
Sebeth
Uitate
British Isles Blockaded as Germany Warns of War Zone
German message states waters around Great Britain and Ireland are a declared war zone after February 18, 1815. Any enemy ship found in the area will be destroyed and neutrality rules may be breached by measures aimed at enemy ships and coastal approaches.
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Great Britain
Ireland
Engleh
Erith
Kerchward
Meetland Wands
Hothemm
Loss of Life in Storm and Flood Near Quincy and Wyaneville
A storm and flood caused multiple deaths and disruptions across Illinois and Indiana. Reports detail levee failures near Quincy and Bayom causing flooding, with scenes of dynamiting jams to relieve pressure. Farmers struggle as stock and grain perish while crews respond to damage and salvage efforts.
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Chicago
Terreday
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Minamota
Wiswrth
Bayom
Quincy
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Ind
Fragmented 191? News Fragments On Crime Floods and Rates
A garbled collection of 1919 era snippets references deaths in London and Tennessee, weather storms in Chicago, transport fare changes, and a Pretoria treason charge. It mentions deputies, legitimate births, and various places like England London and Kokomo Indiana amid unsettled reporting.
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Pretoria
London
Piet Gruter
Union of South Africa
Paul Kroger
Bows
Dynamiter Van Horn Sentenced After Bridge Wrecking Attempt
Werner Van Horn was jailed for 90 days after attempting to blow up the International Bridge over the St Croix River at Vanceboro. He faced defacement and damage charges as investigators note the explosion damaged nearby buildings. Canada to send legal representatives to Vanceboro for the hearing on the bridge wrecking case.
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Cone Johnson
State Department
Washington
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Wilson Warns U S on Grain Shortage and Prosperity
President Wilson addressed hundreds of chamber executives urging increased planting and higher yields to avert worldwide food shortages. He urged national unity in peace and war alike, proposed cooperative selling and long term credits for exporters, and called for fair laws guided by business insight while noting Mexican information gaps hinder policy.
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Wilson
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United States
Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce Ind
Five men injured as wall collapses at Brown & Sepler Me
Flash from Isrand Rapids reports five men were filed and several others parpons injured by a filling wall on Monday at the ruins of the Brown & Sepler Implement Manufacturing plant. London and England war notes say plans to respond to the colors proceed. Germany and Italy tensions rise. President Wilson backs two battleships to be built this year with more next year per Tillman.
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Senate Naval Committee
Congress
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Dacia Sails Faces Capture in Galveston Voyage
The Dacia departed Galveston at noon Sunday bound for Rotterdam with 11,000 bales of cotton to be transshipped to The Decia’s ice cargo valued by shippers at 840000 dollars. Britain claims contraband status and may seize the vessel as maritime tensions rise after the German vessel’s transfer to American registry amid European war.
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Carranza kin slain as rescue troops fail to arrive
In Vera Cruz a dispatch reports the execution of General Santibanez by the Zapata faction after his capture near San Jeronimo Tehuantepec. The Carranza family had pleaded for clemency, and Venustiano Carranza sent word of a planned rescue, but troops reportedly arrived too late.
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Tehuantepec
Lake ship crushed by ice near Chicago harbor
A Goodrich Transit steamer sank three miles off Chicago after a hull breach caused by ice during a storm. Sixty-nine crew members and one woman passenger escaped, reaching shore after a six mile walk. The vessel, built in 1868 at Manitowoc Wisconsin, carried cargo from Milwaukee valued at 50 000 to 75 000 dollars.
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Goodrich Transit Company
Manitowoc
Wis
Milwaukee
Britain to Pay for Cargo Foodship Wilhelmina
Washington reports Ambassador Walter Hines Page cabled that Great Britain will reimburse the cargo of the steamship Wilhelmina, sailing from New York, for foodstuffs. The payment rests on the ship departing before Britain knew of Germany’s requisition decree.
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Walter Hines Page
Lennon
State Department
Great Britain
New York
Ambassador Page
Empire
Russ win in Carpathians at Dukla pass clash
Snow drenched slopes in the Dukla pass as Russian troops for two days drove Austro German forces from sapper paths and seized posts. A Russian officer wounded in the battle reports the capture of the village of Humin east of Hollmon and about 4,000 prisoners, signaling the late stages of General von Mackensen's advance toward Waray.
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Petrograd
Dukla Pasa
Carpathians
Humin
Hollmon
von Mackenzen
Germans Win in Argonne Forest Action
German troops gained a new success over French forces in the Argonne forest, the French war office says the enemy suffered heavy losses. Berlin reports German troops captured 45 French soldiers and 12 machine guns in the western Argonne, with about five hundred French dead and one regiment reportedly annihilated.
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Germany
Forest of Argonne
French War Office
Berlin
Argonne Forest
War Office
Teutons plan invasion of England in wake of William visit
Feb. 5 report from Bern states Emperor William's Wilhelmshaven visit signals imminent naval clash in the North Sea and a major effort to land a large army on English shores. Enormous forces are said to be massed at Wilhelmshaven with dozens of liners ready to act in transports since the war began.
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Wilhelmshaven
Three Die in Collision Near Amelia Ohio Rail Line
A head on crash between a traction car and a steam freight train near Amelia Ohio on the Cincinnati Georgeton Ports mouth railroad killed Frank Smith of Amelia and Frank Tenderson of Bethel and John Hoover of unknown residence. Thirteen were injured, some fatally, and Chief Justice Hugh L Nichols of the Ohio Supreme Court was among the injured. A fog is blamed for the wreck.
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Georgeton
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William Shafer
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Food Ship for Palestine and Other Feb. and World News
A provisional Zionist committee plans dispatching a ship loaded with fod for famine threatened Palestine and Syria after securing safe conduct assurances from Britain France and Turkey. Morocco reports French troops defeated and camps near Fez evacuated. A Georgia man was lynched after an assault charge. New York suffragists win a state senate vote. Louisville begins a mass clean up for the unemployed with workers paid 1.75 a day. A Chicago judge fines an executive for riding a railway employee pass. The government aims to advance the International Harvester appeal in a Minnesota dispute. Germany's anti British shipping campaign dampens New York cotton market activity.
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Palestine
Syria
United States
Provisional Zionist Committee
State Department
New York
Germany
Rejections and Protests Across Nations and Courts
A batch of brief items reports indictments quashed for 27 accused vets traffickers set for March 6, a Madrid peace treaty expectation this year, a Hudson county murder trial ending in a juror disagreement, and official replies to German protests over hydroaeroplanes as non war vessels. Also noted are prohibition moves in Arkansas, a Chicago visit by President Wilson, a threatened Interurban walkout, Smoot's costly filibuster speech, a young Vassar president, Turkish bombardment news, Canada seizing grain shipments, a dredge accident with drownings, and that foodstuffs to Germany Austria or Turkey are contraband.
From Hoke Smiths
Georgia senator Hoke Smith receives many letters from people named Hoke Smith. His mail is sorted into classes such as Important Unimportant and From Hoke Smiths. He notes the amused habit of seeing letters addressed to Hoke Smith Jones and other variants among the many Hoke Smiths who write to him.
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Hoke Smith
Georgia
Hoke Smith Jones
Exposition of Folly in Newspaper Vice Stacks
A reader notes Bishop Horne’s view that newspaper depictions of vice and crime warn readers. He cites a Wilmington Journal quote urging the display of follies as admonitions and warnings to steer others away from danger.
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Bishop Horne
Wilmington Journal
Bursting shells affect soldier as he recalls blank period
London AP dispatch reports Lieut Denys Cooke of the Black Watch details a mental blank after a shell burst near him during service with the Gordon Highlanders. He woke in a hospital train November 15 with memories missing since November 11, having written letters he cannot remember. Provisos discuss wartime marriage finance at $500 yearly salaries.
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Black Watch
Gordon Highlanders
London
Cooke
Havre
Mother’s journey for soldier son moves Vienna paper
A farmer’s old wife trudges from Szegedin toward the Servian front to deliver warm woolen clothing to her eighteen year old son serving in a Hungarian infantry regiment. She meets officers who reward her devotion with gifts, then returns home. Also notes the kilometer as the metric unit for long distances.
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Vienna
Neuve Freie Presse
Szegedin
CHIOAN APPEARS BEFORE PROBERS INQUIRY
Cleveland banker Gott Goff testified before federal investigators that the Cleveland foundation is distinct from Rockefeller and other large funds. He urged maximum publicity for foundation actions and warned that while the Rockefeller foundation could become a danger in future hands, his own body remains well managed with strong board representation. He described the foundation as a perpetual gift for charitable and scientific uses open to all races and creeds.
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Federal Industrial Commission
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