Villa Returns North as Refugees Gorge Presidio Camps
In Juarez on December six 7000 Constitutionalist forces led by General Francisco Villa encamped near the railroad north of Juarez retreat to Villa Ahumada to pursue Federals near Ojinaga. Fugitives travel toward Palomas as Carranza communicates from Sonora and Villa warns of arms confiscation.
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United States
Salvador Mercado
Chihuahua
Villa
Terrazas
Presidio
Tex
Ojinaga
Palomas
Columbus
N. M
Jose Salazar
Pascual Orozco
Villa Ahumada
Carranza
Sonora
Escudero Dismissed From Carranza Cabinet
Francisco Escudero former foreign minister and finance chief in the Carranza provisional government is dismissed and has separated from the Constitutionalist cause. Carranza ordered publicity through consul Dr. Rodriguez in San Antonio. Escudero had long served as Constitutionalist representative in Washington and recently met with Villa in Juarez before a return to Washington.
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Francisco Escudero
Venustiano Carranza
Dr. Rodriguez
San Antonio
Carranza
Rodriguez
Escudero
Washington
Sonora
William Bayard Hale
Juarez
Pancho Villa
Inquiries On Mexico Policy From European Governments
Washington reports guarded inquiries from European governments at the state department about potential early termination of present Mexican conditions. There is no evidence these inquiries will alter U S policy, though talk of recognizing the Constitutionalists strengthens. Officials prepare for developments as the Constitutionalists gain control and the navy protects foreign lives and property along the eastern Mexican coast.
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Washington, D. C
State Department
Mexico
Local forecast for San Antonio area Saturday to Sunday
San Antonio and vicinity expect a Saturday night with fair skies and colder conditions with frost. Sunday Forecast calls for fair weather continuing.
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San Antonio
Vicinity
Weather for Tourists Across Major Cities
Observations at 8 am report temperatures from 38 to 52 degrees across cities. Winds vary from northeast to southeast with clouds, occasional rain, and possible Sunday snow in Milwaukee and rain in Washington and Kansas City.
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ST. Louis
Chicago
Milwaukee
ST. Paul
Kansas City
New York
Boston
Washington
Seminole Beached At Puerto Plata After Leak
The Clyde Line steamship Seminole sprang a leak and was beached at Puerto Plata to prevent sinking. The crew and four passengers are safe, cargo is being removed, and cartridges found aboard were confiscated. Maritime notices disputed talk of total loss.
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New York
Clyde Line
Puerto Plata
San Domingo
Haiti
Maritime Exchange
Becne
Frost Likely As October Chill Settles In
Major Allen Buell of the local weather bureau forecasts fair but cooler weather with probable frost Sunday morning. He notes next few days look bright, though a lingering storm over Northeast Texas has moved away toward Kansas with no new bad weather expected.
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Allen Buell
Texas
Kansas
Buell
San Antonio
Body Recovered After Drowning At Leon Creek Crossing
The body of 27 year old John Gonsher was recovered Saturday at 11 am half a mile below the Culebra road crossing after drowning Friday while attempting to traverse the swollen Leon Creek. He had spent two days waterbound in San Antonio and defied friends warnings before entering the stream. Gonsher, an employee on the Vance ranch, is survived by one brother per Chief Deputy Sheriff James Galbraith.
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John Gonsher
Leon Creek
Culebra Road
Riebe Undertaking Company
San Antonio
Gonsher
Vance
James Galbraith
Water Rise At Medina Dam Expands Reservoir Capacity
Medina reservoir gained nearly two feet Friday night reaching 121.70 feet at 7 am Saturday behind the dam. The impounded water totals 120 500 acre feet about half the basin capacity. Three motor boats, 37 feet long one, are en route to the dam site for transport and use on the lake which extends 13 miles up the river valley.
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Medina
Medina Company
Lacoste
Ulster Unionists Stirred by Arms Import Proclamation
In Belfast intense excitement grips Ulster Unionists as royal order bans arms and ammunition imports to Ireland. Authorities seize 89 cases of ammunition and eight cases of rifles and bayonets as firms move stores to country towns. London reports Commons Premier Asquith moves toward conciliatory terms with Sir Edward Carson.
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Belfast
Ireland
London
Ulster
Sir Edward Carson
Asquith
Edward Carson
Delegation Seeks Trevino Move to San Antonio
A San Antonio Chamber of Commerce committee visited the Menger hotel at 10:30 AM Saturday to invite General Geronimo Trevino to settle in the city. Trevino had already left for El Paso hours earlier. The group included W B Tuttle Judge T M Paschal J H Kirkpatrick and others. The delay due to flood and weather left the proposal in doubt. It was unclear whether Trevino would return to San Antonio from El Paso.
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Menger
Geronimo Trevino
San Antonio
el Paso
W.B Tuttle
Chamber of Commerce
T. M. Paschal
J H. Kirkpatrick
Charles Graebner
J. Hat
Harry L. Miller
John B. Carrington
General Trevino
Burglary Hits Drug Store on Flores Street
The iap drug store at 1315 South Flores Street was broken into Friday night. About $60 in currency and stamps were stolen, with the register carried along a 200 yard stretch and broken open. Entrance gained by forcing a rear door and the burglary was found at 6 AM Saturday by owner William Seeger. Items stolen included cigarettes tobacco chewing gum cigars knives and razors. Veterans to Meet in April in Jacksonville dates set for the 1914 reunion of the United Confederate Veterans on April 29 to May 1.
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Iap
South Flores Street
William Seeger
Post Office Register
Jacksonville
Fla
The
United Confederate Veterans
Collision near Costesti Kills and Injures 100
News from Bucharest reports that about 100 people were killed or injured in a collision late last night between a passenger train and a freight train near Costesti, southwest of the city near the frontier.
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Bucharest
Costesti
The Dealer and the Dollar Harvest
The article promotes advertising national consumer goods through local papers. It urges dealers to feature advertised items to create demand and reap business, highlighting cooperative work with advertisers and the Bureau of Advertising of the American Newspaper Publishers’ Association.
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Dealer
Bureau of Advertising
American Newspaper Publishers’ Association
Militant Suffragists Target Liverpool and Manchester
London dispatch reports arson squads destroying exhibition buildings in Liverpool and Manchester as militant suffragettes avenge Mrs. Emmeline Pankhurst re-arrest. A third attempt near Aintree is foiled by approaching police. Anglican clergy meeting led by Bishop of Kensington protests forcible feeding and many clergy, including the Bishop of London, denounce militancy amid interruptions.
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London
Sufragettes
Emmeline Pankhurst
Lancashire
Asquith
Liverpool
Manchester
Aintree Race Course
Kensington
Queen's Hall
Exhibition Hall Burned in Manchester by Suffragettes
The exhibition hall in Rusholme, Manchester, southeastern district, burned to the ground today in an arson attack by militant suffragettes. The incendiaries left suffrage literature and a note to Premier Asquith declaring the act as their message. Loss estimated at over $60,000.
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Manchester
Rusholme
Militant suffragettes attack Liverpool exhibition buildings
Militants set the scenic railway at the Liverpool exhibition on fire as the buildings were closed for winter. Firemen struggled to contain the blaze while in the area authorities found letters to Prime Minister Asquith and suffragette literature.
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Liverpool
Asquith
Mann Act enforcement pledged by immigration department
BellIngham December 6 The Mann act will be enforced with all diligence by the immigration department commissioner general Anthony Caminetti said here yesterday He noted comments by Seattle officials suggesting a shift to international white slavery cases only
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Bellingham
Wash
Immigration Department
Anthony Caminetti
Immigration
Seattle
Morgan Grave Guarded in Cedar Hill Cemetery
In Hartford the J Pierpont Morgan burial site at Cedar Hill remains heavily guarded each night eight months after the April 14 interment. An armed watch is posted from sunset to sunrise while daytime security is minimal and funded by the Morgan family for as long as they desire.
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Hartford
Conn
J. Pierpont Morgan
Cedar Hill Cemetery
Mr. Morgan
Morgan
Prince Charles to Enter German Army as Lieutenant
Berlin December 6. Prince Charles oldest son of the Crown Prince of Roumania will enter the German army January 1 as a lieutenant in the First Foot Guards at Potsdam to complete his military education. He is 20 and will serve two years with the regiment. King Charles of Roumania is a Hohenzollern prince born at Sigmaringen Germany.
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Germany
Berlin
Princce
Charles
Oregon Senator Writes The Shortest Autobiography
Senator Harry Lane of Oregon submits a one line autobiography for the Congressional Directory. He states his name party and state and notes his term expires March 3 1919.
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Apostle
Washington, D. C
Senator Lane
Oregon
Congressional Directory
Harry Lane
Leased Wire Day AP Report Baseline In The Light
The San Antonio Light uses the Associated Press Leased Wire Day report as its core daily news source, supplemented by its own large local news service. The AP feed provides broad national and international coverage, while the paper adds regionally relevant reporting.
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San Antonio
Associated Press
Light
Pharmacy student under $20,000 bail linked to theater needle incident
Armand Megaro, a South American pharmacy student, held on 20 000 bail in Newark for allegedly sticking a needle in Mrs Marjorie Graff at a theater. She fainted and two other women Miss Jeannette Clark 19 and Miss Mary Lee report similar needle experiences. Police confront Megaro with these accusations as crime prevention groups review possible trafficking schemes.
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Newark
N. J
Armand Megaro
Marjorie Graff
Jeannette Clark
Mary Lee
Megaro
Desperate Struggle in City House Near Depot
Amos Franklin, a stranger, was slashed in a near-depot house and forced to break a door to escape. Detectives Massey Harvey and Long, aided by officers, pursued a robbery motive. A butcher knife was recovered. a man and woman are detained for further inquiry. Franklin’s wounds are serious but not life threatening. The attack occurred around 5:45 a.m. Saturday morning.
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Amos Franklin
Massey
Harvey
Long
Franklin
Troops Leave Zabern Under Colonel Von Reuter
In Zabern Germany on December 6 Colonel Von Reuter led the Ninety ninth infantry to new camps Hagenau and Bitsch in Alsace. The move follows tension between military and civil authorities as the viceroy Count Wedel returns from talks with the emperor amid assurances the military will not override civil rule.
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Zabern
Germany
von Reuter
Alsace
Hagenau
Strassburg
Bitsch
Vosges
Alsace-Lorraine
Charles von Wedel
Egg boycott drives petition to Congress gains names
Local club women prepare a petition with more than 25 000 signatures to urge legislation against food monopolies. Move gains backing from Mrs. Thomas R. Marshall and other prominent figures as Washington egg prices drop from 60 to 50 cents a dozen due to supply increase and lighter demand.
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Washington, D. C
Thomas R. Marshall
Robert M. LaFollette
Albert B. Cummins
Congress
Ellis Logan
Philadelphia
Pittsburg
Chicago
Kansas City
Washington
Victory claimed in Chicago over 32-cent eggs boycott
Chicago leaders announce they have won their fight for 32-cent eggs and will continue the boycott to influence other cities. Grocery association officers in Chicago plan a $2-cent egg program but ban women from distributing them.
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Chicago
Ill
Girl writes backward as heart shifted to right side
London reports Birmingham physicians solved a puzzling abnormality in a girl who writes from right to left and does many tasks backward. X rays show her heart and some organs displaced to the right. The case echoes a similar tale of a boy who saw things upside down.
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London
Birmingham
Snowbound Colorado Faces Snowstorm Toll and Delays
Reports from mountain points in Colorado describe missing persons and unconscious snowbound victims after a severe two day storm. Denver digged through 45.5 inches of snow as coal milk and provisions were delivered amid standstill railroad traffic.
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Denver
Colo
Cheyenne Mountain
Colorado Springs
Cheyenne
Union Station
Government Bureau
Colorado
Iowa
Nebraska
Missouri
Wyoming
New Mexico
Boulder
Boulder County
Cripple Creek
Cardinal Luigi Oreglia di Santo Stefano dies in Rome
Cardinal Luigi Oreglia di Santo Stefano Aloysius, dean of the Sacred College, died in Rome at 85 from pneumonia. Born July 9 1828 in Benevagienna he was the last surviving cardinal created by Pope Pius IX and served as bishop of Ostia and Velletri, arch-chancellor of the Roman University.
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Rome
Luigi Oreglia di Santo Stefano Aloysius
Sacred College
Pius IX
Cardinal Oreglia
Giovanni Bressan
Vatican
Leo III
Luigi Oreglia
Benevagienna
Mondivi
Pius IV
Ostia
Velletti
Roman University
Congregation of Ceremonies
Many Eggs In Storage Reported In Massachusetts
The Massachusetts state health board reports 181 200 220 eggs in cold storage for use as food on October 1 with 37 780 200 in storage in the prior three months. Of the total 7340 pounds were condemned as unfit for food. The report also notes 19 383 098 pounds of butter held in cold storage on the same date.
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Boston
Mass
Massachusetts
State Board of Health
Egg Prices Fall Further In New York Market
Fresh eggs dropped 4 cents a dozen in New York yesterday, total decline 6 cents in two days. Dealers predict wholesale eggs at 30 cents next week. Refrigerated eggs also decreased by a cent across the market today.
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Onenper
New York
Alee Hurley Dies in London
Aleee Hurley, a leading comedian on the English music hall stage, died in London today. He was recently divorced by Marie Lloyd, the variety actress.
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Alee Hurley
London
Aleee Hurley
Marie Lloyd
French ministerial crisis deepens in Paris formation bid
Paris reports the Barthou resignation after a chamber defeat on the finance bill. Jean Dupuy advised President Poincare to decline forming a cabinet. President Poincare then invited Senator Gaston Doumergue, a Socialist former colonies and commerce minister, to call today to form a cabinet.
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Paris
Barthou
Chamber of Deputies
Jeane Dupuy
Poincare
Gaston Doumergue
Terms Not Accepted In Great Western Railway Strike
About 1200 Great Western Railway workers refused today to accept a union drawn agreement with the Board of Trade. The pact bars reemployment for James the locomotive engineer and Reynolds the agitator, requires a hospital subscription, and delays pay for strike time.
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London
Great Western Railway
Board of Trade
James
Dublin
Reynolds
Swindon
Hindus barred from U S entry via Philippine origin ruling
Federal Judge M T Dooling ruled that Hindus cannot gain legal entry to the United States by reason of admission from the Philippines. The decision affects 22 Hindus who came from Manila and is regarded by immigration authorities as far reaching.
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San Francisco
Cal
United States
Philippines
M. T. Dooling
Manila
Sunday Light Want Ads Highlight Wide Calendar Listings
The Sunday Light issue showcases items from a pet dog to a twenty-thousand acre ranch for sale. Readers can find a broad calendar of offerings across various categories and prices.
Sunday Light Want Ad Tip for Rentals and Trades
A brief note advises using a Sunday light want ad for new or second hand items to rent sell or trade to achieve best results.
Aliens Show Increase In October Immigrant Admissions
Immigrant aliens admitted to the United States in October totaled 134,140, an increase of 25,840 from the previous year. The October figure nearly doubled October 1911, when 69,418 entered. Of last October’s admissions 82,903 were males and 51,237 females.
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Washington, D. C
United States
Bureau of Immigration
Department of Labor
Diphtheria Quarantine Declared in San Benito
County Health Officer C. W. Skipper orders quarantine in San Benito Texas after diphtheria deaths and illnesses. Two killed, two recovered, three children ill. Schools closed until after Christmas and public gathering warnings issued.
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San Benito
Brownsville
Tex
C. W. Skipper
Light Ad Rates and Deadline Note
The Light promotes its large local circulation and warns that ads received after 8 o clock will appear in the Too Late to Classify column. Rates for 15 words vary by repetition from 15c to 75c.
Flood Toll Rises Across Texas as Rivers Crest
The flood crisis swells to more than fifty deaths across multiple Texas towns including Marlin Lockhart Belton and Waco with authorities warning danger points remain. Rescue boats reach stranded refugees along the Brazos and Colorado rivers as water falls reveal bodies and recovery efforts continue through central Texas.
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Texas
Marlin
Highbank
Lockhart
Belton
Dallas
Grand. Prairie
Austin
Hearne
Waco
Bryan
San Antonio
Bastrop
Valley Junction
Temple
Richmond
LaGrange
Colorado River
Colorado
Gulf
Brazos
Navasota
Kaa
Houston
Galveston
Canger Points
Eleven Dead in Marlin Texas Flood Toll Rises
Revised figures place the dead near Marlin at 11 as refugees cling to rooftops and trees. A white farmer, Anderson Stuart, and his wife and four children drowned in the bottom lands. Joe Cooper and his son also perished as their boat capsized on Big Creek. Missing numbers rise while relief parties work. trains and communications are severed and county bridges damaged.
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Marlin
Tex
Falls
Anderson Stuart
Stuart
Joe Cooper
Big Creek
Cooper
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