Push Rural Credit Bill Moves Forward in Congress
President Wilson holds talks on Mexican affairs and urges calm as the United States presses for compliance with its demands. General Carranza assumes leadership of the rebellion amid concerns over the killings of William Benton and other citizens, underscoring tensions in the border crisis.
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Union News Service
Washington
Wilson
William
Benton
Gustav Bauch
Clemente Vergara
Carransza
United States
Vila Upheld by Carranza in Benton Death Case
General Venusti Ano Carranza, supreme chief of the Constitutionalists in Nogales Sonora, supports General Villa’s action to halt the commission probing William S Benton’s death. He directs requests for information to his Revolutionary leadership via British diplomatic agents, as stated in previous Washington state department correspondence.
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Nogales
Sonora
Venustiano Carranza
Constitutionalists
Villa
William 8. Benton
Benton
Great Britain
State Department
Washington
Rural Credits Push Ahead in Congress
Washington reports trust legislation and a new rural credits law are the administration’s main goals before adjournment, with appropriation bills also moving. If a stalemate delays action on the trust bills, party leaders fear pushing rural credits to the next session, though there is strong desire to establish rural banks before the campaign heats up.
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Washington
Congress
Mrs. Doxey-Whitney Freed After Bigamy Term
Dora Elizabeth Doxey-Whitney was released from St. Louis county jail at Clayton Missouri after completing a three month term for bigamy. She plans to travel to Idaho to join her husband Fred Whitney at his ranch, where she had married William J. Erder while already married.
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St. Louis
Dora Elizabeth Doxey-Whitney
Clayton
Idaho
Fred Whitney
William J. Erder
Worst Storm Since 1888 Hits New York Area
Temperatures rise and fair weather is forecast as New York and nearby regions recover from a severe storm described by railroad and telegraph officials as the most destructive in this section since the memorable event of 1888.
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New York
New York and Vicinity
Railroad and Telegraph Company
Interior to Survey Gosper with $10000 Set Aside
Washington officials announced a $10,000 appropriation for a Gosper survey. The plan outlines a government funded study of the region to assess resources and land use.
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Washington
Interior Department
Gosper
Senate Deliberations Condensed On Immigration And Suffrage
The Senate immigration committee continued on the Burnett bill with amendments from New York’s Lewis R. Parker. Woman suffrage constitutional amendment discussed after an unsuccesful attempt to table it. Ten thousand petitions against the prohibition amendment from Kentucky. Adjourned at 5:55 pm to noon Tuesday.
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Union News Service
Senate—immigration Committee
Lewis R. Parker
New York
Kentucky
House
Rivera
Insular Committee
Post Office
House—Foreign Affairs Committee
Ainey
Taft
Alton
Parker
Root
Harris
New York Central
Huerta Insists on Safeguard for Americans in Mexico
In Mexico City on February 28 President Huerta urged a special police guard for the American embassy and said he would provide a legation guard, while six policemen guarded the American club under orders. Washington discussions of Mexico policy continued with no changes expected. The cabinet pondered the hanging of American citizen Slemente Vergara and urged punishment for those responsible.
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Union News Service
Mexico City
Huerta
O'Shaughnessy
Legation
Washington
Wilson
William S. Benton
Slemente Vergara
Bryan
Vergare
Lincoln's Progressive Party Gains Ballot Status
Attorney General Martin ruled in response to Thayer County Attorney Baldwin that Nebraska’s Progressive Party is legally organized since 1912 and qualifies for a place on the 1914 primary ballot statewide and in every county if it polled 1 percent of the vote in each county.
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Lincoln
Neb
Martin
J. P. Baldwin
Thayer County
Progressive Party
Nebraska
Longer grace period for irrigation water rights payments
A bill proposed by the House irrigation committee chair would extend the payment period for water rights from ten to twenty years. The measure, reportedly backed by Secretary of the Interior Lane, follows discussions among interior department officials, Congress, and reclamation state representatives over recent months.
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Washington
Seitlers
Nebraska
House Committee On Irrigation
Secretary of the Interior
Lane
Interior Department
Congress
More Wealth Than Thought Paid by Nebraskans
Omaha Nebraska reports 6600 income tax schedules filed locally with 7500 total expected from the state after all corporation returns are submitted. Of the 6600 filed 3000 are individuals while the rest are corporations.
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Omaha
Neb
Internal Revenue Office
Nebraska
Eugenics Debate Highlights UC Berkeley Lecture
University of California professor A L Kroeber derides eugenics as a joke and warns heredity is misunderstood while urging focus on individual and national environments. The speech, delivered in Berkeley, frames eugenics as a modern snare and stresses personal effort and ideals.
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University of California
Berkeley
Cal
A. L. Koeber
Anthropology Department
Kroeber
Will Not Announce Reserve Board in Sparse Remarks
The note suggests no immediate announcement of a Reserve Board plan as there would be no work for the federal body to do until a later time.
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Reserve Board
Federal Reserve Board
On Stump at Age of St. John in Olathe Kansas
A brief item notes John P. St. John in Olathe Kansas, marking a moment or event tied to his age and public presence. The readable text centers on St. John and local locale with implied ceremony or event.
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ST. Olathe
Kan
John P. St. John
Becker Conviction Annulled in Rosenthal Murder Case
The New York Court of Appeals at Albany annulled the murder conviction of the defendant in the Herman Rosenthal case. The defendant is entitled to a new trial, with District Attorney Whitman suggesting a second conviction may be unlikely.
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Becker
New York
Ant
Herman Rosenthal
Court of Appeals
Albany
Whitman
Senate Amends Postal Bill and Fires Up Rural Pay
The Senate passed an amended postal bill raising rural mail carriers salaries to 1200 dollars a year on standard routes. Conference continued on the Alaska railroad bill. Administration conservation bills were introduced and referred to lands committee. The post office appropriation bill carrying 311,492,067 dollars was approved, defeating efforts to curb the postmaster general's power over parcel post. Adjourned times noted.
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Senate
Alaska
Lands Committee
Post Office
Free Advice to Sick Women
Women suffering from any form of female illness are urged to communicate with the private out of the vast volume of sands. The ad promises confidential help from E. Pinkham Medicine Co. at Lynn Mass.
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E. Pinkham Medicine Co
Lymn
Mass
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