Mexican Civil Turmoil Reported Amid Angles Shift
The Mexican Center of Activities reports Red Cross workers quit relief duties as General Felipe Angeles, Villa's lieutenant, is allegedly in Sonora in disguise. US officials eye a new Mexican expedition while Wilson administration weighs foreign diplomacy and Carranza’s stance on diplomatic agents.
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Washington
Felipe Angeles
Villa
Leutenant
Sonora
Warren
Department of Justice
Nogales
Angeles
el Paso
Department
Mexico
Huerta
Miss Boardman Law
Republic
Wilson
Mabel Boardman
Devol
Red Cross
Mexico City
Torreon
Carranza
Vera Cruz
United States
Silliman
Mitchner enters senatorial race on prohibition suffrage
Topeka July 29 Mrs Lillian Mitchner president of the Kansas W C T U was entered in the United States senatorial race by friends. They said she would wage an independent fight on a platform supporting national prohibition and national suffrage two measures previously blocked by Congress.
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Topeka
Kan
Lillian Mitchner
Kansas
German aviators fire on Swiss territory near Bonfol
Geneva reports for the third time that German aviators violated Swiss airspace yesterday near Bonfol. Swiss infantry opened heavy fire as the aircraft vanished northward after about ten minutes.
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Geneva
Bonfol
Escapes From His Abduttors Empey Kidnapping Ends
Ernest A. Empey wealthy rancher abducted by bandits held for six thousand dollars ransom has escaped his captors. Rangers and a posse recovered the rancher at Sheep Mountain near Montpelier with the abductor surrounded and captured. A ransom payment was arranged for the release of cattlemen as the suspect was taken.
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Idaho Falls
Idaho
Ernest A. Empey
Empey
United States Forest Rangers
Montpieler
Ernest Empey
Sheep Mountain
Cran
New York Justice Orders Hearing on Becker Retrial
Supreme Court Justice Philbin signed an order returnable Monday to show cause why a new trial should not be granted to Charles Becker the former police lieutenant sentenced to die next Wednesday. District Attorney Perkins opposes. Becker seeks fresh evidence and cross examination about police graft and Sullivan links.
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New York
Supreme Court
Philbin
Ford
Charles Becker
Perkins
Hermann Rosenthal
W. Bour
Cochran
Becker
Martin’ T. Manton Harford
T. Marshall
John E. McIntyre
Timothy D. Sullivan
Rosenthal
Gov
Whitman
Harry Applebaum
Sullivan
The Survival of Dudley Saxe and Marian Evers
Dudley Saxe reels from heartbreak and jealousy after Marian Evers spurns him for West Bradley. He toils in moving picture work, drafts a sentimental screenplay, and returns to find Marian has moved on, mortgage drama resolved by Bradley, while Dudley confronts his changed life and lingering love.
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Dudley
Ant
Man
Red Inn
Tie
West Bradley
Evers Cottage
Dudley Saxe
Marian
Saxe
Marian Evers
Eatontown
Hag
Gradley
Dudley Saxo
Evers
Fine Stock Company
Dudley’s. Chance
Siuiden
Matontown
Bradley
South
Estontown
G-3 Submarine Photograph Sparks Secrecy Claim
A photo of G-3, hailed as the greatest submarine, prompts dispute over permission to shoot images. Reports say G-3 can steam 5,500 miles and cross the Atlantic without refueling, with eight similar submarines capable of crossing oceans and ten more planned.
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Simon Lake
Bridgeport
Conn
Trial echoes of past confession tied to federal case
In the papers a new trial is hinted with Father Curry recalling Becker’s two year old confession. Becker allegedly shared a tale linked to "Big Tim" Sullivan, urging Becker to inform his counsel about the Sullivan matter, but Becker refused.
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Curry
Becker
Tim
Sullivan
Gompers Declares Strike Endorsement For Bridgeport Work
Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, said after talks with leaders of several international unions that the AF of L endorses the unions’ demands at the Remington Arms plant and its sub-contractors. He noted no German influence in his statement and said the millwrights iron workers classification dispute was not settled, though a committee was appointed to address it.
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Bridgeport
Conn
Samuel ‘Gompers
American Federation of Labor
Remington Arms and Ammunition Company
Gomperts
New York
American Federation
Gompers
Mrs Oglesby Improves Slightly Amid Planned Chicago Operation
Charleston July 23 The condition of Mrs Richard D Oglesby wife of the former governor has slightly improved today She will be brought to Chicago for an operation and medical care for her ailment is planned there
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Charleston
Til
Richard D. Oglesby
Chicago
Italians and Austrians in Battle Royal at Isonzo Front
Italian forces press the Isonzo battle for Gorizia and Tolmino as Austrian counterattacks intensify. The fighting rages along mountain forts on Mount Sabotina and Mount Podgora with long range Austrian guns replying. Italians seize trench lines on Carsa Plateau and take hundreds of prisoners while engineers build bridges and move troops to the eastern bank. brutal, hand to hand fighting continues near Plava amid heavy artillery, with difficult casualty evacuation in the rugged terrain.
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Rome
Isonzo
Gorizia
Tolmino
Mount Sabotina
Podgoras
Treches
Podgora
Kirng
Victor Emmanuel
Carsa
Ittalian
Plava
Hanc
Decatur Will Retain Team In Galesburg Baseball Clash
Galesburg club meeting at 3 40 p m decides not to sell players and to keep the Decatur franchise. Decatur Three U owner J A Corbett triggers new objections. Al Tearney returns to Chicago with local officers. Corbett proposed Decatur may retain the franchise and let Galesburg take another club.
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Galesburg
Decatur
Al.Tearney
Chicago
J. A.corbett
Corbett
al. Tearney
Harry F. Kimber
Walter Chase
Don Struthers
Pred Barnett
Sidney Nirdlinger
G. A. Swensen
H. E. Dondi
British Cotton Pool Proposal Sparks Senate Debate
Washington officials reported informal British plans to form a colossal cotton pool to buy American supplies. Southern lawmakers questioned whether price or buyer mattered most, fearing Britain would not pay enough. The State Department said any private deal must be direct, though it would aid negotiations. The British idea would earmark 175 million dollars to buy U S cotton and place it on their contraband list in peace.
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Washington
America
State Department
Department
England
Fresh Zeppelin Attacks Feared Over London
Geneva reports fresh Zeppelin threats as German air base supplies new silent engine and stealth features for airships. Details claim installations on several airships to move quietly, plus experiments with illuminating bombs to create bright curtains that obscure ships from view and shield London from future bombardments.
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Geneva
London
Friedrich
Count Zeppelin
Heavy Austro German Artillery Bombards Vistula Forts
Reports from Austro Hungarian headquaters describe heavy siege guns firing on Ivangorod fortress and the Vistula shore. Troops push along the San railway corridor from Lublin Chelm, threatening Russian supply lines as Boehm Ermolli forces breach the Bug river and seek to cut communications between armies.
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London
Ivangorod
Vistula River
Lublin-Chelm
Sbublin
Chelm
Vistula
Bug
Galicia
Lublin
Krasnik
San
Archduke
Joseph
Ferdinand
Swiss Protest Predicted Over Frontier Bar Wire Action
Geneva July 23 The Delemont Democrat reports the Swiss government will protest German frontier barbed wire barriers near Largin. The paper says the incident is grave and Swiss authorities will make representations in Berlin.
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Geneva
Paris
Largin
Delemont, Democrat
Berlin
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James B. Curry
By Enos Emory
Trieste
Remington
Ilonso’ Front
Tearney
RUSS
Warsaw
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