Arms for Huerta landed in Mexico
Reports from Vera Cruz and Puerto Mexico claim the German steamer Bavaria discharged ammunition and barbed wire for Huerta at Puerto Mexico with 1,500,000 rounds landed. No U S effort to stop the shipment. mediation and suspension of hostilities cited. Huerta reportedly agrees to resign to a commission of faction leaders, or to any successor such a body selects.
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Vera Cruz
United States
Washington, D. C
Huerta
Mexico
Piranea
Puerto Mexico
Canada
State Department
War Department
Bavaria
Hamburg- American Line
Niagara Falls
Puerta Mexico
Ypicanca
Vera Crux
Walla
Punston
Funston
Cordoba
Tierra Blanca
Vera Crruz
Niagara
Department to mobilize wheat harvest help in Oklahoma
Acting on information from Oklahoma's Ixbor commissioner Charles J. Dougherty, Secretary Wilson orders nationwide bulletins describing Oklahoma's needs. States across the Midwest are surveyed for extra harvest labor from thirteen to fifteen thousand men to assist harvest and thresh wheat.
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Washington
Charles J. Dougherty
Ixbor
Oklahoma
Wlijson
Kansas
Nebraska
North
South Dakota
Iowa
Wisconsin
Missour
Minnesota
How T. R. Roosevelt Settled a Strike in 1902
The article notes President Theodore Roosevelt prepared to take action equivalent to executive measures to end the great anthracite strike of 1902, determined to act even if other parties sought to block him later. It also mentions a separate acquittal of H. Tucker and others in a case against fraud against the Government. Epsom Derby victory by an American owned horse ridden by an American jockey is described in royal presence.
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New York
Theodore Romeevelt
Epsom
England
Durbar Ll
H. B. Deryes
MacGee
Patmont claims captors identified by clergy in kidnap case
The Rev. Louis R Patment a prohibitionist abducted from Vermilion county Illinois in late March says he knows the captors. He alleges an automobile from Danville was used and describes being moved in a wagon or cart for about fifty days. He says the abductors discussed burning the house and incinerating him, and notes identification by Rev. Prandt and several Vermilion residents including Rev. J F Bickel of Danville First Christian Church.
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St. Louis
Louis R Patment
Westwile
Columba
Danville
Patment
Patmont
Prandt
Vermillion County
J. F. Bickel
First Christian Church of
Roosevelt in Washington D C on eventful return
Former president Roosevelt returned to the national capital for a nine hour schedule spanning a South American expedition speech a Wilson call a Progressive Congress conference a Smithsonian visit to African hunt trophies a diplomatic corps meeting and a dinner with old friends. He endured crowds at stations hotels streets and other stops with evident stamina despite the heat.
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Washington
D. C
Roosevelt
Natonal
Wilson
Congress
Smithsonian Institution
Diplomatic Corps
Miners Fire on U S Cavalry in Colorado Strike District
United States troops came under fire for the first time since taking control of the strike zones in Colorado coalfields. At Segundo near Trinidad, twenty shots targeted a patrol from a miner’s camp as Trooper 4 Billside searched after an object was thrown. A man fled from a ditch when the attack opened.
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Trinidad
Col
Colorado
United States
Segundo
Tronper
Cushman
TWO DIE IN MOTOR ACCIDENT
A Kansas City driver William E Dunn 26 and his wife Mildred Dunn 81 were killed when their car was struck by electric train No 33 at the Pratherville station crossing on the Kansas City Clay County and Excelsior Springs line. Their son George Dunn sustained injuries including nose bleed wrist sprain and possible brain concussion.
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Kansas City
William E. Dunn
Oakley Street
Pratherville Station
Clay County
Eir
Home Rule Passes in Westminster Vote 851 to 274
British Parliament endorses the Irish Home Rule bill on its third reading by 851 to 274, a 77 vote majority. The measure sets a Dublin Parliament with a 164 member House, limits Irish authority, and mandates a Dublin body within a year despite potential Lords rejection. The executive remains with the crown, and funding and religious provisions are restricted.
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London
House of Commons
Lords
Dublin
George
Westminster
House of Lords
Senate
House Commons
Trish
Ireland
National Insurance
Royal Frish Constabulary
Post Office
House of Commons. the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council
Irish Exchequer
Liner Frederick VIII Gangway Disaster Claims Several
A passenger catastrophe on the Frederick VIII as the third class gangway collapsed at the New York pier. Crowded with passengers mainly women and children, the fall into the Hudson River and onto the dock left one woman and three children drowned. About twelve people were severely injured and thirty to forty others sustained lesser injuries as the liner was ready to sail.
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New York
Hudson River
Railroads win a big case in Supreme Court
Washington reports the Supreme Court sustained an old commerce court ruling that blocked the Interstate Commerce Commission from enforcing joint rate rebates to trunk lines. The decision weakens the commission’s control over through rate divisions and subsidiary rebates affecting lumber and logging railroads. Also noted are three lightning deaths near Ord Nebraska and a royal engagement in Berlin as well as a $6.36 million army deficiency bill moving through Congress.
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Washington
Interstate Commerce Commission
Supreme Court
Old Commerce Court
Commission
Diplomatic fund drive urges aid from El Salvador
The Mexican minister to Salvador told the City of Mexico that Salvadorans are raising a fund to aid Mexico in case of war with the United States. President Wilson will present diplomas to the Annapolis midshipmen on June 5. The note highlights a maritime liability ruling after the Titanic disaster and a Senate agricultural appropriation bill of about 18.7 million. Missouri Governor Major urged good roads boosters, warning politicians who ignore the movement.
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Salvador
Foreign Office
Mexico
United States
Wilson
Midshipmen
Annapolis
Supreme Court
Oceanic Steam Navigation Company
Major
Missouri
Ozark Trails Association
Tulsa
Bimeek
Progress in Pacification Talks Between Nations
Niagara Falls Ont mediation delegates from the United States and Mexico report substantial agreement on main points of the pacification plan. Leaders indicate optimism for an early agreement as mediators and opponents narrow differences on land and provisional government arrangements.
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Niagara Falls
Ont
Mexico
Justice Lamar
Huerta
31 Refugees Sail for the U S
Thirty one refugees including five women and eight children sailed from Vera Cruz for the United States on the navy vessel Patusent under Rear Admiral Hadger. The Patusent will go to Orleans then Key West. Nearby ships Birmingham Trippe Jouett departed Vera Cruz with mail and orders. Demurrage law suits were mentioned as void by the Supreme Court in a Rock Island case. Barbers union threatens tips abolition if aggressive unionizing continues.
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U. S
Washington, D. C
Vera Cruz
United States
Navy
Patusent
Hadger
Nave Department
Orleans
Key West
Birmingham
Trippe
Beston
Jouett
Galveston
Tampico
Washington
Oklahoma
Supreme Court
Rock Island Railroad
Canada’s Rise as Wheat Producer Prompts Census of Settlers
Canada stands among world wheat leaders as Prairie productions surge from 54 million bushels in 194 to 150 million five years later. By 1913 output nears 211 million, hinting at a future top ranking beside Russia and the United States. The influx of American settlers accelerates, with groups arriving in Bassano, Alberta, Calgary, and Saskatche wan, bringing capital, stock, and new farms. A Kansas party of 38 heads to Cardiff, linked to Rock Island cars, as transcontinental lines promise easy Panama visitors’ travel.
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Alberta
Canada
United Kingdom
Germany
United States
Canadian Prairies
Bassano
Saskatchewan
Peter Goertz
Cardiff
McPherson
Kansas
Goertz
Rock Island
Are you a policeman at a charity picnic dinner
A paying guest asks another at a charity picnic dinner if he is a policeman. The other denies. The first man notes the other's greasy fingers and remarks that he is pulling a tough joint.
Button Doctor and Witty Lines Across Periodicals
A collage of light anecdotes and quips from 19th and early 20th century columns and humor pages. The snippets reference a button swallowing child tale via Florence Louise, a comment on a water wagon figure Jagbsby, and ironic lines about marriage, baldness, and church attendance from sources like the Baltimore Sun and Detroit Free Press, preserving era voice and tone.
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White House
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Excelsior + Springs
Clinton D. MacDougall
Auburn
Clinton Dugald MacDougal
Billiman
John
Silliman
Saltillo
Mexico City
Warner Opera House
Tinyreuth
Wasner Opera House
Siegfried Wagner
Bill
Jacob Rils
Barre
Mast
Jacob A. Rils
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Persian Post
John L. Caliwell
Fort Scott
Persia
Manila
Martin Ocampo
Teodoro M. Kalaw
Philippine Commission
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Charles G. Lathrop
Leland Necford University
Jane Lathrop
Atord
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Prussia
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Ina Marie
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Lamar
City of
Eduardo Tamariz
Catholic Party
Barbers
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Journeymen
Barbers’ Union
Jagbsby
Baltimore Sun
Ife
Florence Louise
Rena
Rehoboth Sunday Herald
Puck
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Paris
Prccess
Detroit Free
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