Strong Note to Mexico Demands Jenkins Release
The United States delivers a sharp note to Mexico City demanding the immediate release of William Jenkins the American consular agent imprisoned at Puebla. Carranza is accused of indifference and the note rejects excuses and irrelevant matters. Secretary Lansing and House foreign affairs chair Porter say the U S shows it means business to prevent anti American sentiment and Monroe Doctrine violations.
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Washington
Mexico
Mexico City
William O. Jenkins
Ime
Puebla
Carranza
Jastic
United States
Jenkins
Stnys
Cevil
Lansing
Porter
House Foreign Affairs Committee
State Department
Lynching Near Macon Leaves Negro Hanged After Shooting Farmer's Son
An unidentified Black man was lynched near Macon after wounding Hansel Rosier Jr. The mob acted quietly and the body was found hanging from a tree near a church. Rosier Jr. is expected to recover.
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Macon
Hansel Rosier, Jr
Rosler
North Dakota Ratifies Federal Suffrage Amendment
North Dakota becomes the twentieth state to ratify the federal suffrage amendment as the House approves the resolution after Senate passage. A certified copy will be sent to Washington immediately.
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Bramarck
N. D
North Dakota
House
Senate
Washington
Avenge Death of Angeles Fight Near Chihuahua
In El Paso Dr. L M Gomes reports that 1 000 Villa troops attacked the Eightieth federal regiment at Rancho Espaja north of Santa Rosa illa Chihuahua. The firing squad killed Chapultepec officers and massacred all but two of the unit.
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el Paso
Texas
Melipe Angeles
Francisco Villa
Rancho Espaja
Santa Rosalia
Chihuahua
L. M. Gomes
France
Congress Seeks Details on Siberian Troop Deployment
Representative Rhodes asks the State Department for how long American soldiers will stay in Siberia and whether Japan has defined its policy. He requests data on the strength of British French Italian and Japanese forces in Siberia and whether any select service men are among the American troops there.
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Washington
Siberia
State Department
Rhodes
Republican
Missouri
Japan
Siberian
Governors Seek Broad Coal Output Plan At Chicago Conference
Seven state governors urged the federal government to create a complete fuel administration with a state administrator for each state. They pressed for all possible measures to boost coal production and for equitable, uniform distribution of coal across states.
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Chicago
Washington clash ends coal talks with no agreement
In a heated, hourlong clash Governor Garfield’s 14 percent wage rise was rejected by miners and operators. The central dispute faced Judge Anderson’s injunction and wartime controls as both sides left the room without a settlement.
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Western
Union News Service
Washington
Garfield
John L. Lewis
Anderson
William Green
Wilson
Hunger Strike Stalls Deportation Hearings at Ellis Island
More than sixty radicals awaiting Ellis Island deportation hearings staged a two hour hunger strike after demanding the removal of a visitor wire screen. They refused an invitation to the dining hall breakfast menu included prunes oatmeal bread with margarine and coffee.
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New York
Ellis Island
House Immigration Committee
Star Opera Company Faces Bankruptcy in New York
An involuntary bankruptcy petition was filed against the Star Opera Company which aimed to present German opera in New York. Liabilities are about 25000 dollars with assets around 2500 dollars. Performances were halted by an injunction after near a week of rioting. The petition stems from three singers suing for salaries.
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New York
Star Opera Company
Socialist Lecturer Escort Shines Spotlight on Prosser Incident
Walter Mills, a Socialist lecturer and writer, spoke at a grange hall near Prosser Wash. After an unsuccessful attempt to speak in town, a group of former servicemen drove him twenty miles away. He walked to Kiona, hired a car, and returned to the vicinity.
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Prosser
Wash
Walter ‘Thomas Mills
Kiona
Yaquis Ambush Mexican Forces Near Sonora Border
Advices to Francis J. Dyer, American consul at Nogales Sonora, report Yaqui Indians ambushed Mexican troops at Onavas south of Tonlechi on the Yaqui river near the eastern Sonora border. About two hundred soldiers and several high officers of the Mexican federal army were killed.
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Nogales, Ariz
Onavas
Tonlechi
Yaqua River
Sonora
Francis J. Dyer
Nogales
Miners Rescued Alive After Two Weeks entombment
Miners P. P. Grant and Emil Satko were rescued alive from the Gold Hunter mine at Mullan Idaho after being entrapped by a earth slide since Saturday morning November 15. The two workers survived for fourteen days before extraction.
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Wallace
Idaho
Mullan
P. P. Grant
Emil Satko
Sale of Formulas Prohibited in Washington
The Bureau of Internal Revenue bans selling formulas for making intoxicating liquor at home. Firms selling such formulas face prosecution under federal law, with penalties up to $10,000 fine and up to one year imprisonment or both.
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Washington
Bureau of Internal Revenue
Internal Revenue Bureau
Violence Escalates as Americans Die in Mexico
Near Washington on November 29 reports indicate a second American killed in Mexico amid turmoil surrounding Consular Agent Jenkins imprisonment and Carranza’s flight. The Gulf Refining Company’s James Wallace also died after brutality by a Carranza soldier near Tampico.
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Washington
Mexico
Jenkins
Mexico City
Carranza
Queretaro
James Wallace
Tampico
Wallace
W. M. Wallace
Gulf Refining Company
Jim
Bonillas
Puebla
Lansing
Otto Lund
Mayark
Plot Murder of Greek Premier Uncovered in Athens
Greek authorities disclose a plot to assassinate Premier Vensselos and topple the monarchy. Dozens of arrests have followed as investigators pursue presumed conspirators.
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Athens
Premiser Vensselos
Fear Anarchy In Turkey Aims At Peace Talks
Appeals from the Sublime Porte urge early arrangements for negotiating a peace treaty at Paris. Fear Turkey may fall into anarchy with no responsible government to meet allies. The grand vizier also urges districts to prepare elections so a parliament can meet and discuss peace terms.
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Constantinople
Sublime Porte
Paris
Turkey
Allies urged to avert Adriatic war over Fiume crisis
Telegrams from Berne say Belgrade Zara and Spain urge prompt Allied intervention as Jugo Slavs grow impatient and threaten action against Italy. Belgrade papers denounce continued persecutions while reports claim terror in Zara and clothing brassards reading Italy or death. News from Paris and Washington notes alert over d Annunzio’s acts and Dalmatia aim.
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Union News Service
Geneva
Berne
Belgrade
Zara
Spain
d'Annunzio
Italy
Jugo-Slavia
Million Dollar Baltimore Fire Destroys Johns Hopkins Buildings
A massive blaze in Baltimore Maryland caused by high winds swept through McCoy's hall and spread across the square bounded by Howard Ross Monument and Eutaw streets. Embers reached Lexington market roofs and department stores while staff fought fires to prevent spread.
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Baltimore
McCoy's Hall
Johns Hopkins University
Howard, Ross, Monument
Eutaw Streets
Lexington Market
Salt River Flood Threatens Phoenix Area Bridges
Flood waters from Salt and Agua Fria rivers sweep through Phoenix after heavy rain. Salt River at flood stage rises a foot an hour past Central Avenue bridge where deputies guard crossings.
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Salt
Phoenix
Ariz
Agua Fria
City
Steels
Central Avenue
Government Warns Miners and Operators Over Coal Production
The Department of Justice served blunt notice that interference with coal production would not be tolerated. Legal action would thwart conspiracies by either side and troops could be deployed to protect miners after cabinet deliberations on the fuel crisis amid a breakdown in negotiations.
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Washington
Department of Justice
Strike Ends for Kansas City Railway Switchmen
The Kansas City switchmen strike, begun Saturday, was called off after a mass meeting vote lasting late at night. Workers returned to their posts this morning, easing a fuel famine amid coal miners’ stoppage. National officials had termed the action unauthorized, but a delegation announced the return to work at the Terminal Company manager’s office.
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Kansas City
Brotherhood of Railway
W. M. Corbett
Kansas City Terminal Company
Wind and Storm Fatalities Sweep Central Plains to Midwest
A violent storm system moving from northwest Arkansas across the central valleys and southern Great Lakes left at least eight dead and hundreds injured. Winds up to eighty mph in Detroit felled trees and unroofed homes, with two deaths in Indianapolis from electrocution and a man blown from a ladder. Communication nearly paralyzed in northern Arkansas and parts of Missouri and Kansas amid sleet, snow, and rain. Five killed in southern Michigan amid widespread damage.
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Chicago
Arkansas
Lake Region
Missouri
Kansas
Detroit
Michigan
Indianapolis
Relief Administration to Return Most of Europe Aid Funds
The American Relief Administration will return about 88 750 000 of the 100 000 000 appropriated by Congress for relief in Europe. The repayment will come as treasury notes from European governments that shared in the relief effort. The remaining funds financed supplies donated on a charitable basis with no reimbursement.
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New York
American Relief Administration
United States
Congress
Europe
Herbert Hoover
Treasury
Prohibit Liquor Profiteering in New Orleans
Department of Justice officials investigated saloon profiteering in liquor sales in New Orleans. District Attorney Mooney reported dealers charging 40 to 76 cents per drink for high grade liquors. He stated he would not permit profiteering in toxicants following Judge Foster's wartime prohibition act ruling.
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New Orleans
Department of Justice
Mooney
Foster
Government to Take Over Madrid Bakeries
Madrid government will operate all city bakeries to end the bread shortage caused by the bakers strike. Strikers will be paid the wages they demanded, starting immediately.
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Madrid
Fire destroys Chandler cotton gin in Arizona blaze
Fire of unknown origin totally destroyed the Chandler gin of the Chandler Southwest Cotton Company a Goodyear Rubber subsidiary in Chandler Arizona. Loss estimated at 80000 dollars. Several hundred bales of ginned cotton stored nearby were undamaged.
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Chandler, Ariz
Southwest Cotton Company
Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company
Germany May Not Pay War Reparation Demand
Berlin reports authoritative quarters say Germany will not comply with the Entente demand for 400000 tons of docks dredges and tugs as offset for warships sunk at Sapa Flow.
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Germany
Berlin
Sapa Flow
Women Acquire Roosevelt Birthplace in New York
The Theodore Roosevelt birthplace on 28 West Twentieth Street has been paid off debt free by the Woman's Roosevelt Memorial Association. Mrs. A Barton Hepburn, treasurer, sent $26 648 to clear the mortgage. The group will restore the building as Roosevelt House a national center of Americanism.
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New York
Theodore Roosevelt
Woman's Roosevelt Memorial Association
A. Barton Hepburn
West Twentieth Street
Roosevelt House
The Joy of Motherhood in Ellensburg Washington
A patient recalls relief from long illness after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. The testimonial describes improved health and renewed energy for daily chores and childbearing. It urges women to seek private advice from the Pinkham company and to not give up on the remedy.
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Ellensburg
Wasth
Lydia E. Pinkham
Boone
Lydia
Sa Aie R
Wash
Pinkham
Pinkham Medicine Co
Mr. Knight
Dean
Thomas Rae
St. East St. Louis
Mrr. Knight
Doan
A. M. Bogmann
Notary Public
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Angeles
Lewis
United Mine Workers
RED Cross
Onorio Ruotolo
U. S
Balkan States
Fiume
Gabrielle d’Annunzio
Dalmatia
8. Y. Groulich
Adriatic
Jugo-Slav Bureau
London
Ralda
Western Newspaper
Roosevelt Birthplace
Bayer
Ady
Fletcher
Hall
Gil Poruawists
J. Cheney & Co
Toledo
Ohio
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