Spectacular Willard Ball for Southern Relief Society
Thousands attended the Southern Relief Society ball at the Willard two-floors, with Vice President Marshall and Mrs Marshall heading the receiving line. Miss Heth wore Martha Washington diamonds, and decorations featured frieze smilax and red curtains. guests in boxes included senators, representatives, and prominent society figures in elaborate gowns and diamonds.
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Miss Heth
Martha Washington
Wilson
Pershing Returns as Troops Reach Columbus Border
Special to The Washington Poet reports Pershing leading 10 000 troops back from the Mexican border amid dust and sun. At Columbus New Mexico the army is greeted by schoolchildren and a band while the First New Mexico Infantry stands guard. Pershing and staff review the returning force.
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Mesa
Miss Gracie and Miss Bennett Win Beauty Awards at the Relief Ball
The Relief Ball judges named Edith Temple Gracie and Amy Bennett as the two most beautiful young girls. Chairman C W de L y on Nicholls praised Mrs Woodrow Wilson as a striking first lady and noted Gracie’s resemblance to Count von Schack. Bennett was described as vivacious and patrician, a sprightly success of the year.
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Miss Bennett
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New York
Willison
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Amy Bennett
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Denmark
Alexandra
England
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Woodrow Wilson
White House
H Harriet Lane
Harriet Lane
Johnston
Baltimore
Johne Hopkins University
Mra
Wilson
Old Dominion
John Rolfe
Pocahontas
Washington
Mias Bennetta
Petite Brunett
Aaa
Army Navy Reception Canceled by Wilson
President Wilson canceled the Army and Navy reception at the White House due to the pressure of public business amid the international crisis. A White House statement said the event scheduled for tomorrow night is called off.
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Pershing's Men Await New Tasks After Mexico Return
Ten thousand soldiers of the American punitive expedition returned to the United States after ten months in Mexico. Officers noted fitness as they paraded out of Colima and will resume marching to border stations. Refugees exceeding eight thousand camp nearby and the Red Cross is asked to aid feeding them. In a prison camp, twenty two alleged Villa bandits await murder charges in state courts.
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Mexico
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Arsenal Authorized to Equip 506,000 Men in War Readiness
Philadelphia officials report Sehuy Kill Arsenal is cleared by the War Department to procure materials for an army of 56,000, up from 200,000 previously. Col. George H. Penrose cites help from over 60 factories coast to coast and urges early funding to preempt shortages and costly late action.
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United States
Congress
Gambled Away Life of Woman in Ohio Death Row
Columbus dispatches recount a 1926 jailhouse gambling debt that cost a matron her life when Reuben Hillis killed the guard Anna Hart and escaped with a partner. Elecution looms for Eilis, the forty sixth to pay Ohio’s death penalty. Frank Early had been the first.
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Ohio
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Frank Early
United States
New Turkish Cabinet Formed In Turbulent Reshuffle
London Feb 5 Reuters dispatch from Constantinople says the Turkish grand vizier has resigned due to ill health. Talaat Bey forms a new ministry with Enver Pasha as minister of war Nessimy Bey foreign minister and Sassakiazim Eiffend as Sheik ul Islam in the new cabinet.
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Sheik-ul-Islam
Interned German Gunboat Geiser Found Wrecked
Honolulu reports that machinery and boilers on the interned German gunboat Geiser were wrecked and burned during inspection by naval and customs officials. US naval detachments took custody of officers and crew from the Ge.interned vessel and the German steamer Locksun, delivering them to army authorities. The Geiser caught fire at her berth. the ship will be moved to Pearl Harbor with Locksun to follow later. Eight other German craft are tied up at the port. the Geiser’s flag and pennant remained aloft as some crew stayed aboard per internment rules.
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Cenasor
United States Naval
Lockson
Army
Pearl Harbor
Captain Ivancich and crew held for steamer damage
Captain Ivancich and eight crewmen were brought before a U.S. commissioner in Pensacola on charges of conspiring to destroy the Austrian steamer Lycia and violate federal immigration laws. Bonds were set at 1,000 dollars for the captain and 100 dollars for each seaman as authorities said the Jiuda’s damaged engine room would take months to repair. The ship remained under marshal surveillance as the men were allowed to return to the vessel.
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Pensacola
Fla
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Ivanctch
Ivancich
Weeks
Ready to Turn Over Distilleries in Kentucky
Ready to Turn Over Distilleries reports that all 208 distilling plants in Kentucky were placed at the disposal of the United States for producing alcohol for munitions. The telegram to Secretary of War was sent from Loutaville by J Wahen Jr president of the Kentucky Distillers and Wholesale Liquor Dealers Association.
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Kentucky
United States
J. Wahen, Jr
Kentucky Distillers and Wholesale Liquor Deallore’ Association
Gasoline Fatal for Dentist in Philadelphia Garage
Dentist Dr Janes Lane at 5 Lane Street Memorial 1727 died after gasoline fumes overwhelmed him in his garage early today. Wife Mary Lane found him unconscious beside a car and patrolman Misner rushed him to Presbyterian Hospital where he died soon after. Fire started in the garage and investigators probe the circumstances. second such death in the city within a month.
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Petromartis
Dr Lane
Mra Mary Lane
Mra Lane
Misner
de Lane
Embera
Mishap Aboard Ship Fatal Across Norfolk
W H Landin, 57, Old Dominion Steamship agent at Newport News, fell through a hatch on the Dominion steamer Jefferson in Newport News today and died after reaching hospital. A native of England, he had served the company about 8? years and is survived by his wife and several children.
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Old Dominion Company
Hatch
Norfolk
W. H. Landin
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Dominion
Jefferson
Landin
Stemmer
Newport News
England
Old Dominion
Heap Bills Up On House Scrap Pile
The House spent the day on unanimous consent bills, adjournment time finding the scrap heap higher than at session start. An individual member's objection killed about 50 bills, including the Johnson schoolhouses in the District and community forums measure urged by Miss Margaret Wilson. Cox of Indiana blocked a Senate-passed pay raise for copyists at the government printing office. Stafford of Wisconsin objected to the Vinson bill to boost Metropolitan Police salaries and to creating two extra Supreme Court associate justices for the District, likely delaying action this session.
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Wisconsin
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