Beautiful Russian Dancer to Wed American Newsman
A fragmented report covers Navy yard debates on Atlantic coast dry docks and dock capacity. Admiral Stanford testifies on Charleston and Guantanamo as key sites, noting costs, needs for large dreadnought docks, and possible relocation or retention of facilities.
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Atlantic
Kelley
Michigan
Charleston
Stanford
Calloway
Guantanamo
Pensacola
Cape Hatteras
Admiral Stanford
Orleans
New Orleans
New York
Norfolk
Butler
Panama Canal
Representative Calloway
Texas
Charleston Yard
United States and Germany Near Final Agreement on Lusitania
Washington officials report that Count Von Bernstorff and Secretary Lansing held a confidential session on the Lusitania negotiations. They expect one more Washington-Berlin exchange before an end to the dispute, with indemnities for 115 American dead and a mutual disavowal or expressions of regret. The next move is to seek allied assent to protect ships carrying Americans from attack until safe passage is assured.
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Washington
Count von Bernstorff
Lansing
Lusitania
Germany
United States
Berlin
Wilson
New Harbor Board in Mobile Set to Organize
Dr. A. G. Ward and four others in Mobile joined the Alabama Harbor Commission after receiving official notification from Governor Henderson. The board will seek commissions, elect a secretary and treasurer, and choose clerks deputies and a wharfinger once organized. A permanent office location will be decided at the first meeting.
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A. G. Ward
R. V. Taylor
M. C. Forchheimer
T. J. O'Connor
J. C. Rich
Mobile
Alabama Harbor Commission
Henderson
Ward
Dr. Ward
Turkish Claims of Victory Fall Down and German Drive Stalled
London reports a Turkish retreat in Mesopotamia as British forces pursue on January 8. Heavy fighting on the Tigris produced two Turkish guns captured and 700 prisoners, with Sir Percy Lake named to command in Mesopotamia as General Nixon returns home ill.
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London
Mesopotamia
House of Commons
J. Austen Chamberlain
India
Tigris
Mr. Chamberlain
Percy Lake
John Eccles Nixon
Ingia
Gen Scott Urges Large Army and Universal Service
Major General Scott, Army chief of staff, told the House Military Committee that in war the U S must field an army of one to two million or face disaster. He supported universal service for ages 18 to 21, with nominal pay, arguing the regular army is efficient and that continental army plans require compulsory service if needed. He also said federal control is unlikely to enable widespread school training.
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Washington
Scott
Army
House Military Committee
Garrison
Europe
England
Supreme Court Upholds 1902 Sherley Pure Food Amendment
The Supreme Court upheld the 1902 Sherley amendment as constitutional. It declares misbranding for drugs with false or fraudulent claims about curative or therapeutic effects and targets falsely labeled nostrums.
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Washington
Sherley
Supreme Court
Congress
Wheat sowing shows diversification across the South
Fairfax Harrison of the Southern Railway notes the Agriculture Department report on winter wheat acreage. He says the data indicate a trend toward diversified farming in the South with increased wheat areas in Virginia North Carolina Georgia South Carolina Tennessee Alabama and Mississippi. Weather outlook calls for rain in Mobile with warmer conditions tonight and Tuesday and colder weather in Alabama overall.
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Washington
United States Department of Agriculture
Fairfax Harrison
The
Southern Railway Company
Virginia
North Carolina
Georgia
Adeks
Tennessee
Alabama
Mississippi
Mobile
U S Business Leaders Reassured By Sherman Act Policy
Washington January 10 The Attorney General Gregory outlines a flexible enforcement approach for Sherman antitrust cases. He says the department may favor civil actions or consent decrees when good faith is evident and urges cooperation with the Federal Trade Commission to clarify policy.
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Washington
Department of Justice
Gregory
Federal Trade Commision
Department
Chamber
War at a Glance from the Front Lines in Mesopotamia and France
British forces retreat hundreds of miles along the Tigris toward Kut al Amara as Turkish advances press. German troops attack near Massiges in the Champagne region, taking trenches and capturing prisoners and equipment. Constantinople reports sinking an Allied transport off Gallipoli as Entente forces withdraw. Vienna says Russian attacks paused last Saturday.
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Berlin
Kut el Amara
Mesopotamia
Constantinople
Kot el Amara
Champagne
War Office
Tigris
Bagdad
Kut el
Amara
France
Massiges
Gallipoli
Vienna
Persia Sinking Holds No New Facts, Consul Reports
American Consul Keblinger at Malta reports to the state department that affidavits from seven survivors including Lord Montagu do not add new facts about the Persia disaster. Officers aboard the ship watched for submarines, no submarine was seen, and no warning was given. Germany Pleads Guilty, Rome newspaper notes Germany concedes prior failures to warn passengers before sinking ships.
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Washington
Keblinger
Malta
State Department
Persia
Ivors
Lord Montagu
Germany
AYS
Rome
Noe
Giornale d'Italia
America
Child labor legislation opposed by Southern delegation
The Southern delegation led by former North Carolina Governor Kitchin defended cotton mill child labor before the House labor committee. David Clark of the Southern Textile testified as lawmakers weighed the Keating Owen bill barring interstate shipments of goods made with child labor.
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Washington
House Labor Committee
South
Kitchin
North Carolina
David Clark
Southern Textile
Charlotte
Cotton Futures Appeal Not Advanced for Early Hearing
The Supreme Court today declined to advance for an early hearing the government's appeal from a New York federal court ruling that the Cotton Futures Act is unconstitutional. The government opposed an early hearing.
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Washington
Supreme Court
New York
Supreme Court Dismisses Sherman Suit Against Steamship Lines
The U S Supreme Court ruled the government suit under the Sherman Act in New York federal courts against North European steamship lines in the steerage trade should be dismissed. The court found the general pool agreement cited by the government to be void of actualities due to the war.
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Washington
Supreme Court
New York
Tolls exemption fight may be renewed by bill
Senator Fall of New Mexico introduced an amendment to the Panama Canal act seeking to restore tolls exemptions for American coastwise ships and ships of Pan American nations. If pressed the bill would revive the fight that led to the repeal of the exemption in the last Congress.
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Washington
Americas
Fall
New Mexico
Myrtlewood Postmaster Arrested in Bond Case
Claude R. Carter postmaster at Myrtlewood Marengo county Alabama was arrested by U S Marshal Gewin and taken to Selma where he made bond after appropriation of 1620 of government funds to his own use He is brother of the famed Nick Carter who years ago killed the Rube Burroughs bandit.
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Montgomery
Ala
Claude R. Carter
Myrtlewood
Marengo County
United States
Gewin
Mobile
Selma
Mr. Carter
Nick” Carter
Rube” Burroughs
Du Pont Explosion At Carneys Point Kills Three
Philadelphia Jan 10 three workmen were killed and several burned in a two ton smokeless powder explosion at Du Pont Powder Co plant at Carneys Point. The blast lifted a ferryboat and shattered windows. Authorities cite outside influences and report two men seized with nitroglycerin and dynamite, though unconfirmed. Names listed: John Walsh Nyack New York Richard J Lahiladelphia and T Clyde Wynn awkward.
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Philadelphia
Carney’s Point
du Pont Powder Company
du Pont
Wilmington
Carney
Secret Service
John Walsh
Nyack
N. Y
Richard J. la
Hilad
Steel Strike Restores Workforce at Jersey City Plant
About 750 workers at the Crucible Steel Company of America Jersey City plant returned to work today after striking last week. Management pledged to consider the workers' demands, restoring operations and ending the stoppage.
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New York
Jersey City
Crucible Steel Company of America
Day in Congress Hearings on Army Bill and Navy Yards
House session opened at noon with Major General Scott detailing the army bill to the military committee. Testimony continued on yards and docks before the naval committee urging full use of navy yards and stations along the Atlantic coast.
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Scott
Army
Military Committee
Naval Committee
Atlantic
Grants Mandamus To Street Car Co
Judge Safford Berkey granted mandamus to Mobile Light and Railroad Company against Probate Judge Price Williams Jr compelling a one year franchise license from January 1 1916 to December 31 1917. Williams will consult the attorney general on appeal options after refusal to issue a license dated October 1 1915 to September 30 1916. The street railroad had not paid the license and sought mandamus.
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Safford Berkey
Law and Equity Court
Mobile Light and Railroad Company
Price Williams, Jr
Williams
Attorney-General
Supreme Court
Supreme Court Decides New Orleans Bank Case
The Supreme Court today ruled for Commercial National Bank of New Orleans in a dispute with Canal Louisiana Bank Trust Co over proceeds from cotton pledges by Dreuil & Co. used for loans from both banks.
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Washington
Supreme Court Today
Commercial National Bank of New Orleans
Canal-Louisiana Bank Trust Co
Dreuil & Co
Supreme Court Upholds City Smoke Density Ordinance
The supreme court upheld a city's power to enact smoke density limits. Des Moines laundry challenged Washington city's ordinance but the measure was sustained.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Des Moines
Pan American Congress Delegates Begin East Tour
Nearly 200 South and Central American delegates to the Pan American Scientific Congress start a tour of the East after the second annual conference. The first stop is Baltimore, then Philadelphia, New York, and Boston, with a State Department committee led by John Barrett accompanying them.
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Washington
Pan-American Scientific Congress
East
Baltimore
Philadelphia
New York
Boston
State Department
John Barrett
Pan-American Union
Government urged to buy Manila railroad in peso deal
Governor General Harrison urged ratification of an agreement for the purchase of the Manila railroad valued at 8,000,000 pesos. The government has funded six million pesos of construction and ownership is sought to protect the public investment as the English construction firm faces funding hurdles due to war. A second item notes the U S supreme court nullified a drainage tax on the Myles Salt Company by the Iberia and St. Mary drainage district in Louisiana.
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Manila
P. L
Harrison
Washington
Supreme Court
Myles Salt Company
Iberia and
St. Mary
Louisiana
Florida Judge Adjourns Court For Old Spanish Trail Plea
Ocala Florida January 10 Special Judge Bullock adjourned court to allow James A Emmett field secretary of the Old Spanish Trail Association to plead the case for the highway. Emmett praised Marion county and urged mobilization along the gulf coast and bond issues for roads. He spoke in Brooksville and Ocala and outlined meetings in Clearwater St Petersburg Tampa and other towns to promote the trail as a major gulf coast highway from Tampa to San Diego.
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Ocala
Fla
Courts of
Florida
Gulf Coast
Tampa
San Diego
Cal
Bullock
James A. Emmett
Old Spanish Trail Association
Emmett
Robert F. Rogers
Chamber of Commerce
West Coast
Mobile
Pensacola
Marion
Paradise
Brooksville
Court House
C. H. Freas
Hernando County
McIntosh
Clearwater
St. Petersburg
Nominees to Be Decided Today for Chamber Board
The nominating committee met to list nominees for election to the Chamber of Commerce board. Each of nineteen classifications provides at least two candidates to fill the official slate and be presented to voters at the Tuesday election.
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Board of Ciestamy
Chamber of Commerce
Smith Oldest Son Dies in Hood River
Funeral notice states Milton D. Smith Jr. died January 4 1916 in Hood River Oregon he was the eldest son of Mrs Kate and the late Milton D Smith. Friends of the family are invited to attend the funeral from Dixon and McKay parlors 260 Louis Street tomorrow morning at 10 60 o clock Interment will be in Catholic Cemetery.
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Smith
Hood River
Oregon
Kate
Milton D. Smith
Dixon & McKay
Louis Street
Lost items and a found motorboat reported in brief notices
Several small notices report losses, including a padlock with initials D. S, a white silk scarf at Strikers' ball, and a blue coat in M. M. & A. auditorium with rewards offered. A motorboat was found No 30 with details via Nelson and Fred Neleone. One boy’s red jacket is listed as stolen.
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Gov Street
Nelson
Fred Neleone
M. C, Williams, Conti
Conceptio
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Heywood Broun
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von Bernstorff
NEW Harbor Board
Edward VII
Sults
East Front
Paris
Gen. Scott
U.S
Steamship Lines
Carney’s Point Plant
Senate
Mandamus
Street Car CO
Scientific Congress
Philippine Railroad
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