Destruction and Atrocity Reported in Casa Blanca
Dispatches describe Arabs attacking consulates and looting in Casa Blanca with 200 Jewish girls carried away and 100 Jews slain. Property valued at 2.5 million destroyed as European shops suffer amid siege, famine prices, and scattered violence across the town.
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London
Casa Blanca
du Chailla
de Tyssers
Galilee
de Tysser
Foreign Legion
San Francisco
Mount Pelee
Drude
Fez
Morocco
General Drude requests reinforcements at Casa Blanca
An Aug 12 Tangier dispatch reports General Drude seeking troops as his position at Casa Blanca becomes untenable without reinforcements.
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Oran
Algeria
Tangier
Drude
Casa Blanca
Weaver wins first prize in Clarksville weevil contest
Miss Cornelia Weaver, sixteen, takes top prize in Clarksville anti-boll weevil contest. Cash awards totaling 25 dollars had been offered weekly by local businessmen for punctured squares collected at the Clarksville Times office. Sixteen hundred pounds of attacked squares and bolls were submitted.
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Clarksville
Tex
Cornelia Weaver
Clarksville Times
Fifty Brass Bands to Welcome Secretary Taft in Oklahoma City
Oklahoma City expects fifty bands for Secretary Taft's August 24 reception with rail rates valid for three days. About 20,000 visitors anticipated. In Dallas on August 12 a civil service exam for clerks and carriers is scheduled for September 11 at the government building.
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Chas. H. Edge
Houston
Texas
Oklahoma City
Taft
Dallas
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la Cie Anne
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