French Says Allied Army Sure To Win In War Report
The article reports Allied optimism with General Grant praised for his leadership as the American forces in France push forward. Marshal French speaks on the war’s pace, artillery debates, and the tenacity of Allied troops in trench fighting while noting difficulties and strategic moves near Le Gates and the Po river campaigns.
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Betes
France
Maceh
Biel de Thames
Pleid Marchal
Friteh
Mowe
Omer
Couran
War of Artillery
John
Tanzer case for grand jury quiz in New York
Miss Rae Tanzer sued James W. Osborne for breach of promise to marry, and today a grand jury was invoked on fraud charges. Witnesses identified Osborne, who denied knowing Tanzer or her sisters and claimed a mistaken identity. The report also notes war commentary by Sir John and remarks on Canadian forces.
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New York
Rae Tanser
James W. Osborne
Etrict
Grand
Loughlin
Lis de Silom
Sol Comos
Alex Tanar
Kitehesn
Dara Slade
Slade & Slade
Reece
Dora
Huth
J. P. Safford
Pisinfeld
Ron
Dora Tanser
Cper
Oliver Osborne
Santa Rosa
Cal
James W. Orberse
W. J. Kitchen
Kitchen
Osborne
Horn to stand trial in Boston on Maine bombing indictments
Federal court orders Werner Horn removed from Portland to Boston for trial on indictments alleging illegal transfer of funds and plot to blow up the international bridge at Vanceboro Maine. Horn allegedly moved funds from New York to Maine to support the attack.
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Horn
Boston
Portland
Maine
Federal Court Today
Werner Horn
Bontoe
Morgan Robertson Dies From Drug Overdose in Atlantic City
Morgan Robertson of New York, famed for sea fiction, died in Atlantic City from an overdose of a drug used to quiet nerves. A physician's certificate cites the overdose as the cause, noting his nervous collapse on arrival and financial troubles as factors in his decline.
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Morgan Robertson
Atlantic City
New York
Sea Orton
Ilene
St Ta Be
Roberts
Turkiye Troops and Kurds Massacre Assyrians Amid Refugee Crisis
Telegrams from Urumiah and Pers ia describe dire conditions at the American Presbyterian mission. Turkish forces and Kurds massacre Assyrians, with 15 000 taking refuge under American protection and 7 600 at the French mission. Dr Packard saved many by raising the American flag. 20 000 dead or missing, 12 000 in Caucasus. United States has taken up the issue with Turkey.
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Uramiah
Gulpashan
Caucasus
Urumiah
Turkey
United States
French Woman Spy Shot After Court Martial
Lapeville France March 25 Marguerite Schmitt a French woman sentenced to death as a spy was executed after troops drawn up to witness. She admitted accepting 49 dollars from the Germans to enter French lines and obtain information.
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Lapeville
France
Marguerite Schmitt
Seizure under Mann Law for Fort Worth official's arrest
W L Wagley of Fort Worth Texas claims to lead the International Manufacturing Company with a 10 million dollar Delaware charter. An indictment in Fort Worth accuses Mann Act violations tied to two women allegedly moved from St. Louis to Fort Worth last August. Wagley denounces the charges as blackmail. A separate note reports a patent granted to Herbert J Bragdon of Rock Island Illinois for a shoe baton removing machine.
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St. Louis
W. L. Wagley
Fort Worth
Texas
International Manufacturing Company, Incorporated
Wilmington
Del
Madeline Coleman
Dorothy Allen
Coleman Girl
Waster
Washington, D. C
Herbert J.bragdon
Rock Island, Mil
Karlsruhe Sunk by Its Own Mine in the North Sea
New York reports Captain Bord of the Carib recounts that the German cruiser Karlsruhe sank after striking a reef in December. The crew evacuated to a captive ship as a bombardment sent the vessel to the bottom with the German flag flying. Some crew survived and were later decorated by the emperor. others remained at Bremerhaven or were scattered.
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New York
James Bord
North Sea
Bremerhaven
Karlsruhe
West Indies
Boyd
Germany
Reverend Darnell pleads not guilty under Mann Act
Milwaukee correspondent James Morrison Darnell former Kenosha pastor indicted for violating the Mann act arraigned in federal court and pleads not guilty. He posted 5000 bond and plans to raise it today. His father Milton H. Darnell attended court and travels to Peoria. Darnell angered by insanity charges and vows to prove his sanity.
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Milwaukee
Wis
James Morrison Darnell
Kenosha
Darnell
Amy
Peoria
Disease Sweeps Austrian Camps Amid War Relief Report
New York dispatch reports Dr. Charles McDonald of Washington stating typhoid smallpox and other contagious diseases are epidemic among Austrian soldiers at Budapest camps. He warns warmer weather could spread typhoid through the Austrian army like a prairie fire.
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New York
Charles McDonald
Washington
American War Relief
Budapest
Weather Summary and Astronomical Events Update
Partly cloudy tonight and Friday with temperatures around 20 to 25 degrees. Fresh east winds, highs yesterday 58, lows 35, wind at 7 am seven mph, precipitation 0.04 inch, humidity 59 percent evening, 64 percent afternoon, water stage 5.8 rising 0.1 in 24 hours. Evening stars Mars Saturn. morning stars Venus Jupiter Mercury. Aldebaran in Taurus sets near 11 p m.
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Tam
J. M. Sherier
Mars
Saturn
Venus
Jupiter
Mercury
Aldebaran
Taurus
Pin Stars Still Holding Places in Bowling Tour
Peoria March 2 minor events of the American Bowling Congress tournament showed Chicago teams active but not dominant. Shannon and Kellog led doubles with 1,170 while Ed Die Kelly of Toledo topped all events with 640 in singles. Kellog’s 595 spares a near clean game until the ninth frame. Toledo and Chicago entries appear prominently in the day’s standings with several Hoboken and Philadelphia players noted among the field.
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Peoria
Chicago
Jack Shannon
Stanley Kellog
Eddie Kelly
Toledo
Kellog
Culver
Thatcher
Harry Cohn
Billy Weingarth
Hoboken
Liebknecht Now Serving in Army in Alsace
Berlin March 25 Dr Karl Liebknecht a Reichstag member and noted socialist has been mustered into the army as a member of a sandsturm regiment for service in Alsace He had protested war opposed budget and led a secret peace movement He was reportedly shot for refusing military service after hostilities began
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Berlin
Karl Liebknecht
Reichstag
Germany
Alsace
Copenhagen Politiken
Liebknecht
Landtag
Refused a Good By Kiss Ends in double tragedy
Quincy Illinois reports vaudeville actor Matthew Webster known as the Dancing Webster killed his wife after she refused a goodbye kiss and then killed himself. The couple had separated six months earlier. Webster had arrived from Wisconsin to reconcile but was refused. He shot twice. Also included: Kansas Supreme Court upholds corporation tax law and Hawaii women’s vote push via a territorial legislature resolution.
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Quincy, Ill
Matthew Webster
Webster
Quincy
Wisconsin
Ottoman Dardanelles Surrender Plan Blocked by Germany
A Bucharest dispatch reports Turkey planned surrender of Constantinople and the Dardanelles to the allied fleet, halted by German threats to court martial. Morgen thau visited the Dardanelles, amid renewed Turkish defense concerns and Allied naval actions.
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London
The
Chronicle
Bucharest
Roumania
Turkey
Constantinople
Dardanelles
Germany
Morgenthau
Straits
von Sanders
Reuter
Tenedos Island
Beer Sign Brings Arrest In Dry Geneva Hotel Probed
Geneva Alabama authorities arrested Fred Bouck, hotel proprietor, for displaying a relic beer sign. The city, now dry, bans advertising or suggesting alcohol existed, making the sign a violation of local prohibition rules.
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Geneva
Inl
Chicago
Fred Bouck
Geneva Hotel
Bouck
Plasterers Join Lathers Strike In Chicago
Eighteen hundred union plasterers in Chicago went on strike after refusing to plaster lath laid by workers who replaced strikers. Samuel Gompers arrived to press efforts to avert a broader building industry walkout.
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Chicago
Samuel Gompers
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