Probate Court in Webb County Reopens Cases
Webb County probate court in regular session again considers estates. The will of Metididia Bos telled is admitted with Leopoldo Villegas named executor. The will of His torio Gutierrez is admitted with Isidora Martinez named executor. Judge Winslow urges all attorneys to present probate business promptly.
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Webb County
Regiar
Sesalot Sany
Bos
Metididia
Leopoldo Villegas
Historio Gutierrez
Isidora Martinez
Winslow
Times
German Chancellor Michaelis Joins American News Scene
Dr George Michaelis former Imperial German Chancellor now in America drew public notice only after 1917 when named special food commissioner. Born in Silesia 1887 son of a Prussian official he became a Tokyo university professor before returning to Germany as Berlin district attorney and rising through imperial government posts. He has not actively pursued politics.
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George Michaelis
America
Germany
von Rothmann- Moliweg
Michaelis
Silesia
University of Tokyo
Berlin
Chronology Snapshots From Early 19th Century History
Entries recall Halidon Hill battle slaughter from English Scots conflict 1351? plus Mid 1800s milestones. Peter Schuyler becomes acting New York governor in 1719. Prussia blocks American ships in 1810. Orville Platt born 1827 and dies 1908. Blanc archbishop Orleans 1860. Irish Crimes act 1887. Russell Alger resigns 1890. Allied Victory March celebrated 1919.
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Halidon Hill
Peter Schuyler
New York
Prussia
Orville H. Platt
United States
Connecticut
Washington, Conn
Anthony Blanc
New Orleans
Russell A. Alger
McKinley
Seabury Hosts Porch Bridge Party For Post Ladies
Mrs. A. H. Seabury of Fort McIntosh will entertain with a porch bridge party this evening to compliment the Post ladies. The WS M Baptist Church Circles hold a regular meeting in the afternoon. The Rosebud Club will meet at 4 o'clock.
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A. H. Seabury
Fort McIntosh
Ws M
Thg Baptist Church
Segular
Rosebud Club
Lullaby and Military News From Fort McIntosh
Mothers' lullaby poem by Katherine Edelman appears with Kansas City Star credit. The rest notes social visits and military personnel from Fort McIntosh including Beyette guests in Aransas Pass and officers preparing travel to California and Mexico City.
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Katherine Edelman
Kansas City Star
Mrs C M Flesh Hosts Summer Monday Tea Series
Mrs Hall and Mrs Cogley named substitutes for the summer Bridge series. Ice course served to Mesdames Christen Johnston Hassell Vidales Derby Biggio Hall Cogley. Mrs Albert Martin hosted a Kitchen Party for Tuesday Bridge Club with Gianias Crudd and aluminum favors. Club prize to Mrs Foster. guest to Mrs Cogley. Mrs Martin led a two course luncheon. Attending were club members Cluck Foster J C Martin Shiner Loyendecker Hamilton Witting Johnston Harry James Vidales and guests Lafon Hassell and Cogley.
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Bigeto
Albert Martin
Tuesday Bridge Club
B. J. Foster
Cogley
Mesdames Cluck
Foster
J. C. Martin
Shiner
T. A. Loyendecker
A. C. Hamilton
Witting
Johnston
Harry James
Vidales
Mesdames Lafon
Hassell
Martin
C. C. Shiner
Train Travel in Romania Amid Crowded War Transport
In Galatz Romania trains are jammed as roving crowds overwhelm conductors who cannot collect fares. War shortages force passengers to ride on roofs bumpers and under tracks. Fist fights accidents and fatalities are common as Germany and Austria confiscate rolling stock.
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Associated Press
Galatz
Rumania
Romania
English fans lukewarm to Dampsey Carpentier rematch
London reports show less enthusiasm in England than France for a proposed return bout between Jack Dampsey and Georges Carpentier. Despite some buzz, financial backers are disappointed by weak public response and critics like Punch dismiss the idea as absurd after the Jersey City fight last July.
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Associated Press
London
England
France
Jack Dampsey
Georges Carpentier
Punch
London Times
Boyle’s
Thirty Acres
Jersey City
Carpentier
Penny Newman’s thrifty dream yields house by the river
Mrs Penny Newman of West Norfolk has died. Over twenty five years she hoarded odd pennies to fund a home of her own. Forty years after marriage she fulfilled the pledge to own a house, purchasing a riverside property with an acre of ground by the River Ouso as a surprise for her husband.
Local personals list brief entries from Saint Anthony area
J. T. LaPrade returned yesterday from San Antonio and is staying at the St. Anthony. Dr. J. A. Wallace of San Ignacio is a guest at the St. Anthony. Roy Campbell collector of customs returned yesterday from ports in his district. W. H. Schwears arrived yesterday from the lower Valley country en route to San Antonio.
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J. T. LaPrade
San Antonio
St. Anthony
J. A. ¥. Wallace
San Ignacio
Roy Campbell
W. H. Schwears
City
Lower Valley
Prevention of Infectious Diseases from Milk and Butter
Nathan Straus of New York addressed the International Congress for the Protection of Women and Children in Paris, praising pasteurization of milk and urging similar treatment for cream used to make butter. He warned that raw milk and dairy products pose dangers to children and called for widespread pasteurization to ensure a safe butter supply.
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Ay Associated Press
Paris
Nathan Straus
New York
International Congress For the Protection of Women and Children
Straus
United States
Mr. Straus
Dr. Schroeder
United States Bureau of Animal Industry
OF INTEREST TO WOMEN IN LONDON AND PARAGUAY
In Paraguay women outnumber men, and London papers employ women reporters and feature writers. A New York clergyman approves rouge within limits. Cambridge’s lone woman wrangler Miss Alice Coote is the Salvation Army Bank cashier’s daughter. Green dominates several fashionable London weddings this season. A Turk’s girl becomes a grown woman at fifteen and must wear the yashmak. London factories pay women workers as little as twenty-two cents for costumes sold for twenty to twenty dollars. Thelma Harell, age 17, has passed Georgia bar exams and is admitted in Savannah. A York shire mill worker toured the world for twelve months, saving enough from ten dollars a week. The term flapper is nearly two centuries old.
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Paraguay
London
Lew
New York
Alice Coote
Cambridge University
Salvation Army Bank
Turkey
Uited States
Thelma Harell
Georgia
Savannah
Miss Harell
Yorkshire
England
Australia
New Zealand
Ceylon
India
Egypt
Train Wreck Near Tulsa Kills Two Officials
Two men died and more than six were injured as a head on crash occurred four miles east of Tulsa involving a passenger train and a freight. Edward Morris of Muskogee, the passenger engineer, and S J Richardson of Parsons Kansas, the freight brakeman, were killed. The freight crew allegedly misread orders and ran on the passenger train schedule.
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Muskogee
Okla
Katy
Tulsa
Edward Morris
S. J. Richardson
Parsons
Kansas
Texas ministers to feed fuel oil shortage amid rail strike
Dallas July 19 officials warn a fuel oil shortage may develop in Texas within a week due to scarce tank cars from the railroad strike. The Southwestern Electrical Coal and Gas Association says Harding's invitation to coal operators will not greatly alter Texas conditions. The Dallas Open Shop Association urges enforcing the open port bill to ease the strike impact.
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Associated Press
Dallas
Texas
Harding
Willis
Southwestern Electrical, Coal and Gas Association
Neff
Dallas Open Shop Association
Franklin County Coal Operators Oppose Harding Plan
West Frankfort Iowa July 19 coal operators in Franklin county the nation’s largest producing county say there is no possibility of resuming coal production under President Harding’s plan. Franklin county is described as the largest coal-producing area of its size in the United States.
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West Frankfort
Franklin County
Ilinois
Harding
United States
Peace talks grow as railroad strike looms in Chicago
The strike risks involve 400000 maintenance workers after labor board steps to curb walkouts. Senator Cummins hosts hearings to clarify the living wage clause. AF of L appeals to all workers to back the railroad shop trades settlement and urges lawful conduct and non participation in struck tasks.
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Labor Board
Cummins
Federation
Chicago
Masked intruders force evacuation of workers at Concord shops
In Concord New Hampshire seven masked men entered the Boston and Maine shops after hours and drove 50 workers from the dormitory. Railroad officials said several workmen were beaten during the clash and ordered to leave town.
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Boston
Boston and Maine
Concord
N. H
Katy claims no strikebreakers brought to Denison
Denison Texas July 19 an official for the Katy line said the road has not brought any strikebreakers to Denison Fifty non union workers who arrived Monday were staff men sent to relieve local staff who had been doing emergency work since the strike began.
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Denison
Texas
Katy
The
Road
Flere
Neff Ordering Rangers to Denison if Strike Escalates
Austin reports that Governor Neff may direct additional rangers to Denison amid the strike. Adjutant General Barton after Greenville conference said Ranger Captain Hickman was instructed to remain in contact with the governor and move his company if ordered.
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Neff
Austin
Tex
Denison
Ministerial crisis seen as inevitable in Rome
In Rome on July 19 parliamentary circles expect an imminent ministerial crisis. Former Premier Giolitti, currently vacationing in France and Belgium, is returning to Rome amid the acute parliamentary situation.
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Rome
Giolitti
France
Belgium
Governors Back Federal Mine Policy Plan
Washington July 19 governors replying to President Harda Ing support the federal policy of an emergency to protect mines. They outlined a plan for cooperating with federal efforts and resuming operations as needed.
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Washington
Harda Ing
President Harding Opposed to General Amnesty
Washington July 19 President Harding reiterated his opposition to general amnesty after a delegation presented a petition for release of all wartime law violators. The remark was made as part of a discussion on clemency and wartime prosecutions.
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Associated Prena
Washington
Harding
Progressives Sweep as Hitchcock and Howell Nominated
Omaha announces the party nominations for U S senator with Senator Gil bert M Hitchcock the Democratic choice and R B Howell the Republican national committeeman the Republican candidate. Howell's apparent primary victory signals a broad Progressive surge in the state.
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Associated Press
Omaha
Neb
Gilbert M. Hitchcock
R. B. Howell
United States
Howell
Baron Shaw sails to address U S and Canada bar associations
Baron Shaw of Dunfermline sails to America to speak to United States and Canada bar associations. A memorial for American World War II chaplains will be placed in Boston's Massachusetts State House Hall of Fame today. Editors from multiple regions gather in Missoula Montana for the 87th annual convention.
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Baron Shaw
Dunfermline
America
United States
Canada
Massachusetts State House
Boston
Missoula
Mont
Theft of Valuable Paintings Reported by Frankfurt Police
Frankfurt police announce a four year old theft of a collection of paintings from a railway carriage on the Brussels to Germany route on November 8 1918. The robbery included a Velasquez portrait two Rubens works a Van Dyck and other old masters valued in marks.
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Berlin
Frankfurt
Second Guards Division
Brussels
Germany
Velasquez
Rubens
Dyck
Relatives Charged in Henry Bond Murder Conspiracy
In Jackson Mississippi on July 19 charges of conspiracy to murder were filed against the wife, Bond’s brother, and two other relatives. Bond, a condemned murderer who killed jailer Russell Harris, was shot by Harris during Bond’s escape attempt on the jail’s third floor.
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Vienna
Hetta Trauberg
Germany
Russia
William
Francis Joseph
Associated Press
Jackson
Miss
Henry Bond
Russell Harris
Bond
Jraal
Harris
Gonad
Starter
Pond
Russia proposes new accord on confiscated property and debt
A Russian delegation at The Hague tabled proposals on compensation for confiscated property and debt settlement. They suggest negotiations with foreign bondholders and delay on credits while all delegations submit to their governments for a week. Non Russian powers agreed to meet later to review the plan.
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Hague
Oil price cut announced in Pennsylvania crude markets
A 25 cent cut in the price of Pennsylvania crude and other grades was announced today. New prices list Pennsylvania at 3.00, Cabell 1.85, Somerset 1.65, Somerset 1.90, Ragland 1.00, with (additional) applicable grades noted.
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Associated Prenes
Pittsburgh
Pennsylvania
Cabell
Somerset
Ragland
Denby Narrowly Escapes Death in Chinese Plane Crash
Secretary Edwin Denby of the US Navy narrowly escaped death in Peking when his plane suffered an engine failure over the Great Wall of China. The aircraft was demolished on landing, but Denby remained unharmed.
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Peking
China
Edwin Denby
Great Wall of
Denby
Sweden Eyes Ten Year Naval Build Plan
A parliamentary commission with navy experts proposes for the Swedish Navy over ten years four fast armored cruisers twelve destroyers six large torpedo boats three mine layers twenty two submarine chasers and several smaller craft. The ships would total 6509 tons and reach speeds of about thirty knots.
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Stockholm
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