Two Brigades Sailed for Mexico as U S Mobilizes
Washington ordered the Fourth and Sixth brigades at Texas City to embark for Mexico aboard three chartered transports Denver Colorado and Ossaban. Carranza arrived at Torreon with staff and Villa met him at the station as tensions mount in the Mexican crisis.
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Galveston
Washington
United States Army
Texas City
Mexico
Denver
Colorado
Mallory Line
Ossaban
Texas City Steamship Company
Torreon
Carranza
Constitutionalists
Villa
General Chao
Chihuahua
Barleycorn Quits Illinois After Drought
Chicago May 8 John Barleycorn limped from Illinois with a broken rail and a hung starter, leaving 1100 saloons tied to a two year ban as counties face drought era closures. He closed his booze emporium at midnight across 800 towns amid falling prices and jittery markets.
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Chiqgago
John Barleycorn
Illinois
John
Road Funds Move Toward Five Million Plan
Washington May 8 a Senate post office sub committee is close to agreeing on a bill to appropriate five million dollars for federal good roads. The measure would replace a house bill seeking twenty five million dollars and a sub committee meeting is expected this week to discuss the plan.
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Washington
Senate Post Office Committee
House
Ringling Files for Divorce After Forty Years of Marriage
Baraboo Wisconsin May 8 Albert Ringling founder of the Ringling Brothers circus aged 64 has filed suit for divorce. He and his wife were married forty years and their separation comes as a great surprise. They have no children.
Women Commend Wilson Words at International Council Meeting
The American delegation led by Mrs. Kate Walker Barrett supported President Wilson’s October Mobile pledge that the United States will not seek new territory by conquest. The committee also backed a US government request to convene an international immigration conference and called for appointing women from each nation to study global devaluation concerns.
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Rome
International Council of Women
Kate Walker Barrett
Washington
Wilson
Mobile
United States
Outa
Field guns marines now use in their Vera Cruz control
Ships at Vera Cruz carry numerous field guns landed by Major Smedley Butler's force. Marines operate the pieces in the open, moving quickly along poor roads. The guns suit inland use but are not suitable for city bombardment. If U S troops advance toward Mexico City these guns would be transported to aid mountain-road operations.
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Vera Cruz
Smedley Butler
Mexico
United States
Mexico City
Storms Across Regions Leave Deaths and Damage
Severe storms killed two in Mississippi and caused widespread damage across Georgia Florida and surrounding areas. Hail ruined cotton and corn in South Carolina and eastern Tennessee crops sustained heavy losses. A cyclone in Danville New Brunswick toppled a horse from a tree and damaged buildings. Clayton New Mexico flooded with ten inches of rain causing business losses and a large drainage project is underway.
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Atlanta
Mississippi
Georgia
Florida
South Carolina
Tennessee
Thousands of Women Prepare March on Congress for Suffrage
Washington awaits as delegations from every state converge for the planned suffrage procession tomorrow. Five to ten thousand suffragists will march from the White House to the Capitol to demand passage of the constitutional amendment granting women the vote.
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Washington
White House
Hristow-Mendell
Debate Over Compulsory Arbitration Dominates Senate
In Denver May, the compulsory arbitration bill sparked fierce clashes as the senate debated amid a long session. The administration measure advanced past the committee of the whole, while a separate bond issue for military expenses drew discussion. Governor Ammons sent Adjutant General Chase’s report on Co. B and Troop A in Ludlow, noting missing details would be gathered.
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Denver
Senate
Tha Ho
Ammons
Chase
Co. B
Ludlow
Two Die As Birmingham Light Plant Office Burns
Fire at the Birmingham Railway, Light and Power company offices destroys the building. Moody Childers and Honey Keyser died after leaping from the top story. It is unclear if any others escaped.
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Birmingham
Birmingham Railway, Light and Power Company
Moody Childers
Honey Keyser
Diggs Acquitted Of Assault Charge In Hotel Case
Maury I. Diggs once a state architect was found not guilty of assaulting Miss Ida Pearring a 18 year old woman in a room at the Holland hotel on New Year’s Eve in San Francisco.
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San Francisco
Maury I. Diggs
Missa Ida Pearring
Funeral cortege of bluejackets in Hampton Roads
Washington, May 8—Secretary Daniels aboard the Mayflower meets the Montana to recover the bodies of bluejackets killed at Vera Cruz. The cortege will travel to New York, land bodies off the battery, and pass through Manhattan with schoolchildren and naval units in the line. President Wilson will deliver the tribute address.
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Washington
Daniels
Navy Department
Potomac
Montana
City Hall Plaza
Manhattan
Schoef
Wyoming
Texas
New York
Naval Militia
Wilson
Suffragist Lillian Lenton Jailed for Fire at Westfield House
Lillian Lenton, a militant suffragist, was sentenced at the assizes in Leeds to one year in prison for setting fire to Westfield house in June of the previous year.
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Leeds
England
Lillian Lenton
Westfield House
Industrial workers pardoned in Denver gathering today
May 26 city officials freed 26 members of the Industrial Workers of the World caught for speaking on streets without permits. Denver residents report about 200 more IWW members are en route, and the group gathers on street corners tonight.
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Denver
May
Industrial Workers of the World
Perkins
Capitol Grounds to Gain Parking and Better Lighting
The capitol commission approves landscape upgrades around the capitol and improvements on Capitol avenue. Sidewalks will widen ten feet for parking, two north entrance lights added to match the south, cement replaces flagging, elm trees planted, and Sherman gravel surface for surrounding streets to be funded by property owners sharing half the cost. William S. Thomas awarded contract, starting in about a week. State officers J L Maard R B Forayth and A J Parshall serve on the commission.
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Capitol Avenue
Capitol
Cirey Avenue
William 8. Thomas
Professional schools enroll 100000 students nationwide
Washington data from the federal bureau of education shows about 100,000 students in professional schools this year. 85,102 are in endowed institutions while the rest attend publicly funded schools. Nursing courses lead with 14,417 students, followed by law 20,878, medicine 17,208, theology 10,905, dentistry 6,?, pharmacy 6,165, and veterinary science 2,324.
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Washingdon
United States
Federal Bureau of Education
Two New Counterfeit Bank Notes Reported
The secret service reports two counterfeit notes. A $5 bill from the National Bank of Tulare California bears the check Jetted d and a $10 note from the Union National Bank of Chandler Oklahoma bears the check Jetter f. Both are from the 1902 1908 series and of poor workmanship.
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Washington
Secret Service
National Bank of
Seth Low Elected to Post as Chamber Leader
New York May date Seth Low former mayor of New York was elected president of the chamber of commerce yesterday. The office was held by his father 50 years ago Abbiel Abbott Low served as president from 1865 to 1907 marking the first time a son followed his father as head of the chamber.
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New York
May
Serth Low
Chamber of Commerce
Chamber
Abbiel Abbott Low
University of Dinnola to Build Large Girls Field
In Urbana Illinois on May 8 trustees set aside a large tract for a girls athletic field at the University of Dinnola. Baseball basketball hockey tennis and volleyball courts will be built and a field prepared for the giant stride. Baseball has recently been introduced as a sport and several girl teams are already playing.
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Urhana
Woman's Athletic Department
University of Dinnola
Becker Jury Fully Secured for Becker Trial
The New York jury for Charles Becker, former police lieutenant of the strong arm squad, is seated. Tomorrow District Attorney Whitman will address the panel, framing Becker as the central drama of the Rosenthal murder conspiracy.
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New York
Charles Becker
Plotte
Herman Rosenthal
Whitman
Becker
W. Bourke Cochran
St Louis Baseball Stock Up As Browns Federals Rally
Local fans in St Louis point to two teams in second place the Browns and the Federals a rare height for the city in years with both squads showing momentum as the season advances.
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ST. Louis
Louis
Browns
Federals
Mound City
Wyoming Weekend Weather Outlook
May weather in Washington reports generally fair conditions for Saturday and Sunday. Light to moderate winds expected with dry skies and mild temperatures shaping weekend plans.
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Washington
Wyoming
Armored cruiser Montana to bring fallen 17 to New York harbor
The armored cruiser Montana bearing the bodies of 17 sailors and marines killed during the Vera Cruz occupation is due to arrive in New York harbor Sunday afternoon. Memorial services at the navy yard will begin at 1 o'clock Monday morning with President Wilson to deliver the tribute.
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Washington, May
Montana
Vera Crag
New York Harbor
Presi
Dent Wilson
New York Oavy Yard
Couple Fined for Immoral Entry in Police Court
James Walsh and Marie Devine of Hutte Mont were fined 20 dollars each for entering a room for immoral purposes. Judge O Leary suspended the fines on condition they leave the city due to extenuating circumstances.
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James Walsh
Marie Devine
Hutte, Mont
O'Leary
Federal Troops Sought for Northern Colorado Crisis
Dispatches from Trinidad Colorado report Colonel James Lockett resisting requests for more federal troops in the northern fields while urging state forces and a 10 am arms surrender. The UMW board in Indianapolis adjourned amid Colorado Ohio and West Virginia tensions and condemned Rockefeller Jr. Three hundred condemned rifles and ammo were seized by federal officers for the United Mine Workers agent at Ruton New Mexico.
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Trinidad
James Lockett
Lockett
Colorado
War Department
Union
Ludlow
Indianapolis
International Executive Board
The
United Mine Workers
Ohio
West Virginia
John D. Rockefeller, Jr
Colo
United Mine Workers of America
Ruton
N. M
New York
Glenwood Springs
Oak Creek
Crested Huttes
Funeral Honors for Gen. Danke Sicklea Held in New York
Funeral services for Gen. Danke Sicklea were held at St Patrick's Cathedral New York with full military honors. A solemn requiem Mass was celebrated by Mer M J Lavelle. Later the body was to be taken to Washington for interment at Arlington.
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New York
Danke BE
St. Patrick's Cathedral
Mer
M. J. Lavelle
Washington
Arlington
Actress Suit Triggers Arrest of Wyoming Broker in NYC Hotel
Colonel Edward Power of Cheyenne Wyoming was arrested in New York City's Rue Cainton hotel after a breach of promise suit by actress Maud Mittern. An attachment for 4950 was issued by Supreme Court Justice Glegerich. Power posted bond. Power, a well known Wyoming broker, was in NYC with attorney Ex-Gov Peninore Chatterton when detained.
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New York City
New York
Hdward Harrison Power
Cheyenne
Wyo
McAlpin
Sherif
Oaks
Colonel Power
Chicago
Leu
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