Graphic account of Sussex affair exposes deadly explosion
A joint affidavit from Edward H. Huxley and Frances E. Drake recounts the Sussex disaster off Felstone. They describe a sudden blast, wreckage, water spouts, lifeboats in chaos, American victims, and a torpedo wake as the ship burned and crews struggled to save others before rescue by a British steamer and hospital ship.
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Washington
Sussex
Edward H. Huxley
Frances E. Drake
New York
State Department
Ambassador Page
London
Felstone
Dr. Penfield
Miss Goldwin
Miss Baldwin
Eng
England
Petain Portrait as Modern French Soldier Defender of Verdun
Paris dispatch describes General Henri Petain, Verdun’s defender, as a typical modern French officer. At sixty, he rose from second lieutenant in 1878 to general, admired by troops, meticulous about fitness, and wary of red tape. He is known for hard work and daily food weighing.
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Verdun
Associated Press
Paris
Henri Petain
Peta
Charleroi
Bivison
Petain
Champe
Debale
Ric aud Opposes Stacy in Primaries for Judge
Wilmington, March 27 A G Ric aud prominent attorney and former mayor announces candidacy for Superior court judge eighth district opposing Judge W P Stacy who was appointed after Judge George Roun tree's restoration. Joseph R Hinnes leased Ortom hotel to Frank Armstrong effective April 1.
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Wilmington
A. G. Ricaud
Superior Court
Eighth District
W. P. Stacy
George Rountree
Joseph R. Hinnes
Ortom Hotel
Frank Armstrong
Macon
Brown House
Government Printing Office Expenditure Figures Released
Government Printing Office data show last car cost 1,238,759 dollars and salaries and other costs totaled 3,365,680 dollars, as public accounts are detailed from Washington for March 26.
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Washington
Government Printing Office
Plan to Eliminate German Rhodes Scholars
London reports the British government will modify the Rhodes Scholarship trust to remove German born students from Oxford endowments. Cecil Rhodes funded 15 scholarships of 1250 dollars for Germans named by the German emperor, intended to foster Anglo American German friendship and peace.
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London
Rhodes Scholarship Trust
Oxford
Cecil Rhodes
England
United States
Germany
Pall Mall Gazette
Mummified Woman Found In Drente Ancient Burial Stone
In The Hague on March 26 an ancient mummified female corpse was found by peat workers in Drente. Archaeologists date the remains at about 1,700 years old, noting the leatherlike preserved skin and a knotted throat area suggesting violent death. Tacitus passage cited on tribal customs accompanies the find.
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The
Hague
Drente
Netherlands
Tacitus
Europe
Ignavos
Negro Arrested for Serious Crime in Durham Township
Tom Falls, a Negro, was arrested Saturday night by Sheriff Harvard and deputies on a charge of attempting criminal assault on 16 year old Miss Daisy Webster, daughter of tobacco planter John D. Webster. Falls confessed. he was captured in a Carr township house. Local feeling runs high but a lynching is not feared.
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Durham
Tom Falls
Harvard
Daisy Webster
John D. Webster
Falls
Carr Township
Patterson Township
Villa Colonel and Soldiers Killed in Battle
General Pedro Gozman and 22 others, all Villa band members, were killed in a Sunday clash in the Laguna and Dinamita area. Government forces captured ten prisoners who were summarily executed, as reported to War Minister Obregon amid a vigorous Villista campaign.
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VILLA
Meningitis From Carbuncle Kills Goldsboro Man
Robert Creech son of R A Creech a prominent Goldsboro businessman died suddenly Saturday night from meningitis traced to a carbuncle on his neck. The funeral was at his home Sunday at 4 pm with burial in Willowdale cemetery after a four day illness.
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Goldsboro
Robert Creech
R. A. Creech
Willowdale
Young Creech
Noted Woman Explorer Lady Baker Dies in England
London reports the death of Lady Florence Baker at 74 in Newton Abbot Devon widow of Sir Samuel White Baker explorer and author. She joined his 1861 Nile sources expedition and later accompanied his Central Africa slave traffic suppression voyage. She was among the first white explorers to reach the Albert Nyanza region.
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London
Florence Baker
Samuel White Baker
Newton Abbot
Devon
Nile
Central Africa
Khedive
Albert Nyanza Lake
Rise in Irish Flax Prices Surges for Linen Industry
Dublin reports a marked rise in flax prices with a new minimum of 200 pounds per ton, up from eight pounds before the war. The agricultural department promotes more flax cultivation as Ireland expands its share of flax for linen, though historically Ireland imported most flax from Belgium and Russia.
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Dublin
Agricultural Department
Ireland
Belfast
Belgium
Russia
Six Die in San Antonio Country Club Fire
Six persons perished in a Sunday morning blaze at the fashionable San Antonio Country Club. The dead include James B. Walthall and J E Webb of San Antonio, Homer Jones, Mrs Mace Stewart of Galveston, and Helen Cockrell, a club maid. The fire began in basement paint storage as about 15 guests slept, with several leaping from second story windows to escape.
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San Antonio
Tex
San Antonio Country Club
James B. Walthall
J. E. Webb
Homer Jones
Mace Stewart
Galveston
Helen Cockrell
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