Senate panel backs guarded Huerta recognition plan
Ambassador Henry Lane Wilson won stronger Senate Foreign Relations Committee support for recognizing the Huerta government in Mexico. After three hours of questioning, many senators urged serious consideration of a restricted recognition to bolster the government until elections on October 26. The White House and Bryan remained opposed to recognizing Huerta now.
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Mexico
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Ambassador presents his case before Senate committee
The ambassador to Mexico lays out his side of the case to the Senate committee after prior briefings to the President and Secretary of State. His favorable reception among committee members suggests the administration may share the prize information gathered by Hare and Del Valle with the panel.
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Big Battle Looms Near Sa Ho In Kiang Si Province
Kiang Si front reports a major engagement nearing Sa Ho as northern forces rush to the line. Four Japanese prisoners from the Hukow forts relocation to Hankow is confirmed. Rear Admiral Nicholson of the US Asiatic Fleet arrives to visit Ku Ling to review local conditions.
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Boston Navy Yard To Manufacture Matting And Chain
The Charlestown navy yard becomes the distribution center for all navy wire matting. Materials will be manufactured locally at the yard creating employment. Washington reported the yard’s bid for matting work was accepted and the contract awarded, with the yard also producing chain items.
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Foss and Crane Hold Private State House Talk
Governor Foss and former Senator W Murray Crane met in a 25 minute closed conference at the State House. Reporters noted the surprise visit and its potential impact on Foss’s bid for a fourth term in the Republican nomination race. Details of the meeting were not released.
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Crane withholds pledge amid Foss nomination talk at Cape visit
Senator Crane refrained from pledging support for Governor Foss in the Republican nomination battle. He said he found Foss acceptable but warned active party members might oppose him. Crane predicted Foss Goetting would form a strong ticket in primaries and noted labor votes from Bird and Walsh could split the labor bloc. Foss boasted of broad support and Nye, Fitzgerald, and Quigley joined the executive discussions on Foss’s fourth term bid.
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Middlesex Officials Criticised In Audit Report
The State Commission on Economy and Efficiency urges Governor Foss to obtain opinions from the Attorney General on official responsibilities for Middlesex county accounts. The panel, examining a nearly $40,000 defalcation, faults East Cambridge’s House of Correction manufacturing oversight as too lax to prevent larger losses.
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Foss
Middlesex County
House of Correction
East
Cambridge
Middlesex County Jail Defalcation Sparks Audit Dispute
Levi S Gould chairman of the Middlesex County Board of Commissioners cites a blame game over a nearly $40,000 defalcation at the jail workshop. He says the prison commissioners and the county controller share responsibility for failure to audit and disclose the shortage.
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Levi Ss. Gould
Board of County Commissioners
Pomeroy Claims Nail Found in Prison Yard
Jesse Pomeroy admitted to Warden Bridges that a steel nail and tin can cover found in his cell were picked up during yard exercise. Officers say he planned to forge a saw and file from the items, citing a prior incident of crafting a saw from similar materials. He, age 54, faces 37 more years of confinement starting September 6.
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Bridges
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Cherry Hill
Cloakmakers Strike in Baltimore for Shorter Hours and Wages
About 800 cloakmakers walked out in Baltimore today seeking shorter working hours and higher wages. Seventy manufacturers were affected by the strike.
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Peace Centennial At Fort Erie Celebrated On Niagara Frontier
A century of peace along the Niagara frontier was celebrated at Fort Erie with thousands from both sides attending. Speakers included Lt. Col. Sir John M. Gibson Ontario’s Lieutenant Governor Dr J A MacDonald State Engineer John A Bensel and John A Stewart New York chair of the National Peace Committee of the United States.
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John A. Stewart
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Senator Proposes July 4 as Father’s Day Honor
Washington July 30 Senator J Hamilton Lewis announces plans to introduce a bill setting aside July 4 as Father s Day to recognize the father figure in the American family alongside existing Mother s Day and Children s Day .
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J. Hamilton Lewis
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