Pacific Coast crew to compete in East regatta at Poughkeepsie
Stanford aims to challenge for national rowing honors with Pacific coast crew traveling long distances for practice on the Hudson. Coach Frank Guérano, last leading Stanford eight in 1912, plans a brief six to seven day Hudson program before meeting Washington and California on the river.
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Hal Sheridan
Poughkeepsie
Stanford Vera Pi
N Coast
Pacific Coast
Stanford
Cardinel
Husky Washington University
Washington
California
Cardinal Routers
Frank J. Guérano
Guerano
Hudson
Bait Story Claims Record perch catches by new worm mix
La May 15. Jess Sanzer of Benzie, famed perch fisherman, claims a new bait will break season records. He created worms from digs, overshoes and old tires mixed with dirt, yielding stretchable prey that snaps on a perch’s nose and stuns the fish, allowing hand catching.
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Smith
Jess Sanzer
Benzie
Jess
Fess
Believed Kaiser to Propose Compromise Amid Delay Inquiries
Urgent messages reach Rome to determine the cause of the delay and Ambassador Page is expected to conduct a thorough investigation. The State Department suspects congestion on Italian telegraph lines as the cause while Dr Barnhard Bernberg may depart the United States for Cuba or South America without a formal suggestion from Washington.
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Rome
Ambassador Page
State Department
Washington
Barnhard Bernberg
United States
Cuba
South America
London Tea Guests Cheer German Orchestra at Picadilly
Hundreds of Saturday afternoon tea drinkers at the Picadilly Hotel cheered as the orchestra played In Der Nacht a German composition. The composer Max Winderfeld is said to be in the German army.
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London
Picadilly Hotel
Allies continue winning in west in renewed fighting
Berlin and Paris dispatches clash over gains along the western front as fighting north of Arras and near Notre Dame de Lorette continues. Berlin notes repulsed French attacks while Paris claims house to house gains at Neuville and renewed actions near Metz with prisoner captures.
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Arras
Paris
Notre Dame de Lorette
Carency
Ablain St. Nazaire
Neuville
France
Metz
Essay
Flirey
le Pierre
Ailly
Meuse
Pietre Wood
Terminal Market Proposal Aims At Direct Grower Consumer Trade
A proposed Terminal Market outside city limits would offer a round trip fare from downtown and sell market books for tracking patronage. Profits would be shared between Dawes line growers and consumers, with no city license tax. The plan includes storage canning, cream and pig poultry support, and loans to build milk stock. Refrigeration on traction cars would enable twice daily cream delivery to form a cream route.
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Eac
Agricultural Department
Market Association
R. VY. Lot
Cece Tee Isues
Government Gives Open View of Riggs Bank Charges
The government's answer to the Riggs National Bank case reveals alleged violations of banking law and ties to Treasury officials. Affidavits by William C. McAdoo and others describe stock brokerage, excessive loans, and misstatements, plus a $170,000 loan to ex congressman J R Richardson and complex ties to National City Bank of New York.
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Washington
William C. McAdoo
Geery
The
Treasury
John Skelton Riams
John Burke
United States
Riggs National Bank
Treasury Department
Riggs Bank
J. R. Richardson
Tennessee
House
District of Columbia
Washington Traction
Milton E. Ailes
National City Bank of New York
William E. Ailes
the Treasury
Amuel Untermeyer
Mc~Adoo
Williams
Wall Street
Matthew Nley Qi
Pennsyivania
Joseph W. Bailey
Texas
Redfield Proctor
Frank A. Vanderlip
National City Bank
Boy Kicked by a Mule in Deer Park
Friday Denny Turner son of G W Turner was kicked by a mule while playing near his father's home. He suffered a deep gash in the forehead but is resting comfortably. Initial fears about the injury were exaggerated.
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Deer Park
Ata
Friday Denny Turner
G. W. Turner
War babies crisis in Britain nears French scope
In Britain the wartime pregnancy issue grows urgent near camps with 2000+ known cases in one borough. MPs and sociologists urge reforms to legitimize children, support mothers, and remove stigma while public health officials push protections and cooperative state religious action.
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Wilburns
Forrest
London
New York
England
France
Ronald McNeill
M. P
Pfeece
Georgensburg
McNeill
Graham Murray
Local residents greet Rev J A Stripling and neighbors
Chance Alabama residents recount church visits and fishing trips with Rev J A Stripling and son James. Local notables like Sheriff S C Garrett and H C Davis joined visits from Dickinson and Lower Peach Tree on a weekend of community activity.
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Chance
Ala
J. A. Stripling
James
S. C. Garrett
Clarke County
J. H. Davis
Will Howard
Dickinson
H. C. Davis
R. C. Walker
Prof. Dozier
Lower Peach Tree
Comer Thomas
W. P. Steel
Sam
Fred Green
Jim Jeffries
Friedman-Shelby Shoe Company
British West Africa appoints controllers to wind up German Austrian firms
Controllers have been named in the British West African colonies to wind up the affairs of German and Austrian firms. The move aims to settle outstanding issues and liquidate assets under colonial administration.
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London
Veronese Uprising and Italian Move Toward Diplomacy
In Verona crowds cry down with Giolotti as King Emmanuel convokes deputies to avert civil war. The cabinet reportedly renounces the Triple Alliance freeing Italy to declare war, while Tribuna denies any pledge and states the new cabinet will have full liberty of action.
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Giolotti
Verona
Emmanuel
Chamber of Deputies
Giornale d'Italia
Salandra
Italy
Austria
The
Tribuna
Italy Denounces Triple Alliance Amid War Pressure
Paris reports Salandra cabinet on May 4 denounced the Triple Alliance to push Parliament toward war. Austria-Hungary offered Trentino Dalmatia and other concessions plus Italian university rights and tax exemptions. Germany offered 200 million dollars and favored trade. Government deemed offers insufficient amid Giolitti opposition and a parliamentary majority against intervention, while public mood supports war.
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Co. F. Berticli
Paris
Salandra
Quarto
Austria
von Buelow
Macchio
Sonnino
Italy
Trentino
Boyen
Merau
Isonzo
Gradsica
Goerz
Madresina
Trieste
Dalmatian
Lissa
Vallon
Albania
Germany
Signor Giolotti
Ss Italy
Restricted District Moves Westward in Mobile
The city announces a new restricted district north of State Street in Mobile. Residents on St Michael and St Louis streets from Lawrence to Warren and adjacent blocks must leave within sixty days. Police deny hardship but enforce orderly removal as the district shifts to Wilkinson to Bayou with Lyons Street as northern limit.
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Vitagraph
Lubin, Selig
Essanay
Francis X. Bushman
Verry Bayne
Earle ‘Williams
Anita Stewart
Frank Daniels
Tyrone Power
Robert Edeson
Edwin Arden
Marie Dressler
Broadway
Lubin
Selig
Eagle’s Nest
Mr. Arden
Romaine Fielding
New York
Chicago
St.Louis
Kansas City
New Orleans
Village Pests Routed by Cat and Frog in Louisiana Tale
In Columbia Louisiana May 15 attorney C P Thornhill narrates a comic village incident. Mrs Cat reportedly helped curb rats and mice then pursued a bullfrog causing nightly croaks. Neighbors may honor the cat after she captured the amphibian and brought it to Thornhill.
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Columbia
C. P. Thornhill
Orleans
Cat
Thornhill
War Notes From the Front and Home Front
In Flanders a British unit played ragtime in a trench while German artillery sought to silence the noise from a neighboring trench. Cairo reports Egypt’s army shifting from camels to 500 mules bought from the Americas at $100 each. In London crowds gather daily outside the war office hoping to glimpse Lord Kitchener as he enters or exits.
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Cairo
Eyypt
North
South America
London
War Office
Lord Kitchener
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