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Newspaper
The Diller Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jun 04, 1915
Page
3
A report notes the president plans to send a warning to Mexico amid concerns about patience in diplomacy and potential escalation. Officials say timing and language will stress consequences of delays and demand adherence to negotiated terms.
President Wilson will issue notice to all warring Mexican factions urging immediate self reconciliation to avert further action. He spoke in an appeal as head of the American Red Cross describing years of internal disturbances and near starvation across parts of Mexico and urging relief contributions.
London dispatches report Dravid Pasha, ex Turkish minister of finance, has departed Constantinople for Berlin to inform Germany that Turkey cannot continue the war and seeks a separate peace.
Dr. E E Pratt chief of the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce told bankers in Idaho and Nevada that the United States will end the year with a favorable trade balance of one billion dollars and that the dollar will supplant the pound as the unit of foreign exchange.
Brigadier general in command announces a saloonkeeper order barring soldiers and sailors from service except between noon and 8 30 p m in the seventh district. Officers have had few drinking restrictions prior to this rule.
The North eastern Baptist convention here adopted an ambitious program to obtain 1,000,000 converts before 1920. It calls for expanding missionary forces in the United States and abroad to 6,000 and raising mission funds to 6,000,000 dollars.
The appeal of Roy Roberts from a Lincoln county district court death sentence lists seventy one alleged errors of law and has been filed in the state supreme court. The filing automatically stays the June 4 execution, granting a reprieve until next fall, as the court’s next session is the last before summer vacation.
Paris Rome correspondent notes nearly 11 006 women enroll in a female police unit authorized by the Italian government. Most come from the middle class and will receive special physical training before wearing uniforms.
An official press bureau statement cites a report from Major General William R. Birdwood transmitted from Cairo, saying Turkish losses in the recent fighting at the Dardanelles are considerably heavier than previously supposed.
Florence Arizona reports five Mexican inmates sentenced to death by hanging were granted a nine weeks respite by the state board of pardons and paroles. The plan allows them to be hanged individually rather than in a single execution, against Governor Hunt’s prior stance against the death penalty.
News from London reports H M S Majestic torpedoed and sunk Thursday morning while supporting the Gallipoli campaign. Admiralty says most officers and men were saved. The loss marks the fifth British battleship sunk in the Dardanelles and follows the Triumph and Bouvet casualties.
A Rome dispatch reports King Victor Emmanuel has assumed supreme command of Italy's army and navy and gone incognito to the Italian headquarters. In Paris, flags of France, Italy, Great Britain, Russia, Belgium and Serbia were displayed on public buildings and monuments by order of the French government.
Washington reports the steamer Nebraskan damaged off Ireland with officials undecided if a torpedo or mine struck it. Messages from London cite the British admiralty stating torpedoing, while the captain’s report raises doubt about the cause.
Syracuse jurors found for Theodore Roosevelt defendant after eleven hours of deliberation. The jury ruled the charges were true and the plaintiff William Barnes was not libeled and therefore entitled to no damages, placing all costs on the plaintiff.
Sioux City reports that Joseph Provacek his wife two sons and a daughter died in a storm at their Spencer Nebraska home two miles south. Bodies have been recovered according to the message received by Sioux City authorities.
Postal revenues for the first half of the fiscal year show a deficit near 6.5 million dollars. Expenses rose by over 9 million while receipts declined about 0.5 million. Postmaster General Burleson cites the European war as the cause of the deficit and disrupted postal revenue growth.
A tornado east of Spalding Nebraska Tuesday night killed Mrs. Thomas Kelly and seriously injured her husband as several other residents were hurt. Livestock was wiped out and multiple farms suffered severe property damage with buildings demolished.
The United States issues a neutrality proclamation dated May 24 through the State Department. It warns citizens to maintain impartial neutrality during the European war, while upholding free opinion and commerce in arms and munitions.
The American steamer Nebraskan, Captain Green, sailing from Liverpool on May 24 toward Delaware breakwater, was torpedoed Tuesday by a submarine forty miles southwest of Fastnet. The crew abandoned ship briefly but returned, found no serious damage, and got the vessel under way. No passengers were aboard.
The port of London is gradually clearing congestion that once threatened to halt commerce. Shipping activity and related services are resuming normal flow as delays shorten and vessels move with fewer holds.
East St. Louis officials report French representatives began filling an order for 26 000 horses. It is the largest single purchase in the United States since the European war began. France has already bought 30 000 horses on this market.
Officials announce the Italian government will not summon naturalized American citizens to return to Italy and take up arms. The statement clarifies Italy's stance amid concerns over loyalty and wartime obligations.
A New York commission on ventilation reports overheated and chemically contaminated air harms health. Temperature rises disrupt vasomotor function, raise pulse, lower blood pressure, and reduce performance while stagnation dulls appetite. Fresh air boosts vitality and helps remove heat and chemicals.
A humor piece notes a scientist claiming vegetables have emotions and jokes that last year’s seeds would be ashamed if true. The quip frames feelings in plants as a light satire of scientific claims.
A humorous regional note suggests men who consider themselves aggressors are commonly called knockers by others. The remark frames social labeling and masculine roles without specific events or dates.
Private Redmond of First Colorado volunteers, once on duty at Manila, was famed for stuttering yet led charges bravely. Wounded at Marquis with a Mauser bullet ending in the neck, he recovered with a facial scar and, astonishingly, was cured of stuttering after leaving the hospital.
A brief, satirical couplet-like observation notes a defeated politician’s sore toe as a jab at a failed bid and claims jealous wives push husbands off course, reflecting partisan irony and private life intrusions in political life.
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