Revolutionaries Prepare Frontline Clash in Jalisco Region
War Department officials report 8,000 de la Huerta troops concentrating at La Piedad Michoacan facing 12,000 Obregon federal forces advancing from San Marcos. Enrique Estrada and Generals Buelna Salas Dieguez lead the revolutionists while General Joaquin Amaro commands federal troops. Obregon’s departure for Penjamo is announced as fighting intensifies and an uprising in Coahuila is quashed.
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Mexico City
Ft. Worth
Rafael Buelna
Gustavos Salas
Manuel Dieguez
War Department
Joaquin Amaro
Obregon
Penjamo
Jalisco
San Pedro de Las Colonias
Coahuila
Giberto Sifuentes
Sifuentes
Morelia
Michoacan
Puente de Ixtela
Morelos
Romulo Figueroa
Guerrero
Bunau Varilla urges one level waterway for future canal
Lt Col Philippe Bunau Varilla arrived in New York to push replacing the Panama Canal with a one level straits waterway. He will speak in Cincinnati before the Commercial Club about the need to remove locks and dams, arguing a $1 billion project would not burden the U.S. treasury and would not disrupt traffic. He cites 1923 Panama tonnage of 24 million and predicts vast growth and new transport modes including air mail and freight by lighter rails.
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New York
Phillipe Bunau-Varilla
de Lesseps
Panama Canal
Paris
Pacific
Cincinnati
Commercial Club
Suez Canal
United States
American Missionary Hoff Dies After Chinese Bandit Raid
American missionary Professor Beinhard Hoff died in a Hupeh hospital from bandit wounds after a raid on Tsao Yang. His wife was wounded. fellow missionary Mrs. Ina Kilen was abducted and later offered to be taken in her stead. A $10,000 reward was issued for Mrs. Kilen’s rescue.
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Theat
Peking
Beinhard Hoff
Siang Fung Yu
Hupeh Province
Cabs
Ina Kilen
Northacia
Minn
Tsao Yang
Kilen
Juchow
Henan
Professor Hoff
Luthern Church
United States
Hoffs
Professor
Dawes to Address Reparations Experts First Session in Paris
In Paris the reparations experts meet at 11 am to study German resources and balance the budget. Louis Barthou will welcome American British French Italian and Belgian delegates as General Dawes prepares the opening address outlining American guidance for the panel. The sessions will be at the Hotel Astoria with subsequent deliberations at the American Passport Bureau.
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Associated Press
Paris
Reparations Commission
Germany
Louis Barthou
America
Washington
Charles G. Dawes
Owen D. Young
James A. Logan
Dawes
M. Barthou
Reparation Commission
Committee of Experts
Hotel Astoria
Commission
American Passport Bureau
Democrats in Labyrinth as Names Push Fore Candidates
Democratic leaders at the National Committee meeting discuss a Presidential nominee with McAdoo, Underwood, and others prominent. William J. Bryan names Dr. A. A. Murphee of Gainesville Florida, as candidates seek a convention city and broad support amid party factions.
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Bryan
Dr. Murphee
Florida
Washington
National Committee
William G. McAdoo
Underwood
Alabama
New York
al. Smith
Charles F. Murphy
Norman E. Mack
William J. Bryan
A. A
Coolidge
McAdoo
Cummings
Democratic Party
Japan to enact land law in retaliation against California ruling
Tokyo reports say Japan will pass a reciprocal land ownership law granting foreigners the right to own land if their governments grant the same to Japanese. The bill would replace the 1910 measure not put in force and may distinguish by state or nation. The Diet act could be introduced in February as a government reply to U S California actions.
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Tokyo
Japan
United States Supreme Court
California
Ito
Diet
California land law bars aliens from farming land rights
California law restricts ownership and leasing of agricultural lands to citizens, explicitly excluding aliens including Japanese from owning land or entering crop sharing agreements.
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California
Honor Foster on sixtieth death anniversary in Pittsburgh
The city marked the sixtieth anniversary of Stephen C. Foster's death with songs from The Old Folks at Home Old Kentucky Home and Old Black Joe. Carnegie Hall hosted a Foster program with Charles Heinroth on the piano once used by Foster. Visitors also braved a snowstorm to see the composer's boyhood home.
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Pittsburgh
Kentucky
Joe
Stephen C. Foster
Carnegie Hall
Foster
Charles Heinroth
Foster Homestead
Senate Rules Fight Shapes Tax and Nitrate Debates This Week
The week brings a Rules Committee report on discharge petitions and the Underwood rule, with Democrats seeking repeal and insurgents backing new amendments. The Ways and Means Committee starts hearings on the Mellon tax bill while Muscle Shoals and Russian recognition top congressional agenda.
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Washington
House
Gillett
Rules Committee
Insurgents
Rules
Ways and Means Committee
Treasury Secretary
Longworth
Green
Sothers
Senate Interstate Commerce Committee
Cummins
Rep
Iowa
Cummings
Senate
Congress
House Military Committee
Ford
Tennessee River
Senate Foreign Relations
Double Slayers Of Five Die In Oklahoma Electric Chair
Jack Pope and Aaron Harvey, confessors of five murders, were executed at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary just after midnight. Pope died at 12 14 and Harvey at 12 25 after a 21 minute procedure. Harvey sobbed softly as he was strapped in and insisted his chaplain hold his hand. Pope faced death calmly. The victims included Pope’s wife, her parents, and two children. Harvey wore a black shirt and red necktie instead of the usual white shirt.
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Mcalester
Okla
Jack Pope
Aaron Harvey
State Penitentiary
Pope
Harvey
One killed as police raid Berlin Communists meeting
Berlin on January 13 reports a meeting of the organized Communists of Hamburg to honor Karl Liebknecht. The demonstration leader Herr Urbahng was arrested triggering rioting and police fired, killing one and wounding two others.
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Berlin
Hamburg
Karl Liebknecht
Herr Urbahng
Woman’s Disappearance Ends With Grim Farmyard Find
The body of 70 year old Mrs Katherine Mohler was found in an abandoned cistern near Bluffton Ohio. Her husband 78 year old William Mohler was jailed for questioning as officials plan a murder charge. The head arms and legs were found separated and buried with the torso. A $500 reward spurred searchers who uncovered the grisly scene in a shed cistern beneath ashes and corn fodder.
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Mohler
Fostoria
Samuel Gratz
Lima
Mahler
J. Earle Miller
Lima Republican Gazette
Roy Bowersock
Youth Held for Questioning in Death of Tiffin Girl
In Tiffin Ohio a 21 year old youth is being questioned after Ruth Myers an eighteen year old girl died following an accusation that she had been taken to a Toledo physician for an illegal operation. The youth a business college student was arrested at Toledo's request and has not spoken.
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Tiffin
Ruth Myers
Toledo
Miss Myers
Shylock Bores The Merchant of Venice Tale On Broadway
An arriving actor reports a Cincinnati figure bored during David Warfield in The Merchant of Venice on Broadway. The Well Known Character and a friend sat in seats, yawned through Act 1, whispered and left at curtain rise after冷. He quipped the actor seemed set to play Sherlock Holmes, prompting their exit to avoid the embarrassment.
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Metropolis
Cincinnati
David Warfield
W.E. C
Sherlock Holmes
Lincoln Infernal Jekyll Hyde Pattern Alarmed Town
Chicago January reports on Warren J Lincoln reveal a pattern described by AP dispatches as a split personality man hiding a brutal resolve. Police traced disappearances of Lincoln wife and brother in law and noted blood stained clothing near his home.
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Chicago
Warren J. Lincoln
Lincoln
Pulaski
Aurora Dispatch
Aurora
Warren
the Dispatch
Dr. Jekyll
Mr. Hyde
Edward
Shoup
Illinois
Kansas
Three Oberammergau villagers visit Cincinnati for wood carving exhibit
Anton Lang and brothers Andreas Lang and Guido Mayr, Passion Play performers, arrive in Cincinnati for a five day exhibit tour at Music Hall starting Tuesday. They describe their village Oberammergau's economic struggles and their goal to find new markets to sustain the village and the play.
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Oberammergau
Anton Lang
Andreas
Guido Mayr
Christus
St. Peter
Judas Iscariot
Cincinnati
Music Hall
Germany
Anton
Christ
Linton Hotel
Mr. Mayr
Guido
Aberammergau
Nearly Meets Death To See Tempting Possum at Cincinnati Zoo
Embry Harris eight years old from 710 West Seventh Street was found by police huddled near the Cincinnati Zoo ticket office in the early morning cold. He said he wanted to see a possum after gates had closed and was taken to the Children's Home while authorities searched for his parents.
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Embry Harris
West Seventh Street
Cincinnati Zoo
Zoo
Butler's War on Vice Quietens Quaker City Weekend
Brigadier General Smedley D. Butler, Philadelphia's new Public Safety Director, drives a vice crackdown that yields a crime light weekend with no reported hold-ups or robberies. Arrests for drunkenness drop and about 100 raids yield 125 arrests and 50 stills seized.
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Butler
Quaker City
New York
Philadelphia
Smedley D. Butler
City
Congress
Thomass. Butler
West Chester
General Butler
Funeral rites for Murray Eisfelder at family home
Murray Eisfelder investment banker, 52, died at his home 3996 Alaska Avenue after sudden heart disease. Funeral services will be held at 3 pm this afternoon at the family residence with Rabbi James Heller officiating, burial in United Jewish Cemetery. He was born and lived in the city.
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Murray Eisfelder
Alaska Avenue
James Heller
Plum Street Temple
United Jewish Cemetery
Bhisfelder
Ingalls Building
Eisfelder
J. Victor Greenebaum
South Crescent Avenue
Greenebaum
Mr.Eisfelder
Theatrical Reviews Headed to Page Twelve
The notice indicates that theatrical reviews can be found on page 12 of the paper. It directs readers to consult that page for critique and analysis of current productions.
Lincoln confesses wife killed her brother and he disposed bodies
Warren J. Lincoln a Chicago area lawyer and distant Lincoln relative admits killing his wife after she shot her brother Byron Shoup in Aurora Illinois in 1923. He says he struck his wife with a stove poker and burned the bodies in a greenhouse furnace then planned his disappearance. Lincoln faces charges of swindling his brother in law and obtaining money under false pretenses.
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Aurora
Warren J. Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln
Byron Shoup
Lincoln
Chicago
John Shoup
Ill
J. Bruce Amell
Byron
Brother
Cutti
Shoup
Edward
Warren Lincoln
Linco
Amell
Kane County
Inae
Eee
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