Inauguration of Wilson and Marshall Amid Patriotism
President Woodrow Wilson and Vice President Thomas Marshall were inaugurated for a second term in a ceremony marked by solemnity and national pride. A vast Washington crowd, flags, and a grand parade highlighted the day, with military and civic contingents, followed by a brief luncheon cancellation and a heightened foreign affairs focus.
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Marshall
Edward B. Clark
Washington
Woodrow Wilson
Thomas R. Marshall
United States
President Wilson
White House
Capitol
Congressional Committee
Senator Overman
North Carolina
Senate
Joint Committee On
Supreme Court
House of Representatives
House
Edward D. White
James D. Maher
Congressional Committee On
White
United States of America
Wilson
Hugh L. Scott
U. S. Army
George R. Linkins
Robert N. Harper
United States Marine Band
Second
United States Cavalry
Culver Military Academy
Grand Army of the Republic
Washington Monument
German Plot Against U S Revealed and Mexican Alliance Talk
The Western Newspaper Union reports Germany planned unrestricted submarine warfare and a joint attack with Mexico and Japan if the United States remained neutral. Germany proposed Mexico reconquer Texas New Mexico and Arizona with financial support and share in peace terms.
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Washington
Union
Germany
Mexico
Japan
United States
Texas
New Mexico
Arizona
Diverse Global Ventures and Local Real Estate Spark Interest
Gold discoveries at Specimen Reef Tasmania prompt plans for a new exploiting company. A China rail project to connect Swatow and Changlin progresses with manual powered cars. A pigeons nest in hairpins shocks London onlooker. army cocktail gains soldier favor. Shorthand system for Chinese language debuts in Hongkong enabling 140 words per minute. Chilean congress authorizes fate of nitrate lands. sale method undecided. American chair cane and magnetos see demand in Europe and Brazil. Cochin China merchants seek American shoes. Oxford high shoes priced from five dollars. Acids to be produced in Messina funded by Sicilian fruit growers. A 100 by 165 foot lot on Olive Street, Los Angeles leased 95 years for 1 125 000. Peabody memory observed with 1915 education philanthropy. New Orleans Public Library reports December book circulation up 4100 volumes.
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Specimen Reef
Long Plains
Tasmania
China
Swatow
Changlin
Chenghai
London
Broadway
Hongkong
Chilean Congress
Chile
Pannonia
Brazil
Europe
Cochin China
Messina
Sicily
Olive Street
Los Angeles
Ninth Street
South
George Foster Peabody
Public Library of
New Orleans
Zimmermann note outlines German Mexico alliance plan
German Foreign Minister directs the German minister to Mexico to begin unrestricted submarine warfare on February 1 while seeking to keep the United States neutral. If neutrality fails, Germany proposes an alliance with Mexico to jointly wage war and peace, with financial support and Mexican reconquest of parts of the U.S. Southwest.
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von Eckhardt
Mexico City
Zimmermann
Berlin
Mexico
Carranza
Japan
Count von Bernstartz
Germany
World Dominion
England
von Weckhardt
von Bernstorff
United States
Zubaran
Tokyo
United States of America
New Mexico
Texas
Arizona
Ready for War with U S Berlin Signals U S Move
Berlin reports that a declaration of war on Germany by the United States would not surprise the public. The German reaction shows belief that President Wilson will use the full weight of the U S in support of the Allies. The chancellor Bethmann-Hollweg’s Reichstag speech drew sharp criticism from the German people.
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Berlin
Germany
United States
Wil
Son
Reichstag
Dr. Bethmann-Hollweg
America
Scribes Blamed For Leak On Wilson Peace Note
A unanimous report presented to the House clears most officials of any leak except two Washington newspaper men J Fred Essary and W W Price. The inquiry absolves Secretary McAdoo Tumulty all members of both houses and R W Bolling of suspicion.
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House Committee
Washington
J. Fred Essary
W. W. Price
Wilson
Henry
Rules
Mittee
McAdoo
Tumulty
R. W. Bolling
Germany Rejects Dutch Fleet Sinking Satis faction
Dispatches from The Hague report Germany will give the Dutch government no satisfaction for the sinking of the fleet of Dutch vessels torpedoed on February 22. The statement comes as London notes the dispute over the incident.
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London
Germany
Hague
Hollweg Attacks U S Recall as Unprecedented and Brusque
German Chancellor von Bethmann Hollweg told the Reichstag that President Wilson’s recall of the U S broke off relations with Germany was unprecedented and brusque. He contrasted Wilson’s approach with past events, urged that peace requires reparations and guarantees for Germany’s future, and defended Germany’s stance after the war began.
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Berlin
von Bethmann-Hollweg
Reichstag
Wilson
Germany
America
United States
18 Die In Rail Crash Near Mount Union Pa
A fast freight crashed into the rear of the Mercantile express No 66 at Mount Union Pennsylvania killing seven teens and a Pullman porter. The sleeping car Bellwood was telescoped and all inside perished except two women and a boy. Victims include Chester A Minds and his wife and son with others named from Ohio New York and Wisconsin. The party was en route from Tyrone to Utica for a funeral and included several salesmen and a nurse attached to an orphaning group.
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Mount Union
Mercantile Express
Pennsylvania Railroad
Bellwood
Chester A. Minds
University of Pennsylvania
Ramsey
Minds
Maud Minds
Milton Hymes
West 158Th Street
New York
F. W. Montgomery
East Grove Street
Bloomington
Charles Levine
Philip B. Polland
Leshenard Street
N. Bright
Pullman’ Porter
P. R. Fanning
Seven Die In Lima Auto Rail Crash At Steel Plant
Seven killed and twelve injured as a Cincinnati Hamilton and Dayton freight strikes a car carrying twenty two Ohio Steel foundry workers returning home. The crash hurled occupants through the air and beneath train wheels. two more expected to die in hospital.
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Lima, O
Lima
Ohio Steel Foundry
Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton
Sundry Civil Bill Advances in House for 138 Million
Washington reports the sundry civil bill passed the House on Wednesday without a record vote. The measure provides 138 million dollars in appropriations and 400 thousand dollars for a federal trade commission study into the high cost of living.
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Washington
Federal Trade Commission
House
Paris blast blasts ammunition depots kill two hundred
A February 2 explosion at Paris ammunition depots destroyed over 80 000 tons of ammunition and killed 200 people with 700 wounded. Official details remain uncertain.
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Paris
Frankfort
Indians Ready to Serve En Masse for U S War Effort
About 50,000 Indians across the country would be willing to enlist in U S military forces if war breaks out, a statement from Denver indicates.
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U. S
Denver
Colo
United States
Envoy's Party Loses Gold Before Frederik VIII Sail
In Halifax on March 3 25 000 in gold was taken from Countess Manfred Matuschka prior to the Frederik VIII sail carrying Count von Bernstorff and his party.
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Halifax
N. S
Here
Frederik VIII
Count von Bernstorff
Manfred Matuschka
Howland Publisher William Bailey Howland Dies
William Bailey Howland president of the Independent corporation died suddenly in New York from an angina attack. He headed the Independent, Harper's Weekly and the Countryside Magazine.
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W. B. Howland
Dies
New York
William Bailey Howland
Independent Corporation
The
Independent
Harper’s Weekly
Countryside Magazine
Westminster Gazette notes another step toward war
London in March reports under the headline Another Step for War that President Wilson advances one step at a time while leaving time for opposition to develop, signaling cautious escalation in the U S stance amid European tensions.
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London
U. S
Westminster Gazette
Wilson
Germany holds Yarrowdale prisoners as hostages
Berlin reports a disease outbreak stalls release of American sailors from the Yarrowdale. In Washington officials say Germany delays returns to leverage a peace or war decision, signaling a grave diplomatic standoff.
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Berlin
Germany
Washington
Train wreck kills 23 insane Russian soldiers in transit
A train carrying 228 invalided Russian soldiers returning from Germany via Sweden derailed between Gefle and Soderhamn. The first car was demolished killing its two insane passengers and about 25 others in remaining cars, with total fatalities around 23.
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London
Germany
Sweden
Gefle
Soderhamn
Stockholm
Pneumonia Epidemic Quarantines 30000 Troops at El Paso
Thirty thousand regular and National Guard troops stationed at El Paso have been quarantined in their camps because of an epidemic of pneumonia among the troops.
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el Paso
Tex
Regular
National Guard
Denmark Prohibits Spirit Trade in Dry Column Orders
A dispatch from Tondon reports Denmark has enacted a temporary prohibition on all spirits and alcoholic liquors in the dry column. The order requires returns on all stocks nationwide.
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Denmarks
Tondon
Denmark
Germany offers to replace seven Dutch ships torpedoed
The German government proposes to replace seven Dutch merchantmen torpedoed off the English coast last week with German freighters until the end of the war The plan was announced in The Hague on March 2 by German authorities.
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Count von Bernstorst
Germany
Cuba
Carranza
The
Hague
Capture of Russian Positions in Carpathians Reported
Berlin reports strenuous German attacks in the Carpathians led to the capture of several Russian positions on the heights. The official tally includes 12 officers and more than 1,300 men.
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Berlin
Carpathians
Armed Ship Bill Passes House in Strong Bipartisan Show of Support
A bill to empower the president to arm merchant ships passed the House by 408 to 13. Debate featured praise for rights to travel and protect commerce, with leaders like Flood Mann and Hitchcock urging passage. The administration aims to substitute the Senate version and press the bill.
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Washington
House
Senate
Flood
America
England
France
Germany
Representative Flood
Mann
Representative Mann
S<itchin
Stedman
North Carolina
Germans Fall Back From Bapaume Ahead of Attack
German forces have withdrawn behind Bapaume with the town's fall said imminent. Front reports place the new German line along the road from Bapaume to Peronne and some distance behind the old position as Allied pressure increases.
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Bapaume
Paris
Peronne
Courthouse Shooting Kills One Injures Three
At Davidson county courthouse in Nashville Tennessee during a trial E G Tompkins was killed Will Hoffstetter was fatally shot Jim Hoffstetter and bystander Mrs Bevington were wounded in the incident authorities reported three wounded including a bystander
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Nashville
Tenn
E. G. Tompkins
Will Hoffstetter
Jim Hoffstetter
W. A. Bevington
Davidson County
Local Rock Island workers back Wilson on Germany rupture
In Cedar Rapids on March 2 more than 200 Rock Island shops employees telegraphed congressman Good a resolution praising the Presidents stance on the rupture with Germany.
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Lowans
Cedar Rapids
Rock Island
Good
Wilson
Germany
Turks Prisoners Limited by British at Kut-el-Amara
Baril Curzon told the house that Turkish troops taken prisoner by the British at Kut el Amara now number several thousands. The retreating Turks were pursued by British forces.
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London
Kut-el- Amara
Baril Curzon
War Council
Hungarian Newspapers To Quit As Paper Shortage Hits
Budapest dispatch reports all Hungarian journals must cease publication within days due to a severe paper shortage, affecting major newspapers and smaller titles alike.
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Hun
Copenhagen
Hungary
Budapest
Frankfurter Zeitung
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