Wilson Avoids Frills of Office in New Role
President Wilson enters office wary and watchful under no obligations, preferring an administration without frills. Congress passes stringent migratory bird protection despite Mondell's constitutional objections. Troop relocations and cost-saving debates highlight the era's military and fiscal issues.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Professor Wilson
Princeton
Congressman Mondell
Wyoming
Friends of Game
Mondell
Aged Man Drowns in Newark Sewer Tragedy
In Newark on March 17 Martin a 67 year old widower and A Fink & Sons butcher employee entered a sewer to push a clogging wire after two boys summoned aid. He vanished as water rushed eighteen inches deep and despite frantic searches he was not found.
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Newark
N. J
Martin
A. Fink & Sons
Boyd Street
John Ulrich
Seventeenth Avenue
John Jakowski
Samuel Brodie
Fire destroys Warren Foster boat Bessie B near Greenville N J
Three men were badly burned when the thirty five foot launch Bessie B owned by Warren E B Foster was destroyed by a fire off Pine street in Greenville New Jersey. The boat valued at 4500 had just been renovated for a Chesapeake bay hunting cruise. Injured were Frank Foster captain of Jersey City Alexander Smith engineer New York and Wallace Franklyn cook New York. Cause of the fire not known.
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Warren Foster
Greenville
N. J
Warren EB. Foster
New York Cotton Exchange
Pine Street
Chesapeake Bay
Frank Foster
Danforth Avenue
Jersey City
Alexander Smith
East One Hundred and Senth Street
New York
Wallace Franklyn
Cook
East Sixteenth Street
DESKOWITZ ACCUSED OF SETTING WIFE AFIRE IN N J HOME
Nutley New Jersey March 17 neighbors heard a woman shriek and found her on the floor beneath flames after a gasoline soaked attack. The wife says Peter Deskowitz drenched her and set her afire. her nine year old son supports the account. He fled as authorities issued a general alarm.
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Nutley
N. J
Peter Deskowitz
Deskawitz
Fireman dies after throat cut in Paterson quarrel
Bartholomew Kiley, a Paterson fire department member recently suspended, cut his throat and died. Mrs Catherine Carr, who boarded with him, was found with a fractured skull after a hammer blow. She is in General Hospital. The cause of the quarrel remains unknown.
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Paterson
N. J
Bartholomew Kiley
Paterson Fire Department
Catherine Carr
General Hospital
Riley
Mrs Gould Seen Amid Fifth Avenue Promenade
Hundreds of fashionables strolled Fifth Avenue in crisp air yesterday. Observers anticipate next Sunday's turnout to be the largest yet, as Mrs Frank Gould was photographed in a gracious pose by the camera.
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Fifth Avenue
New York
Hartigan Guilty Shocks the System in New York
District Attorney Whitman plans rapid prosecutions after Hartigan's perjury conviction. The graft cases linked to Sipp and Fox surge, with Newell, the bribery defendant, likely to face court as Hartigan awaits sentencing under Justice Seabury. Sweeney’s former aide and police staffers loom on the docket amid pleas of high officials.
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New York
John J. Hartigan
Dennis Sweeney
Harlem
Whitman
George A. Sipp
Eugene Fox
Hartigan
Seabury
Albert J. Newell
Sipp
Newell
Duffy
Sweeney
Hattigan
Explosion Lifts Car In Subways Along Scollay Square
A gas explosion under a new subway extension lifted an electric street car from the rails at Scollay square in Boston. The car was flung about fifty feet, tearing up the street for several yards. Several passengers were shaken, but only Edgar Ginter, walking on the sidewalk, was injured enough to need medical attention.
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Boston
Scollay Square
Edgar Ginter
Man Dies in Jersey City Room With Gas Tube After Amputation
Jersey City March 17 Frank Hammel fifty six a widower and father of two sons found dead in his room with a gas tube in his mouth. Tortured by rheumatism and gangrene which had led to amputation of his left foot he faced another operation and was employed by a New York fireworks firm.
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Washington
Wilson
New Jersey
Jersey City
N. J
Frank Hammel
New York
President Wilson Grants Saturday Afternoon Off Work
President Wilson and secretary Joseph Tumulty decide all working men in the executive office deserve a half holiday on Saturdays similar to Sunday. The president spent a Saturday afternoon drive and had no evening engagements while Tumulty enjoyed a motor trip with his wife.
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White House
Washington
Wilson
Joseph P. Tumulty
Executive Office
Tumulty
Biy
Reprieve for Sing Sing Condemned Man Delayed
John Mulraney, slated for execution at Sing Sing for the murder of Paddy the Priest, received a sixty day reprieve from Governor Sulzer after claims of coerced confession by police. He maintains innocence, placing himself at his mother’s home during the night of the crime, with witnesses corroborating unconsciousness from alcohol. The governor’s inquiry may prompt further investigations by the district attorney into police conduct and the Dowling confession. Peru’s Lost Golden Chain is linked as a separate note, with belief it lies at the bottom of the lake Urocos.
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New York
John Mulraney
Sing Sing
Patrick Breen
Paddy
Sulzer
Albany
Kennedy
Mulraney
Hell's Kitchen
Happy Jack
Father Cashin
William A. McCabe
Mullabey
Rosalsky
West Twenty-ffth Street
Dowling
Multeney
Mulaney
Ty-Fifth Street
Mulrraney
Nicholas Jacoba
East One Hundred and Sixteenth Street
William Reilly
East One Hundred and Fifth Street
Donna Davidson
Peru
Cuzco
Urocos
Jerred
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Arthur W. Dunn
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Martin Dies
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Kenyon
Towa
Emily
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Oceanport
Jacob Shutts
William H. Foster
Paterson Force
Frank Gould
American Press Association
Daily Record
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Hamilton Avenue
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Joline and
Eastwood Avenues
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Lincoln Place
Union Avenue
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NEW Jersey Mortgage Company
A. T. Woolley
Secty
East One Hundred
Lightieth Street
Massachusetts
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Detective Bureau
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West Twen
RED Bank
Asbury Park
J. Krides Red Bank
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Regal Shoes
Buster Browns
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Broad Street
Franks
Cookman & Grand Aves
the Fashion Shop
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