Goethals Seeks Destroyers for Panama Canal Zone
Col George W. Goethals asks Washington to station two American torpedo boat destroyers at the Panama Canal to guard waters amid bel ligerent ship activity and coal traffic. Officials express surprise, seek more details, and note neutrality rules but prepare readiness if needed.
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Col. Goethals
Canal
Washington
George W. Goethals
Panama Canal Zone
Canal Zone
Navy Department
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Harbora
New York
San Francisco
United States
Fanama
Thia
Panama Canal
Isthmian Waterway
Malina
Halbao Watheadtl
Conspiracy Aims at Von der Goltz Plot Revealed
News from Odessa reports a conspiracy against Field Marshal von der Goltz in Constantinople with many leaders, arrests said to have followed. In Constantinople Baron von der Goltz arrived with German attaches, greeted by the Turkish heir apparent and presented a sultan’s decoration.
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Washington Post
Petrograd
Odessa
Marshal von der Goltzi
Constantinople
Baron von der Golte
Belgium
Bucharest
Rumania
Soda
Bulgaria
20000 Lives In Peril Described At Erzerum
A Petrograd dispatch reports Armenian Christians in Erzerum facing peril amid mass mobilization of about three hundred thousand Turkish troops. The front describes their position as precarious due to Russian sympathies and looming danger of massacre in Turkish Armenia.
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Christiana
London
Girl "Hobo" for Year Found Tramps Respect
Washington Post story from St Louis details Irena Lane a well educated young woman who fled schooling and taught English to foreign pupils before joining tramp life. She says her real name would astonish the East and trusts "knights of the road" more than city men. The piece portrays her as a convert graduate who chose freedom over money and lectures on dreaming through life.
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Fair “Wanderluster
St. Louis
Knights of the Road
Washington Post
St Louis
Irena Lane
Agtoniah the Haast
Lane
Liss Lane
A-I
Women court martialed for out of doors curfew breach
In Cardiff on Saturday five women were court-martialed for being out of doors between 7 p m and 6 a m under an order by Kart commanding the Severn defenses restricting public house hours. They pleaded guilty, police explained the order, and the president noted penalties up to six months' imprisonment. Sentences would be sent to the district general for promulgation. the women remained detained in Leustudy.
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Lordan Lee
Cardiff
1. Kart
Severn Defenses
Trom
Leustudy
Postmaster General Burleson Reports 1914 Surplus and Aerial Mail Plan
Postmaster General Burleson declares the Post Office Department self-sustaining with a 3.569 million surplus for 1914. He cites growth from parcel post and postal savings, urges swift legislation, and outlines a program including government ownership of telegraph lines, aerial mail service, Alaska and Hawaii gains, and expanded postal bank operations. He notes that absent unusual depression, recurring deficits are unlikely.
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Postofice
Burleson
Parcel Post
Postal Savings Bank
Br. Burleson
Government i
Hawai
Alaska
Porto Rico
Wer
Postofites Department
Senate of
Hughes Not Seeking 1916 Presidential Run Says He Won't Permit Name
Washington dispatch notes Myron Herrick return fuels talk of Hughes entering 1916 Republican race. Justice Hughes maintains he is not a candidate and would oppose any nomination boom started by friends. If pushed, his stance remains fixed as in 1912.
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New York
Washington
New York Herald
Paris
Myron T. Herrick
Ohio
Charles E. Hughes
Supreme Court
Hughes
Justice Hughes
the Herald
Herald
Ile
Increase in freight rates approved by ICC on Eastern rails
Washington dispatch reports the Interstate Commerce Commission voted to permit a 5 percent rate increase after eighteen months of consideration. Announcement expected within ten days. Estimated revenue impact cited at $59 million. Wilson reportedly aware and pleased. A separate Salt Lake letter bundle alleges German spy treachery involving George Cornwallis West and Prince Louis of Battenberg with claims of executions and surveillance.
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Washington Post
New York
Washington Dispatch
New York World
Interstate Commerce Commission
Commission
Wilson
Salt Lake
Utah
England
George Cornwallis West
Prince Louis of Battenberg
West
Earl Kitchener
Sir John French
Sir John
Joffre
Three Shot Over Poodle Ends in Double Tragedy
Special to The Washington Post from Harrisburg Pav Dee reports a family quarrel over a poodle dog led to George Throne firing on his wife Beulah Throne and housemaid Mrs. Robert Forbes. Throne then killed himself. Both women were dying in a city hospital with bullets through Mrs Throne’s right lung.
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Washington Post
Harrisburg
Pav
Dee
George UW
Beulals
Robert Forbes
Arizona Governor to enact 8 and 80 percent laws at once
Gov. George W. Hunt will issue a proclamation making effective January 1 1915 the new prohibition law the 80 per cent American labor measure and other measures approved at the November election. Opponents will seek injunctions on religious and liquor trade grounds. federal decision on treaty conflicts awaited.
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Thomas Connolly
All Saints’ Catholic Church
Tucson
Artz
Drug Storres
Phoenix
Waller
Hunt
State Braun
Treasury official curto the railroads hold two rail investments
William P. Malburn Assistant Secretary of the Treasury says European holdings in U S railroads total about four billion dollars based on stock and bond estimates with railroad stocks around 600 million and bonds roughly four times that amount He disputes the commonly cited total indebtedness to Europe as overstated and notes England likely tops all European investments in the United States
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McAdoo
Europe
U. S
America
Murope
William P. Malburn
the Treasury
Malburn
Treasury Department
England
Lloyd George
Finglard
United States
Mr. Malburn
Society Sees A Raid On West Forty Fourth Street Gambling House
Special squad of detectives led by Police Inspector Bolan and Lieutenant O Sullivan raided a gambling house on West Forty fourth street New York. Crowds of fashionably dressed theatergoers and diners filled the streets as officers seized a roulette wheel and other paraphernalia from a first floor room, placing evidence in a patrol wagon. The raid occurred near Sherris Deimenico the Harvard Club and the Berkeley Theater as crowds dispersed.
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Washington Pont
New York
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Ledeut
O'Sullivan
West Forty-fourth Street
Sixth
Fifth Avenues
Sherri’s
Deimenico's
Harvard Club
Berkeley Theater
German Attack on Ypres Declared a Failure as Battles Continue
War dispatches report German air headquarters claiming success against Russian forces in north Poland with 11 000 prisoners taken and a repulsed French attack. Vienna notes Russian south Galicia defeat with a retreat and pursuit by Austrian forces across the Carpathians. London cites Berlin’s unofficial claim on Russian losses in Poland disputed by Reuters Amsterdam.
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Galicia
Carpathians
Burin
Poland
East
Prussia
Limanovo
Ecnemy
Carpathans
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Gorlice
Amigrvad
Zemplin
East Carpathian Woods
Bukowina
Suczawa
Lowicg
London
Berlin
Amsterdam
Reuter
I.o Dz
Praasnysé
Drina
Bosnia
Belgrade
Hoois
Crumer
Soechenow
Turkey
Hatuim
Stork Visits U. S. Embassy in London Birth at Embassy
London report notes the birth of a daughter to Mrs. Irwin B. Laughlin wife of the first secretary of the American embassy in London. Mrs. Laughlin formerly Therese E. Iselin daughter of Adrian Iselin. The couple wed Sept 18 1912 as he served in Berlin and the ceremony took place at her father’s country home in New Rochelle. Mrs Laughlin was presented at court in Buckingham Palace on February 22.
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Irwin B. Laughlin
London
Washington Post
Laughlin
Therese E. Iselin
Adrian Iselin
Berlin
Youth fires at Kaiser miss as claimed by Paris dressmaker
A Paris dressmaker to the German court writes that a German youth aged 17 fired a revolver at the Kaiser as he boarded a train for the front in Paris on December 13. The shot reportedly missed the target, according to the witness.
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Washington Post
Paris
Journal Des Dehets
Frances
Allies Break Teuton Line as Russian Center Holds Firm
Amid heavy fighting on multiple fronts, Allied forces push near St Mihiel and Pont a Mousson while French and Russian actions pressure German lines. Prisoners total in the thousands on both sides, with Serbs claiming 5,000 Austrians captured and Montenegrins reporting gains in Bosnia near Vishegrad.
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St. Mihiel
Ponta-Mousson
Poland
Czar's Attacks Win in Miawa and Praas Regions
Russian general staff reports a successful offensive across the Miawa region and Praas a nysz and Tsekhanoff. German positions captured and enemy losses heavy as cavalry charged. Front near Lowieg llaw saw another northern advance, Vistula left bank quiet except minor encounters. South of Cracow battle ongoing as Carpathians maneuvers continue.
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Differe
Tyres
la Prine
Servia
Bani Masta
Cetringe
Montenegro
Bosnia
Vishegrad
Saragese
Drina
Vishegra
Petrograd
Miawa
Praasanysz
Tsekhanoff
Lowieg-llaw
Bruca River
Vistula
Cracow
Carpathians
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