Yank Troops Kill 60 Villa Rebels In Mexican Campaign
American troops pursuing Villa rebels near Juarez engaged in a daylong operation. About 50 Villa fighters were killed, with prisoners and horses captured. Corporal Chigas of the Seventh Cavalry was shot through the lung. Rebels scattered then pursued across the mesa toward the river.
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el Paso
Tex
Villa
Juarez
Fort Bliss
Fifth Cavalry
James B. Erwin
Cabell
Seventh Cavalry
Chigas
Eighty-second Artillery
Rio Grande
Isleta
Villa Eamp
Iowa state news items mix of deaths, projects and sport
An operation for tonsils proved fatal for Byron Vincent a Shenandoah farmer. Jewell Lutheran college will reopen this fall with H A Ock dale as president. Mr and Mrs A L Patt celebrate their fifty eighth wedding anniversary in Des Moines. Des Moines hosts United Commercial Travelers convention with delegates from across Iowa. New Des Moines hotels TajMedi Fort Des Moines and New Savery Oimsted announce openings mid and late summer. Clift on and Rollins Olsen buy an airplane for passenger service within Iowa. Dr Cora Allen returns from overseas Red Cross work in France. Sheriff Ruhl takes Frank Ake to Anamosa Reformatory for ten year larceny sentence. Exemption request denial for Anton Themp neutral subject from Switzerland. Davenport hosts Community Welfare league liberty loan activists. E G McNeal locates his Belgian relief daughter in an Omaha hotel. A young man near Osage injured by lightning after team collision. possible loss of sight. Charles Groves sells Pilottown deer farm acreage for 210 per acre totaling 190500. Spanish American War Veterans oppose League of Nations at Cedar Rapids. Dubuque college expansion building approved costing about 100000 south of gym. Ed Short sells 338 acre farm near Laverne for 101000 cash. price rise noted. Tama and Toledo Railway to abandon line and build new one between Tama and Toledo. O’Brien county to vote on paved roads with 30000 per mile paving cost and 75 percent federal aid. Storm Lake to build two sixty grade schools instead of one. 80000 in bonds approved. A county petition seeks 300000 ward surfaced road bonds via special election.
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Byron Vincent
Shenandoah
Jewell Lutheran College
H. A. Ockdale
A. L. Patt
Des Moines
United Commercial Travelers of Iowa
Cedar Rapids
Tajidiy
Fort Des Moines
Savery Oimsted
Clifton and
Rollins Olsen
McGregor
Iowa
Cora Allen
Washington
Red Cross
France
Sherif Ruhl
Frank Ake
Vinton
Anaficia
Anton Themp
Switzerland
Waukon
Community Welfare League
Davenport
Scott County
G. McNeal
Omaha
Tibbelle
Osdge
Charles Groves
Cherokee County
Pilot Township
Joe Groves
League of Nations
United States
Dubuque College
Short
Laverne
Tama
Storm Lake
Lewis
State University
Niacon
Revolt in Costa Rica Shifts as U S Forces Stand By
Washington reports the Tinoco regime uprising has escalated with outbreaks in San Jose. The central situation is serious. American gunboat Castine remains at Port Simon in readiness to land if ordered, though its commander awaits Washington directives.
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Washington
D. C
Tinoco
Costa Rica
State Department
San Jose
Castine
Port Simon
Beer Heeder Say Doctors Resolution on Beer Use
The Allied Medical Association of America adopts a resolution endorsing properly brewed lager as essential in certain treatments and supporting beer with up to 4% alcohol. Light wine is also endorsed for some medical cases. The resolution promotes 2 1/2 percent beer as beneficial in moderation and a substitute for stronger drinks and soft drinks.
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New York
Allied Medical Association of America
U S Considers Possible Action Over Costa Rica Situation
Washington reports disquieting dispatches on Costa Rica from the state department with no details released. Officials say conditions could compel U S action if necessary.
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U. S
Washington, D.C
Costa Rica
State Department
Socialists reject Bolshevik plan for Germany
Weimar socialists led by CONETeRs rejected a soviet constitution proposal receiving only a single vote. The congress also passed a resolution to deny pensions to former royal family members.
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Weimar
Coneters
Germany
Congress
President Wilson to Tour the United States
President Wilson plans a nationwide tour in support of the league of nations. Secretary Tumulty has drafted a tentative itinerary for the trip, with city names to be kept private. White House officials expect his return from Paris soon after Belgium visit this week.
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Wilson
U. Ss
Washington
D. C
League of Nations
Tumuulty
Hig “Ewing
White House
Paris
Belgium
Evanston's Juul the Policewoman on the Lake Front
A humorous Evanston piece portrays Mrs Georgiana Juul as the city’s policewoman in a six episode spoof. She confronts a disorderly stranger at the lake front foot of Davis Street with a failing revolver whistle and skirt. The desk sergeant suppresses details but cannot stop the quip.
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Vanston
Lake Front
Georgiana Jaul
Evanston
Davis Street
Policewom
Haven
Chicago
Rainbow's End: Mother Finds Convict Son’s Grave
A Salvation Army volunteer finds a destitute mother on her fifty seventh birthday hoping to reach Butte Montana. She learns her son, now twenty two, was convicted of burglary and buried in Elmira. A separate tale recalls a New York boy abducted in 1900 and raised by another family before a chance letter reveals his mother's decades of search.
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Tammond
Salvation Army
Butte, Mont
New York
Nancy ‘Browning
South Hilly -Pa
John Kipp
Amos Shoemaker
Chicago
Girl Without a Country Dee Van Balkom Star
Dee Van Balkom born on a Sumatra tobacco plantation traveled to Paris and London studied music and learned five languages. She joined the Canadian ambulance service and later served as a wireless operator in the U S Army signal corps. After the armistice she faced passport issues and a court case that left her yearning for independence rather than marriage to a dying soldier.
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T Higago
Dee van Balkom
Sumatra
Paris
London Conservatory of Music
Dee
America
Canadian Army
Signal Corps
United Starmistice
Miss van Balkom
South America
Denver Discusses the Evil Eye Hope Diamond Tale
Denver circles discuss the famous Hope Diamond and the McLean fortunes. The piece notes Vinson Walsh McLean’s death, mining wealth, and the diamond's ominous lore dating to India and France, with local superstition about the stone’s misfortune.
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Denver
Evil-Eye
Hope Diamond
Famous Peace Treaties Through the Crimean War
A survey of the 1856 Paris treaty ends and the broader Crimea conflict. It notes the signatories France England Sardinia and Russia and highlights Florence Nightingale and Count Nesselrode among wartime figures. The piece details the war’s origins over holy places, the four points, and the eventual terms limiting Russian influence in the Black Sea.
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Paris
Turkey
France
England
Sardinia
Russia
Bayard Taylor
Tennyson
Florence Nightingale
Count Nesselrode
Kingdom of Italy
Jerusalem
Napoleon
Nicholas
Balkan
Egypt
Cyprus
Crete
Anid
Constantinople
Danube
Austria
Black Sea
Pruth
Evar’s
Serbia
Dardanalles
Treaty of Lunéville 1801 reshapes Europe after war
The article recounts the 1801 Lunéville peace ending the Second Coalition fighting France. It highlights Napoleon Bonaparte’s rapid rise, key battles such as Marengo and Hohenlinden, Moreau’s Austrian advance, and the shift of power with Prussia neutrality. It notes the empire's dissolution, territorial transfers east of the Rhine, and Louis Autocrat Francis issuing imperial titles thereafter.
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Russia
Austria
England
Portugal
Naples
Turkey
France
Napoleon
Egypt
Italy
Rhine
Bonaparte
Alps
Marengo
Montebello
Moreau
Hochstadt
Hohenlinden
Prussia
Francis
Vienna
Joseph Bonaparte
Cobentzel
Luneville
Lorraine
First American Railroad Pioneers Built by Hand in Massachusetts
The article recalls the early American railroad run from West Quincy granite quarries to the Neponset River, predating the Baltimore and Ohio launch by two years. Mules operated as locomotives, with hand-forged iron rails two inches wide and three-quarter inches thick set on a granite bed, held by hand-forged spikes, aided by a cable on steep grades.
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America
Baltimore & Ohio
Massauchuse
West Quincy
Old Ford
Tidewater
Neponset River
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John R. McLean, Jr
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