Rotary Trip Through Mexico and Valley Tales
On the Way Home From Mexico June 7 1924 describes a Rotary journey from Mexico City June 4 with about twenty Rotarians aboard. A Mexican boy tried to join the party at the hotel. a scuffle ensued and he was kept aboard for the next excursion. The Monterey Rotary Club welcomed the group with a lengthy Spanish minutes session and singing. The piece notes Valley boosters praising the Rio Grande Valley, mentions Arthur Therion near Mercedes with citrus and cabbage crops, and reflects on migration from Iowa. The voyage resumes to Galveston Texas for harbor checks and a dip in the Gulf before noting Mary Anderson aboard the boat and her appearance.
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Mexico City
Judge Rhodes
Rotary
Mexico
Monterey
Monterey Hove
Monterey Club
Rio Grande Valley
Arthur Therion
Washington
Mercedes
Arthur
State Experiment Station
Mildred
John
Iowa
Towa
Galveston
Texas
Gulf of Mexico
Galvenston Harbor
Fentieman
Mary Anderson
Rock
Mary
Monterey Visit Reveals Mexican Plaza Life and Club Spirit
The narrator contrasts Monterey with Mexico City noting prosperity, energetic businessmen, and a $300,000 Casino Club built around a plaza. They describe a social scene with band music, matchmaking at the plaza, and a custom of iron grated windows for courtship, questioning its spread to America.
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Mexico
Monterey
Mexico City
Plaza
Monterey Plaza
America
Odd Customs Hold Up On International Bridge
The return trip crossed the Rio Grande at Matamoros and Browneville as officials held up the train for nearly three hours. Customs interrogated travelers about citizenship, vaccinated those without smallpox records, and searched for Mexican souvenirs. Twenty five items made in Scotland and Kentucky were found under seats, placed on the editorial train by mistake. Payment.
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Rio Grande
Matamoros
Browneville
International Bridge
Scotland
Kentucky
United States
Valley boosters tour Rio Grande Valley highlights growth
The party spent Friday in the Rio Grande Valley hosted by Valley boosters. From Harlingen to Stuart ranch headquarters they enjoyed a barbecue lunch then toured San Benito and Mercedes. The area’s development contrasts with a decade ago when the valley was a brushy, uncertain frontier.
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Rio Grande Valley
Legion
Harlingen
Stuart Ranch
San Benito
Mercedes
Valley's Ten Year Progress Shows Roadways and Orchards
A booster tone describes the valley's growth with paved roads, new homes, landscapes, citrus groves, and crops of corn and cotton marking a decade of development.
Rum-Runner Overhauled Near Galverston Harbor
A revenue cutter halted a rum-running vessel off Galverston harbor. Crew unloads sacks of Tampico Scotch whiskey, hauled ashore by a wagon road. Bootlegger faces large losses as authorities seize contraband cargo.
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Galverston Harbor
Revenue Cutter
Gulf
Tampico
Houston-Galveston Ship Channel Project Expands Trade
The journey from Galveston to Houston included a tour of the waterway between Houston and the Gulf. About fifteen million dollars have been spent with the city and federal government sharing costs fifty fifty. The project has created a significant export outlet for the southwest.
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Galveston
Houston
Gulf
Southwest
Hous
Editorial Excursion Ties End as City Guests Travel Home
The Houston based banquet atop the Rice Hotel capped a three week editorial excursion from Houston to Kansas City. Reporters recall hospitality, shared shop talk, and travel fatigue yet praise the journey as a unique press bonding experience. The party dispersed back to daily newspaper duties across the country.
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Houston
Kansas City
United States
Nomination of Calvin Coolidge Praised by Madden
Representative Madden of Illinois urged at the Republican convention that Coolidge offers calm steadiness and practical leadership needed to restore normal conditions and sustain the party. He praised Coolidge as prudent, fearless, honest, and experienced in finance and public service.
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Boston
Calvin Coolidge
White House
Jidee
Win
Ww.Stickney
Vermont
New England
Associated Press
Cleveland
Coolidge
Martin J. Madden
Illinois
Republican National Convention
Republican Party
Mr. Madden
Convention Hall Speech Cheers Coolidge Nomination
Isaac M. Meekins of North Carolina seconded the nomination of President Coolidge at the Republican national convention. He praised the South as alive with loyal, brave and enthusiastic supporters ready to cast their votes.
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Warren Harding
Tennessee
North Care
Olina
North Carolina
South
United States
Republic
Calvin Coolidge
Isaac M. Meekins
President Coolidge
Great Southland
Local Social Notes Include Visits and Travel
Mrs Burt Taylor and her sister join visits as Myrtle Welliver spends Tuesday evening with the Ebner family. Dorothy Sands and Martha Sands of Ainsworth visit cousin Dale Ebner. Harold Godlove travels to Washington. Mrs Jim Cheriwinker and granddaughter Mary visit Harley Cheriwinker in Cone. C W Society meets Mrs Geo Birney. Marjorie McCreedy visits Iowa City with brother Myral Farrington and wife Niberta after mumps recovery.
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Haskins
Ceril Cole
Washington
Ellen Wallace
Emily (Mathers) Crown of
Keota
Mra
T. C. Mathers
Arnet
Ollie Beardsley
Iowa City
Hime
Joe Brussard
Cedar Rapids
Jim Cherlwinker
Grace Stafford
Caun
Myrtle Welliver
M. EF. Ebner
Magcntine
Dorothy
Martha Sands
Ainsworth
Dale Ebner
Harold Godlove
Jim Cheriwinker
Mary
Harley
Cone
C. W. Society
Geo. Birney
Marjorie McCreedy
Myral
Niberta Farrington
Merchant Reminded to Reference Journal Ad in Sale Pitch
A shopper instructs vendors to cite the Journal when marketing goods or services. The remark underscores the practice of tying sales efforts to local newspaper advertisements.
Before Twins Born Lydia Pinkham Tonic Praised
A Wyocena Wisconsin mother, Mrs Ipha Gennitz, reports relief from misery before and after the birth of twins after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. She credits the tonic with helping her recover and care for her twins, noting safety for nursing mothers.
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Wyocena
Wisconsin
Lydia E. Pinkham
Ipha Gennitz
Wyooena
Wis
Lydia BE. Pinkham
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Pacific
Washington County
Rilo Grande Valley
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Rice Hotel
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John T. Adams
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Roosevelt
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