Federals Enter Agua Prieta as Rebels Flee After Battle
April 19 Douglas Arizona dispatch reports federals entering Agua Prieta after rebels fled. Fifty bodies lay in streets amid perforated buildings as noncombatants, including women and children, suffered. Red Cross efforts failed to cross, and defenders patrolled the line with Yaqui Indians aiding border security.
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Douglas
Ariz
Agua Prieta
Red Cross
Douglas City Hall
Renaldo Diaz
Arizona
United States
Sloan
Texas Guardsmen Mobilize for Possible Border Service
Acting on orders from the state adjutant general, commanding officers of the Texas National Guard begin recruiting their companies to full war footing strength. They believe units will soon be ordered to the border and possibly into Mexico for active service.
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Texas
Dallas
Tex
Texas National Guard
Mexico
Fire destroys Marine City Enterprise laundry building
Marine City Michigan April 19 The Enterprise laundry owned by H Foullette was totally destroyed by fire. The cause is unknown. The loss is 2500 dollars with partial insurance coverage.
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Marine City
Mich
Enterprise
H. Foullette
Home Tragedy: Gun Ax Attack Ends in Suicide in Youngstown
Grant Rickert, a plumber, attacked his wife and five children with a gun and ax in a late night assault in Youngstown Ohio. He killed the wife and three children and probably mortally wounded two others before shooting himself. A sixth child escaped and alerted neighbors as police found a shattered home and bodies.
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Youngstown
Grant Rickert
Rickert
Mexican Adobe Hut Refugees at Agua Prieta
Non combatants fled into an adobe hut at Agua Prieta seeking shelter. The scene reflects local wartime displacement and civilian shelter efforts amid border tensions.
Baseball scorecard snippets from scattered 1900s games
The fragment lists multiple matches with teams and pitchers such as Schardt Erwin Marquard Meyers Fay Philadelphia Rowan Dooin Mattern Bart han Leifield Gibson Richie Archer Called account of darkness peaks in Cincinnati game. The text shows box score style lines including city teams and pairings with scattered scores and outcomes.
Sports Card Scattered Matchups From Major Cities
Listings show matchups across Washington Philadelphia Detroit and St Louis with teams and players named in scattered order. It notes venues such as New York Boston Chicago and wet grounds with several player pairs and clubs cited.
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Washington
New York
Quinn
Vaurin
Sweeney
Hughes
Street
Philadelphia
Boston
Collmore
Lapp
Carrigan
Morgan, Woodward and Livingstone
Detroit
H. B
Cleveland
Kohler
Greges
Smith
Mullin and Stanage
St. Louis
Chicago
Northwest Canada Grows Expect big immigration to northwest Canada says Mackenzie firm head
Sir Donald Mann of Mackenzie Mann & Co. forecasts 460000 settlers to northwest Canada this year, up from 360000 last year, as he notes contracts for 140 miles of main line and bids for another 200 miles chiefly rock work through British Columbia.
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New York
Sir Donald Mann
Mackenzie, Mann & Co
Canadian Northern Railway
Northwest Canada
Northwest Provinces
Donald
Sir Donald
Virra
Gould Man Final Winner in Missouri Pacific Board Fight
A board meeting in New York ends with BF Bush elected president of the Missouri Pacific. Resignations follow from Paul M Yearburg of Kuhn Loeb & Co and Cornelius Vanderbilt. The Gould faction and Kuhn Loeb & Co clash with new board members allied to George J. Gould.
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New York
Missouri Pacific
BF Bush
Maryland
Gould
Paul M.yearburg
Kuhn, Loeb & Co
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Gould Party and Associates
Mr. Bush
George J. Gould
Looking for His Heirs
Probate Judge Henry D. Jewell of Kent county Michigan seeks Brooklyn police help locating heirs of Carl Hoffman also known as Carl Blonhoff who died in Grand Rapids after making a fortune as a coffee merchant He formerly lived in Brooklyn and left a wife and two daughters behind
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New York
Henry D. Jewell
Kent County
Mich
Brooklyn
Carl Hoffman
Carl Blonhoff
Grand Rapids
Browne Requests Trial In Springfield Indictment
Springfield motion to quash the indictment is planned as Browne and co counsel meet Judge Creighton. State's Attorney Burke indicated willingness to proceed to trial immediately. Lew Browne of Ottawa faces conspiracy to bribe charges and the case is set for next Monday morning.
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Springfield
Burke
Lew
Neil Browne
Ottawa
C. A. Jones
Creighton
Browne
Jones
Bay City Plant Burns Ex celsior Foundry Sustains Fire Loss
Bay City Michigan April 1 The Excelsior Foundry Company's plant was partly destroyed by fire with losses from 10 000 to 15 000. The four fires property was totally destroyed but the pattern house and offices were saved. Fire started near the cupola believed caused by sparks.
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Bay City
Mich
Excelsior Foundry Company
Pact Tern
Oil Supplies For Far East From New York Shipment Details
The largest known single order of oil supplies worth over 1 million dollars will depart next Saturday on a White Star liner bound for Rangoon Burma. The Burmah Oil Company Limited is the consignee and experts say the shipment signals Britain’s plan to expand oil field development in the Far East.
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New York
Rangoon
Burmah
Burmah Oil Company, Limited
Far East
Three Die and Five Hurt in Auto Crash Near Dance
In Johnstown Pennsylvania on April 19 a car returning from a dance struck a telephone pole at about fifty miles an hour. Three people were killed including one woman and five were injured, one woman among the injured.
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Johnstown
LUNATIC CLEARS COURTROOM IN DOWNS CASE
Bloomington Wisconsin April 19 W T Dodds a liveryman from Downs on trial for insanity in the counts court seized a chair and attacked Judge Hall the jury and witnesses nearly all were struck in the mêlée. He was subdued and restrained then removed to the Bartonville asylum.
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Bloomington
W T Dodds
Downs
Hall
Alen
Bartonville Asylum
Girl Prevents Kidnapping in Bloomsburg
Dorothy Worthington using her father’s telescope spotted a stranger trying to lure five year old Elizabeth Colley from a Bloomsburg home. She chased the kidnapper and regained the child after he released her. In Franklin Pa a railway motor car carrying four men wrecked twenty five miles east of the city injuring all four occupants.
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Wilkesbarre
Dorothy Worthington
Bloomsburg
Elizabeth Colley
Cooley
Elizabeth
Franklin
Franklin and
Clearfield
Lake Shore
Michigan Southern Road
Ciy
Zion City election turmoil as Voliva faction clashes
Crisis erupts in Zion City over mayoral contest between Voliva loyalists and independent faction backing JM Goodle. Reports say guards from Chicago arrived, riots sparked before polls opened, arrests made, and police swore in dozens of specials amid warnings of renewed violence.
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Voliva
Chicago
Waukegan
Zion City
John Alexander Dowle
Wilbur Glenn Vollva
Dowle
JM Goodle
Score
Hoover
Bhner Green
Dignitaries to attend London peace meeting at Guild Hall
London April 1 9 The archbishop of Canterbury Franeia Hourne the Roman Catholic archbishop of Westminster Right Key Arthur Foley Winnington Ingram and Lord Strathcona Canadian high commissioner have accepted the invitation of the lord mayor to attend the peace meeting at the Guild Hall on April 28 to urge an Anglo American arbitration treaty Prime Minister Asquith and other leaders have agreed to speak. Kills Girl and Himself Brainerd Minn April 10 After quarrel with Bertha Jordan 14 and her brother 18 riding in a buggy Charles Kunde 21 shot and killed the girl and himself.
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London
Canterbury
Franeia Hourne
Westminster
Arthur Foley Winnington Ingram
Church of England
Lord Strathcona
Guild Hall
Asquith
Brainerd
Minn
Bertha Jordan
Charles Kunde
Ant Himeef
M Farland Wins Again In Fast Ten Round Bout
Packey McFarland of Chicago outpointed Harlem Tommy Murphy in a ten round match at the Fairmort Athletic club. McFarland dominated from the start with superior speed and ring generalship, leaving no doubt about the verdict and showing he is in a class by himself.
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New York
Packey McFarland
Chicago
Harlem
Tommy Murphy
Fairmort Athletic Club
McFarland
Murphy
Ill laborer from Evansville diagnosed with smallpox
Horace Niesmith, a laborer from Evansville, traveled to Cincinnati for treatment after believing he had smallpox. Rejected there, he returned home and later hid in a key car to avoid spreading the disease before being diagnosed at a hospital and placed in detention.
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Indianapolis
Horace Niesmith
Evansville
Cincinnati
Ile
Grand Jury Sees Election in Vernon County
Danville Alabama April 14 the Vernon county grand jury met for a municipal election review. It sat at 9 but did not hear witnesses, receiving precinct reports instead. Two arrests were reported for vote selling as detectives monitored all polling places. Voter turnout was heavy.
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Danville
Vermilion County Grand Jury
Chiscago
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IME
Garcia
Red” Lopez
Juan Cabral
Ohio
American Press Association
Sioceseceteoces
National League
WW. E
Schardt
Erwin
Marquard
Meyers
Tea Fay
Rowan and Dooin
Mattern and Barthan
R. H.E. Pittsburg
Leifield
Gibson
Richie
Archer
R. H. E. Cincinnati
Jarman
Sallee
Bresnahan
Fromme
McLean and
Burns
W. L
Pet W. I
Feila
Bot Hos
Sabes
American Association
Columbus
Milwaukee
Louisville
Minneapolis
St. Paul
Tooledo
Toledo
Kansas Cry
Macauley
New York World
Donald Mann
B. F. Buch
Missouri Pacific Railway
Lee O'Neill Browne
British Corporation
Little Girl
Frank H. Hitchcock
Dowie's Town
Girt
Royal
Royal Cook Book
Royal Baking Powder CO
M Farland
Ill
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