Denial of Intervention Claims Ordered by US Embassy
Secretary of State Knox authorized Ambassador Henry Wilson in Mexico City to deny all reports of U S intervention in Mexico in the strongest terms. The message stresses friendship for Mexico and protection of American life and property, while affirming no interference with legitimate commerce and no arms shipments through border customs.
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Knox
Case
Henry Jane Wilson
Mexico City
Mexico
United States
Knowgs
Wilson
Merlegs
de la Parra
State Department
Wilsom Senor Dé la Berta
Insurrection Fights Push Across Northern Mexico
Reported May 12 from Cananea to Chihuahua describes Juan Cabral sending a courier to demand surrender as rebel bands move toward Chihuahua City. Federal troops clash near Nogales and Llano as insurgents concentrate between Magdalena and Hermosillo, with rebels greatly outnumbering federals and lines cut to isolate cities.
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Cananea
Juan Cabral
Rebela
Naco
Donom
Meslco
NacoaAriz
Cananca
Chihuahua City
Chihuahua
Mexico
Here
Nombre de Dios
Guaymas
Llano
Hermosillo
Agua Prieta
Santa Ana
Magdalena
Diaz
Hermosilo
Piaz Demands Peace Amid Mexican Revolution Developments
The provisional government plans to move to Mexico City and take the Custom House today to begin tax income. Tariffs will fund the revolution as arms pass through the American line. Northern insurrectos are well supplied, while southern and western forces lack equipment. The war department maintains telegraphic contact with insurrecto chiefs south of the area, fearing advances by Gen Rabago or other federal commanders.
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Custom House
War Department
Rabago
Americans Accused in Juarez Revolt Looting Claims
The United States residents named as members of the resurrected band in Juarez face warrants and possible arrest by Mexican officials on charges of footing and robbing Chinese during recent fighting. Some Americans reportedly crossed into U.S. territory as authorities pursue the insurgents, with the immediate impact the removal of the American fighting force from Juarez’s insurgent ranks. The Americans deny looting charges, claiming jealous aims against the uprising.
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Juares Wixito
Juarez
Ieurrecto
America
Juares
Americas
Mexiam
Typhus Outbreak Reported in Juarez Hospital
Reports indicate cases of typhus in the federal hospital for sick and wounded sellers. One man died yesterday. Other patients moved to a separate ward and quarantined. Typhoid fever also noted among patients.
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Juarez, Meatco
Race to Aid Wounded in Juarez by Red Cross Party
In Mexico City on May 12 surgeons and nurses aboard special cars marked with the Red Cross started for Juarez to care for the wounded. A second group with a white cross emblem follows twelve hours later. Miss Llena Anzmendi y Mejia of San Antonio leads the first party. The Red Cross has grown but sent its first battlefield delegation only now amid tensions with the rival White Cross movement.
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Mexico City
Red Cross Society
Juarez
Juare
Llena Anzmendi Y Mejia
San Antonio
Tex
Ignacia Mejia
Maximilian
Red Cross
White Cross
Navarro Explains Juarez Defeat and Surrender
In Juarez Mexico on May 12 Gen Navarro explained a dispatch saying he would likely face a court martial for surrendering Juarez to the insurgents. He said his humanitarian motive guided his actions saving four hundred starving soldiers from a pitiful fate against an army of about one thousand. Friends say he could not hold outer trenches without firing into American territory as insurgents entered with the American trailing.
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Juarez
Mexico
Navarro
Mexico City
Child at Play Run Down by Wagon in Front of Home
A ten year old boy, Robert T. Lack, was struck by a wagon while paving in front of 148 Florida Avenue Northeast around 7:30 PM yesterday. He was taken home after treatment and was reportedly recovering. James H. Porter, the wagon driver, was arrested but released on his own recognizance. Eyewitnesses said Porter was driving slowly and the child suddenly ran into the path of the horse, the left front wheel passing over the body.
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Florida Avenue
Robert Tlack
James H Porter
Ninth Precinct
Rest in McNamara Kidnapping Inquiry In Indianapolis
Marion county grand jury will rest for a week or ten days during its probe of alleged dynamiting plots and the kidnapping case involving John J McNamara secretary of the Iron Workers Union who was arrested in connection with the Los Angeles explosions.
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McNamara
Indianapolis
Way 12
Marion County Grand Jury
A. John J McNamara
Iron Workers’ Union
Los Angeles
Cal
Correspondence School Heads Fined in Pennsylvania Case
Conrail president Lewis Conrail and officers Conrad Lotz and Wo M Binsamain of the Correspondent School of America, S Rent Pe, were fined in the United States wrn take case for allegedly claiming they could teach cartooning by ril.
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Hartsbore Pa
Lewis
Peace victory hailed as great global treaty move
Dr J A Macdonald of Toronto lauds Anglo American arbitration proposal as the greatest thing in world history. He argues the pact unites English speaking nations under sympathetic sovereignty, heralds a safer continent, and will pass despite detractors while asserting Canada’s support and a broadened U S Britain alliance.
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J. A. Macdonald
J A Macdonald
Toronto
Taft
Edward Grey
Britain
Macdonald
Toronto Globe
United States
Canada
American Congress
Senate
Remarkable English aviation display under parliamentary eye
London May 12 an astonishing aviation exhibition in England under parliamentary aerial defense committee auspices showcased technology for war. Fourteen airmen including Claude Grahame White Louis Bleriot Robert Loraine and Capt FB Cody demonstrated scouting dispatch carrying and bomb throwing with missiles dropped from height. Prime Minister Asquith and ministers attended as did 200 MPs and naval officers.
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London
England
Claude Grahame White
Louis Bleriot
Robert Loraine
FB Cody
Premer Asquith
J Balfour
Haldane
Cburchal
Lloyd George
Hendson
Balfour
Grahame-White
E H Shackleton
Girl Wrecks Her Aero At Hempstead Plains
Miss Harriett Quinby of New York attempted a monoplane takeoff at Hempstead Plains on May 12. The running gear failed as the machine sped across the field breaking forks and one wing. Quinby shut off power and jumped free unharmed. The aviator has been known as the veiled Woman while taking lessons.
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Hempstead
Long Island
Harriett Quinby
New York
Hempstead Plains
Migs Quinby
Price of Pork Falls in Chicago Market
Chicago buyers saw pork quotations drop to 16 dollars a barrel, down from 1745 the prior day, as traders noted a squeeze against short sellers. The move was interpreted as delinquents absorbing losses and settling positions.
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Chicago
Diplomatic Dispute Over Tonopah Fire Transcript
In Reno Nevada on May 12 a clash emerges involving Austria Hungary and the United States over a coroner inquest into a Tonopah fire that killed Austrian victims. Acting Austro Hungarian Consul Karl Ruiz de Roxas refused the transcript payment for $427 and the matter traversed to Ambassador von Hengelmuller and the Nevada officials before returning to Acting Coroner Atkinson.
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Tonopah
Reno
Nev
Karl Ruiz de Roxas
San Francisco
Austria-Hungary
United States
Nevada
Atkinson
von Hengelmuller
Washington
Secretary of State
Gov Oddie
Cleveland Baker
Sanders
Nye County
Woman's quick thinking saves Bolton from hotel fire
Special to The Washington Post Hartford Conn May 12 Mrs W Tucker of Bolton acted as her own driver to reach the town fire. She summoned firefighters from miles around and advised using surplus beer from the New England Hotel cellar to cool the blazing roof. Firemen spread ice cold beer on shingles and soon pronounced the building out of danger.
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Bolton
Conn
Washington Post
Hartford
W. Tucker
New England
Roosevelt urges industrial education for American youth
Theodore Roosevelt addressed 2,000 at DeWitt Clinton High School in New York urging a shift in schooling toward industrial training. He accepted a painting titled Am I My Brother's Keeper? from Alfred Mosely of London and warned that without education focused on practical skills, Americans may face grim social outcomes.
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New York
Theodore Roosevelt
Alfred Mosely
London
Board of Education
DeWitt Clinton High School
America
Princeton Student Commits Suicide in Upper Lyne Room
Hamilton Brown a junior from New York City at Princeton shot himself in his Upper Lyne room this afternoon. He attended classes earlier, was well liked, a Colonial Club member, and holder of the intercollegiate half mile swim record. Brown entered Princeton in 1908 and was a 1912 bachelor of letters candidate. The death followed his father Willard Brown's passing. Brown was % years old.
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Princeton NY
Hamilton Brown
New York City
Princeton
Upper Lyne
Brown
Colonial Club
University
Willard Brown
Van Dyke to Stay at Princeton After Resignation Withdrawn
Professor Henry Van Dyke has withdrawn his resignation from the Murray professorship of English at Princeton University. Trustees and students urged him to remain, citing factional disputes over last year's graduate college issue. The resignation, presented January 12, was motivated by the faculty tensions but has now been rescinded.
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Henry van Dyke
Washington Post
Princeton
N. J
Princeton University
Murray
van Dyke
Hotel and city listing of attendees and connections
A dense OCR fragment lists hotels and names across cities including Boston Chicago New York Philadelphia Pittsburgh Pennsylvania Maryland Massachusetts and Virginia. It names numerous individuals with affiliations to St James Shoreham Ebbitt and various hotels, plus a track team reference and officials.
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Boston
A. Coppe
Syndensem
Enbitt
Ise Freeman
Miss Freeman
R Gray Shoreham
Amringa St James
Chicago
OW Anderson
Eawards
M Callender
St. James
New York City
Tolman Shoreham
Philadelphia
A Horne
Miss Horne
AC Peters
Gomery Klegs
Hibbs Arlington Pittaburg
I. Westing
St James
Peansylvania
Death of J H Downman in Virginia Death by target rifle believed accidental
James H Downman New York businessman recuperating from paralysis at his sister’s home in Fredericksburg Virginia tested a small caliber rifle and shot himself in the head dying four hours later. It is believed the incident was accidental. He represented a prominent New York firm for 25 years and left a large estate. Survived by his mother Mrs Mary A Downman a brother the Rev James Y Downman of Richmond and two sisters Mrs Taylor and Mrs Marian J Dimmock of Richmond.
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J. H. Downman
Rich Row
Washington Post
Fredericksburg
White
James H Downman
New York
Ennis Taylor
Mary A. Downman
James Y. Downman
Richmond
Taylor
Marian J. Dimmock
Will leaves $700000 to Hagerstown institutions
Edward W. Mealey's will filed in Hagerstown, Md confirms a $700,000 estate. After Adelaide Savage Mealey dies, most assets go to Washington County Hospital and Library. Mrs Mealey receives $10, household goods. Her art collection passes to her for life, then to the free library.
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E. W. Mealey
Hagerstown
Washington Post
Edward W. Mealey
Washington County Hospital
Washington County Library
Adelaide Savage Mealey
Five Rottens Bite Fairfax County Family in Richmond
A mad dog owned by Oscar Whitlow of Hyco Fairfax County bit five people including Whitlow himself and his daughter Annie aged four and three other children in Virginia. Dr Meade Fergusson of the state health board treats them in Richmond and expects recovery. The dog’s head was sent to Washington for rabies testing with a positive result.
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Richmond
Oscar Whitlow
Hyco
Fairfax County
Whitlow
Annie
Ida
Stover Hudson
Tansinl Comer
Meade Fergusson
State Board of Health
Rabid Woman Bites Five at Kansas City General Hospital
A woman from Kansas City dies of hydrophobia after biting five staff at the general hospital. Two interns and three nurses receive Pasteur treatment after being bitten or scratched by Marie Jones who showed nervous trouble and convulsions before death. Brain examination confirmed hydrophobia.
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Washington Post
Kansas City
The
General Hospital
Pasteur
Stanley Freaman
J. D. Omer
Ethel Duh
Clara Flusher
Helen Jones
Marie Jones
Man Dies of Hydrophobia in Alabama City
Henry Carden, a Birmingham contractor, died after 24 hours of delirium from hydrophobia. He was bitten by a dog five days earlier, with his wife and child also bitten and rushed to a hospital.
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Birmingham
Ale
Henry Carden
Carden
Greek immigrant held after alleged assault aims at lynching
Alexander Paulitia a Greek national was arrested in Richmond on charges of attacking 93 year old Jettia Tennis of Hampton. He was pulled from a freight car by Detective J W Wright as the train slowed in Fulton yards. Authorities say Gov Mannes ordered keeping him in custody to avert possible lynching in Newport News where he was reported to have appeared.
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Richmond
Newport News
Special
Washington Po
Alexander Paulitia
Hampton
Paulitis
J W. Wright
Fulton Yards
Chesapeake and Ohio Railway
New York City
Mannhes
Brandywine Forests Burn Near Brandywine Md
Forest fires rage along Popes Creek near Brandywine Maryland threatening 2 square miles of land and the Pennsylvania Railroad Company at Brandywine. A special train was dispatched from Bowie and 75 section hands were sent to the scene. Residents join railroad workers to halt the blaze.
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Popes Creek
Brandywine
Pennsylvania Railroad Company
Bowie
Slain Police Chief Killer Executed in North Carolina
Norman Lewis, the man who shot Raleigh Chief of Police Stallings at Spring Hope last September, was executed at the State prison. He appeared calm, holding a Bible as two electric currents passed through him. He became the sixth person put to death in the chair since hanging ended.
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Raleigh
N.C
Norman Lewis
Stallings
Spring Hope
Lewis
Poe's Ring Willed to Her in Poe Hayden Estate
In New Haven on May 12 probate records list Edgar Allan Poe's engagement ring as part of Eliza Poe Hayden's estate. Poe gave the ring to Mrs. Sheldon of Richmond, Virginia on his way to visit when he died in Baltimore. the ring went to Mrs. Susan Mower of New Haven as heir.
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New Haven
Conn
Edgar Allan Poe
Eliza Poe Hayden
Sheldon
Richmond
Baltimore
Hayden
Pos
Susan Mower
Mammoth Bones Found in Roanoke Clay Pit
Special to The Washington Post. In Roanoke Virginia a workman unearthed mammoth bones eight feet below ground in a clay pit. A well preserved thigh bone measures 36 inches in circumference, with a hip socket nearby the size of a large tenpin ball. Half a tooth six inches long was found along with other large bones being removed.
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Washington
Voting Value of Subscriptions Plan Summary
Subscription pricing details outlined with daily and monthly rates. Mentions 50 cents for month daily, 70 cents for month daily and Sunday, 15 months daily at 1.00, 100 months daily and Sunday at 1.40, 150 months daily at 1.50, 250 days at 2.10, 350 months daily at 2.00, and 375 days at 2.80 with a 0.055 figure.
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Dickinson
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Congreea
Fowler
Illnois
Secretary of War
Rules Committee
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Warant
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T. R
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Riggs Hoube
Poona Mala
Apperson Regal
Emerson & Orme
HK Street
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Hi St. Nw
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Columbias Gas and Electric
Tory Branch
United Motor Washington CO
Barnard Motor Shompart
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Bowica
H. B. Leary
St. N. W
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Congressional Garage CO
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Hinds Auto CO
14Th St
Earle & Allen
Buick Motor Co
Connecticut Ave
Miller Bros
14Th St. Nw
David S. Hendrick
Rauch & Lang Electrics
Imperial Motor CO
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Cadillac
Cook & Stoddard Co
H St. N
Elmore
D St. Aw
Autocrat Otechsmobile
Selden
M. TF. Pollock
Empire
J. H. Ebersole
Dayton Airless Tires
Goats Baty Meridian Sales Co
John A Liltz
Salez
Studebaker
Locomobile Co of America
Gonzave
Auto and Driver
National Electrical Supply Co
New York Ave
Locomobile Co Ofamaten
Connave
Studebaker and Flanders
Commercial Auto & Supply Co
N.Y. Ave
Overland
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