Attacks Cease on Ancre Somme Front as War News Flows
Western dispatches report British attacks halted on Ancre and Somme fronts. Petrograd cites Russian capture of a strategic summit in Persia. London says British advance near Baghdad and large Turkish stores seized. Villa threat looms at Juarez as Cuba news ties into regional turmoil.
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Ancre
Somme
Petrograd
Persia
London
Bagdad
Thirty-third Michigan Infantry
Crossman
Fort Hancock
Tex
Entangled World News From War Fronts and Politics
Reports from Washington to London describe deteriorating relations with Germany after shipboard actions and a potential shift by China toward the Entente. News covers Japan’s interests, Irish home rule debates, and German peace terms amid British trials and domestic upheavals.
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Manuel de Arriaga
Portugal
Santiago
George W. Guthrie
Japan
Tokio
Ferdinand
Count von Zeppelin
Herlin
Reuter
Germany
Peking
China
Hope
B. C
Vancouver
Menocal
Congress
David Lloyd George
Arthur Henderson
Labor
War Council
London
Old Bailey
Justice Law
Viscount Morono
Diet
House of Commons
Ireland
New Mexico State News Highlights Growth and Legislation
Summaries of state events include proposed new counties Alvarado and de Baca creation, a Capitan fiber factory fund, and Chaves county road bonds defeat. Bills address liquor elections, tobacco prohibitions for minors, military training in schools, and state capitol expansion. Inquiries note Esther de Baca memorials and electors witnessing Wilson's second term inauguration.
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Capitan
Tucumcari
Bernalillo County
Senate
House
Clovis
Texas
Chaves County
Lindsey
de Baca
Albuquerque
New Mexico
R. O. Barrett
Silver City
Henry Miller
Cliff
Mersfelder
Creighton M. Foraker
United States Marshal
Ezequiel C. de Baca
House of the State Legislature
Representative Hall
J. N. Upton
Jose G. Chavez
Felix Garcia
Washington
Wilson
Senate Finance Committee
Alvarado
Mora
Union
Colfax
Robt. E. Browning
Mansfield
Ore
Z. T. Vincent
New Mexico Infantry
James A. Hall of
Portales
United States
Colin Neblett
Oliver G. King
Animas
Stroud and Overson
Alvarado County
Llewellyn
State Highway Department
War Department
el Paso
Deming
Columbus
National Guard
John J. Pershing
Mexico
Grant County
Governor De Baca Memorial Payment Bill Advances
Senate passes $5,000 for widow Ezequiel C. de Baca to be paid in fifty monthly installments of $100. Other actions include funeral expenses of $1,265, a broad state appropriation bill, and a child labor law aligned with federal standards.
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Santa Fe
House of Representatives
E. C. de Baca
Lindsey
House
Lucero
Colfax County
Antonio Lucero
de Baca
Larrazolo
Mares
Elizabeth Garrett
Mr. de Baca
Governor de Baca
Clark
Finance Committee
Deaf and Dumb Asylum
Santa Fé
Institute For the Blind
Alamogordo
Miners’ Hospital
Raton
National Guard
Adjutant General
State Tax Commission
Kaseman
Rio Grande
Overson-Lewis
New Mexico
Wilson arms merchant ships and calls April session
President Wilson decides to arm American merchant ships under constitutional authority and calls Congress to meet April 16. Guns are prepared along the Atlantic coast as secrecy surrounds ship identities. The Senate adopts a two thirds rule to end filibusters, and Congress may seek to move inauguration to late April under a constitutional amendment proposal.
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Capitol
Hugh L. Scott
House
Champ Clark
Great Britain
Federal Shipping Board
Washington State
Supreme Court
Walsh
Montana
Senate
Washington
Congress
White House
Navy Department
Gregory
Lansing
Navy Yards
Atlantic
la Follette
Gronna
Sherman
Senate Defeats Suffrage Measure in New Mexico
The New Mexico Senate defeats a bill granting women the right to vote on constitutional amendments. The vote outcome ends the immediate push for a state suffrage measure in the legislature.
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Senate
Fanta
New , Mexico
Oscuro shooting death shocks Carrizozo
Word reached Carrizozo of a tragedy at Oscuro where Fred Roberts, a stable hand, died. Lum Byford, a renowned cattleman from Oscuro, is alleged to have shot him.
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Carrizozo
Oscuro
Fred Roberts
Lum” Byford
Fire Destroys Copper Mill in Hanover
A blaze of unknown origin destroyed the Hanover Bessemer Iron and Copper Company mill and its power plant at Hanover, seventeen miles northeast of Silver City. Loss estimated at one hundred thousand dollars.
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Silver City
Hanover-Bessemer Iron and Copper Company
Hanover
British advance near Baghdad as Kut recapture cited
London reports that since recapture of Kut El Amara on February 26 the British have advanced about 100 miles and approach Baghdad. German attacks in Maisons de Champagne failed with many dead, while French operations blew up German works on a wide front. Austro German forces claimed 600 prisoners after attacking Russian positions in western Moldova with several heights seized and counter attacks reported.
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London
Kut-El Amara
Bagdad
Maisons de Champagne
Paris
Berlin
Trotus
Uzul
Moldavia
Petrograd
Americans Freed in Belgium and Pecos Street Duel
State Department report says Americans in Belgium are no longer held by German authorities. In Denver a pistol duel on Pecos Street near West Fortyeighth Avenue leaves Louis C. Knorr near death with two bullets. Abner Wagman, Mountain States Telegraph officer, is jailed for assault to kill. participants include Knorr’s wife Dorothy and sister Amelia, and Wagman’s associate C L Landry.
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Admiralty
Berlin
Belgium
State Department
Brand Whitlock
Brussels
Washington
Joyside
Denver
Louis C. Knorr
Abner Wagman
Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph Company
Pecos Street
West Forty-eighth Avenue
Knorr
Dorothy
Amelia Knorr
Wagman
C. L. Landry
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Simon
Chalk Bluffs
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Thomas H. Tracy
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Eaton
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Secretary of the Treasury
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Liege
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Kansas Agricultural College
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Fort Morgan
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Colorado Springs
Hugh Clark
Casper
Wyo
H. Wingender
Kansas Normal School
Jack Kanner
National Athletic Club of Denver
United States National Lawn Tennis Association
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Louisiana
Kentucky Senate
Kentucky
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New York
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India
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Lebenfelg
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Hansa Line
Charleston Harbor
Western Newspaper Union News Service
Cat Ue and Horse Growers’ Association
Arch
New Mexico Wool Growers Association
Cowboys’ Association
Las Vegas
Western Newspaper Union Saw Service
Dunlavy
Santa Fé Woman's Board of Trade
Sanchez
Taos County
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President
U.S
Constable
France
Whitlock
Lovington Hardware CO
Lovington, N. M
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Monument
Nadine, Hobbs and Knowles
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Eddy County
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