Prohibition Debate Marks Democratic Caucus Split
Democratic House caucus agrees to consider only war and general defense measures as recommended by President Wilson. National prohibition may be included if he calls it a war measure. New York members walk out over a prohibition resolution. leaders shift to a substitute adopting a cautious stance.
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Wilson
war department
Small
New York City
Decker
Missouri
carrier
New York
Kitchin
house
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Webb
Ohio
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Claypool
Overmyer
Brumbaugh
Batarick
Gordon
Crosser
Gard
Sherwood
German uprising in six Brazilian towns reported
Dispatches from Rio de Janeiro claim federal troops crushed a German uprising across southern Brazil with large ammunition caches found. Later reports say the revolt began simultaneously in multiple cities with Germany allegedly prepared for action. Montevideo sources note plans to mobilize troops on the northern border to thwart German incursions.
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Buenos Aires
Rio Janeiro
Brazil
Moravilians
Montevidio
Explosion at film exchange kills six in Indianapolis
A blast at a film exchange in the Colfax office building in downtown Indianapolis kills six people and injures about twenty. forty workers were in the building when the explosion and ensuing fire swept through. The dead include Dr Martha A Keller and youths Harry Rowland Leona and Robert Griffin and their mother Mrs Griffin. one woman unidentified. Fireman W O Ekins is injured after being trapped on a fire escape. Flames reach nearby Linden and Royal hotels causing light property damage. Building owned by the Indiana National Insurance company is valued at about 65000 dollars.
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Indianapolis
Colfax
Martha A. Keller
Harry Rowland
Leona Griffin
Robert Griffin
Killed by a Train and Other Ohio Briefs
Marion reports Perry Bum bardner, 30, killed by a train in Erie yards near Prospect. Portsmouth records Samuel Reed, 84, longtime First National Bank VP, dead at home. Dayton celebrates Lexington Day amid a new war plane activity. Columbus hotels to save potato eyes for Franklin County gardeners to reduce seed costs on tubers selling at 3 to 4.30 a bushel.
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Perry Bumbardner
Prospect
Erie yards
Reed
Portsmouth
Samuel Reed
First National Park
yton
Dayton
Columbus
Cos
Franklix county
False Economy Warns of Business Damage in Wartime Push
Washington reports warn against hasty wartime cost cutting and political noise that could trigger unemployment and factory closures. Howard E Coffin of the Council of National Defense urges measured, practical economics to sustain prosperity during conflict.
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loward E. Coffin
commission
the
council of national defense
committee on public information
Coffin
teverini
Transcontinental Railroads OK Fifteen Percent Freight Increase
The Interstate Commerce Commission issued a tentative order allowing railroads to file schedules with a 15 percent freight rate rise. A hearing will occur this afternoon for shippers to present arguments against the increase. if opposition fails, the order becomes more permanent.
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Washington
interstate commerce commission
Marvelous torpedo designed for air and sea debut
Californian inventor Frank Wi Kenney of Portland Oregon claims a torpedo that can travel through air then water. He refused a British government offer to share the device, saying it should go to the United States. Tests at Pacific coast naval stations show the torpedo flies over five miles, then lands in the sea and hits a target. Grooms cannot dodge army duty as married men are treated the same as bachelors for conscription.
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Portland
Ore
Frank Wi Kenney
United States
Pacific coast naval stations
Washington
war department
nmmuarric
department
Americans Stranded Abroad Face Food Shortage
More than 800 Americans stranded in Scandinavian countries since the Copenhagen arrival report growing hunger due to food shortages. The trio of Americans aboard an American tank steamship describe the hardship and inability to secure homeward passage.
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New York
Copenhagen
Ohio Mayors Endorse Crop and Employment Program
Mayors from twenty one Ohio cities endorsed Governor Cox’s crop and employment plan at a meeting in Columbus. They backed creating detention camps for looters, expanding workhouses, leasing land, cultivating canal lands, and enlisting 5,000 to 10,000 high school and college students on farms next week, with an executive committee to work with the defense council.
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Ohio
Cox
Copperpie
Witte
Deters Council
Columbus
solldiers
ecome
department of public works
Ohi
state council of defense
defense council
Karb
George Puchta
Cincinnati
Lemar T. Reman
Cleveland
C. A. Stolbere
Canton
James A. Cahill
Chillicothe
Or D. Trank Gatland
weHare
Paston
Fred C. Crowton
Lh defense convent
Puebla
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national guard
commonwealth
war department
State Could Provide Camps for Army Training in War
In a discussion on wartime preparations the state’s geographic position is noted as favorable for hosting large concentration camps to train the prospective army for service in the war against Germany.
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Germany
Taylor Loses Case on Highway Commissioner Appointment
The supreme court refused A. R. Taylor's writ of ouster and affirmed Clinton Cowen as state highway commissioner for a four year term from June 16, 1915. Governor Cox plans cooperation with Cowen in Ohio's upcoming highway program.
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Columbus
supreme court
A. R. Taylor
Findlay
Clinton Cowen
Willis senate
Cox
Senate Military Committee denounces volunteer army plan
The majority report of the Senate Military Affairs Committee condemns the volunteer system in enlarging the army to fight Germany as undemocratic unreliable extravagant and unsafe. It allows absorbing more than 690000 volunteers into the regular army and the National Guard while keeping some worthy parts. General Von Bissing dies in Amsterdam after a long illness. General Von Zwehl acts as governor of Belgium. The Sea Raider Sea Eagle remains at large after sinking twelve Allied ships. Captain Kohler reports the raider armed and active in the Atlantic.
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Germany
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Von Bissing
Amsterdam
Baron Von Bissing
Belgium
Brussels
Von Zwehl
Belgum
New York
J. Kohler
Perce
Kohler
Pernambuco
Sea Eagle
Atlantic
Brewers Use One Per Cent of Grain
New York reports from the United States Brewers Association show brewers used 67,000,008 bushels of grain in the last fiscal year about 7 percent of national production. Of this total 48,000,000 bushels were barley 17,000,000 corn and 2,000,000 rye.
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New York
United States Brewers’ association
Wilson backs selective draft push in White House letter
President Wilson sent a letter to Congress urging passage of a War Department drafted bill. He argues the selective draft mobilizes all productive forces, ensuring those most readily spared serve while others stay at home to support the nation. He says the volunteer system cannot meet needs and stresses universal service and the role of national guardians like the National Guard. Mrs. Guernsey of Kansas was named general president of the Daughters of the American Revolution for three years.
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Wilson
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Guernsey Wink
George Thacher Guernsey
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the
Daughters of the American Revolution
Baseball Scores Across The American League Standings
The recap lists game by game results with teams like New York Philadelphia Chicago St Louis Cleveland Detroit and Boston. It shows batteries and final tallies across venues and notes club standings with win loss records in the American League and leagues A and B, including city venues Brooklyn Pittsburgh and others.
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TLE
Washington
New Yorke
Dumont and
Henry
Caliwell and
Walters
PHILADELPHIA
RIE
Boston
Batteris
Mays
Thomas
Parnham
Meyers
CHICAGO ROFLE
St. Louis
Chicago
Frank and
Severom
Scott and Schaltz
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tihHE
Detroit
anes Philadelphia
TOROF
Rixey
Fittery
Kallifar
Tindolph
Gowdy
Ruf Piluladripita
Toston
Oradigor
Willis Barnes
ET LOUIS RUDE Cinemnathoo
COTCAKCHHAHR
French Make Prominent Gains On Soissons Front
French forces push from Soissons east toward the old Champagne region capturing Aisy Jouy Laffaux and Forte Conde amid heavy artillery duels. German counterattacks near Auderie fail to regain lost ground as Paris and Petrograd report ongoing combat across the eastern and Balkan theaters.
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London
Soissons
Champagne
latte
Auberive
Aisy
Jouy
Laffaux
Forte ¢ Conde
Hurtebise
Somme
Oise
Le Ma Homme
Verdun
Belgium
Dixmude
French war office
Nivelle
Berlin
Auderie
Monchyle-Preux
Fampoux
th Loos
Petrograd
ern
Russia
Macedonia
Cernarive
Ochiii
Presba
Paris
Monastr
Tsrrena Stena
Vardar
Magada
Goriz
Lagarina
house of commons
Andrew Bonardi
Mrs William K Dick Becomes Mother Again
Former Mrs J J Astor is reported to have given birth again, extending a notable society family line. The announcement notes the couple’s continued prominence and the new addition to their household.
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Mra
J. J. Astor
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