Limits Passport Issue Reveals State Dept Stance on Travel
Secretary Bryan released a letter stating the State Department will not grant passports to travel to belligerent European nations for sightseeing or pleasure. He warns American tourists abroad near active military zones risk arrest and hostility, urging citizens to carry passports and avoid dangerous visits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State Department
Bryan
Europe
Sau
England
Franses
Tnis Sareres
Benson Foraker Dies in New York Hospital At 43
Special to The Waahtuden Post. Joseph Benson Foraker Jr., 43, died early Saturday morning at 124 Bixeter Street Manhattan Beach from pernicious anemia. He had been ill long and recently traveled from Cincinnati to seek sea air. Senator and Mrs Foraker were at his bedside after a hurried trip from Washington.
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Waahtuden Post
New York
Joseph Benson Foraker, Jr
Yearald
Bixeter Street
Marthattan Beach
Cincinnati
Foraker
Multiple Obituaries and Funeral Notices From April 1915
Notices announce deaths of Dr. Thomas Cathcart widow, various individuals including George Wood Logan, Horace Macfarland, Lawrence Kanes, and Festivities for interments at Mount Olivet and other cemeteries. Services scheduled from late residences, with relatives invited. Includes memorial lines and dates April 22 24 25 1915 in multiple locales.
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Thomas Cathcart
Rallston
Glenwool Cenerers Green
Mount Wer Mannted
Wilaw
Treut
Mount Olivet
Frederic Mi
Logan
Nasal Hospital
Norfolk
George Wood Logan
N.ager
Arlineton
Macparland
Stoneleieh Court
Horace Macfarland
Leutenant
Amanier
Unaitel States Navy
Manoney
Thursiday
Lawrence
Mas Kanes
Shepherd Road
Brightwood
D. CC
Payson Street
Baltimoe
Woomelock
Bowers
Mao
Lta
Sheehy
Woman to Wed Ninth Time at 70 in Montana
License to wed granted John Logan 73 of Los Angeles and Mrs Ella M Day 70 of Livingston. This will be the ninth marriage for Day, eight of her former husbands are dead. They met through a matrimonial bureau in Los Angeles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington Post
Livingston
Mont
John Logan
Los Angeles
Ella M. Day
Alliance binds Italy clash viewed as doubtful
Rome reports high officials expect Italy will stay out of the war for some time. A prominent Italian statesman says Italy’s participation seems less likely now, noting it would require breaking the Triple Alliance and risking a political quarrel with Austria.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rome
Italy
Vienna
Austria
German Press Attacks Bryan Neutrality Answer
German press outlets in Amsterdam react to Secretary Bryan's reply to Count von Bernstorff. Headlines decry American neutrality in arms shipments, with warnings that U S policies will not be forgotten and that profits of armament firms shape the stance. Reports cite Morgen Post and Vossische Zeitung comments on neutrality and international law.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Warna Vossische Zeitung
Germany
Amsterdam
Bryan
Count von Bernstorff
Washington
State Department
Berlin
Tagsleche Rumschau
America
Vossische Zeitung
Lokal Anzeiger
Morgen Post
Count von Bernstorf
White House
Pet
Die Post
Wilson Not Discouraged by Neutrality Speech
President Wilson's neutrality remarks before the Associated Press in New York are viewed by close advisers as showing readiness to aid recovery on both war and peace terms. His friends stress there is no belief the United States will abandon seeking peace, and they anticipate the U.S. will act as a friend to all belligerents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wilson
Associated Press
New York
Europe
United States
Russian Air Attacks Sweep Mlawa Plock and Sannky Raid
Petrograd reports a massive bomber raid by a Russian Ilya Mourometz aircraft on Mlawa and Plock near the Vistula. German targets at Ossowetz and Sannky suffer damage as trains and a railway station are struck. Several German boats on the Vistula hit. Battles continue along the Vistula and in Bukowina with ongoing aerial combat and bombardments.
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Mlawa
Bukowina
Petrograd
East Prussian
Plock
Vistula
Ko- Petza
Ossowetz
Lepatuvatz
Vicinit
Miana
Sannsky
Progress of War Officially Told Austria
War bulletins from Vienna Berlin and Paris describe limited artillery actions and territorial gains by German and allied forces on multiple fronts. Reports note prisoner captures and repelled assaults near Ypres and Vimy, with continued activity along the Meuse and in Belgium and Russia.
U S Attache Arrives in New York From Berlin Mission
Special to The Washington Post New York April. P. M. Kuehnrigh of Ambassador Gerard's staff arrived on the Rotterdam from Berlin via Holland on a secret mission. Two U S army officers who observed the war from the German side also returned. Capt. J Rockenbach and Capt. F Q Shartie will report to the Secretary of War. They would not discuss the trip or details of the mission.
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U. S
Berlin
New York
Washington Post
Washington
P.M. Kuehnrigh
James W. Gerard
Rotterdam
Kueherigh
Berin
Holland
United States Army
Rockenbach
Eleventh
United States Cavalry
F. Q. Shartie
Coast Artillery Corps
Secretary of War
Germany
Radium Fertilizer Promises Growth Boost in Pittsburg
European and American scientists tested Radium Fertilizer in various states. Dr Rusby reports positive results showing enhanced growth, larger yields, and better quality vegetables. The Washington Post will run a series on the product and the paper offers five pound packages at reduced cost with promotional coupons.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Europe
America
Rusby
College of Pharmac
Columbia University
Scientific American
Washington Post
Pittsburg
Police Dogs Win Confession In Double Murder Case
Medina April 23 Charles Steilow and Nelson Green farmers living across from Charles Phelps confessed today to murdering Phelps and his housekeeper Margaret Wolcott during the night of March 21. Phelps died after being shot twice. Wolcott was found on Steilow’s doorstep. Detectives used police dogs to shuttle between houses before the men confessed, each blaming the other for the fatal shot.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington Post
Medina
Charles Stellon
Nelson Green
Charles Phelps
Phelps
Margaret Wolcott
Steilow
Stetlow
Automobilist Fractures Arm Cranking Car
Raymond B. Sinclair aged 22 living at 210 Morgan Street Northwest injured last night at Ninth and E Street Northwest when a crank bar slipped while starting a car. He walked to Emergency Hospital for treatment. RN
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Raymond B. Sinclair
Morgan Street Northwest
Ninth and
E Street
Rules to Simplify FTC Procedure and Hearings
The Federal Trade Commission will use informal investigations first to resolve unfair methods of competition. If unresolved, formal hearings will occur. Commissioner Rublee will draft streamlined procedures to reduce red tape and unnecessary hearings, relying on informal inquiries to focus on pertinent facts.
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East Resort
Rublee
Federal Trade Commission
Commission
Rubles
Destruction across East Prussia as refugees grow numbers
Report from East Prussia describes massive depopulation and property loss with estimates of about 200000 fugitives and 100000 horses. Civilians report killings and abductions to Russia while towns like Tilsk and Pilkalien stand ruined, looted, and burned, reflecting widespread devastation.
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Russia
East Prussia
Belgiium
Schirwindt
Tor Memel
Ghostly Ruins Show Cities Ravaged Behind Front Lines
In Schirwindt, known as the City of the Dead, shells wreck the two spires and church, with only the public fountain statue and a ruined town hall left intact as carrion crows circle. Goldap, by contrast, shows slightly more life as troops reclaim and misinterpret enemy spying, destroying the electric light plant they thought fed a German network.
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Germany
Berlin
Steenstraate
Langemarck
Ypres
Pilken
Douen
Acros
Steenstrante
Het Sas
Steenatrante
Het Sae
Meuse
Mouelle
Combres
St. Mihilel
Apremont
Flirey
Aulym
Emtremeulf
Agincourt
Embrements
Dixmude
Viceque
Yser Canal
St. Michiel
Belgium
Les Eparges
the Cape
Schirwindt
Ss Fort
Gaidan
Ioldap
Pan Americans Guests: McAdoo Names Committee to Act
Secretary McAdoo named a committee to receive Pan American delegates at New York on May 4 on their way to Washington for the financial conference. Ambassador Fletcher will welcome delegates for President Wilson. Sandsey Field Maione will chair. committee includes business leaders to arrange courtesies and entertainment. 18 of 22 invited republics have named delegates.
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McAdoo
New York
Central American Republica
Sandsey Field Maione
Port of
Whih
Snandlera
Henry P. Fletcher
United States
Chile
Wilson
State Department
Washington
San Francisco
Wit
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Benson Foraker
Ohio
Manhattan Beach
WM. H. Sardo & CO
Empalmers
Thane Dane Modern Chapel
Sergeon
Alco Assor
Aou Trist
George F
Funerat
Anu Empalmer
Third St. Ne
Lins
Frank ” Lika Sey Moder
Hapel
Worth Speare
F Street N. W
Ferma
M. Lee
Whalgrer Vivery
Modest Jannyskaria
M. Hindee
Kalmer
Zurhorst
E. Cap. St.bart
Lincoln
Joseph Gawler
Tenaguhana
Automobile Service
Neal Bemp
J. H. Small & Sons
Florists
Carver Eithaml Ho Oatreeta
Waltort Seteria
Lis Brasdway
Fiewers
Statesman
Clash
AEROS
O.K
Charlemagne Tower
Czernowitt
Czernowicz
Tesla
Philadelphia
Gladstone
American Philosophical Society
Tower
Great Britain
Mgr. Tower
Ita
Sir Edward Grey
Mr. Tower
Edward
Edward Grey
Switzerland
Prussia
Edward Ex
R. Harris & CO
War Department
Carpathian
Nagyyolany
Kosioura
Ussek Pass
Uzack Pass
Gaeta
Bsukowina
France
Paris
War Office
Yaer
Lutovisk
Lubnin
Lubnnn-Bucovets-Stank
London
HII No. 60
la Bassee
la Touquet
Armentieres
Ghent
Tokalon Co., Inc
St. Phono Matn
Plans OF Trade Board
Stams
Syliis Garfinkle
Phon
Eost Prussia
Insterburg
Gumbinnen
Tilsk
Grand Duke
Michalas
Plikallen
Pilkalien
F Street
The
Parcel Post
House of Worship
Goldap
Fletcher
Newport
Security Storage Company
American Security and Trust Company
Fifteenth Street
Jachive
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