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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 20, 1928
Page
17
Mexico City July 20 A budget item in some foreign mining companies in Mexico covers payments to bandits. The practice includes ransoms for kidnapped engineers and bosses, payments to gangs that raid camps, and monthly tribute to a regional chief for immunity. The system is described as simple and widespread.
Mrs Rosale Roethler received a divorce from B M Roethler on a cross petition after a hearing before Judge G W Wood. She testified that statements in his petition were untrue and that he had threatened and abandoned her. She described extreme cruelty during the marriage. Children in remote Australia can take schoolwork by correspondence.
Seven Port Reading youths hoarded about thirty tons of chestnut coal from a gondola on a stalled siding near Woodbridge New Jersey. Police say the acts qualify as theft though much coal has been recovered. one toiler confessed and three more admitted later.
Fragments describe a funeral train for Captain Emilio Carranza crossing Texas en route to New York and Mexico City with guards and railroad police handling the journey. The text mentions a Shore flyer and seven young men from Port Reading aiding the operation.
Grace Delmar 17, son of Claudebody, drowned last night in the Iowa river near Marshalltown while swimming. Authorities report undertow and a heroic rescue attempt, with the body recovered this morning. An unidentified man about 50 was killed by a freight train in Bellevue, with an admission ticket to a St. Louis infirmary bearing the name Will Esty found on him.
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