Army Invades Cuba as 82 Transports Lead 15000 On Board
The first invasion fleet sails from Key West escorting 82 transports with 15000 officers and men. Battleships cruisers and gunboats guard the armada while cable work aims to restore direct lines to command. The push toward Santiago and Cuban landing is expected within days with Admiral Sampson in charge of shore protection.
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Key West
War Department
Hero
Santiago
Sampson
Admiral Sampson
Guantanamo
State Department
United States
New York Infantry
Massachusetts Infantry Volunteers
United States Volunteer Cavalry
Woods
Theodore Roosevelt
Department
Second United States Cavalry
Engineer Corps
Army
Admiral Cervera
Cadiz
War Board
Arcsiy
Manila Expedition Advances To Philippines Transport Fleet Forming
San Francisco June 14 The Army orders 4000 troops for the second transport fleet to the Philippines including the Tenth Pennsylvania First Colorado First Nebraska two regular battalions from Eighteenth and Twenty-third Infantry a detachment from engineers and Utah light infantry with the Idaho battalions slated for the third expedition due to the Morgan City not ready Camps are being stripped and wagons loaded. Camp Merritt health concerns grow measles cases total across several states plus a new 24 hour rise.
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Ajor
Otis
Philippines
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Pennsylvania
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Colorado
Hale
Nebraska
Bratt
Eighteenth
Twenty-third Infantry
French
Engineer Corps
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Young
Jones
Idaho
Morgan City
Camp Merritt
Indiana
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Port Angeles
Henry Page
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Oregon
Iowa
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North Dakota
Toaha
Coppinger to Lead Them in Tampa Expedition
General Cop pinger commands troops at Tampa and is expected to head the next expedition bound for Porto Rico. Fitzhugh Lee's corps likely to Cuba for Havana strike. National League games include Cincinnati 6 Louisville 4 and Washington 5 Baltimore 1. New York 4 Brooklyn 5 Philadelphia ? Western leagues show Milwaukee 4 Kansas City 7, Minneapolis 6, Detroit 3. Western associations Ottumwa 2 Hook Island %,
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Porto Rico
Fitzhugh Lee
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Havana
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Louleville
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Brooklyn
Boston
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Milwaukee
Kansas City
Minneapolis
Columbus
D. St. Paul
Detroit
Ottumwa
Hook Island
Pickets Return Safe in Jamaica Jamaica 1608
Lieutenants Wendell Neville and Melville Shaw of the First Battalion Marines, missing during a Sunday fight, return to camp with 80 men. They were surrounded by Spaniards, killed at least five attackers, and later reinforced by Texan marines as ships shelled enemy woods.
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Prow Publishing
Port
Awnonto
Jamaica
Jane
Wendell
Neville
Melville J. Shaw
Shaw
Huntington
Osimanera
Drowned Boys in McIntyre’s Undertaking Estab
Four youths Johnny Whittaker Darwin Wilson Ray Leeter and Fred Jepson died after a raft capsized in ten feet of water on a pond. None could swim and all sank before aid arrived. Bodies recovered too late for resuscitation. Educator Goes to Chicago in Iowa Resignation Orion O Scott, superintendent of Oskaloosa public schools, resigns to lead Berwyn Clyde La Verne Morton Park schools in Chicago subdivision.
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Darwin Wilson
Ray Leeter
Fred Jepson
McIntyre
Chicago
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Orion O. Scott
Oskaloosa
Berwyn
Clyde
la Verne
Morton Park
Second Manila Expedition Sets Sail From Tampa
Troops for the second Manila expedition boarded at 10 o clock and the fleet plans to sail Wednesday. Seventeen Nebraska men have mild measles, spreading but not severe. Marines at Guan t anamo Bay repelled a Spanish attack as warships shell the brush. transports depart Tampa and boats are en route. Press censorship to be lifted tomorrow.
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Cadiz
Cuba
War Board
Guantanamo Bay
United States
Creat Hill
Manila
Nebraska
Tampa
Des Moines recruits for Iowa regiments and signal corps
Sixteen officers and men arrived from Jacksonville to recruit for the Fiftieth and Fifty-second Iowa regiments and to enlist a band for the Fiftieth. Captain Lyman ordered to recruit a company for the signal corps.
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Des Moines
Jacksonville
Iowa
Lyman
Signal Corps
Everything New One Price At Atlantic Store
Cool good summer coat fast color. A fine non shrinkable crash men's suit serge skeleton lined coats and vests. Linen pants for only straw hats 25c to all styles crash hats 25c. Madras negligee latest colorings from 25c up. Best line of suits for Iowa Day at the Trans Miss Exposition in Atlantic. Everything new and strictly one price to all.
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Atlantic
Chas
W. Little
Park Hotel
Manilla
Little
Kirksville
A.I. Still
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Thomas Little
Leiter's Wheat Debacle Sends Shock Through Markets
June 14 report traces Joseph Leiter's massive wheat positions, heavy selling, and price dives across Chicago Duluth and Minneapolis. Traders say Leiter closed trades at open, losses blamed on European ventures, and trustees to settle the deal amid margin calls.
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Board of Trade
Joseph Lestey
Leiter
Northwest
Duluth
Minneapolia
Coge
Chicago
Allen & Grier
Jana
Armour
Lamson Bros
Joseph Leiter
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