Italians claim to have driven back Austrians and more
Italians report bold counterattacks driving Austrians from several positions. French destroyer and Italian auxiliary cruiser sunk by submarine. Turks claim major Caucasus and Persian frontier gains. Russians advance checked in Galicia and Volhynia, yet capture Kimpelung. American troops preparing to occupy Mexican border towns. Verdun fighting continues. British front bombardment signals western drive. Carrizal clash leaves Tenth Cavalry largely wiped out per fragmentary reports.
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Caucasus
Paitak Pass
Persian
Galicia
Volhynia
Kimpelung
Carpathians
Bukowina
Juarez
Agua Prieta
Matamoros
Fleury
Thiaumont
Verdun
Berlin
Belgium
France
Tenth Cavalry
Carrizal
Columbus
N. M
Charles T. Boyd
Gomez
Funston
Pershing
San Antonio
Tex
Foreign News Briefs From Europe and Americas
A train with 150 Americans left Mexico City for Vera Cruz. Cologne faces a potato famine threat per Amsterdam Vorwaerts. Dr L Martins de Souza Dantas formally assumes foreign affairs duties in Rio de Janeiro. Greece accepts allied terms including army demobilization. Mercury sinks after a Black Sea mine with 200 plus dead, Petrograd says. Zaimis to form new Athens cabinet after crown council. Ward Line Monterey ports crowded by refugees bound for the United States. American refugees arrive in Vera Cruz but news stays calm. Japan and Russia near protection pact in China. Britain offers to handle US interests in Mexico if war arises.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mexico City
Vera Cruz
Cologne
Rio Janeiro
L. Martins de Souza Dantas
Greece
Mercury
Black Sea
Petrograd
Crown Council
Constantine
Zaimis
Athens
Ward Line
Monterey
United States
Mexico
Japan
Russia
China
London
Associated Press
Great Britain
Nebraska Guard Mobilized as Border Tensions Rise
The state readies border support as preparations at Fort Bliss Texas aim to expand the base hospital. Sioux battalions and cavalry units stand ready for potential service in Mexico, while the Mexican ambassador prompts residents to return home and the War Department faces requests over Carrizal prisoners.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nebraska
Will Orpet
Marion Lambert
Waukegan
Knights Templar
Scottish Rite Temple
Los Angeles
Lee S. Smith
Pittsburg
el Paso
Tex
Fort Bliss
Mexico
Custer
Little Big Horn
Billings
Mont
Washington
Frederick Funston
War Department
Carrizal
Chihuahua City
Congress Passes Civil Appropriation and Mexican Situation Measures
The House approved a 127000000 civil appropriation bill and debated Latin American mediation. A rural post roads program seeks about 5 million annually. The U S asked Britain to guard American interests in Mexico. Entente allies may subordinate munitions contracts to U S needs. A resolution created a National Guard emergency and funded families of guardsmen at front. Customs on the Mexican border ordered to hold shipments and keep rail stock on the U S side.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
House Post Office Committee
United States
Great Britain
Mexico
Congress
House
Aviation hero Immelmann reported killed and other sports notes
The report states Lieutenant Immelmann is killed. Argentine airmen Zuloaga and Bradley crossed the Cordilleras in a balloon. Olga Dormer sails to defend 100 yard title in San Francisco July 4. Harvard wins freshman two mile at Yale Harvard regatta. Fulton Willard bout discussed at 45000 offer. Troop D stay impact on Colorado football. Edwin Evans and Gerry Chapman exit to service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Zuloaga
Bradley
Cordilleras Andes
Olga Dormer
Philadelphia
San Francisco
Harvard
Thames
New London
Conn
Fred Fulton
Jess Willard
Willard
Tom Jones
Harry Sherman
James Connelly
Minneapolis
University of Colorado At Boulder
Edwin V. Evans
Gerry Chapman
Knights Templar Conclave Scheduled in Philadelphia for 1919
Reports note Philadelphia designated as the site for the thirty fourth tri ennial conclave of the Knights Templar with the Grand Encampment to begin on the second Tuesday in September 1919. Other items describe a Springfield war wedding, a Chicago broker's marriage, Pancho Villa era claims, Mexican battlefield casualties, border troop appeals, a New York estate dispute, and political candidacy within the old guard.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
Knights Templar
Charles Pryor
Pancho Villa
Mexico
Topeka
Kan
el Paso
Carrizal
Felix Gomez
Chihuahua City
Chihuahua
Arizona
Douglas
Ariz
T. F. Davis
Arizona Military District
Douglas and
Bisbee
George W. P. Hunt
Arizona News in Brief From Prescott to Chandler
Pioneer celebration set for July 4 to 7 in Prescott. National Guard donations of tobacco and luxuries reported. Chloride cooks form local union as Chloride grows. A Santa Fe accident near Yuma fatally injures Phoenix resident. $500,000 sale of sheep and cattle interests from Winslow. Mining meetings planned in Arizona, North Oatman townsite announced. Ore gains at Pioneer mine valued at $14 per ton. Tombstone smelting fire causes $50,000 loss. Gilt Edge miners offer stock for pay. Nellie Wiseman court case collapses as defendant faints. Yaqui-Indian and border clashes kill and wound multiple. New depot planned for Buckeye. Pocahontas mine to resume. Nuevo Mundo Mining organized near Wenden with rich copper and gold. Prospector Jim Parks killed. Norton Hand detained near Campas. Large Yellowstone ranch sale near Willcox for about $150,000 plus 3,500 cattle. Chandler area residents seek 10,000 acres for Water Users project.
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Pioneer
Consolidated Arizona Smelting Company
Tombstone
Kingman
United States
Cienega Fria
Arizpe
Sonora
Agua Prieta
Calles
Presidente Municipal
Buckeye
Pocahontas Copper Queen Mining Company
Mayer
Gray Eagle Reduction Company
Pocahontas Holdings
Nuevo Mundo Mining Company
Ellsworth
Wenden
Harqua Halas Mountains
Jim Parks
Norton Hand
Campas
Douglas
Nacozari
Arizona
Tucson
Ben McKinney
Cochise County
Yellowstone
Willcox
Deming Isaacson
Chandler
Water Users’ Association
70,000 Guards Rush To Border Under Wilson Orders
The United States readies 70,000 National Guards to bolster border defenses under Gen. Pershing amid US demands on Carranza. Wilson warns Congress to act if Mexico refuses, as Carranza concentrates troops near Chihuahua where American prisoners are held.Military districts shift to guard deployments and logistics.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Wilson
Carranza
United States
Trevino
Mexico
Congress
Carranzas
Chihuahua
Gen. Pershing
Columbus
N. M
Buestillos
Chihuahua City
San Antonio
Tex
Rio Grande
Texas
Funston
Mining and Ore Outlook In Arizona and West
Prices for metals are listed with lead at 7.00 in New York and bar silver at 65c. Copper casting at 26.62. Tungsten in Boulder 25 to 30 per unit of 60 percent. Mines at Secret Pass and Mazatlan Range deposits noted. The Emporia group on Groom creek and Midnight shaft deeper to ore. Dividends from 35 copper miners near 27 million in Q1 1916.
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New York
St. Louis
Boulder
Colo
Secret Pass
Chloride
Mazatlan
Arizona
Bluebird
Emporia
Groom Creek
Hackberry
Kingman
Silver prices hover around sixty four cents per ounce
Ore shipments from Rico and Durango smelter activity highlight mining during April. Little Maude prospect on Ute mountain draws interest while Cripple Creek sees new companies. Boulder tungsten market unsettled with leasers set by large firms and Blue Jay Burnt Mountain sale for 30000.
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Rico Camp
Little Maude
Ute Mountain
Montezuma County
Hay and Herron
Rico
Durango
Enterprise
Cripple Creek
Boulder County
Boulder
Arizona
Colorado
Blue Jay
Burnt Mountain
Ward
Russians Advance South and Austrians Retreat in Italy
Russian cavalry occupies a position near Pezoritz in Bukowina after fighting Austro-Hungarian forces. German claim cites capture near Cote de Froide Terre at Verdun as a major Verdun success. Italian war office reports an Austro-Hungarian retreat across the Trentino in a twenty mile sector with villages burned. British report a signal victory over Germany in East Africa.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Petrograd
Pezoritz
Kimpelung
Bukowina
Cote de Froi de Terre
Fleury
Verdun
Rome
Trentino
Italian War Office
East Africa
Mining activity grows in New Mexico and adjacent states
In the Mogollon district all mines remain active and oil exploration expands into San Juan and Eddy counties. The Shiprock Oil and Gas Company is incorporated at Farmington while George E. Moffett of Alamogordo starts Zero Gold and Copper Mining Company to operate his long-held parcels. 1915 gypsum output totals 2 447 611 short tons valued at 6 592 893 down from 1914, with Arizona Colorado New Mexico and Wyoming noted as producing states in a government bulletin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mogollon
Shiprock Oil and Gas Company
Farmington
Socorro Mining Company
New Mexico
San Juan
Eddy
George E. Moffett
Alamorgordo
Otero County
Zero Gold
United States
Arizona
Colorado
Wyoming
Roosevelt Rejects Progressive Nomination Supports Hughes
Col Theodore Roosevelt refuses Progressive presidential nomination and urges Bull Moose backing for Charles Evans Hughes in a letter to the national committee. He denounces the Democratic administration and says he will actively back Hughes for patriotic Americanism.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Theodore Roosevelt
Bull Moose National Committee
Charles Evans Hughes
Roosevelt
Hughes
Grass Creek Petroleum Company Formed in Wyoming Oil Field
Experts report a major undeveloped oil field in Fremont County near Grass Creek. The Grass Creek Petroleum Company is organized with a capital of 1,000,000,000 dollars to operate in the Grass Creek oil field nine miles north of Lander.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wyoming Petroleum Company
Lander
Fremont County
Grass Creek
Grass Creek Petroleum Company
Woman Avoids Operation in Astoria Claim
Astoria New York resident Mrs Joan A Kornic credits Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with restoring her health and avoiding surgery after two years of illness. She reports relief from back pain stomach pains chills and fatigue within weeks and walking and eating normally again. The Pinkham laboratory booklet notes many cases where operations were advised but not performed or were unsuccessful before using the compound.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Astoria
N. Y
Lydia E. Pinkham
Joan A. Kornic
Flushing Avenue
Pinkham Laboratory
Lysia
Pinkam
Dutch Make Rapid Mark After Zuider Zee Pumping feat
The 85,000 acre inland lake north of Amsterdam was drained with the Zuider Zee dikes restored and a giant pumping plant installed. Pumping removed about 200 million cubic meters of water in two months. Dutch engineers claim an unequaled achievement in hydrographic engineering.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amsterdam
Zuider Zee
Birthday Gift Temptation at Princeton Tiger
In a playful exchange, one character asks what the other wants for a birthday while the reply teases a desire for something wonderfully expensive and new from a beloved, reckless boy. The tone carries light flirtation and school newspaper whimsy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Princeton
Bloodless Battle in a Distant City
A veteran returns from war but is revealed to lead a local vice squad away from Europe. The exchange highlights surprise at his post and the clash between wartime heroism and policing a distant city.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Europe
One is Either With the Winners or With the Losers Grape Nuts
A terse ad line proclaims a choice between champions and also rans, invoking Grape-Nuts breakfast cereal as a cultural touchstone. The phrase hints at competition and loyalty, typical of midcentury advertising tones.
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Western
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Immelmann
Omaha Peewee Ereee
Lincoln
Ee Eesene
Wichita Ee
Des Moines
Denver Seers
Sioux City
See
Springfield
Ill
Dunne
John Matz
Battery
Frances Schramm
Buriington
Iowa
Gertrude Claypoole
John W. Bookwalter
Ohio
Newark
Edward Swann
Charles B. Warren
Michigan
Crane-Penrose
Old Guard
Arizona State News
Western Newspaper
Union News Service
Prescott
New Mexico Bankers’ Association
Grand Canyon
Wien
Phoenix
The
National Guard of Arizona
Temperance Federation of Arizona
J. J. Zahry
Miami
Globe
Charles Effinger
Santa Fe
Barnwell
Yuma
Tom Pollock
Colin Campbell
Flagstaff
J. H. Fuller
Winslow
American Institute of Mining Engineers
Oatman
North Oatman
Mercuvar
Harqua Hala
Salome
Nellie Wiseman
Mina Riojo
Baviacora
Sonora River
Huevo
Lansing
Mining and Oil News
Isabella Mines Company
Buena Vista
Silverton
Geological Survey
Italy
Foe
Modest Girl
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