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...Veracruz Gazette, had the old edition burned. In Jalapa and throughout Veracruz State poor persons promptly began to clamor for expropriation of everything, tenants asking that the houses in which they lived be turned over to them, farmers clamoring to own their rented acres. On international exchange the Mexican peso promptly slumped to 3.75 to the dollar, lowest this year...
...Mexico City, neighbors of Leonardo Uribe were impressed when every night he carried home a bulging moneybag of 1,000-peso capacity. One night thieves halted Leonardo Uribe, seized his moneybag, opened it, found inside two old boots. The thieves fell upon Leonardo Uribe, beat him to death...
First act of Tsar Calles was to abolish the gold standard for Mexico, make the silver peso the only legal tender. Managing Director Alberto Mascarenas of the Bank of Mexico followed with the announcement that the entire issue of Mexico's gold notes would be withdrawn from circulation and burned...
...lands right and left, the only result being the creation for the nation of a fearful compromise - fearful because the Agrarian bonds in their entirety are in the hands of American bankers. What is graver is that they have reached their hands at the ridiculous price of 14? per peso...
After fire, filaments. Last week, General Electric Co. of New York let a million-peso contract ($450,000) for the immediate construction at Monterrey of the largest electric lamp bulb factory in Mexico...