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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Jan 10, 1915
Page
6
Dr Dominici outlining a program for a conference of neutral nations to protect noncombatants in current and future wars. He argues neutrals must unite to safeguard rights and organize defense, urging U S initiative and a congress to consider international law and universal peace.
Neutral powers contend with British rules as ships face delays and seizure questions. Officials push for swift talks to resolve searches, contraband handling, and weight limits for belligerent writs, while seeking clarity on how neutral goods move under evolving embargoes.
A fragment advertises Ely's Cream Halni saying a small bottle from your druggist clears air passages, soothes inflamed membranes, and relieves cold or catarrh instantly. It urges using the fragrant antiseptic menthol formula to breathe freely again.
Porterville, Cal Jan 9 New business worth about 415,000,000 yearly to American manufacturers has been secured in the last three months, says W. E Shoebridge of Bushy Park Tasmania. Representing the Australian government he toured the United States since October and arranged to supply paper products, calcium carbide, aluminum, motor cars, agricultural implements, and boots and shoes to Australia, previously bought from German and Austrian firms. He believes these trade relations will be permanent regardless of the war’s outcome.
Special to The Washington Post reports revival in the industrial world spurs activity in Virginia and Kentucky coal fields. Virginia mines enjoy a boom as mining plants of Consolidated Coal and Elk Horn Mining resume, with $50,000,000 invested in eastern Kentucky deposits. Mines along the Cumberland Range expected to be fully operating within weeks, boosting railway tonnage and prompting planned railroad extensions and new mines.
Frank S. Baird president of the Buffalo Union Furnace Company predicts continued improvement in iron and steel business next year. He notes signs of a changing market and a better tone with expected activity through spring and summer and possibly beyond. Local furnacemen align with his optimistic view.
Cotton ginning in December pushed the crop total for 1914 to 14,447,623 bales, the highest to January 1 aside from the 1971 peak. Last two weeks yielded 47,091 bales, near the 1911 period record, with Alabama and Oklahoma totals exceeding prior state outputs. State by state ginnings are listed, led by Texas at 3,959,298 and Georgia 2,547,747, with several others contributing smaller amounts.
Improvements totaling over 1 million dollars are underway in the Youngstown district. The Andrews Hitchcock Co at Hubbard builds a 600 ton smelter. Youngstown Tron and Steel Co at Lowesville plans a six furnace open hearth plant. Carnegie Steel Co adds ten bar mills and a by product caking plant at McDonald. Republic Iron and Steel expands its by product cok ing plant and Brier Hill Steel Co operates new additions at Brier Hill open hearth works.
McKeesport Pa Jan 9 Officials of the American Sheet and Tinplate Company announce the Monessen plant will start full operation tomorrow at midnight. Twenty five mills will run and all workers be employed full time for several months. Previously only parts operated with crews retained for potential full resumption after holidays. The tinplate outlook is strong with orders expected through the winter.
A St Louis firm will expand its factory to fulfill a $250000 leather haversack and strap order from Allied agents. The contract adds to a recent $500000 contract for saddles and harness, with $225000 to be spent on the new material.
Estimates from New York manufacturers warn of a global wool shortage to clothe millions of soldiers. Germany is said to be refilling old uniforms while railroads in Pennsylvania and nearby states order vast quantities of steel rails and rolling stock. Erie and other lines push for 9,000 car types and tank cars as mills forecast a busy season with workers recalled and projects underway in the Monongahela region.
American agents in New York placed an order for about 2,090,000 pairs of pliers for soldiers to cut wire and entanglements in England. The specially made short-nosed pliers are noted as exceptionally light and will be shipped in about three weeks at a cost of roughly 3 cents per pair.
Pittsburgh reports the French government placed an order with a local firm for thirty tons of cocoa for soldiers. The announcement says it is the largest single cocoa shipment ever ordered by any warring nation, underscoring wartime supply needs.
Senor Gonzalo de Quesada Cuban Minister to Germany died suddenly of apoplexy in a Berlin hotel where his family stayed. He had been in poor health, confined to his apartments for weeks, but recently improved and out about the hotel yesterday. He had represented Cuba in Berlin since 1910 and formerly at Washington. An illustrated book “The German Fatherland” earned appreciation from Empresas Augusta Victoria. He had many acquaintances in Berlin.
Wireless towers at Arlington now communicate with Eiffel Tower in Paris day and night, a capability previously limited to night hours by static. The system has also established a connection with San Diego, Cal. Radio experts hail the expanded range and power as a wonderful development.
The article recalls Calais, held by England since 1347, falling to the Duke of Guise on January 7, 1558, and Queen Mary I’s famed heartbreak. It recounts her urging ministers to reclaim Calais, Cardinal Pole informing her, and her vow that Calais would be etched on her heart. It notes Calais as a fortress port near England, its later history, and Mary’s era context.
New York dispatch notes a Norwegian steamship Skulga arriving with one of the first cargoes of wood pulp from a German port since the war began. Captain Marinussen predicts a rapid trade upswing as available Norwegian and Swedish vessels now chartered will carry wood pulp previously handled by German bottoms.
Lexington dispatch reports R F Carman, a noted turfman, has been commissioned by the French government to buy sixty thousand more horses. Headquarters opened today to acquire animals for officers, farm work, and artillery use. Prices range from 65 to 300.
Speculative sentiment at the year's start showed hope as foreign loan absorption and rail buying orders buoyed activity. Sterling weakness spurred some foreign liquidation while gold purchases and Argentine loan absorption signaled strong US credit. railroad and railroad-related bond issues emerged as mills and factories resume and copper stocks tighten. Wheat and cotton remained firm. working forces expanded. Western railroad rate hearing set to raise revenues. government bonds showed modest gains with Panama and registered issues advancing.
Charles Nagel former Secretary of Commerce and Labor denounced the immigration bill as fatally defective and inviting fraud. He warned interpreters could bring in countless literate persons and said the measure lacks justice and clashes with the nation s founding principles. A banquet resolution urging President Wilson to veto the bill will be sent to the White House.
In Barbour county near Elkins West Virginia two masked men stormed the William Haack farmhouse early today. They clubbed Haack as his aged mother hid, Mrs Haack fled to a nearby farm to raise the alarm but a local search found Haack dying and his wife Mrs Haack shot in the head believed to be dying. The robbers took 800 dollars and escaped pursued by a posse.
Chicago January 9 1915 President Canby of the Chicago Board of Trade pins the wheat drop on Europe as buyers from Norway Denmark Holland France England and Italy concentrate demand in the United States following the Dardanelles closure and Russia export cuts. Italy’s looming ultimatum to Turkey adds to selling stampede as Congress food embargo talk unsettles markets. Representative Farr seeks USDA data on cereals beef pork and wheat to probe possible US food shortages amid wartime exports.
Washington bakers have floated the idea of higher bread costs amid Congress plans to probe rising wheat quotations. Local bakers though have not acted yet, noting flour prices soar while largeWashington bakeries hold a surplus stock bought at lower prices.
Russians repulsed a new Teuton push while England notes reports Germany plans to send 300000 troops to aid Austria. French advance continues from Oise to Rheims and in eastern Argonne as Germans reinforce Alsace to shield Muelhausen and Burnhaupt de Haut.
Maggie Pooley received a three year penitentiary term plus probation after pleading guilty to robbing a Georgetown florist of 209 dollars and is to leave for Oklahoma within a week as a Cherokee. Mamie Walters, colored, fainted after a ten year sentence for robbery of a ring and a pocketbook totaling 12.84. Harriet Liverhart, administratrix, filed suit for 10 000 against the District and Dr Hulbert Young for Everhart’s death after cow herd disinfection. Robin Dinon, hardware dealer, found guilty of selling a deadly weapon to a minor and fined 25 for passing a rifle to 14 year old Stephen Clements.
Two thieves wearing derby hats entered Louis Sandier’s grocery at 21 Logan Place NW early this morning to empty the till. A pistol was brandished and Mrs. Sandier triggered the alarm by screaming from the rear. The men fled. Second Precinct officers seek the suspects.
Bicycle Policeman George Hilton of the Fourth precinct was released yesterday in 500 bail to appear in police court Thursday to answer a housebreaking charge. He has been suspended by Maj Sylvester after his arrest by Detectives Armstrong and Grant. The allegation states he forced entry to the garage of C. B. Church at 431 Seventh Street Southwest on November 6 and stole a cell box valued at 25 dollars and a kit of tea towels worth 2.59.
Tacoma Washington Lorenzo Thaw retiring Pierce County prosecuting attorney announced resignation as Progressive national committeeman for Washington saying recent elections signal the death knell of the Progressive party and that only Republican and Democratic parties will exist. He will return to the Republican ranks where he was prominent before the split.
Robert Breckinridge, kin of a Kentucky congressman and cousin of Henry Breckinridge, sailed in May 1891 and was reported missing after a ship was lost at sea. He reappeared in Springfield telling of travels, fortunes won and lost, and service in three wars. He is related to notable Breckinridges including a U.S. Army major general and a Chicago university professor.
The Young Women's Hebrew Association Floma at 1335 Tenth Street NW opens this afternoon to house homeless and low income working girls. A matron will run the home with moderate charges, offering dormitories, educational classes in English German and more, plus a gymnasium and an employment agency.
Three false alarms last night angered firemen and police amid a week long feud. Boxes at Sevenh and D streets southwest, New Jersey avenue and B street northwest, and First and Patterson streets northeast were pulled by an unknown person who vanished as crews arrived. A real fire soon followed at Charles Massina’s wholesale fruit store on Ou Louisiana avenue northwest causing about 1000 dollars in stock loss, insured. Later a bed fire at Burton Rudd’s home on Twentieth street northwest caused about 10 dollars in damage from a cigarette.
New York January 9 The national automobile show at Grand Central Palace closed with attendance over 300000, a record breakout for the era. Exhibitors praised vigorous interest and actual orders, predicting strong sales despite war fears.
Tuskegee Institute records show during the past year mobs executed 48 people in the South, including 43 Black victims and 3 White. lynching actions spread across 15 states with Alabama leading. Crimes ranged from murder to robbery, with several women among the lynched and many tied to alleged rapes or assaults.
Police seized a trunk containing about fifty bombs found in the home of an Italian district resident in Trenton. An arrest was made after the trunk was forced open. investigators will determine how the suspect obtained the dynamite and his intended use. The Trenton police have pressed ahead with the case, awaiting examination of the items and motive.
Paul Hanes, 14, son of Mr and Mrs George Hanes of 1842 Valley Place SE, suffered a compound skull fracture from an accident. Doctors at Casualty Hospital, Dr William J. Reeves, performed two operations to remove bone and blood clots causing convulsions. Three weeks later he could talk and yesterday played his violin.
A vintage advertisement urges mothers to use California Syrup of Figs for sick children. It claims fast cleansing of stomach and bowels, notes signs of distress, and promotes a 10 cent bottle with explicit dosing guidance for babies to adults.
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