World War Fronts Rumors of Huge June Austrian Gains
Reports from Berlin and Vienna claim June Austro-Hungarian gains include 194,521 officers and men plus vast ammunition. German Austrian forces push in Galicia and Poland while Russians retreat. British and French bombard Arras and Artois fronts and Italians press Tyrol and Isonzo lines amid heavy snow. The muleteer ship Armenian is sunk by U-28, with American casualties.
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Berlin
Vienna
Galicia
Poland
Russian War Office
Lightning
Admiralty
Arras
Argonne
Tyrol
Isonzo
Newport News
England
Cornwall
State Department
John S. Armstrong, Jr
Bristol
Armstrong
J. M. Monroe
New Orleans
B. M Granberry
Montgomery
Ala
S. R. Hutton
Cartersville
E. Williamson
St. Louis
Harry Stone
New York City
Brown
Carpenter
Harrisburg
J. 8. Viso
Porto Rico
R. H. Brooks
Or West
London
Virginia
New York
Manchester
Saghir [Ere
Gallipoli
Russia
Petrograd
Grand Duke
Nicholas
Bug River
Zloczow
Russian Poland
Vistula
Warsaw
Kamionka
Lemberg
Tomaszow
Sielec
Krystianpol
Burstyn
Halicz
Shortage in Equipment of Texas National Guard
Washington reports a War Department stimulus noting a $90 000 shortage in Texas National Guard equipment over years. About $30 000 of condemned property is alleged embezzled with two indictments against guard officials. A reinspection of several companies is ordered to adjust accounts as Ferguson and state officials review records. Collin Ball Brigadier General Lyon and Henry Hutchines conferred with the Secretary of War on the inspector's report.
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Washington
Texas National Guard
War Department
Ferguson
Austin
Texas
Adjutant General
Collin H. Ball
Infantry
Texas Guard
Lyon
Henry Hutchines
Quarantine Relaxed for Foot and Mouth Disease
Federal quarantine relaxations take effect June 26 allowing interstate livestock movements between restricted, free and closed areas for immediate slaughter. Shipments to all points are permitted except closed areas. Illinois gains a large free area excluding the Union Stock Yards and Indiana becomes free.
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Washington
Illinois
Union
Indiana
Peace Conference Scheduled in El Paso Talks
Jose Isabel Robles minister of war in Eu manufactures Gutierrez cabinet announced Wednesday that leaders of the two major warring factions agreed to discuss peace terms perhaps within two weeks. Robles, not tied to Villa or Carranza factions, was chosen as intermediary by those seeking an end to the war.
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el Paso
Tex
Jose Isabel Robles
Eulalio Gutierrez
Gutierrez
Robles
Villa
Carranza
Commission Closes State Rate Hearing in Texas
The Texas railroad commission held its second hearing on rail revenue increase applications. It was described as the most exhaustive session in the commission’s history and covered a wider range of topics than any prior hearing.
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Commission
Austin
Tex
Texas Railroad Commission
Texas Railroads
Tragic Rail Crash near Gettysburg Kills Eight
A head on collision on the Western Maryland railroad near the Mason and Dixon line left eight dead and twelve to fourteen injured. The Blue Mountain special and a local train met on a bridge spanning a deep ravine between Highfield and Thurmont. The bridge is 200 feet high.
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Gettysburg
Blue Mountain
Western Maryland Railroad
Mason and Dixon Line
Highfield
Thurmont
Slaton Leaves Atlanta for Pacific Coast
Former Governor John M. Slaton and Mrs Slaton departed Atlanta on Tuesday en route to the Pacific coast via New York. The military guard at his suburban home, in place since demonstrations after the Lee M Franks death sentence commutation began June 21, was withdrawn.
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Slaton
Georgia
Atlanta
John M. Slaton
Pacific Coast
New York
Lee M. Frank
May Rebuild Brazos River Bridge in Hempstead Texas
Hempstead Business League receives estimates for rebuilding the Brazos river bridge south of Hempstead. Cost figures range from 26000 to 42000 dollars for a structure about 400 feet long.
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Brazos River
Hempstead
Tex
Hempstead Business League
Seguin Opens Bond Funded Water and Power Improvements
Seguin Texas begins upgrading the municipal electric light and water systems. A $20,000 bond issue approved by property owners funds the dam and plant improvements.
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Seguin
Tex
County Treasurer Pleads Guilty in Wichita Case
O. W. Jones former county treasurer pleaded guilty Tuesday to three falsification of records charges and one embezzlement count. He admitted taking forty thousand dollars of county funds.
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Wichita, Kan
O. W. Jones
Texas Good Roads Meet At A&M College
Good road experts of national fame will assist the Texas Good Roads Association during the annual meeting at the A and M College in College Station Texas on August 5th and 6th. The event promises to be the most instructive in the history of the association with wide participation from professionals.
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College Station
Tex
The
and M. College
Texas
Good Roads Association
Mountain roads completed into New Braunfels
New Braunfels Texas reports completion of about twenty miles of mountain roads from the west and north at a cost over 3000 pounds. The project improves access into the city and supports regional transportation development.
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New Braunfels
Tex
England asserts shippers have no just complaint
Washington reports Britain in a memorandum to the United States explains its actions to minimize neutral trade disruption from the order in council. It claims Americans have no grounds for complaint about cargo treatment and notes concessions for U S citizens. Twenty seven ships cleared from the United States are held in British ports, eight unloading cotton, seven to depart after prize court cargo items are discharged, and twelve being investigated.
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Washington
Great Britain
United States
London
Order In Council
Ambassador Page
Foreign Office
United Kingdom
All Auto Speed Records Began by French Driver
Chicago witnesses the first Chicago 600 mile derby where Dario Resta won in a French car earning over 26 000 pounds while ten drivers finished in the money. Harry Grant drove nonstop for 900 miles to place fourth at 95.06 mph in a crowd of 80 000 as J Cooper finished tenth 25 minutes behind.
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Speedway
Chicago
Dario Resta
Ralph de Palma
Indianapolis
J. Cooper
de Palma
Peperts
United States
Harry Grant
Resta
Grant
E. Cooper
Anderson
Alley
Chevrolet
Burman
Parporato
Prohibitionists Win Louisiana Saloon Case
The Louisiana Supreme Court in New Orleans reversed District Judge R. D. Webb of this parish and ruled in favor of the prohibition forces in the Shreveport saloon license case.
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Shreveport
Louisiana Supreme Court
New Orleans
R. D. Webb
England's Losses Increase in Expeditionary Force
London reports a three month tally of British expeditionary force casualties. April records 639 officers and 19,000 men, May shows 38,600 officers and 26,000 men, and June lists 2,200 officers and 62,000 men.
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London
Warehouse Company Formed in Corpus Christi Area
Corpus Christi Texas and Falfurrias Jim Wells county form a $10,000 warehouse company. The facility will include a 2,000 bale cotton warehouse a packing shed for citrus and possibly airtight bins for storing seed or similar products for farmers.
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Corpus Christi
Tex
Falfurrias
Jim Wells County
Texas Minks Sold to England
Cyrus McFarlane of Orange Texas shipped thirty one pairs of native minks to Boston for the British government to use in experimental purposes.
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Texas Minks
England
Orange
Tex
Cyrus McFarlane
Boston
To Construct Spillway on Leon River
Work has started on a concrete dam and spillway over the Leon River at the Temple water works pumping station six miles west of Temple Texas. The project aims to improve city water supply and flood control near Temple.
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Leon River
Temple
Tex
City Water Works
Britain to pay 100000 dollar installment on Wilhelmina claims
The British government announces it will pay 100000 dollars as the first installment toward settlement of claims by Wilhelmina cargo owners. The steamer was seized while carrying foodstuffs from New York to Germany.
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London
New York
Germany
Noted Texas Ethnologist Dies in Maryland
Washington report notes the death of Mrs Mathilde Coxe Stevenson a Texas native and renowned ethnological writer who for twenty six years served with the Smithsonian Institution Bureau of American Ethnology. She died at Oxon Hill Maryland at age sixty.
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Washington
Mathilde Coxe Stevenson
Bureau of American Ethnology
Smithsonian Institution
Oxon Hill
Friday
San Augustine
Texas
Wheat likely to yield 128.7 million bushels in Kansas
Kansas winter wheat crop judged strong by the state department of agriculture in a monthly report issued Saturday. Projected output 128,700,000 bushels with an average yield of 16.3 bushels per acre.
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Topeka
Kan
Kansas
State Department of Agriculture
Kansas Wheat Yielding Well, Birmingham, Ala.
Syd Jones a negro hanged in the jail yard Friday. he left a cell note confessing to thirteen homicides two of which were white men. Authorities say the suspect’s actions were linked to a broader crime spree in Birmingham areas.
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Kansas
Birmingham
Ala
Syd Jones
Girl Loses Life In the Bay at Rockport
Miss Ruth Dromgoole, 14, daughter of Lewis Dromgoole of San Antonio, accidentally drowned Sunday while bathing in Aransas Bay near Rockport Texas.
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Rockport
Tex
Ruth Dromgoole
Lewis Dromgoole
San Antonio
Aransas Bay
Thirty Big Mines Idle in Webb City District Strike
In the Webb City Carterville mining district thirty large mines have shut down due to a miners strike. More than 2,500 workers are now out of employment.
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Joplin
Webb City
Carterville
Police Chiefs to Convene in Fort Worth July 27
The Police Chiefs and City Marshals Association of Texas plans its annual convention in Fort Worth on July 27. event details target Texas law enforcement leaders and city marshals.
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Fort Worth
Tex
Police Chiefs and City Marshals’ Association
Texas
First melons loaded for Hempstead market
The first watermelons of the season were headed Tuesday by John Norwood and Moss Crawford. Two carloads will be shipped with averages around 21 to 32 pounds per fruit and the best car around 23 or 24 cents per pound.
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Hempstead
Yex
John Norwood
Moss Crawford
Campaign Against Cattle Tick in Texas Renewed
Washington reports a renewed push to eradicate cattle ticks in Texas. Between 1897 and 1914, 28,805 square miles were freed, with 1916 seeing Sterling and Wilbarger counties above the quarantine line. Totals spent: federal $110,570, state $46,745, local $3,090. Despite funds, much of Texas remains infested, though sentiment for eradication grows. Nolan County voted for tick eradication in March after a prior defeat, with similar moves in Clay, Archer, Wichita, Throckmorton, Stevenson, Young, Concho and others. Studies show tick-free cattle increase in value and production. 1910 census valued 15 million cattle below quarantine. Only 69 dipping vats operated in Texas by 1914, far fewer than Mississippi and Oklahoma.
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Washington
Texas
Sterling
Wilbarger
Bureau of Animal Industry
United States Department of Agriculture
Nolan County
Clay
Archer
Wichita
Throckmorton
Stevens
Young
Concho
Federal Department of Agriculture
Alabama
Arkansas
California
Georgia
Mississippi
North Carolina
South Carolina
Oklahoma
Tennessee
Virginia
Tezes
Stonewall County
Texas May Vital Statistics Report Shows Homicides And Births
Texas records May totals include 25 homicides and 28 personal crisis reports. Births reached 3 782 with 42 sets of twins. deaths totaled 2 569. Infants under 1 year numbered 504, 1 to 5 years 242. Tuberculosis caused 306 deaths, diarrhea and enteritis 241 in children under 2. The oldest death was a 117 year old in Tarrant County. other elderly deaths appeared in Bexar County. Smallpox had 7 deaths among 153 cases. pellagra mortality at 7 percent and 36 drownings reported.
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Austin
Tex
Texas
W. A. Davis
State Registrar of Vital Statistics
Tarrant County
Bexar County
Farmers' Union of Texas to Move Headquarters
The Farmers' Union of Texas with about 50 000 members will relocate its headquarters from Fort Worth to Houston around July 15 after twelve years in Fort Worth.
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Houston
Tex
Farmers’ Union of Texas
Fort Worth
Willis Shipped First Melons
Willis Texas reports the first carload of watermelons from Willis was shipped on Tuesday by local growers.
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Willis, Tex
Willis
Austin Statesman Drops Morning Edition to Join Austin Tribune
The Austin Statesman announced it will withdraw from the morning field and consolidate with the Austin Tribune to publish in the afternoon. The move shifts the paper’s schedule and aligns two local publications.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austin
Tex
Austin Statesman
Austin Tribune
Alabama Becomes Dry State as Prohibition Takes Effect
Alabama statewide prohibition law enacted in January took effect on Wednesday closing every saloon and dispensary in the state. Montgomery reported the enforcement began immediately with closures statewide.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montgomery
Ala
Huerta Sought by Villa in Mexican Crisis
U S officials weigh relief aid to City of Mexico amid famine and danger to foreigners as Brazilian dispatches urge neutral rail relief. Extradition requests for Victoriano Huerta arise from Villa and Carranza factions, with federal charges in El Paso for conspiring to incite revolution and bonds set at 25 000 dollars for Huerta and Orozco.
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Mexico
Vera Cruz
Carranza
Victoriano Huerta
Ferguson
Teas
Villa
Chihuagua
FEI Paso
State Department
Lansing
Johnson
Huerta
Department of Justice
Madero
Suarez
el Paso
Tex
Newman
N. M
Pascual Orozco
Orozco
Texas
Fort Bliss
General Orozco
Luis Fuentes
Fuentes
A. K. Ratner
United States
San Antonio
George Oliver
R. E.thomason
Clifford Beckham
S. L Pinkney
Thomas Lee
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Europe
Morning Field
Chihuahua
Republic
Los Angeles
San Francisco
Oakland
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