Dr William Wallace Campbell to Lead University of California
Dr William Wallace Campbell, named to become president of the University of California, has led Lick Observatory since 1910. He taught astronomy at Michigan and mathematics at Colorado, and directed eclipse expeditions worldwide. He authored papers on comets and eclipses and has held several science society honors.
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Mount Hamilton
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University of Michigan
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India
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Russia
South Pacific
American Association For the Advancemment
Sceatree
Citation by Publication in Webb County Court Case
The State of Texas directs sheriffs to publish this citation for Maria Naranjo and co defendants in Webb County. The notice seeks appearance at the next regular term of the district court and a judgment for land rent and possession of Lots 4 5 6 7 8 9 and Block 72 in the Eastern Division of Laredo, Webb County.
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Francisca Naranjo
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Ko HB. Eaton
Geeble-Hab
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Lareite
Mboreh
Mareh
Maria Naranio
Webh
Co of Laredo
C. M. de la Garza
Laredo
Pexas
A. D
Autoists Warned On Deadly Carbon Monoxide Gas
A health bulletin to automobile owners warns that carbon monoxide is as deadly as chlorine and mustard gases. Dr Francis Francesa notes motorists ignore gas dangers unlike steel workers and cautions against rich gasoline mixtures in small garages with glowing doors to avoid CO poisoning.
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Associated Press
Buffalo
Francis BE. Francesa
Wronczak
Society notes from Violet S Oberfeldt column
Violet S Oberfeldt, society editor, reports on social happenings and appointments in the community. Details are sparse in this fragment but indicate coverage of local parties and notable visitor arrivals.
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Mra
Violet S. Oberfeldt
Telephone No
Parish Guild and clubs meet this week in social calendar
The social column lists Wednesday and Thursday gatherings hosted by Mrs. F W Lusk Mrs H Johnston and Mrs J B Bradford with 3 to 3 30 pm start times A fireside homelike verse and notices of visitors and upcoming meetings fill the page including Pan American Club Venezuela program at the Hamilton Hotel and remarks from Mrs C S McKinney plus Mrs Lobdell on South American topics
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H. Johnston
Ladies Aid Society of the Christian Church
Bradford
Hamilton Hotel
C. S. McKinney
Fm. Lobdell
Venezuela
Lula Bryant
Lowry
Junior Auxiliary Meeting and Beaver Life Story Reading
Mrs Hal Greer and Mrs Robert McComb, longtime Laredo residents, attended a four course luncheon with ferna and scarlet geranium decorations. The Junior Auxiliary met after a vacation, pasted pictures for yimble pictures, made marble bags and doll articles, then a church service followed by Mrs Cook reading People of the Streams about beaver life. Attendees included Fasnacht Nye Ernst Vidales Johnston Creen Mansur Poster Anderson Sielski Spindle Lane Kehl Cook and Mrs CG W Cook.
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Hal Greer
Beatmont
Robert McComb
California
Laredo
Teresa
Faward
James Fasnacht
Elizabeth
Charline
Miles Nye
Leonard Ernst
Olivia Vidales
Harry
Mary Katherine Johnston
Gladys Creenstreet
Margaret Mansur
Ethel
Alta Gracia Poster
Mary Anderson
Mary Yfrnestine Sielski
Pearl
Mole Spindle
Ethel Lane
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David Kehl
Ralph
Mary Cook
Mra
CG. W. Cook
Betancourt Takes Post in Mexico City for Local Firm
Jorce Betancourt departed yesterday for Mexico City to assume leadership of the Cia Ferretera del Rio Bravo offices in this city. Judge G A Welhausen of Encininal visits locally.
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City of
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CIA
Ferretera del Rio Bravo
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Enecinal
Battle with smugglers near Brackettville leaves two dead
Austin reports in Kinney county near Brackettville two Mexicans were killed and one captured after a night battle between rangers customs officers and smugglers. Authorities seized 260 quarts of liquor.
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Austin
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Brackettecill
Kinney County
Ranger
Congress to broaden powers of debt commission in war debts
Washington on January 10 Congress will likely be asked within a week to expand the authority of the American debt commission to handle all war debts owed to the United States Senator Smoot the senate representative on the commission told the senate finance committee
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Associated Press
Washington
Congress
American Debt Commission
United States
Smoot
Senate
Senate Finance Committee
Indians Condemned in Lucknow Riot Cases Report
Associated Press dispatch from London states Lucknow reports that 172 murder and arson cases have received death sentences due to the February Coawai Charra riot during the peace operation. Seventeen native police were killed in the riots.
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London
Artviews
Lucknow
Coawai Chara
Rotinez
Aven Death Sentence Affirmed in Poison Murder Case
The court of criminal appeals affirmed the death sentence for W. F. Aven of Mc Leenan County for the murder of his wife on July 3, 1921. Aven allegedly poisoned his wife by administering poison in medicine.
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Associated Press
Austin
Texas
W. F. Aven
McLeenan County
Court of Criminal Appeals
Aven
Road Builders Convention Opens Show With Federals On Agenda
Chicago heats up for the American Road Builders Association and American Good Roads Congress with January 15 to 19 sessions. Topics include highway finance federal aid to states transportation and road problems. Exhibits feature the National Good Roads Show and Trade Industry displays plus cement and highway machinery. Governors and Canadian officials invited to send delegates. A federal bureau of roads exhibit showcases equipment processes and department divisions.
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Chicago
American Road Builders’ Association
American Good Roads Congress
Federal Bureau of Roads
Federal Bureau
REMOVE GRAVEYARDS
Yokto January 10 graveyards on the city outskirts will be removed to beautify the town and aid the municipal reconstruction plan. Buddhist priests oppose the scheme urging graveyards remain within temple precincts.
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Associated Press
Yokto
Wireless policy insures radio operators in Britain
London Jan 10 The latest insurance novelty in Britain is the wireless policy It protects operators amateur or professional against damage to their apparatus covers personal injury to the operator and damage to third party property
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London
Britain
Prince Regent to adopt plain living in cost saving drive
The Prince Regent plans to abandon luxury post marriage and adopt a plain foreign style of living. Officials say the Imperial Household will be modernized and Japan ese upper class households have balanced foreign and Japanese living, previously expensive.
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Associated Press
Okio
Girl Testifies to Forced Departure and Abduction
Witness testifies that a girl aged 17 was coerced from her home near Mer Flomges and boarded a train to Little Rock. She identifies Watt Fandel and Thomas Richards as involved, along with two accomplices from a Pratt family. The incident occurred at night near her mother’s home.
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U S Troops Ordered Withdrawn From Rhine
News from Cobling reports that President Harding ordered the recall of American troops from the Rhine with the war department to wind up deployment. Major General Atten must confirm return arrangements as officers prepare to bring home detachments and close the final withdrawal. The Paris AP despatch sparked excitement among soldiers.
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Associated Press
Campaign for Christian education outlined by Dr Clark
Dr Elmer T Clark of Nashville outlined a nationwide drive for Christian education. Twenty boards of education from major Protestant denominations plan participation. Direct circulation of religious literature was urged as the best method to advance the cause.
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Associated Press
Chicago
America
Elmer ‘T. Clark
Nashville
Tenn
Association of America
Council of Church Boards of Education
Clark
OF INTEREST TO WOMEN
A survey of women's status across nations notes the Prussian parliament has forty women members and Dutch universities opened to women in 1871. It mentions Miss van Dorp as Holland’s first woman law student and Pola Negri’s rise from a Berlin shop girl to fame. The piece also covers girls’ growth, actresses, and differing health trends between genders.
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China
Mme
Sarah Bernhardt
Miss van Dorp
Endal
London
Pola Negri
Berlin
Mile
Rachel
Mme. Bernhardt
German Princess Engaged to School Teacher in Bavaria
In Bartenstein Wuerttemberg on January 9, Herr Waldenmaier a school teacher is engaged to Princess Maria Rosa aged 19. The couple travel to Salzburg with her mother to seek consent from the Grandduchess of Tuscany, grandmother of the princess.
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Associated Press
Bartenstein
Wuerttemberg
Jan
Germany
Herr Waldenmaier
Maria Rosa
Hohenlohe-Bartenstein
Austria
Tuscany
Salzburg
Manitoba Legislature Sets First Session Under Progressive Party
Winnipeg January 10 The Manitoba legislature will convene tomorrow for its first session since the new Progressive Party took power under Premier John Bracken. Education, the Public Utilities Commission, a $50000 bribery allegation, police reorganization and tax issues are expected to be discussed.
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Winnipeg
Man
Manitoba
Progressive Party
John Bracken
Public Utilities Commission
R. W. Craig
Manioba
Recall demanded for Roland Boyden on reparations commission
Washington January 10 Senator Reed of Missouri demanded the recall of Roland Boyden who serves as the unofficial American representative on the reparations commission.
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Associated Press
Washington
Roland Boyden
Senator Reed
Missouri
Girton College Marks Semicentennial Glimpse
England’s Girton College celebrates its semicentennial this year as a premier institution for higher education of women. The milestone reflects its long-standing role in advancing women in academia and society.
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Girton College
England
Workers Quit Service in Philippine Government Careers
In Manila and across the Philippines a wave of resignations marks a long career era as Frank W. Carpenter after twenty five years in various U.S. and Philippine government posts steps down. Henry W. Banton, noted executive secretary to Mindanao and Sulu’s governor and head of the Bureau of Non Christian Tribes, is reported killed in the Impresion crisis during ongoing governance and finance reorganization efforts.
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Uld
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Pele
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Philippine
France moves to seize Ruhr under reparations plan
Paris announces formal step to seize Ruhr district and impose controls after Germany defaults. Premier informs Berlin of measures to apply penalties while Belgian and Dutch troops prepare cooperation as 1,800 Belgians march toward Aachen and press reports say nine divisions may join the Ruhr operation.
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Perix
Jiuhe
Germany
Boimcare
Devontte
Essen
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French Rhine Flotilla Readied on Mayence Route
French flotilla positioned at Mayence with vessels bound for Dieseldorf RuLiort Wisbury as of tonight. Unclear details mention Molanes in fragmentary notes about the Rhine theater.
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Mayence
Dieseldorf
Ruliort
Wisbury
Molanes
Law Ruling Declares State Authority Unconstitutional
A court finds that the constitution blocks delegating authority to any official. The decision challenges how state power is allocated and underscores limits on government action under constitutional provisions.
Five Miners Die in Dolomite Mine Explosion
Five miners perished in a gas explosion at Dolomite mine No 1 of the Woodward Tron Co near here. Four were black and one white, IE W Lewis. They entered despite warnings posted to stay out, and rescue teams found them after the blast.
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Britainehaim
Ada
Woodward Tron Company
Here
IE. W. Lewis
Gar
Used Cars Forum Set For National Dealers Meeting
A three day forum on used car merchandising will open January 27 in Chicago with main speakers Capo Garber of Saginaw L St Saunders of Boston and W Pitt Barnes of Cleveland. The National Automobile Dealers Association convention will discuss economies, handling from a nonassociation angle and buying and resale pricing.
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National Automobile Deters’ Association
Cavos
Garber
Turkey Accepts Clauses on Civil Functions and Hostages
Ismet Pasha stated Turkey agreed to conditions including removal from civil duties, restitution of civil hostages, exchange of prisoners, and settlement of Greek and Yorkish minority issues, as talks in the Near East continued.
Senate Debates Call for Texas Constitutional Convention
A resolution to call a Constitutional convention to revise the Texas constitution was introduced in the Senate by Senator Doyle. The measure requests one member from each house and retention of the homestead exemption, with Governor Perry given ceremonial duties if approved. Attorney General Heffner spoke as bills were read, and allies pressed for changes including a substitute treasurer and a penitentiary manager appointment.
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Tesas
Janu.la
Senate
Doyle
Tesene County
Disreto
Jaina
Percusonu
coYoner
F. Heoto
Tarraer
Anefin Texas Bills Tie Up House Session
In Anefin Texas on January 4 about 14 Hills members aligned with the clerk of the house on a slate of measures. One proposes an emergency appropriation of 4,4090,000 for public works and street improvements. Other provisions cover tax relief, land acquisition for a road and warehouse division, and reorganization under the agriculture commissioner.
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Anefin
Texas
Ties
Wetelit
Fle. Costrel
Commissioner of Agriculture
Judiciary committee reports on impeachment charges against Daugherty
The House Judiciary Committee submitted its report on the impeachment charges against Attorney General Daugherty. The report notes a resolution yesterday dismissing the charges as unsupported and asserts Congress can arrest Keller until he testifies, but it does not recommend action against Keller.
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Washington
House
Judiciary Committee
Daugherty
Volstead
Representative Keller
Keller
Carving in Coal by a Yorkshire Hobbyist
A Yorkshire man claims to have sold coal carvings at higher prices than any living maker. Thirty years ago he carved a lump of coal into a book shape, and his demand grew. He now carves small ebony-like models, fetching up to ten dollars for an ounce piece and has made figures for Queen Victoria and other notable figures.
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Queen Victoria
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Lloyd George
Lord Kitchener
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