Chihuahua Evacuated After Villa Victory In City
General Gonzales said the Carranza garrison evacuated Chihuahua City Monday afternoon as Villa’s forces secured the state. Fears for foreign and American residents rise as Trevino’s reports are scarce and ammunition runs low.
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Victory New Border Menace Looms After Villa Seizure
Washington dispatch reports Villa capturing Chihuahua heightens border tensions. Officials foresee a next Villa strike on Suarez, signaling a prolonged campaign to remove him. Pershing’s expeditionary force likely not withdrawn. Caranza’s influence diminishes amid US-Mexico tensions. In San Antonio the six Americans captured in Chihuahua are safe and en route to Juarez. other foreigners are reported safe as Treviño’s forces retreat toward Officer.
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Promoter Tex Rickard Discusses Willard Bout
A Chicago meeting on November 29 between heavyweight champion Jess Willard and promoter Tex Rickard considered a future title defense. The New Yorker reported plans and said further conferences would continue the next day to finalize a possible match.
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Jexx Willard
Tex Rickard
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Willard Hooke
New Yorker
Rickard
Bank Robbers Loot Hazelton Bank For $20,000
Four men cut telegraph and telephone lines into Hazelton Kansas then forced open the bank safe and escaped with about $20,000. Police seek suspects as town reels from the audacious heist reported from Wellington.
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Hazelton
Kansas
Kentucky Prohibition Drive Aims To Make State Dry
In Louisville on November 29 prominent Prohibitionists launched a campaign to prohibit alcohol statewide, arguing Kentucky dry would extend south of the Ohio River. The movement is led by lawyers business leaders professors and former appellate justices with Dr A J A Alexander of Woodford County as active head and plans to affiliate with the Democratic party.
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Ohio River
State Court of Appeals
A. J. A. Alexander
Woodford County
Democratic Party
Ruth Law Pressed By Advertisers And Offers
Ruth Law, the Chicago to New York aviator, is hounded by telephones in her Hotel McAlpin room as advertisers seek to use her name. A theatrical firm offers a stunt with a motorcycle and she considers a ten week lecture tour of major cities for about $25,000.
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New York
Ruth Law
Chicago
McAlpin
Teutons advance toward Buckharest amid heavy fighting gains
Battlefield updates describe General Von Mackensen’s rapid northward push from the Danube toward the Romanian capital within artillery range. Russian resistance collapses, German and Turkish forces push toward Bucharest, while Somme artillery duels, Carpathian skirmishes, and Macedonian front battles intensify with notable Russian prisoner counts and hill captures.
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Berlin
von Mackensen
Danube
Ben
Campolung
Boers' Ex-President Hlompontief Dies at Congress
South Africa November 29 Martinez to Stuyen report the death of one of the Boers, former president of the Orange Free State, Hlompontief, from heart disease while addressing a Women’s congress. He was 59.
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Hlomponteif
South Africa
Martinez To Stuyen
Orange Free State
Stuken
Players Ready For Tomorrow's Battle
The football game between the high school and the town team is set for 1 20 P M on Thanksgiving, moved from 3 P M. Both sides report they are ready and eager for the fray amid competitive tensions.
Japan Earthquake Shocks Hit Kobe Osaka and Kyoto
Tokyo reports a nationwide earthquake late last night, leveling buildings in Kobe Osaka and Kyoto and causing many injuries as collapsing homes trap residents.
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Kobe
Osaka
Kioto
New Yorkers Plan Statewide Boycott Over Food Prices
New York officials announce a statewide boycott against high food prices. Public appeals will urge residents to abstain from purchases next week as Governor Whitman may issue a proclamation to formalize the action.
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New York
Whitman
Railways Ready to Sell to Government on Fair Terms
A. P. Thom stated before the Newlands committee that many large U S railroads are willing to sell to the government on short notice if the offers are fair. Washington reports this is the first public hint that big carriers favor government control.
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United States
A. P. Thom
Newlands’ Joint Congressional Committee
Thom Wrate
Thanksgiving Day No Independent Issue
There will be no issue of the Independent on Thanksgiving Day as Thursday is a legal holiday. The note states the newspaper will not publish that date.
Housewarming at Johnson Ranch in Elko County
A large northern Elko County housewarming at Emery Johnson’s new six room residence near Gold Creek drew 95 adults and 25 children from North Fork Gold Creek Mountain City Charleston Rowland and others. Dancing dominated the night with continuous refreshments as the old residence hosted guests. The event repeated two servings of supper and attendees called it a most enjoyable, memorable occasion.
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Emery. Johnson
Gold Creek
Mountain City
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Rowland
Nevada road fund distribution totals by county
Nevada State Racing Astork ian reports 14314.71 distributed among counties for road purposes from this year’s meetings. Total mileage 12189.2. Elko County receives 1921.91, largest share, while Storey County shows 25.22 based on 20 miles of county roads.
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Elko
Storey
Arizona Prepares for Prohibition Baby Born Delights Couple
Phoenix dispatch notes an estimated one million dollars worth of liquor shipped into the state in the two weeks before prohibitions take effect on December 4. Dr. V. Moore smiles after a baby boy was born to Mrs Moore yesterday, a moment of joy amid the policy shift.
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Phoenix
Arizona
V. Moore
Clothing Makers Increase Wages in New York
New York announces wage hikes by the American Clothing Manufacturers Companies affecting 32,000 workers, with an estimated 160,000 people benefiting. Other brief items include a court plea by Louis DeLaney, a turkey missing from Fifth and Oak Streets, a deputy county assessor trapped in a vault, and a notice of Guyger’s Osage Opera House performance with a new ornate film program.
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New York
Amerian Clothing Manufacturers
Envelope Company Announces Ten Percent Wage Increase
Springfield Mass November 29 United States Envelope company announces a ten percent wage increase to begin the hth of next month the largest concern of its kind in the world with a large branch house in San Francisco Berlin November 29 employment agencies report strong demand for female labor in Germany women workers seek at least ten cents an hour and many unskilled women replace men drafted for war in leather and metal trades
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Mass
United States Envelope Company
San Francisco
Berlin
Nay
Empire
Germany
Woman Secludes Face for Forty Five Years in West Mentor
Harriet Martindale, aka Mixes, began a vow at twenty to never let a man see her face and has kept it through decades of seclusion. After discovering betrayal by her sister and sister’s husband, she pledged death would end her policy of concealment. Now in old age, she requests no man view her upon death and a friend to prepare her body. Also noted is dry farming expert Hardy W Campbell setting up in Well and offering services to farmers this winter. Nevada State Herald.
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Otto
Harriet Martindale
Miss Martindale
Hardy W. Campbell
Southern Pacific Company
Welle
Campbell
United States
Nevada
Chicago Boycott Lowers Thanksgiving Prices
A spontaneous boycott led by the Women's Civic Club reduced turkey prices in Chicago on November 29, with some drops up to eight cents per pound. Egg prices also fell by two cents per dozen as wholesalers realized the public was not buying turkeys for Thanksgiving.
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Chicago
Women's Civic Club
Emperor William to send gifts to Wilson and pope
Zurich reports in Az Est that Emperor William will gift President Wilson a deluxe set of American authors bound in Berlin and delivered by the submarine Deutschland on its next Atlantic crossing. The pope will receive a highly illustrated Bible bound at royal printing works.
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Wilson
Royal Printing Works
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Budapest
Az Est
Deutschland
United States
Atlantic
Pope Bonmud
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