Senators Clash Over Prohibition Rider on Approp Bill
Washington debate on a prohibition amendment to an appropriation bill sparks Democratic Republican tensions. Senator Simmons protests the rider's effect on presidential prerogative, while Sheppard and allies push for stricter saloon controls. Filibuster concerns grow as discussions stall progress amid partisan exchanges and procedural tension.
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Baltimore Police Raid Maryland Club Seizes 148 Prisoners
Baltimore city police under Marshal Carter and Deputy Honge raided the Patuxent Rod and Gun Club at Meyers Station Anne Arundel county and captured 148 prisoners plus several thousand dollars in cash and racing records. Six are charged with taking bets and 142 with unlawfully placing bets in Maryland. One suspect, Frank Ward, was pulled from a bread box. Officers broke a barbed wire fence and fought bulls dogs. five officers were injured. The operation was ordered by Gov. Goldsborough amid gambling complaints. The prisoners were moved to Baltimore for processing as this report continues on page six.
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Farragut Park
Wash
Marshall Carter
Reign of Anarchy Prompts Global War Strains and Mexican Crisis
A chaotic mix of war news and diplomacy is reported with emphasis on upheaval in Mexico, a looming 1916 tariff clash, and shifts of German forces. The dispatch notes 49,000 dead in an earthquake disaster in Italy and ongoing battles, while warning of unrest near allied lines and strategic moves in Europe.
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Cape Haitian Taken as Uprising Moves in Haiti
Cape Haitien fell to revolutionary forces today after an understanding with the local garrison. Gen Vilbrun Guillaume commands the area as consuls appeal to Washington to send a warship to protect lives and foreign interests. The Navy readies ships though none ordered yet.
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Port Au Prince
Turkish Officers Take Own Lives Rather Than Surrender
Petrograd Jan 16 The Times correspondent for the Bourse Gazette wires that Turkish officers in the fighting at the city died by their own hands rather than surrender to the Russians.
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Freak kittens like rabbits hop and bark alike
Bay Minette Alabama January 16 two freak kittens at John Manns home draw attention by showing rabbit like hind feet front claws cat like and hopping movements with a bark like meow. February 3 special excursion to Florida from Washington twenty two dollars eighty five cents round trip limit one day Atlantic Coast Line 1406 New York Avenue
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John Mann
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New York
Mexico City Occupied by Carranza Troops Rumor
El Paso reports Gen. Villa moving to capital as Aguadentalis rearguard withdraws. Rumors say Mexican City fallen to Carranza forces under Gen. Obregon. British embassy notes oil embargo lift for Tampico easing fuel risk. State Dept talks with British ambassador and Carranza envoy on Tampico and provisional government plan.
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Washington
Charles A. Baugis
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Threat to Eile Bernstorff Ends with Six Month Prison Term
Edwin R. Scott of Raymond Washington was sentenced by Federal Judge Cushman to six months in jail for threatening the life of German Ambassador Count von Bernstorff. Scott admitted writing two letters to the ambassador in Washington in which he made threats, calling them bluff. The State Department pursued the case as hostilities in Europe increased threats to ambassadors multiplied.
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State Department
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Europe
Pin in His Body 65 Years Emerges From Man's Neck
Flymbuth Mich Jan 16 C B Trues dell a Canton farmer swallowed a small pin as a boy then a pin point appeared from his left ear last week after 63 years. It was removed and his long standing deafness and head pain disappeared restoring normal hearing.
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C. B. Truesdell
Canton
British anger at Britain over neutral shipping actions
Stockholm reports rising Swedish irritation with the English government's stance on neutral shipping. The English navy is criticized for delaying neutral vessels through sea searches. The day’s notices include Columbia Theater at 2 PM with Pale Sam at Work and at 8:15 PM M ewan Probes and the War.
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Great Britain
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Prince Pgr Gambler Like Branch of Monte Carlo
Special cable from London reports British officers and princes of the blood gambling at a headquarter casino named Popers. The Prince of Wales and Prince Arthur of Connaught are frequent visitors with notable losses and gains. A senior officer, George Wyndham, reportedly lost £1900 in a single night before being wounded in action.
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Frange's Loss 30000 New Victories Looked For
German military experts view the Soissons area success as the greatest in three months. Maj Moraht estimates French losses at 20000 in three days, asserting this victory will hasten German offensives in the Argonne and Verdun regions. British losses in France and Flanders through Jan 12 estimated at 190 officers and 6200 men. Reports claim a bridge near Missy captured and a foothold on the Aisne south bank to launch Soissons attack. Russian renewed blows in northern Poland and East Prussia seek to ease Western pressure. Western theater sees artillery battles near Niéuprot. Arras attacks repulsed. two trenches captured in a counterattack. La Boiselle, northeast of Albert, described as frequently mentioned, is said to be “completely de…”
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Bombing Ostend by mixed air force causes damage
Nine British French and Belgian aviators dropped bombs on the Ostend railroad station and barracks causing considerable damage. Dispatch from the Franco Belgian border reports the attack as part of ongoing aerial operations.
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Kaiser’s Staff Tries New Plan In War Movements
London reports marked troop dispositions by Germany based on Holland and frontline Belgium France sources. British critics see a possible new drive against the Allies, with German forces withdrawing from Belgian coast towns such as Middlekerke Siype and Westende and massing near Arras and Roye. Soissons remains under attack as German forces redeploy to stronger positions along the coast and inland.
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Heiress Ada Sorg Drouillard Wed to Broadway Broker
New York January 16 special to The Washington Post reports Ada Sorg Drouillard heiress to ten million dollars and widow of Capt. James Drouillard married at her Fifth Avenue home to Henry Clark Pritchitt, a Broadway broker. The ceremony was kept secret and her sister-in-law learned of it afterward.
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Paul Sorg
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German cruiser Karlsruhe sunk by British ship report
Rio de Janeiro dispatches cite Pernambuco state advices saying the German cruiser Karlsruhe has been sunk by a British cruiser. The British consulate says it has not been informed and is seeking details from Rio and Pernambuco. Palm Beach and Miami to Atlantic Coast Line. Leave $20 mi 2 entra light trains dat address oew York ave Wey.
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Pernambuco
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Peril Faces Von Hindenburg in Poland War News
London dispatch reports ongoing artillery battles in Poland as German infantry clash with Russian forces threatening Warsaw. Russians push near at Vistula frontier while Austro German groups mass to deter, with Turkish defeats cited and Mesopotamian moves noted. Russians reoccupy Plock. German positions fortified around Thorn and Lipne. Official brief says calm overall on the front with limited rifle fire in certain sectors. Continued on fifteenth page.
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