American battleship fleet reaches Rio Janeiro harbor
The 16 battleships led by Connecticut and Minnesota arrived in Rio de Janeiro at 3 pm after a 3,000 mile voyage from Port of Spain. Crowds totaling tens of thousands lined the harbor as Brazilian and American officials greeted Admiral Evans. The fleet, including Culgoa and Glacier at sea, faced light swells and currents but completed the voyage with no major incidents.
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Rio Janeiro
Port of Spain
Trinidad
Culgoa
Glacier
San Francisco
Cape Frio
Pees
Admiral Evans
Siessen
Connecticut
Bremen
Alencar
Cape St. Rouke
Minnesota
Thomas
Equator
Portof
Spain
Pernambuco
Neptune
Father Nivtune
Uneasiness in Japan as US Exclusion Bill Appeals Grow
Incoming cables show strong American support for exclusion, stirring unease among Japanese political factions. Washington’s slow reply to Japan’s Dec 31 note fuels concern while cabinet disputes over rail funds seem settled. Government aims to calm opposition with emigration limits and tax increases.
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Tokio
America
Washington
Ae Yamagaa
M. Yamaganio
Theabinet
Alost
Gvernment
Tokyo uneasy over exclusion act talk and U S reply
A Washington report notes Japanese unease over U S push for an exclusion act and delays in replying to Count Hayashi. Secretary Root prepares dispatches to Ambassador O'Brien as immigration from Japan grows, signaling Tokyo must settle the dispute.
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Washington
Tokio
United States
O'Brien
Hayashi
Root
O’brien
State Department
Pacific
Count Hayashi
Airships for Japan Rumor Stirring Paris Talks
Paris rumors claim Japan has French built airships and plans to order more for army and navy use. An embassy official was unavailable for comment while engineer M. Juliot cautioned on sensitive topics and spoke on airships' strategic roles in future warfare and potential for targeted bombardment.
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Paris
Clifden
Ireland
Japan
M. Juliot
Aeronautic Establishment
Messrs. Lebaudy
Moisson
M. Juliet
Bingham demands Reardon shield or acts himself
Police Commissioner Bingham pressed District Attorney Jerome for the special police shield and warrant used by County Detective Reardon and his raiding squad. He warned he will act if Jerome does not move quickly, potentially presenting evidence to the Grand Jury or removing officers Wasserman Mara.
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Bingham
Jerome
Reardon
New York
Gen.Bingham
Gen.igham
Gen. Bingham
Grand Jury
Sergt. Wasserman
Mara
Cohen
Wasserman
Hanson
Police Department
Charles S. Meyerson
Wahle
Meyerson
Butler
Morocco Crisis Upsets French Government In Morocco
Paris reports a Moroccan upheaval as Mulai Hafid is proclaimed sultan in Fez while Abd-el-Aziz seeks a $30 million loan and Gen D Armande advances on Rabat with 4000 troops. Clemenceau and ministers hold urgent talks amid fears of civil war and Algeciras Act implications.
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Paris
Morocco
Mulai Hafid Sultan
Fez
Mohammed Sidi el Mokhri
Abd-el-Aziz
Rabat
Gen. D'Armade
Clemenceau
Picquart
M. Caillaux
M. Regnault
Algeciras
France
Spain
Germany
The Battle Ships En Route to Pacific Coast
The battleships head toward the Pacific Coast using Straninsky ware. Over 15,000 pieces bought by the U S Government.
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Pacific Coast
U. S
Kalil's Restaurant Ad Promises Finest Seven Open
Kalil's Restaurant at 14 18 Park Pt advertises fine dining with charming music and late hours. The brief notice highlights a stylish atmosphere and midnigh t opening for patrons.
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Kalil’s Restaurant
Park Pt
Charming Music
Adv
Barber Samuel Sica Shot Dead in Street Quarrel Suspect Fled
Samuel Sica a 24 year old barber of 2151 Second Avenue was killed at the corner of 105th Street and Second Avenue. Police say motives arose from a quarrel over a woman. The assailant escaped after two shots struck Sica. Detectives removed the body to the station and found $45 and letters from a man hinting at trouble over a woman. The case links to a prior association ball and a related NYC crime.
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Samuel Sica
Second Avenue
105Th Street
Sica
Harry Mannarino
107Th Street
Frank Cummings
St. Lucy's Church
4Th Street
First Avenue
Higgins and Norton
East 104Th Street
Tech
Vincenzo Sica
Sam Sica Association
Star Casino
Lexington Avenue
Francesco Sica
Sing Sing
Becker Brothers
East Side
Plaza Hotel crash injures cab driver in skidding auto
A closed automobile skidded on slick pavement near the Plaza Hotel and struck a hansom cab. Driver William Tate was thrown, injured, and later went home. Dr. David Bovaird and a passenger exited. a fox terrier fled from the cab. The car owner’s name was not disclosed.
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Plaza Hotel
David Bovaird
East
Bean
Michael Bernard
Plaza Footman
Dr. Bovaird
Tate
Dillon Stable
East Thirty-fifth Street
Bovaird
Carnegie Answers Crane in Letter on Technical Education
In a January letter to Richard P. Crane, Andrew Carnegie rebuts Crane’s jab at his Carnegie Technical Schools. He argues technical education speaks for itself, notes early Pittsburg paths to skilled work, cites a relative’s success in steels, and urges replacing apprenticeship with formal technical instruction. Carnegie ends with a question about substitutes for traditional training.
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New York Times
Pittsburg
Andrew Carnegie
Richard P. Crane
Chicago
Carnegie
Carnegie Technological
Mr. Crane
Troy
Boston
Berry for Bryan ticket dinner set in Philadelphia
Plans completed for a February 1 Philadelphia dinner where William Berry now State Treasurer will be promoted as a Bryan ticket Vice President candidate. Judge George Gray declined attending, with speakers to include William J. Bryan and figures from Oklahoma Rhode Island New Jersey Pennsylvania and Pittsburgh. Dinner to be temperance minded and wine free.
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New York Times
Philadelphia
William Berry
Bryan
George Gray
Delaware
William J. Bryan
Nebraska
Thomas P. Gore
Oklahoma
George W. Guthrie
Pittsburg
Thomas H. Higgins
Rhode Island
Frank 8
National Society Plans January Meeting Speakers Named
Announcement outlines plans for the National Society for the Promotion of Education meeting on January 28, 1924. Speakers include Dr. Henry S. Pritchett James F. G Connell Miss Anna Carlin Spencer and Cross of New York.
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National Society For the Promotion of Education
Fgnience
Henry S. Pritchett
James F. G Connell
Anna Carlin Spencer
Cross
New York
Mme Anna Gould Plans Settlement in America
Paris reports Mme Anna Gould will sell her French property and establish permanent residence in the United States. She aims to educate her children there while arranging access to them despite French court limits, and notes vast sums spent on a now unfinished Paris palace and other valuables facing sale or duty constraints.
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America
Mme. Gould
United States
Mme
Gould
France
Count Boni de Castellane
Anna Gould
Avenue du Bois de Boulogne
Avenue Malakoff
Chatéau le Petit Trianon
Arc de Triomphe
Italy
Circle Des Acacias
Castellanes
Louis XIV
Marie Therese of Austria
The
Faubourg St. Germain
Paris
Pau
George J. Gould
Malakoff Avenue Palace
Bent de Castellane
George Gould
Swans Deny Reconciliation After Divorce Suit
Mrs H Tilden Swan living at the Hotel Plaza denies rumors of reconciliation with her husband whom she sued for divorce last September. She says there has been no reconciliation and that her husband remains on Riverside Drive. Mr Swan, a banker at 120 Broadway, is a nephew of Samuel Tilden.
Youngest Civil War drummer boy hopes for veteran’s medal
Daniel Williams, listed as the youngest drummer boy to enlist in any U S war, applied for a Civil War veteran’s medal. Records show he was 11 years 6 months 16 days old when he joined in 1869, serving with Jersey Pennsylvania volunteers from 203 Sixth Street Southavener D C.
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New York Times
Trenton
Adjutant General's Office
Daniel Williams
United States
Williams
Sixth Street
Southavener
D.C
Jersey
Pennsylvania
Death Sentences Across Cities For Theft Ring
A Russian court martial at St. Petersburg condemned five thieves to death and two to penal mines for last April’s robbery of Alexander Nevsky Monastery property. The governor general in Kiev confirmed six death sentences for theft. Warsaw saw two hangings. Odessa, Vilna, and Moscow each confirmed two death sentences. Riga and Tchernagoft one each.
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ST. Petersburg
Alexandernevsky
Kieff
Warsaw
Odessa
Vilna
Moscow
Riga
Tchernagoft
Entombed Miners Await Rescue Amid Nevada Quake Shocks
Ely Nevada report says Supt. Gallagher sees 355 feet to go to reach Bailey Brown and McDonald buried since a mine shaft shafted before the San Francisco quake. He fears ground may be broken by earthquakes and estimates thirty five days to reach them with two months provisions.
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New York Times
Ely
Supt. Gallagher
Alpha Mine
Bailey, Brown
McDonald
San Francisco
Nevada
Honeymoon at Newport for Vanderbilt family plans
The Breakers grounds are prepared for the Vanderbilt party as Miss Gladys Vanderbilt and Count Szechenyi are expected to visit Newport after their New York wedding on January 27. Mr and Mrs Alfred G Vanderbilt stay at their Portsmouth farm with trips to New York, while Vanderbilt heads to England for a coach venture. Six trunks of Gladys Vanderbilt’s trousseau are shipped from the Breakers to New York.
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New York Times
Newport
Vanderbilt
Gladys Vanderbilt
Count Szechenyi
New York
Alfred G. Vanderbilt
Portsmouth
Ingland
London
Brighton
Paris
Conger’s Brother in Jail in Mexico City
J. S. Conger, an auditor for the Mexican Central Railroad, was imprisoned at Jiminez, Mexico, after a Mexican passenger accused him of boarding with his wife and four children without proper tickets. Conger is the brother of former ambassador Conger. The railroad company supports him and officials work to win his release.
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New York Times
City OF Mexico
Conger
Mexican Central Railroad
Jiminez
Mexico
Mary Trimble Ends Two Fiances Tragedy in Pittsburgh
In Pittsburgh on January 12 Miss Mary C. Trimble daughter of Justice John Trimble mourns the loss of her fiancé Frank Creese of Aspinwall who died of pneumonia. The couple had planned to wed next week, while Miss Trimble’s previous fiancé Walter McKee died three years earlier after a postponed wedding caused by the illness of her sister Sybilla.
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New York Times
Pittsburg
Mary C. Trimble
John. Trimble
Frank de. Ereese
Aspinwall
Miss Trimble
Walter Mckee
Mutiny by Chinese Sailors Aboard Chesapeake in Philadelphia
Forty Chinese sailors from the tank steamer Chesapeake, disembarked from Singapor e after ten days at sea, staged a mutiny in Philadelphia. Police subdued them at the dock after a force was summoned by telephone. Several mutineers and officers were injured in the clash.
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New York Times
Philadelphia
Chesapeake
Singapore
Bridge Cars Jump Tracks on Brooklyn Bridge Terminal
Two cars of the first train over the new terminal tracks derailed at 2 PM yesterday causing a several hour halt to elevated traffic. The four car train toward Ridgewood shook passengers but no injuries occurred. A Brooklyn wrecking crew and officials from the Public Service Commission cleared the scene by late afternoon amid mist and fog.
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Manhattan
Brooklyn Bridge
Ridgewood
Brooklyn
George F. Daggett
Public Service Commission
A. M. Schermerhorn
Fourth Avenue
Twenty-third Street
Grand Central
Grand Central Station
Fourteenth Street
Park Row
New York
East River
George O'Connor
Engine Company 1A
William O'Connor
John C. Gasser
Department of Sewers
Gasser
Subway Opens Today Plan Aims to Shield Parker Ruins
Engineers approve a plan to open subway service today through the Parker Building site. A six by eight inch beam floor will cover Fourth Avenue to shield crews, with operation possible once installed. Delays persist as Fourth Avenue and related lines face congestion and several floors collapse amid the fire scene.
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Murphy
Parker Building
Hedley
Interborough
William Barclay
Parsons
Henry B. Seaman
Public Service Commission
Fourth Avenue
Hediey
Fourteenth Street
Subway
Hnes
Parcker
Nineteenth Street
O'Connor
Sept. Murphy
Forty-second Street
Twenty Third
Fourteenth Streets
George Barclay Parsons
Interborough Rapid Transit Company
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