Saloons and votes mark diverse 191?
Mixed municipal election results unfold across cities with Prohibition gains and dry swings. Notable: Mayor Gerhardt A. Bading reelected in Milwaukee over Emil Seidel by about five thousand votes. St Paul and other Minnesota towns swing to dry outcomes. a 101 year old woman in Sycamore votes for the first time.
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Bading
Socialist Democrats
Omaha
Nab
Araska
Emerson
Paul
Hickman
St. Paul
Minn
Minovsura
Teturng
Madison
Marshall
Luverne
Canby
Itchfela
Sycamore
Margaret Swinbank
Jot Down The Globe Popular Shop Offers
Jot Down The Globe invites readers to explore its Popular Shop showcasing suits for boys hats and men’s attire. It highlights new Stetson hats from 3.50 to 4 and 3.00 options with a strong emphasis on regional suits and a claim of the best prices for 15 18 20 and 25 dollar suits. Also features B V D and other undergarments with parcel post paid for out of town packages.
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Georgia
Fighting reported in Tampico streets amid siege
Juares report says General Caballero fought in Tampico yesterday and aims to seize the city soon. A dispatch from Matamoros says the federal gunboat at Tampico was forced to retreat under constitutionalist cannon fire. Federal garrison about 1,000 men, reinforced by San Luis Potosí forces blocked by rebel Carrera Torres.
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Tampico
Juares
Caballero
Pablo Gonzalez
Matamoros
Brownsville
Texas
Luis Caballero
Victoria
San Luis Potost
Tampico Federals
Carrera Torres
Guillotine Appears in Mexico Rebels Face
April 7 report from Juarez notes a home made guillotine erected at Concepcion Del Oro by rebel mechanics under General Eulalio Gutierrez. A lamb was used in a test acclaimed as splendid. The piece cites revenge amid federals and mentions Gutierrez’s detained sister and infant and looming campaign near San Luis Potosi.
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Juarez
Mexico
San Luis Potost
Conception del Oro
Eullato Gutierrez
Carranza
Gutierrez
Jose Morales
Satillo
Saltillo
San Luis
Rebela
Ship Newfoundland Disaster Reported From Ice Floes
Captain Kean and the crew of the Newfoundland faced a brutal blizzard off Belle Isle Strait. Of 200 men, forty died, thirty are missing, and many rescued may perish from exposure. the Southern Croat may also be lost with 176 crew. wireless signals urged aid as the rescue ships Stephano Florizel and Bellaventura joined efforts.
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Belle Isle “Strait
St Johns
Newfoundland
Newfoundlands
Sealing Field
Wesley Kean
Kean
Stephano
Florizel
Bellaventura
Federals Will Try to Retake Torreon
Washington April 7 Dispatches from Consular Agent Carothers at Torreon say Villa forces are restoring order with no sacking or pillaging. City cleansing and water service have orders, Durango rail and telegraph service resumed, streetcars operating, and foreigners remain unharmed. Officials anticipate another battle as Huerta forces mass near Torreon.
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Washington
Carothers
Torreon
State Department
Gomez Palacio
Villa
Durango
Mexico
Huerta
Mexican editors deny Torreon has fallen
Mexico City April 7 editors publish Washington dispatch denying Torreon’s fall. Rear Admiral Fletcher relayed to Washington that Torreon remains unsettled and that General Joaquin Maas and General Javier de Moure arrived there. An El Diario editorial criticizes President Wilson and US policy toward Mexico and warns of possible future policy shifts depending on the rebellion’s outcome.
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Coe
Washington Dispatch
Frank Fletcher
State Department
Torreon
Washington
Joaquin Maas
Javier de’ Moure
Camanchera
el Diarte Today
Wilson
Mexico
United States
Europe
New York
John Bassett Moore
Telumnha
Order for game cocks placed by Gen Villa
Pengacola, Wia, April 7. General Francisco Villa, the Mexican constitutionalist military leader, whose victorious forces recently captured Torreon, ordered a professional breeder near this place to supply his entire available stock of fighting cocks. Villa directed that the cocks be sent by express to his relatives at Juarez, Mexico, where they are to be held until his arrival from the front.
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Pengacola
Wia
Francisco Villa
Torreon
Villa
Juarez
Mexico
Mattauer Estate Probate Fight Reshapes Georgia Will
The Mattauer estate in Bibb county, Georgia, valued around $50,000, is tied up over whether Dr H A Mattauer was a Georgia resident or Virginia resident when the will was drawn. Two witnesses vs three and cross state probate issues trigger an April court ruling with caveat possible. Other Macon items list a municipal water plant bond plan and an estate inventory for William McEwen Johnston. Governor Glynn’s road financing plan is criticized as costly and impractical.
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Macon
H. A. Mattauer
Georgia
Virginia
Mattayer
Virginia On A Visit, and Was Probated In Common Form In Both the Courta
Bibb’ County
J. M. Worsham
Fannin Crue
Bluefield
Bibb County
Fannis Tagon
Farmville
Central Trust Company
Glynn
New York
Bonda
Electrical Fire From Bed Spring Short Causes Damage
A storage battery borrowed from an automobile, kept beneath a bed to avoid freezing, short circuited by a sagging wire bed spring when the occupant sat on the bed. The terminals fused, burning a mattress hole and igniting bedding in a bedroom, with potential for worse disaster.
Engineers for Alaska Railway
The Engineering Record emphasizes credible discharge of the Alaska railway contract and calls for competent railway engineers to lead design and construction. It argues army engineers lack railway specialization and warns the President and Interior Secretary to appoint railroad professionals to determine routes grades and curvature.
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Alaska Railway
Panama
Fan Tyre
Alaska
Supreme Court asked to rule on tap lines rail status
Washington April 7 The Supreme Court was urged to decide if tap lines from camps to trunk railroads in the southwest are railroads entitled to through freight rates or parts of lumber plants. Government contends the lines are part of lumber operations and through rate allowances would be rebates. Attorneys from Justice and the Interstate Commerce Commission presented independent arguments amid questions about the commission's new legal team. Also noted are listed stock and bonds holdings of several companies and a move of Mr Dunstan’s family to Washington after his death.
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Washington
Supreme Court of the United States
Southwest
Pleasant
Louisiana
Theovernment
Department of Justice
Interstate Commerce Commission
Commission
Interstate Commerce
Railroad Company
Lamar-Taylor-Tiley Drug Company
Wrightsville and Tennie Railroad
Hotel Dempsey
Hotel Dempsey Company
Massee-Felton Lumber Company
Midland City Hatel Company
Massie- Felton Lumber Company
Vine—Ville
Georgia Avenue
Dunstan
Washington, D. C
At the Theaters Forsyth review praises Edison device and child act
The Forsyth presents a varied bill headlined by Ray Cox with Arthur Deacon assisting. TheVeri graph novelty screen features scenes from New York and foreign locales and is praised as a remarkable invention. The Alexander Kids are highlighted as highly attractive, clever young performers in a lively program.
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Forsyth
New York City
Thomas ‘Edison
Alexander
Ray Cox
Arthur Deacon
Maintaining amiable customers in electric service
An example from Columbus shows a central station co operative store where salesmen are trained to assume the customer is always right. A dissatisfied appliance customer who returns a device is first reimbursed with the purchase price and then questioned about the failure to determine cause.
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Central Station Company
Columbus
Ohio
Customer pleasing spirit neglected in appliance sales
The passage argues that customer satisfaction is trained in buyers by showing faith in goods, leading to returns and exchange cycles. It notes a lack of similar emphasis on instilling a "customer be pleased" ethos among appliance department salesmen, resulting in limited morale or practice beyond the customer side.
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