Border Raid Brings Lively Tensions At U S Mexico Frontier
From Laredo to Brownsville reports state three American soldiers died and six were wounded in a raid by Mexican forces near San Ygnacio. Mexican casualties and horse captures are listed as part of the confrontation as Carranza troops move toward the border.
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Haz
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San Yenacio
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Alonzo Gray
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San Ygnacio
Tex
Alfredo Ricaut
Matamoros
Ricaut
Johnson
James Parker
Murder or death by own action pact mystery in Providence
A preliminary trial opens for James E. O'Brien over Beatrice Walter's May 31 park shooting near Fort Independence. O'Brien claims they formed a death pact and that she shot herself with his revolver after he urged joint suicide.
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Providence
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William H. Walter
James E. O'Brien
Walter
Fort Independence
O'Brien
Pio
Golfers tee off in Middle Atlantic Championship at Baltimore
The Middle Atlantic Golf Association opens its annual championship at the Baltimore Country Club. Many prominent regional golfers start play this morning with rounds set through Saturday to determine the champion.
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Baltimore
Middle Atlantic Golf Association
Baltimore Country Club
Finnish Lutherans Hold Convention in Superior Wisconsin
Superior today began the annual national convention of the Finnish Evangelistic Lutheran church. Clergy and lay leaders from this region attend, with a few delegates coming from distant points to participate in the event.
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Superior
Wis
Castor Oil Plant Masquerades to Save Its Seeds
The castor oil plant protects its seeds from birds by disguising them as coccinella beetles with bright variegated skins. Birds avoid the seeds, so the mother plant ensures her offspring grow. Seeds are oval about a half inch long, in spiny capsules of three. Archaeologists note ancient Egyptian seeds.
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Philadelphia
Fire Bags At Sea In Whaling And Sealing Days
The article explains that wooden ship crews carried a tarpaulin fire bag about a foot long and six inches wide lined with waterproof material to hold flint and tinder for starting fires. The second mate guarded it, to be worn if shipwrecked, ensuring warmth and food heating. Modern steam whalers still keep a fire bag in lifeboats but made of rubber with six tin match boxes.
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New York Press
Double Eyes Fish of South American Shores
A fish with bifocal eyes uses one half of each lens above water for air vision and the other half underwater. Known as double eyes, it inhabits South American shores and sometimes swims with eyes half out of water. The two lens portions are divided by a dark band, and the fish grows about a foot long. In Brazil it is caught for food.
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South America
Brazil
Philadelphia
Military Salute Origin in Tournament Legend
The London Chronicle notes the salute began in tournament days when knights and participants before a queen raised a hand to the brow as if dazzled by her light. It was a compliment to a higher rank and remains an everyday mark of recognition.
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London Chronicle
Willing to Be the Goat and Prison Jokes Across Papers
A collection of quick quips and misheard lines from early papers. The Chicago Tribune features a theatrical quip about mortal pride while a local heckler offers to be the goat. The Baltimore American notes a rise in telegraph lines in China to about 30,000 miles.
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Chicago Tribune
China
Wilson's Foreign Policy Praised By Senator James
Senator James lauds Wilson's handling of foreign policy in a speech stressing democracy needs a strong army and navy. He claims the current administration built up defense more in three years than Republicans did in forty, vowing no foot of other soil will be taken.
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Senator James Attacks Republican Defense and Policy Record
The speech derides the Republican platform on national defense as inconsistent and ineffective, cites past opposition to a continuous naval policy, and defends Wilson era policies on rural credits and the Mexican situation. It lauds Wilson as a prudent leader managing wartime challenges without broad American casualties.
Kaiser Wilhelm Anniversary Observed Quietly in Berlin
Berlin reports the 28th anniversary of Emperor William I's accession passed without public observances by his own request. In Amsterdam, liberal displays of national colors marked the event while newspapers praised the emperor's conduct in war. A San Francisco minister decries the United States as pagan.
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Berlin
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Bankruptcy discharge petition for H. Ek. Davis filed
In the Southern District of West Virginia H. Ek. Davis of Princeton Mercer County seeks full discharge from debts after adjudication on December 11 last. A hearing is set for July 7, 1916 in Bluefield with notice by mail to known creditors.
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W. Va
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Virginia
West Virginia
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District Court of the United States
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Il. KE. Davis
Mercer
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Bluefield
A. D
Edwin M. Efatl
Y. Clerk
B.C.U
D. W. Va
Fire Alarm Signals Around Central Station Streets
Central Station on Pulaski Street reports fire alarm signals across Bluefield Avenue and nearby streets including Princeton Avenue Russell Raleigh Spruce Poplar Monroe Monroe and Park Bland Williams Jefferson and others. Alarm sent from Central Station to notify fire crews and residents of multiple call points.
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