Brazil Press Split Over Germany Note Tone
Brazilian newspapers question the countries stance on the German submarine note. Some praise the firm protest while others call for clearer legal grounds against the blockade. The debate mirrors broader foreign policy tensions as Congress advances naval and army preparedness bills.
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Rio de Janeiro
Gazeta de Noticias
Journal Do Brazil
9 Paix
Teaven
Correio de Manha
Brazil
United States
Razon
Notica
Birth Announcement for John Harmon Madert Family
On Sunday February 11 1917 a son was born to Doctor and Mrs John Harmon Madert. The event welcomes a new member to the Madert family.
Obituary notices and funeral details from February 1917
A fragmented obituary list records multiple deaths and funeral arrangements including Behrend, Belt, Dove, George, Dowell, Easton, Kearfoot, Kelley, Plummer, Roberts, Stansell, Taylor, and others. Entries note dates, times, venues, and family relations, with services held at churches and private interments afterward across Maryland, West Virginia, and nearby areas.
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Tait
Miry
North
Cal Pol
St Martin's Church
Easton
Pom Albort
Busba
Basten Fuerst
Vantage Privahenare
St Stephen
Intermont
Kearfoot
Anna Dinilam
Habert
Berkeley County
W. Va
W. D Kearmner
Orange
Kelley
Northolumbus Street
Plummer
Mordicals Plummar
Pennityhushy
Malo Lisa
Savunday
Linsin and
Carroll Avenues
Tukuina Park
Barbara
August A Rer
Switcertags
St. Mares Church
Roache
Samine Pepenary
Kentuck
Avenue Southeast
Aucue Heach
Baltimore
Stansell
Pebrumrr
Ralph
Mabel Hunt Stansell
Lyda Hunter
Borthwear
Tuysday
Taylor
Mary
John H. Taylor
R Marlboro
Sprague Defends Electric Drive For Proposed Battle Cruisers
New York date not stated Frank J. Sprague an electrical engineer and naval adviser defends the navy plan for electrically driven 180000 horsepower battle cruisers. He says generators and motors of that size can be built and controlled from the bridge by a button, challenging critics who deem the idea inadvisable.
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Sprague
New York
Frank J. Sprague
Naval Consulting Board
Claude 4. Swanson
Committee On Naval Affairs
Navy Department
Sprange
Acter
Senate schedule heats up with stalled measures
The Senate will vote on suspending rules by two thirds and push revenue legislation within days. Other priorities include railroad labor reform, wartime rail takeover powers, flood control, rivers and harbors, and land leasing. Senator Kenyon opposes the rivers and harbors bill in favor of a $22 million War Department discretionary allocation. Water power and public building bills are blocked, while Secretary Lane renews efforts on mineral lands leasing and a new bill is planned.
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House
Daniels
Senate
Commerce Committee
Administration
Kenyon
War Department
Lane
Americans consider hydro aircraft in war submarine hunt
The piece discusses using hydro airplane scouts to locate submarines for destroyers and torpedo boats. It notes demonstrations of effectiveness and mentions volunteers in training in France and the United States. Prizes are offered to aviators winning high military honors, including the war cross and Legion of Honor.
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Para
Feb
Tafasette Corps
Paris Herald
France
Pr. FE J. Gross
American Ambulance Corps
Paris
United States
Gross
Legion of Honor
U S Shipbuilding Totals Show Large New Orders
United States shipyards are building or have orders for 57 steel vessels totaling 355,537 tons. January saw ten steel merchant ships completed and 24 new contracts for 77,830 tons. By February 1 private yards were building or under contract for 415 steel ships totaling 1,629,854 tons, with 161 wooden vessels totaling 207,623 tons from smaller yards, bringing total work on hand to 682 vessels and 2,098,761 tons.
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Navy
Bureau of Navigation
Department of Commerce
Uiie
United States
Two Men Held After Safe Looting Confession
Alfonso Baylor and Hilmer Winter, both 21 and residents of 328 W Street NW, confessed to robbing Anton Fischer’s safe at 906 G Street after a ten hour police pursuit. Capt Flather said $30 of $39.60 stolen was recovered. Baylor and Winter, charged with housebreaking, say Baylor hid his $30 share and Winter kept $9 before losing part at a craps game.
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Alfonso Baylor
Hilmer Winter
W Street
Flather
Anton Fischer
G Street
Baylor
Probe of Leak Nears Its Close
The House rules committee nears the end of its leak inquiry with hearings in New York and a plan to return to Washington. Investigations will cover private wire brokerage houses and whether officials leaked advance information about President Wilson's note. Committee members split over whether high officials were involved, with two newspaper editors cited as influencing brokers. Sherman L. Whipple continues to chase rumors as the inquiry wraps up.
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House Rules Committee
New York
Washington
House
Wilson
Sherman L. Whipple
Whipple
Appeal for U S ships to restock coastwise fleet
The Federal shipping board asks President Wilson to transfer idle army transports to the coastwise trade via the Panama Canal. Chairman Denman urges immediate transfer of vessels that can be spared, including obsolete foreign built ships like the Meade and Crook, to boost American maritime commerce amid wartime tonnage shortages.
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Denman
Federal Shipping Board
Wilson
Army
Atlantic
Pacific
Panama Canal
War Department
Meade
Crook
Alaskan Railway
Newport News
Shipping Board
Shipping Act
Panama Railroad Company
Nita
War Referendum Urged at Washington Woman's Peace Meeting
A mass meeting at the Whittb under the Washington Woman's Peace Party urged a national referendum on whether the U S should enter the current war. Speakers included Maj W C Haritee USMC Rebecca Shelley Emergency Peace Federation Nina Be Allender and Mrs Benton Mackaye with advocacy for army democratization and enlistment alongside peace proposals. A second meeting at All Souls Church featured Rep Oscar Calloway Texas with further urging for peace and civic action.
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America
Maas
Whbitt
Washington Woman’s Peace Party
Maj
W. C. Harit-ee
United States Marina Corps
Rebecca Shelley
Emergency Peace Federation
New York City
Nina BE
Allender
Peace Organization
Benton Mackaye
Haritee
Wilson
All Souls’ Church
Oscar Calloway
Texas
War honor to R W Imbrie of McCormick Imbrie firm
Robert W. Imbrie of the Washington law firm McCormick & Imbrie has won honors in the American field ambulance service in the Balkans. Dispatches report he has been cited for devotion and courage in dangerous services around Monastir alongside John W. Munroe and others, who had earlier been mentioned for heroic acts at Pont a Mousson Verdun and Le Pretre wood.
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Robert W. Imbrie
Washington
McCormick & Imbrie
Q Street
Balkans
Imbrie
Monastir
John W. Munroe
Tuxedo Park
Rodman B. Montgomery
Rhinebeck
Arthur Bluetenthal
Wilmington
N. C
Coleman T. Clark
Weatfield
Pont-a-Mousson
Verdun
le Pretre Wood
Virginians to Demobilize After Brownsville Departure
The Second Virginia Infantry, stationed in Brownsville, departs for Richmond, Virginia, to demobilize. The move marks the unit's return and discharge from active service.
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Second Infantry
Brownsville
Richmond
Tex
Virginia Infantry
Inaugural Medal Work of Washington Artist
The official Inaugural medal in gold was produced by R Harris Company, local jewelers. Designer Loretta Lowenstein, a Washington artist, prepared the pattern used. Several major jewelry firms submitted designs. a Washington firm secured the order for the first time in years. The medal measures 2 inches in diameter.
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R. Harris Company
Loretta Lowenstein
Washington
Storm Congress for Peace Today
More than 200 women from the Midwest will storm Congress to demand peace, oppose war expenditure, and back a national war referendum. They represent the Emergency Peace Federation and aim to meet President Wilson to urge warnings against war zones and German barred areas.
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Fiastern
Congress
America
Emergency Peace Federation
Washington
Germany
Capitol
Wilson
Henry Villard
New York City
Federation
Vica
Emily Greene Balch
Louis Lochner
Ella Flagg Young
Philip
Florence
Frederick Lynch
Lelia Faye Secor
Rebecca Sheltey
Cold Snap Brings Skating Fun and Ice on Rock Creek
Skaters enjoy several days of good ice as the weather forecast proved reliable. People sharpen skates with vinegar soaked flies after daylong skating on the pasin while a strong wind whips the night. Rock Creek lies under a wide ice sheet as ducks avoid the skaters on frozen lakes and pools.
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Pasin
Rock Creek
Skater Rescued From Potomac Near Three Sisters Islands
Reginald Rutherford, 20, of 1755 Lanier Place NW and a Union Trust Company employee and Washington Canoe Club member, broke through ice on the Potomac near the Three Sisters Islands above the Aqueduct bridge yesterday. Don De Tafhcutt of the Connecticut apartment rescued him with a long pole. Rutherford suffered only an icy bath and no injuries.
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Reginald Rutherford
Lanier Place
Union Trust Company
Washington Canoe Club
Potomac River
Three Sisters Islands
Aqueduct Bridge
Don de Tafhcutt
Connecticut
Rutherford
Mr. Rutherford
Suffragists Gather for National Defense Conference
Telegrams flood national suffrage headquarters as Carrie Chapman Catt invites state leaders to Polk’s Theater on February 25 for a conference culminating in a mass meeting. Two million women will be represented through a three day council, with Dr. Anna Howard Shaw planning a special trip from Florida. Maud Wood Park oversees arrangements.
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National Suffrage
Carrie Chapman Catt
Conference of State
Jeaders
Poli’s
Germany
Anna Howard Shaw
Florida
Devil a Real Being Exhorts Hearers to Christ at Tabernacle
Gypsy Smith Jr led a crowded Tabernacle service urging belief in a personal devil and recounting the rogue’s gallery case of John Callahan who transformed after touching Christ. He contrasted faith with inaction, urged personal repentance at home, and called out doubters like Ingersoll. About 200 young converts followed in a later session, and a sermon by Rep Frederick W. Dallinger discussed Bible literature at Gospel Mission.
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Gypsy Smith, Jr
Jarius
Washington
John Callahan
Joliet
Christ
Tombs
New York City
Bob Ingersoll
Evangeliat
Tabernacle
Smith
Frederick W. Dallinger
Massachusetts
Dallinger
J. M. Nelson
Wisconsin
Rev. Dr. F A Gast Found Dead at 82 in Lancaster
The Rev. Dr. Frederick Augustus Gast a noted Reformed Church figure and Hebrew and Old Testament scholar at Franklin and Marshall Theological Seminary was found dead in bed today in Lancaster Pennsylvania. He was 82 years old.
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Lancaster
Frederick Augustus Gast
Franklin and Marshall Theological Seminary
Princeton Man Witnessed Lincoln Assassination in Ford's Theater
A Princeton graduate James Suydam Knox, class of 60, witnessed Lincoln's assassination at Ford's Theatre on April 14 1865. He and a roommate leaped to the stage to pursue Booth, Knox later wrote a graphic account of the night dated April 11, now held by Princeton University. The eyewitness describes the pandemonium, Lincoln's death, and public unrest in Washington.
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Princeton
N. J
Abraham Lincoln
T Ford
Washington
James Suydam, Knox
Lincoln
Booth
Knox
Princeton University
Father
Gen. Grant
Ford's
Tancoln
Mr. Stewart
Calls Hawaii a Paradise in Newman Travel Talk
A large Belasco audience enjoyed E N Newman's travel lecture on the Philippines and Hawaii. The final talk in the series spotlights the Hawaiian group praising its year round climate, scenery, society life, and industry. Fetching images included cauri riding on Waikiki Beach and the active volcano Asunea quiescent and in action.
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E Newman
Belasco
Philippines
Hawaii
Auri
Waikiki
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Congress For
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President's Box
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American Security and Trust Co
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Charles J. Bell
Newspap
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