Joliet, Ill: Hickory creek jammed with ice after heavy rain fall and break in zero weather, overflows and sweeps through streets, causing heavy damage. Chicago: Heavy rains flood streets impeding traffic. Washington: Baron Zwiedinek, ...See moreJoliet, Ill: Hickory creek jammed with ice after heavy rain fall and break in zero weather, overflows and sweeps through streets, causing heavy damage. Chicago: Heavy rains flood streets impeding traffic. Washington: Baron Zwiedinek, Austrian Chargé d'Affaires, and Count Von Bernstorf, German Ambassador, pose for the Hearst-Vitagraph News Pictorial, with members of the Austrian Embassy staff. Cambridge: Members of Harvard Hockey Club play fast practice match on ice in stadium. New Orleans: Historic Hotel St. Louis, where kings and queens have been entertained and where Mrs. Stowe was inspired to write "Uncle Tom's Cabin," is condemned as unsafe. New York: Dainty spring fashions by leading Fifth Avenue designer. Washington: P.H. Chadbourne of the Belgian Relief Commission, calls on President Wilson and delivers trunkful of toys from Belgium children. Cambridge: Harvard's students enlist in newly-formed preparedness regiment. Red Bank, N.J: Zero weather and a brisk breeze tempt ice yachts out for first sail of season on Shrewsbury River. On Western Front: German civilian workers build portable houses for officers' quarters, repair forts and erect entanglements in sections out of fighting zone. London: Hong Kong police march to Whitehall recruiting officers, at end of 12,000 mile journey to join colors. El Paso: Americans murdered by Mexican bandits are buried with signal honors while hundreds follow to the cemetery to pay respect to them. Bang go the rifles of the glooms and the joys fall over dead in another amusing cartoon by T.E. Powers. Written by
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