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Meanwhile, the Federal advance on the port of Vera Cruz was held up by the constant railway repairs made necessary by the rebels. After a lapse of seven days, however, the post was formally entered by the victorious troops and the lines of communication between Mexico City and the coast were thus solidly in the hands of President Obregon...
...Thus of about 26,000,000 barrels of oil now estimated to be in Reserve No. 3 (Teapot Dome), the Government will receive about 1,666,666 barrels. The oil companies drill the wells, refine the oil, transport it (in the case of Sinclair and Teapot Dome, to the Coast; in the case of Doheny and Reserve No. 1, to Hawaii) and build oil storage tanks which are the property of the Government. It is a question of business whether the oil companies receive too much for these services. The two Admirals (above) and Secretary Denby (above) think the arrangement...
...Milwaukee, and his diocese have elected to "stand by the Bishops of the Episcopal Church and the old, proven doctrines and dogmas." Said Bishop Webb: "The Middle West and particularly Wisconsin have remained true to the old teaching, thus refuting the charges of radicalism often hurled from the east coast...
Last year five Harvard undergraduates were stationed at three ports on the coast of Labrador. Two of these, Dudley Merrill '26, who has spent two years with Dr. Grenfell's missions, and G. D. Krumbhaar '26, who worked with him last summer at the Indian Harbor station, have been appointed by Dr. Grenfell to conduct the drive at the University for 1924 workers...
...northeast tip of the second largest island of the Archipelago, Mindanao, a lieutenant and twelve men of the Philippine Constabulary were cut off from their base, the town of Placer, by "Colorums," fanatics. On the following day Colonel Bowers with another detachment landed on Bucas Island, adjoining this coast, and, under cover of machine-gun fire from the gunboat Sacramento, burned a town held by 600 Colorums. General Wood's yacht Apo was proceeding to the same region with reinforcements; for the Colorums in repeated attacks had killed some score of the constabulary - although the fanatics themselves lost about...