Senate committee to meet president and Mexican crisis noted
The senate foreign relations committee was invited by President Wilson to meet at the House for a conference on the Mexican situation. The meeting aims to review the terms of proposals sent to Huerta through Envoy Lind. Republican critics pressed for a timely conference.
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Lind
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Imminent U S Mexico rupture eyed by Washington
Paris dispatches report an impending rupture between the United States and Mexico. The piece notes that peace policies of President Wilson and Secretary Bryan may give way to hard realities as events unfold.
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Mexico
Wilson
Bryan
Water Shortage Causes Widespread Suffering Across Midwest
Reports from Kansas City Missouri August describe extreme heat drought in Missouri Kansas and Oklahoma. Water is scarce with freight shipments needed. shallow wells cause disease. crops burned. winter feed scarce for livestock. Temperatures reach up to 110 degrees.
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Missouri
Kansas
Oklahoma
Ohio imposes hunting license to protect game birds
Columbus Ohio August 9 a law passed by the last Ohio legislature requiring hunters to have licenses will take effect tomorrow. The license costs 1 and owners or their tenants on their own land are exempt. Neither quail nor pheasant may be shot this fall and there will be no open season for these birds in Ohio until 1915.
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Ohio
Fifty ninth annual Typographical Union convention opens in Nashville
Nashville Tenn Aug 9 Two thousand delegates arrive for the fifty ninth annual convention of the International Typographical Union in the State Capitol assembly chamber. Governor Hooper and Mayor Howse welcome attendees while President Lynch and Secretary Treasurer Hays present reports showing rising membership and strong finances. The week long sessions include tours to Civil War historic sites.
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Tenn
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Canada
International Typographical Union
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State Capitol
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Howse
Lynch
Hays
Marshall shops burned in Texas and Pacific blaze
Marshall Texas August 9 the Texas and Pacific shops including one locomotive and much machinery were destroyed by fire today with losses estimated in the several thousands of dollars and fully insured.
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Texas and Pacific
Marshall
Texas
Prison Bill Passed by House Amid Amendments
The House approved the penitentiary bill after Tillotson’s amendment to abandon Rusk Penitentiary by January 1, 1915, was rejected. An amendment required public charges and witnesses before convict whipping, and the bill passed 90 to 21. The Senate allowed the general manager to buy supplies and erect buildings up to 76,000 without legislative permission. In London, suffragettes used horsewhips to protest treatment of Miss May Richardson.
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Austin
Texas
Tillotson
Rusk
Senate
Denison man dies as Elm Creek wreck toll rises
Fort Worth Aug 9 Associated Press reports that Frank Demat of Denison became the third victim of the Elm Creek freight wreck. He died yesterday, leveling the toll as investigators press for details about the crash.
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Associated Prev A
Panama Canal Protection Ordered by President Wilson
President Wilson signed an executive order prohibiting any aircraft from flying over the Panama Canal without authorization from Washington. Violators face a substantial fine and up to one year in prison according to the directive.
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Associated Press
Washington
Apr
Wilson
Panama Canal
Ghent Honors Memory of Van Eyck Unveiling
Ghent unveils a grand monument to the fifteenth century Flemish master Jan van Eyck with a ceremony attended by King Albert, state counselors, foreign diplomats, and many dignitaries. The event marks a solemn remembrance of the eminent painter’s life and work.
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van Eyck
Albert
Pope Pius III Urges Global Peace On Anniversary
Rome marked the tenth anniversary of Pope Pius XII coronation with a Mass in the Sistine Chapel attended by the pope, the Sacred College, papal court, and church leaders. He issued a plea for international peace, urging the Catholic Church to a worldwide effort for permanent peace.
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Italy
Pope Pius
Sistine Chapel
Vatican Toda
Sacred College
Papal Court
St. Peter
Anti Alien Land Law Goes Into Effect in California
The Webb anti alien land law, passed by the California legislature last spring, will take effect tomorrow. It prohibits land ownership by aliens and, while applying to all aliens, mainly affects Japanese nationals who have acquired vast land holdings and cannot become citizens due to the law. The measure has sparked diplomatic protests from Japan and ongoing discussions with the United States.
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Cal
Webb
California
Japan
United States
Calfornia
Pennsylvania limits women’s work hours in manufacturing plants
Pennsylvania enacts a law reducing women’s four week work hours from 60 to 54, with a maximum of 19 hours in two days. It also bars any female under 21 from night work in manufacturing establishments.
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