Marshall to Fair Germans With New Food Rules
Vice President to attend San Francisco Panama Pacific Exposition dedication on March 20 while Wilson directs diplomacy. Reports say plan aims to shield American interests as the president travels via Cleveland and Indianapolis, with Daniels and Tilson joining the coast trip. The New York Sun highlights a German plan to counter British blockade by rationing, restricting exports, and boosting home food production to sustain 68 million Germans during the war.
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Marshall
San Francisco
Wilson
Sell
Ohio
Indianapolis
Arizona
Fri, Ipps
State Department
Government Exposition Board
Tilson
Washington
Yentarda
Bryan
Mintipps
Daniels
Panama
New York
New York Sun
Clerical mix up blocks pay rise for examiners
A $61,000 reorganization plan for the examiner staff was halted after a clerical error during the last session. The bill, supported by both houses, would have equalized examiner ranks and raised pay by about $70 per person, but was never announced to the House and died after adjournment. The office had turned a $240,009 surplus into the Treasury last year.
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Senate
House
Treasury
Three Hurt In Auto Crash On Thirteenth Street
A collision between a car from the Washington Railway and Electric Company and another auto on Thirteenth Street and F Street NW left three men seriously injured. Operator Richard Brangie, 22, of 1921 H Street NW, and companions Charles Clavelaux, 49, and Maurice Bis Cave, 38, of 2115 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, were treated at Emergency Hospital after being thrown from their vehicles and transported by ambulance.
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Washington Railway and Electric Companys
Thrteenth
F Streets
Fba
Thirteenth Street
F Street
Richard Brangie
H Street Northwest
Charles Clavelaux
Maurice Biscave
Pennsylvania Avenue Northwest
Indorsers Publicize Federal Judges in Georgia and South Carolina
Department of Justice displays endorsements for federal judgeships in Georgia and South Carolina under a new law. Over 20 people back W. W. Tambdin, district judge nominee in Georgia, with additional postings for South Carolina candidates. Georgetown Law hosts a second debate on compulsory arbitration of labor disputes with students and faculty judges.
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South South Carolina
Department of Justice
Congress
W. W. Tambdin
Theorgia
South Carolina
Georgetown Law School
Law School
T & Block
Hot
Andrus
Utah
J R Tbson
Kentucky
Uelford
Rhode Island
R Brady
Ohio
Military Funeral for Gen Bussey at Kingston Cemetery
Military donors marked the burial of Maj Gen Cyrus Bursey in Kingston Cemetery yesterday after his death Tuesday at home. Funeral services were held at Foundry Methodist Episcopal Church conducted by Pastor Revere Waed-Jerspoon. An escort of cavalry accompanied the procession to the cemetery as Fort Myers General officers fired a thirteen gun salute.
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Cyrus Bursey
Kington
Bussey
Foundry Methodist Episcopal Church
Sixteenth
Church
Blood Is Peace Plea Disarmament May Result
Former Senator Burton and Representative Bartholdt urged peace aims at a University Club dinner hosted by the American Peace Society. Bartholdt warned disarmament would follow if the Kaiser dictates terms, while Burton urged restraint on arms sales to Europe and warned of warlike sentiment rising in the United States. Simon Wolf spoke on equal rights for Hebrews as a path to lasting peace. notable guests included Bartholdt Slayden Scott Madden Noris and others.
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Burton
Europe
United States
Theodore K. Burton
Richard Bartholdt
American Peace Society
University Club
Bartholdt
Sartholdt
America
James J. Slayden
Senator Burton
Jackson H. Falston
South America
Simon Wolf
Art Burton
Benjamin F. Truediood
George W White
Jackson Hoalston
Jay T. Stocking
Thomas Raeburn White
Philadelphia
James Brown Scott
Hookworm blamed for Civil War deaths and child disease
Dr Charles W Stiles of the United States public health service told the Knife and Fork Club in Kansas City that hookworm, not overwork or factory conditions, caused the pitiable state of mill children in the South and contributed to 15000 deaths among 60000 Union prisoners at Andersonville.
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South
Charles W. Stiles
United States Public Health Service
Rockefeller Commission
Andersonville
Divorce suit is no bar in prison drug ring case
Washington woman wins 36000 against St Louis railway for her husband Guy L Stewart's death in a 1912 wreck. At time of death he was suing for divorce. Reader details recount a separate Blackwell Island drug ring with inmate informants, smuggling, and a looming crackdown by officials.
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St. Louis
March
Railroad Company
Stewart
Rassteur
Lewis
Fox
White
Textile plants rushed in mixed market conditions
New York March 6 R G Dun and Co Review of Trade says conditions are mixed with total transactions below recent years. Textile markets see low retail distributer attendance and small immediate purchases while cotton mills run full and clothing sales are satisfactory. Footnotes note improvement in shoes and active shipbuilding with heavy automobile sales and lower commodity prices. Coal improves but bituminous remains weak. exports stay heavy with a strong weekly and quarterly trade balance and a swift shift of financial power to the United States. Commercial failures rise to 478 after 38 a year ago.
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New York
R. G. Dun & Co
United States
Atlantic
P. D. Workers to Keep Jobs Under Postal Cutbacks
After July 1 the Postoffice Department will stop demoting workers and will substitute dismissals or furloughs to save costs. Some cities have already dismissed about 20 percent of carriers due to reduced postal activity amid a weak economy. The appropriations fall short by 4 million dollars but a projected 20 million dollar postal revenue shortfall will draw from current funds. if conditions improve after July 1 the 6 million dollar shortfall may not be felt.
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Postoffice
Postoffice Department
Snow in storm's wake paralyzes rural Midwest
Snow flurries across the Southwest region indicate the storm continues. Kansas, western Missouri, northern Oklahoma, and most of Nebraska report impassable roads. Rural districts remain isolated and many country schools and rural post routes have been abandoned for two days.
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Missouri
Oklahoma
Nebraska
Giant Puget Sound cotton cargo sails to Vladivostok
The steamship Glengyle loaded Seattle cargo last week for Vladivostok including 14 850 bales of cotton valued at 742 500, plus 15 000 cases of canned salmon 2 000 tons of flour and 1 000 tons of machinery for the Orient. A second shipment of 7 000 bales valued at 350 000 was sent to Vladivostok aboard the Rio Pagua.
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Seattle
Grengyle
Vladivostok
Department of Commerce
Glengyle
London
Orient
Children Beaten Charged at New York Hospitals
Charges filed against Mrs. Mary C. Dunphy, superintendent of New York city hospitals and schools on Randall Island, alleging abuse of mentally challenged children and failure to prevent infectious disease spread. Commissioner Kingsbury set a hearing for the following Saturday. Investigation began fourteen months ago.
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New York
Mary C. Dunphy
New York City
Randall Island
John A. Kingsbury
Department of Charities
Tragedy in Sloan’s Suburb: Man Kills Woman Then Hangs
In Buffalo, Harry R Norman 55 shot and killed Gertrude Stanley 55 then fatally cut her 15 year old daughter Mary’s throat. Norman hanged himself from the hall bannister. Mary is in critical condition at a hospital. Police offered no reason, noting a rambling letter suggesting dementia.
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N. Y
Harry R. Norman
Gertrude Stanley
Mary
Spanish steamer seized near Nive during patrol
A French torpedo boat halted a Spanish steamer off Nive. An officer checked passengers and found four Austrian reservists and a German who had boarded to reach Italy and join their regiments. The men were captured and sent to Marseille.
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Nive
Italy
Marzeille
Lodge Says Ship Bill Defeat Averted War Crisis
Senator Lodge, cited by a Washington dispatch, credits Republican opposition to the administration's ship purchase bill with averting international complications. He argued the bill aimed to buy German ships in U.S. ports and warned passage would have brought the nation to the verge of war by prohibiting belligerent owned ships.
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Lodge
Byedal
Washington Post
New York
Washington Dispatch
New York Tribune
Senator Lodge
Massachusetts
Trailers to Resume Street Railway Use in Washington
The Public Utility Commission voted to suspend the rule requiring a separate conductor for every streetcar trailer. Trailers on Weahington street railways will operate temporarily without the dual-conductor setup until July 1 after requests from Capital Traction and the Washington Railway and Electric Company.
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Weahington
Capital Traction Company
Washington Railway and Electric Company
Chasees Hold Up Man Near Massachusetts Shop
Mrs. Sarah Lerner of 03 Massachusetts avenue northwest was alone in her rear shop when a masked man entered, opened the cash drawer, and stole small change. Lerner confronted the intruder, was struck, and knocked to the floor before the assailant fled. He was captured later.
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Parly
Sarah Lerner
Massachusetts Avenue Northwest
Mra. Lerner
Death of Honey Boy Evans in Baltimore Infirmary
Baltimore, March 26. William George Honey Boy Evans, a renowned blackface comedian, died this afternoon at the Union Protestant Infirmary after long stomach trouble. He had toured the South with his company, spent last summer in Baltimore, and performed at Ford's Grand Opera House earlier in the season but could not appear at matinees due to illness. He arrived in Baltimore with his manager three weeks ago and went to the infirmary from the train.
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William George
Honey Bory
Fivans
Union Protestant Infirmary
Evans
Tie
Ford
South
Birmingham
Ala
Infirmary
Plead in Bomb Case Monday in St Patrick’s Cathedral
Counsel for Charlea Carbone and Frank Abarno agreed with Judge Swann to have the men plead to the indictments on Monday. The defendants claim they are victims of a police frame up while the judge will hear informal arguments and confer with counsel.
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New York
Charlea Carbone
Frank Abarno
St. Patrick's Cathedral
Russian Offensive Expands Across Galicia and Bukowina
British and Berlin reports sketch a widening Russian push from Czernowitz toward Bukowina and Gliwice frontiers, with Stanislau and Sadagora captured or contested. The fight shifts into the Carpathians as Austro-German forces dig in, while Polish fronts see mixed progress and heavy casualties.
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Mysnyniec
Lomza
Mlawa
Przasnyaz
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Plock
Skiarniewice
Warsaw
Bucharest
Then Daily Mail
Galicia
Bukowina
Kolomea
Carpathians
Resume Ship Bill Lobby Probe Heard Next Monday
Senator Walsh, chairman of the special Senate committee, will resume its inquiry into an alleged lobby against the government ship purchase bid that failed in Congress. He indicated only a few more witnesses may be heard, at least until next fall.
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Senate
Congress
Alfred Hampton Promoted Within Immigration Service
Alfred Hampton the youngest son of Confederate cavalry leader Wada Hampton was named assistant commissioner general of immigration by Secretary Wilson yesterday. He succeeds F H Larned, who will move to Ells Ts land duties. Hampton currently serves as inspector in charge of immigration services at Galveston.
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Chinatown
Sly Kid
Keenera
Davis
Charities Hospital
Taland
Misa Davis
Alfred Hampton
Wada Hampton
Wilson
F. H. Larned
Hampton
Galveston
New Salvadoran Cabinet Named By President Melendes
President Melendes of Salvador names cabinet members including Cecalio Bustamente as Interior and Industry Luis Alonzo Barahona as War and Navy Francisco Martinez Suarez as Instruction and Justice and Tomes Garcia Faloma as Agriculture.
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Salvador
Cecalio Bustamente
Interior and Industry
Luis Alonzo Barahona
War
Navy
Francisco Martinez Suarez
Instruction
Tomes Garcia Faloma
British Plea to U S Were Fighting for You
London editors urge the United States to see Britain’s position in the German threat. Commons concerns rise over a formal blockade and the Monroe Doctrine. The Daily Mail argues a blockade is a practical reprisal while sparing neutrals. The Morning Post warns a victorious Germany would threaten America. The Times calls for clear policy and legal justification before action.
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Morning Post
England
London
United States
Great Britain
Daily Mail
Belgium
Paris
Times’ Washington
Eight submarines lost by Germany reported
The Morgen Post quotes a German captain saying eight submarines were sunk or lost after being attacked by a submarine. He says one ship carried rice and another coal and that he navigated mine fields by following German admiralty directions.
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Morwen Post
Morgen Post
Trap Filipino Generals Riot Plan Revealed
A fragmentary report describes an attempted insurrection in the Philippines on Christmas Eve led by Salazar, Matean, Santox Tapa, and others. Police and U S authorities thwarted the plot as armed defenders tried to seize a fort and government property, with twenty attackers captured.
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Washington
Manila
Warel
Genere Ala
Salazar Matean
Santox Tapa
Regul Ss
Azar
Sasatam
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