Mexico creates new bureau for foreign press
Mexico City reports the creation of an information bureau for foreign press with censors being reassigned or removed after President de la Huerta ordered the discontinuance. The bureau identified foreign correspondents with photo IDs and operated under the Interior Ministry led by Manuel Aguirre Berlanga, with Mario Mendez as chief censor.
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Mexico City
de la Huerta
Department of the Interior
Manuel Aguirre Berlanga
Mario Mendez
Carranza
Benito Ramirez
The Des perate Hero at Poll's Theatre and Plaza and West End bill
Owen Moore stars in The Des perate Hero at Poll's theatre for the last half of the week a rollicking comedy drama about a country trip gone wrong. Plaza presents Passers By with Herbert Rawlinson and an all star cast plus Making Movies and vaudeville acts. West End features Blanche Sweet in Deadlier Sex with additional Tarnished Reputations. Empire showcases Everything But the Truth starring Eddie Lyons and Lee Moran.
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Pathe
Blanche Sweet
Bayard Vetter
Wall Street
Dolores Cassinelli
Polis
Owen Moore
Poll
William Friedlander
Will Hough
Haig
Levere
Bob Milikan
Foster
Peggy
Charles Ray
Homer
Mr. Ray
Priscilla Bonner
Kauf and Hyde Company
Frank Bush
Drew
Wallace
Soda Foountain
Franchine Brothers
Poli's
C. Hadden Chambers
Herbert Rawlinson
Norton and Wilson
Fay
Thomas
West End
Bayard Veiller
Dolores Casewell
Smpire
Eddie Lyons
Lee Moran
Universal
Empire Theatre
Beaver builds shelter by gnawing 12 foot tree at noon
A park beaver began work at noon on a 12 foot long 2 foot 6 inch thick tree. He barked the trunk bit by bit dipped to his pond between laps ate bread and carrots, then felled the tree in an exhaustively steady effort.
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Christian Science Monitor
Queen Mary Fires 40 Maids Over Wages
Buckingham Palace dismisses forty housemaids after refusing a 10 percent wage rise. Maids earned 250 dollars annually plus 875 dollars board. The cable notes many maids were quickly hired by American and Canadian royalty able to pay more.
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Mary
Buckingham Palace
Palace
Congressional Record Costs Public Printing in 1919
Washington reports the Congressional Record cost 537,640 last year matching 1918 levels and far below 1917’s 801,910. Public Printer Cornelius Ford cites longer sessions in 1917 and 1920 as drivers, noting 250, 307, and 297 session days respectively and page counts shrinking from 662,511,964 in 1917 to 455,130,450 in 1919.
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Washington
Congressional Record
Congress
Cornelius Ford
Egg quality dispute halts batch claims in Courier Journal
Mrs. Skiddoo reports six bad eggs in the latest lot and seeks remedy. The Louisville Courier Journal notes the consumer complaint and the response steps being considered to resolve the issue.
Exchange Through a Bus Stop Line
A brief dialogue fragment shows two speakers arguing over a missing umbrella on a bus. One confirms leaving the umbrella, the other promises to find a replacement when indoors.
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Keystone
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Union St
W England Steamship Company
Main ST
Kearns
Surtace
Mexico
Elmira Star-Gazette
Lyons & Moran
Young Buffalo
Jeff Davis
Jing
Sixcet
Tel
Noble
Louise Glaum the Lone Wolf’s Daughter
Louis Joseph Vance
Burton Holmes
Fairfield Beach Pavilion
D. C
Hexbert Rawlinson
Syoddie
Capitol
Andie
Norton & Wilson
Fay and
Beaver
Queen Mary
Dr.Caldwell
Dr. Caldwell
America
E.G. Wilson
Hugo
Okio
Waskinewon Street
Monscalio
Eet
S. Pepsin
U.S. Army
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Liberty
Bridgeport
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Frisbie
Fight Yver
P. Sproviere
Ouie
Lew
Naugatuck
New York Pier
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NEW England Steamship Co
G. Hunt Wilber
Gustmant
the Times
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Dean Davenport
Country Gentleman
L. E. Lucey
Olive Street
Conn
Barnum
the Wet Bone Post
Stratford Avenue
Fiont
Hughes & Chapman
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