Auction of Souls at Strand Theatre recounts Armenian genocide story
The program Auction of Souls at Strand Theatre Tuesday and Wednesday presents Aurora Mardiganian, sole survivor of 500000 Armenian girls killed in 1915 deportations. The film retells her escape and features figures like Viscount Bryce and Henry Morgenthau, depicting deportation, arson, slaughter, and enslavement.
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Aurora Mardiganian
Miss Mardiganian
Viscount James Bryce
United States
Armenia
Henry Morgenthal
Turkey
Enver Pasha
Rome Set To Canonize Joan of Arc Next May
Rome reports the Secret Consistory will nominate bishops and finalize details for the canonization of Joan of Arc. The May ceremony aims for grand ritual, drawing 100000 French pilgrims and international spectators to St Peter’s Basilica adorned with red drapery, electric lights, and miraculous banners. The Pope will preside in ceremonial regalia, with the rite beginning under the Sistine Chapel and concluding with a pontifical mass by the bishop of Orleans.
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Joan of Arc
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France
Basilica
Sistine Chapel
St. Peter
Quick Relief From Constipation Through Olive Tablets
Advert states Dr Edwards Olive Tablets ease constipation and bilious symptoms with a vegetable compound mixed with olive oil. Claims quick, gentle liver and bowel action at bedtime with 10c and 25c boxes. Separately notes colleges planning to establish Chairs of Citizenship in memory of Rev Anna Howard Shaw, the suffrage leader.
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Barnard
Bryn Mawr
Women’s Colleges
United States
Anna Howard Shaw
Lincoln Memorial Dedication Plans Detailed in Washington
Washington March 8 From across the nation leading men are invited to Washington next September for the dedication of the Lincoln Memorial now nearly complete. The project began in 1867 with the Lincoln Memorial Association and gained momentum in 1911 guiding location at Potomac Park and a design plan.
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Lincoln Memorial Association
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National Capital
Potomac Park
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Lincoln
Henry Bacon
Notice in Probate in Webb County Texas
State requires publication for twenty days in a Webb County newspaper. Clarence Jef feries as administrator presents final settlement and discharge application for the estate of Refugio Gutierrez. Court session begins May 17 1920. Interested parties must appear and contest. Writ dated February 19 1920 at Laredo Texas. J A Rodriguez Clerk Webb County Court.
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Webb County
Refugio Gutierrez
Clarence Jefferies
Laredo
Society calendar notes from St. Tre n 1960s paper
Mrs Violet S Oberfeldt society editor lists upcoming events in a condensed social calendar. Monday features a business meeting of the Woman's Missionary Society at the Methodist Church at 4 pm. Tuesday brings a 4 pm meeting of the Tuesday Music and Literary Club at Mrs A P Nye's home. The Junior Auxiliary of Christ Church also meets at the Rectory at 4 pm.
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A. P. Nye
Christ Church
Sunset Wings And Local Notices In A Small Town
Poem evokes sunset wings while a stream of local social notes lists visits teachers illness and recitals. The piece includes Rossetti lines and notes on residents traveling, guests at the Hamilton Hotel, and a Lenten recital at Christ Church with performers named.
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Lucille Robinson
Hempstead
Ruth Abeny
Lampasas
M. Little
Hamilton Hotel
City
Hotel Hamilton
Christ Church
Vlora Dilgarde Anderson
Issrerees Harriss
Villa-the- Wisp
D'Evry
Jensen
Sue J. Smith
Edwin B. Adams
Alden B. Muller
Onion Growers Meeting On Crate Supply In Webb County
A Webb County conference of onion spinach and lettuce growers and the Chamber of Commerce will meet Tuesday at 3 30 p m at the Chamber office to discuss securing more onion crates and lowering prices. The aim is unity of effort, crate supply, and fair pricing to protect the local onion industry.
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Chamber of Commerce
Webb County
Birthdays for March 8 Highlight Notables
Today marks birthdays of Oliver Wendell Holmes the oldest Supreme Court justice born in Boston 79 years ago Bramwell Booth head of the Salvation Army born in Halifax England 64 years ago Ira Nelson Morris US minister to Sweden born in Chicago 45 years ago J Hampton Moore former congressman and Philadelphia mayor born in Woodburg New Jersey 56 years ago
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Supreme Court of the
United States
Boston
Bramwell Booth
Salvation Army
Halifax
England
Ira Nelson Morris
Sweden
Kely
Switzerland
Chicago
J. Hampton Moore
Philadelphia
Woodburg
N. J
OF INTEREST TO WOMEN FROM HISTORY HIGHLIGHTS
A collage of historical facts on women including Addie Stevens the first registered female pharmacist in New Hampshire in 1882 and Dr Elizabeth Cohen the first female doctor in New Orleans who turned 100. It notes English cities opening billiard parlors for women and Antoinette Brown’s 1853 exclusion as a delegate for being a woman. It also mentions Cardiff women prospering in ship stocks and Turks requiring a wife’s bath money in marriage contracts with divorce grounds if unpaid.
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New Hampshire
Addie M. Stevens
Concord
Elizabeth D. A. Cohen
New Orleans
London
Manchester
Leeds
England
Antoinette L. Brown
New York City
Cardiff
Wilson Will State Position on Treaty Reservation
President Wilson plans to declare his stance on the Lodge reservation to Article X, likely in a message to the public today. A letter to Senator Hitchcock will outline his view on this and other reservations, with officials noting he will not accept the Lodge reservation to Article X.
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Glass
England Will Not Trade West Indies
London reports Premier Lloyd George in the house of commons stating there is no intention to barter or sell any part of the British West Indies in response to proposals to transfer the islands to the United States as part of debt repayment. Also, Russian Soviet forces attacked Poles and Finns on western and northern fronts with repulses and a Finnish counterattack reported breaking Red lines.
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Associated Press
London
Lloyd George
House of Commons
West Indies
United States
British West Indies
The Best Laxative from Chamberlain's Tablets
George F. Daniels of Hardwick VI praises Chamberlain's Tablets as the best laxative for his sedentary lifestyle. Daniels runs the Hardwick Inn, a noted New England hotel.
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New England
President Wilson Goes Riding With Family In Open Car
President Wilson rode today in an open automobile with Mrs. Wilson and others including Dr Grayson and Wilmer Bolling. He wore a heavy overcoat and golf cap and looked well. Police again forbade photographers from snapping him.
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Associated Press
Washington
Wilson
Grayson
Wilmer Bolling
Americans Ahead In Oil Fueled Ships
London report quotes J H Williams an Institute of Marine Engineers expert stating Americans lead in oil fuel use for ships. He notes oil is cheaper than coal, oil price in many ports is half coal, and oil rapidly displaces coal in South America. He argues oil is rising with a tremendous future.
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Associated Press
London
J. H. Williams
Institute of Marine Engineers
South America
Weather forecast and Fort McIntosh observations
The United States Weather Bureau forecast from New Orleans via The Times notes unsettled and warmer conditions tonight and Tuesday. Fort McIntosh observations for the past 24 hours show a maximum of 38 degrees, minimum 80 degrees, north wind, cloudy skies, and precipitation of .16 inches.
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United States Weather Bureau
New Orleans
The
Telephone Co
Fort McIntosh
Alfredo Gutierrez Sets Sale On Half Interest Store
Alfredo Gutierrez informs friends and customers that on the first of the month he bought half of the Dry Goods Store and Sewing Shop La Ciudad de Mexico located at Iturbide Street and Flores Avenue and offers sale at the lowest prices.
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Santiago Mendoza
LA Ciudad DE Mexico
Iturbide Street
Flores Avenue
El Paso Man Captured by Villa After Train Hold Up
Joseph Williams an American Smelting and Refining Company employee in Pedricka Mexico is held by Villa for 60000 dollars. Williams a WWI veteran and U S citizen was traveling north when a Mexican train was attacked by bandits. Ten bandits and nineteen guards died in the ensuing battle.
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United States
Joseph Williams
Villista
Associated Press
el Paso
Texas
American Smelting and Refining Company
Pedricela
Mexico
Villa
Chihuahua
Williams
Land Leases Taxable, Opinion Clarifies Tax Policy
Comptroller Wigginton announced guidance aligning county tax assessors with the attorney general on land leases. Leases conveying fee in land will be taxable, while leases that only convey privileges will not be.
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Associated Press
Austin
Texas
Wigginton
Supreme Court strikes down 1916 income tax provisions
Washington headlines report the supreme court declaring unconstitutional the income tax act of 1916 taxing US income stock dividends declared by corporations out of earnings and profits accruing after March 1, 1916.
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Associated Press
Washington
March
Supreme Court
Texan cattle association program announced for Houston
Fort Worth reports that Attorney General l abmer Governor Hobby and Chief of Federal Bureau of Animal Industry Moster buik will open a Texias Cattle Raisers Association program in Houston next week. The event was announced today.
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Fort Worth
Texas
L’abmer
Hobby
Federal Bureau of Animal Industry
Moster Buik
Texias Cattle Raisers’ Association
Houston
Snow in New Orleans Marks Rare March Date
Snow fell in New Orleans for about 20 minutes early today the only March snow on record in the city Sleet followed disrupting traffic Mobile also reported a trace of snow as cold air swept through the region causing unusual March weather impact.
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Associated Press
New Orleans
Mobile
New Freight Scale Questioned by Suutawes Hearing
March 8 to May 16 hearing set by Interstate Commerce Commission to decide if Shreveport Seale and Memphis Southwest area should fall under new freight scales. Texas Railroad Commission chair May Hield notes possible revised settlement extending to Texas territories and adjusting differential rates for the Seale regions.
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Austin
Texas
Interstate Comerce Commission
Shreveport
Texas Railroad
Abandoned Vessel Likely Beached Off New England
Boston March 8 The steamship Guilford en route from Norfolk to Boston was abandoned in a sinking condition near Ninety-Fathom Shoal. The Gullizard heavily loaded with coal is expected to be beached. Captain and 41 crew remain aboard in the care of the destroyer Vale sailing toward Newport.
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Associated Press
Boston
fGaid Sietliner
Today’s events across nations and states
Oliver Wendell Holmes enters his eightieth year as the oldest U S Supreme Court justice. Municipal elections occur in Bangor and Maine cities. The Prince of Wales sails from Portsmouth on a tour to Australia and New Zealand. Rome hosts a secret consistory to nominate bishops and advance Joan of Arc canonization. Rhode Island’s suit testing Prohibition is set for Supreme Court argument.
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Maine
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Prince of Wales
Portsmouth
England
Australia
New Zealand
Rome
Joan of Arc
Rhode Island
Supreme Court of the United States
Women and institutions push for progress in ongoing campaigns
Women of rank go bareheaded in Mexico. The Woman's City Club of Indiana pols has opened a downtown club house. Mme. Sarah Bernhardt once tasted the cooked hand of an orang-outang, and declared she enjoyed it im mensely. After years of agitation the University of Virginia is about to open its graduate and professional schools to women students. Miss Maude Wetmore of the National League for Woman's Service has been appointed on the women's campaign committee for the nomination of Maj. Gen. Leonard Wood for President.
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Woman's City Club
Indianapols
Mme
Sarah Bernhardt
University of Virginia
Maude Wetmore
National League For Woman's Service
Leonard Wood
Marriage Licenses Issued by County Clerk
The Times reports licenses issued since the last notice to include Horace G Tipton and Miss Jessie. Ethel Harwood. Tomas Idrogo and Miss Concepcion Martinez. Gregorio Escamilla and Miss Maria del Refugio Gonzales. Carl C Colley and Miss Elizabeth Hope Meriweather.
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Times
Horace G. Tipton
Jessie
Ethel Harwood
Tomas Idrogo
Concepcion Martinez
Gregorio Escamilla
Maria del Refugio Gonzales
Carl C. Colley
Elizabeth Hope Meriweather
Hog Island Shipyard to Be Handed to Government
The Hog Island yard near Philadelphia, built to boost Allied war efforts, is set to be transferred to the government after June. About 122 vessels have been completed or started, with a peak of heavy activity last Memorial Day. Employment fell from about 95,000 to 22,000, then to an estimated 25 percent after the final ships are turned over. Philadelphia and the Shipping Board discuss turning the yard into a government facility or a major terminal, while state purchase proposals face funding hurdles for the 900 acres and two miles of water frontage.
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Associated Press
Philadelphia
Hog Idland
Suriname
Lannch
Delaware
Hog Island
Hox Island
United States Shipping Board
Death of Genoveva C Navarro in San Antonio
A Laredo message from N. G. Navarro of Webb County Lumber Co announces the death yesterday in San Antonio of Genoveva C Navarro aged mother. Survived by two sons N. G. Navarro of Laredo and Jose Antonio Navarro of San Antonio, and two daughters Gertrudis and Maggie Navarro of San Antonio.
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N. G. Navarro
Webb County Lumber Co
San Antonio
Genoveva C. de Navarro
Jose Antonio Navarro
Gertrudis
Maggie Navarro
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