Pershing Line Drawn Closer To Border
News from July 3 reports Gen Pershing reducing active forces near the Mexican border and the creation of a new Army Department of New Mexico. Officials suggest this signals an impending withdrawal of American troops from Mexico while outlining a reorganization of border patrols and command structure.
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Pershing
Tee
Joe
Washington
Gen Forses
Topier
Mexico
New Mexico
Jerry J. Pershing
Baker
Supreme Comlacking
U S Can Muster 21 000 000 Fighters in Four States
Estimates place able-bodied military age men in the United States at about 21 million, with New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio and Illinois each over 1,000,000. The figure reflects a 10 percent rise since 1910, from 19,183,000. Civil War service numbers and demographic breakdowns are cited as context.
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New York
Pennsylvania
Ohio
Ilinois
Washington
United States
India
Klensis
New York Guardsmen Hold Passes as Raids Feared
The Tribune reports New York division guardsmen around McAllen Mission Hidalgo and Reynosa pledge heightened vigilance amid telegraph outages. Units including the 7th and 1st Infantry, and the 4th Infantry from Brooklyn rushed to reinforce camps and ferry guards while patrols scour the border area for bandit activity. Colonel Bates and Colonel Willard Fisk oversee precautionary measures as nightfall looms.
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Srraragh
the Tribune
McAllen
Texuly
6Th Field Division
USA
Cornus Cheisti
Tex
Mio Grande Valley
New York
Funston
Antonio
Pharr
4Th Infantry
Brooklyn
Tribune
Carmantistas
Reynosa
Servsa
Hidalgo
New York Onal Guard
Texas Infantry
Ford
Tth Terns Infantry
26Th
U.S. Infantry
Reynoom
Moxcon
Ringeville
McAlion
Tarr
Hayward Chauffeur Crashes Car On City Visit
Colonel William Hayward hired a chauffeur for the trip to the St Regis Hotel with Governor Whitman and Charles & Whitman. The car sustained windshield and mudguard damage after rough handling, prompting Hayward to discharge the chauffeur. Whitman and the governor then drove to Camp Whitman with Adjutant General Louis W. Stotesbury.
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William Hayward
St. Regis
Charles & Whitman
National Education Aesoviation
J. M. Wainwright
Louis W. Stotesbury
Camp Whitman
Paralyzed Heiress Hetty Green Dies at 81 in New York
Hetty Green, famed financier and once the world’s richest woman, dies at 81 after a long life marked by isolation in old age. Reports say she remained active in charitable giving, but spent her final years in solitude with family nearby.
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Mra
Hetty Green
Edward H.R
Matthew Astor Wilks
Green
New Bedford
Big Guns Clear Airmen Kept Way For Drive
Paris reports French and British forces plan a new Somme style offensive with heavy artillery and hundreds of thousands of shells. After Champagne’s costly failure, the Allies now aim to overwhelm all German lines with staged bombardment and rapid infantry advances, while observers note the mobilization of troops and air superiority as crucial factors.
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Somme
Champagne
Galicia
Allied Push Breaks German Lines on Somme Front
British and French forces press the Somme offensive with Le Boisselle and Fricourt captured. French troops under General Foch reach within three miles of Peronne and seize five villages, taking 9,000 prisoners and seven heavy gun batteries. Germans retreat along a widening front as crowds gather in Fleet Street awaiting news.
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Tribune
London
Somme
le Boisselle
Foch
Peronne
Assevillers
Herbecourt
Douaumont
Verdun
Frise
Albert-Bapaume
Picardy
German spies found aboard troopship near Halifax
Passengers arriving from Halifax claim two German spies with explosives were found aboard the British troopship Olympic just before it sailed for England with about 6,000 Canadian soldiers. The ship's departure was delayed while the suspects were brought ashore and detained.
U S Marine Killed in Santiago Clash
Washington reports two encounters near Santiago, Santo Domingo on July 1 between American marines and revolutionist bands. Private Mills of the Gist Company was killed, three marines wounded. Lt D B Raben and Trumpeter Julius Goldsmith lightly wounded, First Sergeant Fernando Barrier seriously wounded. A marine was killed and several wounded at Monte Christi last week.
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Iago
D. B. Raben
Julius Goldsmith
Fernando Barrier
Monte Christi
Lightning strike tears into New Jersey home and structures
A bolt of lightning struck the Brookside Avenue home of Joseph Macherowski in South River, New Jersey, ripping the roof and floor of the second story while the sleeping family of six fell to the ground but all escaped injury. The blast also damaged a water tank at the Du Pont Powder Works plant and scorched a forty foot sign on the adjacent Bagus Sips factory barge.
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N. J
Joseph Macherowski
Brookside Avenue
Fenimore Street
South River
du Pont Powder Works
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la Boisselle
London War Office
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