Americans Face Loss in Sonora Agrarian Law
More than a thousand Americans face losses as Sonora's new agrarian law allows expropriation of lands with agrarian bonds. American companies have complained to the U S State Department, which plans to press the Carranza government. Critics say bonds lack value and payments depend on later federal action.
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Washington
Congress
Sonora
Mexico
Calles
State Department
Carranza
United States
National Government of
Business head for president is Scott Boom
Mil ton D. Scott of Oklahoma City predicts a big business leader will win the next presidential election with broad regional support. He cites Charles M. Schwab or Frank A. Vanderlip as likely nominees and says Oklahoma favors a pro business government approach over party labels. Scott plans to build a large modern department store in the southwest.
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New York
Oklahoma
West
South
Milton D. Scott
Oklahoma City
Okla
McAlpin Hotel
Schwab
Scott
Southwest
Merchants and Planters National Bank
Riots in Basel as Swiss troops fire on strikers
A Geneva dispatch reports fierce Basel rioting tied to a strike. Swiss troops fired on strikers killing nine and wounding a large number.
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Associated Press
London
Geneva
Switzerland
Basel
Spain votes unanimous to join League of Nations
Madrid August 2 The state legislature passed a bill authorizing the government to join the League of Nations with the vote reported as unanimous.
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Spain
League OF Nations
Associated Press
Madrid
Eighteen Hundred Strike at Little Rock
Eighteen hundred employees at the Barling Cross shops of the Missouri Pacific walked out at 10 o clock this morning after a mass meeting resolved to strike unless wage demands were met. No strike occurred at the Rock Island shops in Little Rock this morning.
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Associated Press
Little Rock
Ark
Baring Cross
Missouri Pacific
Rock Island
War Department announces surplus army food prices
The war department lists sale prices to municipalities and individuals for surplus army foods, excluding postage and transport, with items such as corned beef, roast beef, hash, bacon, beans, corn, peas, tomatoes, pumpkin and squash. Surplus property officers in major cities are directed to conduct the sales, using parcel post rates from those cities to determine purchaser costs.
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Washington
War Department
Boston
New York
Baltimore
Newport News
Atlanta
Chicago
St. Louis
New Orleans
Fort Sam Houston
el Paso
Omaha
San Francisco
Parcel Post
Some Cherokee Celebrities by E A MacMillan
A tale of Isaac Bushyhead murder jealousy between the Bushyhead and McIntosh families, the disappearance of John McIntosh, and his life in Mexico where he wed a senorita. Judge Geo W Paschal recounted the story linking Dr Cherokee to McIntosh now living abroad.
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Oklahoma
Isaac Bushyhead
Saline Courthouse
John McIntosh
Bushyhead
McIntosh
MclIntosh
Geo. W. Paschal
Southwest
Coahuila
Mexico
Indian Territory
Judge Paschal
John MclIntosh
The
Con
Fidence
Cherokee
George W. Paschal
Nancy Ridge
Major Ridge
Stand White
Ridge
Public notice in Pontotoc County court case
Nellie Bourn sues W. W. Bourn for absolute divorce custody and alimony with an attached property lien on Ada Oklahoma Lots 43 and 44 in Ford Addition. The defendant must answer by September 12, 1919 or the petition will be deemed true and judgment may sustain the attachment.
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W. W. Bourn
State OF Oklahoma
Pontotoc County
Oklahoma
Ford
Ada
A. R. Sugg
J. Rogers
Abner Franklin
Lula Franklin
Hattie Franklin
West Tulsa Frisco shop workers fail to report for work
Sixty five car men and helpers in the Frisco shops at West Tulsa did not report for work this morning, signaling a job walkout in the repair and maintenance division.
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Associated Press
Tulsa
Carmen
West Tulsa
Ear Committee Gets In Action At Fair Association
The Fair Association president P A Norris appointed an executive committee to run the exposition and farm congress. Members are C W Zorn B A Pratt A B Meyers Walter Gayne J B Hill O N Walker and R F Wilbourn. They will announce arrangements soon and the fair is planned for mid September.
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The
Fair Association
P. A. Norris
Farm Congress
C. W. Zorn
B. A. Pratt
A. B. Meyers
Walter Gayne
J. B. Hill
O. N. Walker
R. F. Wilbourn
Fires devastate homes and leave thousands homeless west of stock yards
Chicago reports fires of incendiary origin destroying about one hundred houses and leaving three thousand families homeless in the district west of the stock yards. A separate legal notice from Pontotoc County Oklahoma details a real estate levy under a 1919 district court foreclosure action by the First National Bank of Ada and C F Green against E R Salmon et al. with sale of a half undivided interest in Ada Lots 15 and 16, Block 129, to satisfy a money judgment and foreclosure of a mortgage.
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Associated Press
Chicago
Stock Yards
District Court
Pontotoc County
Oklahoma
First National Bank of
Ada
C. F. Green
E. R. Salmon
Mozelle Salmon
J. F. Jackson
J. D. Jackson
J. J. Henderson
Alice Salmon Clark
Edwin R. Salmon
Vivian Biggers
Herman Biggers
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KK. P. Chrisman
Pa- Gueah
Texas
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Gwin & Mays
Rexall
GWI Mays Drug CO
Arden L. Bullock
Chas
L. Orr Bullock
ORR Lawyers
First National Bank
Lois D. Abney
Lowrey H. Harrell
Abney & Harrell Lawyers
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M. M. Webster Physician & Surgeon
Rollow Bldg
E. A. MacMillan
A. R.sugg
E J. Walker
Plaintiff
Said County
I. L. Smith
R. J. Freeny
Fitzhugh
King & Crawford
Calomel
Franks, Oklahoma
EAR Committee
Walter Goyne
J. 8. Hill
Bob Duncan
Okla. Co
F. Green
Plaintiffs
Oklahoma State Bank
the People’s Bank
Main and Townsend
Ada, Okla
C. H. Rives
H. P. Reich
Joe Stafford
L. A. Ellison
H. J. Huddleston
Mr. Banker
Merchants and Planters National Bank of
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