Plague in North China threatens vast devastation
Boston reports the bubonic plague spreading through Shansi province and threatening all of northern China. Missionaries warn it could be more deadly than famine flood or war, with near \"practically no recoveries\" and urgent calls for quarantine and medical intervention as Penthow station prepares to aid from Tai Yuan Fu toward Talcho near one of the great wall passes.
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Boston
Mass
Shansi
China
American Board of Missioners For Foreign Missions
Associated Press
Mongolia
Great Wall
American Board
Penthow
Percy T. Watson
Tai Yuan Fu
Talcho
Fenchow
Read This: Liver Work Aids Health And Energy
When you feel tired or grouchy your liver may be inactive and overworked by habits such as alcohol tea or coffee. The remedy suggests hot water with lemon, morning exercises and outdoor air, a vegetable laxative, and Anuric to purge uric acid and ease rheumatic pains.
Musterole Relieves Pain Without Needles Or Blistering Plaster
A vintage ad touts Musterole as a clean white ointment made with oil of mustard that relieves pain fast without the blistering effect of old fashioned mustard plasters. It claims rapid relief for sore throat bronchial discomfort and chest congestion.
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Bronstiff
Eight Vice Arrests Tied to City Campaign Outcomes
Eight arrests tied to the vice campaign occurred Friday night into Saturday morning on the west side. Among those booked at police headquarters were five women. a saloonman and his barman faced charges for selling liquor to soldiers and from 9:30 p.m. to after. A 19 year old, recently freed from city jail and awaiting re arrest, was returned to custody after an escape and new charges. One woman was arrested for violating a rooming house ordinance.
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Imads
Nhe
Brown
Coy
Mqnor
Jall
Bing
Vice Squad
Spanish Steamer Mar-Caspio Sunk by Submarine Near New York
The Spanish steamer Mar-Caspio of 2723 tons gross, built in 1899 at Newcastle and owned by Bilbao, was sunk by a submarine while bound for New York with cork cargo. The Claudia Lopez y Lopez rescued the crew and continued after a brief halt. This marks the third sinking in four weeks, with prior losses Gliralda, Caferino, and Duca di Genova in nearby waters.
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Madrid
New York
Cork
Claudia Lopez Y Lopez
Claudio Lopez Y Lopez
Iiner
Spanish Northern Railroad
Leashan
Gliralda
Caferino
Duca di Genova
Newcastle
Billbao
Golfing guest from Philadelphia eyes San Antonio stay
Wilson H. Brown a Philadelphia businessman visiting San Antonio says if the golf courses and climate please him he may linger weeks. His son Col M D Wilson of the 109th Infantry at Camp Hancock is at Fort Sam Houston for brigade school. Brown, a former Philadelphia sheriff, praises San Antonio and notes army camp location debates might be silenced by the favorable conditions.
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Wilson H. Brown
Philadelphia
San Antonio
Mr. Wilson
Fred Terrell
Food conservation plan urged by Agricultural Committee
Washington report says compulsory conservation may be needed in certain areas to prevent shortages and equalize distribution. It notes voluntary efforts have helped but some resist, and grants the President power to regulate distribution and modify food use in high priced establishments if needed.
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Washington, D.C
Agricultural Committee
Tourope
United States
James W. Gerard Recovers After Operation
Gerard former American ambassador to Germany was pronounced out of danger after nose and throat trouble prompted surgery. Doctors said the crisis passed and his condition improved after a tense period, with his illness linked to service in German prison camps.
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New York
James W. Gerard
Germany
Gerard
Lee M. Hurd
Mr. Gerard
Allied envoys to leave slav capital amid war turmoil
Classic dispatch chronicles Allied envoys departing Petrograd as German forces and Polish legionaries advance. Russian fronts see 28 trains moving 40,000 troops toward Moscow. Reports claim Germans disarm rather than kill, with proclamations urging calm and order as food relief arrives. Trotsky ill, Bolsheviks shaken. Petrograd fears and consular crowds grow.
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Patchea
Petrograd
Minsk
Moscow
Times
Trotsky
Council of Peoples
Isome
Daily Mail
Ruling on Aliens in Kinney County
The attorney general advised Kinney County that an alien who declared intent to become a U S citizen before the 1908 naturalization amendment and who did not file a citizenship petition for seven years after the act passed is barred from all further rights. The declaration to change allegiance is void and rights including the right to vote cease.
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London Morning
Petrograd
Reuter's Limited
Council of the Peoples Comimissaries
M. Sverdhoff
Smolny Institute
Texchanse Telegraph Company
Reval
Smolensk
Moscow
Austin
Tex
Kinney County
United States
Supplies for Second Draft Preparations in April or May
Washington D C Feb 23 War Department officials reiterate the second draft date is fixed for spring with preparations for equipping and housing underway. Observers expect call of the first increment soon after April 1 as housing arrangements are resolved. The exact number of men to be called depends on camp space and possible use of existing troops facilities.
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War Department
National ‘Army
National Guard
Court martial order issued in Kentucky death case
Dispatches from Washington report Lieut Col J H Allen and Maj Milton Board of the Medical Corps at Camp Zachary Taylor have been directed to face a court martial over the death of Private Otho Murray of Cumberland County Kentucky. Murray was sent back to training before full recovery from measles. The charge centers on supervisory responsibility for subordinates actions.
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Louisville
Washington
Hy Allen
Medical Reserve Corps
Maj
Milton -Board
Medical ‘Corps
Camp Zachary, Taylor
War Department
Otho Murray
Cumberland County
Murray
Allen
Slayings Trigger Memphis Swamp Citywide Search
In Memphis on February 24 a unidentified negro shot and killed Policeman E T Broadfoot and wounded another officer as authorities, joined by several hundred citizens, hunted the swamps south of the city. A suspect in a small restaurant fled, a suitcase with the gun disappeared, and wounded officer L C Dowdy was likely to recover.
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Memphis
Tenn
E. T. Broadfoot
Iquar
L. Cc. Dowdy
Flo
Ford opens River Rouge ship plant to build submarine killers
Ford Motor Company announced that work began yesterday on a five acre ship-building plant at River Rouge suburb intended to produce submarine killers. The facility, likely finished by May, may employ 10,000 to 16,000 workers. Boats can launch in a canal at the plant and sail to the Atlantic via the Detroit River and the Great Lakes.
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Detroit
Mich
Ford Motor Company
River Rouge
Atlantic Ocean
Detroit River
Great Lakes
War Aims Upheld at Inter-Allied Labor Conference
In London on February 23 the inter Allied labor conference reached a ruling to back Britain’s war arms program. The agreement signals sustained labor backing for the British war effort and industrial mobilization across allied nations.
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Inter-Allied Labor Conference
London
Ask New Trial for Jones in Dallas Murder Case
Felix R. Jones, convicted of murdering Thomas B. Lyons in air city, filed a motion for a new trial saying irregularities in jury selection. He was sentenced to twenty five years in prison by the Thirty fourth District Court after being found guilty Thursday night.
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Jones
Paso
Tex
Felix RK. Jones
Thomas B. Lyons
Aire City
Pyre
Peror
Sonal Business
Thirty-fourth
Local Obituaries Include Schmidt Singer and Foy
Walker Schmidt 49 died Friday at a sanitarium after arriving from Houston for treatment. Walter Schmidt and Marion Singer 24, both San Antonio residents, died Friday, Singer a Bowie School teacher, survived by widows and siblings. W J Foy 64 died at home on West Ashby Street. survives widow and Chicago relatives. Funeral arrangements announced by local undertakers with cemetery details and payments offered.
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Walker Schmidt
Walter Schmidt
Houston
Pearce- Robinson Underlying Company
Marion
Athart Merion Singer
Sanders Street
Texas
San Antonio
Bowie
Ollie
Singer
Lubbock
Annie Singer
Riebe Undertaking Company
Wid
Governor Hobby to sign cotton planting zone proclamation
Houston protests and other South Texas opposition fail to halt the measure. Governor Hobby plans to proclaim a zone where cotton planting is banned due to pink bollworm infestation, though state filing and effectiveness remain uncertain. Attorney Charles Guynes sought an injunction, but Judge George Calhoun ruled against halting the proclamation.
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Austin
Tex
Houston
South Texas
Hobby
Secretary of State
Charles Guynes
George Calhoun
Wfifty-Third District Court
Captain’s daring voyage through unknown channel saves Dante Alighieri
Passengers on the Dante Alighieri recall how the Italian liner slipped midnight through a narrow uncharted channel between a small island and the Spanish coast to avoid a submarine trap. The next day lifeboats were seen loading survivors from three torpedoed ships in a convoy the ship had passed two hours earlier.
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Atlantic
Dante Alighieri
Mediterranean
Peace Efforts Reported With Roumanian Leaders
Berlin reports German foreign minister Dr von Kuehlmann has joined Count Czernin in Vienna and they plan to travel to Bucharest to discuss peace terms with Romanian premier General Averescu. If talks finish, von Kuehlmann will press on to Brest-Litovsk for further negotiations with Russia.
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Amsterdam
Lokal Anzeiger
Berlin
von Kuehlmann
Viennai
Count Czernin
Bucharest
Vofoza Averescu
Dobrudja
von Kuchimann
Brest-Litovsk
Russia
Hobby travels to Dallas on personal business
AUSTIN TEX Feb 23 Governor W P Hobby is in Dallas today to tend to personal affairs. OTTAWA Feb 23 Princess Patricia is named honorary colonel in chief of the Princess Pats Canadian Light Infantry per Longwen dispatch to Reuters.
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Austin
Tex
W. P. Hobby
Dallas
Ottawa
Princess Patricia
Princess Pats
Canadian Light Infantry
Lonigen
Reuter
Ere
French Raid German Positions North of Ailette Channel
Paris reports French forces raided German positions north of the Ailette River and in Champagne last night. Prisoners and war materials were taken back by French troops.
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Paris
Ailette River
Champagne
War Office
Laundry slip clues men in Kansas City safe blowings
Eight men with police records were arrested in connection with recent Kansas City safe blowings after a laundry slip from a Kansas City laundry found in a Little Rock car. Investigators seized nitro glycerine, fuses and blasting tools, and recovered jewelry worth about $500 in one suspect’s room.
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Kansas City
Little Rock
Ark
Detectivas
Two Women Injured in Fredericksburg Road Collision
Mrs M Lacarda and Mrs D Reynolds of Fredericksburg were injured when their auto collided with another on the Fredericksburg road five miles from San Antonio at 10 PM Friday. Both suffered bruises and minor facial and head cuts. others involved escaped injury. Glenn D McDonald of the 326th Aero Squadron at Kelly Field narrowly escaped injury when his car collided with a street car on Main Plaza at 10:26 PM Friday.
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M. Lacarda
D. Reyolds
Fredericksburg
San Antonio
Lacarda
Reynolés
Insurance Ad Claims Complete Protection Featured by Agents
A damaged clipping notes Aetna offers complete protection against loss through accident. Johnston and Burnett, general agents, Crockett 59, are listed in the advertisement. No arrests mentioned in the snippet.
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Aetna
Losa
Johnston & Burnett
Crockett 59
Bank Robber Confesses After Wister Shootout
John Huff, shot and wounded after a bank escape in Wister, Oklahoma, confessed in Poteau to robbing the bank of about 1600 dollars to compensate for losses to his wife's estate caused by his spending. He said his Choctaw wife demanded money to cover the expenditures.
Four Die in Springfield Coal Mine Explosion
Four men were killed in a mine explosion at Citizens Coal Company in Springfield Illinois today. The mine suffered little damage and the cause of the accident is not yet known.
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Springfield
Citizens Coal Company
Inside Bath Promoted For Health and Fresh Appearance
An article urges daily morning hot water with a teaspoon limestone phosphate as an inside bath. It claims cleansing the stomach liver kidneys and bowels, removing poisons and toxins to purify the alimentary canal and improve breath digestion and complexion.
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Sassay
Relief From Eczema Don’t Worry About Skin Troubles
A short, generic ad style note promises relief from eczema and other skin troubles with a claim of clear skin. It emphasizes worry-free improvement and quick results without providing medical details or evidence. The fragment suggests an over-the-counter remedy or treatment claim.
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H. B. Dickinson
L. B. Haines
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Crockett
Roumania
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