Coal Fuel Costs Jump Railroads Fear Grip on Costs
The Washington Post reports a $1 to $1.50 per ton coal price rise threatens U S railroads. 1916 coal bills for major lines hover around $24 million to $45 million more this year, with New York Central and Pennsylvania lines facing steep gains. Rising coal prices plus wage demands threaten railroad earnings and credit.
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Washington Post New York
Acarce
New York
Central Lines
Pennsylvania Lines
Baltimore and Ohio
New Haven
Erie
Reading
Lehigh Valley
Lackawanna
Jersey Central
Delaware and Hudson
New York Central
Pennsylvania Companies
Pennsylvania
Dual life confessed by embezzling Midvale man Carter
Robert H. Carter, former export trade manager for Midvale Steel, was returned to New York from Albany on embezzlement charges possibly totaling 25000 dollars. He described living two lives with two wives in separate residences, supported by company funds, and revealed his Canadian marriage to Rene Housenberry and the ensuing fall from grace.
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Washington Post
New York
Robert H. Carter
Midvale Steel Company
Albany
Weat 160Th Street
Chateau Apartments
100Th Street
Riverside Drive
Carter
Rene Housenberry
Bradford
Canada
Midvale Steel
Salvador Wins Case Over Naval Base Treaty
The Central American court of justice ruled in favor of Salvador in a dispute over Nicaragua's treaty with the United States for a naval base in Fonseca Bay. Nicaragua had refused to accept prior rulings, and Costa Rica had earlier won a similar appeal.
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San Salvador
Republic of Salvador
Central American Court of Justice
Salvador
Nicaragua
United States
Fonseca Bay
Campaign Reaches 30000 for St Pauls Church Improvements
A mass meeting at St Pauls Catholic Church at Fifteenth and Vi streets NW raised 30000 toward a 50000 fund for extensive renovations. Speeches by P J Hartigan and Rev Father William V Carroll energized donors as more than 1000 was pledged. Parishioners aim to complete work and present receipted bills to Rev Father Meekin on his priesthood anniversary June 29 1918.
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S&t Pauls Catholic
Fifteenth and
Vi Streets
P. J Hartigan
William V. Carroll
Father Meekin
Chapin Cheered In Lincoln Screen Debut At Belasco
Benjamin Chapin presented The Presidents Answer at the Belasco Theater as part of the Lincoln cycle. He portrays the Martyr President tracing Lincoln from log cabin to White House. The Fort Sumter scene drew loud acclaim as the audience rose while The Star Spangled Banner played. Two matinees daily at 2 and 3 30.
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United States
Benjamin Chapin
Belasco Theater
Lincoln
Washington
Chapin
Abraham Lincoln
Fim
White House
Fort Sumter
Long-lived Lampasas man marries widow at 104
James A. Russell, 104, of Lampasas, Texas, wed Mary Bowers, 50, becoming his second wife. His first wife, Mary Brown, died in 1943. Russell, born April 1, 1813, in Asheville, North Carolina, once resisted medicine and town-site trade, served in the Mexican War, joined the 1849 California gold rush, and still prospected locally though never finding gold. He quips about aging and plans to live long.
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Washington Post
Lampasas
Tex
James A. Russell
Mary Bowers
Russell
Misa Mary ‘Brown
Haywood County
N. C
James
Jimmy
Tam
Brownwood
Asheville
N .W
Indian Territory
Mexico
John Flagg
Vera Cruz
Mexico City
California
Inaugural Thieves Fond of Watches
A Swisa 18 karat gold hunting-case watch valued at 200 belonging to F Manderson Strawn was stolen from him while traveling from a downtown restaurant to 1440 W Street NW Saturday night. Charles Zeller reports theft of a Keystone gold watch a diamond ring ruby ring and gold bracelet valued at 50 from 622 Virginia Ave NW. A gold bracelet watch worth 25 belonging to Miss Marguerite Atchison was stolen from Central High School. Mrs Gertrude Bladen reports a gold case lady's Elgin watch valued at 15 stolen from 620 Hobart St NW.
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F. Manderson Strawn
Belmont Street
W Street
Keystone
Charles Zeller
Virginia Avenue
Marguerite Atchison
Fourteenth Street
New Central High School
Dixie Girls Arrive for Wilson Inauguration Visit
One hundred sixty five Southern girls from Ward Bellmont School Nashville Tenn arrived in Washington by special train to witness Woodrow Wilsons inauguration. They will spend several days in the capital and are lodged at the Gordon Hotel.
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Washington
Woodrow Wilson
Ward-Béllmont School
Nashville
Tenn
Gordon Hotel
Inaugural parade to feature Horsemen Indians and cadets
Hundreds of Alexandrians gathered for inauguration events as the Horsemen and Alexandria High School cadets plus the American Indian Guard Band prepared to participate in a parade. Electric car service will run all day and schools close by noon.
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Indian Guard Band
Shington Post Bureau
King Atreat
Alexandria
Alexandria High School
American Indian Guard Band
Schoors
Praise of the American Jew by Rabbi Lyons at Highth Street Temple
Brooklyn clergyman Rabbi Alexander Lyons urged Jews of America to unite under intense Americanism during a feature on The Jew of America. He described the American Jew as an individual representative of powerful possibilities, noting that achievement spans cultural and moral realms beyond mere commerce.
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America
Alexander Lyons
Brooklyn
FTC Approves Newsprint Price Fix Plan at $2.50 Per Hundred
The Federal Trade Commission accepted a proposal by newsprint paper manufacturers to set a price of $2.50 per hundred pounds as a reasonable charge. Higher rates would apply to paper in less than carload lots and for sheet paper. The action, announced in a preliminary Congress report, says there was no real shortage but that major U.S. and Canadian producers conspired to gain unwarranted profits.
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Federal Trade Commission
Commission
Congress
United States
Canada
Husband Killed by Wife Over Alleged Infidelity
Kansas City March 4 Mrs Kreiser an organist at Independence Boulevard Christian Church says her husband Edward Kreiser pursued other women for ten years. She told officers his infidelity and hypocrisy drove her to shoot. Kreiser, 47, wife 34, married 11 years. Son Ralph Franklin years old awoke to the quarrel and shooting.
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Kansas City
Mrs. Kreiser
Kreiser
Ralph Franklin Kreiser
Four independents vow noncommitment on House control
Four of the five independent representatives met yesterday and agreed they would not commit to either party for now. They said they would travel to Washington ten days before any extra session if called. The four are Randall of California Schall of Minnesota Martin of Louisiana and London of New York.
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House
Washington
Randall
California
Schall
Minnesota
Martin
Louisiana
London
New York
Lecture at Arts Club on Japan by Mile. Marcelle Delattre
Mile. Marcelle Delattre spoke on Japan at the Arts Club 2017 T Street NW last night. The talk covered theater art and the country while vocal duets by Miss Alice Edwards Miss Lucy Brickenstein and Miss Thelma Smith followed. Rh. D. Engel chaired the event.
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Japan
Mile
Marcelle Delattre
Arts Club
T Streat Northwest
Delattre
Alice Edwards
Lucy Brickenstein
Thelma Smith
Rh. D. Engel
Court of Honor Traffic Restrictions Near Inaugural Parade
The concourse from Fifteenth to Seventeenth streets on Pennsylvania Avenue will be closed to vehicular traffic during the Inaugural parade. Pedestrians may use the area before and after events. No parking along Fifteenth Street or H Street NW east from Fifteenth to the Pesce monument tonight. Cars must park on side streets off Pennsylvania Avenue.
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Pullman
Court of Honor
Fifteenth
Seventeenth Street
Pennsylvania Avenue
Fifteenth Street
H Street
Pesce Monument
Pennsylvania Avenus
Financial statements of several life insurance firms from 1916 1918
Builda a condensed ledger of assets liabilities and operations for multiple insurance companies including Philadelphia Life Insurance, Pioneer Mutual, and New England Mutual, detailing cash in office and bank, real estate, mortgages, stocks and bonds, premiums uncollected, interest due, net unpaid claims, reserves, dividends, and totals of risk assumed for the year 1916 to 1918, with signatories and notary attestations.
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Aron Ee
Harry C. Robb
Federal Insurance Company OF New Jehrsey
District of Columbia
Hendon Chubb
M. Qroundner
Swort
Kings County
New York County
Insurance company balance sheet figures from 1916 filed
Statement of the condition of multiple insurers including An Lifw Insurance Company of Torr, Equitable Accident Company of Boston, Standard Accident Insurance Company of Detroit, Germania Fire Insurance Company of New York, Metropolitan Casualty Insurance Company of New York, American and Foreign Marine Insurance Company of New York, Security Mutual Life Insurance Company of Binghamton, and others. Records list capital stock, assets such as cash, real estate, stocks and bonds, premiums uncollected, liabilities including net unpaid claims and reserves, and details of risk undertaken and losses for year 1916. Notaries public certify sworn statements dated 1917.
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District of Columbia
R. &. Marshell
Brean Pitts
Edmund
Campbell
C. W. Homer
Metrerott
Marshall & Livingston
G. Walters
Preferred Accident Insurance Company OF
New York
Columbia
Capital
Rapital
HAIG
Kimbati
Atwood
Wilfrid C. Potter
Harry H. Wats
Notary Public
New York County
Condittor
Compotiont Mutual Life Insurance Company
Hartford
Conn
District of Columbia Coffe
Jnna
Agenta
Adenta
ASN SA
Renin
Senate
Buetheas
Joenex
Ra- Monee
BRI
Dton M Taylor
WM. N. Deming
Secretace
Robert A. Wadsworth
Canttal
Cri Iin
Canton Bank
Arenta
Coromlastong
Aec
Iana
Ceniter
Issa
Anst
Mathin
Harry
Ngland
Ltpm Instrance Company
Boston
Mars
LSE
Honda
Ioana
Renerree
Renerrean
Inv
Atvenue
Canital Stork
Atle
Enanstened Fonds
Ecrnins
Enaland Muttat Lift Instrance Company
Porter
Barrry Feerstory
Reginald Poster
Loane and Henson
John F. Roche
M. Demott
WM. N. Stebbins
Kings County
S| Fork County
Kings Counte
Equitable Accident Company
Borton
Mass
Albert C. Smith
David T. Montagu
Samuel J. Lawson
Standard Accident Instranch Company
Detroit
Mich
Benk
Workmen's Compensation Special Reserve Fund
A. Leonard
ATOM
Joseph M. Winter
Germania Firn Insurance Company OF
Agneta
Commieniona
Hepio EE
B. Edwar
L. Wle
Sorome Thia
Heal
Waeter. Ling
Metropolitan Casualty Insurance Company OF
Stork
Wwinslow
WM. Burton
Boerttacy
A. A. Lahy
Seamey
Albert W. Twhede
American and Foreign Marine Ins. Co
Canada
John E. Hoffman
Albert W. Tweedy
Coretary
Bublicn
Security Mutual Life Insurance Company OF
Binghamton
Gode
First Nien
Eatn
Tana
W. G. Phelps
Bennett Phelps
Rine Insurance Company, Limited
London
Auseta
Nale
Comane
Cares
Tendon Chabr
United States
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Sthley Hospital
Christ Protestant Episcopal Church
Presbyterian Cemetery
W. J. Morton
BE. E. Knight
Baltimore
H. HB. Ryerson
St. John’s
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Charles R. Woomert
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John Clapdore
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Eugene B. Jackson
First Baptist Church
Re- Hef Hoof and Ladder Company
Rose Hampton
Edward C. Hampton
George Washington University Hospital
Demaine
Occoquan
Herbert Young
Salvation Army
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Rabbi Lyons
Chevrolet Motor Company
Chevrolet Motor Co
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Agh Faye
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B/L
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R. E. Briggs
Mile. Delattre
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Reatiter
Philadelphia Life
Insubanom Company OF
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District of Corinthia
Jonson
A. J. Maloney
WM. A. Hulbbard
Robert E. Long
British and Foreign Marine Insurance Co
Liverpool
England
John L. Edwards & Co
Bey
Lae
Tee Aeenanes
Union Pacific Railroad Co
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Frederic V. &. Crosby
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N. Y
American Graphophone Company
American Graphphone Company
W. Woodrop
First National Fire
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UDG
Es Biegwensersges Cares
Robert J. Wynne
John BD. Smith
Co-Operative Building Association
Equitable
Lt. N. W
John Joy Edson
Frank P. Reesidm
Phillips & Sager, Inc
New York Ave
Hambleton & CO
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Washington Southern
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Ralph Ww. Lee
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