Carranza Orders Release of Three-Fourths of Seized Silver
General Carranza has ordered the release of 150000 ounces of silver bullion from the Alvarado Mining and Milling Company of Parral. The bullion was seized during the Carrizal engagement as a precaution in case of hostilities with the United States. The remainder is held as security for taxes.
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Chihuahua City
Carranza
Alvarado Mining and Milling Company of
Parral
United States
Appropriation Total To RCAD Tops Record
Washington July 3 Congress moves to finish its financial program with estimated totals over 1.65 billion dollars for national defense. Army and navy bills plus the fortifications measure push defense outlays past all prior records as the Senate plans quick action on the naval bill. If campaign adjournment cuts bills, immigrants and conservation moves may wait until the short session.
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Washington, D. C
Congress
Fitzgerald
House
Appropriations Committee
Senate
Peasants Granted Civil Rights by Russian Duma
The Russian Duma adopted a bill giving peasants civil rights equal to other classes of the population. The measure, reported by peasants, marks a major shift in social status and legal equality within Petrograd.
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Duma
Petrograd
London
Mrs Petsch Hosts Birthday Party For Nephews
Mrs J J Petsch entertained about twenty five guests Sunday afternoon at 1216 North Flores Street. The event honored her three nephews H A Elmendorf Elmer A Haller and Leonard Haller with a dinner and a time of dancing and games followed by ice cream and cake.
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Petsch
J. J. Petsch
North Flores Street
H. A. Elmendorf
Elmer A. Haller
Leonard Haller
R. Warde Miller
Ogden Street
Judith Joyce
Miss Joyce
Charmion de Lallier
Ella May Pailey
Celeste Phillippi
Addie Mae Griesenbeck
Agnes Murphy
Edna de Lallier
Charmion de
Texas postal clerks hold Austin convention for two days
About 200 delegates attend the Texas branch joint convention of the United National Post Office Clerks and the Texas State Association of Letter Carriers at the Driskill Hotel Austin. Harry L. Lacey of Houston presides over the Letter Carriers. John O. Gates of Dallas leads the clerks. John Lester Wroe reads the governor’s message in Ferguson’s absence.
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Austin. Tex
Texas
United National Huescindle of Postoffice Clerks
Texas State Association
National Association of Letter Carriers
Driskill Hotel
Dallas Letter Carriers
Harry L. Lacey
Houston
Letter Carriers’ Association
John O. Gates
Dallas
Post Office Clerks
H. W. Knickerbocker
Austin
Sam Sparks
Austin Chamber of Commerce
Frank Rosenbeck
Ferguson
John Lester Wroe
Sugar Shortage Eases as France Caps Sale Price
Paris reports relief from a sugar squeeze as government fixes a maximum price of one franc 20 centimes per kilogramme. About 200 tons daily flow to Paris grocers, households challenged by shortages and hoarding, while authorities crack down on overbidding and stock manipulation with fines.
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Associated Press
Paris
Carranza Cheered in Mexico City Ride Through Wards
President Wilson’s New York Press Club speech prompts Mexico's papers to note his opposition to war and defend American policy in Mexico. General Carranza tours the wards on a striking black horse, cheered by crowds as volunteers march and drill along the route.
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Mexico City
Wilson
New York Press Club
Mexico
el Paso
Carrizal
United States
Guerrero
Carranza
Yager Visits U S From Porto Rico On Brazos
Porto Rico Governor Arthur Yager arrived in New York from San Juan aboard the Brazos on official business. He would not disclose the nature of his assignment.
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Porto Rico
New York
San Juan
Arthur Yager
Brazos
Yager
United States
More Guardsmen in Arizona Arrive by Train
Five troop trains brought over 1500 California guardsmen to Ariz on July 3 raising Colonel W H Sage command to about 3500 men overnight.
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Arizona
Nogawaes
Ariz
California
W. H. Sage
Navy League Organizing Meeting In San Antonio
Monday evening at the Menger Hotel the Woman's Section of the Navy League will be formed in San Antonio led by Mrs. John Griswold and Miss Gladys Kane. Attendees likely include members from Red Cross and Equal Franchise Society among other patriotic groups. Also notes on social events and society visits follow.
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Menger
The
Navy League
Woman's Section
Navy League of the United States
John Ase Griswold
Gladys Kane
Menger Hotel
Red Cross Society
City
Fort Sam Houston
Equal Franchise Society
Woman's Relief Corps
Grand Army of the Republic
Daughters of the Confederacy
the Republic of Texas
Dorothy Mooney
St. Anthony
Atlee B. Ayres
E. J.martin
Vaudeville and film program at Princess and Strand
The Princess Theater closes vaudeville and shows Wanda Howard in That Sort, a five act Exssaway feature about a actor’s life. The Strand presents De Wolf Hopper in Comey Mr Goode a benevolent man who is jailed after buying a stolen car. A Keystone comedy His Hereafter is also included with The Good Samaritan subplot.
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Princess Theater
Wanda Howard
de Wolf Hopper
Comey
Mr. Goode
Samaritan
Triangle
Strand Theater
Refugees Aboard Buffalo Near San Diego
The Army transport Buffalo with over 300 American refugees from West Mexican ports neared San Diego and was expected to dock before night. Its last port was Mazatlan while Admiral Winslow, commander of the Pacific fleet, was at Mazatlan aboard the San Diego with five other ships in port.
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San Diego
Cal
United States Army
Buffalo
Mazatlan
Winslow
United States
Lynchings Reach 25 in First Half of Year
Montgomery Alabama July 3 records from Tuskegee Institute show 25 lynchings in the United States during the first six months of the year, down from 34 in the same period last year. Two whites and 23 black victims. eight victims died in Georgia. five were charged with attacks on women.
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Montgomery
Ala
Tuskegee Institute
United States
Georgia
Eleven Greek Officers Arrested in Paris Over Saloniki Assault
Paris July 3 Eleven Greek army officers connected to the attack on the Rizoastis editor, a Saloniki newspaper, are reported by Le Matin’s correspondent to have been arrested and confined in a French military prison. The officers stand accused of assaulting the editor.
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Paris
Rizoastis
Saloniki
Matin
Troops Recalled Protest Sent to Wilson
The Socialist Labor party national executive committee sent a protest to President Wilson demanding the withdrawal of all American troops from Mexico.
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Socialist Labor Party
Mexico
New York
Wilson
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