Crisis at A and M as bond amendment eyed
President W B Bizzell warned the Commercial club of a crisis over the constitutional amendment separating A and M College from the university at Austin. He cited the risk of crippling cuts to the college’s functions if the measure fails and urged swift local fundraising for a statewide campaign before the November 4, 1919 vote.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. and
M. College
Bryan
W. B. Bizzell
Commercial Club
Ex-Students’ Association of the University of Texas
Dr. Bizzell
Bizzell
Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonic Strengthens Blood and Vitality
Purifies and enriches the blood with iron and quinine to boost energy and appetite. Not a patent medicine, it is a familiar tonic sold for 60c a bottle, trusted for decades and popular with families including children.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
GROVE
Campaign for good roads in Brazos county resumes
Business leaders at Bryan Commercial club urge immediate highway actions. The highway committee will plan another election and report at the next meeting. Voters in communities seeking better roads may be included. committee aims to call a vote within roughly a month.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brazos County
Bryan
Commercial Club
Highway Committee
Shopmen 10 Vote On Strike Now To Be Called
A committee of 100 railroad shopmen told Director General Hines they reject the president's proposed rates. The union-wide notice orders an immediate strike vote to decide if the president's proposal is accepted. Workers are urged to keep working until strike orders are issued.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Hines
Board of Railway
Troops Deployed to Charlotte After Street Railway Strike
Raleigh August 26 Four companies of state troops were ordered to Charlotte where riots tied to the street railway strike last night caused at least two deaths and injuries to about a dozen people.
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Raleigh
N. C
Charlotte
Troops Patrolling Charlotte After Street Car Strike Riots
State troops and deputy sheriffs patrol Charlotte streets to prevent renewed rioting tied to the street car strike. Four men were killed and thirteen injured in recent violence.
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Charlotte
Cold Storage Meat Fatal In Ohio Incident
Alliance Ohio August 26 Colonel Charles Weybrecht died today after eating cold storage turkey at Canton Lake Side Country Club. A woman is dead and a man and wife are paralyzed with doubtful recovery from what is believed to be the same cause.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alliance, O
Col
Charles Weybrecht
L’vance
Lakeside Country Club
Canton
Piles Cured in 6 to 14 Days Past Claim
Wuggists offer a refund if PAIG OINTMENT fails to cure piles or protruding piles within 6 to 14 days. The advertisement promises a restful patter and first application relief, urging readers to try the remedy.
Texas cattle tick fight grows in scope and urgency
Washington reports the cattle fever tick campaign is expanding Texas dipping totals hit 2,204,715 in July, Brazos county votes for countywide eradication, twenty Texas counties poised for December 1 release from federal quarantine, and incidents show ongoing losses from tick fever while farmers push for 100 percent eradication.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
D. C
Bureau of Animal Industry
United States Department of Agriculture
Texas
Grazos County
Brazos County
Harris County
Harris
Tarrant County
Weinert Considers Setting Standard Bread Weights
Austin August 26 The fixing of a standard loaf of bread for Texas was to be considered at a meeting of Texas bakers with Commissioner of Weights and Measures F C Weinert. The standard loaf will define weight and require labeling. If a pound loaf is adopted they may permit two pound loaves and half loaves of one half pound. fourteen or fifteen ounce loaves would be unlawful. Leading bakers favor standardization according to the commissioner.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austin
Texas
F. C. Weinert
Himd
Bandit Escapes On Mule After Chase In Pilares Mountains
In Candelaria on August 26 a member of Renteria's gang named Luciado Colonche was spotted by American forces in the northwest Pilares mountains. Captain Matlack's troops pursued him until his horse collapsed and the bandit escaped on a mule.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Candelaria
Renteria
Pilares Mountains
Luciado Colonche
Matlack
Grove's Tasteless Chill Tontc Restores Vitality
A note describes Grove's Tasteless Chill Tontc as restoring vitality by purifying and enriching the blood. It promises strengthening and invigorating effects with a stated price.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Price Ec
Mosquitoes Roar as Opponents on Murmansk Front
In August on the Murmansk front American and allied forces report Arctic mosquitoes as harsher foes than Bolsheviks. An unnamed Yank quips after the war he and others will hunt the mosquitoes for their ivory.
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Kem
Russian
Lapland
Murmansk
Bacon Tops Post Office Food Supplies List in Bryan
Postmaster Lawrence reports bacon as the popular item on the Bryan distribution list to combat living costs. Beans and rice are sold out. other goods drop in price as sales reach about $900 by Saturday night. Groups may buy groceries wholesale to divide later. orders taken by the post office director. No goods have arrived locally yet.
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Bacon
Bryan
Lawrence
Fair Price Fixing to Be Adopted for Bryan
A county food administrator with wartime powers will appoint a fair price committee to interpret prices on boots shoes clothing and life necessities in general. C L Benson asked to be excused from duty citing time constraints and the county agent fall activities. successor yet unknown.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bryan
C. L. Benson
Peden
Food Administration
Mr. Beason
Milton Dodson Dies After Stroke at Home
Milton Dodson died at his East 26th street home Saturday evening from a paralysis stroke after several days of illness. Funeral services were conducted yesterday with interment in City cemetery officiated by Rev. J. M. Bullock. He leaves his young wife Julie Ann Smith Dodson and an infant. his mother Mrs. W. A. Dodson of Troup formerly Bryan attended.
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Milton Dodson
East 26Th Street
J. M. Bullock
Bryan
Mr. Dodson
W. A. Dodson
Troup
Julie Ann Smith
Government halts shipyard work on Clyde and Britain
The Glasgow Record reports that work on all warships on the Clyde has stopped except those about to be launched. The same order is said to have been issued in shipyards across Great Britain, leading to the discharge of thousands of workers.
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London
Clyde
Glasgow Record
Great Britain
Okmulgee Pledge Seeks Old Clothes for Months
In Okmulgee Oklahoma on Saturday about a thousand men signed a pledge to wear old clothes for three months or until prices fall. The pledge covers old suits collars shirts socks and overcoats. The move followed a Morning Times campaign against high living costs and a city order for four cars of surplus army food. Retailers have cut meat and sugar prices since the probe began.
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Okmulgee
Okla
Morning Times
Supply of Pickers for Cotton Fields Not Equal 10 Task
New Orleans August 25 Unless the army of cotton pickers in the American cotton belt can yearly add to its numbers an average of ninety thousand recruits spinners and manufacturers of cotton may face a serious crisis. The World Cotton Conference in New Orleans will address the need for more pickers and possible mechanization to prevent a future cotton famine.
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New Orleans
South
South Atlantic States
Africa
Lancashire
British Cotton Growing Association
France
Italy
Spain
Portugal
Belgium
Soviet Funds Stir Race Trouble Here
Washington reports Russian soviet interests are funding propaganda to provoke race antagonism in the United States, according to the Department of Justice.
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Washington
United States
Department of Justice
Executrix notices estate of J W English Bryan Texas 1919
The undesigned Mrs Clara Josephine English appointed executrix of the estate of J W English deceased at the July 1919 Brazos County Court term and now notifies all debtors to settle and all creditors to present claims within legal time. Address in care of M F Dansby Bryan Brazos County Texas. Executrix signs August 5 1919.
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J. W. English
Brazos County
Texas
Bryan
M. F. Dansby
Clara Josephine English
Executor's Notice for W C Warren Estate in 1919 Texas
Henry Mitchell executor announces settlement for debts and claims against the estate of W C Warren deceased. Notice to creditors and claimants in Brazos County Texas with residence at Wheelock Robertson County. Dated August 5 1919.
Habitual Constipation Cured in 14 to 21 Days
LAX FOS WITH PEPSIN is a syrup laxative claim to cure habitual constipation in 14 to 21 days. It relieves promptly and should be taken regularly to induce regular action. It is described as pleasant to take and priced at 60 cents per bottle.
War Department stocks of necessities to reach people by direct sales
Washington announces retail stores for surplus government household commodities will open September 25 in depot centers and large cities. Mail orders stay but handled directly by stores, with prices fixed to prevent discrimination. Substations may be set up in each store to speed orders. Initial stores in fourteen zone supply cities, including San Antonio and El Paso.
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Washington
Department
Postoffice
San Antonio
el Paso
County Officials Urged to Publish Road Fund Expenditures
Commercial club votes to ask county authorities to publish detailed outlays from the good roads campaign. The highway committee will push for legal disclosure, following distrust cited after the August bond defeat. Expenses totaled 900.78 with line items including stamps stenographer telephone and band lunches. The report goes to the finance committee for review.
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Commercial Club
L. S. Franklin
Finance Committee
Sleeping sickness found at Rockdale by health officer
Austin reports a new case of sleeping sickness at Rockdale Texas to the state health department. State Health Officer C W Goddard notes it is the fifteenth Texas case since the disease appeared and the first in some time with few fatalities. A federal health survey is underway but a report has not yet been provided.
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Austin
Rockdale
Tex
State Health Department
C. W. Goddard
Texas
Special roads commissioners may run again in Bryan district
An August 19 good roads election results show four candidates for Bryan district commissioner: Minerales, Dansby, and two others with vote tallies 277, 214, and 293 for the top finishers. A second election may occur soon with Howell and Dansby likely on the ballot.
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Good Roads
Bryan
Wea Minerales Os Veketicvadecon
CS BO
Cans Tole Oeer
Marshall Dansby
Nculees
Messrs
Howell and
Dansby
No Worms in a Healthy Child Ad Claim
An advertisement asserts that worms cause pale color and stomach issues in children and promotes Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonic as a two to three week remedy to purify blood improve digestion and act as a general tonic with a safe pleasant taste and price per bottle.
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Grove
Bryan Relatives Plan Funeral for Deceased Engineer
Texarkana August 26. Engineer Hemphill was fatally injured and Fireman Dyer was hurt when the engine and two coaches left the rails on the Cotton Belt at Bassett Tex. Passengers were jarred but none seriously hurt. The enginemen were from Tyler.
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Texarkana
Hemphill
Dyer
Cotton Belt
Bassett
Tex
Tyler
Hicks to Tyler for funeral in Bassett wreck
John W. Hicks of Bryan receives word from sister Mrs S M Hemphill that her husband died in the Bassett wreck. Hicks and J W Mathis of Steep Hollow depart tonight for Tyler where the funeral is believed to be held.
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John W. Hicks
Bryan
Supply Company of STH National Guard Opens to Enlistment
The rolls are opened for enlistment in the supply company 8th Texas national guard. Captain Brandon reports plans to recruit to about 35 men, with potential expansion to 75 as a line company. Officers named are Second Lieutenant James Sullivan and Harry Estill. There is hope the Bryan troop 7th cavalry may also recruit, with shared armory to gain better quarters.
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Texas National Guard
Brandon
Brandon & Lawrence
James Sullivan
Harry Estill
Bryan
7Th Cavalry
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City Bizzell
State University
Michigan
California
Agriculture College
University of California
Texas A. and
College Station
Haswell
Wilson
EAGLE
TEXNO
Weinert
Post Office
Bryan Profiteers
W. C. Warren
A. D
Wheelock
Robertson County
Henry Mitchell
Wat
WAR Department
Qirect
Vail
Parcel Post
Commercial Club Committee
Special Roads
S. W. Hemphill
Bassett, Texas
STH National Guard
Calomel
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