Martial Law Order Along Rio Grande Urged by Funston
Brownsville Texas September 7 Major General Frederick Funston to issue orders placing almost the entire Rio Grande region in Brownsville under military control. Army to guard the border while interior policing is reduced, in effort to ease international tensions after recent border fighting. Local officials report widespread Mexican conspiracy and uprisings planned for the border with letters and circulars urging Carranza independence and promising money and offices to supporters.
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Teas
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Samuel Robertson
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Mercedes
Public schools prepare for fall with added seating
Superintendent Lan drum announces no congestion expected as 62 rooms gained this summer. White and negro schools receive most rooms. About 1000 pupil rise anticipated. 809 on payroll including 163 grammar teachers and 39 supernumeraries. Medical inspection reorganized. 5000 children expected to be examined before opening.
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Ugh
Ubo Negro
Negio
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Landrum
J C Wardlaw
RJ Guinn
Board of Education
Medical Inspection Department
Adkins
Bagia
Prohibition Backed by Virginia Senators in 1909 Vote
Senators Thomas Martin and Claude Swanson announced in The News Leader that both will back national prohibition and a federal amendment to ban liquor in the United States. They spoke in Richmond during a visit tied to the Richmond post office dispute and James River improvement.
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Thomas Martin
Claude A Swanson
News Leader
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United States
Martin
James River
Swanson
Senator Swanson
Virginia
Wilson to Decide on Dumba Letter Fallout
Washington digest of the hour reports that Dr Constantin Dumba Austro Hungarian ambassador explains to Secretary Lansing the Vienna letter about withdrawing Austrian labor from American war supply plants. The secretary may present the matter to President Wilson for a final decision. The interview yielded no comments from either side. The British seized Dumba's letter and sent it via James F Archibald an American.
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Constantin Dumba
Lansing
Vienna
Great Britain
Wilson
Waat
Dumbas
James F . Archibald
State Department
Wage
London
Department
Memphis Officials Face Chancery Suit Over Liquor Laws
Memphis Tenn September 7. Chancery court filed against Mayor F H Crump Commissioner of Public Safety Alex Utley and Inspector H Perry. Suit alleges officials failed to enforce state liquor laws. Defendants have five days to answer. Injunction seeks to bar destruction or removal of city records by city officials.
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Chancery Court
FH Crump
Commissioner of Public Safety
Alex Utley
H Perry
Young Atlanta Girl Claims St Louis Custody Mixup
An 18 year old Myrtle Thoumeau says she is from Atlanta and has been staying with Laura Oakley in St Louis. Police say she was taken to 1439 South Eighteenth Street after seeking relatives meant to be at that Atlanta address. Atlanta police have no word on Thoumeau’s situation.
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Myrtle Thoumeau
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Laura Oakley
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St Louis
Miss Thoumeau
South Eighteenth Street
St Lowe
Captain Terry to Open School of Instruction Tonight for Patrolmen
Captain W I Terry of the morning watch will open Chief Mayo's school of instruction Wednesday night at 11 o'clock as professor. Mayo directed each captain to lecture one day weekly on police efficiency, with Terry announcing at roll call that all men on boats on the south side will meet at the station house at 11 that night. Other captains will follow with their watches.
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Wil
Chief Mayors School of Instruction
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Tim
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Danight
Britain’s Great Gold Shipment Feeds Market Slump
New York reports a large gold and security shipment from Halifax to the United States, totaling over 80 million dollars and consigned to J P Morgan & Co. The event, the third such sale in a month, heightens fears of inflation while bankers warn against further large imports.
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Halifax
J P Morgan & Co
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Lendon
London
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Bute
Federal Reserve Board
America
France
Patient at Grady leaps from second story window
AM Osborne a 47 year old Western Heights resident was brought to Grady hospital with typhoid fever and delirium after leaping from a second story window Tuesday morning. Doctors placed precautions to keep him from jumping again as he remains unaware of his actions.
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M Osborne
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Osborne
Russians Hold and Allies Predict Major Offensive
War dispatches report Russian forces holding at key points on a long front as Allied powers forecast a large coordinated offensive. German air raids on eastern England cause fires with unknown casualties while Allied aerial strikes target Saarbruecken. Military leaders note battles near Riga, Dvina, and across Pripet marshes with ongoing artillery and infantry operations.
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Eaxt
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Saarbruecken
Auge
Dvina
Riga
Gulf of Riga
Dvinsk
Vilna
Germany
Mtess
Grodno
Chara
Boiny
Serbia
Teutons
Save
Danube
Vienna
Festival Workers Plan Mass Meeting in Atlanta
At a Tuesday night gathering in the Atlanta Chamber of Commerce assembly hall plans were made to present a 1600 foot film of the Quitman pageant. The Georgia Chamber of Commerce organized the May event featuring a three hour parade with over 1,190 moving vehicles. Quitman, a town of 4000, hosted 20900 attendees and fed 17900 at a public dinner. General Manager Edward Young Clarke oversaw the event for the Georgia Chamber. The film will be shown in Atlanta Thursday night for the first time, courtesy of the Brooks County Industrial Club chaired by J Maloy.
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Assembly Hall
Atlanta Chamber of Commerce
Quitman
Georgia Chamber of Commerce
Edward Young Clarke
Atlanta
Brooks County Industrials Club
J Mailoy
Georgia Harvest festival public rise meeting set in Atlanta
The first public rise meeting for the Georgia Harvest festival will be Thursday night at the Atlanta Chamber of Commerce assembly hall. President Beaumort Davison will outline promoters plans for the biggest week of events Atlanta has known, with the mayor city council and officials invited to witness the Quitman Pageant. Prominent speakers include Clark Howell Judge Charles Whiteford Smith and Charles J Haden. Women organizations plan Friday assembly to coordinate festival participation and back the movement with broad state representation. The festival has already drawn backing from the city council Rotary club Hotel Meng association and other groups.
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Assembly Hall
Atlanta
South
Clark Howell
Charles Whiteford Smith
Charles J Haden
Assembly
Rotary Club
Hotel Meng Association
Recorders
Weather Prophecy Notes Fair Outlook
Washington forecast outlines generally fair conditions with a Thursday focus. Wednesday’s report cites variable temperatures, a low around negative twenty, a high near four, and a mid range rainfall total with recent and monthly deficits reported.
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