Followers Loyal to Pangho Villa Amid Mexican Revolution
Holloway New Mexico reports on General Francisco Villa, alias Pancho, a famed yet controversial figure. Once outlawed with a 20000 peso head price, Villa earned renown through military skill, disciplined command, and social reforms, including closing saloons and aiding the poor while building a self-sufficient army infrastructure.
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Holloway
N. M
Francisco Villa
United States
Francisco
Pancho
Villa
Mexico
Ite
Madero
Juarez
Navarro
Orozco
Huerta
Mexico City
Hot springs near Portland cook eggs and beans in minutes
Near Portland Oregon, about 30 miles south of Estacada and 70 miles from the city, a cluster of about 50 hot springs on the Clackamas river is claimed to reach 220 degrees. A French trapper, Michel Arquette, learned of them from Molalla Indians and confirmed the astonishing boiling waters that even cook beans, eggs, and fish briefly in the rock impregnated streams.
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Portland
Clackamas River
Estacnada
Michel Arquette
Clackamas
A Successful Hunter In Six Months Kills Predators
Port Oxford Oregon reports In L White has proved himself a successful hunter of predatory animals. In six months his dogs treed and he killed five bears five panthers and many wildcats. He spent days on Sixes river and killed a female panther that had plagued sheep and deer in the area. Photographs captured the snarling cat before it was slain.
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Port Oxford
Ore
L. White
Tie
Sixes River
Texas Woman Banker Inspires Confidence
Miss Leffler Corbitt of Austin National Bank was elected president of the Texas Woman Bankers association at Fort Worth. A former University of Texas teacher, she rose to a top bank position and advises wealthy Austin women on business matters. She plans to expand the state group and aims to form a national body including all U S women bankers.
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Austin
Tex
Leffler Corbitt
Texas Woman Bankers’ Association
Fort Worth
Corbitt
Austin National Bank
University of Texas
Miss Corbitt
Women Bankers of
Texas
Texas Association
United States
Police to Learn Manners in Pittsburgh
Charles S Hubbard director of public safety plans etiquette instruction and modern policing drills for city officers. He aims to create the most courteous police department in the United States after citizen complaints about impolite acts prompted the move.
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Pittsburgh
Charles S. Hubbard
Public Safety
Hubbard
United States
Black Cat Averts Wreck Near Mayville
A black cat crossed the tracks ahead of a St. Paul road passenger train near Mayville Wisconsin. Engineer Henry Heider slowed the locomotive after spotting the cat. A minute later the train derailed while moving slowly, preventing a potentially serious wreck.
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Fond du Lac
Wis
St. Paul Road
Mayville
Henry Heider
Heider
Dentist Declares Teeth Key To Poor Boys Reform
Charles D. Hilles, chair of the Republican National Committee and head of the New York Juvenile Association, argues decayed teeth drive delinquency. At Dobbs Ferry Children’s Village, 91% of boys had dental issues. after two years with a dentist and toothbrush training, over 90% become good citizens. Regular dental care, nutrition, and hygiene rescue underperforming youths.
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New York
Charles D. Hilles
Republican National Committee
New York Juvenile Association
Dobbs Ferry
N. Y
Hilles
Hliles
Michigan Pupils Gain Pay Through School Farms
Ishpeming Michigan leads a summer program where pupils work on school farms earning ten cents an hour. The program expands across the Upper Peninsula with Michigan State Agricultural College experts assisting. Eighteen acres are used with 125 boys employed to harvest potatoes cabbages cauliflower and strawberries. Produce is sold to cities at near cost and proceeds go to the school board.
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Michigan
Ishpeming
Mich
Upper Michigan
Upper Peninsula
Michigan State Agricultural College
Ishpeming Board of Education
M. A. Russell
Michigan Agricultural College
Woard of Education
Baby Cut Off 200 Phones In Domestic Incident
In Atlantic City New Jersey a home birth at Matteo Gionetti’s Merlonville residence cut phone service for most of a day affecting about 200 subscribers. Gionetti fired a shotgun at the lines, breaking wires with shot found on the cross arm. The wire chief Newton reported the outage and began repairs after speaking with Gionetti.
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Atlantic City
N. J
Matteo Gionetti
Merlonville
Gionetti
Matteo
Newton
Uncle Sam Turns Girls Into Tiny Farm Makers
In five southern states under the agriculture department, schoolgirls join canning clubs taught by Miss Mary Cromer of Aiken South Carolina. They plant small patches grow tomatoes and beans, harvest, can and sell produce earning profits. A demonstrator weighs cans, records weights, and handles sales while fathers plow for pay. If buyers complain or cans fail to meet standards, girls may be dropped from the clubs.
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Washington
Sam
Department of Agriculture
Mary Cromer
Aiken
S. C
Farm Demonstration Service
Jerry Moore
Miss Cromer
Teacups of Salt For Wages in West Africa
Major Hans Schomburgk reports from West Central Africa that local workers, termed supers, were paid two cupfuls of salt per day. Salt functioned as currency, even for wives, illustrating barter-like wage practices encountered during the explorer’s return.
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London
Hans Schomburgk
Africa
Notice of Assessment for Drainage District 24 in Pocahontas Iowa
Public notice records an assessment of costs and damages for Drainage Improvement District No. 24. It lists the engineers commissioners and county officials, notes a land-by-land assessment schedule attached, and invites owners occupants or overseers of Township or Road funds to review the report and apportioned assessments in Pocahontas County Iowa.
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Pocahontas
Iowa
L. O’donnell
Marshall Two
C. N. Carlson
Swan Lake Two
C. A. Carlson
Ada B. Coats August Olson
Thos. Eberle
George Aschenbrenner
H. J. Lundblad
Alfred Johnson
John F. Anderson
Earnest Hanisc
J. A. Peterson
A. H. Larson
Walter S, van Doren
C. W. Nelson
Knut Frantz Car
John Gustafson
Robert A. Fullerton
G. W. Rubel
Joseph R. Tool
Albert E. Oberlin
W. E. Crane
J. P. Moore
T. E. Meredith
J. E. Schnug
Board of Supervisors
Ada B. Coats
Olson
Thos. Eberle Sr
Geo. Aschenbrenner
van Doren
Walter S. Walter S. van Doren
Walter S. van Doren
Lid
Walter
Carl John Gustafson Co
W. Nelson
Tool
Joseph A
Marshall
Swan Lake
County
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Saltield
American Press Association
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