Bodies Brought to El Paso From Carrizal Battle Grave
El Paso honors nine American soldiers killed at Carrizal as their bodies exhumed from a single grave are brought to the border for funeral services. Captain Boyd and Lt Adair lead the remains sent to Arlington and Portland, while General Bell oversees ceremonies and the remount and border troop movements continue.
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Carranza
el Paso
Villa
Columbus
N. M
Carrizal
Mexico
Carrioza
Elises Arredondo
Washington
Arredondo
Polk
Lansing
Gener Bell
Chihuahua City
Eighth Cavalry
Bell
Charles T. Boyd
Henry Adair
de Witt Rucker
Arlington Cemetery
Adair
Portland
Ore
Maine
Laredo
New York
Brownsville
Assignment of Troops on the Texas Border
Washington announces mobilization of over 500000 national guardsmen from eastern states awaiting orders as U S units reinforce a 1700 mile border with Mexico. New arrivals include several National Guard units and regimental commands at El Paso Douglas Brownsville and Fort Bliss.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington, D. C
Department of the East
Leonard Wood
America
California
Arizona
New Mexico
Texas
Sonora
Chihuahua
Coahuila
Nuevo Leon
Taumaulipas
Mexico
Hlinda National Guard
First
New York Cavalry
New York
Wliners
Vermont National Guard
Connecticut Regiment
Kansas Infantry
New Jersey
Eighth Field Artillery
Fort Bliss
E. F. McGlachtin
H. G. Bishop
W. McKlaushin
Thirty-Fourth Infantry
el Paso
C. E. Deutler
P. A. Wolf
C. F. Armistead
T. M. Anderson, Jr
A. R. Kerwin
Thirty-fifth Infantry
Douglas
J. H. Frier
H. L. Jackson
Jens Bugge
A. T. Smith
Z. Hartmann
Brownsville
James J. Hornbook
Claude Br, Sweezey
George Vidmer
Hugh D. Berkeley
I. Davis
Sixteenth Cavalry
William S. Scott
Edward Anderson
George W., Moses
George W. Kirkpatrick
Powell Clayton
Thirty-seventh Infantry
Fort Sam Houston
J. A. Penn
H. T. Merguron
E. Yr. Conley
C. F
Cotton acreage to reach near six million in belt
High cotton and seed prices push farmers to expand plantings this year to 5,994,000 acres, based on official estimates from the agriculture department. Crop condition stands at 81.1 percent of normal as of June 25, with projected output about 14,266,000 600 pound bales, ranking as the third largest on record.
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Washington
Department of Agriculture
Bureau of Crop Estimates
Rebate Ordered for Cattlemen in Oklahoma City Market
Interstate Commerce Commission orders reparations to Texas and Oklahoma shippers for overcharges by Southwestern carriers at Oklahoma City cattle market. Awards total about $9,000 with 6 percent interest dating from December 1911. Oklahoma corporation commission filed the complaint for the shippers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Texas
Oklahoma
Oklahoma City
Interstate Commerce Commission
Oklahoma Corporation Commission
Federal Reserve reports strong business outlook and rising wages
Washington reports show general business conditions remain good with an excellent outlook for the month. Crops are better than normal, industries are near capacity, and building construction grows. Demand for labor is widespread with rising wages across reserve districts.
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Washington
Federal Reserve Board
Wilson vows no war with Mexico unless no alternative exists
President Wilson told the New York Press Club banquet he will avoid war with Mexico if border troubles can be settled otherwise. He said he would sacrifice his political fortunes to pursue what he sees as the last resort, and urged serving the American people over Mexican investments. The audience applauded, questioning conquest and intervention.
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New York
Wilson
New York Press Club
Mexico
America
Americas
United States
World's Richest Woman Hetty Green Dies at 80
New York reports the death of Hetty Green, famed as the world's wealthiest woman. She suffered three strokes in two months and died at her son's home aged 80. Her fortune nears 100 million dollars with land in Texas and Alabama. The will leaves most to her son Colonel E H R Green and daughter Mrs Matthew Astor Wilks, with smaller gifts to friends. Burial was in Bellows Falls Virginia beside her husband.
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New York
Hetty Green
New Bedford
Mass
Eng
Henry Howlafé
Mgrim John Howland
Howland
China
E. H. R. Green
Matthew Astor Wilks
U S Able Bodied Men Of Military Age Placed At 21 Million
A census bureau table released on Wednesday estimates about 21,000,000 able bodied men ages 18 to 45 in the United States. The figure assumes a 12 percent population rise since 1910, with 13,094,615 in the Northern states, 6,006,139 in the South, and 1,970,322 in the West.
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Washington
Census Bureau
United States
Favorable Report on Revenue Bill Passes House Likely
The administration revenue bill aims to raise about two hundred million dollars from higher income taxes and taxes on inheritances and wartime munitions profits. The Ways and Means Committee reported it favorably on Wednesday and the House is expected to pass it soon.
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Washington
Administration
House
Ways and Means Committee
First Car of Mesquite Beans Shipped from Dilley
Dilley Texas reports the first carload of Mesquite beans shipped last week. A bountiful crop this season has stock of all kinds fond of the beans. Farmers are filling barns with the beans and finding ready sale for surplus.
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Dilley
Tex
Postal Employees Choose San Antonio for 1917 Meet
The joint Texas convention of the Letter Carriers and Postoffice Clerks Association adjourned in Austin. San Antonio won the bid to host the 1917 meeting, defeating Fort Worth Amarillo Corpus Christi and Corsicana. Officers elected: A. C. Craig Houston president Neeley Brasley Amarillo vice president Wallace W. Taylor Waco secretary treasurer (re-elected).
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Austin
Tex
Letter Carriers and Postoffice Clerks’ Association of Texas
San Antonio
Fort Worth
Amarillo
Corpus Christi
Corsicana
A. C. Craig
Houston
Neeley Brasley
Wallace W. Taylor
Waco
Yaqui Indian Activity Reports Rise in Sonora
Reports from outlying districts indicate renewed Yaqui activity in Guaymas Sonora Mex as the de facto government campaign begun in January to expel the Yaquis has not yet succeeded.
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Guaymas
Sonora
Mex
Mexicans Fire Across Line Near Columbus Patrol
American cavalrymen patrolling three miles south of Columbus New Mexico were fired on from the Mexican side Saturday night and returned the fire. No American was injured and the shooters escaped into the darkness.
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Columbus
N. M
Hadleys Sentenced for Double Killing in Texas Case
Paul Hadley convicted of killing Sheriff Jake Giles of Beaumont Texas and Ida Hadley his wife pleaded guilty to attempting to break jail and were moved to the state prison at McAlester Mrs Hadley received ten years and her husband life sentence.
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Muskogee
Okla
Paul Hadley
Jake Giles
Beaumont
Texas
Ida Hadley
McAlester
Hadley
Casement Becomes Treason Sender Sentenced to Death
London report says Sir Roger Casement was found guilty of high treason for involvement in the Irish revolt and was sentenced to death by the high court jury.
Calves Rate Increase Suspended by Interstate Commission
Washington The proposed rise in calf shipping rates for carload lots from Texas to interstate destinations is halted by an order of the Interstate Commerce Commission until October 29 after an application from the Cattle Raisers Association of Texas.
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Washington
Texas
Interstate Commerce Commission
Cattle Raisers’ Association of Texas
Will of Lord Kitchener probate reveals large estate
The will of Field Marshal Earl Kitchener, British secretary of war who died in the Hampshire disaster, was admitted to probate. It shows an estate valued at about 860000 dollars.
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London
Field Marshal
Earl Kitchener
Hampshire
Senate approves larger army bill in Senate report
The army appropriation bill revised by the Senate military committee is reported with total funding at 328 million dollars, up 146 million from the House passed measure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senate Military Committee
House
Austin Approves 1.17 Million Refunding Bonds
The attorney general's department approved the city of Austin refunding bonds totaling 1,170,000 dollars. The bonds are payable serially and carry a 4 percent interest rate.
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Austin
Tex
Attorney General’s Department
City of
Texas National Guard Muster at Port Arthur
Assistant Adjutant General J A McCalmont mustered in a 59 man company of engineers into the Texas National Guard at Port Arthur.
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Austin
Tex
J. A. McCalmont
Port Arthur
Texas National Guard
Germans Reinforce To Check The French In Somme Battles
World War I dispatches report German counterattacks along the French Somme front as the British and French press forward. Von Bothmer’s army withdrawal is noted in Tarnopol as Russian offensives push Austro German forces back.
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von Bothmer
Tarnopol
Peronne
Petrograd
Brussiloff
Kolomea
Russian War Office
Dniester
Thiepval
Bagdad
Turkey
Albert
Mont Auban
Serre
Hebeturne
la Boiselle
Mametz
Somme
Hardecourt
Curlu
le Mort Homme
Avecourt
Wigs Lie Like Locks In Flowers Language
A brief aphorism notes wigs as misleading hairpieces likened to lie locks, using the floral language metaphor to critique appearance versus truth. The line frames wigs as deceptive, drawing on symbolic color and bloom imagery.
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U. S
U. 5S
Elisio Arredondo
Blanton Winship
Leavenworth
Deming
Ensevio Renteria
Fauriano Garcia
Jose Rangel
Juan Castilo
Iragsi
Postal Employer’ Convention
Hadleys
Lord Kitchener
Senate
Texas Engineers
Verdun
Meuse
Hem
Estrees
Barleux
Belloy-en-Santerre
Trentino
Posina
Arsa
Froni
Nature
Spain
Libby
M‘neill
Chicago
South African Journal of Science
South African Association For the Advancement of Science
British Association
Australia
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