GOOD SPECIMEN BASE BALL AT CALICHE PARK SUNDAY
In front of a large crowd at Caliche Park the Laredos edged the Thirty-seventh Infantry 4 to 3 in eleven innings. Laredo relied on Charlie Pierce and Gonzales for a strong battery while Friday pitched for the soldiers with Waring catching. The soldiers, featuring recruits from college, fought hard and tied the game in the seventh inning, but Laredo prevailed with home talent and solid play.
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Caliche Park
Laredos
Innning
Soldier Boys
Laredo
Charlie Pierce
Gonzales
Waring
Mayor Telesforo Macias Ousted as Nuevo Laredo Mayor
The EF Club Francisco I Madero met in Nuevo Laredo following a pro proclamation from Mexico City and announced changes in civil authorities in agreement with Governor Osuna of Tamaulipas. Mayor Telesforo Macias was removed from office and Professor Francisco Perez was installed as temporary mayor until new elections are held.
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Club of
Mexico
EF Club
Francisco I Madero
Mexico City
Nuevo Laredo
Osuna
Tamautipas
Telesforo Macias
Francisco Perez
Counterfeiter Solis Arrested Over Customs Seal Use in Laredo
News from Nuevo Laredo reports Jose Cruz Solis captured for counterfeiting the U S customs seal in Laredo and issuing food cards to Mexicans across the border. Officers seized counterfeit seal and cards, link to unaccounted-for card issuance, with Solis jailed in Nuevo Laredo awaiting transfer to American authorities.
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Nuevo Laredo
Jose Cruz Solis
United States Customs House
Laredo
Mexico
Solis
Equal Suffrage Club Postpones Meeting at Hamilton Hotel
The Equal Suffrage Club meeting scheduled for June 21 at the Hamilton Hotel was postponed due to the visit of Mrs. Cunningham, the State President. A complete organizational meeting is set for Friday June 28 at five o clock at the Hamilton Hotel to present and adopt the Constitution and By-laws aligned with State and National guidelines.
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Equal Suffrage Club
Hotel Hamilton
Cunningham
Equal Suffrage Association
Hamilton Hotel
Social Calendar and Red Cross Activities Report
Society notes list Monday events including Red Cross Dressing Room and Surgical Room openings, Hospital Supply Room hours, Suffrage Club meeting, Sunbeam Band, Alpha Club knitting, and Red Cross knitting groups. Also mentions benevolent readings, church visits, announcements, socials for enlisted men, and a large Ursuline Convent lawn fete to raise War Savings Stamps with band music and a country store.
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Red Cross Sureteal
T. A. Austin
Hospital
Cogley
J. O. Bhenz
Suffrage Department
The
Woman's Club
Market Hall
Sunbeam Band
the Baptist Church
Red Cross
Zara Mowry
Red Cross Hospital
Alpha Club
Dario Sanchez
Knitting
Rodriguez
Ursuline Convent
37Th Infantry
Personal notices from San Diego and nearby regions
Dario Puig of San Diego visits the city and Hayes Dix of Duval County is also in town. United States Consul W E Sholes, recent Washington visitor, returns to the Nuevo Laredo consulate. Dr E H Sauvignet, Webb County Exemption Board secretary physician, departs for Houston for a Southern District officials meeting. Fred Leber, Laredo business figure, arrives from a North and East trip en route to Mexico City.
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Dario Puig
San Diego
Hayes Dix
Duval County
United States
W. E. Sholes
Washington
Nuevo Laredo
E&. H. Sauvignet
Webb County
Houston
Fred Leber
Laredo
Mexico City
Mexico
Last Wet Spot in Texas to Go Dry
Austin reports the last wet spot in Texas will become dry this week with statewide prohibition. The law bans manufacture and sale of intoxicants except medicinal, sacramental, scientific, or mechanical uses under strict limits. It also imposes penalties of one to five years in prison for violations.
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Texas
Austin
Houston
San Antonio
Fort Worth
Galveston
el Paso
Orange
Beaumont
Wichita
Women Lead in Diverse Public Roles Across America
OF INTEREST TO WOMEN notes women now run a major veterinary hospital in England and drive street cars in Baltimore, with Princess Mary receiving practical household education. Grace L. Emanuels of Perth Amboy becomes deputy US marshal. Newark stores employ women drivers. Kansas adopts wartime protections for women workers. Women manage most poultry and egg production, shaping American food supply.
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England
Baltimore
Princess Mary
Grace L. Emanuels
Perth Amboy
N. J
Newark
Kansas
America
Germans Arrested in Pittman Garrison Fire Case
Sherman Texas June 24 A German woman was arrested in connection with the fire destroying the Pittman Garrison milling plant and much grain. Loss is estimated at 150000 dollars. College Station Texas June 24 A statewide conference at the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas seeks to mobilize rural social forces for united war effort with two sections on rural schools and rural churches.
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Associated Press
Sherman
Texas
Pittman-Garrison
College Station
United States
Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas
Old Nassau becomes a military college at Princeton
Princeton University today inaugurated a three year military training course approved by the U S Army General Staff. Alumni students and faculty will undergo strict military discipline and live in barracks rather than dormitories as part of the war effort. Italian and Austro Italian front actions near Piave described with retreats recaptures and aerial support impacting the front line.
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Princeton
N. J
Princeton University
Old Nassau
General Staff
United States Army
New freight rate increases take effect nationwide
Washington June 24. Tomorrow morning the Director General McAdoo will enact new freight rate increases on nearly all U S railroads. Shippers will face about a 25 percent rise in freight charges, adding millions to railroad revenues for war funding, mirroring higher postage and passenger fare policies.
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Washington, D. C
McAdoo
United States
Baseball Gossip From The National Leagues
Pirates fail to extend hot form invading the league. George Sisler stars for the Browns while O NeIl shines for the Indians. Ray Caldwell’s Yankees, Merkle Mann and Hollacher lead Cubs batting. McCraw’s Giants show fading repeat hopes. Walter Johnson has shut out the Red Sox in at least one game each season for eight years.
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George Sisler
O'Neil
Cleveland
Ray Caldwell
Yankees
Merkle
Mann
Hollacher
Cubs
John McCraw
Giants
Walter Johnson
Washington
Red Sox
Italian Counteroffensive Drives Austrians Across Piave
Rome reports Austro-Hungarian forces recrossing the Piave in disorder from Montello to the Adriatic as Italian troops pursue. An official cable says 45 000 prisoners and large war materials captured after a counteroffensive. Paris notes German attack at Bligny repulsed with prisoners declared.
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Rome
Piave River
Caposile
Montello
Adriatic Sea
Washington
Piave
Paris
Bligny
War Office
Drafted Men Go 10 Training Schools for Army Service
Washington June 24 Provost Marshal General Crowder directs Wisconsin to furnish 4500 white grammar school graduates and Ohio 180 negro grammar school graduates for special training at army schools Drawing Day for Drafted. Washington June 24 Wednesday and Thursday likely dates for drawing the order of numbers of youths registered in the army draft June 45
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Associated Press
Washington
Crowder
Wisconsin
Ohio
Army
Nightly performance quotes on married life dialogue
A Boston Transcript excerpt juxtaposes Nixon and Newpop discussing married life as a grand nightly performance. Nixon likens it to a song while Newpop calls it an opera with grand marches and calls for the author each night.
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Nixon
Boston _Transcript
Address to Spanish Speaking Public by Oswaldo Sanchez
At Lincoln Theater Oswaldo Sanchez, noted Mexican journalist, speaks on The Working People of Mexico and the United States in the Pace is the World Conflict. Gen Ramon Toffe hosts and the public is invited. pamphlet edition to follow.
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Lincoln Theater
Ramon Toffe
Oswaldo Sanchez
Mexico
United States
Wages Declared for Bricklayers Union No 29 in Laredo
Contractors and the public are notified that under a March 18 notice and Article 8 section 10 of the constitution the pay of all bricklayers of International Union No 29 of Laredo will be 62 percent per hour effective June 17, 1918. Dated at Laredo Texas June 24 1918. F F Flores President Trinidad Garba Secretary.
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Artice
International Union No. 29
Laredo
Texas
F. F. Flores
Trinidad Garb&a
Eclipse to Shine Tonight Across Americas and Pacific
In Aberdeen Washington on June 24 people will have a second chance within two weeks to view the moon eclipse. The eclipse will be visible across western North and South America the Pacific and Australia though earth’s shadow covers only a small portion of the moon’s face. A separate item tells of a hotel guest baffled by a bell cord and porter as he sought ice water.
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Washington
North
South America
Pacific Ocean
Australia
British Attack South of Meteren in Lys Salient
London reports a successful minor British assault on German positions south of Meteren in the Lys salient. Many Germans killed, 50 prisoners captured, and some machine guns taken. War Office also notes improved American positions northwest of Chateau Thierry and artillery activity in the Vosges. Major Theodore Roosevelt Jr is cited for conspicuous gallantry during Cantizay operations. Army casualty list lists 62 names. Amsterdam reports Reichstag vote on 15 billion marks credit. Austrian strike spreading. grain ration fears and horse flesh diet proposed.
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London
Meteren
Lys Salient
War Oollice Lnouneces
Washington
Chateau Thierry
Theodore Roosevelt Jr
Cantizay
Bolshevik Leader Volodarsky Fatally Shot in Petrograd
Moscow reports Volodarsky, a commissioner and noted Bolshevik, shot dead in the street of Petrograd. Also advised for sour stomach, a mild indigestion form, suggesting slow eating and Chamberlain's Tablets for digestion aid.
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Moscow
Volodarsky
Petrograd
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Customs House
Violet
Oberfeldt
Aaa
Janet Gargan
W. F. Shutt
Dolores
Rebecca Marulanda
Premont
W. H. Sweetman
the Heights
Mary
Shelby
Memphis
Tenn
Archbishop Ruiz
Monterey
Army Y. M
Emiy Pearl MacCulloch
Wichita Fall
City
Robert MacCulloch
A. Wormser
Mina Rosalie
Eva Levi
A. J. Derby
Corpus Christi
Agustin Vidales of
Macinas
Joe Vidales
Joan Tucker Halsell
Camp McArthur
Waco
Joseph
Kenney
P. L. Mathews
Santo Tomas
New York
Lois and
Dorothy Derby
Florence Armstrong
Hebbronville
W. R. Pace
Christine Hill
Llano, Texas
Charles Lane
Margaret Capra
Boerne
Elks Hall
the Red Cross
Hebrew Ladies Aid Society
St. Peter's
San Aguatin
Soldiers Club
C. Withoff
Annie Pace
Mesdames Atlee
Ulmer
Cuellar
Simpson
Eistetter
Sauvignet
Kerr
Sam Withoff
Maria Mowry
Norwood Witting
Red Cross Surgical
37Th Infantry Club
Courtney Slaughter
Vera Sharkey
Mary Hall
Maxine Taylor
Ruth Murphy
Marcelle Beene
Evelyn Moore
Tina Sanchez
Marguerite Nelson
Katherine MacGregor
F Edmonds
Tieut
Minette
Cornelius
Wood
Murray
Rinearson
Kehoe
Lee
Davis
Gillespie
Jarrett
Harvey
Ryan
O'Reyette
Blake
Wiman
Military College
Monteiro
Pittsburgh Pirates
Pest
Hialian
Service
Aberdeen
Yassuk
Tien
Antheville
Watner Ball
Cleburne
Amsterdam
Reishstag
Germany
Zurich
Switzerland
Munich
Becme
Paul
Vienna
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