Fort Riley maneuvers plan vast camp for 16000 troops
Telegraphic notes from Junction City and New York report a landmark wartime camp planned as a gigantic fan formation at Fort Riley with 16,000 troops. Other items cover warship disposition, the Scorpion Whitney collision, Austrian military mobilization, a fatal shooting in Orrville Ohio, Bulgarian official dismissals, a deadly explosion in Manhattan, and theatre listings.
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Junction City
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Fort Riley
Infantry
Engineers
Signal Corps
Philippine education bill funds Filipino students to study in U S
A new education bill in the Philippines allocates 72,000 for the first year and 7,000 more for the experiment. It selects 100 top students scoring at least 73 percent on annual exams to study in the United States. Eligible are public school pupils aged 16 to 21, who take an oath of allegiance and, after study, return to pass civil service exams for possible government appointments. Each student is estimated to cost $500 annually, excluding transportation.
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United States
Philippines
Chicago School of Crooks Boy Shoplifter Confesses Plot
Fred Spies a boy shoplifter was arraigned in St. Louis on seven petit larceny charges by department stores. He confessed to Detective Desmond that a Chicago school taught him to steal and that he was sent to Louisville to steal. He said stolen goods went to a Chicago fence run by his teachers and that he shipped part of the proceeds back to the gang, naming all members to aid police in rounding them up.
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Fred Spies
St. Louis
Desmond
Chicago
Eranis
Louis
Lesmond
Turks Routed Reinforcements Near Kirk Kilisseh
Insurgents estimated at 6000 in Adrianople vilayet routed Turkish forces sent to reinforce the Kirk Kilisseh garrison thirty two miles from Adrianople. Constantinople concentrates troops as a precaution while a trainload was dispatched toward Teherkes koi near Adrianople where Circassians attacked and massacred Bulgarian inhabitants.
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Adrianople
Vilayet
Constantinople
Teherkeskoi
Police Shootings and Train Robbery Foiled Headlines
Police exchanged heavy gunfire as William Schlicker and Nora faced rival shots while pursuing a wife slayer in St. Louis. A Great Northern flyer thwarted by vigilant riders near Mont with two suspects fleeing after armed boardings. The piece reports on multiple town crimes, arrests, and a fiery Nashville blaze causing 175000 dollars in damage.
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St. Louis
Nora
William Schlicker
Comitois
Connors
White
Independent Packing Company Forms to Rival Packers Trust
Stockmen from across the Western Bush country met in Kansas City to organize the Independent Packing Company. Arizona incorporation, capital stock planned at 5 million dollars with 51 percent held in escrow to ensure stock interests control, initial 2 million shares to be issued.
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Midland
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Packers” Trust
Camed the
Independent Packing Company
Arizona
Packers’ Trust
Comn
Tries to Murder Groom at Wedding in Kenosha
Earl Marshall fired at J W Roberts during the ceremony at St J Marshall residence in Kenosha Wisconsin two shots sent guests into a panic one bullet grazed the groom and lodged in wall Marshall fled saying my sister should not marry that man The minister and crowd witnessed the scene.
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J. W. Roberts
Nellie Marshall
Dudley
Iowa
Kroom
St. J. Marshall
Kenosha
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Marshall
Sway
Manda
Revolt on Isthmus Near As Canal Treaty Rejection
Revolt mood grows on the Isthmus of Panama after Colombia’s Bogota congress rejects the canal treaty. Gen Muertas, commandant in Chiriqui, is the only official with limited hope to curb rising revolutionary spirit. Naval forces are largely controlled by Americans or pro-American Englishmen.
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Forse
Panama
Bogota
Muertas
Naval
Railway Disaster Kills Soldiers Near Udine
A disastrous railway collision near Udine in eastern Italy cut short royal festivities for the Italian King and Queen. At 10 o clock a train carrying soldiers struck a freight train, killing twenty and injuring eighty including six officers. the regiment’s colonel was among the injured. A captain died after his load was cut free and an engine driver perished in the flames. Several engines and cars were destroyed.
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Italy
Udine
Venice
Vovereigna
Grain Army Uy
Wenty
Goth
Arctic Explorer J Marsh Reaches Nome After Two Years
J Marsh spent two years in an unexplored Arctic region south of the area near Colville and the international boundary. He arrived in Nome aboard the transport Jet 2 carried by Gen Funston. He endured eighteen days on a frugal diet and mapped parts of the unknown Wakwewa rivets while prospecting a mineralized zone farther south toward the Koru kink country.
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Arctic
Nome
Colville
International
Marsh
Fortikon
Gen. Funston
Korukink
Reading Company Curtails Anthracite Output Amid Gluts
The Reading Company, led by the Philadelphia company, moves to cut production after reporting 40 million tons produced through June 1 with 20 million tons above normal. Producers struggle with market demand for small stove coal, while rail and labor issues ripple through nearby industries.
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Ois
Philadelph KE Company
Poducers
Thugs Slay and Rob Chicago Railway Office
Masked robbers stormed the Chicago City Railway Company office at Sixty-first and State streets early Sunday, killing two and wounding two others as they seized about $2,000 in cash and left around $1,500 in silver. The trio fled through a window into an adjacent lot, using stealth and speed, while workers waited in a semi darkened building.
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Ofce
Chicago City Railway Company
Stewart
Biehl
Simond
Johnson
Edmond
Edmand
Tars TeRpathe
Lou Dillon Reigns After Two Minute Mile Report
Amateur racing notes announce Lou Dillon trotted a mile in two minutes and dethroned King Creacella. A brief item mentions John Hale of St. Louis fatally shot by a patrolman. Prof G I Weidatins resigns from Kansas Agricultural College to chair chemistry at Ripon College. A child dies after suffocation in a grain pile at Garder elevators, the 11 year old son of Joseph Van Dyck.
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Lou Dillon
Creacella
John Hale
Shaw's View 18 Cheerful on Panic and Elastic Money
Secretary of the Treasury Shaw tells a Chicago banquet that panic is in the mind and no disaster is implied by current facts. He argues prosperity remains due to production and consumption and calls for elasticity in the currency system. He favors banks issuing 30 percent of their secured notes with safeguards and discusses import and trade policy ideas.
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Mgr. Shaw
Hella
United States
Grain raisers in the Gulf ports spur Induecements ships
Des Moines Iowa tows major rail and river lines expand service and track upgrades. Chicago Great Western Railway reports a jump in earnings for the second week of August while plans to strengthen twenty steel bridges from Des Moines to St. Joseph aid the move to handle extra heavy locomotives and rolling stock. J R Smart named superintendent of dining after Mulice resigns from New York Central and Hudson River. Passenger traffic in Chicago rail hubs reaches record levels, with suburban lines push toward electric motor operation.
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Dex Moines
Towa Falla
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Ghicago Great Western Railroad
Ing
Isissippi Valley
Onergo Great Western
Des Moines
St. Joseph
Nf. Mulice
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J. R. Smart
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Chicago
Tina
Gaveling Motors
Trade review notes cautious optimism amid steady demand
St Gs Weekly Review of Trade reports no mood plunge after securities deal. business funding steady, and cautious progress signals brighter outlook. Dispatches cite liberal merchandise distribution, rising New York buyers, anticipated fall trade, and renewed steel demand. Infrastructure, rail, and cotton markets show varied activity as crops progress and labor talks influence deliveries.
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New York
St. G. Onn & Co
Texas
New England
Llus
Livestock and grain price list from multiple markets
A fragmented price table lists cattle hogs sheep and grain quotes by market. Detroit Toledo Buffalo and other districts show bids for Cattle 3.50 to 6.0, hogs 4.00, sheep 3.00 to 6.00, wheat No 2 mixed 7 to 8.50, corn No 2 mixed 53 to 60 cents, rye 80 to 95 cents, clover seed prime 12.60, and various grades across regions.
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Ste
Toledo
Whent
Butte Creas
Beewe
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