Carranza rejects Fletcher-Nieto trade pact amid mining concerns
Mexico City March 9 President Carranza after cabinet consultation rejects the Fletcher-Nieto reciprocal trade agreement. It planned exchange of food staples and gold to rehabilitate finances, with provisions on unrefined gold exports and Mexican currency payments. Commission named to draft a counterproposal for Washington.
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Carranza
Mexico
Washington
State Department
United States
Fletcher-Nieto
Bank of the Mexican Republic
Manuel Aguirre Berlanga
Candido Aguilar
Alberto J. Vani
Fletcher
Aguirre Berlans
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Bank of the
Mexican Republic
Mexicco
United Stated
Republc
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Huns Forced Back With Heavy Losses In Belgian Front
German attacks on the British lines in Belgium fail with heavy casualties. Counter attacks regain ground near Pedderhoek and south of Houtholst Wood. Air action rises as twenty enemy planes are said to be down. Fronts from Rheims to the German border see intense artillery and raids continue on Americans and French sectors.
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Cambrai
Ypres
Rheims
Toul
Bombardment Fails to Break Belgian Front Lines
London reports German forces attacked a nearly mile long front south of Menin Road to north of Podderhock Chateau after a day of heavy artillery east of Ypres. Germans were repulsed except near Poelderhoek where they briefly entered advanced posts. fighting continued at night with recapture of our positions.
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Houtholst Wood
Ypres
Ypres-Menin Road
Pedderhoek Chateau
Associated
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London
Menin Road
Poelderhoch
War Office
Podderhock Chateau
Poelderhoek
Von L Meyer Dies in Boston After Illness
George von L Meyer former secretary of the navy died after a several weeks illness at his home in Boston Mississippi on March 9 from a liver tumor and no hope for recovery was held this morning.
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Miss. Maret
George von L. Meyer
Navy
Weather synopsis from major cities with rain and cooling trend
The Weather section outlines tonight and Sunday fall and colder conditions for San Antonio and vicinity. It lists current temperatures and wind directions for St Louis Chicago Kansas City New York and Washington with notes of rain, cloudiness and low highs and lows, indicating a broad cooling pattern across regions.
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ST. Louis
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Kansas City
New York
Washington
Trotsky Quits Bolshevik Foreign Minister Post
Friday in an address to the Maximalist party Trotsky announced his resignation as commissary for foreign affairs. His departure follows his pivotal role in the Brest Litovsk decision and marks a new turn as two of the Bolshevik leaders exit the ruling group. The move comes amid shifting power within the government and as Germany presses its terms.
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Leon Trotsky
Russia
Trotsky
Great Russia
Brest-Litovsk
Germany
Tess
Kerensky
Wasignierylenko
Niko
A Call to Children War Garden Army Vision
President Wilson writes to Secretary Lane hoping that every school forms a regiment in the volunteer war garden army. The plan, driven by Commissioner Claxton, would mobilize five million students, guided by 40,000 teachers, to grow tables, small fruits and eggs for home use, aiming at a value around 500 million dollars this year.
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Washington, D. C
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Lane
Claxton
Bureau of Education
A I Lockwood Dies Former San Antonio Mayor Passes At 83
A I Lockwood a longtime San Antonio resident and former mayor died at 1 30 p m Saturday at his daughter Mrs Id A Leighton 404 Avenue DR home He was 83 and had served the city in public life for more than forty five years Earlier he worked in the governments quartermaster department when the office stood near the Alamo channel
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San Antonio
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Id A. Leighton
Lockwood
Quartermaster Department
Alamo Chanel
The San Antonio Light Dont Fail to Get Your Copy
A note from The San Antonio Light urges readers not to miss their next issue. The reminder emphasizes acquiring the newspaper for local news, features, and timely updates.
Pilot Lieutenant Chandler Killed in Kelly Field Crash
Lieutenant Leslie G. Chandler of Hinsdale Illinois an instructor at Kelly Field No 2 was killed when his plane with Cadet Henry I X Huber developed motor trouble and fell from 75 feet Cadet Huber escaped with slight injuries The body was to be sent to Hinsdale Illinois Chandler graduated December 1917 and served as an instructor in the dual stage of flying at Kelly Field No 2.
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University of Illinois
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