Villa Defeated in First Skirmish by Dodd Troopers
American forces led by Colonel George A. Dodd crushed Villa’s bandits at the San Geronimo area after a 50-mile ride. About 60 bandits died, including General Eliseo Hernandez, and Pablo Lopez, Villa’s lieutenant, was wounded. Four American privates were injured. Villa was shot in the leg and evacuated by wagon to a hiding place.
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Texad
Francisco Villa
Villa
George A. Dodd
Villista
Querrero
Dodd
Eliseo Hernandes
Sore
Pablo Lopez
Leutenant
Columbus
Mountain Peak
Tralle
Ttllefeld
Rio Santa Maria
Laguna de Castillo
Santa Ysabel
Patce
United States
Santa Yeahel
Villas
San Geronimo Ranch
Carrinse
Ohlet
Guerrero
Pershing
Funston
Fecomwen
Celene Dodd
Athens
Aviator Pine Bad Fall at Gringel Aviashow
A garbled report notes an aviator named Pine badly burned after an incident at a Gringel Aviashow event. Billy Robinses and others were ahead of the Grin gel participants in the Sunday heat. Details are unclear due to damaged text.
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Aviator
Gringel, la —A
Beach
Successor
Billy Robinses
Gringel Aviashow School
Shadow Laws in Questioned U S Presidency
A fragment mentions President Wilcoe and policies termed Shadow Laws amid political debate in Washington. Details are unclear due to OCR damage.
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Gelecta Bummer
Washington
Wilcoe Pene le Cemmpy
Villa Forces Close In As Villa Evades Pursuit Near Santa Maria
Villa reportedly moved north from Guerrero with 172 men and was said to be near the headwaters of the Santa Maria river on the San Geronimo ranch as American and Mexican troops tighten the cordon. Pershing and Funston were advised of the location with a probable incoming clash or renewed breakout as Carranza forces may coordinate nearby.
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San Antonio
Texas
Guerrero
Francisco Villa
Santa Maria
Funston
Villa
San Geronimo
Quemado Ranch
United St
Mexico
Pershing
Carranza
Yonvedting
Nia
Bandit Stows Away Seizes British Steamer Matoppo
German stowaway Schiller commandeered the Matoppo at gunpoint, forced a course change, landed on the Delaware breakwater, and looted valuables. Captain Bergner reports Schiller, once in Hoboken, is jailed awaiting U S district attorney and British consul general arrivals. Separately, Roosevelt lunch meets signal party and Canton province declares independence after Canton governor’s assassination by troops.
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Wilmington
Del
Philadelphia
Brigadier General Evans Workers seek eight day work week raise
Brig Gen Evans in command of the second brigade reports that workers bargaining with employers proposed an eight day work period and higher overtime pay. They submitted their own propositions for compensation as a reply to the employers.
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Rewert
Evans
Intenty
Ville
Bie Bendite
Thureday
Dinewanien
Germany to Explain Submarine Sinking Questioned
Secretary Lansing, with President Wilson, instructed Ambassador Gerard to ask Germany if submarines torpedoed the British steamer Swasex with American passengers or the Englishman, killing one American. The U.S. has no conclusive proof but evidence suggests torpedoing without warning. Berlin's reply may determine next steps.
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Washington
Lansing
Wilson
Gerard
Germany
United States
Berlin
State Department
Wreck Disaster Kills Thirty on Ohio Line
Federal and state investigators probe a three train collision near Amherst Ohio as fog blanketed northern Ohio. The New York Central wreck involved the Twentieth Century Limited and two sections of No 86 with at least thirty dead and forty injured. Officials cite possible tower man duty lapse and recent personal strain due to a sick wife.
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Cleveland
New York Central
Amherat
Lake Erie
Ohio
Congress Approves 8.6 Million for Pursuit of Bandits
Washington reports an emergency appropriation of 8,611,502 dollars to fund the pursuit of bandits. The state department also plans to press General Carranza for permission to use Mexican railways to ease troop supply.
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Washington
Congress
State Department
Carranza
Americans Return to Chihuahua City As Border Tensions Ease
Eight Americans who fled Chihuahua City as U S soldiers crossed the border return to the Mexican state capital claiming danger of molestation has passed. In El Paso they came from Chihuahua City amid border tensions and report feeling safe now.
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el Paso
Chihuahua City
United States
Aerial raid reported on Turkish advance base
British forces claimed a successful air raid against the Turkish forward base at Bir Shilassspah near the Gut Canal. The Royal Air Force reportedly struck the position and disrupted enemy operations during March.
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London
Birshilassspah
Gilles Fant
Guts Canal
Euler Dupaich
Gece
Reid
Britleh Alrmee
Fragmented note hints at signaling device and smoke
A garbled historical fragment references a signaling device and thick smoke. The legible parts mention a light or signal, potential electrical wiring, and cones, suggesting a technical or directional cue amid obscured text. Names, dates, or places are not identifiable from the readable portion.
Amnesiac Cecil Lavelle Found After Nationwide Search
Colorado Springs police locate Cecil Lavelle after a three year wandering amnesia ordeal. Lavelle, 44, once dean of Queens College Kingston Canada and history professor at Columbia University, had been missing since November in a nationwide search.
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Colorado Springs
Cecil Lavelle
Queens College
Kingston
Canada
Columbia University
Obregon-era feat claims new world altitude record
A report notes Lieutenant B K Baudey of the navy aeroplane squadron achieving an ascent of 1607 feet, potentially setting a new world record for a body delimited craft. Gen Obregon’s forces in the Carranse pursuit are mentioned in the dispatches from Florida.
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Peniscula
Fla
BK. Baudey
Teutons Hammer Verdun Front In Major Assault
Reported German attacks northwest of Verdun drive toward Fort Domment and the Caillette wood while French forces evacuate Vaux village and hold lines south of the town. German gains include about 1000 yards of trenches between Malancourt and Le Morte Homme as bombardment continues.
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Trench Mare
Vaux
Malancourt
le Morte Homme
London
Gertie
Caillette
Fort Domument
Avecourt
Bertin
Haucourt
Malancour
Verdun
Berlin
Hehmente
Baranovitc
Minsk
Villa Suffered Severe Wounding in Surprise Attack
Dispatch from Temosachie Chihuahua reports that Villa was badly wounded in a surprise attack on the constitutionalist garrison at Guerrera and required amputation of a limb.
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Villa
Queretaro
Mex
War Department
Temosachie
Chituahua
Guerrera
Deportation Order Expands to Siberia for Galicia Jews
The Russian government decrees that Jewish residents from Lemberg and Galician cities now in Kiev and those expelled by admin order must be sent to Siberia. Information obtained by the American Jewish committees makes the policy public.
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New York
Lemberg
Kiev
Galicia
Siberia
Prisoners to be Held in Stockade at Columbus NM
Villista prisoners will be confined in a wire stockade on the military reservation at Columbus New Mexico. The stockade will mirror the Ft Blain design built in 1913 for five thousand Mexican refugees after Villa's attack at Juarez and the border crisis.
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Stockade
Columbus
N. M
Villista
Ft. Blan
el Paso
Villa
Juares
Germany Silent on Sussex and Englishman Sinking
Berlin declines to reply to the United States inquiry on the Sussex and Englishman sinkings. The German government firmly states it had nothing to do with the Tulantia disaster and will not comment further.
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Berlin
United States
Germany
Tulantia
Carranza Affirms Currency Stability in Mexico
General Carranza issues decree threatening mandatory bankruptcy for merchants refusing to exchange goods for paper money. He urges seizure of assets and public auction of wreckage at once, aiming to stabilize commerce across Querétaro and nearby provinces.
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Carranza
Queretara
Republic
Carransa
Olive Maru Abandoned After Storm Off Leonia Islands
The Japanese steamship Olive Maru with 22 passengers largely Americans was believed abandoned by her crew after a storm near the Leonia islands twenty miles south of Hongkong. A British warship berthed the passengers.
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Leonia Islands
Hongkong
Engineer help at Fautt ends in casualties report
Twenty eight killed and forty injured as the incident at Fautt prompts aid for victims. Reports name Merman Voss an engraver connected to the excied section of Iralia No Ad.
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Fautt
Merman Voss
Iralia No
Abe Bethisbew Steel chairman buys Dultimare Ghost Tie Place
Abe Bethisbew Steel chairman Dean eer and Wulibgulliigeaire alee Enapter oversee the purchase of the Dultimare Ghost & Tie Place company, with Benwae as the buyer in a notable industrial deal.
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Haltimore — Usaries
Sebwab
Abe Bethisbew Steel Company
Deaneer and
Wulibgulliigeaire Alee Enapter
Dultimare Ghost & Tie Place Company
Million Turks Facing Starvation Prompt Aid Urgently Sought
Reports say up to 600000 Armenians and other refugees in Constantinople and around Mar mora, Adrianople, and Erzerum face starvation as typhus rises. The American Red Cross plans aid though censorship limits shipments. Roumania may supply relief with a 10000 dollar immediate fund.
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Washington
Batirdar
Turkey
Hindreda
Heil Cries
Red Crescent
Die Paieh
Consantinopis
Marmora
Adrianople
Erase
Emyr Pa
Sii
Bet
Tevd Lelgy
Weal
America
Red Cros
Roumanta
Dodd's Men in Pursuit of Villa Fugitives
Col George A Dodd commands 400 American troopers chasing the Villa fugitives after a victory at San Geronimo ranch. Reports describe Guerrero district as remote with caves canyons and pine forests, making surveillance and capture difficult for the pursuing force. Villa, long elusive, faces a new kind of pursuit.
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Columbus
George A. Dodd
Francisco Villa
San Geronimo Ranch
Villa
Dodd
Guerrero
Porfirio Tanz
Mexico
Cavalry Set to Pursue Villa as Search Intensifies
San Antonio reports Gen Pershing will press a dogged pursuit of Francisco Villa through mountainous terrain near Guerrero if Villa is not located in the next day or two. Since Villa's defeat on March 29, mobile cavalry detachments sweep the Santa Maria headwaters region seeking the elusive bandit.
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San Antonio
Francisco Villa
Pershing
Guerrero
Villa
Santa Maria
Guerrera
England Raided by Zeppelins Mark Deadliest Night Yet
London reports the latest Zeppelin raids causing significant casualties with many killed and wounded. Official tallies show rising death tolls across ten nights, underscoring ongoing air raid threats in the year.
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London
Perenne
Plan Preparedness Parade in New York Outdoors
A New York business delegation representing trades and industries will march on May 18 in support of national preparedness. The event is organized by a civic group formed by local citizens.
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New York
Alodes
Prouinews Ehisens
Scatland Raided by Zeppeline
The coast of Bootle and surrounding southern England was attacked by a Zeppeline late at night, based on reports from artificial surveillance channels. The event marks ongoing aerial raids during this period with reported damage to coastal areas.
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Ladon
Bootle
Garthern
Belles
England
Oklahoma Endorsees Owen at Velled Bates Convention
Robert L. Owen was the keynote figure as Democratic county conventions gathered in Oklahoma City. Delegates from multiple counties chose support aligned with the senator’s campaign, signaling party cohesion for the national race.
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Oklahome Endorees
Owen Oklahoma Ciy
United States
Robert L. Owen
Bates
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