Pope Stricken With Weakness Amid Fever and Convulsions
The pope remained gravely ill in Rome with high fever and heart palpitations. He showed drowsiness and convulsions, while doctors treated him with hypodermics and stimulants. Vatican precautions guarded news as diplomats speculated on his fate and Malta’s Eucharistic Congress faced postponement.
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New York
Rome
Amici
Muarchiafuva
Merry del Val
Vatican
Marchiafava
Osservatore Romano
Holy See
Malta
Martin Maloney
Philadelphia
Maloney
Honor Lost to Goethals on Panama Canal Bonds
Democratic officials of the Treasury debated engraving Col. George W. Goethals on Panama Canal bonds for the new $10,000 registered bonds of 1961 but the law bans living persons on government currency. The plan would have honored the canal builder, pending legal limits.
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Washington
Treasury Department
George W. Goethals
Cardinal Gibons Meets President Wilson in Washington
Cardinal Gibbs visited President Wilson at the White House with Rev. Dr. William Russell. The Cardinal said the visit was social, not about business, and he was impressed by the President, calling him a fine gentleman. The meeting occurred around 2 PM as Wilson was busy.
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New York Times
Baltimore
Cardinal Gibbons
Wilson
William T. Russell
St. Patrick's Church
Washington
White House
Cable Wreck Disrupts City Telephone Lines
Three young youths aged 10 to 12 cut a lead pipe at 4 Centre Market Place, severing about twelve feet of cable carrying nearly 100 wires used by city newspapers and other offices. Detected by investigators near 167 Mulberry Street, they were arrested and sent to the Children's Society.
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Centre Market Place
No. 6
Cosmog Peterson
New York City News Association
Robert” Sablht
Central “Market Place
Mulberry
Peterson
Maninsi
Lieut
Cassassa
Fogarty
Mulberry Street
Malone to be Bryan aid in Wilson administration
Dudley Field Malone of New York is to be appointed Third Assistant Secretary of State, with nomination expected to reach the Senate next week. He is a friend of President Wilson and close to Secretary Bryan, and is the son in law of Senator James A. O Gorman of New York.
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O’gorman
New York Times
Washington
Dudley Field Malone
New York
Senate
Wilson
Chandler Hale
Eugene Hale
Maine
United States
R. Malone
Bryan
James A. O'Gorman
O'Gorman
Malone
Southern Judicial District of New York
Port of
Mayor Gaynor Urges Immediate Subway Construction
In a letter dated April 9 1913 Mayor Gaynor tells ex-Alderman Drescher to focus on starting the actual digging for subway and streetcar projects rather than celebrations. He calls for the Public Works Commission to advertise construction contracts and begin work promptly on the loop line and Fourth Avenue loop in Brooklyn.
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Alexander S. Drescher
Gaynor
Drescher
Brownsville
City of
Public Jee Commission
J. Gaynor
Howard Alexander S._ Drescher
Avenue
Brooklyn
Fourth Avenue
Wilson Revisits Capitol on Tariff Talks
President Wilson visits the Capitol to confer with Democratic Senators on the tariff bill as House caucus debates item by item. Talks cover passage strategy, possible divisions of the omnibus measure, and proposed corrections to duties including mohair, flour, and fertilizers.
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Wilson
Capitol
Senate
Pene
House
Ways and Means
Great Britain
White House
Heroism of Our Border Patrol
A note praises a dedicated border patrol force kept since the Mexican troubles. It highlights the hardships they endure and their brave efforts guarding the border, inviting readers to learn more in next Sunday's Times.
Miss Dodge Vanishes After Stage Ambitions
London reports reveal Miss Lucy Dodge disappeared amid thwarted stage dreams. Scotland Yard’s ex-inspector Thomas Sweeny says Mrs. Guest named theatrical agents Dodge sought, with her found in a Shaftesbury Avenue rooming house under an assumed name planning a career.
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Marconi
New York Times
London
Lucy Dodge
Thomas Sweeny
Scotland Yard
Shaftesbury Avenue
Waterloo Station
Somersetshire
Seymour Street
Gloucester Mews
Queen’s Square
Train with steel piling races to save New Orleans floods
A seventeen car train loaded with steel piling leaves Carnegie Homestead mills bound for New Orleans. An agent of the U.S. Government directs aid to prevent delays and aims to beat the Mississippi flood peak by April 17. If late, millions in property risk destruction.
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New York Times
Pittsburgh
New Orleans
Carnegie Homestead Mills
Mississippi River
United States
Homestead Mills
Levee Threat Prompts State Engineer to Angola
Severe rainstorms across the southern region raised fears for levee integrity. State Engineer Kerr left New Orleans to assume direct control at Angola as the Weather Bureau upgraded Mississippi River stages from Natchez south. Red and Ouachita Rivers were forecast to rise within forty hours, with defenses strengthened by federal engineers.
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New Orleans
Angola
Kerr
Weather Bureau
Mississippi River
Natchez
Red
Ouachita
Cc. O. Sherrill
United ‘of Levee
Honor Insane Painter Ralph Blakelock Named National Academy Associate
Ralph Albert Blakelock, famed painter declared insane years ago, was elected with unanimous support for associate membership in the National Academy of Design at a Spring meeting. His art career included Indian canvases and works displayed in major museums, though his life ended in confinement after a violent episode with his wife.
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Ralph Albert Blakelock
National Academy of Design
Academy
Mr. Blakelock
Metropolitan Museum
Brooklyn Institute
Corcoran Gallery
National Gallery
Washington
Blakelock
New York
Matteawan
Levee Break Threatens Arkansas Mississippi Floods
After a day of heavy rain and wind a tributary levee near Wilson Arkansas collapsed sending floodwaters toward Poinsett Cross and Crittenden counties. The breach spans about 300 feet with crumbling ends as Mound City Osceola and Wilson face rising waters. Little Rock reports 9.368 inches of rain and a ruptured natural gas pipeline leaving many homes without light or fuel.
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Memphis
Mississippi
Wilson
Ark
Poinsetta
Cross
Crittenden Counties
Mound City
Osceola
Little Rock
Caddo
St. Louis
San Francisco
Mrs Fassett Wins Absolute Divorce Decree
Shelton Fassett receives a decree of absolute divorce from Newton Fassett. The record notes accusations of infidelity. the couple wed in January 1910. The case cites Elmira as the residence of one party and marks the end of their marriage.
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New York Times
Shelton Fassett
Newton
Elty
Relasett
Elmira
Trenton Calls May 6 Special Session On Reform
Gov Field er sets May 6 as the date for a special session of New Jersey's Legislature. The call aims to pass a jury reform law and to consider constitutional conventions and small boards of freeholders. The governor seeks a northern southern agreement on the convention dispute. Assemblyman Thomas F. Martin remains confident he can block the jury reform bill.
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New York Times
Trenton
N. J
Fielder
Thomas F. Martin
Hudson County
State House
Home Rule Act Seen With Wider Powers Than Believed
City officials and lawyers warned that the Levy Cullen Municipal Home Rule bill—now before Gov Sulzer—could supersede the City Charter and place aldermen in control of all city branches. Ex Justice McCall and Corporation Counsel Watson voiced concern over franchise grants, salaries, and the civil service system, while the measure’s broad general grant of powers appeared to expand city authority beyond existing limits.
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Gov. Suizer
Gov. Sulzer
Torest
Board of Aldermen
Board of Estimate and Public Service Commission
Aldermen
Board of Education
Civil Service System
Edward E. McCall
Public Service Commission
Archibald R. Watson
Corporation Counsel
McCall
Gaynor
Albany
Sulzer
Gee
New York
Grahame-White Proposes 10 Million for English Aviation
Claude Grahame-White told the Women’s Aerial League he has presented a government plan to boost English aviation at low cost. He will raise 10 million dollars with financiers to build aerodromes in major cities, buy hydroplanes, and construct dirigibles. The group offers to train 500 army pilots and 500 navy pilots yearly as the government considers the scheme.
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New York Times
London
Claude Grahame-White
Women’s Aerial League Today
England
Governor Sulzer praises direct senatorial election amendment
Gov. Sulzer in Albany greets the federal amendment requiring direct election of U S senators. The first statewide vote will be in 1914 to replace Senator Elihu Root, who was chosen by the Republican Legislature in 1909 for six years. He says Hearst may run, and "I hope he is."
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New York Times
Albany
Gov. Sulzer
United States
Elihu Root
Root
Sulzer
William R. Hearst
Flynn May Return to Yale After Italian Marriage Row
Friends say Maurice Bennett Flynn Yale full back is in Italy and his parents will seek annulment of his underage marriage to Irene y a chorus girl. Flynn’s chums expect his return to Yale next fall as a top athlete.
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New York Times
New Haven
Maurice Bennett Flynn
Yale
Ireney
Italy
Flynn
Assembly kills Anderson Anti-Fraternity bill in Wisconsin
The Wisconsin Assembly defeated the Anderson Anti Fraternity bill by 57 to 42 and rejected all amendments. A letter from John Hannan to Senator La Follette was read, suggesting La Follette did not back the fraternity move.
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Madison
Wis
John Hannan
la Follette
Education Plan Lets Sixteen Girls Train At Company Expense
The Board of Education approved a plan where sixteen white goods factory workers will attend courses at Public School 4 in Rivington Street, funded by four firms D B Sleher Co Wolf Co M Martin Co and A B Sec 396 Fourth Ave. Classes run on alternate weeks while wages continue.
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Board of Education
D. B. Sleher & Co
Enty-First Street
M. Martin & Co
West Nineteenth Street
Wolf & Co
Twenty-fifth Street
Fourth Avenue
Schoo
Rivington Street
Lizzie BE
Princ
Wreck Trial Halts In Westport Case
The Westport wreck case against four New York New Haven and Hartford Railroad officials halted as Judge Greene granted a motion for a continuance. Named defendants included Vice President J., Superintendent C. Woodward, Lake Shore division superintendent, and Laurence J. Carman, Engineer of Maintenance, with State asserting and Silas Judson representing the defense.
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Bridgeport
New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad
Westport
Ieee
Boy Sets School Afire in Flatbush Incident
Fourteen-year-old Charlies Robson Jr son of Charles Hobson a coal merchant of 12 Sidcum Place Flatbush set a school blaze. He watched firehouse activity at Cortelyou Road and East Twelfth Street and acted on Tuesday.
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Charlies Robson, Jr
Charles Hobson
Sidcum‘ Place
Flatbush
Cortelyou Road
East Twelfth Street
Riots Paralyze Buffalo Streetcar System Amid National Guard Deployment
Widespread rioting in Buffalo leaves Mrs Ida Lorich a 3 year old and others wounded as 3000 soldiers man streetcars and guard barns. National Guard Lt Gen O Ryan considers calling out entire state troops as riots threaten 15000 troops. Power lines cut and barricades ring the city while arbitration efforts fail.
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New York Times
Buffalo
Ida Lorich
Niagara and
Tonawanda
National Guard
International Railway Company
O’ryan
Lorich
Tonewanda
Niagara Streets
Harold Munn
Thomas Am*sden
South Street
James Walker
Barna
Cold Springs
Niagara Faills
Louis P. Fuhrmann
William D. Mahon
Detroit
Amalgamated Association of Street and Electric Railway
BE. G. Connette
International Company
Pabenenn
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Asher C. Hinds
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