Titanic Memorial Eulogy Plans For April 13 Service
Plans are forming by prominent National Capital women to honor 1,503 Titanic dead with memorial services at Continental Memorial Hall on Sunday April 13 at 3 30 pm. Senator Fletcher and Senator Smith lead a Senate investigation group with other congressmen likely to speak or sit on stage. D A R leaders back the project and aim to use Continental Hall for the ceremonies. The program includes opening and closing prayers by Senate chaplains and a sermon by a noted pastor. the memorial will honor Maj Archibie Butt Clarence Moore and Francis D Miller among the Washington victims and Col Archibald Gracie who died after the disaster.
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Florida
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Michigan
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Washington Law College
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Archibald Gracie
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Friedmann
Germany
Weather Bureau
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THE
POST
Stop Gap Bridge Disaster Traps 125 as Train Plunges
A Montreal to Boston passenger train halted just as a flood-weakened bridge collapsed beneath its locomotive and cars. The engine and fireman swam ashore, while another bridge upriver was swept away moments after. Ice jams and rising Passumpsic River levels worsened the danger.
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Lyndonville
Montreal
Boston
Passumpsic River
Passumpsic
Maine
John Eastman
Eastman
French Troops Annihilated Near Timbuktu in Sahara Fight
Dispatches report a French detachment in the Aderar region of the western Sahara enduring a day long fight before being overwhelmed by 1000 Awellemid Berbers. Lieutenant Hartin and four sergeants plus 53 native troopers were killed, with Arabs suffering heavy losses. survivors rode to Timbuktu with news.
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Mar
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Timbuktu
Hartin
Poison Trial Shift: Insanity Defense Mooted for Admiral Eaton’s Widow
Boston reports Mrs Jennie Eaton awaiting alienist examination in Plymouth jail charged with murdering Rear Admiral Joseph Eaton. Defense contemplates insanity plea if alienists deem her unfit, citing historic cases and the admiral’s alleged drug obsession. Detectives widen search for arsenic source while investigators probe letters and documents for deeper motive.
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Washington Post
Boston
Mass
Jennie (Ainsworth) Haton
Plymouth
Joseph Giles Eaton
Norwell
Plymouth County
Jane Toppan
Haton
Taunton Insane Asylum
Barnstable
Virginia Harrison
Eaton
Adhey
Admiral
Honduran Rebels Warned After President Benilla Death
Amaina, Honduras March 22 Revolutionary rumors surge after the death of President Bonilla. New President Francisco Bertrand warns there will be no mercy for enemies of the government as Tegucigalpa stays under martial law with soldiers patrolling streets. President Wilson telegraphs condolences to Bertrand and Honduran people.
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Wilson
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Republic of Honduras
Hawthorne Not to Appeal in Canadian Mining Fraud Case
Tulian Hawthorne and Dr. William J. Morton, sentenced to a year and a day in Atlanta for defrauding in a Canadian mining scheme, will not appeal and depart for the prison Monday. Parole eligibility begins after one third of the term. Albert Freeman plans to appeal his five year sentence.
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Tulian Hawthorne
Williiam J. Morton
Atlanta
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Hawthorne
Morton
Albert Freeman
Wyoming Beats Own Record in Dreadnought Speed Trial
The Wyoming, claiming the U S dreadnought speed mark, surpassed its previous best during acceptance trials at Rockland Maine on March 22. The fastest mile reached 22.14 knots per hour, compared with 22.0 previously, with top-speed averages around 21.7 knots amid celebratory aboard reactions.
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Rockland
Wyoming
Ex wife of oil man jailed for six months
Mrs. Alice Thompson, ex wife of millionaire oil operator W J Thompson, was sent to jail for six months for passing worthless checks. Five stores filed charges. she had previously made good on prior checks. Arrested in January, she appeared before Judge Fraser, fashionably dressed and veiled, and did not speak before sentencing.
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Washington Post
Pittsburgh
Mar
Alice Thompson
W. J. Thompson
Thompson
Fraser
Letters accuse Mrs Conn of desertion in Milwaukee burglary case
A letter purporting to be from Mrs Owen D Conn in Winnipeg was received by Chicago police alleging she deserted her husband and child nine years ago in Milwaukee. Jewelry found in Conn's possession was identified as belonging to Chicago residents whose homes were robbed in January.
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Albert F. Barker
Eaton
Orient
Chicago
Mar
Owen D. Conn
Wingnipeg
Conn
San Francisco
Milwaukee
Poisoned While Operating Dr Bristow Stricken
New York report says Dr A T Bristow a well known surgeon is dangerously ill at his Brooklyn home after blood poisoning contracted during a March 13 operation on a woman patient. Bristow, former president of the New York State Medical Society and editor of the New York Medical Journal, is 62.
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New York
Brooklyn
Bristow
New York State Medical Society
New York Medical Journal
Ile
Boys Avert Train Wreck Near Goodlettsville
Two Nashville boys, Winner Morgan and Guille Oglesby, saved a southbound Dixie Flyer on the Louisville and Nashville Railroad near Goodlettsville by spotting a broken rail and flagging the train just before it reached danger.
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Louisvile and Nashville
Goodlettaville
Tenn
Morgan
Guille Oglesby
Will Sing in Jail Not Choir or Special
Emma Donaldson a 22 year old contralto from Keen Memorial Church was charged with larceny of a hat and 17, held in Baltimore jail awaiting grand jury action. She expressed remorse and said she would sing Easter carols at prison services if paroled, aiming to perform for Easter observances.
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Washington Post
Baltimore
Mar
Emma Donaldson
Keen Memorial Church
Miss Donaldson
Easter Hats Mailed To Corn Belt From Chicago
Chicago reports 6000 Easter hats sent across the corn belt by parcel post in the past week. Despite fashion shifting to smaller hats, most were still large. The mails superintendent notes handling about 1.0 hundred hats daily for six days and occasional large shipments. New York supplies few hats. Pasters card business more than doubles last year.
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Chicago
Parcel Post
Washington Post
New York
Serum halts disease and travel to Germany for tests
Ten tuberculin sufferers inoculated by Dr. Friedrich Franz Friedmann report weight gain and relief from night sweats and hemorrhages. The Berlin expert, amid physician astonishment, plans to return to Germany for lab work and hopes U S health authorities will recognize his vaccine as a cure.
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Friedrich Franz Friedmann
Berlin
John W. Brannan
Bellevue Hospital
Friedmann
Surgeon Claims Alcohol Cure for Neuralgia at Brain Base
Dr. Rudolph Matas, renowned surgeon, told the Society of Clinical Surgery in New Orleans on March 22 that experiments show injecting alcohol at the brain base can stop neuralgia pains for at least two years.
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Washington Post
New Orleans
Mar
Rudolph Matas
South
Society of Clinical Surgery
Matas
Make-Up Box Casket Caries Adrienne Augarde Ashes
A silver casket made from a make-up box will hold the ashes of Adrienne Augarde the English actress whose body was cremated in Chicago. The casket consigned to Mrs Henrietta Augarde mother of the actress was mailed today to England.
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Henriettaugarde
England
Allen clan's death sentences upheld by fate sealed Friday
The Hillsville courthouse killings unfold as Claude Swanson Allen and Sidna Allen fight futilely for a writ of error before the U S Supreme Court. Attorneys linger in Washington seeking relief while Virginia's condemned men prepare for execution. The saga traces back to a February 1912 clash and the courtroom siege that shocked mountain districts.
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Virginia
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Claude
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Manassas
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O'Flaherty
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Floyd
Marshall couple arrive in Springfield to address YMCA
Vice President and Mrs. Marshall arrive in Springfield Massachusetts to be guests of the YMCA. The Vice President will speak under the association's auspices tomorrow and plans to depart for Washington that evening.
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Mass
Marshall
Young Men's Christian Association
Washington
Bandits In Shootout After Cafe Robbery Crashed Car
Six men, after holding up the Cafe Zeppelin on East Ninth Street, exchanged gunfire with New York police during a half mile pursuit. The fleeing taxicab crashed at Seventeenth Street and four of the suspects were captured while two escaped. Bullet impacts shattered windows. $40 was recovered from Joseph O’Connell.
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Mar
Zeppelin
East Ninth Street
Seventeenth Street
Benjamin Gold
Allen Street
Samuel Goldstein
East Eighth Street
Frank Jerrie
Stuyvesant
East Twenty-eighth Street
Joseph O'Connell
East Twelfth Street
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O’connell
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Hartwich
Connell
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Eleventh Street
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Department
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Conlon
Slayer Apologizes to Victim Dies of Wound in Mistaken Identity
In Shanghai on March 22 Gen Sung a former Chinese minister of education died from wounds suffered when an assassination attempt occurred at a railroad station on March 2. An unsigned letter from the assassin, claiming misidentification with Gen Huang Sing, was received before his death. The note expressed the wish for Sung to have perpetual rest.
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China
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Huang Sing
Fukien
Sung
Guilt Promises Study of District Conditions and Inquiry
Lieut. Gov. O'Hara of Illinois expresses astonishment at a $2 weekly wage in the district. Senator Beall urges married men to pay annual taxes of $100, calls for abolition of whipping posts and ending joy rides, and hints at a possible national inquiry.
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O'Hara
Ilinois
Beall
Social evil hearing urges wage, education, and bans on vice
Illinois senator vice commission hearings in Washington pressed remedies for social vice including a minimum wage for women set at eight dollars weekly, education, and hygienic instruction. Witnesses blamed both genders and urged early marriage and a bachelorhood tax proposal while seeking a governors conference to study vice conditions.
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Ident
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Whiley
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