30 000 Men to Hold Vera Cruz
A New Orleans reporter cites a Huerta circular and US intelligence claiming Vera Cruz is surrounded by 17 000 Mexican troops. Describes fortifications from Jalapa to the Gulf and predicts a coordinated, full-scale attack on the port. Mentions General Huerta, Villa, Zapata, and American General Funston.
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Vera Craz
Vera Cruz
Harry H. Dunn
New Orleans
Mexico
Mr. Dunn
New York Times
Huerta
Niagara Falls
Mexicro
United States
Siuerta
Villa
Zapatan
Jalapa
Paso del Macho
Garcia Tena
Iberia
Pena Grengly
Gustavo Maas
Fof
Fiuerta
Candélario Fuguarte
Zapata
Garcia Peni
Fugarte
Tiverta
Mexico City
Averta
Gulf Coast
Rafael Ruiz
Tejar
Borrega
Fishermen’s Weather Words From Hastings Vocabularies
A Country Life correspondent records Hastings fishermen terms for sky and sea signs. Plainety means calm hot air. swallocky warns of coming storm. eddenbite is a long cloud loop. windows are blown cloud streamers. messengers are clouds. postboys are dispersed clouds. smither diddies signal bad weather. egger Jagger is thick mist moving from sand.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Country Life
Hastings
Smither Diddies
Egger Jagger
The Plain of Curragh and Its Historic Battle Ground
The Curragh in County Kildare is a 4800 acre plain used as a military camp and a race course with a history dating to ancient chariot races. Its camp began in the Crimean era, while early Irish kings fought there, and St Bridget is linked to a grant turning it into common land loved by locals nicknamed the boys of the short grass.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Curragh
County Kildare
Treland
St. Bridget
Leinster
Kildare
Westminster Gazette
One of the Weather Men and a Trollander Tale
An early weather constable in Wytheville sets a pole and flags daily to predict weather impressing neighbors. A girl trusts Tom’s flags for a picnic day, while a Hollander immigrant in a separate tale struggles with broken English, prompting a child to ask if he is a broken English man.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wytheville
Weather Bureau
Tom
Mary
National Monthly
New York Post
Carsless. Goofy exchange from Stray Stories
The snippet shows a dialogue between Mrs Henpeck and Mr Henpeck about sleeping, with the landlady and Edith involved. A quoted line mentions Michican Garsette and a misquoted Goethe reference, suggesting a humorous or satirical tone in a stray story fragment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carsless
Safety Rules For Vacation Camping And Hunting
Practical guidance on packing light for camping including cookware and a first aid kit, choosing congenial campmates, building small fires, and tips for safely towing a drowning person. Also cautions on gun safety while hunting and a note on Bayonne schools cooperating to teach English to foreign workers.
Red Bank Chautauqua Program Highlights June Events
The Red Bank Chautauqua schedule lists daily events from Saturday June 13 to Friday June 19. Highlights include Opening by Howard L Close, Mrs Bertha Smith-Titus lectures, Dunbar Singing Band concerts, Romano Orchestra and various lectures by Mrs Titus Dr Parkes Cadman Judge Wanamaker and Senator La Follette, plus motion pictures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Red Bank Chautauqua
Howard L. Close
Red Bank Chautauqua Committee
Bertha Smith- Titus
Dunbar Singing Band
F. W. Prinse
Panama Canal
Panama-Pacific Exposition
Titus
Chautauqua Committee
Enoch Arden
Romano Orchestra
Lorenzo Pontrelli
Scott Nearing
Grace D. Goodwyn
Hawaii
Tuskegee Institute Singers
Tuskegee
Ala
Parkes Cadman
Adriatic
Pasquale Merranti
Robert M. la Follette
Big Busi ness Opens National Foreign Trade Convention
In Washington on May 27 the first National Foreign Trade Convention opened with high government officials and top manufacturers in attendance. The gathering aims to address problems of American manufacturers, explain tariff and currency act effects, and expand U S commerce as Redfield plans to open and Bryan speaks at tonight's banquet.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
United States
Redfield
Bryan
Daily Record Ads Pay Off for Local Businesses
An advertisement notice promotes placing ads in the Daily Record with the promise of financial payoff for local businesses. It highlights reach and impact of the newspaper to attract advertisers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Daily Record
Liberty Tobacco Dime Bank Offer And New Jersey Press Meet
Local dealers offer a free Dime Savings Bank with Liberty tobacco purchases as a promotional gift. The New Jersey Press Association holds its 58th annual meeting at Watch Hill House on June 26 with a New York to New London boat trip planned and speakers led by Robert Carey of Jersey City.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Liberty Tobacco
New Jersey Press
New Jersey Press Association
New Jersey Editorial Association
Watch HI House
R. Io
New York
New London
D. P. Olmstead
J. W. Clift
W. BR. OR. Mason
Robert Carey
Jersey City
Moral Men and Hidden Veins in Soils
A reflective quotation notes that virtues or treasures lie unseen within people much as gold may lie undiscovered in soil. The line suggests potential value in ordinary individuals.
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Just
Ozen of
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Broadway
Cashland
Long Branch
Funston
Ture. Wert
PWE
J. Kridel
RED Bank
Edith
Michican Garsette
Tope
Goethe
Siihort
Schomer
Bayonne
Juliets
Oxfords
Dime Bank
Swift
Dru
A. Dangler
Long Branch Banking Co
uGs Drugs Drug
Olley
Harvey M. Phillips
Jersey Coast
Russia
New York Theatre
William
New Broadway Theatre
Kitty McKay
Comedy Theatre
David Belasco
Henry B. Harris
Lew Fields
Levina
Raymond Hitchcock
the Beauty Doctor
Wilton Lackaye
Potash
Perlmutter
John Mason
Margaret Mayo
Julian Eltinge
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