Hughes Accepts GOP Nomination with Call for National Reforms
Charles E. Hughes outlined his campaign issues at Carnegie Hall including firm policy toward Mexico, defense of American rights, preparedness, and a national budget. He endorsed women’s suffrage and urged fiscal reform while criticizing the administration’s diplomacy and economic policy.
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Union News Service
New York
Charles E. Hughes
United States
Congress
Carnegie Hall
Warren Harding
Ohio
Chicago
Hughes
Mr. Hughes
Col
Theodore Roosevelt
Mexico
Santo Domingo
Herrick
Paris
Germany
Lusitania
Salads and garnish techniques from a home cooking guide
A fragment from a homemaking manuscript discusses salad basics and dressing styles. It covers selecting fresh vegetables, timing of dressing, simple French vinaigrette, and flavor enhancers like garlic, parsley powder, and chapon bread. It also describes decorative radish petals, cucumber servings, and endive with garlic rub and chives.
Villistas Kill Americans in Two Clashes
Reports from Chihuahua City detail two battles between Villistas and government troops with heavy losses for the bandits. In Santa Rosalia, Castro’s band is routed. Castro killed and twelve of his men die, Capt. Bautista wounded and two of his men killed. In El Paso, American soldiers with Carranza support kill several bandits who crossed the Rio Grande. two Americans killed and one wounded.
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Chihuahua City
Mex
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Lopez
Santa Rosalia
Bautista
Benito Castro
Castro
el Paso
Tex
Rio Grande
United States
Fort Hancock
Here
Mexico
Carranza Customs Guard
Blast Wrecks Hastings Home In Colorado Dynamite Attack
Dynamite placed on the roof of Steve Antanoche’s one story Hastings dwelling wrecked the house and lightly damaged nearby homes. Antanoche his wife and their ten year old daughter escaped unhurt though shaken. No motive given. This follows another dynamiting in Starkville on July 20 when Superintendent Charles O’Neill’s house was wrecked.
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Trinidad
Colo
Steve Antanoche
Hastings
Antanoche
Charles O’neill
Starkville
Germans Repel Russian Assaults with Heavy Losses
Berlin reports that strong Russian mass assaults against Gen. von Linsingen’s troops were repulsed with heavy losses to the attackers. German forces claim 1,889 Russians captured as they press on the eastern front.
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Berlin
von Linsingen
Federal Officers to Drop Charge Against Connell
Denver post office inspectors expect no trial for J. W. F. Connell a Denver businessman and Insmont postmaster now under arrest in Sydney Nebraska on murder and bank robbery charges They believe Nebraska authorities have a clear case against Connell and his alleged Denver accomplice R G Lukens making further investigation useless
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Post Office
J. W. F. Connell
Insmont
Colo
Sydney
Neb
Iasmont
Nebraska
Connell
R. G. Lukens
Dinner in the Woods A Picnic Menu Of Fish And Egg Dishes
A cooking guide for picnic baskets lists veal loaf and deviled eggs as fillings and urges hot sandwiches with cheese and chutney. It details halibut salad, salt mackerel salad, cowslip and cream cheese salad, shad roe with cucumber and a fishy potato twist, all with simple seasonings and ready to pack for a woodland meal.
Leftover Meals Featured From A London Club
Practical ideas for repurposing leftovers include ham bits in white sauce for lamb chops, mutton Creole style with brown stock and macaroni, chicken fillets with citrus and mushroom sauce, and frozen ice cream variations. Kipling quote closes the piece.
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London
How to Mark Fishing Spots and a Humorous Moment
An article explains marking fishing spots by fixing objects in four directions to create intersecting lines in water. It also reprints a humorous Brookline tale where a child jokes that his father’s new wife isn’t new at all after a wedding.
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New York Sun
Charlie
Brookline
Mosquito Chase Story Outshines Civil War Tale
At a recent smoker Congressman Riordan recalled a war story, but the crowd learned he was describing a mosquito chase along Barnegat bay, not a Civil War battle. The anecdote amused attendees and highlighted a humorous misdirection from a veteran tale.
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Daniel J. Riordan
New York
Barnegat Bay
Philadelphia Telegraph
Waiter Overcharges Diner in Humorous Tale
In a London Tit-Bits joke a diner swallows a bone and is attended by a waiter who helps him recover. The bill comes with a shilling charged to sundries and the waiter claims choking is an extra. The remark ends with a wry aside about life’s hardest problems.
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Chokin
London
Castoria Ad Excerpt Emerges in 1920s Style Warning
Mothers urged to inspect every bottle of Castoria for the signature and to trust the remedy for infants and children. The ad touts a 30 year track record and notes children cry for Fletcher's Castoria.
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Fletcher
Johnny Manners and the Apple Pudding Lick
A humorous Life observation notes how a child Johnny licked his saucer clean after finishing apple pudding. His mother gasps at the act, while the boy calmly replies that dogs do such things. The vignette highlights parental concerns about training behavior in children.
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Johnny
Cuticura Hair and Scalp Remedy Ad Promises Ease
An advertisement extols Cuticura Soap for cleansing dandruff crustings and Cuticura Ointment to soothe irritations with a free sample offer by mail. It touts the products as economical emollients for all ages and notes availability through Cuticura Dept. L Boston.
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Cuticura
Dept. L
Boston
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