City Review Of Katy Right Of Way Franchise In Highland Park
Officials of the Missouri Kansas & Texas railway seek a city franchise to cross Highland Park streets along Westfall avenue for a new terminal route. The plan covers a mile of property bought for about 150000 dollars with a referendum possible if 1300 voters sign. Mayor Brown wants inspection before council action next Monday.
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Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway
Westfall Avenue
Brown
W. A. Webb
Katy
Charles Dc. Huff
Webb
Skinner Avenue
East Houston Street
Grace Street
Southern Pacific
Roosevelt Avenue
Gillette
Epidemic Takes 31 Infants In 24 Hours In New York
New York reporting shows 31 infant fatalities and 119 new cases in five boroughs in the last 24 hours. Since the epidemic began there have been 487 deaths and 2446 cases with a mortality rate near 20 percent. Greek reservists cross Bulgaria after Greek army demobilization, 1000 allowed to move toward Romania.
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New York
New York City
Bulgaria
Berlin
Sayville
Vossische Zeitung
Roumania
San Antonio Area Tonight and Friday Weather Outlook
For San Antonio and vicinity the forecast calls for unsettled conditions tonight and Friday with possible showers and variable skies. Temperatures are expected to stay mild as a low pressure system lingers over South Texas.
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San Antonio
Vicinity
Weather outlook cities show mild touring temps across regions
The Light forecasts pleasant conditions for tourists with mid seventies across St Louis Chicago Milwaukee Kansas City New York and Washington. Winds vary from north to northeast at 8 to 16 miles per hour. Friday brings clear or likely cloudy skies and highs in the upper eighties or low nineties.
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ST. Louis
Chicago
Milwaukee
Kansas City
New York
Washington
Army tests motorcycle radio section at Fort Sam Houston
The army trials a motorcycle radio unit of ten men on three sidecar motorcycles with an Evinrude motor for power. General Funston inspected the setup at Fort Sam Houston as the unit demonstrated from the post to Boerne in 1 hour 20 minutes, extending the wireless range from 20–30 miles to about 50.
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Funston
Fort Sam Houston
Signal Corps
John B. Christian
Christian
Boerne
Walter J. Clarke
Howard C. Tatum
Tropical Storm Moves Northward Off Carolina Coast
A tropical storm off the North Carolina coast was centered about 200 miles east of Cape Hatteras. Reports to the weather bureau were scarce with ships at sea noting winds up to 64 miles per hour at the storm’s edge. The system was headed slowly northward as fresh gales and strong northeast winds affected the coast from North Carolina to the Delaware breakwater.
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Washington, D. C
Atlantic
West Indies
North Carolina
Cape Hatteras
Weather Bureau
Delaware
Zeppelin wrecked after Riga raid on mission near Tukum
Russian anti aircraft guns hit a Zeppelin recently raiding Riga and wrecked it near Tukum. The majority of the craft was saved and German engineers rescued the engine and other machinery, according to a Central News dispatch.
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London
Riga
Tukum
Hague
Ogne
German Peace Aims Move Toward Moderation Advised
Berlin reports the German national committee for securing an honorable peace has drafted an address to the country. It urges support for Chancellor von Bethmann Hollweg and seeks to influence public opinion toward moderate peace aims.
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German National Committee For
Hag
von Bethmann-Holweg
Pay Day For Militia Troops At Camp Wilson
Militia units at Camp Wilson receive their first federal pay covering June 19 to 30. Captain Fred C. Doyle oversees about $150,000 in chests to settle 14,474 personnel across three infantry brigades. Payment runs through Thursday with further moves to Leon Springs delayed until after payroll completion.
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Reveille
Fred C. Doyle
Illinois
Doyle
San Antonio
First Illinois Infantry
Foster
Wisconsin
Leon Springs
Four Disinfecting Plants Planned for Border Crossings
Major Bolivar Lloyd of the Public Health Service announces four disinfecting plants to be built at El Paso Laredo Eagle Pass and Brownsville to sanitize clothing of Mexican refugees with gasoline baths and steam sterilization. Smaller plants will serve other crossings as needed, with El Paso ready to operate in two weeks.
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United States Public Health Service
Texas State Board of Health
Rio Grande
Bolivar Lloyd
The
Public Health Service
Gulf of Mexico
Pacific Ocean
Mexico
Cence
Paso
Laredo
Eagle Pass
Brownsville
Lloyd
el Paso
United States
Major Lloyd
Texas
Arizona
New Mexico
Peru
Ecuador
San Antonio
Stroud Reprieved After Bid for New Trial in Leavenworth Killing
Robert H. Stroud, condemned for killing a guard at the Leavenworth penitentiary, has received a reprieve through an application for a new trial. The decision delays his execution as legal proceedings continue.
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Washington, D. C
Robert H. Stroud
United States Penitentiary
Leavenworth
San Antonio to Adopt Washington high school's cadet corps training
Washington high school cadet corps praised as best of its kind. San Antonio school officials led by Wal ton Hood plan a complete military training course for the next session. Government provides equipment. uniforms priced as ordinary school suits. Hood cites cost efficiency and district comparisons during Buffalo trip with Burns and Shriners officials.
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Washington, D. C
San Antonio High School
Walton D. Hood
San Antonio
Washington High School
War Department
United States Army
Hood
Washington
Central High
Robert Burns
Kennedy
Buffalo
Imperial Council of Shriners
Culberson
Sheppard
Capture of Villa Now Seems Probable
Villa and his main band near Amador about thirty miles south of the Durango line remain surrounded by government troops under General Jacinto Trevino and General Matias Ramos. Ramos reports Villa’s 800 men are enclosed with capture likely. reinforcement at Guarencevi would back Ramos if the band moves south. Luis Caballero arrives to take command of the fifth division, relieving Nafarrate.
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Chihuahua City
Guanacevi
Ramos
Luis Cabrello
Tamaulipas
Mexico City
Nafarrate
Villa Seen Ready for Capture by Carranza Forces
A cablegram to Mexican consul Juan A. Mateos from Galveston reports Francisco Villa may be captured soon by Carranza troops. A Villa messenger was captured yesterday and revealed Villa’s possible location near a town in Chihuahua state, reportedly ill and seeking medical aid.
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Tex
Francisco Villa
Juan A. Mateos
Villa
Carranza
Mateos
Chihuahua
Chihuahua City
Chicago Journalists Admit Fault In Militia Attack Story
Chicago newspaper men admitted they erred in reporting an attack on the Illinois militia camp by Mexican snipers. General Funston placed them on probation and urged sticking to facts. A Chamber of Commerce telegram urged the Chicago Daily News to correct its fourteenth story calling the attack fake.
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Illinois
General Funston
Chicago Daily News
Chamber of Commerce
Funston
Deutschland Ready to Start on Return
Baltimore July 20 Captain Paul Koenig commander of the German submarine Deutschland prepared to leave port at any moment after eleven days ashore and studying charts with Captain Frederick Hansch of the Neckar. Koenig said he would not leave the ship again and the crew reportedly fears entanglement and disabled engines if nets off the capes hinder their escape.
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Baltimore
Paul Koenig
Patapsco River
Chesapeake Bay
Frederick Hansch
Neckar
Koenig
Capes
French Fire Sweeps Somme Front Taking North Bank Trenches
Paris July 20 French forces attacked along both sides of the Somme winning hard fought gains. North bank trenches from Halecourt Mamelon to Hardecourt east of Combles were captured with 400 prisoners. South of the river trenches from Barleux to Soyecourt fell and 150 prisoners were taken near Fleury. A German aircraft was shot down east of Peronne.
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Paris
Somme
Hardecourt
Barleux
Soyecourt
War Office
Halecourt- Mamelon
Combles
Clery
Verdun
Avdecourt
Chattancourt
Meuse
Thiaumont
Fleury
Peronne
Germans Attack Delville Wood and Longueval in France
German forces mass and counterattack against Delville Wood, forcing the South Africans to yield ground while retaining part of the wood and village as British reinforcements arrive. Montauban and Longueval approaches also shelling as British artillery answers with heavier fire.
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France
London
Tronés Wood
Delville Wood
Longueval
Litetle
Mont Auban
Merchants Close Doors in Chihuahua City
In Chihuahua City merchants shut their shops citing unprofitable business at the silver exchange rate set by the de facto government for the Carranza currency. Civil governor Francisco Trevino summoned a mass meeting and formed a committee to present grievances to the national monetary commission in Mexico City. Shops must remain open pending commission decision.
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Chihuahua City
Mex
Francisco Trevino
Chihuahua
National Monetary Commission
Mexico City
Need cars for troops move 1.75 million in 48 hours
Chicago July 20. W. J. Black passenger traffic manager Atchison Topeka Santa Fe says railroads need 6750 more cars permanently for War Department to move 1,750,000 troops within 48 hours.
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Chicago
Ill
War Department
W. J. Black
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad
Fight on naval bill stalls armor plant funding
Senator Lafollette pressed the naval bill in the Senate as critics challenged a provision for an $11,000,000 government armor plant. Oliver and Penrose argued to defer to the federal trade commission, saying a factory would not be economical, while Lafollette claimed the navy was stronger than aggressors amid preparedness debates.
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Washington, D. C
Senate
Lafollette
Wisconsin
Oliver
Penrose
Federal Trade Commission
Germany
Britain
Greek officers punished over Saloniki newspaper attack
A royal decree in Saloniki retires Greek army officers tied to the wrecking of the Rizoastis offices and editor’s fatal wounding. Private soldiers face court martial. Paris report says eleven officers were arrested by French authorities after the assault on the paper over critiques of Greek surrender to Bulgarians.
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Saloniki
London
Rizoastis
Paris
Rain Dampens Drought Across Kansas and Oklahoma
Kansas reports rainfall totaling half to two inches across the state ending yesterday easing over a month drought. Oklahoma records liberal rains statewide breaking a prolonged heat spell with many areas noting saved corn and improved crops.
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Topeka
Kan
Kansas
Oklahoma City
Okla
Oklahoma
Noordam sails with 50 Belgian refugees to join kin in US and Canada
The Holland-American Line steamship Noordam departed for New York with 50 Belgian women and children, heading to relatives in the United States and Canada under an arrangement coordinated by Rev. John B. DeVille of Chicago. Father De Ville returned to Belgium today to bring more refugees aboard.
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London
Holland-American Line
Noordam
New York
United States
Canada
John B. DeVille
Chicago
Father DeVille
Belgium
Fletcher 10 Mexico Settlement Near Through Commission
Announcement that US Mexico differences will be settled by a joint commission is anticipated with final approval by President Wilson and General Carranza. talks between Acting Secretary Polk and Mexican ambassador Arredondo focused on powers for a commission. Henry P. Fletcher will move to Mexico City soon after August 1 if conditions clear.
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Washington
D. C
United States
Mexico
Wilson
Carranza
Polk
Elisio Arredondo
Henry P. Fletcher
Mexico City
President urged to settle New York cloakmakers strike
Henry Morgenthau and other New York men asked President Wilson to intervene in the twelve week New York City cloakmakers strike. The petition seeks action from the Labor and Commerce departments and the Bureau of Conciliation to end the disruption of women’s clothing supply nationwide.
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Washington, D. C
Wilson
Henry Morgenthau
Turkey
Cleveland H. Dodge
A. Barton Hepburn
New York
New York City
Department of Labor
Bureau of Conciliation
Departments of Labor and Commerce
Rotary elects officers as three candidates vie for presidency
In Cincinnati during the International Rotary Clubs convention three presidential candidates face off: William Gettinger of New York, Robert H. Connell of Houston, Arch C. Klomph of Cleveland. Also contesting the next convention city includes Kansas City Atlanta and Salt Lake City.
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Cincinnati
Ohio
International Rotary Clubs
William Gettinger
New York
Robert H. Connell
Houston
Tex
Arch C. Klomph
Cleveland
Kansas City
Atlanta
Salt Lake City
Austrians Repulse Italian Attacks Near Borcola Pass
The Austrian statement reports three Italian assaults south and east of Borcola Pass repulsed with grenades machine guns and stones. It notes a captured machine gun at Fella Raibler and shelling of Tarvis amid increased artillery duels along the Isonzo front and at other nearby positions.
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Berlin
Sayville
Borcola Pass
Vienna
Astadi
Fella
Raibler
Male Borgeth
Isonzo
Gortezia
Luurwieserjoch
Pontebba
Carnic
British Forces Make Gains on Somme Front in Delville Wood
The War Office said heavy fighting persisted on the Somme with British troops gaining ground in Delville Wood and Longueval. North of Longueval Bazen they extended their line, while east of Leipsic Ridge bombing parties achieved a substantial advance during the night.
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Somme
War Office
Delville Wood
Longueval
Longueval-Bazen
Leipsic Re
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