Mazatlan Battle: Carrillo Defends City Amid Rebel Slaughter
General Carrillo with 2,500 loyal troops repels nearly 5,000 attacking rebels for two days near Mazatlan. He reports heavy rebel losses about 25 percent of strength, while federal defenses harness machine guns and searchlights to dominate hill and beach positions. Carrillo, 33, rises from the Jalisco campaign to lead the defense for Portes Gil’s government.
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Mexico City
Mazatlan
War Department
Jaime Carrillo
Mexico
Carrillo
Portes Gil
Roberto Cruz
Progress
Portes Gill
Joaquin Amaro
Jalisco
Guanajuato
Farm Aid and Tariff Now Being Considered
Washington reports mixed signals in Congress over farm relief. Senate leaders back the McNary plan for loans to cooperative associations from a 300 million dollar revolving fund and expect to move quickly when the session opens April 15. House members show uncertainty amid lingering tariff and equalization fee debates that stalled past efforts.
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Washington
Senate
Hoover
House
Congress
McNary
Agriculture Committee
Lunover
Koover
MacNary-Haugen
Ninth Annual National Conference on State Parks Held at Clifty Falls
The National Conference on State Parks will hold its ninth annual meeting May 7 and 9 at Clifty Falls State Park near Madison Indiana on the Ohio River. Stephen Mather former director of the National Park Service chairs the organization.
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Washington
National Conference On State Parks
Clifty Falls State Park
Ohio River
Madison
Ind
Stephen ST. Mather
National Park Service
Trotzky Barred From Belgium
Belgium joins other European nations in refusing to receive Leon Trotzky the Russian exile.
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Trotzky
Belgium
Brussels
Leon Trotzky
Imperial Conference Postponed to 1930 in London
The imperial conference scheduled for this year will be postponed and held in 1930 in London. The decision affects government leaders and colonial representatives and shifts planned discussions to next year.
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London
Ottoman debt paid in first installment by Turkey
The Turkish government recently paid foreign bond holders the first installment on the Ottoman debt. The total $482,000,000 is scheduled to be paid over 27 years.
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Angora
Turkey
Summerall Retains Army Chief Post Under Hoover
General Charles P Summerall remains as chief of the army general staff at the request of President Hoover. Secretary of War Goodson announced the decision confirming Summerall’s continued leadership of the army.
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Summerall
Army
Washington
Charles P. Summerall
Army General Staff
Hoover
Secretary of War
Good
Samuel Rea Dies at 73 Former Pennsylvanian President
Samuel Rea, retired president of the Pennsylvania Railroad and longtime transportation executive, died at his home Gladwyn in Waverly Heights near Ardmore, a suburb of Philadelphia. He was seventy three and had retired as president in October 1925 under the company pension plan, remaining a director and active in civic affairs in Philadelphia.
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Philadelphia
Samuel Rea
Pennsylvania Railroad
Origins Act To Be In Effect July 1
Washington notes President Weaver plans to enforce the national origins immigration plan starting July 1 despite opposition. Congress aims to push a repeal through an extraordinary session set for April 15, as Reed blocks action in the Senate.
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Washington
Weaver
Capitol Hill
Senate
House
Hoover
Congress
United States
Floover
Mitchell
David A. Reed
Pennsylvania
House of Representatives
Reed
Houses
Friends of the
National Origins Plan
6000 Foot Bridge Planned to Link Iowa and Wisconsin
Construction of a 6000 foot suspension bridge will begin this month to connect Prairie Du Chien Wisconsin with Marquette Iowa. The span will carry a load of a 15 ton truck every 50 feet and is slated to open to traffic in the summer of 1930.
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Iowa
Wisconsin
Prairie du Chien
Wis
Middle West
Marquette
Americas linked by air route to span new world network
New York to Peru air service to connect North and South America via a 4300 mile airway. Pan American and Pan American Grace airlines unite at Cristobal to close the 950 mile gap between Ecuador and the Canal zone with service starting April 1 from Miami to Peru.
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Airway
New York
North
Central
South America
Pan-American
Pan-American Grace Airways
Cristobal
Miami
Peru
Ecuador
Canal Zone
Tariff Endorsement Passed by Corn Belt Farm Federation
Des Moines Iowa resolutions endorsing a protective tariff on farm products and the McNary Haugen bill as a basis for forthcoming farm legislation were approved by the corn belt federation of farm organizations during a session in Des Moines.
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Des Moines
Iowa
McNary-Haugen
Corn-Belt Federation of Farm Organizations
Japan to Open World’s Largest Radio Station Near Tokyo
Officials announce the opening of a radio transmitting station near Tokyo in May. The project is described as the world’s largest, signaling a major milestone in Japan’s broadcasting infrastructure.
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Tokyo
Governor Weaver Sees Bright Nebraska Future
Governor Arthur J. Weaver told Omaha's St Patrick’s day dinner crowd that Nebraska will grow to several million and Omaha will become a major Missouri Valley metropolis. He urged expansion of education and a statewide road surface plan, noting the constitution forbids state debt but hoping for a practical funding method. He rejected reports of statewide opposition to Omaha as unfounded. Over 600 club members attended.
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Omaha
Nebraska
Arthur J. Weaver
Omaha Athletic Club
Missouri Valley
Weaver
Athletic Club
Nebraska Senate Advances Pensioning Bill for Seniors
The Nebraska Senate advanced S. F. 245 to third reading by 20 to 12. It would grant a pension up to 25 dollars monthly to residents over 65 meeting conditions. Applicants must be US and Nebraska residents for 15 years, not imprisoned in the state penitentiary in 10 years, no desertion by a husband in 15 years, and no professional begging in the previous year, with income and dependent criteria.
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Senate
Nebraska
Cooper
United States
Public Works Department
M. H. Garvin
Hastings
E. R. Burke
Board of Education
J. H. Beveridge
Farmers Shipping Association of
Potter
RE. V. Capps
Beatrice
Chamber of Commerce Committee
Record Flu Deaths Decline Nebraska in 1928
Nebraska reports 859 influenza deaths in 1928, the highest since 1921, with total deaths in the state at 13,410, up from 12,369 the previous year. December alone accounted for about two thirds of the yearly total, per the vital statistics bureau at the state capitol.
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Nebraska
Lincoln
Vital Statistics Bureau
State Capitol
Oldest Native Son of Nebraska Awarded in Falls City
Falls City Nebraska honors Frank Leachman aged 73 living on a local farm as the oldest native son of Nebraska receiving a $10 gold piece recognition from state authorities.
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Nebraska
Falls City
Frank Leachman
Plan New School House At Lyman
Lyman plans a new high school modeled on Bridgeport's $80 000 building. If residents vote bonds on March 29 the Lyman committee of J Knox C R Butt Albert Dolph Charles Harding and J W Waitman will proceed after touring Nebraska and Wyoming to inspect recently built schools.
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Lyman
Bridgeport
Knox
C. R. Butt
Albert Dolph
Charles Harding
J. W. Waitman
Nebraska
Wyoming
Cambridge to Sink Test Oil Well on Watkins Estate
Officials of Red Willow Oil and a drilling firm announced a test oil well on the Watkins estate, 14 miles northwest of Cambridge. A contract for drilling has been awarded, a steel derrick ordered, and the sinking of a 3800 foot well authorized with option for greater depth.
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Cambridge
Watkins Estate
Red Willow Oil Company
New York Company Purchases Omaha Creamery Firm
New York based Central Distributors, Inc. buys Kirschbraun and Sons Inc., operator of a large Omaha creamery, for an announced 2 million dollars. Edwin Kirschbraun to head Kirschbraun and Sons as a subsidiary of the New York buyer. Ben Tittman, 43, president of Central Distributor, long-time Omaha immigrant.
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New York
Omigham Kirschbraun and Sons, Inc
Omaha
Central Distributors, Inc
Edwin Kirschbraun
Kirschbraun and Sons
New York Company
Ben Tittman
Central Distributor
Local Nebraska Notes From Farm Sales to School Bonds
John P Klerk sells 100 acre farm near Friend to Anton Pospisil for 11450 an acre. Danbury district seeks 52906.80 bond for a new school building. Aurora school board approves plans for south of high school building with domestic science manual training and large auditorium at about 60000. Beemer State bank depositor meeting to discuss pending bank legislation.
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John P. Klerk
Friend
Anton Pospisil
Noakes Brothers of Filley
Rockford
Roszell
Board of Trustees
Danbury Consolidated School District
F. C. Maust
Falls City
Nebraska
Zurich
Germany
Maust
Beemer State Bank
Paul Wupper
Kenneth Wherry
Pawnee City
R. T. Jones
Scottsbluff
School Board of
Aurora
Adams
Nebraska-Iowa Gas & Electric Company
State Forestation Department
Red Willow County
F. J. Scrivner
Frank Green
Gibbon
Green
Beatrice City
Feeble Minded Institute
Floods and tornadoes kill dozens across the South and mine blast toll rises
Flooding and tornadoes raged across six states leaving many dead including twenty in Tennessee and four in Kentucky while Georgia Alabama and North Carolina report fatalities. In Pennsylvania the Kinloch mine disaster near Parnassus raises the death toll to about fifty as carbon monoxide and a coal dust blaze devastate the pit and tipple after a conveyor chain failure.
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Aslania
South
Tennessee
Starriman
Rockwood
Webster
Kentucky
Cumberland River
Pineville
Barbourville
Alpharetta
Georgia
Alabama
Mississippi
North Carolina
Parnassus
Kinloch
O. S. Taylor
Kinlock
United States Bureau of Mines
Hughes to sail for Geneva World Court judge post
Charles E. Hughes plans a May departure from New York to assume duties as a judge of the World Court in Geneva. President Hoover aims to curb public speaking to three or four yearly and has declined several invitations.
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Charles KE. Hughes
New York
World Court
Geneva
Hoover
Kellogg to Depart on European Trip After Office Handover
Secretary of State Kellogg announces he will leave for a European trip as soon as he transfers the office to Henry L. Stimson, signaling a smooth transition in the administration.
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Kellogg
Henry L. Stimson
Rail plan seeks 65 mile San Angelo to Sonora line
The Kansas City Mexico and Orient railroad asks the Interstate Commerce Commission for authority to construct 65 miles of new track between San Angelo and Sonora Texas.
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Kansas City, Mexico & Orient Railroad
The
Interstate Commerce Commission
San Angelo
Sonora
Texas
Hoover to Speak at Chicago Agricultural Conference
President Hoover is invited by the American Farm Bureau Federation and numerous agricultural groups to address a Chicago conference of farming organizations next fall.
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Hoover
American Farm Bureau Federation
Chicago
Navy to build 15 new cruisers. bids soon invited
Secretary of the Navy Adams approved plans for the 15 cruisers authorized by Congress. Bids for construction are expected to be invited from shipyards within the next few days.
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Adams
Austrian Firm Fails in Vienna Bankruptcy News
Austria's oldest textile firm Karl Kohn & Co. failed with debts around 500000 dollars. The collapse affected about 100 creditors, many of whom were foreigners.
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Vienna
Austria
Karl Kohn & Co
Thirty Iowa Gridmen Report Toowa City Iowa
Thirty candidates for the 1929 football team at Iowa have reported to Coach Ingwersen for spring practice.
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Iowa
Towa City
Ingwersen
Bridge to Cost 20 Million in Delaware River Crossing Plan
A report to the legislature says a suspension bridge across the Delaware River from Philadelphia to New Jersey with two rapid transit lanes could be built for 20 million dollars to the state.
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Trenton
N. J
Delaware River
Philadelphia
New Jersey
Wanamaker Estate Valued Over 56 Million in Memoir Inventory
An inventory filed with the Morristown register of wills lists Rodman Wanamaker's estate at $56,914,260 excluding real estate. The filing centers on the Wanamaker estate's measured value and asset scope.
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Wanamaker
Philadelphia
the Register of Wills
Morristown
Rodman Wanamaker
Isaiah's Call and Hezekiah Lessons for April
Lesson outlines Isaiah 6 1 13 20 1 38 1 2 focusing on being obedient to divine vision. It covers Isaiah's vision cleansing commission and response, Isaiah 20 prophecy warning against reliance on Egypt, and Hezekiah's illness prayer and God's prolongation of life with a sign from the sundial.
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God
Isaiah
Israel
Assyria
Egypt
Ethiopia
Jerusalem
Hezekiah
Tellezekiah
Overcoming Injury Quote by Valerius Maximus
A Maxim quoted phrase on overcoming injury through kindness rather than hatred. It asserts the beauty of mercy over obstinate vendetta attributed to Valerius Maximus.
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Valerius Maximus
To Make Us Comforters Poem Fragment
Quote fragments convey a reflection on divine purpose. The line suggests that comfort is not for ease but to enable us to comfort others. The source presents a concise moral about meaning of suffering and service.
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J. H. Jowett
Endurance and Salvation Theme Highlighted
The fragment discusses enduring faith and salvation, emphasizing perseverance as a pathway to being saved. It reflects a spiritual message about steadfast belief and moral steadfastness as central to salvation.
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Magdalena Huth
Nebraska Soldiers Home
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Soldiers Home
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Dean Moody Bible
Nstitute of
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