The Hocking Case Inflames Anglo American Tensions
The British seized the steamer Hocking on the high seas accusing owners of non American status and used the American flag as a pretense. Halifax detains the ship and orders wheat loading for England while depositing 186000 to cover prize costs if Americans prove ownership. The Genesee faces similar action.
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Halifax
England
West Indies
High Seas
Great Britain
United States
Washington
Mince Pie and Prohibition Debate on Colorado Law
A commentary questions Colorado prohibition as applied to mince pies and brandy components. It argues laws may be ignored if unreasonable and criticizes labels that blur the issue, noting clergy and reformers reacting to spirits in baked goods.
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Mr. Blackstone
Colorado
Caesar
Germany
Perking
No clear events as reform talk drifts in fragmented text
The fragmentary passage critiques reform rhetoric and mentions Kansas and Colorado, recalling a senator from Arkansas urging a halt in a crisis. The text contains garbled phrases and lacks concrete actions, dates, or identifiable figures beyond vague references.
Flood of Money Aims to Fuel United States Investments
A flood of dividends expected December 1915 through April 1916 will total hundreds of millions, drawing idle capital into reinvestment. Confidence returns, bonds rise in price, and vast money inflows should buoy municipal and other securities. The surge is set to boost all industries and broad American prosperity for an extended period.
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United States
Totel
Cincinnati
Cleveland
Newark
Baltimore
New York City
National Credit for National Defense Debate Intensifies
The piece argues using national credit to fund government expenses including the Panama Canal and defense, criticizing tax on small incomes as harmful to old soldiers and modest earners. It contends debt is not a burden and suggests reclaiming $375 million paid by citizens to fund defense without extra taxes. Congress should pursue this approach.
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Panama Canal
Democratic Party
United States
Congress
National credit to fund defense not the poor says plan
A proposal argues national revenue should come from the national credit to finance government operations and defense while denying direct burden on the poor. It emphasizes bolstering national defense with credit instead of taxing the needy.
Scattered Army Posts Proposal Draws Fire
A southern congressman urges selling all current army posts and creating one per state with permanent Federal troops. Recruits would be State-based and six-year terms, with reserves receiving two dollars monthly. Georgia could field a Georgia regiment, while the plan faces strong opposition as impractical and costly, risking duplication and waste.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Georgia
United States
Rail congestion shows railroads unable to handle freight export
The piece argues chronic underfinancing and scarce terminal capacity cripple U S railroads. Embargoes to New York persist due to lack of ships and deficient terminal facilities. Even with idle cars and tight wages, railroads struggle to finance expansion to meet export demand amid ongoing congestion.
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New York
Europe
Fairfax Cartwright Opposes Kaiser Plans in Wartime Vienna
Sir Fairfax Cartwright, newly inheriting Aynhoe in Oxfordshire and Northamptonshire, opposed Emperor William’s policy from Vienna as British ambassador. His German ties and Catholic aristocratic connections made him a prominent foe of Berlin, prompting his 1918 resignation due to failing eyesight. He hailed from the Cartwrights of Banbury, with a long diplomatic and parliamentary career and a storied European circle. He later remarried German Clementine von Gaul, enjoyed Bavarian favor, and amassed extensive London property alongside Aynhoe.
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Ayn-hoe
Oxfordshire
Northamptonshire
Hla
Vienne
Howard VII
Venne
Fairfax
Himaelf
Imperial Ramily
Sayn-Wittgenataina
Thurn-and-Tazia
William
Vienna
Str
Cartwrights
Banbury
Plantegenets
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Richard Cartwright
Anghoe
Richard
Maraton Moor
Sir Fairfax
Willam’ Cornwallis Cartwright
Great Britain
Gladstone
William Cartwright
William E. Gladstone
Cavour
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Cartwright
Marienbad
Switzerland
Swiss
French
England
Bernadotte
Sweden
Gustavus III
Anckarstrom
Brook's Club
Clementine von Gaul
Prussia
Potsdam
Berlin
Thomas Cartwright
Stockhelm
Marie von’ Sandigell
Maximilian II of
Bavaria
Marchese Chigi
Munich
Frince
Princess Leopold
Francis Joseph
Leopold
Lady Cartwright
House of Harpsburg
Austria
Aynhoe
Tottenham Court Road
London
Fox Terrier Guards Body After Train Death Near Kittanning
Samuel Crea, a trackwalker for the Pennsylvania Railroad, was struck and killed on the Buffalo and Allegheny division near Kittanning. As railroad workers attempted to move the body, his fox terrier fought them, was beaten into insensibility, and refused to abandon its master’s side. The devoted dog had been a companion since May when Crea received it.
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Kittanning
Phila N
Samuel Crea
Buffalo
NERVES WRECKED BY ROOSTERS IN PHILADELPHIA CASE
Andrew Haldrich alleges William Bromeworth keeps roosters and hens that crow day and night, disrupting his peace and causing sleepless mornings. He seeks court action to declare the poultry a nuisance and curb the disturbance affecting his family’s health.
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Philadelphia
William [Bromeworth ‘Gatting
Andrew Haldrich
Lindley Avenue
Brounsworth
Sloth Bear Whistle Surprises Central Park Zoo Crowd
In New York Run a police whistle from a sloth bear at Central Park Zoo drew officers to the bear cages. Gelatine the sloth bear, a gift from Charleo Knox, toyed with the whistle, unsettling the zoo routine as keepers arrived to intervene.
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New York
Lieut
Farley
Arsenal
Central Park
Bill Snyder
Jim Coyle
Central Park Zoo
Mistakes Girl for Deer in Saucer of a Masquerade
Carrie Brown, a school teacher in Aitkin county near Milleraca county line, was mistaken for a deer by a city hunter who shot at her late one day. She escaped uninjured after three shots and has since returned to wearing everyday clothes. The incident occurred during the big game season opened November 1. Brown’s attire that day included a chrome yellow waist with black spots, a red and white striped skirt, a snow-white felt hat with robin’s-egg blue feather, a black silver-stitched belt, magenta gloves, gray suede shoes, a sea green parasol with mauve ribbon, a black fox muff, and a lavender ribbon at the neck.
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St. Fael Dispatch
Philadelphia Record
Carrie Brown
Bloemendal
McGrath
Sco
Aitkin County
Milleraca
Miss Brown
Torch Game Dares Sparrows Tied With Fire Rags
Gloucester boys devise a grim amusement tying lit rags to sparrows legs and releasing them to fly with blazing torches. A resident spotted the activity and alerted city officials who plan to watch for culprits and deter cruelty and fire risk.
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Philadelphia Record
Mall ‘Boys
Gloucester
Weak-sighted driver plows car into Norwalk home
Sidney Bell, a weak-sighted automobilist from New York, drove down Hanford Place and into a fence and the side of a Norwalk house, scattering a family as the wrecked car knocked over a dinner table. Bell escaped serious injury, paid damages, and was released.
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South Norwalk
Conn
Phila
Sidney Bell
New York
Ralph ‘Comstock
Bell
Hanford Place
Fragmented Brooklyn Citizen dialogue hijacked by stray quotes
A garbled excerpt from the Brooklyn Citizen presents fragmented lines about language of flowers romance and quotes from Knickerbocker and Wiser. Names like Katherine Kidder and Queenie appear amid jumbled phrases and stray questions.
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Brooklyn
Katherine
Kidder
Washington’s final farewell to his army described at Newburgh
A 1783 farewell account recounts General Washington’s parting with his officers at Newburgh and the touching scene as veterans, including General Knox, bid him farewell. The narrative covers his somber departure in a barge to Paulus Hook and the soldiers’ silent tribute on the wharf.
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Washington
Cambridge
Masa
Longfellow
Em‘cort
Harvard College
Newburgh
Trenton
Tragedy in Kane as mother shoots child in home
Anna Bentk, four year old daughter of Steven Bentk of James City, was killed by a gunshot. The mother, crying beside a fire, fired after hearing a noise at a window while holding her child. The revolver bullet hit Anna in the heart and lodged in the wall. Police and doctors responded shortly after midnight.
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Kane
Dispatch Philaceipnia
Anna
Steven Bentk
James City
Tombstones Mark Claims in New Mining District
Reports from the Sodaville area tell of a mining district where a rich tungsten ore ledge was found ten days ago. Claim stakes use tombstones as boundary markers, with one miner locating a village cemetery and others following suit, risking misidentifying graves.
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Reno Dispatch
San Francisco
Sodaville
Reno
Railway horror on scene questions cause of crash
Reporters on the Cleveland Plain Dealer scene probe how the accident happened after a train collision. Conductor among survivors cites airbrake cord as the trigger while the second section plowed into the first, with six hours needed to clear tracks and proceed. A passenger laments missing his wedding today as officials seek the mystery culprit.
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Cleveland Plain Dealer
Focht Says Clark Plays To Roosevelt Fans In Washington
Representative-elect Ben K Focht of Lewisburg Pa says Speaker Champ Clark teases Republicans for fun in Washington at the New Willard. Focht recalls 1912 Roosevelt vote shifts and argues Progressive support waned, predicting Clark could win Pennsylvania in any Democratic presidential primaries and that the nation is turning Republican on tariff issues.
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Champ Clark
Ben K. Focht
Lewisburg
New Willard
Focht
Fe & Real
Roosevelt
Congress
Bull Moose
Pennsylvania
White House
Clark
Champ
Mr. Focht
Admirers greet new Chinese envoy and British War talk
Representative R W Austin lauds Dr Wellington Koo as China’s U S envoy after meeting in Peking. Allyn Williams in London extols Britain's size wealth and power noting conscription ideas and Britain's wartime preparedness comparing to Switzerland and Australia. Williams argues Britain could have avoided the war with different plans and Lord Roberts guidance.
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R. W. Austin
Tennessee
Ebbitt
Orient
China
Wellington Koo
United States
Col. Austin
Columbia College
Yuan Shi Kai
England
Great Britain
Allyn Williams
London
Royal Society of Miniature Painters
New Willard
District of Columbia
Germany
Switzerland
Australia
Lord Roberts
Classic Dancing to Cure Corns at Barefoot Classes
In a Chicago Minneapolis Journal dispatch Miss Helen Hamilton says barefoot dancing is the only sure cure for corns. Dancers claim that dancing without shoes promotes circulation to the toes, explaining why many thin girls join classes to banish bunions.
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Chicago Dispatch
Minneapolis Journal
Helen Hamilton
Teeth Complete at Birth in Canton Areas
A Canton Ohio Exchange report notes a newborn son of Mr and Mrs Oscar Gibler of Bandyville near Canton was born with large flat teeth. Dr Goodrich of Sadayville attended. The infant is otherwise normal and the unusual dental feature suggests advanced prenatal development. A Kansas City Journal item adds a separate short note about burglars and a joking reference to cash prize gaming.
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Canton
Ohio
Oscar Gibler
Bandyville
Here
Dr. Goodrich
Sadayville
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