Carranza halts Benton inquiry in Mexico crisis
The New York Times reports that General Carranza demands control of Benton's exhumation and examination, insisting negotiations with foreign powers go through him. Secretary Bryan and officials seek to resolve the dispute while the British American commission awaits permission to proceed to Chihuahua.
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New York Times
Washington
Willam
Benton
Carranza
Villa
Bryan
el Pago
Juarez
Chihuahua
el Paso
Col. Avila
Constitutionaliat
Avila
White House
United States
State Department
Gen. Villa
Richmond
Department
Boaz Long
Hunt for Beatty yacht Sheelah sails from Syracuse to Algiers
A Malta dispatch says the British cruiser Dublin searched for the yacht Sheelah after it left Syracuse for Algiers and went missing. The Sheelah, linked to Rear Admiral David Beatty, was seen leaving Cowes a month ago with Mrs Beatty and friends, possibly including their son. A Gibraltar telegram claimed the yacht arrived safely at Algiers with a large party.
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Marcon
New York Times
London
Malta
Daily Mail
Dublin
Syracuse
Sicily
Algiers
David Beatty
Marshall Field
Cowes
Royal Yacht Squadron
Duchess Tangoes At 53 in Tango Teas
The Queen of Denmark and Grand Duchess Anastasia attend tango teas with private room performances. The Grand Duchess, 58, studies with a male dancer while a separate match between Grios and Languille featuring aviators looping the loop fifty times is noted.
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Marconi
New York Times
Nice
Denmark
Anastasia
Mecklenburg-Schwerin
Grios
Languille
William P Frye Ends 162 Day North Atlantic Voyage
The American clipper William P Frye under Capt Nickerson arrived from San Francisco after 162 days at sea delayed by north Atlantic gales. On Feb 6 she was within 25 miles of the Delaware Breakwater when driven off by adverse winds. Six tacks toward land failed, crews endured extreme cold, yet the ship stayed on soundings and docked with a full barley cargo.
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William P. Frye
Nickerson
San Francisco
North Atlantic
Delaware
Frye
William Dean Howells Celebrates 77th Birthday in Boston
Special to The New York Times William Dean Howells marked his seventy seventh birthday at 65 Mount Vernon Street Boston with a family dinner and friends. Telegrams of congratulation poured in from across the country as the celebrated novelist enjoyed his health and optimistic outlook.
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New York Times
Boston
William Dean Howells
Mount Vernon Street
Boston to stock No Man's Land as a game preserve
Joshua Crane, former national racquet champion, has bought No Man's Land off Martha's Vineyard three miles in circumference, six miles from shore. The island will be stocked as a fish and game preserve and become Crane's country home. An artificial harbor for yachts is planned and a lighthouse may be built by federal authorities.
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Boston
No Man's Land
New England
Joshua Crane
Kr. Crane
London
Little Island
Martha's Vineyard
Free Sons of Israel Protest Immigration Legislation
Through its Executive Committee the Independent Order of the Free Sons of Israel protests to President Wilson against immigration restriction. The annual meeting at Hotel Astor adopted a resolution by Maurice Blumenthal protesting the literacy test. Treasurer notes a $1,100,000 treasury surplus. Grand Master M. Samuel Stern presided.
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Order of the Free Sons of Israel
Wilson
Hotel Astor
Maurice Blumenthal
M. Samuel Stern
Frank Convicted by Public Clamor in Local Scandal
The report states that Frank was convicted by public clamor following accusations that Conley molested her in a location linked to the Mary Phagan affair. The piece notes the timing near the later murder of Mary Phagan, tying the case to heightened public outrage.
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Frank
Forbid Rehearsal of Diplomat's Play Sparks City Fight
A press clash erupts as the French Drama Society sues city officials after police barred a dress rehearsal of Le Mar Amoureux de la Femme at Garrick Theatre. They say the move stalls Sunday night rehearsals and moves to move pictures with Progress Film Company at Garrick. The case involves Mayor Mitchel and Police Commissioner McKay with insiders demanding enforcement of the Sunday law.
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Marquis Cusan Confalonteri
United States
Garrick Theatre
French Drama Society of
New York
McKay
Gillen
Fortyeighth Street
Lyceum Theatre
Marquis
Diplomatic Corps
Belasco Theatre
Washington
Bonheur
Police Department
French Drama Society
Movies Company
Garrick
Progress Film Company
Vice Trust
Weber's Theatre
Continental Film Company
Mutual Film Company
Weber's
Progress Company
Unknown for 40 Years, Then a Famous Artist in a Day
Herr Hagemeister is hailed as a genius in a cabbage patch and his paintings attract global attention. The Times previews several works with intriguing stories to be reproduced in next Sunday’s issue.
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Hagemeister
Unemployed Invasion Of Fifth Avenue Church
About 100 unemployed men marched through sleet to the old First Presbyterian Church, where Rev Dr Howard Duffield welcomed them. Speakers asked for food and shelter, the church arranged aid, and police were kept on standby. The group dispersed without further incident.
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Washington Square
Fifth Avenue
First Presbyterian Church
Eleventh
Twelfth
Howard Dutfield
Frank Tannenbaum
TI. W. W
Duffield
Mercer Street
Wheeler
Fifth Street
Grace Chapel
East Fourteenth Street
St. Mark's Church
Second Avenue
Tenth Street
Gale and Snow Isolate the City Amid Shipwrecks
A nor'easter isolates the port area as rail lines halt and wrecks line the Sound. The four masted schooner Jacob 8 Winslow ran ashore off Block Island, endangering crew. engineer William Lannibal dies tackling the surf. Rescue craft and a revenue cutter battled heavy seas as the vessel broke apart. The Winslow, built in Bath, Maine in 1888, measures 180 feet with 910 gross tons.
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Wakefield
R. LI
Jacob
Winslow
Fernandina
Fla
Providence
Black Rocks
Block Isand
Capt. Wilson
Block Island
Teal
Wilson
William Lannibal
New Haven
Hannibal
Hero
Acushnet
Tasco
New London
New Harbor
Eather Bureau
Portland
Bath
Alexander Gelden attacks IWW tactics at welfare meeting
Alexander Gelden urged Brotherhood of Welfare Association members to distrust IWW leaders who led crowds to seek shelter and disrupt churches. He warned such mobs are not allies of the unemployed and condemned protests as futile, urging orderly appeals to pastors who may offer church shelter.
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Brotherhood Welfare Association
Manhattan Lyceum
Lsten
Alexander Housseau Gelden
Industrial Workers of the World
Golden
Labor Temple
Eight Saved From Barges in Long Island Sound Gale
Four barges of a five-barge tow sank in a sixty mile gale off Charles Island Milford. Eight people were rescued from the overturned craft aboard the Bridgeport and other barges while two tugs struggled at sea. The incident left 2,500 tons of coal lost with the barges Blueband Jed T Keller and Captain Quinn.
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Bridgeport
Conn
McWilliams Line
Long Island Sound
Charles Island
Milford
Sanfely
Blueband
Jed T. Keller
Quinn
Providence
New Haven
Henry Nelson
Elmer A. Keeler
Keeler
Dr Hillis Offers Shelter and Breakfast to Homeless
The Rev Dr Newell Dwight Hillis of Plymouth Church Brooklyn announced he will provide lodging for homeless men who apply. He will also offer breakfasts this week at the Mayflower Mission Lawrence and Johnson Streets from around 6:30 to 8:00.
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Newell Dwight Hillis
Plymouth Church
Brooklyn
Hillis
Mayflower Mission
Lawrence
Johnson Streets
Unknown two-master schooner aground near Thimble Islands
Report from Stony Creek Connecticut on March 1 describes an unidentifiable two-masted schooner, likely from Providence, ashore on the rocks near the Thimble Islands. The vessel, once seen near Guilford, lost sails, drifted ashore without a clear helm, and remains wedged among ice floes with rescue impracticable tonight.
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Stony Creek
Conn
Providence
Thimble Islands
Guilford
Cra
Storm Warning Issued As New York Harbor Battles Blizzard
The Weather Bureau issued a storm warning at 2 pm advising captains to stay at port as a northwest gale built to eighty mph. Ice filled slips beyond Governors Island and the North and Mant Rivers. Staten Island ferries kept a half hour schedule, inbound coastwise ships anchored off Sandy Hook, and ocean steamers were held near Fire Island. No accidents reported. The Atlantic Transport Miner Minne waska sailed for London at 6 am before the storm began.
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Weather Bureau
Governors Island
Mant
Staten Island
Sandy Hook
Fire Island
Atlantic
Minnewaska
London
Haywood Urges Food For Unemployed In Lymie Hall Speech
In Philadelphia on March 1 Big Bill Haywood organizer of the IWW told unemployed and hungry to take food if needed. He cited the Saviour and Lincoln to argue it is proper when no other way exists and warned against suicide as a crime while urging action within the law.
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New York Times
Philadelphia
Big Bill’ Haywood
Industrial Workers of the World
Lymie Hall
Abraham Lincoln
Shipping Advisory Mentions Lily Cure for Offices
The notice notes the ship BS Floride on the French Line from Havre to New York being 70 miles east of Handy Hook at 1 PM. It advertises Lily Cure as the best sanitary product for offices, manufactured by the Public Service Cup Co in Brooklyn.
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Havre
New York
Handy Hook
The
Public Service Cup Co
B’klyn
Adr
Noted Surgeon Poisoned Death of Prof Joachimsthal
The Berlin correspondent reports Prof Joachimsthal director of the University Hospital and noted authority on surgical treatment of cripples died yesterday in a sanitarium near Berlin aged 52. He suffered lung inflammation and a nervous complaint after an unknown disease from animal experiments. Prominent specialists attended him but the poison's exact nature remains undetermined.
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Marconi
New York Times
London
Berlin
London Times
Joachimsthal
University Hospital
Gruinewald
Count Szechenyi Charters Catania For Lengthy Cruise
London reports Count Laszlo Szechenyi and his wife formerly Gladys Vanderbilt chartered the steam yacht Catania. The Duke of Sutherland, returning from New York on the America, completed a cruise claimed as the longest private yacht voyage since Lord Brassey’s Sunbeam. The Catania left the South of France in December and sailed to the West Indies and South America, reaching 130 miles up the Orinoco before returning to the West Indies.
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Marconi
New York Times
London
Laszlo Szecheny
Gladys Vanderbilt
Duke of Sutherland
England
New York
Amerika
Lord Brassey
France
West Indies
South America
Orinoco
Benefit Party Raided At Yorkville Stag Show
Ten prisoners held by Magistrate Barlow after detectives raided a Saturday night benefit stag party of the M Vandervelten Sick Benefit Club in a hall at 1478 First Avenue. Princess Louise Jessie White and Susie Dale were among those detained. organizers defended the event as a charity affair not for profit. Detectives bought tickets at 50 cents and halted the performance after Louise began dancing. authorities described the night as lively.
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Princess Louise
Susie Dale
Barlow
Yorkville
Cahalane
M. Vandervelten
First Avenue
Jessie White
Beachey Survives 1600 Foot Plunge During Loop Test
Lincoln Beachey, famed aviator, lost control of a new monoplane at Santa Barbara while looping the loop. He righted the craft at 400 feet and escaped with slight injuries. The machine crashed into a tree but sustained little damage.
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Santa Barbara
Cal
Lincoln Beachey
Beachey
Banker’s Wife Dies by Own Action in Washington
Mrs Lovie Levinia Claxton 38 wife of Arthur B Claxton treasurer of the Munney Trust Company shot herself at home today. Discovered by her six year old daughter she was mother of five children oldest son five months. Despondency over ill health believed to prompt the act.
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David Beatty
Marshall Field
Chicago
Arthur Tree
Lambert Tree
Russia
England
Tree
Beatty
Kitchener
China
New York Times
Washington
Lovie Levinia Claxton
Arthur B. Claxton
Munney Trust , Company
Rockefeller Attends First Union Service at Calvary Church
John D Rockefeller and his son attended the first joint services of the Fifth Avenue and Calvary Baptist Churches held at Calvary Church on West Fifty-seventh Street. After the service Rockefeller praised the plan for both congregations. The turnout was small and the services were led by Rev. Cornelius Woelfkin.
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John D. Rockefeller
Fifth Avenue’ Baptist Church
Calvary Baptist Church
Calvary Church
West Fifty-seventh Street
Rockefeller
Cornelius Woelfkin
D. D
Fifth Avenue Church
Engineer Explodes Buried Dynamite With Ultraviolet Ray
Madrid reports Igiestan Blanco, an engineer, demonstrated an ultraviolet ray device that detonated a buried dynamite charge at a distance of four and a half miles. He claims the invention could trigger ship magazines or aircraft gasoline tanks.
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Madrid
Igiestan Blanco
Ginutto Ulivi
Neserta
Alltogether Pouch Sense Pipe and Tobacco at Schulte's
Fragmentary OCR notes show a mention of the Alltogether pouch associated with pipe and tobacco products at Schulte's Stores. Details are incomplete but indicate a retail listing or promotional reference.
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Schulte’s
Telegraph Wires Down Disrupt City Traffic and Trains
Telegraph wires have fallen across streets causing widespread traffic delays and service outages. The Congressional Limited is not heard from and hours of service are delayed as snow disrupts mobility. About 6,000 workers have quit, leaving lines demoralized and operations halted.
New York Snowstorm Triggers Widespread Power and Transit Failures
A historic blizzard deposits 9.6 inches in New York with winds up to 80 mph. Two killed as a snow-laden shed collapses. Newark reports a fatal wire accident. Rail and telegraph lines suffer major outages while streets face heavy disruption. Forecasters predict colder, fair weather to follow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Newark
City Storm Paralyzes New York Streets and Transit
New York endured a record snowstorm with 9.6 inches noted at midnight and winds up to 80 mph. The blizzard disrupted telegraph and fire alarm systems, crippled streetcars, halted steam rail traffic, darkened Richmond, and strained the Street Cleaning Department as crews battled slush and deep drifts.
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New York
Richmond
Weather Bureau
Signas Vetermn
Kenton
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Leo M. Frank
Fravik
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Rees
Burke
Luther Z. Rosser
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Ferguson
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Dorsey
B. H. Hill
National Pencil Plant
Coleman
Helen
Formby
Nina Formby
J. W. W. Leader
First Presbyterian
A. R. Golden
DR. Hillis
Two-Master
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Szechenyi
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