Anthracite Transport Controls Charged by 8 Firms
Washington reports Senator Vardaman's charge that eight transportation companies form a near monopoly over anthracite coal production in Pennsylvania. The statement lists Reading, Jersey Central, Lehigh Valley, Delaware Lackawanna and Western, Delaware and Hudson, Lehigh Coal and Navigation, Lehigh and New England, and Newark Ontario and Western as controllers. He urges federal action to divorce transportation firms from mining and to fix coal prices for a fair return and ample supply.
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Vardaman
Miceissippi
Senate
Congressional Record
Pennsylvania
Transportation Corporations Co
Pennsyvania
North America
Reading
Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company
Jersey Central
Lehigh and Wilkesbarre Company
Lehigh Valley
Delaware, Lackawanna and Western
Delaware and Hadson
Lehigh Coal and Navigation Co
Lehigh and
New England
Hire
Newark Ontario and Western
Congress
Ang
Ane Cyahe Mississipp
America
Locust Mountain Coal Company
Tidewater
Benatyr Vardaman
Buslcom
Wares Readable Fragment Prompting Trade Notes
Fragmentary OCR item mentions two boars and a wind related term with prices or identifiers. Incomplete details limit full attribution to person or organization. reads like a classified ad snippet or trade listing from a local market page.
Victory Loan Bill Passes Congress Records Urgency
Congress accelerates work on a Victory Liberty Loan bill and a general deficiency measure providing 750 million dollars for the railroad administration. Both Senate and House prepare to stay in session, while leaders aim to clear a mass of bills before adjournment. Efforts to repeal the ten percent war tax on semiluxuries and wheat price guarantees face long debate. A proposed constitutional amendment and woman suffrage compromise stall amid parliamentary blocks and opposition.
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Congress
France
Senate
House
Railroad Administration
Jones
Woman Suffrage Committee
Weeks
Sl 2Scer Bitin
Washington to France as general adviser amid retirement
Telegraphic briefs note attorney general Washington-Thomas W. Gregory will accompany Wilson to France as general adviser. A separate item mentions Poland and New York plans for church cooperation, with three Protestant bishops to speak on Christian unity before the pope. Also Washington reports on a proposed $100,000,000 European relief bill.
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Thomas W. Gregory
Wilson
France
New York
Herbert
Wilson Disapproves Death Sentence For Private Max Landin
Washington March 3. President Wilson disapproves the death sentence imposed by a military court martial on Private Max Landin a conscientious objector. The sentence to years imprisonment was approved and Landin refused to obey an order from a superior officer. The Pentagon reports the extreme penalty was not upheld by the War Department.
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Hiteon
Max Ae
War Department
Sandin
Cale
Sherman Attacks League of Nations Constitution as Harmful
Tenalagoon March 3 Senator Sherman of Illinois Republican denounces the proposed League of Nations constitution as a Pandora’s box and threatens usurpation, warning it would create an autocratic world power and a merchant marine embargo while demanding open public discussion of the plan. He criticizes President Wilson and urges respect for Washington’sFarewell Address, urging Congress to preserve constitutional government and avoid entangling alliances.
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American Society
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National Nonpartisan League
Farmers’ National Council
Six Navy men held for alleged graft investigation
Washington reports Secretary Daniels ordered the Great Lakes Naval training station to probe a graft case tied to discharges of seamen. Six men were in custody with one more sought, all denying officer involvement as intelligence agents pursue a petty fraud scheme centered on Moss, a discharged seaman who leaped from a building after Detroit arrest.
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Daniels
Great Lakes
Chicago
Great Lakes Naval Training Station
Samuel B. Moss
Sammy Moscovits
Detroit
Naval
Chester
Roberts
Moss
Army brings 2550 troops home from Brest via Yosemite Polar Bear Siboney
New York reports the Great Northern steamship Yosemite arrives with 93 officers and 2550 troops including 1291 sick or wounded with 43 serious cases. The Polar Bear brings casuals and the Siboney delivers 3151 troops from the Pacific coast and southern states, along with medical and forestry detachments.
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Army
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Brest
Yosemite
Siboney
Pacific Coast
Socialist mass meeting planned in Chicago May Day
Invitations from Socialist headquarters announce a May 1 mass meeting in Chicago to advocate amnesty and free speech. The event aims to release political prisoners such as William Haywood and others convicted of disloyalty, repeal the espionage act, and expose government actions. Some invitations mailed nationwide have been observed and photographed by a government agent.
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William D. Hay- Wood
Lw.wa
Pier
Campaign to get work for soldiers is started today
Washington March 3 Arthur Woods former New York city police commissioner was named special assistant to Secretary Baker as the war department began a nationwide drive to place discharged soldiers in employment. Woods will coordinate with Labor Department State and local agencies to create a de centralized system linking troops to jobs nationwide.
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Arthur Woods
New York City
Baker
War Department
Woods
Department of Labor
Council of National Defense
Labor Department
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Woode
Mr. Woods
Voters to decide on administration, immigration and newspaper bills
The Independent Voters association in Bismarck, North Dakota, will refer the administration, immigration and newspaper bills to the public for a vote. The executive committee reviews passed legislation and plans to submit two or three more measures, amid opposition to immigration educational and newspaper bills. Delegates attend a conference as the committee prepares to report tonight.
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Independent Voters’ Desociation
Board of Administration
Supreme Court sustains federal conviction in espionage case
The Supreme Court today affirmed a federal court ruling convicting Abraham L. Suan of Minneapolis under the espionage act. The decision upholds the lower court's interpretation of the statute in a high profile security case. The ruling cements the government’s prosecutorial reach over provocative acts deemed harmful to national interests.
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March
Sureme Court
Abraham L. Suan
Minneapolis
Posen Frontline Report Amid Quiet On Polish Border
Reports from the Polish German frontier indicate three days of relative quiet along the line as tensions persist. In Anchorage Alaska a January mail dispatch notes sporadic activity near rail lines and inland installations with unclear coordination between authorities and local crews awaiting further orders.
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White House meeting of mayors and governors aboard
Washington March 3 Opening the White House conference of governors and mayors on peace time business and labor problems President Wilson pledged federal help to states and municipalities in orderly readjustment. About 300 delegates, mostly mayors, heard Secretary Wilson warn of a labor shortage and urge industry to curb profits and lower prices to ease the transition.
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United States
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