Hope of life now Frank tells post explodes state theory
Frank tells post he is hopeful life can be saved as new evidence challenges the state’s theory. The story appeals to prejudice and discovery, with a grieving case in Atlanta. A factory superintendent implicated in Little Mary Phagan’s murder faces scrutiny as timelines and testimonies are reevaluated.
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Frank
Post
Atlanta
Little Mary Phagan
Conley
Stone
M Frank
Reraven
Frank Oath of Innocence Amid Death Sentence
The Washington Post reports on Frank, a 30 year old collegian labeled as a murderer by prejudice, facing execution on April 17. His defense centers on a long disputed death-note signature tied to a factory master mechanic, amid national questions of truth and justice.
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Washington Post
Mar Phagan Frank
H F Beqker
Nathal Pencil Company
Mars
Lemmie Vaa Kemat
Tippany Department
National Pencil Company
Frank
Chinese interpreter returns with proxy wife from Hongkong
Joseph Lee, a Chinese interpreter at the Philadelphia immigration station, traveled to China to marry Ting Soo by proxy for his brother. The proxy marriage was not recognized in the United States, so Ting Soo was sent back. Lee then obtained a government leave, went to China, and married the girl in person, returning today with her.
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Washington Post
Gloucester
N. J
Joseph Lee
Philadelphia
Hongkong
China
Ting Soo
Lee
California
Feudist Slayer of 11 Dies at 53 in Kentucky
Middlesboro Ky March 9 Gen Sounders a foe of the Turner faction in the Sounders Turner feud died at his home from pneumonia at age 53. He was reputed to have killed eleven men but claimed twenty years of law abiding conduct. Andrew Turner, leader of the Turner faction, was recently killed under peculiar circumstances.
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Sounders
Turners
Middlesboro
Souders
Andrew Turner
Turner
Ulster Plan Rejected as Premier Proposes Six Year Exclusion
Asquith outlines a six year exclusion for Ulster counties from home rule with a county ballot to decide their status then imperial parliament to settle final status. Ulster Unionists, led by Carson, reject the plan while Redmond and Bonar Law press for more concessions.
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Asquith
Ulster
London
Unionista
House of Commons
Edward Carson
Imagh
Antrim
Armagh
Londonderry
Down
Aaquith
United Kingdom
Andrew Bonar-Law
John E Redmond
Irish Nationaist Party
Spanish Premier Sustained Victorious General Election Victory
Spanish premier Eduardo Dato led Ministerialists to a sweeping general election win in Madrid. He will stay in office with a large majority in the chamber of deputies, with the ministerial bloc holding around 235 of 4 deputies reported, a margin near one hundred.
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Madrid
Eduardo Dato
Chamber of Deputies
Bribe Charge Stirs as Johnson Attacks Warner in House
Kentucky Representative Hew Johnson accused Brainard H Warner of offering a thinly disguised bribe during a district meeting confrontation. Johnson denounced the 100 citizen committee, charging they aimed to oust him as District chairman while exposing alleged graft schemes tied to former committee members. Warner denied the allegations, and Johnson criticized local press coverage as biased while continuing his floor attack.
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New Willard
House District Committee
Hew Johnson
Kentucky
Brainard H Warner
Warner
Johnson
Brainard Warner
Farfilerifig
Thaat Bechusbi
Ths
Tomer
Sam
Moore
Pennsylvania
J C .$ Blackburn
Joghnson
Blackburn
Militant Suffragists Clash at St Andrew's Hall Arrests Made
In Glasgow Mrs Hmmeline Pankhurst led a suffragette meeting at St Andrew's Hall when police clashed with activists. A score of women were hurt and several constables bruised as attackers used clubs and improvised weapons amid detonations and chaos.
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Finsley
Baby coughs up jewel as pin lodged in lung
In Amityville Long Island two year old Mainnie Shott swallowed a pearl clasp pin last November. Today she coughed, and the missing year pin fragment was observed to be lodged in her lung. Doctors had previously left the pin undisturbed.
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Washington Post
New York
Mainnie
William K. Shott
Amityville
Long Island
Albanians Driven From Koritsa by Revolt
Dispatches from Koritsa report townspeople rose up against Albanian officials, driving them out and proclaiming an autonomous government in the town on March 9. The event reflects local resistance and a shift in governance amid regional tensions.
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Athens
Greece
Koritsa
Plans for Great City Ignores Critic in Campaign
The executive committee of Washington's Citizens Committee of 100 announced its object and methods to promote the capital’s progress. It plans petitions, public education, and no paid agents, aiming to unite nation and District residents under George Washington’s vision.
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Washington
Citizens’ Committee of 100
Henry B . Macfarland
Willard
Committee of 100
Warner
B F Warner
Ben Johnson
George Washington
Senate
House
Assistant Secretary Newton Wears Full Dress to Work
Byron R B Newton Assistant Secretary of the Treasury arrived at the office in a full dress suit explaining he had no other clothes ready for the day. He noted he has been attending dinners and has been altering suits at the pressers, with one suit kept at the presser and another at home.
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Byron RB. Newton
the Treasury
Mr. Newton
Presser’s
Newton
New Dance Very Mustard Competes With Tango in Paris Ball
Paris March 9 The very mustard dance tops the tango as the Red and Yellow Ball returns at the Grand Opera House this Thursday. The event, part of the mid carnival festival, features Paris dandies from the Club of Twenty arranging the program.
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Washington Post
Paris
Grand Opera House
Supreme Court Ends Doctrine Of Wife's Domicile In Lawsuit
The Supreme Court ruled the ancient fiction that a wife's identity is swallowed by her husband is vanishing. A wife may establish a new domicile to sue, affectng alienation of affection cases. The decision approved a $35,000 judgment for Mrs. Katherine Osenton of Fayetteville, West Virginia, against Miss Margaret H Williamson after she moved to Virginia to sue in West Virginia Federal courts.
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Katherine Osenton
Fayetteville
W. Va
Supreme Court
England
United States
Margaret H Williamson
Japan Reduces Naval Budget Despite Premier Protest
Tokyo March 2 A budget committee in the upper house approved a recommendation to cut naval estimates by 20 million dollars. The move comes despite the premier’s protest that it would seriously hamper national defenses. This reduction adds to an 11 million dollar cut already ordered by the lower house.
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Tokyo
Japan
Cannon Explodes at Sandy Hook Proving Grounds
A 12 inch cannon exploded at the Sandy Hook proving grounds, sending a 2,000 pound breech block through a thick concrete wall. Lieut. Charles Pendleton and eighteen others sought cover in a trench. Pendleton suffered leg cuts from steel fragments. Col Babbitt blamed erratic powder and noted risk in powder and gun testing.
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Sandy Hook Proving Grounds
Charles Pendleton
Coil E. B Babbitt
Union Wireless
Col Babbitt
Lieut Pendleton
Trust Agents Weigh Antitrust Bills Revisions
President Wilson guides revision of three antitrust measures the monopoly definition trade relations and interlocking directorates after talks with Representatives Clayton Floyd and Carlin. He seeks tighter but clearer limits on restraints of trade and a narrowed directorate ban with held actions on holding companies and railroad regulation. Local results show Muncie voters rejecting saloon legalization by a 482 vote margin in a city of 25 000 population.
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Floyd
Carlin
Wilson
House Committee
Henry D Clayton
John C Floyd
Arkansas
Charles C. Carim
Virginia
William P Clough
New York
Northern Pacific Railroad
Congress
Col Clough
Wisconsin
Muncie
Yotes
Ind
Mareh
Fran Has Hope of Life Uncertain in Ulster Crisis
Page 1 item sheet notes Fran hopes for life amid Ulster rejection of Asquith plan with Johnson recounting an attempted bribe. Trust acts to be rewritten and a court case on secrecy around Bang rad plans for greater Washington. Senator Tilman reads own obituary at Odids while New Haven trustees Masong in a frolic.
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Ulster
Asquith
Johnson
Greater
Washington
Senator Tilman
New Haven
House
Fair
U. S
Huerta
Beven
St. Loui
Chile to Elevate Legation to Embassy in Chile
Secretary Bryan said Congress would be asked to raise the American legation in Chile to an embassy once the bill clears both houses. The measure, reported favorably, would elevate the Argentina legation to an embassy as well, aiming for a swift enactment.
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Bryan
Congress
Chile
Senate
House
Argentina
Taft for the Bench as Holmes Vacancy Expected
Washington dispatch says Professor William Howard Taft of New Haven will be appointed to the U S Supreme Court by President Wilson within a year after Justice Holmes retires. The retirement is believed to follow Holmes's stated wish to be relieved from judicial duties.
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Justice Holmes
Denals
Washington Post
New York
Washington Dispatch
New York Herald
Wiliam Howard Taft
New Haven
Conn
United States
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Presi
Wilton
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Massachusetts
Taft
Nole
Mr Taft
Supreme Bench
Wilson
Mir
Supreme Court
Yale
Tafts
Joseph McKenna
Holmes
Wiliam R. Day
Ohio
New England
Vergara Death Sparked Texas Ranger Raid Inquiry
Governor Colquitt orders an official probe into the Clemente Vergara murder after Texas Rangers reportedly crossed into Mexico to exume and return his body. Capt Sanders statements raise questions about who participated and who moved the body near Hidalgo and Palatox with ongoing insistence that no cross-border crossing occurred.
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Colquitt
Vergara
Huerta
Austin
Tex
Texas Rangers
Mexico
Clemente Vergara
Texana
Gen Hoverta
Arerives
Hidalgo Cemetery
Capt Sanders
Ranger
Laredo
Gostolgatt
Hidalgo
Sanders
Vergeni
Henry Hutchings
M Hutchings
Hidalgo Mexico
Texas
Wilson
United States
Consul Garrett
Nuevo Laredo
Lleft
Lleft Laredo Saturday Morning March 1, 1914, and Went To Palafox
Conseul Garrett
Palatox
Palafox
Laredo Tex
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