1913 Brings War End In Balkans To Global Stage
A compact survey of 1913 highlights across the world noting the end of the Balkan War, the U S political shift with Wilson’s era, Huerta’s Mexico upheaval, assassinations in Europe, aviation advances, Panama Canal progress and major disasters and sports triumphs shaping the year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
San Francisco
Balkans
United States
J. P. Morgan
Henry M. Flagler
James R. Keene
Oreglia
Sacred College
Rampolla
Vatican
Pius X
Austria
New York City
New Jersey
Massachusetts
Congress
Mexico
Rio Grande
Francisco Madero
Pino Suarez
Gustavo Madero
Victoriano Huerta
Felix Diaz
Diaz
Huerta
Venustiano Carranza
Carranza
Francisco “Pancho” Villa
Villa
Wilson
South Pole
Scott
Captain Scott
Fredrich Franz Friedmann
France
Germany
Panama Canal
Emmeline Pankhurst
Gettysburg
Harry K. Thaw
Stanford White
Matteawan Insane Asylum
Canada
New Hampshire
England
Colonel Roosevelt
Rio Janeiro
Brazil
Sao Paulo
Buenos_Ayres
Argentine Republic
Valparaiso
Chile
Mendel Bellis
Kiley
Russia
Gamboa
Atrocities Reported as Mexico Turmoil Hits Border
A border man, Henry Miller, recounts mass killings at Monclova with wells poisoned and property burned. He cites Federal orders to devastate haciendas while sparing American property. He estimates losses over 1,000,000 pesos and describes coal-mining fires and widespread destruction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Juarez
Mexico
Henry Miller
Santa Celemania
Coahuila
Paso
Monclova
Miller
Mecarra
Universal Sleep and Curious Observations From Aged Journal
The article surveys sleep as a universal need across living things, noting plants' dormancy due to darkness and bacteria thriving in dark conditions. It cites Freud on only children shaping dysfunctional views of love and marriage, and humorously praises the crow as an ally to farmers over a pest. It ends with caution about tonsil removal, urging careful, sober consideration.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Freud
Boston Medical and Surgical Journal
Radium Deposits Stir Pennsylvania Townsfolk
In Tamaqua Pennsylvania near Mauch Chunk news swirls that radium bearing camplite has been found along the Eastern Pennsylvania Railroad right of way owned by Lehigh Coal and Navigation. Mining men forecast wide regional occurrence though geologist Captain Baird Halberstadt cautions the formation differs from carnolite and profitable extraction remains unlikely.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tamaqua
Mauch Chunk
Eastern, Pennsylvania Railroad
Lehigh Coal & Navigation Co
Baird Halberstadt
Red Cross Aids Mexicans With War Relief Funds
Nogales Arizona reports that the State Department will forward Red Cross aid to Mexican destitute communities. The local consulate is authorized to draw 500 dollars to aid Choix Sinaloa where many are starving due to the war.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nogales
Ariz
State Department
Washington
Red Cross
Mexico
Choix
Sinaloa
James Would Come Later Incidentally Mrs Gordon Had Lifted Some Load From the Mind
A neighbor reports James and Edward quarreled. Mrs Gordon had moved in and offered to help, while Mr Gordon dismisses the matter as trifling and claims no time for juvenile disputes. The exchange ends with a promise to bring James over.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mrs. Gordon
James
Widow Wins Case Over Diamond Earrings at London Court
A widow sued for 30 pounds for diamond earrings bought June 23 and later rated at 20 by a pawnbroker. In court she admitted using the phrase my husband while shopping, quipping she is sometimes "done" and this was her shopping husband.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Standard Oil Company
George I
Greece
Salonika
James R. Keene
Oreglia
The
Sacred College
Rampollo
Vatican
Luther McCarthy
Alberta
Japan
Nazim Pacha
King Ménelik
Abbysainia
Whitelaw Reid
Great Britain
Sleepy Hollow Cemetery
N. Y
Adolphus Busch
St. Louis
Charles G. Gates
John W. Gates
Ralph Rose
Timothy Woodruff
New York
Anthony N. Brady
London
F. Cody
England
Mayor Gaynor
Timothy D. Sullivan
Alfred Austin
Fannie May Eaton
Eaton
Hans Schmidt
Anna Aumuller
Floyd
Claude S. Allen
Richmond
Allen Court House
Henry Spencer
Mildred Allison-Rexroat
Chicago
Bessie Wakefield
Connecticut
Leo Frank
Atlanta
Frank Craig
Indianapolis
Helen Knabe
Woodrow Wilson
United States
Robert W. Archbald
United States Senate
John Purroy Mitchel
Tammany
David I. Walsh
Massachusetts
Wilson
Fielder
New Jersey
Minnesota
Marshall
Senate
California
Tlinois
Johnson
William Sulzer
Martin HH. Glynn
Otto
Bavaria
Rufus Isaacs
Poincare
France
Vansittart Bowater
Victoriano Huerta
Mexico
Yuan Shi-Kai
China
Edward Carson
Tokyo
Colombia
Santo Domingo
Germany
Rural Complaint Radar? Cow Stocks And Safe Vaults
A rural exchange questions beef prices and mismanagement. A statistician confirms higher costs while a farmer jokes about storing diamonds in a barn and placing the cow in a safe deposit vault.
Try It Cry It Gown Venture Fails Then Returns
A satirical note mocks overconfident attempts to secure a gown, urging persistence after initial rejection by stern men. The quip frames humor around social hurdles and resilience in seeking attire.
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Burma
Turkey
Enver Bey
Nazim Pasha
Ulster
Ireland
Dublin
Jim Larkin
Far East
Yikado
Panama
Gamboa Dike
New York State
Sulzer
State Assembly
Johnny Bull
Francis Ouimet
Brookline
Mass
America
Gustave
Sweden
Stockholm
Jim” Thorpe
Ohio
Mississippi Valley
Omaha
Neb
Pittsburgh
Long Beach
Cal
Texas
Welsh
Dawson
N. M
Nevada
Gulf of Smyrna
Volturno
Binghamton
Nome
Alaska
Turkish Army
Henry N. Flagler
Syracuse
Wits
Harvard
Red Crew
Yale
Francis Culmet
Philadelphia Athletics
New York Giants
Sir Thomas Lipton
New York Yacht Club
VikHjamar Stefansson
British Columbia
Robert G. Fowler
Crocker Land Exposition
Hudson Stuck
Mt. McKinley
Simon Flexner
Victoria Loulie
Kaiser
Prince Ernst of Cumberland
Jessie Woodrow Wilson
Francis Bowes Sayre
White House
Vincent Astor
Helen Huntington
Duke of Croy
Leishmann
Prince Arthur of
Singmaringen
Helen Gould
Finley J. Shepard
Mexico City
National Palace
President Madero
General Huerta
Madero
Chihuahua
Francisco
Pancho") Villa
Havana
Tampico
International Squadron
Vera Cruz
Balkan
Adrianople
Scutari
Montengro
Michigan
Ft. Leavenworth
Paterson
N. J
Bank of London
Banco de Londres Y Mexico
Gulf Port
Candido Aguilar
Tampico Navigation Company
Charles F. Ganahbal
Presidio
Tex
Ojinaga
la Mula Pass
Ville
Department of Agriculture
Canta
Cobdl
Penna
Fletcher
Magee
American Rug & Radical Carpet Cleaning Corp
East Idist Street
Convent CO
Morristown
John W
CHEW
Barnegat
Standard Supply Company
F. C
Wilkesbarre
Agen
84Th St
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