Preparations On Border For Impending Clash
Tensions rise as U S militia mobilizes with units in North Carolina Virginia and Texas. El Paso guards and Juarez garrison reinforced amid fears of hostilities while Pershing’s force stays ready. Washington weighs Carranza note and orders militiamen to state mobilization camps.
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Juarez
el Paso
Paso
Tex
Chihuahua City
New Mexico National Guard
Twentieth Infantry
Columbus
N. M
Fort Bliss
Secretary Baker Calls Out State Militia to Mexican Border
Secretary Baker announced a broad call of nearly all state militia to the border to protect Americans. The deployment, led by General Funston, aims to deter outrages on U S soil and will avoid new entries into Mexico except to pursue bandits. Troops will mobilize at home stations with local recruiting.
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Baker
Mexico
President mobilizes National Guard for Mexican border action
The President orders virtually all state National Guard units into Federal service to guard the border with Mexico. About 100,000 guardsmen are expected to respond, with Gen. Funston designating movement plans as Navy Secretary Daniels orders further warships to Mexican waters. The move accompanies fears of Carranza demands and possible clashes, while General Pershing and Major Anderson feature in ongoing tensions.
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Eliseo Arredondo
Washington
Mexico
United States
National Guard
United States Army
War Department
Division of Milita Affairs
District of Columbia
Wilson
Frederick Funston
Baker
Daniels
Navy Department
Navy
State Departments
Carranza
Pershing
Trevino
Chihuahua
San Benito
Texas
Anderson
Brownsville
Funston
Congress
Coast Artillery
New Mexico
Arizona
Naminquipa
Columbus
N. M
Scott
Bliss
Mobile Army
Mills
Militia Division
Mexican Army Parade in Nuevo Laredo Draws Crowd
Five hundred infantry and two hundred fifty artillerymen of the Mexican army arrived in Nuevo Laredo opposite Laredo Texas and paraded through the streets. An anti American demonstration was reported prevented by General de la Garza as the crowd watched in orderly fashion.
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Laredo
Texas
Neuvo
Mexico
Neuvo Laredo
de la Garza
Russians Forge Austrians to Evacuate Czernowitz
London reports Czernowitz the capital of Bukovina under Russian control after hard fighting at the Czernowitz bridgehead and the Pruth River. Austrians retreat toward the Carpathians as Russian forces reach the right bank and the city is evacuated.
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Czernowitz
London
Czernowicz
Bukowina
Stare
Carpathian Mountains
Pruth
Mexican and American forces clash near San Benito Texas
Reports say United States troops repelled a band of 25 to 30 Mexican bandits ten miles east of San Benito with no American casualties and three Mexicans dead. Carranza’s government warns that US moves are hostile and may trigger war.
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United States
San Benito
Texas
General Trevino
Carranza
North
Pershing
Durango
Arieta
Concho
Chihuahua City
Laredo
Rio Grande
Neuvo Laredo
el Faso
Washington
Trevino
Villa
Mexico
St. Louis
State
Navy Department
Washington Administration
T. A. Coleman Ranch
Villareal
Carranza Army
International and Great Northern
Webb
European War Dispatch on Neutral Mail Controversy and Russian Front
A London dispatch reports strong efforts to satisfy the United States over the neutral mail issue. Russian forces push Germans and Austro-Hungarians back along the frontline as Sniatyn falls, with 1,780 officers and 120,000 men captured in eleven days and 130 guns plus 200 machine guns seized. Verdun is quiet with Canadians praised for bravery while Russia retakes Dubno and pressures retreating Austrians. czarist warships win another engagement at Saltic and twelve German merchantmen are sunk.
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Gulf of Riga
Bukowina
Pripet
Russia
Lutsk
Russian War Office
Galician
Czernowilcz
Bodulintze
Buczacz
Galicia
Petrograd
Czernowicz
Kantara
Egypt
Romani
London
United States
United States State Department
Teutons
Sniatyn
Verdun
Berlin
Dubno
Volhynian
Saltic
Wilson Speech at West Point Says America Speaks Truth
President Wilson declared in a West Point address that mankind will know America means what it says. He argued the current war did not happen by accident and warned that no one can predict future world events.
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Wilson
West Point
America
Fort Oglethorpe
Senate
United States
Lansing
Congress
Federal Trade Commission
Baker
St. Louis
Resolutions Committee
Presidential and Global News Roundup Reflects 1916 Echoes
Reports chronicle Burleigh’s death in Maine after illness, France credit talks, and naval damages near Cape Ann. Wilson, Roosevelt, and Parker figures shape reformer momentum, while Wilson attends military academy exercises. A Georgia crash, a steer gear failure, and Roosevelt X ray add to a broad national snapshot.
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United States
Edwin C. Burleigh
Augusta
Maine
Washington
New York
Republic of France
Cape Ann
McDougal
Boston Navy Yard
St. Louis
Wilson
Theodore Roosevelt
New York City
State University Ends Notable Year at Carolina Graduation
The 111th year of the University of South Carolina closed with graduation exercises and the June ball. Rev. R. H. Bennett urged students to pursue life with purpose and service, noting only a pure character is strong. Shannon Wallace won the Joseph Daniel Pope Medal for best senior law essay on Equity. Honorary degrees were awarded to James J. McCain and William Cain. William Spenser Currell outlined new entrance unit requirements for degree conferment.
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Columbia
University of South Carolina
R. H. Bennett
D.D
Imory University
Joseph Daniel Pope
Shannon Wallace
J. Nelson Frierson
School of Law
James J. McCain
Erskine College
William Cain
University of North Carolina
William Spenser Currell
Carolina
Currell
New Concrete Pier Accepted at Charleston Navy Yard
The Charleston navy yard completed a $300,000 concrete pier and berthing slip and a shore retaining wall. A dredged basin will host torpedo boat destroyer vessels. the 300 by 450 foot structure uses reinforced concrete piles up to 90 feet deep.
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Charleston
Charleston Navy Yard
United States
Clvb
Reid
Boy Drowns in Linville River Near Linville Falls
Harry Taylor fourteen year old son of Mr and Mrs Taylor of this city drowned in the Linville river near Linville Falls North Carolina. He was with a camping party of boys led by Rev H K Pendleton rector of the Church of the Advent of this city.
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Spartanburg
Harry Taylor
Linville River
Linville Falls
N. C
H. K. Pendleton
Church of the Advent of
Cadets Commence Graduation at The Citadel
Despite bad weather 31 cadets received diplomas at the Citadel graduation exercises held in the German Artillery hall. The cadet band performed and Dr. William T. Ellis of Swarthmore College delivered a strong address titled The World War's Challenge to American Patriotism. Medals were presented.
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Charleston
Citadel
Ww. T. Ellis
Swarthmore College
Woman Killed in Auto Train Crash Near Rock Hill
Mrs Belle Phillips widow of Vander Phillips of Rockingham N G was killed when train 114 from Charlotte to Columbia struck her automobile at Steele's crossing near Rock Hill The rear of the car was demolished but the other occupants escaped serious injury She was en route to Rock Hill to visit her brother George Moken a member of the Aragon village with her two children a son of 18 and a daughter of 7 years
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Belle Phillips
Vander Phillips
Rockingham
N. G
Charlotte
Columbia
Steele's Crossing
Phillips
George Moken
Ale
Aragon Village
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Torreon
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Mayflower
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