Asquith Uses War Office Move to Shock Opposition
London March 31 Premier Asquith defied the expected resignations of Sir John French and Sir John Ewart by announcing he will take the War Office, prompting wild cheers from supporters as he left the House. The Opposition, unready for the shift, faltered as Reginald McKenna and others faced a new scene with Ulster Home Rule and army questions dominating debate.
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London
Asquith
Asia
John French
Imperial General Staff
John Ewart
Awate
Treasury
Andrew Bonar Law
Home Rale
Anguith
House
Reginald McKenna
F. 4. Smith
Edward Carson
Ulster
Unioniat
Ong Aelic
J. BK. MB. Seely
Seely
Pavere
Koes
Divorce Action for Mrs Kenry Siegel Declared
Local notice reports Mrs Kenry Siegel seeks a divorce from Henry Siegel amid disputes. Court record lists parties and issues, with standard procedural references and upcoming filings noted for public record.
Rich elopes with clerk in New Haven romance
In New Haven on March 20 Dorothy Bronson, twenty, heiress of a wealthy family, eloped with Lester Kuhm, a clerk. They traveled to Providence then telephoned the bride's father Harmer Wropson to announce the marriage. The bride is the daughter of a prominent merchant and granddaughter of Judge Bronson. The bridegroom works in hardware manufacturing. The bride's parents refuse to forgive the union.
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New Haven
Dorothy Bronson
Lester Kuhm
Providence
Harmer Wropson
Searchlight
Judge Bronson
Garner
Sunday Sues Billy Sunday Over Slander Claim
William A. Sunday, once Billy Sunday, is sued in the Supreme Court for 825000 damages by Charles H. Bell alleging slander in an Wilkes Barre Penn revival address. Bell claims Sunday said Bell was a fool whose brain was on the melt during a remark on a suit by Bell’s wife.
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William A. Sunday
Evane Xelint
Billy” Sunday
Supreme Court
Charles H. Beth
Joseph Milbank
Fell
Wilkes- Barre
Penn
Bell
Sunday
Lost canoeists search by wireless and boats
Two Brooklyn youths, Jordan aged nineteen and Brown aged twenty two, vanished after a Sunday canoe trip from the New York Canoe Club at Bay 27th Street. Motor launches and searching vessels extended a wireless appeal as friends scoured beaches. Jordan had been a standout runner and Brown a Erasmus Hall graduate. both worked for New York Life and attended night law school. Brown was the son of a Fort Hamilton police sergeant.
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Jo So
St Thomas Jordan
Clarence Brown
Brooklyn
Brown
Anoe Vals
New York
New York Canoe Club, At the Foot of Bay 27Th Street
Jordan
Tith Street
Bay Ridge
Erasmus Tall
Bay Iintreet
Bensonhurst Path
New York Life Insurance Company
New York Taw
Fort Hamilton
Stryker Shooting Probe in Seoul Police to Probe Doctor Death
Dr Edgar de Mott Stryker formerly of Raritan New Jersey was killed at a hospital near a Suan gold mine. Tomitaro Watanabe a Japanese convict killed Stryker and strangled his wife then attacked the doctor. Vice-Consul Raymond S Curtive heads to the scene and Watanabe is under arrest.
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Seoul
Corea
Maren Avemrne
Edgar de Mott Stryker
Raritan, No J
Raymond S. Curtive
Stryker
Suan
Tomitaro Watanabe
Presentiment True Son Drowned at Newtown Creek
James Gallagher, pilot on the freboat New Yorker, learned his son Mimmy fell overboard at about 6 o’clock near Newtown Creek and was drowned. Mimmy Gallagher, eighteen, deckhand on tug Arrow of Rickert Towing, swam well but disappeared under the surface as the search began.
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James Gallagher
New Yorker
Ehlers
Herbert Street
Brooklyn
Gallagher
Touamell Street
Williamsburg
Clark's blast to Mrs Henry Siegel end tolls debate
Judge by the report the article covers Clark's congressional bid against the tolls repeal plan and the related divorce suit filed by Marie Vaughn Siegel against Henry Siegel. It notes Speaker Clark's anticipated speech, Senate remarks by Lewis on Mexico, and the divorce action naming multiple co respondents with details of the Siegel marriage and social history.
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Clark
Henry Siegel
Eleanor Wilson
White House
L’engle
L'Engle
Great Britain
Doremus
Eihu
Sherley
Covington
Adamson
Champ Clark
Representative Mann
Agninet
Marie Vaughn Siegel
Gornsom
Siegels
New York
Paris
France
Rockwood & Haldane
No. 40
Broadway
Henry Siegel Hig
Miss Smith
Jiddy
Chester
Mass
Siegel
Mamaroneck
Devant
Hotel Majestic
Central Park West
72D Street
Herman
Mr. Siegel
St. Regie
Chicago
Jul Rosenbaum
Julia Slegel
Miller Candidate for Senate in Indiana Nomination
Conmere Idaho declares that Otaren and Hugh Th Miller, then Lieutenant Governor of Indiana, announced in 1904 their plan for Miller to seek the Republican nomination for United States Senate.
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Conmere
Id. Otaren
Hugh Th Miller
Indiana
United States
Stay of execution sought for Becker gunmen in Tosentha murder case
Four gunmen awaiting death for Herman Tosentha murder seek a respite or commutation until after Charles Becker's second trial. Attorney H Lionel Kringel filed papers with Governor Glynn, who will review the petition after examining the documents. District Attorney Whitman opposes any delay, arguing the Becker trial offers no new benefit to the gunmen.
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Telbne
Albany
Herman Tosentha
Charles Becker
H. Lionel Kringel
Wen
Potter
Becker
Synn
Hecker
Kringel
Glynn
Whitman
Justice Goff
Goff
Travelers' Traps Alleged Extortioner Trial in Hartford
Sylvester C. Dunham president of Travelers' Insurance will face Thoma Sweenes of Springfield in a derailed extortion case. A dummy package was used to trap the alleged blackmailer after a street fight near Long's Hotel and State Street. Police intervened as a pistol was fired and Sweeney was knocked senseless during the pursuit.
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Imy
Tribune
Hartford
Conn
Sylvester C. Dunham
Travelers’ Insurance Company
Thoma Sweenes
Springfeld
Dunham
Long's
Lewis Matberger
Matberger
State Street
Malberger
Front Street
Sweeney
Brasilia mulls naming river after Theodore Roosevelt
In March Rio de Janeiro authorities consider honoring Theodore Roosevelt for explorations of the Davieda River by naming it after him The proposed title Rio Teodora would be difficult for locals to pronounce and reflects the explorations described in Brazil's capital remarks
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Rio de Janeiro
Theodore Moosevelt
Davieda River
Roosevelt
Yale Debating Association elects Robb president
Yale University Debating Association tonight elected John Robb of Minneapolis as president. He was a member of the winning team in the triangular Yale Harvard Princeton debate where Yale declined a challenge from the New York State Suffrage Association to debate woman suffrage.
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New Haven
Waren
Yale
Harvard
Princeton
New York State Suffrage Association
John ©. Robb
Minneapolis
Yale University Debating Association
Denver Inventor Promises Eavesdropper Free Phone
Denver inventor M D Lchaffermeyer introduces a party line device said to end eavesdropping and reduce wear on users by denying the interrupter service. The tester runs eight miles of wire near Aurora, Colorado with a signaling feature that prevents dialing when intruding.
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Denver
M.D. Lchaffermeyer
Aurora
Velasco Readies Surrender as Rebels Claim Torreon Stand
Reports from Juarez say Velasco offers to surrender Torreon to rebels if Villa grants amnesty to all Federal officers and men. Rebels claim Villa holds most of Torreon while Federals fortified in two cartels. Consistent dispatches warn of heavy Federal losses, with 12,000 reported inVilla’s ranks.
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Travane T Juarez
Mexico
Refugio Velasco
Torreon
Pancho Villa
Carranza
Juarez
Washington City
Carrania
Washington
Ariews
Villa
Gomez Palacio
Zie
Lerdo
Vita
Tacem
Torreon Villa
Ville
Pascual Orozco
Francisco I. Madero
Porfirio Ding
Maure
Vebs
Asco
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Selance
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Malone
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Charles H. Bell
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Ilinois
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