Wood denies stories of Mexican intervention by officials
Army leaders dispute newspaper claims that General Wood urged U.S. intervention in Mexico. Wood and Secretary Dickinson deny discussing intervention with the House Military Affairs Committee and say reports are false, dangerous, and inflaming tensions. They note meetings were open and no such statements were made.
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Wood
Tait
Congress
Leonard Woon
Army
House Committee On
Mexico
Republic
Taft
Gen. Wood
Dickinson
House
Gen Wood
Port Myer
Tlav
Military Affairs Committee
United States
Mr. May
Puilitary Affairs Committee
My. Gardiner
Massachusetts
Norma
Meser
Flause Committee
Slavden
Texas
Dou
Clay
Jadon
Tennessee
Committee On Military Affairs
Kahn
California
Army of
War Department Bureau Consolidation Focus Cited
The testimony addressed the consolidation of various War Department bureaus and stated there was no basis in the conversation for any national intervention plan. It noted no relevance to mobilization theory in Texas and rejected the idea of a connected national report.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Haainan
Qatar
War Department
Methodist Union In View In Chattanooga Tennessee
A joint commission from three branches of Methodism begins meetings in Chattanooga May 1 to May 12 to discuss unification. The nine national denominations total about 700000 members, while the 27 commissioners represent about 6000000 Methodists. They were appointed by the Methodist Protestant Church the Methodist Episcopal Church South and the Methodist Episcopal Church.
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Chattanooga
Tenn
Contmmns
America
Methodist Protestant Church
Methodist Episcopal Church South
Methodist Episcopal Church
Rebels Resume War as Juarez Nears Attack
El Paso reports rebels under Gen Francisco I. Madero resume armed pursuit after breaking off armistice with Diaz regime. Juarez likely target within 24 hours as negotiations fail, Madero accusing Diaz of refusal to resign and pursuing war to the end.
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el Paso
Tex
Cuihuahua
Disarrecto
Francisco 1
Madero
Gen. Madero
Insurrectos Prepare for Fighting Near Juarez
Rebels around Juarez tighten lines as both sides brace for renewed hostilities. Federals fortify positions while insurgent chiefs, in khaki, ready for action. reports hint at possible negotiations fading and leaders like Judge Carbajal and Dr Gomez considering moves between Juarez and Mexico City.
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Madera
Juarez
Navarro
Judge Carbajal
Mexico City
Dr. Gomez
United States
Washington
Riots Expose Fake Wines in Champagne District
A Paris dispatch reports widespread fraud in champagnes as makers use fake brands and counterfeit deeds. One producer sold ten brands from land not in his ownership, faking counts and names while exploited branding tricks and inflated prices threaten authentic producers.
Beards as Tribute to King Edward VII
London May 6 Among the many suggestions for commemorating King Edward VII one idea proposed by Capt Mackwaine RN is that men of the British empire should grow beards as a tribute. Wing Weward grew a beard and urged staff to do the same. The Duke of Edinburgh, a naval officer, also grew a beard. The king himself reportedly grows a beard and asks staff to follow. The beard is portrayed as the exception rather than the rule and criticized as indifference to royal leadership.
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Washington
London
Edward VII
Mackwaine
R. N
British Empire
Wing Weward
Capt. Mackwaine
Duke of Edinburgh
Lieut Thompson Loses Pay For Eight Months
Newport May 6 Lieutenant Edward N Thompson coast artillery corps attached to Fort Adams was ordered by the War Department to forfeit eight months pay after a general court martial found negligence in running the post exchange while in command. The decision was read at Fort Adams this afternoon and he was released from arrest and restored to duty.
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Newport
RKL
Edward N. Thompson
Coast Artillery Corps
Fort Adams
War Department
Art Adams
Thompson
Mourning for King Ends as King George Acts Crown Season
Londoners enter a busy royal schedule half a year after King Edward's death. A memorial at Windsor drew Queen Mother Alexandra, King George, Queen Mary and the late king's household. The accession year promises naval and military salutes, court at Buckingham, and a series of ceremonies through July with the royal couple attending major events and state visits.
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London
Edward
Windsor
Mother Alexandria
King George
Queen Mary
George
Buckingham Palace
Crystal Palace
Hing
Victora
William
Auguste Victoria
Gold Will Fly London Tradesmen Eager For Expenditure
London hosts expect 120,000 American guests across June to August, spending up to 30 million dollars on coronation season. Anglo American hostesses led by Mrs Drexel and Capt and Mrs Drummond plan lavish entertainments. Dorchester House to center American activity with many titled Americans and society figures arranging milestones, concerts, and parties during coronation week.
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Washington Post
London
Elizabeth Patterson
Baltimore
Drummond
Marshall Field
Anthony Drexel
America
Grosvenor Square
Drexel
Countess of Granard
Beatrice Mills
Ogden Mills
Granard
Roxsburghe
Marlborough
Manchester
Countess of Essex
Bourdon House
Countess of Suffolk
Countess of Craven
Ancaster
Lady Newborough
Lady Leith of
Flyvie
Dorchester House
Reid
Miller Graham
William Leeds
Joseph Stickney
Graef
Arthur Glasgow
Waldorf Astor
Henry Coventry
John Mackay
James McDonald
Standard Oil
Mackay
New York
Carlton Rouse Terrace
Mark
McDonald
Cadogan Square
March for ballot cheered by onlookers in New York parade
Newark May 6 suffragists parade drew dense crowds along Fifth Avenue from Fifty-seventh to Fourteenth streets. About 3,000 marchers represented diverse professions and regions, with enthusiastic spectators and minimal jeers aside from Men's League for Women's Suffrage. Key figures included Miss Eleanor Gardiner and Mrs. William L. Colt, while pioneers like Antoinette Brown Blackwell accompanied leaders such as Mrs. Harriet Stanton Blatch and Mrs. Anna Shaw. The event signals plans for a Albany march by Equal Suffrage League and Women's Political Union.
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Newark
Fifth Avenue
State Association
Equal Suffrage League
Women's Political
Albany
Men's League For Women’s Suffrage
Madison Square
New York
Eleanor Gardiner
Ernest Thomipson-Seton
Sarah Splint
William L. Colt
the Cause
Antoinette Brown Blackwell
Anna Carlin Spencer
Sybil Smith
Anna Peck
Explorers and Travelers’ Company
Anna Shaw
Belmont
The
Political Equality Association
W. Brown
Robert Ingersol
Harriet Stanton Blatch
Women's Political Union
Blatch
Nora de Forest
Kinkaid
Gertrude M. Bjorkham
Colorado
Wyoming
Fola la Follette
Sen
Women Only Play Hints at Secret Stage Plot
Mrs Kendall White plans a women only drama with a cast including Fay Thay Rosalie Toller Mary Moore and Jesta The prima donna. The play, written by a discreet young man under Mrs Kendall’s guidance, aims to reveal a long held scheme to feature an all female cast in a Persian palace setting behind Mrs Bland Sutton’s Brook Street residence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kendal
Father of 25 Children in Pittston Welcomes 25th Child
Special to The Washington Post Wilkes-Barre Pa May 6 Nathan Valone of Pittston today presented his twenty fifth child a girl weighing 15 pounds Of his total twenty five children many are married and twenty two survive His naturalization was in 1864 He has been twice married His first wife bore sixteen children twelve boys and four girls all lived to adulthood Ten years ago he remarried and the second wife has nine children Valone runs a grocery shoe and fruit business and owns multiple homes
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington Post
Wilkes-Barre
Na‘than Valone
Pittston
Valone
Valene
Love and Murder in a Triangle Ends in Tragedy
In New York on May 6, Mrs Frances O Shaughnessy admits she killed her husband to save his soul after discovering a flirtation with 18 year old Tessie Hayes. The younger woman laments the affair while Father Leon defends both women, and the killer awaits sentencing for murder.
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New York
Frances O'Shaughnessy
Miga
Yesssle Hayes
Leon
St. Lucy's
George O'Shaughnessy
Tessie Hayes
George
Abolition of birch at Eton stirs old boys
London May 6 The abolition of the birch at Eton for upper boys provokes protest from Harold E Gorst author journalist and lecturer who recalls ten birchings and discomfort from a tutor room while other old Etonians deplore the change and urge reconsideration. A cane over clothing replaces the birch for upper boys. Money to lend at 4 5 and 6 percent. F T Rawlings 106 Pa ay
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Washington P
London
Eton
Harold E. Gorsi
Eton College
F.T. Rawlings
Fearless horses trained for coronation procession
Washington London May 6 The master of the king's horse trains animals for the coronation parade to endure flags, guns, shouting crowds and loud sounds. The royal riding school is noisy with youths flags rifles and bands as horses learn to remain calm. Training aims to prevent unexpected incidents that could spoil the effect.
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Washington
London
Royal Riding School
Prince and Princess de Cloy Arrive in U.S. On Tour
Prince de Cloy of France and his wife arrived in Washington aboard La Provence for a four month tour of America and Canada. He is a captain of dragoons. They will visit Philadelphia Washington San Francisco and Seattle. Also aboard were delegates George Breton Michael Pelletier and George Maillanrd attending a patent convention in Washington to discuss a new international patents agreement.
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de Cloy
France
Washington
Washington Post
New York
Prince
Princess de Cloy
America
Canada
Prince de Cloy
Dragoons
Philadelphia
San Francisco
Seattle
George Breton
Michael Pelletier
George Maillanrd
Pure Food Exhibit Opens With Living Chickens
New York May 6 Dr Heath food and drug inspector opened a container of eggs for examination and found three had hatched into baby chicks overnight. Two chicks died. the remaining chick is healthy and to be shown as an exhibit when the health commissioner asks the board of aldermen next week to appoint more food inspectors.
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New York
Heath
Food and Drug
Department of Health
Board of Aldermen
Cat's cry saves sixteen in boardinghouse gas scare
Special to The Washington East New York May 6 Sebastian Cabot who runs a boarding house at 364 West Eleventh street stepped on a cat's tail waking roomers with its cry. Gas smell traced to a room occupant who was unconscious. Sixteen people evacuated unharmed after the warning.
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Washington East
New York
Sebastian Cabot
West Eleventh Street
Cabot
Destroyer Burrows Makes Fast Newport Run
Special to The Washington Post from Newport Rhode Island May 6 reports the oil burning torpedo boat destroyer Burrows completed a swift run from Hampton Roads to the New York navy yard early this week. The voyage took 812 hours at an average speed of 39.5 knots with no mishaps, demonstrating strong sea handling and reliability.
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Burrows
Hampton Roads
New York
Washington Post
Newport
R. C
New York Navy Yard
Thergelf
Man dies while seeking lost hat in lumber pile
Buffalo May 6 John French died while attempting to recover his hat blown away by a gust of wind. The hat was buried under a stack of lumber and in moving a plank to reach it he caused several thousand feet of lumber to topple onto himself.
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Buffalo
N. Y
John French
Ufe
Eddie Gorlam
Mr. Leith
Lars
Leith
Taff
Dring
Mr Leith
Chambre
Uwenry T
Slaying at Columbia Restaurant Over Soup Dispute
Walter Sandifer 22 was shot and killed and Mrs. Cora Bersinger wounded at her Columbia restaurant by Ernest Grimsley a county convict guard after a dispute over a bowl of soup. Sandifer was Bersinger’s nephew and the incident occurred this afternoon.
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Columbia, & C
Walter Sandifer
Cora Bersinger
Ernest Grimsley
Sandifer
Bersinger
Judas finds a defender in a Paris article on Judas Iscariot
Louis Germain Levy rabbi argues Judas Iscariot did not exist or was not needed as a traitor to betray Christ because Romans knew him by sight. He claims prophecies in the Testament were imagined to fit events and questions the name Iscariot tied to Keroth.
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Washington Post
Paris
Louis Germain Levy
Israelite Liberal Union
Judas Iscariot
AM. Levy
Christ
Levy
M. Levy
Hac Deus
Lahbed
Jude
Avia
Iscariot
Keroth
Jeremia
oTeve
St. Paul
Paul
St. Peter Hharpy
Howard
Corinthians
Claigt
International Horse Show Ends With Roustabout Jump
The National Capital Horse Show closed with three championship events and a famed high jump by Roustabout. Judge Moore presented the bay gelding to the army, highlighting government entries for the England event. President Taft attended with Mrs Taft, as E B McLean and Senator Watson dominated prize winnings amid a 5000 attendance in Potomac Park.
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Army
Moore
Taft
Watson
McLean
Capital
William H. Moore
National Capital
Washington
Europe
E. B. McLean
C. W. Watson
West Virginia
Potomac Park Grounds
Legation
Dickinson
Louis Leith
Warrenton
United States Army
Leonard Wood
Tehhorse
England
Leith
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Tie
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Gomez
Carbajal Raverem
Tr. Gomez
Giemeg
Meaien
Meacan
Senor
Francisco
Madero Heathiatier
Tfamex
Sudee
Nus
Prige
Aeng
Dias
Champagne
Marne
Count de Groseille
Southern Railway
Showille
North Carolina
Aomont Delenthn
Millio
Marshall Field Estate
Whitelaw Reid
Mrs. Drexel
Mrs. Reid
Vanderbilt. Gould
Mills
Cornelius Vandermit
Ceri Bingham
Chaumes
Lavinia Bingham
Bingham
Lavinia
Duchess of Marlborough
Sibyl Smith
Lady Siby Smith
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Lusty Bird
Cat
Judas
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