Word: jalapa
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Breathlessly Mexico City awaited the reaction of big-boned, hard-featured Governor Tejeda. Quick acting but slow thinking, he ordered all copies of the Official Gazette impounded, took his time to consider. To grease a few palms in Jalapa, the capital of Veracruz, to get a copy of the forbidden Gazette and publish photostats of the law was no trouble at all for the active, able journalists of Mexico City. Excerpts from Veracruz's law: "Property rights of all classes of possessions may be subject to enforced expropriation for reasons of social utility, with indemnification...
...Jalapa, State of Vera Cruz, Mexican workmen employed in an American-owned electric light and power plant went on strike demanding, so despatches averred, a 150% increase in pay. The plant is owned by the Higgins Estate Inc. of Manhattan and was managed by William K. Boone, U. S. citizen; but Mr. Boone, unable to effect a settlement with the strikers, was forced to surrender the entire plant to the State authorities, acting on the orders of Governor Jara, and promptly left to file a protest in the U. S. All this took place last March...
Mexico. From Vera Cruz to Jalapa, more than 100 miles, were "hordes" of grasshoppers, gaily munching crops, stopping trains and stridulating with much gusto. It was said that the Isthmus of Tehuantepec was virtually covered with the insects. Although the Department of Agriculture was busy fighting the plague by issuing instructions to farmers, who waged an energetic war upon the hoppers, the latter were reported to be getting the better of the encounters...
...first serious clash between Federal and rebel troops occurred at Jalapa, capital of the State of Vera Cruz, and resulted in a victory for the rebels, who claimed that the Government forces lost 30 killed, 200 prisoners, 400 rifles, four machine guns, 200 horses, while they only lost seven killed and 23 wounded. A statement from Mexico City said "300" were killed on both sides...