Texas Hens Win World Laying Prize
White Leghorn pen owned by George D. Gray of Valley Farm Boerne won the silver challenge cup in the international egg laying contest at Missouri Experiment Station Mountain Grove. Gray received word the July winner honors go to Texas beating 75 pens across 23 states and foreign countries. The winning stock includes the Tom Barron strain and Gray is a Texas Poultry Association vice president.
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San Antonio
Texas
Lone Star
Missouri Experiment Station
Mountain Grove
George D. Gray
Valley Farm
Boerne
Tom Barron
Europe
Australia
America
George Gray
Lone Star Poultry Association
Germany Refuses to Pay Indemnity in Prize Court Ruling
London reports that the German prize court at Hamburg ruled against indemnity for the Dutch vessel Maria sunk by the Karlsruhe and for the Batavier V captured in the North Sea. It held destination-based contraband to be tied to fortified base guidelines from August 1914, limiting rebuttal evidence and expanding the concept of absolute contraband.
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London
British Foreign Office
Hamburg
Maria
Batavier
Portland
Ore
Belfast
Dublin
Karlsruhe
Atlantic
Batavia
North Sea
Zeebrugge
Navy
Great Britain
Supreme Command
Ipswich
Poole
Barrow-in-Furness
Grange Mouth
Germans Drive Three Wedges Against Russians Quiet Front
Describes German plan to drive three wedges into Russian defenses with Riga near fall unless Russians bolster von Hindenburg’s flank. Notes Russian counteractions in East Galicia and a French artillery barrage on German trenches lasting days. Mentions Balkan issues as Romania and Bulgaria seek Entente understanding.
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London
Germany
Poland
Riga
von Hindenburg
Galicia
Stripa
Balkan
Roumania
Bulgaria
Orozco Reported Killed Near Sierra Blanca
A report from an American investigator says one of five Mexicans killed near Sierra Blanca is General Pascual Orozco. He was arrested with Huerta last June in New Mexico on conspiracy charges, released on bond, and later disappeared. The pursuit ended with the last raider’s death in Green River canyon.
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Orozco
Newman
N. M
Victoriano Huerta
United States
Mexico
van Horn
Tex
Bosque Bonito
Dick Love
Sierra Blanca
Love
Thirteenth Cavalry
Culberson County
High Lonesome Mountain
Green River Canyon
Wilsons Friends Expect He Be Renominated
Washington reports indicate President Wilson's closest allies anticipate his renomination in 1916 and are planning accordingly. The president reportedly makes no move to influence such plans while Secretary Tumulty notes Democrats in Wisconsin and Kentucky endorsed his administration.
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Washington, D. C
Wilson
Tenth
Wisconsin
Kentucky
White House
James
Tumulty
New Jersey
Terman
Great Britain May Seek Large US Credit To Stabilize Sterling
Wall Street reports a possible temporary loan of 50 to 100 million dollars to Britain to steady the exchange rate until a broader credit arrangement with New York can be reached. Market chatter suggested collateral in four lots, with rates volatile but finishing modestly higher.
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New York
Wall Street
Great Britain
Boston
Chicago
Dallas
Kansas City
St. Louis
Atlanta
America
Taft Lectures in California Cards Roosevelt Ties
Taft spoke at the University of California Greek Theater delivering the first of three lectures on the Presidency. He recalled Theodore Roosevelt in multiple remarks and recounted a Campbell anecdote about executive legislation challenging constitutional limits.
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Berkley
Cal
William H. Taft
University of California
Theodore Roosevelt
Jim Campbell
New York
Roosevelt
Mr. Campbell
Mr. Taft
Vaudeville bill at Majestic features Cooper and Bert Fitzgibbons
The Majestic presents seven acts led by Harry Cooper a noted character comedian with an operatic voice in The Letter Carrier and Bert Fitzgibbons Vaudeville's Original Daffydil. Also featured are Youth in Everywoman Helene Davis Hoyts Dream of the Orient with Makarenko Marie Flynn Sascha Piotoke Shreck and Percival and The Acrobatic Waltz.
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Majestic Theater
Harry Cooper
Charles Henderson
Bert Fitzgibbons
Hoyt
Orient
Europe
Madame Makarenko
Marie Flynn
Madame Sherry
Sascha Piotoke
Palace Theater
B. F. Keith’s
New York City
Miss Flynn
Sascha Piatoke
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Texas Employment CO
Commerce Street
Cutter’s
Cutter Laboratory
Berkeley
California
Sheffield
E. Hertzberg Jewelry Co
Houston
St. Mary’s St
Justin
Fmanly
Dustin
H. J. Dustin & Sons
Taft
Majestic Theatre
Bert Fitzgibbon
Sascha Piatov
Oscar Hammerstein
Marietta
Cooper
Lew Fields
Helene Davis
Fort Worth
Pierre Pelletier
Shreck
Percival
Shipper
Alamo Trust Co
Mercantile Agencies
F.A. Haecker
San Antonio, Texas
the Angelus Hotel
K. Vanhof
Frank Kent
Joske's Corner
East Commerce
South Alamo
Mr. Traveller
The
Maverick Hotel
E. Houston ST
L. B. Haines
A.A. A
Percy Tyrell
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