Mediation advances in Mexican dispute at Niagara Falls
Reports from the Niagara Falls talks show mediators and delegates making general progress toward a settlement between the Huerta government and the United States. Officials say the mediators act as counselors not dictators and stress secrecy. Jose Requena Felix Diaz and Coelhio Ocon left for Toronto after backing mediation.
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Niagara Falls
United States
Huerta
Jose Requena
Felix Diaz
Coelhio Ocon
Toronto
Washington
Mexico
Carranza
Carranga
Mexico City
Capitol Avenue to Get Swift Street Improvements
City Commissioner Dan C. Barksdale announced Capitol avenue will be improved and work will start soon based on city plans. A three member committee with the city engineer will coordinate paving, sidewalks, gutters, and street lighting between the Union Pacific station and the capitol, with work to begin shortly.
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Capitol Avenue
Dan C. Barksdale
Council Chamber
City Hall
Barksdale
Union Pacific
Nineteenth
Capitol
Thomas Heaney
William DuBois
Timothy Dyer
R. D. Goodrich
Several Die Auto Riding Last Sunday
Chicago records indicate the Sunday crash toll reached 11 across five states. At Marion TJ John Cline and his 32-year-old son died when a Chicago and Eastern Illinois freight train struck their automobile. Dana I Mra C Savers and her daughter-in-law Mra Ben Savera perished when their car was struck by a Big Four train.
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Chicago
Marion
John Cline
Eastern Illinois
Dana
Mra
C. G. Savers
Ben Savera
Three Party Chairmen Predict Fall Campaign Outcomes
Republican Frank P. Woods and Progressive William Hinebauch forecast Democratic House losses and a strengthened progressive and Republican presence. They claim public disapproval of Wilson administration, while Democratic Frank E. Doremus touts confirmed reforms and asks voters to keep a Democratic majority to support Wilson.
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House of Representatives
Wilson
Frank P. Woods
Towa
Republican Congressional Campaign Committee
Iina
Woodrow Wilson
Five Gangsters Die in Bloody Hell's Kitchen Fights
New York on May 25 reports say five gangsters were killed and three wounded as battles broke out on Manhattan streets. Police detained 25 suspects after gun battles on the east and west sides, including Ninth Avenue and West 46th Street. A dance hall clash at Abington Square involved the Hudson Dusters and Gophers, with gunman Frank Hillock dying behind the ear. The toll from the Sunday clashes included three deaths on the west side and one on the east, with more injured and many fleeing tenements.
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New York
Manhattan
Hell’s Kitchen
Hell's Kitchen
Ninth Avenue
Weat Forty-sixth Street
Stryker
Weat Forty-seventh Street
Abington Square
Weat Elde
Hudson Dusters
Gophers
Frank Hillock
Hillock
New York Hospital
Lower West Side
Langford Knocks Out Watkins in Fourth Round Fight
Rochester May 15 Sem Langford the heavyweight defeated Bill Watkins of Nashville by knockout in the fourth round of a ten round march in Rochester.
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Rochester
Sem Langford
Bill Watkins
Nashville
Agricultural development of southeastern Wyoming
A survey by J R Carpenter highlights non irrigated dry farming in Laramie county since 1908. It notes 50 new schoolhouses since 1908 in School District No 8, five railroad towns with grain elevators, and over $100,000 in butter shipments. Ranching shifted to diversified farming with increasing cattle and horse numbers and growing crop production.
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Congress
Repubcan
Pennsylvania
Ohio
Illinois
Kansas
California
Frank E. Doremus
Michigan
Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee
J. R. Carpenter
Wyoming State Farm Association
Laramie County
Wyoming
Cheyenne
Laramie Mountains
Union Parific
Roosevelt
Homs
Iown
Denver
Tve
Hormel
Broad Divide
Table Mountain
Colorado and Heathern
Conmaued
Travelogue Entrancing Audience at St Mark’s Hall
The Leader reports Dr. Vosburgh’s travelogue show lasting two hours with moving color pictures of Singapore Batavia and tropical scenes. The speaker’s explanations enhanced the viewing as audiences enjoyed vivid native life landscapes and a preview of Scotland and Wales with Burns songs and legends of Bruce Wallace and Scott.
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Vosburgh
Java
St. Marke
Abe
Vosburg
Paradise
Tropica
Indian Ocean
Singapore
Batavia
Scotland
Wales
Burns
Robert Burns
Glasgow
Edinburgh
Highlands
Fingle's Cave
Clyde
Bruce
Wallace
Mary
Queen of
Walter Scott
Robert Burana
Presbyterian Moderator Plans Revivals At Assembly
Chicago May 20 The general Assembly of the Presbyterian church enters its final five days with focus on home missions board structure. Overtures on this issue dominate the committee agenda while ministerial relief contemplates a $10 million fund. Moderator Maitland Alexander urges revivals, arguing emotion fuels religion alongside business and home life.
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Chicago
General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church In
United States
Board of Home Missions
Maitland Alexander
Weather Forecast for Washington May 25
Wyomley reports partly cloudy skies with possible thunderstorms later Tuesday. Wednesday may bring fair to slightly unsettled conditions with showers possible in the afternoon.
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Washington
Wyomley
Wedneslay Fale
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William H. Hinebauch
Progreselys
Congressional Campaign Committee
Progressive Party
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Hatte
Democratic Party
Republican Party
William H. Hinbbaugh
Progressive Congressional Campaign Committee
Langford
Scott
Presbyterian
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