WIOTA Notes From June Visit Traces Farm Town News
Chas Sherret travels between Anita stations while E N Brooks visits from Atlantic. Many residents and visitors from Atlantic stop by, with locals like Mr and Mrs Turner, Mrs Daugherty of Winterset, Gust Ballensiefer and others planning trips to nearby towns. Multiple Atlantic and Anita visits mark a bustling week as residents attend to family and social errands.
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Wiota
Will George
Atlantic
Arflis Ward
Chas. Sherret
Adair
Renis
Mr. Talbott
Anita
J. AH. Daugherty
Winterset
W. S. Foster
T. G. Turner
Wlota
Roy Reed
Ale Kennedy
E. D. Kansey
Gladys
Sam Wodd
Garfield Willis
Marie
R. R. Bell
Joe Johnson
Guthrie
Lena Ballensiefer
Bert Porter
Garrison
N. D
John McMahon
Will Dorrel
Near sAnita
Dasher
Chag
Goodwin
del Spry
Claude
Walter McMahon
Otialia Hospital
GC. W
F. M. Hult
Anta
Herchenbach
Grover Darling
Menlo
Claus Barnholdt
Bertha Shey
Ben Forter
Bridgewater
Holhelay
Ir. Marlander
Rescue of Captain Morey by Jenkins in Carrizal action
June report to General Pershing details rescue of Captain Lewie Morey by Major Jenkins amid the Carrizal engagement. It notes nine additional American troopers killed, and a notebook linking Mexican commander General Felix Gomez to the attack.
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Mexico
Carrizal
Pershing
Jenkins
Elaventh
Lewle
Morey
Jankina
Charles T. Boyd
Felix Gomez
Gomez
Captain Boyd
Embargo Planned on Trade with Mexico by U S
A virtual embargo on commerce with Mexico is planned by the administration pending settlement of future relations. Border customer inspectors have been delaying shipments since Saturday and arms and ammunition have not been permitted for weeks at the frontier.
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Republic
Washington
United States
Mexico
Funeral of Yuan Shih-kai Held in Pekin Palace
Yuan Shih-kai, late president of the republic, was mourned at a state funeral in Pekin with rites at the palace. Li Yuan Hung, the new president, and Dr. fate 8. Reinsch attended as representatives of the United States, while priests chanted and offerings were presented by numerous officials.
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China
Pekin
Yuan Shih-kai
Republic
Li Yuan Hung
Fate 8
Reinsch
Priesta
Ielinia
Hetty Green in Favorable Condition Despite Stroke
New York reports Mrs Hetty Green known as the richest woman in the world is said to be in a very favorable condition after a paralytic stroke. Colonel Edward H Green, her son, stated the illness is not serious though age-related risk remains. An additional note mentions a Fortifications bill with five million dollars added in Washington.
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Saya Winers
New York
Hetty Gréen
Dewie
Edward H. RA. Green
Censorship On All War News Planned
Washington reports administration officials prepared to ask Congress to authorize military censorship amid the American situation. A War Department resolution would empower the president to promulgate censorship rules across state war and navy departments, along the border and in Mexico. Secretary Baker announced a press bureau under an army officer to handle all war department news.
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Washington
Administration
Congress
Army War College
War Department
State
War and Navy
Mexico
Baker
Army
Army Lets 18 Year Olds Enlist In U S Forces
June 28 report from Chicago states war department orders reduce enlistment age to 18 with parental consent no longer required for those 18. Previously the limit was 21, with underage enlistment allowed only with father’s consent. Orders were telegraphed by Adjutant General Henry P. McCain and received by Captain R. Kenney in charge of recruiting.
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Sam
Thicago
War Department
United States Army
Henry P. McCain
National Capitol
R. Kenney
Army Recruiting
Mob Attacks U. S. Offices in Torreon
American refugees recount the June 18 assault on the Torreon consulate by Carranza troops and civilians led by the mayor. They describe a 4,000-strong mob, a 2‑military-band procession, and the shout Death to the gringods as the consulate was destroyed. The British consul aided sixteen refugees, who traveled by a Carranza train unmolested.
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Torreon
Eagle Pass
Tex
Carranza
Sees Wife Die Under Car Inditch Hammond Indiana
Dazed Peter Lindquist of Plymouth could not help as his recently bought Night roadster skidded and overturned near Bourbon. Ditch water trapped his wife, whose head was pinned beneath the water. Lindquist, seventy years old, was unable to operate the vehicle.
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Hammond
Ind
Peter Lindquist
Plymouth
Bourbon
Lindquist
Mass training ship Ranger damaged in collision at sea
A wireless report from New York states the Massachusetts training ship Ranger collided with an enemy cruiser about fifty miles off this port. Damage, if any, was described as slight. The vessels offered assistance, and the Ranger headed toward the Brooklyn navy yard for repairs.
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Massachusetts
New York
Ranger
Dore
Brooklyn Navy Yard
Jury Finds Howe Guilty in Duckworth Slaying
Brazil Ind June 28 James Howal of Wilifred found guilty of murder in the first degree by a Clay circuit court jury. He was sentenced to life imprisonment. He faced a second murder charge alleging he killed Charles Irwin at the same time.
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Wilfred Man
Duckworth
Brazil
Ind
James Howal
Wilifred
Clay
Howe
Onte -Duckworth
Anther
Charles Irwin
Von Buelow Retired After Ill Health Ends Long Service
Berlin June 28 Field Marshal von Buelow long in command of the Second and Third German armies during the Marne advance is placed on the retired list. He has been inactive over a year due to ill health and is nearing his lat birthday.
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von Buelow
Berlin
Germany
Marne
Sinking of Seven Vessels Reported Near Trade Route
The report states seven vessels sank with all but the British steamship Astrologer, 918 tons gross, a sailing fleet mostly lost. Crew members are ashore with missing and presumed dead. Notable casualties include Peter Stutz, 76, and May Fisher, 80, both cited with heart disease, amid a sea disaster near Columbia City, Ind.
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Britten Steamship Astrologer
Columbia “City
Ind
Peter Stutz
Giant 15 year old boy needs two beds none fit
New York story describes Theodore Olsen a six foot four inch, 15 year old with constant bed fits. He slept across two beds with patched covers after leaving home over size embarrassment. He admits starting small fires in a dumbwaiter shaft, then helped extinguish a blaze and was arrested. He said he preferred flames to engines.
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New York
Children’s Society Fileffls
Theodore Olsen
Theodore
Olsen
Upper West Side
Achoor
Theodore Lres
10 000 Bees Loose in Women's Ballroom
In Cleveland Ohio Ernest ER Root of Medina, a bee and honey expert, released a swarm of 10 000 bees into the Woman's Club ballroom to demonstrate handling honey makers. Club members watched as the swarm was panicked at first but calmed under Root's instruction and mock release.
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Cleveland
Ernest ER Root
Medina
Woman's Club
Mr. Root
May Boycott a Deadbeat by Topeka Merchants
Topeka Kansas merchants plan a legal boycott of deadbeats. Attorney General S M Brewster ruled that a city or state merchant association could form a blacklist and refuse credit to nonpaying customers. The plan calls for monthly reports by merchants and sharing them with local retailers.
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Topeka
Kan
S. M. Brewster
Cattle Fear Dog Triggers Herd Run Over Buggy
In Arlington Kentucky EH W Benson witnessed a herd of yearlings flee as a sneaking dog approached. The cattle charged toward the road, ran over Benson's horse and buggy, knocking the horse down and nearly overturning the vehicle. It was Benson’s first time being run over by a herd.
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Arlington
W. Benson
Barlow
Mr. Benson
Barelegged woman shocks Cincinnati crowds in fashionable district
In Cincinnati downtown shoppers gasped as a richly dressed woman strode the street with legs bared to the knees. Police arrived to quell the crowd and escort her away as she refused to give a name. In Swainsville Indiana John Stark, a merchant, chased a rat that carried his glasses into a hole, though Stark could not recover them.
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Cinciininati
Cincinnati
Swansville
Ind
John Stark
Stark
Missouri Guard In Wisconsin Nine Infantry Companies Mobilized
Wisconsin nine infantry companies are mustering in as Missouri guards begin physical exams under General Thomas H. Barry. Indiana, North and South Dakota, Wyoming, Colorado and Minnesota are mobilized. Ohio is mobilizing. In Indiana two regiments, one cavalry squadron and a field hospital with fifty officers and troops are mobilized.
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Wiaconsin
Iowa
Chicago
National Guard of
Missouri
Thomas H. Barry
Kansag
Indiana
North
Dakota
Wyoming
Colorado
Minnesota
Ohio
Attorney H Snowden Marshall Arrested on Contempt Charge
New York June 27 H Snowden Marshall federal district attorney was arrested on a contempt charge for criticizing a house subcommittee probing impeachment charges brought by Representative Buchanan He quickly obtained a writ of habeas corpus Auto Driver Injured by Train Dies in Lafayette Indiana June 28 O B Pointer city water works employee died from injuries after a Wahash train struck his light truck Note: Wahash likely a misprint for Wasch or similar train name.
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H. Snowden Marshall
New York Ta
New York
Congress
House
Buchanan
Marshall
Lafayette
Tad
O. B. Ponter
City Water Works
Muster in Two Regiments First and Second Illinois Infantry
The First and Second Illinois Infantry of the National Guard become fighting units for service in Mexico. Camp Dunne Springfield June 28. Urgent orders from Major General Bercy rushed all available troops into government service, following the preparation after the First regiment.
Reformor Under Arrest Charged With Framing Outrage
Wilbur Ryman special prosecutor before the grand jury was arrested on subordination perjury affidavit filed by William A. Mellvain chief of police. He is accused of paying David Masterson to testify falsely that Meyer Rollin H Bunch deputy prosecutor and Gene Williams conspired to dynamite Ryman’s house and murder Frank Whitney, a city worker, in front of the police station months earlier.
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Himbelf
Muncie
Ind
Wilbur Ryman
Peperjary
William A. Mellvain
Poltes
di Tefs
Ryman
David
Bat) Megtoraon
Terre Haute
Indianapolis
Masterson
Meyer Rollin H. Bunch
Pope Mellvain
Gene Williams
Forimmer
Frank Whitney
Wdty
Fragmentary note on government action and funds
A damaged snippet describes the new cabinet taking steps after entente powers were granted and a financial action by Grete or Athene. The text is fragmentary and contains garbled phrases about advancing authority and quicker government proceedings.
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Grete
Athene
Jpseten
Tha
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