13 May 1916
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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
May 13, 1916
Page
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At Frederick Maryland a business ledger lists resources including loans and penalties, overdrafts, secured and unsecured securities, stocks and fonts with dates and figures. The fragment references 29 MAS 16dae and mentions charge accounts and collateral items.
Reports from Washington say U S hopes to press allied requests on neutral trade are delayed by Germany's May 5 note. The state department seeks details on punishments for submarine commanders who sank the Sussex and Ancona. American ambassador James W Gerard in Berlin may present records rather than formal notes.
Yeggs seized Lititz post office, held watchman Chauncey Kreider at gunpoint, blew the safe, and escaped with stamps money and a registered mail bag. Police recovered nothing but the escape orders as locals pursued the fugitives. A second item notes 19 000 acres burned in the Pocono woods with $190 990 loss and damage to property. The eight hour day dispute in Pottsville affects about twenty thousand workers as arbitration proceeds. An unrelated tip extols well cooked peanuts as nourishing.
Rear Admiral Robert E Peary warns that Washington could fall to air raiders during war and urges stronger protections for the capital He notes a recent imitation bombing flight by Aviator Thompson and a Newport News to Washington round trip by Stephen MacGordon with a passenger lasting over five hours.
Saratoga Springs N Y May 13 After two hours of debate action on a proposal to commit the Methodist Episcopal church to a policy favoring preferential employment of union labor was deferred The report urged the church to work with organized labor where its methods are just and unorganized workers rights are not infringed The matter was referred to the bishops board for final determination.
Official figures show the Democratic 28 000 and Republican 41 000 in New Jersey presidential delegate elections. Wilson 25 900 of 28 000 Democratic votes. Roosevelt 1066, Root 67, Hughes 383, Ford 4. The Austro Hungarian passenger ship Dubrovinsk torpedoed and sunk in the Adriatic. unarmed and no warning. President Wilson left for a West End voyage aboard the Mayflower. One man stabbed in a quarrel over the war in Scotland County, Pa. A News Help Want Ad. will bring Semnita.
In a rad mining town, Mexican workers confront escalating tensions amid protests and labor disputes. Local authorities monitor the standoff as negotiators seek a peaceful resolution, with community leaders urging restraint.
A Tucson dispatch reports Mexican bandits raiding Polaris near the border driving Americans to Nogales. American troops patrol Polaris after bandits fled. Bayles killed near Mercedes and suspects held at Mercedes. Langhorne seeks prisoner exchange as Obregon moves south and Funston and Scott prepare eastward journeys.
Harrisburg mayor Ezra Z. Meats a physician advised couples to kiss in parks despite germs. He said kissing is not hospitalizing and would lead to more marriages and fewer divorces, urging young men and women to kiss more and even kiss enemies to gain friends.
County Controller Fuller R. Hendershot reports widespread padded registrations in Luzerne County Pennsylvania ahead of the primaries. In Hughestown borough, for a 160 vote normal, 86 spurious names were found, with other districts showing five to eighty inflated names, suggesting broad alterations across many lists. Also noted: Captain Karl Boy-E, former German naval attache, decorated with the Order of the Red Eagle Third Class with Swords by the emperor.
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