Mer Cornelius F Thomas Named Pastor of St Patrick’s
Mer Cornelius F Thomas of Baltimore is appointed pastor of St Patrick’s Church in Washington, D C, succeeding Welam T Russell who became bishop of Charleston. The appointment, announced by Carthal Gibbons, marks Father Thomas’s first charge since his ordination 34 years ago and follows his earlier roles at St Patrick’s in Baltimore and as chancellor of Baltimore Cathedral parish.
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Father McGuigan
St. John's
Westminster
Carthal Gibbons
Mer Cornelus F Thomas
Baltimore
St Patricks Church
Mer Welam T Russell
Mer Thomas
Stinshurch Faltimore
St Patrick
S Stephens Church
Sacred Heart Pariah Ty Washington
Thiacomn Fl
Ha Churen
Patrick
Washington
Father Metwungan
St Johns
Pishop Shahan
Untermyer recruits Jews for wartime rally plan
The article notes Samuel Untermyer intends to recruit prominent Jewish leaders to mobilize support and readiness for a war effort. It mentions Isaac Seligman and Lewis War examining details and a gathering under the Independent Order of Free Song of which discusses aiding American national needs.
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Ero Sr
Strawa Lowis
Tewisohn
Telep Ndent
Free Song of
Spurns Sister Kiss Then Dies After Quarrel
In Queens Borough New York Miss Helen Miller, aged 19, died in her room after a dispute with her sister over a kiss. Police say she turned on gas and died by suicide following the argument. Jamaica detective bureau opened the case with a suicide note and investigation ongoing.
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Helen Miley
Eto
Eemimit
Tol Natier Te Monocthaten
Queens
Wis
Helens
Taft Urges Action to Keep US Out of War
President Taft spoke to the Oklahoma branch of the Enforce Peace movement urging immediate unity and strong actions to aid Allies and avoid joining Germany in war. He warned that doing nothing would prolong conflict and pressed for decisive steps by the nation.
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Kianoma
Okla
United
Les
William Howard Taft
the Convanoor
Oklahoma
Cagita
Arteraase
Germany
Mraft
Wounds Wife and Kills Self in Miladelphia Incident
Frank Schi returned home before daylight and entered his wife’s bedroom where, as she slept with four children nearby, he shot her and then fired three bullets into the street before killing himself with an automatic pistol. The dire scene unfolded early morning March 29.
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Miladelphia
Frank Schi
Ice Price Hike Prompts Public Grievance And War Films
Price of ice will rise 50 cents per ton after April 1 as ice dealers cite higher materials costs. A wartime film program titled Won Cross for Gallantry will aid the British American War Relief Fund, featuring Captain Belth and Captain Reiths recounting trench life and Canadian and British advances. Lectures at 1520 Twentieth Street Northwest and a talk on the Great Civilian Army in Britain accompany the exhibition of new war pictures from Arras and Armentières. Donations to the Washington branch and to 1321 Connecticut Avenue are requested.
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Caplan Hay Beith
Yire Gat
Twentieth Street
Great Britain
Mone
Belth
France
Washington
Samuel A Kimberly
American Ice Company
Chapin-Sacks and
Blick Brothers
Ittesx College
Edinburgh
Scotland
United States
Reiths
Hughland
Beith
Arras
Armentieres
M Street
Misa Arnst
Connecticut Avenue
Oldest Washington naturalization applicants named
German immigrant William Henry Mahr 82 plus years seeks first papers to become a citizen. Katharine Baumann of North Capitol street a Wurtemberg native and widow applies for naturalization. Marie Emma Mross of Dresden origin, arrived in 1850, also seeks first papers.
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Washington
Clerk Young
Tdistrice Supreme Court
William Henry Mahr
Woodley Read
Mr Mahr
Heldbure Hausen
Germany
Waas
Malr
Katharine Baumann
North Capitol Street
Wurtemberg
Marie Emma Mross
Twelfth Street
Appled
Dresden
Quiet Car Line Patrol Sees No Disorder Amid Strike
Washington Railway and Electric Company patrolled by car reported no signs of violence or disorder after a southeast disturbance. Both sides await Congress actions as the company trains new operators and strikers plan a fundraising tag sale directed by the Central Labor Union to aid strikers and supporters downtown.
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Washington Railway and Electric Company
Congress
Central Labor Union
Rail rates rise on coal and coke pursued by ICC
The Interstate Commerce Commission approved higher freight charges for coal and coke proposed by Eastern lines as part of broader rate increases. Bituminous coal gains 6 to 10 cents per ton and coke 10 to 65 cents. Shippers and rail interests had voiced support and opposition. ore increases of 15 percent remain pending.
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Interstate Commerce Commission
Eastern Ines
Eastern Roads
Hopewell Tragedy End in Double Suicide and Murder
Enraged husband to be Cox 30 of Jacksonville Florida shot and killed Mrs Patton of Richmond then killed himself. He had visited the Patton home in Hopewell and fired twice at the woman in the kitchen before taking his own life. A letter found in his pocket explained jealousy over her engagement. Cox worked at a Du Pont plant.
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Washington Post
Hopewell
Cox
JacksoniiNe
Fla
Mra
Patton
Richmond
Earle
Cowle
Darie
New York
Elisha Lee Promoted To General Manager Of Pennsylvania Railroad
New York March 29 Elisha Lee named general manager of the Pennsylvania Railroad to take effect April 1 He rises from assistant manager and has chaired the national conference committee of railroad managers From 1916 he built national prominence among rail executives with a long career at Pennsylvania lines east of Pittsburgh and the PB&WP system since 1894
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New York
Elisha Lee
Four Brotherhoods
Pennsylvania Railroad
Lee
8 C Long
National Conference Committee of the Railroads
Railroad 4
The
Pennsylvania
Lesa
Chicago
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Rodman
Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington
New York, Philadelphia and Norfolk
Pennsylvania Lines
Pittsburgh
Philadelphia
Baltimore and Washington
Conference Committee of Managers
Eastern Railroads
Food Riots Sweep Chicago Jewish West Side
Food riots broke out in Chicago on March 29 in Jewish West Side neighborhoods with women leading the protests. Markets faced closures after more than 4¢ arrests were made as street stands were overturned and kerosene was sprinkled on meat. Over 150 women took part.
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Chicago
West Side
Unite Against Plotters And Defense Committee Pledge
New York March 29 Plang are being formulated for social clubs and organizations nationwide to cooperate in unearthing plots against the government and tracking suspicious persons. Justice Samuel Greenbaum, chairman of the National Defense Committee of the Manhattan club, said the club adopted resolutions pledging support to the President and praising his statesmanship. Trenton March 29 Gov Edge signed two senate bills amending the Wilson seven sisters anti trust laws to conform to the Clayton act allowing New Jersey corporations to acquire stock in other corporations.
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New York
Social Cluba
Samuel Greenbaum
National Defense Committee
Manhattan Club
Wilson Jis
Trenton
Qov Edge
Senate
New Jersey
Sternberg Indicted for Murder as Weeps in Court
Benjamin Sternberg was indicted for the murder of Mrs. Bilsie Les Hilair, strangled two weeks earlier in the Martinique Hotel room. He wept upon learning of the indictment and defended his account of a Brooklyn theater flirtation with Mrs Hilair, saying he fears no conviction. Investigators hinted at evidence beyond the coroner's inquest.
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New York
Benjamin Sternberg
Bilsie Les Hilair
Martinique
Sternberg
Grand Jury
Car Reserve Proposed to Relieve Freight Car Shortages
Julius Kruttschnitt of the Southern Pacific urged the Newlands investigating committee to create a national car reserve. He proposed federal incorporation and a pooling system modeled on the Federal Reserve to require railroads to contribute freight cars pro rata. The reserve would be drafted by railroads as needed, with fines for detaining cars unnecessarily.
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Interstate Commerce Commission
Newlands
Julius Kruttschnitt
Southern Pacific Board
Kruttschnitt
Federal Reserve Bank
National Reserve
Whitman Signs War Census Bill
Albany March 29 A bill authorizing a war census was signed by Governor Whitman. The measure grants broad powers beyond military enrollment to inventory state resources including women for service, money, industrial and material resources, and munitions. The governor argues this prepares state assets for potential war cooperation and defense duties.
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Albany
Guv Whitman
United States
Crenshaw Declared Insane in Virginia Theft Case
Crenshaw Dabney, a fourth year student, was adjudged insane by a lunacy commission after being charged with stealing platinum valued at $2,000 from the University of Virginia chemical laboratory and setting the lab on fire to cover the theft. He will be sent to the State hospital for the insane at Williamsburg tomorrow.
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Richmond
Dabney Crenshaw
Chemical Laboratory
University of Virginia
Crenshaw
State Hospital For
Williamsburg
Fails to Halt U S Trade Germany Sub Campaign
Germany's submarine campaign failed to stop American foreign trade in February. U S exports rose to 487 883 406 dollars, up from 401 783 974 the year before, despite heavy drops with Britain Netherlands Denmark and Greece. Imports totaled 199 473 996 dollars versus 102 935 12Tlant Fean last year.
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Germany
Department of Commerce
Great Britain
Netherlands
Denmark
Greece
Wordy Rochester Divorce Case Averts Hammock Affection
Youlden Cowle testified in White Plains court that he and Mrs Earle shared only a friendly bond. The couple’s sit on cellar steps for five to ten minutes and rides in the husband’s car sparked cross examination in a high profile absolute divorce suit.
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Hoe
Theodore L. Earle
White Plains
Nwn
Youlden Cowle
Seventh Regiment
Hester Renwick Earle
Theodore Langabury Earle
Supreme Court
Tompkins
Cowle
Earle
Weatchester County
Mrs Warle
Police veto plans for three parades in city
Pacifists, patriotism demonstrators, and National Woman Suffrage Association staff had planned parades in the city but Superintendent Pullman denied parade permits. The pacifists and patriotism groups canceled, and Miss Jeanette Rankin was to be escorted to the Capitol by a guard of honor. Officials cited fear of disorder as the reason for the ban.
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National Woman Suffrage Association
Pullman
Maj Pullman
Suffrage Assonciation
Jeanette Rankin
Capitol
Convention Hall
Protest Muzzling of Fiske by New York Women
Three hundred women members of the Special Aid Society draft resolutions protesting the muzzling of Rear Admiral Fiske who was reportedly forbidden by the Navy Department to speak before the group. Admiral Fiske says he would not have been at a loss for words and hints at what he might have said about the navy.
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New York
Special Aid Society
Fileke
Navy Department
Fiske
Navy
Renew Pension Campaign Opens at National Hotel
The Washington Navy Yard joint retirement committee reopened its campaign for pensioning and retirement of superannuated and disabled Federal employees. At a National Hotel dinner, Robert H Alcorn chaired as office addresses outlined the committee's aims. Representatives from all trades at the navy yard, the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, and other federal branches attended.
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Naval Gun Factory
Washington Navy Yard
National Hotel
Robert H Alcorn
Navy Yard
Bureau of Engraving and Printing
Federal
Daylight Robbery Victim Identifies Suspects Near Downtown Store
Miss Sarah Birch twenty was robbed in broad daylight near Garfinkle and Co at Thirteenth and F streets northwest. Five well dressed white men jostled her, stole four dollars and change and papers. She can identify the men, police suspect an out of town pickpocket gang.
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Sarah Birch
Garfinkle & Co
Thirteenth
Miss Birch
Sco Dock
Thirteenth Street
Misa Birch
Twelfth
Civilian Training Camps Announced Nationwide
War Department announces civilian training camps to run June through October at Plattsburg Fort Riley Fort Snelling Fort Sheridan Fort Benjamin Harrison Fort D A Russell Fort Des Moines Town Austin Dallas Alexandria Houston Las Vegas Santa Barbara American Lake and Fort Douglas Ute. Plattsburg schedule lists four camps from June 2 to October 14 with July and August sessions in between. Information available from Eastern Department commanding general at Governors Island New York.
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War Department
Plattsburg
Fort Riley
Ran
Fort Snelling Minn
Fort Sheridan
Ill
Fort Benjamin
Eastern Department
Governors Island
Traces History of Bonds Lecture by John Moody
Judge Moody traced the rise of American government and railroad bonds from early issues to war bonds in a Washington Institute of Banking talk. He predicted a relief-driven stock market boom ending the war would lift financial confidence, followed by about a decade of low mood.
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Washington
American Institute of Banking
John Moody
Judge Moody
Robbery at Grafton Hotel Targets Guest Room
Harrington Mills, proprietor of the Grafton Hotel, reported a robbery in an upper floor guest room. A well dressed unidentified white man, about 22, was seen nearby before the theft, which yielded about $40 in cash along with keys and papers.
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Harrington Mills
Grafton
T. B. Enjoys Devil Fish Hunt Telegram From Host
Russell J Coles, former President Roosevelt host on a South Florida devil fish expedition, reports in a telegram that Danville physicianmartin S Y val Hoosevelt remains in fine health and enjoying a successful hunt, countering rumors of a possible setback.
Stumble Fatal to Boy in Ninth Street Run
Frank Atwell an 18 year old orphan living with his sister on 620 B Street Southwest was running on Seventh Street Southwest when he stumbled into a bay window at 315 Seventh Street fracturing his skull. He died minutes later. coroner Kevitt ordered the body to the District Morgue.
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Frank Atwell
B Street
Seventh Street
Kevitt
Alexandria 1800 Pupils Parade At High School
Plans finalized for an 1800 pupil parade in Alexandria this afternoon forming at the high school at 2:30. The march includes the public schools and cadet corps, with ceremonies at the Confederate monument. Police and detectives report three colored men arrested with 25 gallons of whisky on a southbound train.
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Washington Post
King Street
Alexandris Va
Alexandria
Conrad Johnson
Alexandria High School
Reginald Dyson
Robert Hancock
Theigh
West End
Lee School
Washington School
Fairfax
Cameron
Washington
Prince
Confederate Monument
Washington Streets
Sergt Scott
Sergt Springman
Virginia
Baltimore
Robert T. Rackley
George W Rarckles
Dorsey Harrison
Battleboro
North Carolina
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Banking Institute
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Fine Heart
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Wheaties
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George Washington Birthday Celebration Association
State Corporation Commission
Alexandria and Fiedmont Telephone Corporation
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Howard W Smith
Georgia Padgett
Edgar F Padgett
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Christ Church
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