Old Civil War Veteran Dies at 108
Pa March 13 San believed to be one of the oldest men in the state of Pennsylvania died at his home here just after passing his 108th birthday last December He was of German parentage born in 18 in Berka county and volunteered for Civil War service but was rejected due to age He had remained healthy until two weeks before his death leaving nine children the eldest 70 and the youngest 47
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Halver
Seattle
Militant suffragettes attempt to burn the British Museum
Police accredited the attempt by militant suffragists to burn the British Museum on Monday. A woman left alone in a room as she departed, and a watchman found smouldering rags in a corner. Scotland Yard searches for Lillian Lenton, a suffragette who had recently disappeared.
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United Preas
London
British Museum
Scotland Yards
Lillian Lenton
Gun victim dies after bullet to heart in quarrel
Palo Alto reported the death of Mrs. Mary Regis who lingered 48 hours after being shot in a quarrel with Antonio Armas. The incident is noted as a fatal gun attack ending in her death.
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Hy United
Palo Alto
Cal
Mary Regis
Antonio Armas
Miss Mabel Goode Declared Modern Venus of California
San Francisco March 13 Miss Mabel Goode an 18 year old high school girl has been declared a modern Venus by sculptor Rupert Schmid behind the great statue The Queen of the Pacific to overlook the ocean from the Golden Gate and beckon nations to the 1916 exposition Surgeons across the country approve her as an ideal of health with perfect posture and symmetry free from organic prolapse, matching the non enterop totic ideal cited by physicians
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Mabel Goode
San Francisco
Rupert Schmid
Golden Gate
Miss Goode
Will
Europe
California
London
Paris
Berlin
Vienna
Men in Y M C A Classes Learn English Across Races
Eighteen students from eighteen nationalities study English at the Y M C A with varied backgrounds. They include a Norwegian mariner turned factory head and a Chineseman who aids neighbors, showing learning and citizenship across cultures.
Street Fights Erupt During Akron Tire Strike
In Akron Ohio on March 13 police clashed with strikers injuring several. Sheriff Ferguson banned all parades and street meetings after twelve arrests the previous night. Tensions rise over a major rubber strike between workers and companies.
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Akron
Ohio
Ble Rubber Corporations
Ferguson
Tt Ty
Turkish Commander Pleads Aid Amid Stretched Supplies
From Constantinople on March 13 cipher dispatches quote Shukri Pasha, Adrianople's Turkish commander, saying he can hold only a week longer. The message says his forces lack food and ammunition and suffer scurvy and intestinal disorders among the defenders.
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Constantinople
Shukri Pasha
Adrianople
Death Will Not Part Em
After the death of Mrs. Fredericka K Saechioben of Brooklyn it became known she and her husband William planned to have their bodies cremated their ashes mingled and scattered from the middle span of the Brooklyn Bridge. A son in law will carry out the couple’s wishes.
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New York
Fredericka K Saechioben
Brooklyn
William
Beoooklyn Bridge
Mother of Eight Sets of Twins in Mound Bayou
Mias, March 13. Sarah Williams, a 102 year old woman living near Mound Bayou, is mother of eight sets of twins all of whom are boys and still living. She remains active doing housework then field work, once picking 500 pounds of cotton daily, now about 300 pounds.
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Mias
Sarah Williams
Stranger Drowns After Jump From Powell Street Wharf
San Francisco, March 13. Night watchman T P Cashan saw a stranger sprinting along the Powell street wharf and shout a curse before leaping into the bay. No trace of the man's body has been found.
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United Free
San Francisco
T P. Cashan
Powell St. Wharf
Cashan
Commerce Court Rules Congress Lacks Power Over Pipelines
Washington, March 13. The U S court of commerce ruled Congress cannot make pipelines companion carriers and invalidated the Interstate Commerce Act to that end. The Standard Oil of New Jersey Prairie Oil & Gas Uncle Sam Oil Ohio Oil and others are named in the decision. A fire in a dry kiln at Brace Hergert mill Monday caused about 700 dollars damage.
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U. S Court of Commerce
Congress
Standard Oil Company of New Jersey
Prairie Oil & Gas Company
Uncle Sam Oil Company
Ohio OM Company
Brace & Hergert
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