Villa Bandit At Parral Reported Killing and Burning Victims
refugees claim Villa followers killed an American and burned bodies in Parral while 200 Chinese residents were said to be routed. Two Americans guarded by Villa were seen in Parral and seven murdered Chinese lay in the streets. Gypsies of Syrian origin were reportedly killed nearby and foreigners largely executed by Villa, with Germans suffering in one case.
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Neewspaper
Union News Service
el Paso
Tex
Villa
Jimenez
Parral
Torreon
Chihuahua City
Jimenez Hotel
Alvarado
Theodore Hoemuller
Federal Farm Loan Board invites farmer loan interest forms
The Federal Farm Loan Board calls Iowa farmers in Sioux City territory to express loan interest by filling and sending letters to Washington. The circular notes possible low rates, loan terms of five to forty years, and flexible repayment options. Applications and blanks for local association organization are requested before December 10, with banking centers planned to open around February 1.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Federal Farm Loan Board
Sioux City
Washington, D. C
Iowa
Washington
Boy Son Sonny Mathews Found Drifting in Lake Michigan
The body of 9 year old Cyril Mathews known as Sonny washed ashore on Lake Michigan nine months after he disappeared from home. Parents and schoolmates kept the search going with no prior word of his fate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Cyril
Sonny”) Mathews
Lake Michigan
World War News Roundup Amid Global Conflicts
Across archangel news reports British advances in Saloniki and Beaucourt on the Somme. German and Austro-Hungarian moves in Romania and Macedonia, with Norwegian torpedo action and a German sub incident. U S and European economic updates include oil refinery hours and wage raises while Wisconsin farmers champion direct sales. Credits and local cuttings cover a bank robbery in Colorado and a notable resignation in Wisconsin.
Thanksgiving day proclamation and policy notes from Washington
President Wilson issues a Thanksgiving proclamation urging national generosity for relief in Europe and designates November 30 as Thanksgiving Day. Congress faces eight hour railroad debates, while Belgian deportation concerns prompt U S government action.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Wilson
United States
Europe
Chamber of Commerce of the United States
Adamson
Congress
Army Officers Ferry Shells to Punitive Expedition in Mexico
Army officers arriving at Il Paso from Columbus report shipment of large artillery shells to the Mexican punitive expedition. The ordinance department sent over 2,000,000 rounds of small arms ammunition south to Pershing. Twenty five Chinese were massacred by Villa bandits near Santa Rosalia, per an American from Laredo.
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Il Paso
Tex
Columbus
Mexico
Ordinance Department
Pershing
Santa Rosalia
Laredo
Duingo
Iowa State News Highlights Farm, War Funding And Rail Plans
Iowa reports push to recruit one man per thousand in each county with postmasters serving as recruiters for five dollars per recruit. Des Moines conference aims to raise fifteen million for retired ministers with seventy five thousand already raised. Dairy output rises with thirty six million in farm products and eleven million in butter value. Grinnell builds dorm bonds, Iowa rail plans cost half a million for Fort Dodge line. Injunctions in liquor cases and prison rug shop thriving with two thousand five hundred monthly. Infant paralysis case and frozen potato peddler reports.
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Des Moines Conference
J.A. Mulfinger
Chicago
Board of Conference
Des Moines
Iowa
EB. C. Hinshaw
State Executive Council
Ames
F. S. Shaw
Iowa State College
Henry F. Giese
Cedar Rapids
Greater Iowa Association
Davenport
Moore
W. W. Marsh
Waterloo
Argentina
Iowa Y. M. C. A
Brownsville
Tex
Parker
Iowa Department of Agricutte
Wesley Greene
C. Hinshaw
State Dairy and Food Commission
New York
Grinnell
Grinnell College Foundation
Fort Dodge
Webster City
Crooked Creek Road
Iowa Federation of Women’s Clubs
Fort Bodge
B. B. Clark
State
Francis E. Whitley
F. M. Steer
Iowa State Prison
Fort Madison
William Ambers
Louilla
Wilson
California
Ambers
Edward C. Lytton
Walter Gast
Roasville
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Villa Band
Archangel
Overseas
Berlin
Roumania
Liresht
Campulung
London
Barakli
Prosenik
Kupli
Goritz
Vienna
Kenali
Monastir
Saloniki
Paris War Office
St. Pierre-Vaast Wood
Pressoire Village
Somme
Copenhagen
Morgenbladet
Stavanger
Beaucourt
Ancre Brook
Wisconsin
Milwaukee
Deutschland
New London
Conn
Bremen
T. A. Scott, Jr
Fred Hinsch
Neckar
Standard Oil Company of California
Adams, American
Wells-Fargo and Western
John Armstrong Chaloner
Merry Mills
Looney
Supreme Court
First National Bank
Walsenburg
Colo
Walter C. Owen
Philipp
Madison
Owen
Jessie Spafford
Rockford
Ilinois Federation of Woman's Clubs
Champaign
William Sandell
W. P. Oliver
Security State Bank
St. Paul, Minn
Charles Christian
Horace Jackson
Chicago Board of Trade
Minnesota
Turkey
Germany
State Department
E. Havenith
Havenith
Department of Justice
Frank Hagerman
Kansas City
Association of American Agricultural Colleges and Experiment Stations
Chihuahua
Parral Mining
Hoemuller
Mex
Benjamin Brahan
Juarez
General Pershing
Iowa State News
Commonwealth
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