Andrews Roasted by Charley Frank in Southern League Feud
Atlanta February 26 Charley Frank fires back at O B Andrews in a heated exchange over league policy. Frank accuses Andrews of seeking personal gain and claims the schedule committee and league presidents were misrepresented. The Southern League leadership postponed a ruling, hoping time would ease tensions.
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Atlanta, Ga
Charley Frank O. B. Andrews
Southern League
Frank
Andrews
Altoether
O. B. Andrews
Callaway
Mr. Andrews
Hid
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Itanooga
Association
Charley Frank
Mississippi Society Banquet Attended by Washington Guests
Four hundred Mississippians and guests gather at the first annual Mississippi Society banquet in Washington. Harrison serves as toastmaster. speakers include Senators Williams Clark Gore and Representatives, with the song Mississippi and Dixie performed. Decorations feature Mississippi flags cotton bales and a cotton-field replica.
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Washington
Mississippi Society of Washington
Harrison
John Sharp Williams
Mispi
James P. Clark
Bailey
Gore
Beato Pittman
Har
Texas
Chandler
New York
Tay
Arkansas
Mississippi
Dunbar Rowland
H. Aiken
Dixie
Guet Hall
Benjamin G. Humef Greenville
The
German Newspaper Editors Meet in Chicago
Editors of forty eight German language newspapers in the United States gathered in Chicago to discuss issues of interest to German press makers. The session included leaders from New York Illinois Wisconsin and other cities with no announced plan for a permanent organization or unified political action. An informal Sunday discussion was anticipated on political topics and the international scene.
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Chicago
United States
Bernhard Ridder
New York
Staats Zeitung
Horace L. Brand
Illinois
Paul F. Miller
Abendpost
George Sylvester Viereck
Fatherland
N. Y
Richard Bartholdt
St. Louis
Fire at Buckeye Cotton Oil Plant Suspected Arson
In Greenwood Mississippi officials debate whether a February fire, damaging about $50 000 in property at the Buckeye Cotton Oil Company plant, was started by a German spy. The blaze struck new mill additions for lint less bales and $40 000 in linters and hulls stored nearby. The mill, like others in the state, sold linters to eastern plants involved in ammunition for Britain and France.
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Greenwood
Miss
Buckeye Cotton Oil Company
Haatern
Mysterious boiler explosion follows munitions plant fire
A boiler explosion caused by unknown origin followed a late night fire at the Franklin Steam Boiler & Machine Works in Williamsburg. The plant, which manufacturers munitions for the allies, suffered about 25 000 dollars in damage and shattered windows for blocks around.
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New York
Franklin Steam Boiler & Machine Works
Williamsburg
City Brevities and Wildlife Seasons Noted in Mobile
Nathan Bach his wife and daughter of Memphis visit Battle House in Mobile. County Game Warden John Hensch warns hunters that the third season nears close. Duck season runs December 1 to April 1 quail November 1 to March 1 doves and other birds share dates. Violations incur a fine from ten to twenty five dollars.
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Nathan Bach
Memphis, Tenn
Mobile
Battle House
Mr. Bach
John Hensch
Ten Session Bout and War Context In Madison Square Garden
The piece frames a forthcoming ten round match featuring Jess Willard against Frank Moran in New York with Charlie White as referee and notes broader wartime themes. It also includes a long quiz on World War I figures places and terms and definitions of roles in diplomacy and military.
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Jess
Madison Square Garden
Kansas
War Q&A Explains Alliances and Key Terms
A reader questions and answers cover triple entente and alliance, Balkan states, languages, capitals, Greece’s role, Gallipoli Vosges Salonica, rulers, emperors and kings, monarchy relations, Prussia, dirigibles planes periscopes mitrailleuses Zeppelins, neutral countries, Monroe Doctrine Pan Americanism, signature customs, ultimatums, war causes, morality of killing, and Swiss and Belgian languages.
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England
France
Russia
Germany
Austria
Hungary
Italy
Balkan States
Roumania
Bulgaria
Serbia
Montenegro
Albania
Greece
Vosges
Salonica
Gallipoli
Chersonese
Dardanelles
Rhine Valley
Basel
Mainz
Aegean Sea
George V
Prussia
William II
Count von Zeppelin
Norway
Sweden
Denmark
Holland
Switzerland
Spain
Monroe
Gasoline Locomotives for Trenches Ordered
The Russian government has ordered 350 Samet eta Baldwin locomotives to be used in the Arenees along the eastern front. The order signals a push to accelerate trench transport and supply lines amid ongoing warfare.
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Philadelphia
Ex-Diplomat Attacks Wilson and Lansing from Boston
George Fred Williams, former ambassador to Greece, assails President Wilson and Secretary Lansing as imperial in policy. He urges Democrats to abandon the St. Louis convention, condemns conscription talk, and says Lansing is a stranger to the people and party. Williams resigned after probes of pro German remarks.
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Monroe
Holy Alliance
South America
Spain
North
Lansing
Washington
George Fred Willams
Massachusetts
Greece
Wilson
St. Louis
Williams
Democratic Party
Fire Threatens Chicago Loop as Stove Repair Building Burns
Fire broke out late last night in the Northwestern Stove Repair Company building near the Loop, destroying it and threatening nearby structures including the White Sewing Machine Company. At 12:30 the loss was estimated in the hundreds of thousands with two four story blocks destroyed. A northwest wind fanned the blaze and three firefighters were overcome.
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Chicago
Northwestern Stove Repair Company
Loop
White Sewing Machine Company
Four Small Saturday Fires Reported by Fire Department
Fire department answered four alarms Saturday, all small blazes with slight damage. Incidents included 305 Spring Hill Road owned by L. H. Leary, 418 Marriott Street occupied by Annie Rosiel, 261 North Lawrence Street owned by F. J. Romhber, and 861 North Joachim Street occupied by Harriett Carter, all caused by sparks.
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Spring Hill Road
L. H. Leary
Marriott Street
Annie Rosiel
North Lawrence Street
F. J. Romhber
North Joachim Street
Harriett Carter
Federation of Labor Enters War Relief Field
The American Federation of Labor announces it has entered the war relief field. It will aid the Workmen's Federation of the North of France with financial support and consider the Belgian railway workers' appeal with railroad brotherhoods. A committee is drafting a program to secure jobs for unemployed during panics. The council disapproved Congress action on Porto Rico's organic act and approved Oregon land and loan measure.
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Washington
American Federation of Labor
Organized Labor Movement
France
Belgium
Executive Council
Congress
Porto Rico
Oregon People's Land and Loan
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Warsaw
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Yorkshire
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Hussar
Soixante
Italia
Triest
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Venetia
Foreign Department
Home Secretary
Charlie White
Austria-Hungary
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Sarajevo
Great Britain
Promised Land
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