British and German Clash Near Cambrai Amid Railroad Fight
In the Cambrai sector British and German forces engage fiercely as both sides press for the strategic rail center. A Russian armistice was agreed to begin at 10 PM Sunday after negotiations, with a 48 hour denunciation period and talks held in Brest Litovsk. The Bavarian Prince Trupprecht’s encirclement attempt fails, British Byng’s line holds with ten German assaults at Masnieres repulsed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pripet
Lipa
Krylenko
Petrograd
Brest-Litovsk
Eastern Front
Dvinsk
Ponegyezh
von Hoffmeister
van Hoffmeister
Trupprecht
Byng
Cambrai
la Vacquerie
Masnieres
el Paso
Tex
Francisco Villa
Juarez
Federa
Mexico
el Mocho
Chihuahua City
Chavez
Sonora
Villa
el Mocha
Ojinaga
Gallego
Montezuma
American Cavalry Chases Bandits into Mexico
American cavalry near Indio Texas engaged Mexican outlaws after an ambush wounding Private Kelst. Troops crossed into Mexico and killed twelve bandits amid burning shacks. Reinforcements arrived including mobile infantry and MG troops.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indio
Tex
Kelst
Mexico
Felipe Romero
Rafael Venaslado
Presidio
Buena Vista
Texas
United States
Leonard F. Matlock
Justo Gonzales
Rio Grande
Fifty Million Dollar Drouth Relief Plan Proposed
A bill introduced by Representative Blanton proposes a $50,000,000 reimbursable appropriation to aid drouth-stricken Texas New Mexico and Colorado. Texas would receive $40,000,000 with Colorado and New Mexico getting $5,000,000 each to save livestock and secure crops.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Drouth
Washington
Blanton
Texas
New Mexico
Colorado
Texas Items Report Local, State Appointments and Agriculture
The bulletin lists multiple Texas notes including the Bell County poultry association formation in Temple and windfall appointments such as Abner Lipscomb as county judge of Waller County and Charles S. Clark named to the state water engineers board. It covers crop yields in San Augustine, tax bond approvals, rail union station plans at Hillsboro, a Fort Worth union convention, and a state forest fire patrol program affecting 9 million acres with school visits and literature distribution.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles S. Clark
Donna
Hidalgo County
W. P. Hobby
State Board of Water Engineers
B. B. Gore
Farmers’ Educational and Co-operative Union of Texas
Fort Worth
State Forestry Department
Texas
Congress opens with record war funding estimates
Washington reports the second session of the sixty fifth congress began at noon with routine sessions and war funding estimates totaling about 13.5 billion dollars for 1919. Leaders expect war measures to dominate, with 11 billion for military needs and funds raised by liberty bonds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Sixty-Fifth
Congress
Senate
House
Desiro
Treasury Department
Liberty
Treasury
Cotton Seed Crushers Set New Price Averages
Louisiana and Mississippi crushers met in New Orleans under Food Administrator Parker and Hard ing to fix prices for 36 percent cotton seed meal and cake at 46.50 per ton, signaling a drop of about four dollars to 35 per ton for local mills and aligning with Texas actions. The group wired a formal resolution to Washington endorsing Hoover’s price guidance for carload lots with 48 percent protein at 63.50, 38 percent at 43.60, and 86 percent at 46.50, f o b mill paints.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Orleans
Texas
Oklahoma
Louisiana
Mississippi
John M. Parker
P. M. Harding
Vicksburg
Texas Crushers
Washington
Also Mentioned on This Page
France
Center OF Conflict
Mex
Laguna Station
Santa Clara Canyon
Laguna
Villa Ahumada
Poultry Association
Bell County
Temple
Chambers County
Cove
Abner Lipscomb
Waller County
Allan Hannay
The
Texas Laundrymen’s Association
Dallas
Travis County
A. D. Johnson
Corsicana
Federal Land Bank of Houston
Federal Farm Loan Board At
San Augustine
Attorney General's Department
City of Paris
Real County Court House
jrAl
Hobby
Insane Asylum For
Rusk
Goren Ashford
Huntsville
W. T. Norman
F. B. Guinn
Third Court of Civil Appeals
Ve. St. Louis Southwestern Railway Company
Travis
Katy, Cotton Belt
Trinity & Brazos Valley
Hillsboro
Railroad Commission
D. W. Law
Brenham
Texas National Guard
Austin
Adjutant General's Office
Low
Ordnance Department
Railroad Commission of Texas
Hnea
George 3S. Bruce
International & Great Northern Railroad
Bruce
Panama Canal
Liona
Kad
Dean
Lydia Shueter
Margaret §J
Frankford
Doan
F. W. Cassidy, JR
Notary Public
Doane
Foster-Milburn CO
Buffalo
N. Y
Sieanda
Gennicklal
Apie A M
Fexton Talet Couteou
Japan
Dr. Pierce
Jones - Brewster CO
Houston
Peden Iron & Steel CO
San Antonio
Rvice
F. W. Heitmann CO
Blastlouton Fox
Tae Hardway & Cathey
Secret Service Company
Furlong's Ing
Ncte General
Bt, Ill
Texas Bag & Fibre Co
Thomas E
Crieen
Ghateworth
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