Seven Countries Seek Peace Plan for Mexico
Latin American diplomats and Secretary Lansing announce a joint proposal to end Mexican turmoil. The plan urges factions to form a provisional government with U S and South American recognition, while outlining steps if factions reject the accord.
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Mexico
Lansing
United States
Diaz
Vera Cruz
Niagara Falls
Secretary of State
Navy Department
Carranza
Mexico City
South American diplomats aid Mexico peace talks at border crisis
Representatives from Argentina Brazil Chile Bolivia Uruguay Peru and Guatemala convene with optimism to shape a new Mexican government while US Major General Hugh L. Scott works to keep peace as Mexican bandits threaten Texas border. Diplomats Da Gama Naon Maufien pursue swift, decisive action to end chaos and secure lasting stability.
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Lansing
Argentina
Brazil
Chile
Bolivia
Uruguay
Guatemala
Peru
John Barrett
Pan-American Union
South
Central America
Landing
Mexico
Texas
Hugh L. Scott
Latin America
Branco
da Gama
Romulo
Naon
Eduardo Sairez Mauien
Trnah
Ister
Dia Giima
America
Mufien
United States
Press echoes warn of looming disaster from graft and inefficiency
The transmission quotes editorials from the Kansas City Star, Chicago News, and New York Sun noting greed and graft may trigger the next disaster. It mentions a New York carpet firm raising wages by 10 percent and questions how that industry can push production.
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Missouri
Kansas
Kansas City Star
Chicago News
New York
New York Sun
Short Stories Draped in Historical Snippets
The text offers miscellaneous historical notes on origins of salads in Holland and Belgium the meaning of kid in kidnaping the global duck population and shifts in Bulgarian port construction plus the Athenian Areopagus once meeting in darkness. It weaves diverse facts into a reading snippet.
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Holland
Belgium
China
Bulgaria
Varna
Burges
One Great Seal Lost During Lord Thurlow's Chancellorship
In March 1784 burglars broke into Lord Thurlow's residence in Great Ormond Street and stole the first great seal, along with money and two silver hilted swords. The Privy Council convened, and the royal engraver produced a replacement within 36 hours.
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George III
Lord Thurlow
Great Ormond Street
Privy Council
Itarin
Modern torpedo described as the terrible weapon of warfare
An expert details a loaded automobile shaped torpedo, its high explosive warhead using gun cotton or nitroglycerin, four main parts, and how a detonation tears holes 30 by 10 feet in ships. It runs on a fixed course and time, costing 3000 to 9000 dollars, with tests on tankers and merchant vessels planned.
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Lusitania
Archibald the Allied anti aircraft gun in World War I skies
A front line correspondent describes Archibald the airborne anti aircraft gun nicknamed the “Archibald” as the army’s roaming killer of German Taube aircraft. The gun rides in a private car, operates at high altitude to counter air raids, and signals a unique, mobile form of warfare where aerial scouts are kept under constant threat.
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France
Archibald
Sar
Archer
Taube
New Eleven Cent Stamp Debuts With Franklin Portrait
The new eleven cent postage stamp appears in dark green, bearing a Houdon bust profile of Franklin. It matches the regular stamp shape from the 1911 series and is issued mainly to prepay postage on parcels and insurance fees for insured parcels totaling 11 cents.
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Franklin
Houdon
Comrade in White at Neuve Chapelle Valor and Care
Poem depicts a dying British soldier tended by a comrade at Neuve Chapelle during WWI. The nurselike care binds wounds and shares a bond beyond fear, as dawn reveals a quiet, poignant mercy amid artillery and horror. The piece ends with a tender, reflective exchange about wounds and enduring humanity.
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Neuve Chapelle
Gold Exports and Imports Across Global Ports
Trade figures show gold exported and imported through Canada London Paris Tokyo Peking Brazil Amsterdam Denmark and various American ports. August 1914 to 1915 records note total sterling exchange at a normal rate of $145,383,000.
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Canada
London
Paris
Tokyo
Peking
Brazil
Amsterda
Denmark
Sterling Exchange
Belgians Describe Desolation of Arras and Soissons
Belgian minister Emile Vandervelde reports from the war zone detailing Arras and Soissons reduced to rubble. He notes the city hall ruined, most inhabitants gone, and many people living in cellars as bombardments continue. Trenches and barbed wire defenses are extended with lines close together.
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Arras
Soissons
Aisne Scarpe
Nieuport
Ypres
Yser
Emile Vandervelde
United States
Blank
Lens
Rail Schedules via Dupont Tacoma and Aberdeen
Train No 423 via Dupont leaves Seattle 4 40 p m and reaches Tacoma 6 10 p m Portland 4 10 p m arrives Aberdeen 10 05 p m. Train No 881 gasoline motor car departs McCleary 7 15 a m Elma 2 45 68 arrives Aberdeen 8 55 a m. Train No 552 departs Speeee 1 00 8 a m arrives Elma 11 46 8 a m leaves Elma arrives McCleary 40 p m.
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Dupont
Seattle
Tacoma
Portland
Aberdeen
McCleary
Elma
EAS
Sound
Point Defiance
la Point Defiance
Acoma
Acme Nig
Owl
Centralia
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Paul Fuller
American Press Association
Senor DA Gama
Senor Romulo
Hustler
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Rio Branco
United
Benor Ignacio Calderon
Tifferet Tynes
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Comrade In
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West
Vane
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Los Angeles Times
Pioneer Times
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Ona
H. P. Potter
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