Tariff Acquittal Report Sent to Wilson in Pa County
Secretary Redfield released a Commerce Department report via D M Barclay on Montgomery County Pa manufacturing conditions. The study found tariff effects negligible with declines in jobs offset by capital spending. bankers exonerated the tariff while firms blamed injurious trade practices and intelligent competition in some lines.
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Montgomery County
Department of Commerce
Redfield
D. M Barclay
Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce
Wilson
Terember
New Coins Defective Says Bank Teller
New York March 7 C E Robert son paying teller of the Merchants National Bank says late coins and new currency fail to match old coins in character and endurance. He notes worn coins and poorly constructed gold coins lacking wear resistance, and that Buffalo nickels and Lincoln pennies fall short of Indian head and old nickel standards.
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New York
E Robertson
Merchants National Bank
Robertson
Germany Leads London Declaration on Naval Blockades and Neutral Rights
Summary of key points from the London Declaration on naval war rules. Germany is listed first among signatories with Britain, the United States, Austria Hungary, France, the Netherlands, Spain, Italy, Japan and Russia involved. The document covers blockade rules, contraband categories, neutral vessels, prize handling, transfers to neutral flags, and convoy procedures. It outlines lawful blockade enforcement, conditions for condemnation of contraband and neutral ships, and requirements for safe handling of captured vessels.
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Germany
London
Great Britain
United States
Austria-Hungary
France
Netherlands
Spain
Italy
Japan
Russia
Trade More With Italy Promotes U S Purchases
Rome reports Prof. Luigi Luzzatti former premier urges Americans to buy more Italian goods especially silk at favorable wartime prices. He notes Italy's imports from the United States are high for wheat coal and petroleum while U S purchases from Italy are low creating an exchange imbalance with the dollar at 13 percent. Also, Henry A Johansen 15 years old proprietor of a furniture store at 3159 Mount Pleasant street northwest was arrested with six others on gaming charges after police found a game of crap in progress.
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Rome
Italy
United States
Luigi Luzzatti
The
Tribuna
Luzzatti
America
Tienry A. Johansen
Mount Pleasant Street
Clark appoints Rainey Gard and Cooper to probe District ties
Speaker Champ Clark named Henry T. Rainey Warren Gard and Henry A. Cooper as three Home members of the joint committee to investigate the fiscal relations of the United States and the District of Columbia. Senate members include Chilton Saulsbury and Works.
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Washington
New England
Champ Clark
Henry T. Rainey
Illinois
Warren Gard
Ohio
Henry A. Cooper
Wisconsin
United States
District of Columbia
Senate
Marshall
William B. Chilton
West Virginia
Willard Saulsbury
Delaware
John D. Works
California
Authors Behind the Guns In World War I France
Paris reports many French authors, poets, and dramatists serving in the army in various roles. Henry Bernstein is a gunner at Fort Havre, Marcel Prevost captains artillery in Paris, Etienne Rey and Robert de Fleurs serve at the front, Reynaldo Hahn fights in the Argonne, Marcel Houlenger is treated after trench exposure, Francois de Tessan was wounded but recovered and prepares to return to the front.
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Paris
Henry Bernstein
Fort Havre
Marcel Prevost
Etienne Rey
Robert de Fliers
Reynaldo Hahn
Argonne
Marcel Houlenger
Nency
Francois de Tessan
San Francisco Exposition
Conference on US Latin American finance seeks broader participation
The article notes invitations to commerce secretary, Federal Reserve Board members, cabinet members, and Latin American diplomats to a forthcoming financial conference. It highlights hopes for merchant marine development and expanded American banking facilities abroad, and cites 1914 export declines to South America due to ship scarcity and high freight rates.
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United States
Central and South America
Secretary of Commerce
Federal Reserve Board
Bryan
Washington
Joan Barrett
Pan-American Union
Federal Reserve Banks
South America
Bridal Pair on Touraine To Be Married in Boston War Visit
In Boston on March 7 La Touraine carries Dr J C Walker and his bride to a honeymoon voyage. They offer to serve the sick and wounded in a new hospital at Chateau de Passy near Sena, France. Dr Walker will be medical director and his wife a nurse. He is assistant resident physician at the Veter Bent Brigham Hospital. she was Miss Jessie Helen Walker, a nurse there.
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Bacaun
Boston
Man slain wife attacked four die in powder blast
A powder explosion at a Du Pont plant in Haskell New Jersey killed four workers George Colfax Bellas Bike Edward Fitzpatrick and Edward Schofield and seriously injured Clarence Fredericks who escaped by jumping into the Pequamannock River Others leaped to safety as flames engulfed the building Coroner J T Knight reported inquest details from Colquitt Georgia and Milton County where Emmett Andrews and a brother were involved in the fatal shooting of Enos Phillips at a store and home event earlier the same night
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Washington Post
Colquitt
Emmett Andrews
Enos Phillips
Sherif Andrews
Emmete Andrews
Philips
Milton County
Andrews
Howena
Early County
Phillips
Phillipa
J. T. Knight
Andrews Born
du Pont
Haskell
N. J
The
du Pont Powder Company
George Colfax
Midvale
N J
Bellas Bike
Port Jersis
N.Y
Edward Fitzpatrick
Newark
Edward Schofield
Pompton Lakes
Clarence Fredericks
Pequamnock
Three Men Entombed in Ayresghire Mine Cave In
Petersburg Indiana March 7 three workers were entombed when a roof section collapsed at the Ayresghire mine seven miles south of town. Officials fear fatalities but crews work to clear debris. One hundred men normally work there, only three were inside today.
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Petersburg
Ind
Ayresghire
Here
Diplomacy Deemed Failure Seeks Open World Court
A March 7 public meeting in Cincinnati under the Young Men’s Christian Association hosted by John Hass Hammond declared diplomacy a failure. He urged a new system of international relations with no espionage or secret treaties, proposing all agreements be recorded in a universal register kept by a great court of international justice open to the world.
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John Hass Hammond
Court of International Justice
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