Andrea Villareal Nan of the Mexican Constitutionalists a War Hero
Andrea Villareal organized White Cross nursing units and orphan relief for the Constitutionalist cause in Coahuila and Nuevo Leon. She recruited fighters, preached reform, and aided refugees while earning a saintly following in Northern Mexico. Her brother Antonio is a colonel, and her early life included education in the United States and San Antonio.
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Mexico
Andrea Villareal
United States
Soladaras
Coahuila
Nuevo Leon
Huerta
Antonio Villareal
Carranga
Andrea Villarea
San Antonio
Diaz
Villareal
Revolutionary Party
Dias
Antonio
Flores Magon
Juan Sarabia
St. Louis
Jose M. Rangel
Carrizo Springs
Las Vacas
del Rio
Andrea
Madero
Magon
Ojinaga
Santa Rosalia
Spain
Barcelona
Carranza
Greek farmer builds chapel for sons' Balkan return
Constantine Plamiskos of Mykanos dedicates twenty years to a chapel honoring the return from the Balkan campaign of his nine sons, all unharmed.
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Athens
Greece
Constantine Plamiskos
Mykanos
Berlin man seeks death to escape marriage to heiress
Max Arbegger, rescued from the Lake of Krummen near Berlin, said he planned to drown himself to avoid marriage to a pretty heiress deemed celebrated for her conversational gifts.
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Berlin
Max Arbegger
Krummen
Kaiser's Daughter Spotted Socializing in Berlin
In Berlin on a brief visit, Princess Victoria Luisa and Prince Ernst Augustus dined at the Hotel Adlon. They ordered chocolate instead of tea, spoke in American dialect, drawing a crowd of curious onlookers as staff confirmed their royal identities.
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Berlin
Ernst Augustus
Duke of Cumberland
Rathenow
den Linden
Adlon
Prince
Prince Ernst
Princess Victoria Louisa
Wildlife restoration at Fort Sill preserve in Oklahoma
The United States government restrains and grows wild game at Wichita national game preserve near Fort Sill. Buffalo elk deer antelope and white tailed deer populations are expanding with buffalo herd expected to reach 1000 by 1918 and elk and antelope herds growing under warden Frank Rush. A Canadian flag pole project in Vancouver is also mentioned with a 205 foot fir pole to stand 195 feet high.
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Fort Sill
Okla
Wichita National Game Preserve
United States
Frank Rush
New York Zoological Society
William T. Hornaday
Yellowstone Park
Rush
Vancouver
British Columbia
Anonymous Gift to Princess Mary Sparks Inquiry in Balmoral
An anonymous diamond necklace worth at least 10000 dollars sent to Princess Mary after she reached Balmoral provokes inquiries. The sender remains unknown as Queen Mary orders investigators while the necklace is held by the Princess until the donor is identified. A Riverside Restaurant ad follows.
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London
Princess Mary
Mary
Balmoral
Vienna
Queen Mary
Revival at courthouse as former prizefighter converts crowd
At Montgomery Missouri a revival began at the courthouse steps where Roy Hudson, once a prizefighter who fled to Terre Haute after a severe beating, announced a dream fulfilled and led a transformation leading to Jack Swezy and Mrs Hays embracing faith. An Indiana evangelist tied the conversion to a dream. Riverside Restaurant ad follows.
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Montgomery
Court House
Jack Swery
Hays
Roy Hudson
Terre Haute
Methodist Church
Jack Swezy
Evangelist
Indiana
English suffragette recruit Mrs O H P Belmont
London reports Mrs O H P Belmont mother of the Duchess of Marlborough has joined the militant suffragettes. She has praised Mrs Pankhurst and offered help while not seeking open conflict, and she has been granted access to the inner circle of the movement.
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London
O. H. P. Belmont
Duchess of Marlborough
Belmont
Pankhurst
Deauville
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NOA Spears CO
Lesoya Street
Lodovic Printing Co
Lodovic, Prop
House of Good Printing
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Lew Briefs
A & Gan
Texas
Wright
Mark Wright
Wright Bros
Peg
Maggy
G. A. Stowers
BK White
Stowers
Houston Street
Tabourettes
Tomer
Crockett
Kaiser
Princess
A Collman
Riverside
Ady
Gibbs Building
Wimer, Richardson & Co. Investment Bankers
Financial Responsibility
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