Carranza rejects mediation on presidency and agrarian issues
Gen Vennati ano Carranza replies to Niagara Falls mediators denying discussion of interim presidents and agrarian reforms. He warns negotiations via mediation or arbitration are unacceptable to constitutionalists and urges focus on national interests and peace. Villa and Carranza exchange telegrams amid crisis.
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el Paso
Tex
Vennatiano Carrante
Niagara Palls
A. B. UC
Washington
Niagara Falls
Vacranza
Itig
Mexler
Cuplies
Carra
Enon
Pleated Skirts in Vogue and Flame Veils in Parade
Atlantic City fashion notes from June 21 highlight pleated skirts returning to favor along with flame veils and new bustle alternatives. A Boardwalk parade showcases the latest styles including the Hane veil with black borders and orange darts, plus dotted accents near eye level.
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Atlantic City
Washington Port
Turkish Reject Envoy From Brazil Mendez de Almeida
The Turkish government declares Senhor Mendez de Almeida undesirable after his appointment as minister to Constantinople. The move follows a pending bill to cut salaries for civil and military officials by ten percent to reduce expenditures. motive for the envoy rejection is not stated.
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Mendez de Almeida
Washington Post
Rio Janiero
Brazil
Senhor
Constantinople
Woman escapes by stripping in Goshen jail
Special to The Washington Post Middletown N Y June 21 Izaneth Crawford of Newburgh 40 years old serving a county jail sentence in Goshen became violent and stripped off her clothing to squeeze through a cell window. She wedged her legs protruding to the street and attendants faced a difficult task to free her from the bars.
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Washington Post
Middletown
Izaneth Crawford
Newburgh
Goshen
Rebel victory claimed as Villa near Zacatecas
Dispatches report General Villa resuming fighting near Zacatecas under Villa’s command. Carranza reportedly consolidates northern Vera Cruz and Puebla regions, gathering 30,000 troops for a southern campaign with allied generals. Cuban papers praise Carranza while Obregon expected to attack Guadalajara.
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Carranza
Hia
Vera Cruz
Puebla
Saltito
Vila Laredo
Zacatecas
Villa
la Noche
Munda
Teraldy de Cuba
la Prense
Buy Covent Garden Estate From Beechams for 12.5 Million
Sir Joseph Beecham and son Thomas acquire the Covent Garden estate of about nineteen acres in London. The purchase includes Covent Garden Market, Covent Garden Opéra Home, and Drury Lane Theater. The deal exceeds 12.5 million, with Beecham and his musical directorship expanding a season at Drury Lane. The estate, long held by the Duke of Bradford’s family, transferred earlier from Harry Mallaby-Deeley in 1913 for 13.73 million.
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Sir Joseph Beecham
London
Covent Garden
Covent Garden Market
Covent Garden Opéra Home
Drury Lane Theater
Thomas
Drury Lane
Thomas Beecham
Covent Garden Opera Syndicate
Treaties Split by New Draft Threaten Panama Canal Protections
The piece compares 1914 and Root treaty language on Panama Colombia relations and canal rights. It notes shifts in references to Panama events, war protections, debt terms, and how the newer draft broadens or limits safeguards for Panama while preserving U S interests in canal operations and railroad use amid potential conflicts.
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State Department
Colombia
Republica
Secretary Root
Roosevelt
Taft
Senate
Root
Panama
United States
Panama Republic
Republic of Colombia
Roops, &C
Pahama
Treaty Negotiations Between Panama and Golomvaia
A draft treaty between Panama and Golomvaia seeks to settle financial liabilities between the two nations under recognized legal principles. The compact aims to adjust pecuniary questions and establish a framework for disputes arising from past financial obligations, aligning with standard international practice.
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Panama
Golomvaia
Turtle bears grandfather initials 1821 found in New Jersey field
Josiah Ewitt Jr of Walnut Corners New Jersey found a turtle in a field on his farm with carved initials J I and the date 1821 on its shell. He added his own initials and date beside them and notes his father found the same turtle years ago. The creature appears to have moved little and may have remained in the same field for nearly a century or more.
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J. Ewitt
Washington Port
New York
Josiah Ewitt
Walnut Corners
N. J
Hig Farm
J. I
Ewitt
Sin
Boat Upsets Drowning 12 Passengers on Oswego Canal
A small launch carrying ten aboard struck a submerged log near Mud Lock on the Oswego Canal in Syracuse late tonight, sinking with twelve dead, most of them women and children. Seven swam ashore. owner’s wife saved but gravely hurt. The boat, a 50-foot craft, had 19 aboard.
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Syracuse
N. J
Perona
Oswego Canal
George H. Adams
Syravse
Genevieve Adams
Lillian Adams
Margaret Adams
Adams
Harry Welsh
Katherine Welsh
John Mogg
Floriench Dainer
Earl Dainer
Ie Charles Shults
Syracusse
Miss Mabel Tibbets
Howard Crane
Liverpool
Miss Welsh
Mud Lock
Lewis Dainer
Dainer
Wireless music heard 200 miles distant aboard liner voyage
London June 2 The Nelson line steamship Highland Scott heard strains from a graphophone on a private yacht about 200 miles away as it passed Vigo during a Buenos Aires voyage. Third officer reports wireless reception of The Merry Widow Waltz and God Save the King. Marconi notes possible via long distance graphophone and wireless transmitter experiments.
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Pealal
Washington Post
London
Straina
Nelson Line
Highland Scott
Buenos Aires
Vigo
Marconi
Fawley
Southampton
Vaudeville Actor Willerd the Wizard Leaps to Death in Jail
Cincinnati police report Robert Maloney a Cuero Texas vaudeville actor known as Willerd the Wizard killed himself by jumping from the fourth tier of county jail cells to a cement floor. He was awaiting trial on a first degree murder charge for slaying his wife and child at a hotel in December.
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Cincinnati
Ohio
Robert Mooney
Cuero
Tex
Willerd
Cella
Maloney
Radium Worth 25000 Vanishes In Sneeze Incident
Denver June 21 A chemist over a radium solution lost control after a sneeze, and $25,000 worth of radium disappeared. Joseph M. Flannery, president of Standard Chemical Co, said the incident shows extraction is delicate. He added the firm may move to Denver and build a 1,000,000 lab if a extraction process proves usable.
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Washington Post
Denver
Colo
Standard Chemical Company of
Pittsburgh
Joseph M. Flannery
Flannery
Sixteen Mills to Close Over Wage Dispute
Sixteen sheet metal and tin plate plants employing over 4000 workers will shut down indefinitely starting July 1 after wage conference breakdown. Amalgamated Iron and Tin Plate Works Association failed to reach accord with owners who cited a depressed business mood while workers accused misrepresentation of conditions.
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Allande City
I Sheat
Amalgamated Iron, Strel and Tin Plane Works Association
Cat Mothers Three Skunks and a Cat Adopts Runts
A farm scene in White township sees Dwight Nichol’s orphan skunklets placed with kittens. The mother cat initially wary soon accepts them. Dwight, an Indiana boy, is a naturalist class member who pleaded his case amid anxious parents. In a separate note from New York, a Long Island cat that lost six kittens adopted three rabbits, integrating them into its litter.
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Washington Post
Indiana
Charles Nichol
White Township
Nichol
Dwight Nichol
Dwight
New York
Irma Kattenmeyer
Blue Point
Long Island
Miss Kattenmeyer
Lions Kill Manager in Vaudeville Animal Car Incident
In Chicago on June 2 a troupe of ten lions killed and partly devoured Emerson D. Dietrich, manager of a Brooklyn vaudeville company, after the group’s car was dark. Addie Castillo, owner, reported the lions had been controlled with a whip and that Dietrich was engaged to marry Castillo. Local police and fire units recovered the body amid a nighttime uproar.
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Whance
Addie Castillo
Chicago
Nona
Emerson D. Metrich
Brooklyn
Dietrich
Teaete
Oon
Cornell University
Mme
Adgie Castillo
Mons
George McCord
McCord
Teddy
Trilby
Brutus
Nellie
Jeff
Matt
Tietrich
Madam Castillo
No Yielding to Japan New Notes to Be Published
Officials believe a deadlock has been reached in the California land question with no settlement imminent. Tokyo will be told of the situation as the two governments publish notes this week. Japan may propose a new settlement while arbitration discussions remain uncertain.
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Colombia
California
Tokyo
Japan
United States
Washington
Kato
State Department
Syli
Algo
Rockefeller Gift Sent to Empress of Ireland Sufferers
London report says John D. Rockefeller sent Miss Eva Booth $11,000 for the Empress of Ireland disaster relief fund. Booth, commander of the Salvation Army in America, is in London for the world congress of the Salvation Army.
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John D
London
John D. Rockefeller
Eva Booth
Salvation Army
America
Mediator pleas and scattered world events in 1916 era
A mishmash of headlines references mediators urging action on Mexico and revolts, treaties with Colombia, Japan tensions, and various political notes. Mentions Roosevelt 1916, parliamentary House actions, and societal notices. Includes sports and crime bits as minor items and cultural notes.
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Joe
Carranza
Japan
Kala
Kitchener
Hari
Roosevelt
Padelford
House
Congress
King
Paris
Yuan
China
Holland
Kitchener A. H. Stanley Baronet Honored by King George
London announces the king’s birthday honors. Albert H. Stanley, manager of the London underground railways, is made a baronet after years with Detroit United Railways and New Jersey public service. Also named are other baronets and knights including Borden ministers and explorers.
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Detroit Railways
New Jersey Public Service Commission
Premier Borden
London
Lord Kitchener
Khartum
Maesty
Egypt
Herbert Cozens-Hardy
Edgar Vincent
John Fielden Bracklehurst
Leonard Lyell
United States
Albert H. Stanley
London Underground Railways
Mr. Stanley
Detroit
Detroit United Railways
Public Service Commission of
New Jersey
Joseph Beecham
George Henschel
T. Vansittart Bowater
Robert Borden
Canada
George E. Foster
Walter E. Davidson
Newfoundland
First Honors In Britain Bestowed On Queens And Princesses
Special Cable to The Washington Post reports Queen Mary becomes colonel-in-chief of the Eighteenth Hussars and Queen Alexandra is named colonel-in-chief of the Nineteenth Hussars and the Yorkshire Regiment. Two princesses also receive royal colonel titles including the Seventh Dragoon Guards and the Argyle and Sutherland Highlanders.
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Britain
Washington Post
London
Queen Mary
Queen Alexandra
Eighteenth
Hussars
Nineteenth
Yorkshire Regiment
Princess
Dragoon Guards
Louise
Duchess of Argyle
Argyle and Sutherland Highlanders
Lord Loris Captures 30000 Prix de Paris at Auteuil
Rain drenched Auteuil as James Hennessy s chestnut Lord Loris triumphed by three lengths in the 30000 Prix de Paris. Sydney Platt's Chias faded, Marteau II took third, Balscadden fourth. Odds favored Loris at 4 to 1. Notable attendees included J C Penney and President Poincare amid Paris Week openings.
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James Hennessy
Lord Loria
Washington Post
Paris
Auteuil
Lora Loris
Carter
Euiting
Sydney Platt
Chias
L. Frates
Marteau II
Balscadden
Lord Loris
Clitias
Thornes Pretendante
J. C. Penney
New York
H. B. Rossen
New York Life Insuranceompany
A.M. Tolson
Harry Lewis
Gloversville
N. Y
Charles W. Cole
W. H. Cole
Berry Wall
J. A. Caldwell
Philadelphia
Poincare
Diplomatic Corps
Roosevelt 1916 bid splits Republicans and Progressives
A Washington dispatch reports Progressive leaders press to nominate Roosevelt as a joint Progressive Republican candidate in 1916 while many Republicans resist amalgamation. Standpatters oppose joint nomination but some leaders expect a fusion or separate runs, with Hinebaugh predicting Roosevelt’s 1916 nomination by hostile parties if he remains in the background for now.
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Col. Roosevelt
Idea
New York
Washington
New York Sun
Waccdere Roosevelt
Progressive Party
Roosevelt
Hinebaugh
Progressive Congressional Committee
Murdock
Navy bans wine mess aboard ships in new general order
Daniels issues a general order abolishing the wine mess on all U S Navy vessels effective July 1. The notice was circulated to ships and stations by the Bureau of Navigation. Included are transit details from Harper’s Ferry Martinsburg Berkeley Springs Cumberland and returns from Union Station Washington with distances noted.
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Daniels
U.S. Navy
Bureau of Navigation
Harpera Ferry
Martinsburg
Herkeley Springs
Cumberland
Retorn
Baltimore & Ohio
Union, Station
Washington
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Tne Worl
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Peles
Mediation Commission
Corso
Peanutera
Vila
Uewspaper Hhla
Gen. Villa
Cera
Nicolas Flores
Grizatlan
Hidalgo
Camamacho
Central States
Gonzales
Villareal
Nuevo Leon
Pastor Roulx
Durango
Murgia
Elizondo
Torreon
Dr. Quigley
North Plate
Ind
American Medical Association
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Valley of Virginia
Harlestown
Winchester
Strasburg
Harrigonburg
Staunton
Lexington
Union Station
CAT Mothers
Three Skunks
Manager
Rockefeller
Sudan
A. H Stanley
Progressives
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