Dupont Powder Factory Burns Two Men Missing
New York reports from January 13 describe a massive explosion at the Dupont Powder plant in Haskell New Jersey. Officials say there were no fatalities, about a dozen workers were injured, while two men remained missing and several others treated for minor injuries.
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New York
Dupont Powder Company
Haskell
N. J
Wilmington
Del
Kingsland
New Jersey
Europe
Poughkeepsie
We. Haskell
Peter Gould
Dupont’ Powder Company
Woman Kills Her Husband After Struggle in Denver
In Denver on January 13 43 year old Mrs. John Lawrence Smith fatally shot her husband 33 after a 41 hour dispute over forcing her to drink liquor. The shooter, previously Mrs. William A Moore, a Denver attorney and brother of the late David Halstings Moore, formerly served as a chauffeur in the Moore home.
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Denrer
Colo
John Lawrence Smith
Smith
Denies Luis D'Antin Was Assassinated
Washington January 13 Candido Aguilar Mexican foreign minister telegraphed to Consul General Denegri denying reports that Luis D Antin American attache to the embassy here died by other than natural causes His death was due to cerebral congestion suffered at Monterey en route to Queretaro from a preexisting cardiac condition He died at San Luis Fortost.
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Washington, D.C
Candido Aguilar
Denegri
Luis D’antin
Monterey
Queretaro
San Luis
Great Welcome Planned for Returning Soldiers
Waterloo to honor national guardsmen arriving by a special Chicago Great Western train Monday between 5 and 6 p m from Cedar Falls Manchester Charles City and Dubuque. other trains from Des Moines and across Iowa carry additional units. A welcoming reception at the armory will feature addresses and music with veterans and patriotic orders marching to the depot.
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Waterloo
Union Station
B and G
Chicago Great Western Railroad
Cedar Falls
Manchester
Charles City
Dubuque
Des Moines
Cedar Rapids
Keokuk
Warrington
Fairfield
Washington
Russell-Lamson
Armory
Maois
Girl murdered in hotel room in Columbus
Mona Simon, 25, from Grafton Virginia, was found dead in a leading Columbus hotel with a neck wound and a bullet in her head. W. A. Wells, former Kansas City broker's clerk, is under arrest in Huntington Indiana on a first degree murder charge. Extradition papers will go forward. police seek a male occupant who used the name G V Van Brunt Chicago.
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Columbus
W. A.wells
Kansas City
Huntington
Ind
Mona Simon
Maizie Colbert
Philadelphia
Gratton
G. V. van Brunt
Chicago
van Brunt
Kansas
Citr
Grafton
Weather outlook for Washington week of January 15
Weather bureau predicts a cold start in the plain states and upper Mississippi valley with moderating but unsettled conditions midweek. Snow is possible Wednesday and Thursday, then a return to fair weather toward week end.
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Washington, D. C
Weather Bureau Today
Plain States
Upper
Mississippi Valley
Senate body approves thirteenth farm loan district
Washington January 13 The senate banking committee approved and favorably reported Senator Shafrath's bill to create a thirteenth federal farm loan district covering Colorado Wyoming Utah and New Mexico with a farm land bank at Denver, marking a significant expansion of federal farm credit facilities.
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Washington, D. C
Shafrath
Federal Farm Loan
Colorado
Wyoming
Utah
New Mexico
Denver
Senate Banking Committee
British Drive On Ancre River Front Deepens North Push
British forces renewed attacks north of the Ancre on the Somme front gaining a footing in one advanced position but the main German line remains. In Roumania Teutonic forces press along Moldavian fronts and near the Danube as Bulgarian troops capture a monastery and Turkish troops seize Mihalea with 400 garrison deaths.
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Ancre
Somme
Berlin
Serre
Roumania
Danube
Braila
Mihaica
Sereth
Buzeu
Slanic
Oituz
Petrograd
London
Kasino
Moldavia
Teutens
Roumanefa
Teutonic
Buzen
Mihalea
Attacks Negro Girl: White Man Sentenced for Assault
Ashdown Arkansas January 13 Fred Edwards a white man from Texarkana is sentenced to 99 years in prison for having attacked a negro girl.
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Ashdown
Ark
Fred Edwards, White
Texarkana
Delivery error notice for paper reroute
If the paper is not delivered by o clock due to carrier error or other cause, call 3330 to obtain a copy. After 6:20 o clock, call telephone No 3 for assistance.
Entente Note Unites Teutons For Finish War
German press reacts to the entente reply to Wilson with relief and anger. Headlines in Tageblatt and Lokal Anzeiger foresee unity of Germans across factions and strong resolve to force a total victory. The note is seen as clarifying aims and welding central Europe, while some view it as a step toward peace negotiations or further conflict. A separate report notes Rhineland deputies rejecting peace talk and demanding to compel terms the enemy would not concede.
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Berlin
London
Altho
Wilson
Tageblatt
Lokal Anzeiger
Belgium
Entente
Europe
Taxeblatt
Germany
de Tageblatt
The
Rhineland
German Central Party
Reuter
Amsterdam
Des Moines Fire Destroys McQuaid Grocery Store
A dawn basement fire at the McQuaid grocery store in Des Moines caused about 100000 in damage. Hotel guests nearby were rescued with difficulty. no lives were lost. Smoke and water damaged adjacent stock. cause remains under investigation.
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Des Moines
McQuaid
Gerard Speech Reported Right and Clarified
Washington notes today that Ambassador Gerard’s Berlin return talk was quoted with care. Officials said the department would review the exact wording and may issue a later statement. The speech drew wide foreign comment, especially in German papers following Wilson and Lansing discussions.
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Washington, D. C
Jan
Gerard
Berlin
United States
Germany
State Department
Department
Rengh Ridicule Germanys Reply To Peace Proffer
Paris reports ridicule in the French press over new Austrian and German notes. The Figaro mocks the notes as poor pleadings from a doomed client guiding neutrals to view the reply as a defense. Rome notes the Allies’ reply as a clear aim toward peace and a map of Europe drawn for justice. Geneva praises the tone as firm and just. Madrid commends the dignified stance and insistence on a just lasting peace with nationalities at its core.
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Paris
The
Figaro
Wasee
Rome
Wilson
Corriere D'Italin
Alles
Tribuna
Europe
Geneva
REPIA
Madrid
Imparcial
Uncovering Plans to Kill Gov Johnson Revealed
In San Francisco on January 13, letters seized from Alexander Berkman’s office reveal anarchist plots to assassinate Governor Hiram Johnson, senator elect from California. Assistant District Attorney Edward Cunha testified in the Mooney murder trial that the letters show Berkman and others conspired to destroy the government, blow up California, and kill the governor.
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San Francisco
Cal
Hiram Johnson
United States
California
Alexander Berkman
Edward Cunha
Franklin A. Griffin
Mooney
House votes to compel testimony in leak inquiry
Washington report says LY A resolution empowers the committee to force witnesses to answer all questions related to the leak inquiry. Law son likely first witness. Wall Street Journal editor Kellly to be asked for details on how his reporter learned brokers’ wires warned of the president’s note. Brokers Lockwood & Co. and McKinnon of Chicago plus Donald McDonald named. Lawson subpoenaed to reappear. Baruch and other figures may be recalled for further investigation.
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Washington, D
Dan. LY
Rias Committee
House
Representative Wood
Cale Lawson Lawson
James R. Kellly
News Edicor
The
Wall Street Journal
Wall Street
Lockwood & Co
New York
F. W. McKinnon
Chicago
Thompson&McKinnon
Wood
Uces
Donald McDonald
Boston
Lawson
Bardoh
Henry
McDonald
Bennett
Bernard Baruch
Western Union and Postal Telegraph Company
Two Girls Plead Not Guilty to $15,000 Blackmail Charge
Doris Byrne and Mahala Reed were arraigned in district court in Cedar Rapids on malicious threats to extort 15000 dollars from F. Junkermann last summer. They pleaded not guilty, bonds reduced to 5000, and are confined in the county jail at Marian. Extradition papers are being prepared for Chicago attorney Harold Jirka, who Chicago police could not locate, though a reporter said he spoke with him yesterday.
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Cedar Rapids
Doris, Byrne
Mahala
Pegey) Reed
Milo P. Smith
F. Junkermann
Marian
Harold Jirka
Chicago
They Be Piggs No Longer Change Name to Page
Denver January 13 A court order changes Wilfred LeRoy Pigg to Wilfred LeRoy Page to spare his children humiliation from taunts. His brother Frank Burton Pigg plans a similar name change. The Pigg brothers were famed for athletic prowess at West Denver High School and the University of Colorado.
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Denver
Colo
Wilfred LeRoy Pigg
W. F. Pigg
Wilfred LeRoy Page
Pigg Brothers
West Denver High School
University of Colorado
Guardsmen to Leave Border Soon Believed
Reports from Washington indicate that guardsmen stationed on the Mexican border may be withdrawn within a short time. Maj. Gen. Parshing’s command from Mexico is cited as the basis for possible homeward orders, with War Department plans remaining unsettled. President Wilson and the Mexican commission plan were to announce further steps in New York on Monday.
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Wablington
D. C
Parshing
Mexico
Congress
War Department
Wilsen
New York
Joint Commission
United States
Milwaukee cruiser runs aground off California amid salvage efforts
The U S cruiser Milwaukee ran ashore near Wureka while aiding the submarine H 3 salvage operation begun weeks earlier. Tugs aided the Milwaukee which faced no immediate danger. Earlier attempts by Milwaukee and Cheyanne to move H 3 failed, a seaman drowned when a boat overturned. The coast guard cutter McCulloch was ordered to assist the Milwaukee from San Francisco to Eureka.
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Wureka
Cal
United States
Milwaukee
Humboldt Bay
San Francisco
United States Coast Guard
McCulloch
Tero
Eureka
Thaw's Mother to Fight Extradition Of Son to New York
Philadelphia reports Mrs. Mary Copley Thaw will stay at St Marys hospital next week while son Warren K Thaw recovers from self inflicted razor wounds. Family may resist extradition to New York on kidnapping and beating charges involving Frederick Gump Jr. A cousin matter also involves Oliver A Brower awaiting requisition papers on a fugitive warrant in the Gump case.
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Philadelphia
Mary Copley Thaw
St. Mary's Hospital
Warry K. Thaw
Eforts
Thaw
New York
Frederick Gump, Jr
Kansas City
Oliver A. Brower
Buly
Gump
Child of 7 Lost in Dakota Blizzard
In Beach North Dakota on January 13 Philomene seven year old daughter of Joseph Kasil of the town is missing after the school bus dropped her at home. A fierce blizzard with winds near 40 miles per hour drives snow across the prairie as nearly the town’s male population searches for the girl. She left the bus with her dinner pail lid blown off and was swept away by the swirling winds.
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Beach
N. D
Philomene
Joseph Kasil
Senate Opposes Usury Arbitration Debate Sparks Resistance
Washington January 13 Senators, in the interstate commerce committee, signaled distrust of arbitration legislation to supplement the Adamson law. They expect not to approve a bill that restricts employee strikes or allows employers to enforce lockouts pending inquiry.
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Washington, D. C
Senate Interstate Commerce Committees
Neighbor says he killed his brother in self defense
In Reinbeck Tama county Iowa J L Hale Hercules says his brother Amos attacked him with a club at their home and he shot in self defense. Amos Hercules died from gunshot near the ice in their yard. Hercules, a respected farmer, had recent legal troubles and planned to move to Minnesota March 1. The sheriff and coroner investigated the scene after the morning shooting.
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Reinbeek
J. L
Hale) Hercules
Amo Rickert
Amos Hercules
Rickert
Toledo
Tama County
Rein
Beck
Hercules
Bob
Amos
Hob
Bob Hercules
Rein= beck
Altha
Waterloo
Ife
Jeft Reinbeck
Minnesota
Tema County
Hercules Farm
Wounded in affray in Waterloo over front seat dispute
J L Hercules was seriously stabbed in the left shoulder near Fifth street east after an argument with his former employee Branham at 4 30 am. The party drove to Reinbeck then went to a restaurant. Hercules recovered and later helped arrange Branham's release. Branham had prior California murder parole status.
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J. L. Hercules
Wasterloo
Branham
Hercules
Waterloo
Pata
State Penitentiary
California
Temperatures January 13 Readings From Buchanan Optical Co
Supplied data shows temperature readings with times from midnight to 10 am. The historical snippets list ranges for prior years including 0 to 20s and 14 to 37, noting inconsistent entries and partial figures.
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Buchanan Optical Co
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