Germans Open Fire on British Front in Western War News
London reports dawn bombardment along the British front from the Scarpe to south of St Quentin as British raiders seize prisoners and machine guns in St Quentin Messines and Houtholst forest sectors. Analysts weigh a possible German offensive and note troop redeployments under Von Gallwitz with American troops on the line in the Vosges and Woevre areas.
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War Office
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Arras
St Quentin
Cambrai
Copenhagen
Berlin
Holland
Germany
von Hindenburg
Lund
Western Front
von Gallwitz
von Mackensen
Servia
German War Office
Palmist After Estate Battle in Boston Society Circles
Walter Kelly Martin known as Kenilworth fights for a $500000 estate of Mrs. Edmund San ford Clark Martin who died in Boston. Relatives challenge the marriage and his right to administer the estate. The case, heard in secret by Master Carleton Hunman, draws attention across Boston Newport Paris society circles.
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Boston
Newport
Paris
Palmist
Penhallow Girl Dies In Drowning At Jamaica Pond
Miss Louise Penhallow daughter of Mr and Mrs Charles Penhallow of 56 Eliot Street Boston commits suicide by drowning in Jamaica Pond near her home after an all night search. Police say she had been suffering from mental trouble.
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Boston
Louise Penhallow
Charles S. Penhallow
Eliot Street
Jamaica Pond
Opera Company Loses One Hundred Thousand Dollars
Chicago reports the Chicago grand opera company lost $100,000 in the last season due to war charity demands, severe weather, and a bomb scare. About 22 Chicago millionaires nicknamed Angels of art are preparing for the digging up process.
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Opera Company
Chicago
Chicago Grand Opera Company
Angels of Art
Sub Treasury Report Shows Bank Gains in New York
New York on Wednesday saw the sub treasury gain $564000 from banks, lifting the cash net gain since Friday to $1840000. This brief financial update records a continued rise in treasury balances across key institutions.
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Treasury
New York
Dutch shipping crisis threatens Hague cabinet during war pressure
London reports German coercion of the Netherlands over shipping aid to the Allies. Queen Wilhelmina is described as distressed as Berlin warns Dutch ships may be sunk unless Germany’s terms are met. The piece notes Holland's colonial reach and strategic peril from German encirclement.
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Copenhagen
Wilhelmina
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Loudon
Germany
Dutch East
North Sea
Lenroot Looks Like Winner In Wisconsin Primary
Milwaukee March 21 nearly complete returns show Representative Irvine L. Lenroot leading with about 68,500 votes to James Thompson 66,200 and Davies 54,200. Total counted 238,818 of about 300,000 expected. Lenroot declares he will not withdraw and expects election tomorrow in Madison.
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Irvine L. Lenroot
Republicans of
Wisconsin
United States
James Thompson
la Follette
Joseph E. Davies
Lenroot
Davies
Victor Berger
Madison
Thomason
Charles McCarthy
Berger
United States Seizes Dutch Ships in War Aide Policy
Washington reports 77 Dutch vessels taken into U S hands by executive proclamation to guard Holland shipping. Secretary Daniels to man ships with navy and shipping board, routing largest into transport service and others to South American and trans-Pacific routes. Berlin’s influence suspected to press Holland, but officials expect Dutch drift toward preserving merchant fleet amid bitter reaction.
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United States
Holland
Great Britain
Secretary of the Navy
Daniels
Navy
Shipping Board
Olen S0
Germany
Man Using Warfield Name Robs Chicago Bank
Police seek a man who used the alias James Warfield to stage a two check scam at National City Bank of Chicago. He offered an $8,000 deposit with a returned $1,900 check and then drew $450 before the checks were rejected as forged. He claimed relations to former Maryland Governor Warfield and Edwin Warfield of Fidelity Trust Co. in Baltimore. both checks drawn on Baltimore banks.
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Chicago
James Warfield
National City Bank of Chicago
Warfield
Maryland
Edwin Warfield
Fidelity Trust Co
Baltimore
German American Alliance Leader Faces Senate Cross Examination
In Washington on March 21 Rev. S G Vonbosse president of the German American Alliance prepared to argue for the defense of the group while a Senate subcommittee hearings bill by Senator King to revoke its charter set to lead to a grilling cross examination of Vonbosse.
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Germany
Belgium
Lusitania
S. G. Vonbosse
German- American Alliance
Senate
King
Utah
Rev. Vonbosse
Paris Debates Retaliation Air Raids Against Germany
In Paris on March 21 a movement supports reprisal air raids on German cities in retaliation for attacks on open French towns but faces strong opposition. Publicist Gustave Herve, writing in La Victoire, urges targeting Essen and the Krupp works. The French anticipate America’s aerial armada.
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Gustave Herve
la Victoire
France
Essen
Krupp
America
Disgrace of Poverty Overshadowed by Discomfort
A terse report notes that while poverty carries stigma, daily discomfort dominates social concern. The article frames hardship as ongoing, with civilians enduring cold, hunger, and inadequate housing as civic attention wanes. No individuals or organizations are named.
Demented Dollar-a-Year Man Stirs Washington Into Fevered Action
Louis A. Damond, a dollar-a-year government expert, claimed a German plot to loot the treasury and dynamite the capitol. He frightened crowds and officers into decisive action before being held for examination at a Washington asylum hospital. A Los Angeles native, about 40, he had ties to Frank A. Vanderlip.
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Treasury
Capitol
Louis A. Damond
Washington Asylum
Damond
Frank A. Vanderlip
War Savings Stamps Committee
Los Angeles
Cal
Fire damages Reading railroad shops and flues
Reading Pennsylvania March 21 repair work on forty freight locomotives halted after a mysterious fire destroyed the flue repair and churn shops of the Philadelphia and Reading railway locomotive plant causing an estimated ten thousand dollars in damage.
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Reading
Philadelphia & Reading Railway
President's Daughter To Sing In Denver Dedication
Miss Margaret Woodrow Wilson, daughter of the president, is in Denver to sing at the dedication of the municipal pipe organ on March 21.
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Denver
Col
Margaret Woodrow Wilson
Unsettled Weather Forecast For New Haven Area
March 21 forecast from New Haven shows unsettled conditions tonight and Friday with local rains and warmer temperatures. Connecticut expects cloudy skies and intermittent showers, with a trough of low pressure running from Texas to upper Michigan causing widespread cloudiness though little precipitation.
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