Order the State Troops
The piece argues for dispatching state troops to Texas to back up U S actions on the Mexican border amid rising tensions and possible war. It criticizes Washington for delaying and urges immediate deployment to deter border raids and support Funston with available forces.
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United States
Mexico
Carranza
Glenn Springs
San Ignacio
Washington
Texas
West Point
America
Funston
State
Golden Demonstration Frames St Louis Democratic Opening
The suffrage parade at the Democratic convention in St Louis featured eight thousand women in white with yellow sashes and umbrellas forming a lane for delegates. Organizers touted the display as the most impressive in the movement’s history.
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St. Louis
United States
Golden Lane demonstration sways suffrage politics in St Louis
The demonstration named the golden lane showed silent suffragettes as they walked past Democratic delegates, illustrating equal suffrage as a democratic principle. Democrats, arriving in St Louis, abandoned the states rights stance, while Republicans missed a broader chance to endorse suffrage. The denouement awaits November’s returns.
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United States
St. Louis
Dim the Lights to Curb Glaring Headlights in San Antonio
The letter urges San Antonio to adopt downtown glare controls similar to other cities. It calls for police power to require dimming or replacement lights, noting grinding lenses or diffusers as fixes and highlighting pedestrian and driver safety.
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San Antonio
Prohibitionists and Stronger Drink Under Scrutiny
A discussion of federal statistics shows whiskey consumption rising by about 10 million gallons since last June despite seven states going dry. Beer intake declined, suggesting drinkers shift to whiskey. apple cider in prohibition areas tested at 7 to 9 percent alcohol, double beer’s share, supporting claims that prohibition laws make for stronger drink.
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United States
Associated Press
Austin
Prohibition
Pure Food and Drug Department
Texas Prohibition Ballot Initiative Debated
The piece argues for a statewide constitutional amendment to ban alcohol in Texas. Prohibitionists claim dry counties will grow and drinking will be treated as poisoning, led by the Anti Saloon League labeled as foreign and malicious.
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Ceeded
Texas
Texas Prohibitionists
Anti-Saloon League
Night school offers path to assimilating immigrants
A Cleveland Foundation survey shows many immigrants fail to naturalize or learn English. It highlights high non naturalization rates across major cities and cites night schools as the most practical method to convert foreigners into citizens, urging broader use to preserve American ideals.
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Cleveland Foundation
Cleveland
Pittsburg
Buffalo
Detroit
Chicago
New York
Philadelphia
Boston
Ships sale ends American registry hold on Pacific Mail
Patriotism alone cannot keep the flag over a merchant marine. The Atlantic Transport Company bought two abandoned Pacific Mail ships and kept them in American registry, but they were later sold to a Japanese concern at a higher price, joining their Pacific fleet.
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United States
Atlantic Transport Company
Pacificc Mail Service
Pacific
Philadelphia Bulletin
Caring for Automobiles in City Streets
The Philadelphia Bulletin argues street parking clogs traffic and creates danger. It urges creating alternative parking or storage facilities at reasonable cost and suggests a municipal garage may become necessary.
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Philadelphia Bulletin
Good Roads Movement Expands Across States
In twenty four years forty two states formed highway departments and education or administrative work. About thirty states appropriated funds for road construction or maintenance totaling 208 million dollars. Counties and districts likely doubled that amount, with nearly 100 million invested. Some 31,000 miles of roads have been built or maintained. The movement makes progress.
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Fort Worth
Death of Yuan Shi-Kai Shakes Chinese Republic
The report notes Yuan Shi-Kai's death removing a central figure from a volatile China. It questions whether Li Yuan Hung will assume the presidency with southern support and faces a presidency that will test the new leader's abilities after Yuan's ascent and forced abdication of the Manchu dynasty.
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Yuan Shi-Kai
China
Li Yuan Hung
Dallas Journal
Methodist plan for church unity gains momentum
The 1917 General Conference backed unification of the Methodist Episcopal Church and the Methodist Episcopal Church South awaiting further approvals in 1919 and 1920. Writers note that past divides since 1844 have largely dissolved and predict possible broader reunions among Presbyterians and Baptists as part of a broader return to unity. New York loses context.
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Methodist General Conference
Methodist Episcopal Church
Methodist Episcopal Church South
General Conference
Presbyterian Church
United States
Baptist Church
North
H. K. Carroll
Federal Census
New York
Out of the Darkness Finds a New Son for Lovers
Claude and his wife Louise shelter a hungry waif near the front. A peasant woman returns with an orphaned boy, who is revealed to be a lost child of the couple, renewing their hope as memory floods back and love rejoices.
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J. H. Rosny
Claude
Monsieur
Madame
Chateau
Louise
Hidden Lakeland Fossil Beds Yield Imperial Elephants
In Los Angeles County a 35 acre LaBrea tract yields asphaltum fossils. Thousands of skeletons remain, including sixteen imperial elephants, with many unknown species and enormous birds. The owners donate the site for ongoing fossil hunting and a museum on the grounds.
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Cincinnati Times-Star
Los Angeles
LaBrea Ranch
Emancipated Women Embrace Sport Fashion This Season
The article notes a rise in women’s emphasis on sport clothes as part of newfound independence. It highlights jersey and pongee sport suits, varied blouses, sweaters, and hat styles, with colors from green to helio, and the growing trend of matching blouse and sweater sets. It also mentions sport hats in many shapes, new trim buttons, and white or cream hats with softer color tones.
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Milan
Fossil finds at LaBrea ranch promise new prehistoric story
The passage notes immense value for scientists as LaBrea ranch fossils offer unusually accessible bones compared with Montana Nebraska and Wyoming finds. It suggests these specimens could allow reconstruction of an ancient animal kingdom that may astonish the world.
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Montana
Nebraska
Wyoming
LaBrea Ranch
French Fried Potatoes Step by Step by Constance Clarke
A home breakfast guide describes crisp French fried potatoes with broiled meats, toast, jam, pancakes and coffee. It instructs peeling slicing into ribbons, drying, frying in hot fat until tender then recooking till crisp, and seasoning with salt, followed by a note about tomorrow’s Green Peas in Ramekins.
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Constance Ee Clarke
Sleepy-Time Tales For the Little Folk
Mrs. Frog and her six children sit on a sunny log after a swim. Two girls Helen and Mary watch as a young frog cries for a sunshade. Mrs. Frog swam away, then the family returns with a lily pod like a shade, causing the girls to laugh and hurry home to tell their mother.
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Mrs. Frog
Helen
Mary
Duryee study claims German losses exceed 18th–19th century war deaths
General Jacob Eugene Duryee, visiting New York, argues German casualties since 1914 surpass total European and American losses in 18th and 19th century battles. He cites figures from the New York Times, compares engagements at Leipsic and Gettysburg, and notes the Civil War battles with high participation but lower casualties.
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New York Times
Jacob Eugene Duryee
Europe
America
Duryee
Abram Duryee
New York Volunteers
Maryland
Antietam
California
New York
Times
Wagram
Borodino
Bautzen
Malplaquet
Fredericksburg
Gettysburg
Last of the Long Horns Roaming Wild Steers Near Odem
Five cowboys chase wild steers on Welder and OConnor ranches west of town. The long horns, some six feet across, thrill spectators as roping and throwing of cattle continues under trainer guidance. Steers are delivered to Mr English at Angelita Cattle Company.
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Odem News
Welder
O'Connor
Steele
Texas
Faelish
Angelita
Comany
Tatheom
Latham
English
Angolit
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