Diaz Plans and heeds fate amid Mexican crisis
General Felix Diaz, nephew of Porfirio Diaz, hides in Harlem with a guard as he weighs options to influence Mexico’s war. He contemplates statecraft or flight, aided by a $5 million fund suggested to back his presidential bid and a Washington presence to sway Huerta Carranza and Villa.
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New York
Huerta
United States
Mexico
Felix Diaz
Porfirio Diaz
Frio Grande
Harlem
Noperso
Niazoc
Isuard
Diaz
Senor Dean
General Diaz
Mexico City
Senor del Rio
Monte Carlo
Dgaz
Carranza
Aviator Marty Dies After Fall at Hendon
Philippe Marty, a renowned aviator, fell during a flight at Hendon Aerodrome today and died from injuries sustained in the crash. The accident occurred in London on April 26.
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London
Philippe Marty
Hendon
War Sermons Stir Boston Churches Over Mexico Crisis
Clergymen across Boston urged action or peace as war with Mexico loomed. Speakers at People's Temple Second Universalist Second Church Park Street and Arlington sermons mixed prayers for peace with calls for invasion or intervention to defend Americans and the flag. One minister prayed for Daniel A. Haggerty, Cambridge boy and first war casualty.
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Mexico
Boston
People’s Temple
L. T. Townsend
Huerta
Minister Attacks Huerta and Wilson in Scenic Temple Sermon
Rev Herbert S Johnson of Warren Avenue Baptist Church denounces Huerta as a yellow dog drunkard and murderer while criticizing President Wilson for blundering over recognition. He says war may be required if mistakes persist but hopes to avoid it, citing jungle politics in Washington.
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Huerta
Herbert S. Johnson
Warren Avenue Baptist Church
Scenic Temple
Wilson
Southern Republic
United States
Germany
England
Mexico
Johnson
Washington
War Call Drives Universalist Minister to Join Fifth Regiment
Rev Dr Stephen Herbert Roblin of the Second Universalist Society, whose church on Columbus Avenue burned, declared in a Werleyen Hall sermon that if the flag goes to war with Mexico he will go as chaplain to the Fifth Regiment. He urged support for President Wilson and Secretary Bryan and praised war as a sacrifice for patriots.
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Stephen H. Roblin
Second Universalist Church
Fifth Regiment
Park Street
A. Z. Conrad
Wilson
Herbert Johnson
Werren Avenue Baptist Church
Huerta
Mexico
China
Arlington
New Old South Church
W. H. Butler
Boston
Society of Universalists
Columbus Avenue
Stephen Herbert Roblin
Roblin
Werleyan Hall
Bryan
Cambridge minister honors Hagerty in wartime sermon
Rev. Dr. J L Campbell of First Baptist Cambridge praised Daniel Hagerty the Cambridge marine killed at Vera Cruz. He denounced Mexican insults to the flag, warned that peace is unlikely, and urged readiness as world war tensions rise.
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Huerta
Mexico
J. L. Campbell
First Baystist Church of
Cambridge
Campbell
Daniel Haggerty
Vera Cruz
Spiritual Guide’s Calming Resolve in War Call
The speaker, the regiment’s spiritual guide, describes duties in war as gruesome and dangerous yet necessary. He expresses personal bonds with the soldiers, likening them to sons, and pleads for restraint but vows readiness to answer the nation’s call if required.
Pastor Criticizes War Pushers At Common
Dr A Conrad of Park Street Congregational Church condemns War hawks and Wilson policies from the pulpit. He warns against provoking war with Mexico and slams organizers of a recent patriotic mass meeting as criminals and a disgrace to the city.
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A. Conrad
Park Street
Praise for Troops and Civilizational Clash
The Rev. Dr. W. M. Tufts praised soldiers heading to war in Mexico as braver in daily duty than in any general cause. He contrasted dying for a cause with daily self sacrifice, likening the Mexican war to a civilization clash driven by Bible versus church.
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Mexico
W. M. Tufts
First Presbyterian Church
St. Stephen
Insults at Marine Funeral Lead to Beating and Fine
In New York on April 26 Rudolph Griege of the Bronx assaulted mourners at a marine funeral by insulting the American flag. He was beaten and later sent to the workhouse for five days after refusing to pay a fine. Eight marines from the navy yard in Brooklyn led the hearse procession at 400 West Thirty-eighth Street when the tirade began.
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New York
Rudolph Griege
McCombs Place
Bronx
Nolan
JT. W. W
Navy Yard
Brooklyn
West Thirty-eighth Street
Griege
Somerville Patrolman Woodsum Dies After Collapse
Patrolman Eugene A. Woodsum of the Somerville police collapses in the North station waiting room about 9 p.m. and dies minutes later from heart failure after a trip to New Hampshire to visit his father. He was 50, lived at 17 Bromfield Road, Somerville, and died at the North Grove street morgue.
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Eugene A. Woodsum
Somerville
North Station
Boston
New Hampshire
North Grove Street
Woodsum
Bromfield Road
Villa Affirms Alignment With President Over Mediation
El Paso April 26 Villa accepts the Wilson mediation approach over offers from Brazil Argentina and Chile. He knows the South American diplomat and prefers Wilson diplomacy. After studying the notes with General Felipe Angeles he said he was satisfied with the proposed mediation.
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Woodrow Wilson
Brazil
Argentina
Chile
Felipe Angeles
Juarez
Carranza Silent on Mediation Efforts in Mexico
General Venustiano Carranza, head of the constitutionalists, received word Argentina Brazil and Chile offered mediation over the Mexican question but declined to speak for publication. He awaits President Wilson's forthcoming statement while preferring the U.S. handle the affair alone if possible.
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Chihuahua
Mex
Venusticino Carranza
Constitutionalists
Argentina
Brazil
Chile
Wilson
Mexico
Vera Cruz
Carranza
United States
Washington
el Paso
Huerta
Villa
National Palace
Cientificos
Veabe
SP Railroad Moves Special Train to Nogales
Washington reports the Southern Pacific superintendent at Nogales arranged a special Tos Mosechis train to transport a number of Americans to Nogales Arizona for an unspecified movement or purpose. The dispatch underscores government rail coordination in the border region.
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Washington
Southern Pacific Railroad
Nogales
Tos Mosechis
Ariz
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