President Warks Johnson Again In Calculated Stance On Webs Bill
Washington May 1 President Warks Johnson signals a shift after advice from Secretary Bryan and John Bassett Moore regarding California anti alien land legislation. He says the Webb bill may not violate the 111 treaty but should be tested in court. Japanese warnings and landholding stats fuel cautious diplomacy as Bryan returns to test the issue in negotiations with Japan.
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Washington
Tas
Bryan
Sacramento
John Bassett Moore
Department of State
United States
Japan
California
Webb
New Jersey
Wilton
Johnson
White House
State Department
Emberey
Bureau of Labor
District of Columbia
America
Moore
Eight Witnesses Against ex Inspectors Hear Wilson Warning
Local news notes a broad crowd hearing Wilson warn against protests as eight witnesses testify. Reports mention Paterson children in a parade and a landscape architect in Newark, with other city items and weather notes scattered through the page.
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Wilson
Newark
Paterson
Norman Hapgood
Save the Boys
Lindsey
New York
California
Madero
McAdoo Plan Fonds
Murphy Ax
Tixtorian
Trotless Follies Fails Over Mayor Edict Blame
A bankruptcy petition was filed yesterday against the Follies Bergere restaurant at Broadway and 47th Street by Waterman & Co. and others for 436 and 500 and 210. Receiver John Cartwright, bond 4000, may operate ten days. The mayoral turkey trot edict is cited as the cause of the failure after a May 20 last year bankruptcy due to lost trade from the Tanie tragedy.
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Follies Bergere
Broadway
47Th Street
Macon Hotel and Restaurant Company
Waterman & Co
Charles Schberger
Judas
Watts
Hagel
John BR
Fulton Theatre
Big Taxpayers Prompt First Day Tax Receipts
More than 10 million dollars turned in on the first day for semiannual tax bills. The Tax Bureau of the Finance Department reported over 310 million in taxes yesterday, with deposits of 3 million at noon and 74 million more at 6 o’clock. Large taxpayers like the Interborough Rapid Transit Company, William Waldorf Astor, Standard Oil, and the Wendel estate took advantage of a 2 percent discount for paying the full year early.
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Tax Bureau
Finance Department
National City Bank
Interborough Rapid Transit Company
S. 1000
William Waldorf Aetor
London
Satawh
Standard Oil Comeorge Ehret
Pany
Wendel Estate
Yale Seniors Refuse to Hide Their Calves
New Haven May 1 The Yale senior class adopts Knickerbockers in a bold fashion change inspiring campus debate. Seniors appeared in knickers at chapel while juniors receive informal permission and freshmen face a ban. The seniors plan to revert to gowns at commencement week.
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YALE
New Haven
Montclair Woman Hears Soul Leave Dying Man
Mrs. David H. Baldwin of Montclair reports a vision at her father in law Nathaniel Baldwin's deathbed. She describes seeing a butterfly like pair of wings rising from the dying man, then vanishing as she looked toward her husband. The incident occurred around Seelock as the elder Baldwin neared death. There are no corroborating details beyond her account.
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Montclair
David H. Baldwin
Christopher Street
Baldwin
Nathanielly Baldwin
Mr Baldwin
Niagon
Seelock
Nps
Morgan Art Bill Passes in Albany Senate Exempts Inherited Collection
Albany reports the Morgan Art collection would be exempt from state inheritance tax if heirs turn the works over within the specified period to a municipal state corporation for educational, scientific, literary or historical purposes. The provision includes refunding tax already paid if transfer to the corporation occurs within the allowed time. Also an advertisement notes Great Bear Spring Water offered at a price per six glass-stoppered bottles.
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Albany
Enuer
Ormrod
Senate
Morgan
Latent Life Studies Stir Pole Room Speculation at Hopkins
Johns Hopkins Medical School researchers report a third state between life and death with organisms able to suspend life by freezing or other methods. They note potential to resuscitate some organisms after weeks or months and discuss implications for reviving animals and possibly humans. Separate testimony in a graft trial describes witnesses Sipp and Fox detailing protection payments and police graft schemes, with Mrs Walsh’s testimony viewed as pivotal to the case.
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Tribune
Baltimore
Johns Hopkins Medial School
Captain Scott
South Pole
Alexis Carrel
Jovith
Fox
Sipp
Herbert ©. Smyth
Mr. Blanchield
Mr. Wellman
Mes Walsh
Sipps
New Jersey
Whitman
Testriet
Clark
Mr. Stanchteld
Moving House Sends Queensboro Tenants A-Splode
Dozens of Thidgewood Heights residents moved yesterday in the usual way while two families on Cornelia street and Anthonavemi street watched their home ride away on a jacked up two story frame building. Andrew Goetz, a former deputy sheriff and hotelkeeper from Forest Avenue, bought 200 Fresh Pond Road and decided to shift his tenants Hans Gattmer and Mrs George Hoffman several blocks, prompting a remarkable moving day as the house glided along on its way.
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Thidgeswood Heights
Queensborough
Tidgewood Heights
Andrew Goetz
Forest Avenue
Fresh Pond Road
Cornelia Street
Anthonavemi Sever
Hans Gattmer
George Hoffman
Goets
Gattmer
Mex
Hoffman
President Wilson Appeals for Jury Reform in Newark
A photograph shows President Wilson in Newark last night during his campaign for jury reform, outlining proposals and pressing for changes amid his visit to New Jersey.
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President Wilson
New Jersey
Newark
Park board resignations follow clash with Gaynor ally
Friction between Park Board officials and Commissioner Gaynor spurs a chain of resignations. Landscape architect Charles Lay refused subordination to Park Commissioner Stover, resigning after being appointed to succeed Samuel Parse, who was ousted. The dispute centered on plans for Riverside Park and an aggressive Seventh Avenue playground project, with Lay criticizing Stover’s proposals and warning of a broader internal rift.
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Charles Downing Lay
Gaynor
Yesterda
Anguat
Lay
Samuel Parse
Mark
Mlever
Mayer Gayner
Mir
Cottmucenner
Stover
J and
Howard Mradstreet
Samuel Parsons, Jr
John Beatty
Mr. Lay
Hos Dey
Tome
Lendscape
Archit
Lay Haw
Upper Seventh Avenue
Tay
McLay
Riverside Park
Whales And Sloops Stir Barnegat Harbor Scene
The United Fruitiner Armnt arrives from the Caribbean reporting thousands of whales near Barnegat. A chaotic show unfolds with whales causing damage as a vessel wheel is struck and crew witness a sluggish hunter gliding on the surface amid frenzied activity and crustacean-laden danger.
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United Fruit
Hiner Armtrane
Cariibean
Bevan
Ste
Pankhurst Might Flee England by Airplane Escape Plot
London May 26 The militant suffragettes plan to move Mrs Pankhurst out of the country by airplane with Hendon aviators asked to undertake the mission. The Standard received the invitation while the bribery angle was declined by a rival paper, and police at Scotland Yard were alerted to watch for an airborne attempt to remove the leader.
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London
Standeed
Fem Pankhurst
Hendon
Atom Invitathen
Mra
Pank- Doret
Mght Wice
Scotland Yard
Trevel
Lost Leg Report Stuns Newtown Rural Patrol
Derek Peep, a farmer from News Town Queens, reported finding a detached leg on Dry Harbor Road near Trotting Course Lane. At Elmhurst Police Station the officer pressed for clues about the missing body but Peep only had the limb in hand, unsure if it belonged to a man or woman.
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Derek Peep
Newstown
Queens
Dry Harbor Road
Newtown
Firmhurst
Fleutenant Jedites
Jeg Ising
Ian
Dodikca
Human wall stops flood at Poydras levee
A hundred plus men, described as negro workers, spread onto sandbags and boards along the Poydras levee thirteen miles south of New Orleans to halt wash while sandbags were sourced. Tonight a thousand laborers rally by torches and bonfires to shore up the threatened wall as two inches of water breached the slope.
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Wilson
Johnson
Vari Vines
Watts
Congress
Sae
Amerian Peace Congress
Mollen
Denis
Sulzer
Thase
Wilson Warns Democrats to Yield or Face Earthquake
President Wilson spoke to about two thousand in Newark warning Washington Democrats that obstruction to progress will be crushed by voters who demand what they want. He blamed party bosses and the Smith Nugent machine, urged using the Democratic Party as an instrument to enact reforms, and stressed loyalty to the people over special interests.
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Wilson
Newark
New Jersey
Smith-Nugent
White House
United States
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Trenton
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