Senor Calderon Heads to Washington in Mexican Talks
Niagara Falls reports from June 22 note renewed mediation efforts in Mexico with Ambassador Nanon and President Wilson involved. Carranza and Villa split over an armistice while rebels may attend a conference to set a provisional president and land divisions. three Carranza representatives, including Calm, head to Washington amid large rebel encirclement.
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International News Service
Niagara Falls
Nanon
Wilson
Bryan
Carranza
Villa
Carreuse
Villla
Advertising Convention Opens Amid Pageantry in New York
Six thousand delegates from the United States and abroad attend the tenth Associated Advertising event. A parade leads with an American flag while crowds sing God Save the King and My Country Tis of Thee. Delegates from Paso Robles draw attention, with carnival elements and hats. San Francisco eyes 1915 as the site for the next meeting with ethics and standards as key topics.
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Tento
United States
Associated Advertising
San Francisco
Supreme Court sustains Southern Pacific land title dispute
Washington June 22 The Supreme Court upheld the Southern Pacific Railway claim to 20 000 acres of rich Oll land valued at 200000000 in a dispute with the government over title to the vast property.
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C International News Service
Washington
Southern Pacific Railway
Supreme Court
Execution of Robert Ollins in electric chair
International News Service reports Huahaville Indiana June 22 that Robert Ollins, a Black man convicted of murder, was taken to the penitentiary to be executed in the electric chair he helped construct after assaulting his victim. He reportedly sat in the chair as officials prepared the sentence.
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International News Service
Huahaville
Ind
Robert Ollins
Peititerl Rvy
Kentucky Pooling Law Declared Unconstitutional
The Supreme Court of the United States ruled Kentucky's pooling law unconstitutional, reversing its earlier status as a remedy against night riders. The decision came in Washington on June 22, amid controversy over the law's dispatch.
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International News Service
Washington
Kentucky
Sane Court of
United States
Mexican delegates in Washington seek guidance on personal message
Niagara Falls June 22 Mexican delegates received a Washington message forenoon and adjourned to discuss it. They denied Mexico City instructions but said the message was of a personal nature from Huesa. The position is unchanged.
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International News Service
Niagara Falls
Washington
Mexico City
Huesa
Children Day Exercises At Westminster Presbyterian Church
A large crowd attended the Westminster Presbyterian Church Children's Day exercises held at the 11 o'clock service. The program featured recitations songs and a voice solo by Katherine Cook with offertory for Sabbath School missions.
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Westminster Presbyterian Church
Canary Choir
Katherine Cook
D. C. Vohlers
E. L. Gray
Anna Margrette Arnold
Robert Dash
Margaret Harrison
Peggy Davis
Helen Russell
Mary Frances Gray
Edwin Perry
George Hartung
Marion Russell
Lorine Johnson
Ralph Thurman
Mary Wood Cowan
Dick Harrison
Dolores Hardage
Freeman Browne
Ethel Harrison
Lucile Osborne
Mary Ea
Decaturs Daily Promotes Its News Service Line
The Decaturs Daily touts its private Birmingham line and in office operator to deliver world news via the International News Service. It invites readers to compare with larger dailies and asserts it keeps up with the times.
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Decaturs Daily
Birmingham
Times
Supreme Court rules vow of poverty not enforceable
Washington June 22 The United States Supreme Court reversed Minnesota's federal appellate court in the vow of poverty case tied to Catholic orders. The ruling holds such vows are not enforceable in law and that heirs are the decedent’s blood relatives, affecting property reverting to the order.
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International News Service
Washington
United States Supreme Court
Federal Court of Appeals of
Minnesota
St. Benedict Order
Banking and Currency Board Grills Thos D Jones In Washington
Washington June 22 The banking and currency board have invited Thos D Jones of Chicago the lawyer appointed by President Wilson and endorsed by personal Mine an ariging may possibly follow
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International News Service
Washington
The
Banking and Currency Board
Thos. D. Jones
Chicago
Wilson
Ariiging
Empress of Ireland disaster victims buried in Quebec
Forty seven unidentified victims of the Empress of Ireland disaster were laid to rest in Quebec today from Catholic and Protestant churches as identification proved impossible. Hearings likely to continue another week with 825 pages of testimony and about 250 000 words presented since the investigation began.
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International News Service
Quebec
Battle ships sale to Greece becomes White House issue
Washington June 22 The debate over selling battleships to Greece moves to President Wilson as the Turkish ambassador protests. Wilson says the sale would not hinder peace efforts and the ships are to be bought for protection, not aggression.
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International News Service
Washington
Greece
Wilson
Secretary Bryan Faces Senate on Colombia Nicaragua Treaties
Secretary Bryan appeared before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee regarding the Columbia and Nicaraguan treaties. Judge Charles Douglas represented Central American interests. The talks center on a $5,000,000 payment and a prospective protectorate, with broad criticism prompting a modification to be proposed to the full Senate.
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International News Service
Washington
Bryan
Senate Committee On Foreign Relations
Columbia
Nicaraugua
Charles Douglas
Senate
Northport Fire Destroys Main Business District
Birmingham report says Northport Alabama suffered a disastrous morning fire wiping out the town’s main business section. Ten blocks burned with damage estimated at seventy five thousand dollars. Authorities and residents assess the blaze’s impact on commerce and recovery.
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International News Service
Birmingham
Northport
Ala
Talks to Prima Donna by Philip Everett
London reports an operatic singer linked to Countess Francis G. de Cisneros. King Alfonso praises her, discusses US travel, and laments royal constraints while complimenting the prima donna on her artistic freedom and status.
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Philip Everett
International News Service
London
Spain
Alfonso
Francis G. de Cisneros
Eleanor Broadfoot
Broklyn
N. Y
Royal
Madrid
United States
Wilder Place owners lead in first cotton bloom
Wilder Place is first to produce the first cotton bloom of the season. Owners Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Edmondson are described as always in the advance guard, driving progress and development.
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Wilder Place
W. B. Edmondson
Cobb faces payback after fish dispute with Ty Cobb
W L Carpenter seeks action for alleged offense to his wife by Ty Cobb over 20 cents of fish. Detroit club officials try to smooth things while Cobb nurses a broken thumb and deals with a car skid.
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International News Service
Detroit
Mich
W. L. Carpenter
Ty Cobb
Cobb
Carépenter
Detroit Baseball Club
The
Georgia Peace
Sunday School Workers Parade Expected Big Turnout
Chicago June 22 Delegates to the fourteenth international Sunday school convention arrive with 4000 delegates anticipated for opening. The parade on Saturday will feature 50000 Sunday school workers in line representing churches from the United States Canada Alaska Porto Rico Mexico the Philippines and other countries.
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Chicago
United States
Canada
Alaska
Porto Rico
Mexico
Philippines
Hughes & Tidwell Supply Co. Receives Second Cotton Bloom
Tom Burfoot presents the Hughes & Tidwell Supply Co the second cotton bloom reported for 1914. The firm, with its usual liberality, presented Mr. Burfoot with a new hat.
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Tom Burfoot
Hughes & Tidwell Supply Co
Hughes & Tidwell
Burfoot
Bank inquiry widens in LaSalle Street failure case
Chicago June 22 Bank Examiner Daniel Hawkins opened a probe into the LaSalle Street bank failure seeking possible criminal charges against officials. Four small banks in the Monday Lorimer group may reopen if stockholders replace junk assets with cash or equivalents. Affidavits allege friends of insiders tipped and withdrew funds before collapse as investigators seek evidence of outside money from advisers.
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International News Service
Chicago
Bank
Daniel Hawkins
la Sale Street
Lorimer
Examiner
LaSalle
Lions kill trainer in Chicago and attack crowds
Ernest Dietrich of Brooklyn and his fiancée Miss Aggie Costello owned the lions that killed Dietrich after he entered their car at a traveling act. An escaped lion roamed the neighborhood as workers sprayed the scene with formaldehyde and a pole drew the body free.
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International News Service
New York
Ernest W. Dietrich
Brooklyn
Emerson Dietrich
Chicago
Aggie Costello
Dietrich
Miss Costello
Cornell
Coney Island
N. Y
George McChord
Deitrich
Birmingham aims to attract university relocation
Birmingham citizens plan an organized effort to obtain the university. They argue the city offers a superior location and prominent business leaders will raise up to 5 million dollars if needed to secure the project.
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International News Service
Birmingham
Peace negotiation efforts likely fail despite armistice
Rome June 22 King William of Roumania prepares peace negotiations as a three days armistice is declared. However observers believe the peace proposals will fail.
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Rome
William of
United Amusement Park Name Contest
Instructions urge entrants to submit a proposed park name for the United Amusement company by 6 p.m. on June 27. Winners receive a season pass if the name is adopted, with participants to include a signature.
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United Amusement Company
Olympia Opera Company at Masonic Theatre Tonight
The Olympia Opera company arrives from Atlanta to perform La Mascot at the Masonic theatre for a week's engagement. It marks a rare opportunity for Decatur residents to see this class of opera, following a four week run at the Bijou theatre in Atlanta.
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Olympia Opera Company
Masonic Theatre
Bijou Theatre
Atlanta
Andran
Decaturs
Contemplation of the Cross in Nabors Sermon at Decatur
Rev A H Nabors filled for Dr Duncan at the First Methodist Church in Decatur delivering from Acts 2 36 and Matt 27 36 on the crucifixion. He praised Dr Duncan as a strong North Alabama conference leader and spoke of Jesus as King of sorrows and Saviour between two thieves emphasizing the crown of life and love.
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Methodist Episcopal Church of
Trinity
Doctor
First Methodist Church of
Decatur
Nabora
Duncan
North Alabama
Southern Met
John Carmichael
Maclaren
Bonnie Briar CE
Christ
Ishael
Nabors
Jesus
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