Fronts Report Wide-Scale Fighting in Europe and Near East
The piece notes German Austrian forces pushing in Galicia near Lemberg and Grodek amid stubborn fighting and Russian retreats. It cites French gains in Alsace near Metzeral, Turkish offensives near Avi Burnu, Italian front actions, and a British steamer sinking by a German submarine off Scotland.
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Europe
Lemberg
Grodek
von Mackenzen
Marshal von Arz
Berlin
Kawaluska
Janow
The
Marne
France
Russia
Galicia
Prazemysl
Hungary
Tarnograd
Sieniawa
Krezow
Tarnogred
Vistula
Alsace
Metzeral
Fecht River
Paria
Munster
Serbia
Gal- Vipoli
Caucang
Avi Burnu
Landsturm
Tyrol
Mori
Robereto
Vienna
Playa
Pesaro
Riwini
Fano
Adriatic Sea
Rome
Rimini
Ailsa
Scotland
Osage Nation approves plan to lease rich oil lands in Oklahoma
The Osage tribal council and Secretary Lane approve a plan to lease Osage lands in Oklahoma, ending the Foster lease of 680000 acres by Mlumining Oil Company. Leases will be 4800 acre units with a one sixth royalty, higher at 100 barrels a day for a month, and a $1 per acre annual development payment if lands are developed within a year.
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Washington
Oklahoma
Lane
Interior Department
Wilson
Indian Territory Mluminating Oil Company
Secretary of the Interior
Waleas
Record tax rate in Texas for 1915 16 surpasses prior highs
Austin report notes Texas will fix the largest ad valorem tax rate for 1915 16 with an estimated 290 ad valorem, plus 20c school tax and 5c constitutional tax for Confederate veterans pensions. The total approaches 4.80 per hundred dollars, reflecting generous education funding and penitentiary deficits.
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Austin
Tex
Texas
Bée
State of
Texas Grain Crop Seen Breaking Records This Year
Dallas bankers and grain men estimate Texas wheat harvest at 20 to 24 million bushels with total yield up to 60 to 70 million bushels. Prices vary, but high estimates suggest record money returns for the Texas grain crop this year.
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Dallas
Tex
Texas
Chicago Street Car Strike Ends After Night of Talks
Normal service on Chicago elevated and surface lines resumed Wednesday after a fifty three hour interruption. An agreement reached after an all night session of railway and labor representatives and four council committees led by Mayor Thompson agreed to arbitration of the dispute.
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Chicago, N
Chicago
Thompson
Court Martial Verdict Stands in Paris Case
Paris court of appeals refused to hear appeals by Colonel Francois Desclaux former paymaster general of the French army and by Mme Bechort wife of a German from a court martial verdict convicting them of stealing military stores. Desclaux received seven years solitary confinement with military degradation and Mme Bechort two years imprisonment.
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Paris
Court of Appeals
Francois Desclaux
Mme. Bechort
Desclaux
Mme. Bechoff
Texas Drugglers Elect Officers for 1918 Session
The Texas Pharmaceutical Association elected officers for the next year and chose Fort Worth and Houston as meeting sites. A. M. Fischer of San Antonio was selected as president. Fort Worth was chosen as the 1916 convention city.
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Texas Drugglers
Fort Worth
Houston
Tex
Texas Pharmaceutical Association
A. M. Fischer
San Antonio
Chiefs Villa and Zapata Reply to President Wilson
In a note from Francisco Lagos Chazaro the Villa Zapata convention at Mexico City says President Wilson is not to threaten but supports friendly help to end the fratricidal Mexican struggle. The convention seeks peace with Carranza and questions US intent, noting Wilson's Indianapolis speech on non interference.
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Washington
United States
Francisco Lagos Chazaro
Mexico
Wilson
Carranza
Indianapolis
State Department
General Villa
Bryan predicts global peace opens path to world conference
Washington William J Bryan former secretary of state argued that the greatest peacemaking opportunity in history would come with peace. He said nations would demand an international conference to revise international law, which he asserted favors warring nations over peaceful ones.
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Bryan
Washington
William J. Bryan
United States
Court Denies Becker Rehearing in Murder Case
The New York Court of Appeals refused a request for a re argument by Charles Becker’s counsel. Becker, a former police lieutenant, was condemned for arranging the murder of Herman Rogenthal, a New York gambler. He remains at Sing Sing awaiting execution in the week starting July 12.
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Albany
N. Y
Court of Appeal
Charles Becker
New York Police Coutenant
Becker
Herman Rogenthal
New York
Sing Sing
Yaquis Declare War on Germany in World Conflict
Yaqui Indians declare war on Germany Mexico and the United States. The action follows a Yaqui raid where a German colonist defended his home with notable success amid the ensuing disaster.
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Washington
Germany
Mexico
United States
Villa Zapata Leaders Back Possible Provisional President
Washington reports Manuel Vasquez Tagle minister of justice in Madero's cabinet has been accepted by Villa and Zapata leaders as a workable provisional president if an accord with the Carranza faction can be reached.
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Washington
Manuel Vasquez Tagle
Madero
Mexico
Huerta
Villa-Zapata
Carranza
Man Found Guilty of Homicide in El Paso
Juan Guaderrama was found guilty of second degree murder in the El Paso district court for the killings of Texas Ranger Scott Russell and Deputy Sheriff W. H. Garlick. He received a five year prison sentence.
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el Paso
Tex
Juan Guaderrama
Scott Russell
W. H. Garlick
Noted Woman Writer Elizabeth Armstong Reed Dies
Chicago obituary reports the death of Elizabeth Armstong Reed at 72. mother of the late novelist Myrtle Reed, her Oriental literature works used as college texts and she is regarded as the only woman whose writings were accepted by the Philosophical Society of Great Britain.
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Chicago
Elizabeth Armstrong Reed
Myrtle Reed
Strange Death Message From Paris Violinist
A Paris violinist, wife of a musician, received a signal of danger when two violin strings snapped as she played a piece her husband loved. She later learned her husband Sergeant Remy was killed in action the next day, after he had warned her he might relay news before official channels.
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Paris
Remy
Whimsical Kitchen Banter on Vanilla and Nutmeg
A fragment sketches a playful kitchen exchange about vanilla essence and nutmeg. One speaker boasted a fond association with epicures and a dessert focus while the other claimed a grater as a needed tool.
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Epicures
Quote Reflections on Prospecting and Male Fortunes
The text contrasts belief in soil wealth with personal experience in prospecting and pay dirt. It offers a moral view that men shape much of their own troubles and that female discord may be reduced if men acted differently.
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