Night schools close due to lack of funds in Washington
More than 8000 night school pupils will be shut out of classes as Congress again fails to provide sufficient funds for the program. Night classes have operated about 60 nights a year. most students are adults who work by day and seek further education after hours. Officials will press Congress for larger annual appropriations to sustain the night classes. A. Collman, plumber, phone 297.
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Washington, D. C
Congress
Suffragists Parade Attacks Denied by Police Indifference
Dr Mary D Mark of Maryland testified before a Senate committee on the suffragists parade describing men attempting to manhandle marchers. She said police along the line displayed jellyfish indifference while a marshal was pinched and a girl’s sash torn. Mark said she struck a man in the nose. another man swallowed a crude remark after being struck. Baltimore garment workers also reported attempts by men to ill treat participants with police failing to interfere.
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Washington, D. C
Senate Committee
Mary D. Mark
Maryland
Mark
Senator Dillingham
Dr. Mark
Romance of the Titanic couples wedding plan in New York
Plans are hurried for the wedding of Miss Helen M Newsom and Karl H Behr a noted tennis player in New York society The couple plighted their troth while aboard a Titanic life boat after Behr pulled Newsom from the icy sea.
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Helen M. Newsom
Karl H. Behr
New York
Scientific management urged for City Hall in Chicago
Morris L. Cooke of Philadelphia urged applying scientific management to Chicago city offices to cut politics, boost efficiency in fire and police, public works, and clerical staff, and improve job security and promotion prospects for employees. He cited experience under Mayor Blankenburg and said we select the top civil service candidates for vacancies.
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Chicago
Morris L. Cooke
Philadelphia
Cooke
Western Economic Society
Board of Public Works
Blankenburg
Civil Service Commission
Suffragists Lose in Delaware Senate Vote
In Dover, March 15, advocates of woman suffrage failed as the Delaware Senate defeated a constitutional amendment granting women the ballot by an 11 to 6 vote. Witnesses testified about crowd interference and police efforts to control disturbances.
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Delaware
Dover
Del
Senate
Alaska Passes Equal Sufferage Bill in House
Juneau March 15 The House passed the equal suffrage bill enfranchising Alaska women. The Senate is expected to approve the measure.
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Alaska
Juneau
Progressives Urged to Stand Steadfast
In Philadelphia on March 15, Roosevelts banquet urged Progressive congressmen to form a separate party and stay apart from others. Beveridge and Roosevelt spoke of a 1916 convention, stressing national sovereignty, deeper democracy, and true humanity as core Progressive principles.
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Philadelphia
Roosevelt
Pennsylvania
Albert J. Beveridge
Beveridge
Republican Party
Lincoln
Calhoun
Progressive Party
Ward Aids Institute’s African Trophy Collection to Smithsonian
Washington March 15 Herbert Ward sculptor donates his vast African artifacts and geological documents to the Smithsonian Institute. The collection includes more than 7000 weapons and primeval implements of war and chase, surpassing Leopold’s famed holdings. Ward, survivor of the Stanley expedition, previously visited the institute and decided to turn over the collection.
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Washington, D. C
Herbert Ward
Smithsonian Institute
Leopold
Ward
New Marriage Law Ends Gretna Green Routes in Delaware
Delaware moves to restrict marriage to clerks of the peace at county seats and sets a 24 hour notice for residents while non residents face a 96 hour wait before license use. The measure passed the House and awaits Governor Miller's signature.
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Delaware
Dover
Del
Senate
House
Miller
Trainmen Take Strike Vote in Chicago Yards
A strike vote by 6000 local members of the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen began yesterday at the yards of 19 railroads. The action aims to decide overtime and night and Sunday work demands. no pay raise is included. Firemen are not affected. A. Collman, plumber. both phones 337%
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Chicago
Ill
The
Brotherhood of Railway
Merger Creates Single Control Over Burlesque Theaters
New York March 15 Completion of a 15 million dollar merger unites almost all burlesque theater operations in the country under Columbia Amusement Company and the Empire circuit. The deal, effective next fall, will reduce both groups by retiring several shows, consolidating 36 Columbia theaters in the east and about a score from the Empire west.
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New York
Columbia Amusement Company
Empire Circuit
Columbia
Empire
Mayor Gaynor Sued for Criminal Libel
In New York on March 15 a summons against Mayor William J Gaynor was granted to Ralph Pulitzer editor of the World The complaint alleges criminal libel based on a statement attributed to Gaynor in a speech before the South Brooklyn board of trade The summons is returnable March 20.
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New York
William J. Gaynor
Kernochan
Ralph Pulitzer
the World
Joseph Pulitzer
South Brooklyn Board of Trade
Attempted Bank Robbery at Trumbull Ends In Vandalism
An attempted bank robbery occurred last night in Trumbull, Ellis County. The lock was broken but vault intact. two picks and a pint of whiskey found inside. The Houston & Texas Central depot was broken into, but nothing taken. Telephone and telegraph lines into the town were cut.
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Waxahachie
Tex
Trumbull
Ellis County
Houston & Texas Central
Swindling Charge In Belgian Army Probe
Brussels reports a military inquiry into alleged fraud by unnamed Belgian army officials over 1 million to 2 million dollars in wartime munition contracts. The case centers on contracts for Belgian fortress artillery services as authorities investigate possible government losses.
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Brussels
Science Dictates Daily Life Deepens Labor Capital Gap
The passage argues that introducing laboratory methods into everyday life widens the divide between capital and labor by replacing personal opinion and tradition with scientific dictates, filling the gap rather than bridging it.
Oil Fuel Rising in Naval Use Surpasses 1911 Levels
Naval officials estimate end of the current fiscal year will see 20,000,000 gallons of fuel oil used in naval vessels, up from last year and far above 1911. The total for 1914 could reach 30,000,000 gallons, a 500 percent increase in three years, with six battleships and twenty destroyers burning oil, and two more battleships and eight destroyers to join next year. The United States is highlighted as having an almost inexhaustible oil supply.
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Washington, D. C
United States
Praise for Bad Mothers Sparks Debate at Meeting
Australian physiologist Dr Gustav Blumenthal argued that bad mothers raise more vigorous children and that suffragettes were spinsters. He claimed suffrage failed in Australia and that good mothers send more youths to crime. He favored a tougher, less pampering approach to childrearing. St Louis residents organize a league to refuse streetcar fares without seats.
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Washington, D. C
Gustav Blumenthal
Australia
Blumenthal
St. Louis
Bryan in Demand to Teach Bible Class
Fifty clergymen led by Rev Herman Pinkham plan to urge Secretary Bryan to lead a large interior denominational Bible class in the capital. The project envisions a Sunday afternoon service in a prominent hall with each member filing a card for outreach to churches. Bryan has not promised.
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Washington, D. C
Herman
Pinkham
Emmanuel Baptist Church
State Department
Bryan
Money Needed for Canal Work Foreseen Embarrassment
Officials of the Isthmian Canal commission warn of embarrassment if Congress fails to provide the appropriation for canal work in the sundry civil bill vetoed by President Taft. The bill carried 16,265,393 dollars for the expenditures across canal departments, and operations may end soon without supplemental legislation.
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Washington, D. C
Isthmian Canal Commission
Congress
Taft
Los Angeles Maps Industrial Zones Banning Factories
Los Angeles officials outlined city sections where factories may be located and ordered their exclusion from residential areas, signaling a zoning plan to separate industrial activity from homes.
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Los Angeles
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