Two Injured In Collided Freight Trains At Burleson Sherman
A government stock train and a freight string collided in the Southern Pacific yards at Burleson and Sherman streets at 5 25 PM Tuesday. Two men were injured and six horses killed or fatally injured as stock cars split and horses were scattered along the track.
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Southern Pacific
Burleson
Sherman Streets
Dennis Guickian
Crosby Street
Harris Watson
Soledad Street
Remount
Laredo
I. & G. N. Railway Company
New Military Zone on Isthmus Tehuantepec Named
General Carranza organizes a new military zone for the Isthmus of Tehuantepec and assigns General Luis Guitierrez to command to protect train traffic on the isthmus. A gasoline propelled motor scoop is invented to speed unloading bulk cargo from ships.
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Isthmus
Tehuantepec
Guitierrez
Mexico City
Carranza
Luis Guitierrez
War front diary fragment of Irish officer after tea party tragedy
A wounded Irish officer describes a front line tea party near the village as three Bowie shells hit. One soldier was killed instantly and another maimed, with stretcher-bearers tending him as dust and earth blanketed the scene.
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London
Bedad
Soldier hums Keep the Home Fires Burning amid wrecked camp
In a ruined scene a soldier sits with a half-filled tea canteen beside an overturned brazier. He savors bacon saved from the shells and rolls a cigarette in a scrap of Sunday paper while humming the wartime song Keep the Home Fires Burning.
Boiler Makers Get Wage Increase On Pacific Line
About two hundred boiler makers and helpers on the Chicago Milwaukee and Puget Sound line from Mo bridge Illinois to the Pacific coast learned they have won a wage rise of 212 cents per hour after a conference between railroad officials and union representatives. The new average wage will be 49 cents per hour for boiler makers and 25 cents for helpers with a nine hour day continued.
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Tacoma
Wash
Chicago, Milwaukee & Puget Sound Railway
Mobridge
8. C
Pacific Coast
Counterfeit Ten and Twenty Dollar Bills Reported in Mexico
Treasury warns of poor counterfeit American ten and twenty dollar notes circulating nationwide. War Department says government forces defeated bandits in small engagements across Zacatecas Chihuahua Durango San Luis Potos Toluca. Government confiscates two properties owned by Felix Diaz.
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Mexico City
Treasury Department
Republic
Crocker National Bank of
San Francisco
War Department
Zacatecas
Chihuahua
Durango
San Luis Potos
Toluca
Felix Diaz
Memphis Saloonist Shot by Patrolman Lyons
William Latura was killed by Patrolman J. C. Lyons in Memphis Tennessee early today after a tense period of police surveillance of Latura and his saloon. Latura had a record of seven prior killings and was under a four year penitentiary sentence for gaming with recent guilty findings for violating prohibition. Lyons says the shooting was in self defense.
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Memphis
Tenn
William Latura
J. C. Lyons
Latura
Lyons
Lieutenant Barlow Killed in France War Service
Lieutenant Lovel Hardwick Barlow, son of Mrs. R. H. Barlow, the noted golf player, was killed August 14 while fighting with the British army in France. He left Philadelphia more than a year ago.
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Barlow
Philadelphia
Lovel Hardwick Barlow
R. H. Barlow
France
Sam Speir Hardware Co Advy Fishing Tackle Line
An advertisement for fishing tackle from Sam Speir Hardware Company at Adyv. highlights complete line of gear and related sporting goods. The notice promotes stock availability and shopping convenience for local anglers.
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Speir Hardware Co
Adyv
Losses of British French Navy Reach 72 Ships
The German admiralty reports by August 1 the British and French line of battle ships and cruisers totaled seventy two vessels at 496 050 tons displaced. German losses in the same classes were twenty five ships totaling 62 667 tons. A steam drying plant in Honduras begins testing copra production from local coconuts.
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Berlin
London
Honduras
Prisoners in Camp Enjoying the Life in London Camp Scene
A London report tours the Hes Army German civilian camp with park like grounds and gaiety amid internment. It notes Knockaloe on the Isle of Man housing 26000 prisoners, with recreation, German cooks, liberal rations, a dry canteen, and theaters. Douglas Camp is seen as wartime aristocracy with shops meals and a Broadway area for the interned.
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London
Surray
Kent
Knockaloe
Island
Man
Greeba
Hall Caine
Kgockaloe Camp
Bloomsbury
Douglas Camp
Count Bernstorff
Tulsa Women Die in Interurban Collision Near Denver
Mrs V T Burnell and Mrs J W Ellis of Tulsa Oklahoma were killed when their car was struck by a Denver and Boulder interurban near Westminster Colorado. J W Ellis and son Kenneth survived with minor injuries. The Kansas City Journal note includes stray quoted lines about a spider and a hammock.
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Denver
Colo
V. T. Burnell
J. W. Ellis
Tulsa
Okla
Boulder
Westminster
Here
Kenneth
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