Bandits Roam Mexico Terror Plagues Oil Regions
Passengers on the tank steamer Topila report a reign of terror in Mexico with the killings of W H T Buckingham and George Bannerman, British subjects, at Nanchital on March 9. Buckingham’s body was hacked with machetes. Outrages in oil fields near Puerto Mexico and Minatitlan are blamed on Mexican bandits, with bandits roaming between Arranza and Zapata camps.
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Union News Service
Galveston
Topila
Mexico
W. H. T. Buckingham
Aguila Oil Corporation
Tehuantepec
George Bannerman
Cashier
Nanchital
Buckingham
Puerto Mexico
Minatitlan
Arranza
Zapata
Eight Hour Day Goes Into Effect For Rail Workers
In Lincoln Nebraska Burlington engine and trainmen move to an eight hour basis after the Supreme Court upholds the Adamson law. Pay details remain unsettled but the eight hour day is now in effect and promises broader wage and hour changes across railroad labor. An engineman calls it an entering wedge toward wider adoption among railway workers.
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Lincoln, Neb
Burlington
Supreme Court
Bible To Be The Test Book
Washington announces reading material for aliens literacy tests will be drawn from the Bible. Passages will be selected in more than a hundred languages and dialects to ensure comprehension for the general foreign population.
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Washington
Department of Labor
Water for Low Line Canal Irrigation 1917 Lands
The treasury secretary announces water will be furnished during the 1917 irrigation season to irrigable lands in townships 21 to 23 north ranges 51 to 53 west sixth principal meridian Nebraska from the North Platte project known as the low line canal. Charge is $55 per irrigable acre. Water right applications must be filed with the project manager US Reclamation Service Mitchell Nebraska on the provided form. water will not be provided without such application.
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Washington
Secretary of the Treasury
Nebraska
North Platte
Low Line
United States Reclamation Service
Mitchell
Neb
Death of G F Cooper at Omaha Public lands official dies after illness
G F Cooper deputy commissioner of public lands and buildings since January 1 died at his Omaha home after a ten day illness from pneumonia and kidney trouble. He had served in public lands roles and was a noted official in the state capital.
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Omaha
Neb
G. F. Cooper
German flags removed from Turner hall in St Joseph
Henry Vogelman president of the St Joseph Turnverein ordered removal of German flags and portraits. In their places red white and blue banners and portraits of American statesmen were hung. Vogelman said St Joseph Germans are loyal and the United States will fight Prussians, not their people.
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St. Joseph
Potatoes Rotting in Pits Near Fort Collins
Four hundred carloads of potatoes stored around Fort Collins in Colorado are rotting in pits as merchants refuse to handle them due to no market. The grower notes U S buyers have quit buying potatoes except in small quantities for special occasions, leaving farmers with surplus.
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Fort Collin
Colo
Colorado
United States
Nation Seethes With War News And Political Moves
The article reports rapid wartime steps including the Norris bill for Scottsbluff land to the state university for dry farming studies, a federal paper supply board, and Nebraska farm loan savings. It notes navy recruitment, U.S. war preparations, Russian revolution impact, and growing domestic and international tensions amid diplomacy, strikes, and economic shifts.
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Western
Union News Service
Washington
House
Scottsbruft
The
State University
President Urged to Raise Army to War Strength
The article reports President Wilson discussing immediate measures to boost the military. Senator Chamberlain says the executive may raise more than 70,000 troops by expanding the regular army and calling out the national guard at war strength with state cooperation. Secretary Baker and lawmakers consider urgent military establishment legislation.
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News Service
Washington
Wilson
Senator Chamberlain
Oregon
Senate Military Committee
Baker
Congress
Chamberlain
National Guard
Washington expands national guard for federal duty
A War Department order suspends musterouts keeping nearly twenty thousand guardsmen in federal service. With new calls, the government holds about fifty thousand guardsmen for home state protection. Most affected units were at mobilization camps preparing to return to civilian life. Twenty two thousand are retained, though some units were already designated for federal service.
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Washington
War Department
News Quarantine Proposed for Relief Workers in Belgium
The German government plans to impose a four week news quarantine on American relief officials with the American Commission for Relief in Belgium. The period starts when they relinquish duties and notify Brussels of departure. They would gather at a central site, possibly Liege or a German city like Cologne Karlsruhe or Munich, and not be allowed to leave during the quarantine.
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Hague
Associated Press
American Commission For Relief
Belgium
Brussels
Liege
Cologne
Karlsruhe
Munich
Navy Recruiting Surges in Chicago as War Spirit Grows
Navy recruiting stations report unprecedented activity in Chicago with long lines of applicants at the National Guard armory and Navy recruiters noting a sharp rise in enlistments. Officials say figures are being withheld for military reasons.
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Chicago
National Guard
Navy
Ohio Governor Cox issues wartime proclamation
Ohio Governor James M Cox calls on residents to prepare for war amid turbulent world conditions. He warns that surrendering to complacency would be incompetence and urges readiness.
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Ohio
Columbus
James M Cox
Americans Trapped in Brussels Under German Police Control
An exchange Telegraph dispatch from Amsterdam reports Brussels says the American legation is isolated under a German police board. Germany may move the minister Brand Whitlock and staff to Germany and Americans in Brussels are told they cannot leave Belgium for at least three months. William J. Bryan urges Congress to pursue his peace plan for a tribunal backed by a plebiscite if war seems unavoidable.
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Brussels
London
Exchange
Amsterdam
Frontier
Brand Whitlock
Germany
Belgium
Miami
Fla
Wiliam J. Bryan
Senate
House of Representatives
Bryan
Congress
Couldn't Suit Her Do You Guarantee These Colors Fast
A customer at the hosiery counter asks about color fastness. The new clerk replies that colors cannot be guaranteed to stay fast but offers a striped alternative. The exchange ends with a note about hard luck and the world treating you poorly.
Freckles treatment promised with ethine double strength
An advertisement claims ethine double strength removes freckles with nightly and morning applications. It guarantees money back if the remedy fails and says most skins clear for a beautiful complexion, requiring little product.
Life lemons and pink lemonade idea quoted
The text urges optimism turning lemons into pink lemonade and asserts belief shapes outcomes by implying that self doubt leads to failure. It champions a positive mindset and proactive attitude.
For a practical illustration of economy watch a small boy
A short anecdote notes how a boy uses soap frugally, demonstrating economy in daily habits through simple, relatable behavior.
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