Air Biplane Strikes Dirigible in Austria Tragedy
Vienna reports a bombshell crash as a military biplane collided with the Koerting dirigible near Fischamend. The envelope tore open, explosions followed, nine burned bodies and wreckage scattered as both crafts fell to the hillside. Officials blame air eddies from the balloon for the disaster.
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Austria
Vienna
Koerting
Fischamend
Johann Hauswirth
Ernst Hofstetter
Bruer
Haldinged
Hadima
Weber
Kammerer
Flatz
Hoosta
Villa Opens Second Attack on Zacatecas
General Villa with about 40 000 troops renewed the battle for Zacatecas driving Federals from three outer positions and threatening the capital within a week. In Calera near Zacatecas 6000 federal troops were surprised and overwhelmed as Natera’s retreating forces were pursued by Medina Barron.
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Saltillo
Mex
Villa
Zacatecas
Torreon
Natera
Medina Barron
Calera
Barron
Man Killed by Hungry Lions at Chicago Car Yard
Hmerson D. Dietrich, 24, a Cornell graduate and manager of an animal act, was torn to pieces Sunday after entering cages of two lions in a Santa Fe railroad yard at Clark and Sixteenth streets. The lions, owned by the act, were to perform at a Chicago theater. Dietrich sought news of a year-old calf injured in an accident when tragedy occurred.
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Chicago
Hmerson D. Dietrich
Cornell
Santa Fe
Clark and
Sixteenth Satreeta
Dietrich
O. Ht. Durand
G. A. R. Department of Nebraska
Detroit
Nebraska
G. A. KR
Coose
Wabash Station
Atlantic Patrol Set To Clear Derelicts
Washington reports that the revenue cutters Seneca and Miami will establish an international patrol in the north Atlantic early in July to remove derelicts as authorized by the international maritime conference.
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Atlantic
Washington
North Atlantic
Seneca
Miami
Senate orders full investigation into Gold Hill mine age
The Senate adopted a resolution directing the privileges and elections committee to conduct a full investigation into the age of stationery used in the exploitation of the Gold Hill gold mine in North Carolina.
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Senate
Washington
Privileges and Ns Committee
Gold Hill
N. C
Gale sweeps lake imperiling hundreds and swamping boats
In Chicago on Sunday a violent gale on Lake Michigan caused hundreds to fear for their lives as waves and wind swamped vessels. About thirty boats were caught six miles off Jackson Park harbor from the Michigan City yacht races. Twelve boats from the fleet were reported missing with clubs named including Jackson Park and Chicago Yacht clubs. Rescue efforts by life savers and motor boats searched all night. ten men were saved from a float one mile from Indiana Street after being washed from moorings.
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Chicago
Michigan City
Jackson Park
Indiana Street
Carland
Miners Die as Hillcrest Shaft Blast Spurs Rescue Efforts
In Hillcrest Alta a devastating explosion trapped hundreds in the Hillcrest mine. 23 bodies recovered, 185 remain entombed, with 20 rescued earlier. Rescue trains with experts and doctors arrived, aided by new life-saving devices. Nearby mines have suffered past disasters, spreading fear across Crow's Nest Pass.
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Hillcrest
Alta
Canadian Pacific Railroad
Crow's Nest
Crow's Nest Pasa
Bellevue
Frank
Medicine Hat
Liege
Belgium
Viellemarthage
Roosevelt Fevers After Imperator Departure at Southampton
Col Theodore Roosevelt suffers a jungle fever chill after the Imperator sails from Southampton. He retires to the Imperial Suite while crowds cheer as he sails to New York. He vows not to run vigorously for governor due to throat weakness.
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London
Col
Theodore Roosevelt
Imperator
Southampton
England
New York
Europe
Nicholas Longworth
Cincinnati
Philip Roosevelt
Roosevelt
Arthur Lee
American Statesman
W. H. Page
Lord Beresford
United States
Sinclair Thomson
Automobiles crash injures five Lyons men near Fremont
Five Lyons men ride in a car that rolled into a ditch five miles northwest of Fremont after a tire burst. Frank Deman suffers chest injuries and an ear tear while Robert Freeman endures five broken ribs and severe bruising. Hjalmar Larson survives with minor injuries, Willis Smith and Loren Southwell escape with minor bruises. The group included O H Durand, G A R Neb president, planning to send members to Detroit for the encampment.
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Fremont
Neb
Lyons
Frank Deman
Obert Freeman
Hjalmar Larson
Willis Smith
Loren Southwell
Peace Parley Prolonged At White House On Mexican Situation
President Wilson Secretary Bryan and Argentina's Naon met for two hours at the White House to discuss the Mexican crisis. The talks reportedly push for all parties to join Niagara proceedings, with mediators shifting stance and constitutionalist delegates to be received at Niagara Falls without an armistice condition. Noon departed for Niagara at 10 45 after leaving the White House with Bryan.
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Washington
Wilson
Bryan
Naon
Argentina
White House
Niagara
State Department
Niagara Falls
Minteater
Rivers McNeil Named Collector of Customs at Chicago
Wilson selected Rivers McNeil to succeed J C Ames as collector of customs in Chicago after Ames resigned. The appointment was announced amid other far and near items including a Watertown fire damaging blocks, and notes on F Augustus Heinze’s illness and a Webster memorial dedication in Marshfield.
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Washington
Wilson
Rivers McNeil
Chicago
J. C. Ames
Watertown
N. Y
New York
F. Augustus Heinze
William Travers Jerome
Jerome
Marshfield
Mass
New England
Daniel Webster
Brother fatally shot after rebuke in Springfield
In Springfield Newfoundland June 22 Harry Forbes 32 shot and killed his older brother Marian Forbes after Marian ordered him from a buggy for using profane language in the presence of his wife.
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Kille
Springfield
Marian Forbes
Harry Forbes
Reds Flee to America and Rome After Riots
Reported anarchists sought by Italian authorities over the general strike riots have departed for America. The wave of escape follows tensions in Rome and other cities as authorities tighten controls on dissenters.
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America
Rome
Tragic Torso Found in Hudson River
The body of a girl was found floating in the Hudson river at Schenectady New York. Police reported the torso had been cut from the head and limbs, with the abdomen slashed and the body wrapped in a weighted burlap sack. The gruesome discovery prompted a homicide investigation.
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Hudson River
Schenectady
N. Y
Bank Law Violated Claims Stir Chicago Bank Case
State's Attorney Maclay Hoyne appointed an assistant to lead the criminal case against former Senator William Lorimer and C. B. Munday over alleged deposits after insolvency at LaSalle Street Trust & Savings bank. Evidence from a conference with Attorney General Lucey. W. C. Niblack named bank receiver after the attorney general's motion.
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Chicago
Maclay Hoyne
Assastante
William Lorimer
C. B. Munday
LaSalle Street Trust & Savings Bank
P. J. Lucey
Lorimer
Munday
W. C. Niblack
Chicago Tire & Trust Company
Aviator Hides in Clouds Behind Lien Chase
Deputy Constable Myers sought to attach a biplane for a $126 lien in Los Angeles. He located the speck in the sky with a field glass, identifying aviator T. Kashlara, once a star in the mikado army, then vanished above the clouds.
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Clouda
Los Angeles
T. Kashiara
Mikado's Army
Myers
Kashlara
College Professor Found Dead in Philadelphia Apartment
George W. Smith, psychology instructor at the University of Chicago and Harvard 1903 graduate, was found dead in bed in his brother Idwin's Philadelphia apartment on June 2.
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Philadelphia
George W. Smith
University of Chicago
Harvard
Idwin
Grant's Bon Gued By Wife In Suit For Support
In New York on June 23 Jesse R. Grant son of ex president A B Grant was named as defendant in a suit filed by his wife Elizabeth to compel a trust company to pay her a sum sufficient to support her.
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Grant
New York
Jesse R. Grant
A. B. Grant
Elizabeth
Death of Frederick J Teale Garfield chum and Brown ally
Frederick Joseph Teale former classmate of President Garfield and aide to abolitionist John Brown is dead at his home 213 South Soto Street He was seventy seven born in England on November 9 1836 and came to America at age six
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Chum
Garfield
Los Angeles
Cal
Frederick Joseph Teale
John Brown
South Soto Street
Teale
England
America
Mina Wilson Named Editor of Bodyl Center Music Dept
Miss Mina Margaret Wilson daughter of President Wilson accepts editorship of the Bodyl Center monthly magazine music department to be launched in Madison Wisconsin in August.
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Miss Wilson
Madison
Wis
Mina Margaret Wilson
Wilson
Bodyl Center Monthly
Middies Train With Naval Battlefleet at Gibraltar
U. S. 5S Middies from Annapolis join practice drills with the Missouri Idaho and Utah battleships at Gibraltar on June 23. The American batt ships form a training squadron during the port visit.
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Gibraltar
Annapolis Naval Academy
Missouri
Idaho
Uiinots
Negro Womape Association of Omaha Articles Filed
The Negro Women’s Association of 1920 North Party tour street Omaha filed articles of incorporation with the secretary of state. Its object supports benevolence and uplift among members and eligibility for adults paying dues. incorporators listed as Martha Smith Jane Duncan Florence Riggs Eva Walker Pinkie Osborne and Anne Bowler. A Rock Island railroad bond issue of 2 million dollars in 6 percent bonds was approved by the state railway commission to finance land near Union Depot for freight yard facilities. bonds may sell at 90 cents on the dollar and run thirty years.
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Negro Womape_ association
North Party Tour Street
Omaha
Martha Smith
Jane Duncan
Florence Riggs
Eva Walker
Pinkie Osborne
Anne Bowler
Rock Island Railroad
State Railway Commission
Union Depot
State board reports hail damage and crop prospects after Hastings visit
The state board of control visited Hastings Grand Island and Kearney to assess farms. At Kearney seventy acres of wheat were pounded and forty acres of oats injured by hail, though wheat yields may exceed a third. Sugar beets at the same institution are fine and potatoes look strong. In Hall Red Willow Sarpy and Polk counties corn plantings show a ten percent drop from last year while wheat acreage rises about fifteen percent and alfalfa is expected to increase substantially.
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Supreme Court
M. B. Reese
Douglas County
Clay County
H. C. Palmer
Reese
W. H. Thompson
State Board of Control
Hastings
Grand Feland
Kearney
Hall
Red Willow
Sarpy
Polk
State Board of Agriculture
Sioux County Property Valuation Sees Small Rise
Sioux County reports a modest rise in assessed property value. The board of assessment lists $1,695,008 in taxable property, up from $1,397,500 last year, with only a few counties showing similar small changes.
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Sioux
Board of Assessment and Equaligation
Railroads Oppose Rule Limiting Perishable Goods Liability
The state railway commission asks the Interstate Commerce Commission to suspend a proposed rule that would increase railroad responsibility for perishable goods in transit. Railroads claim the rule would impose little or no accountability and prefer continuing the current standard that avoids specific train obligations, requiring only reasonable dispatch.
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State Railway Commission
Iinterstate Commerce Commission
Paris Designer Dress in Corbeau Blue for Misa Wilson
A three piece dress by Kurzsman for Misa Wilson showcases Corbeau blue near black fabric in gabardine and charmeuse. The ensemble features a dark blue chiffon bodice with white organdy accents, gabardine belt and floral skirt details, and a gabardine charmeuse coat, illustrating a luxurious traveling afternoon gown in the Paris fashion tradition.
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UEM
Paris
Kurzsman
Misa Wilson
Corbeau
Gabardine
Coiffure Trends The casque and French twist styles
The article describes prevailing coiffure fashions such as the casque and the French twist with variations. It notes side partings, dancing influences, and the use of powders to maintain fluff while avoiding frequent washing. It also covers simple hair runs and pinning techniques for secure, soft finishes.
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Huerta
E. D. Dietrich
Duragzo
Albania
William of
Wied
Michigan
Britain
Imperial Suite
Capitol
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