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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1916
Page
1
In a dramatic presentation resembling Demosthenic rhetoric, a speaker delivers a fervent plea challenging the legality of the English trial. The address emphasizes justice, due process, and appeals to readers to reconsider the process under scrutiny.
23 Cavalrymen reach Juarez where General Bell formally accepts surrender at the International Bridge. Troopers report rough treatment by locals after release, claiming Mexican soldiers treated them well and noting no ill will at the surrender site.
Mexico City June 29 The Mexican War Minister instructed General Trevino at Chihuahua to tell Consul Garcia in El Paso that no impediment would be placed in the way of American authorities removing the bodies of American troopers killed at Carrizal to American soil for burial.
Seventy five people including fifteen critically ill, all members of St George s Episcopal Church, were stricken with ptomaine poisoning after eating a church picnic lunch in Portsmouth Rhode Island. The Rev George Vernon Dickey, pastor, is among those in critical condition.
Police and fire squads rushed to Lawton's Valley six miles from Newport after frantic calls. automobiles taxicabs and wagons transported unconscious victims to hospitals and physicians' homes. Continued on Page 13-Third Col.
Sir Roger Casement was condemned to death shortly after 5 pm after a jury convicted him of high treason. His court speech echoed Emmet’s dock oration, aimed at posterity and friends in Ireland and America rather than altering the verdict.
Washington officials said full compliance by the Mexican de facto government was still required. The Carranza order releasing American prisoners at Carrizal averted immediate retaliation and could aid peaceful settlement, but the key issue remains the Mexican forces' future conduct toward U S troops along the northern border.
The State Department has no word on timing for a diplomatic reply while Carranza backs an urgent external demand before acknowledging the note. The United States presses toward a forceful response, reinforcing troops at the border and planning actions if Mexican forces resist moving toward the frontier.
Two Winthrop women were rescued when Chester C. Patch flagged an oncoming train stopping it about 10 feet from their car after it crashed through gates at the Forest street crossing in Wakefield yesterday afternoon.
Mrs. H. G. Clapp driving a car across the tracks on Foster street hill loses control as brakes fail. Patch the crossing tender signals with a red flag and brings the train to a stop. The car halts with engine front on the crossing and the women recover and proceed. companion refuses to name herself to police.
Five floors display thousands of men’s suits in stripes checks plaids and solid tones with new pinch back one and two button sacks all priced at seven dollars. The best value in the world at fifteen dollars EF. Gray Co. clearance sale for spring and summer clothing Washington street corner Hanover open evenings.
President Wilson told a large Philadelphia audience in Independence Square that America must vindicate its liberty justice and humanity in dealings with other nations America first must be translated into action and guided by the whole people not any single group He spoke of a fighting mood and urged principled policy above selfish interests
The crowd cheered as the President asserted that American principles must be vindicated in foreign relations while stressing liberty justice and humanity. He did not name Mexico or any nation directly. The address emphasized putting America first in policy and action at any cost.
Massachusetts citizens form a general relief fund for soldiers families. The Massachusetts Volunteer Aid Association reports receipts of 86 772 and asks contributions go to treasurer George C Lee with no individual soliciting authorized.
Twenty three United States cavalrymen freed at El Paso after arrest at Carrizal and imprisonment in Chihuahua. They arrived in El Paso and were released to U S army officers.
Negro troopers and Lem Spillsbury arrived by special train from Chihuahua City after night departure. At noon they reached the Mexican border town and at 3 pm they were brought to the international bridge to surrender to Brigadier General George Bell Jr. and the American border patrol under Wilson's demand to Carranza government.
The clippings note continued text and include moon phases new moon and sun setting times, a detail about vehicle lights at a misprinted time, and a line about yesterday's anniversary reporting a Baltic naval battle won by Russians a year ago.
Forecast for Boston and vicinity calls for generally fair conditions Friday and Saturday with light northwest winds turning variable. Also notes forecast for New England and Eastern New York as probably fair on Friday and Saturday.
Entries from Thompson's Spa show times and scores such as 15 16 3 a m and 64 65 with various numbers and a note of an average temperature yesterday at 72. The text also compares to yesterday and last year with figures like 78 23-24 and mentions cashes and div.
National league scores show Brooklyn 2 Boston 1 and Philadelphia 4 New York 0 in the first game with a 5 2 win in the second. Chicago 3 St Louis 2. American league highlights include Washington 38 Boston 0 and Chicago 8 Detroit 2 while St Louis 7 Cleveland 0. A Colorado trip ad promotes Rock Island's Rocky Mountain Limited with travel info at 343 Old South Building Boston.
Police officials urge all National Guard deserters who did not take the federal oath to return to their armories or South Framingham. Governor McCall, Adjutant-General Cole and other state leaders seek to verify the status of nearly 1000 men who yet to comply.
The Militia Bureau states organized militia not under U S laws until muster into federal service. Massachusetts plans to return militiamen not called by the President to Framingham while others may take an oath to join the National Guard. those refusing face discharge.
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