Removal of Feed Control Advised by General Committee
The Eagle reports the legislature's general investigating committee urged moving feed control and foul brood work from the A and M College and the Texas Experiment Station to the state department of agriculture to save funds. It details proposed savings from numerous agency consolidations, abolishments, and transfers totaling substantial annual and one time gains for the state.
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A. and M. College
Texas Experiment Station
State Department of Agriculture
Food and Feed Campaign Expands Across Texas
The war food program begins in Texas with Extension Service staff from A and M in the field to boost acreages of food and feed crops. Elders like M. T. Payne H. H. Williamson J. F. Bagwell and others move through Seguin Floresville Bee County Smithville Bastrop Liberty and surrounding areas to rally farmers and state districts. Dr W B Bizzell joins the effort as illness limits district agents.
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War Department
Federal Department of Agriculture
Texas
A. and M. College
M. T. Payne
H. H. Williamson
Seguin
Floresville
J. F. Bagwell
South Texas
Harmon Benton
Beeville
Bee County
H. L. McKnight
Smithville
Bastrop
W. B. Bizzell
J. A. Evans
Liberty
A. W. Buchanan
G. Worms
E. Gentry
R. M. Harkey
Starnes Elected Aggies Basketball Captain On Train
Tubby Starnes a San Antonio senior is named Aggies basketball captain aboard the train from Abilene to Waco. He starred at Marshall Training and has been hampered by injuries but returns in good form and is popular with teammates. Coach Driver skipped a second Simmons College game and led the squad to Fort Worth for rest. Knickerbocker did not trip or play this season per Coach Driver.
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Tubby” Starnes
San Antonio
A. and
M. College
Abilene
Waco
Aggies
Baylor Bears
Starnes
Marshall Training School
Clyde Littlefield
University of Texas
Aggie
Simmons College
Fort Worth
Knickerbocker
Driver
Beaumont Shipbuilding Secures Two Government Contracts
Beaumont Shipbuilding and Dry Docks Co receives two government contracts totaling about 10 million dollars to equip thirty wooden ships for sea and to construct a large floating dry dock at Beaumont. The awards were confirmed via telegram to C. C. Yoakum from J. W. Link after talks with Emergency Fleet Corporation officials in Washington.
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Beaumont
Tex
Beaumont Shipbuilding and Dry Docks Company
C. C. Yoakum
J. W. Link
Washington
Emergency Fleet Corporation
American gunners harass German snipers in recent fight
In France on February 2 American gunners and riflemen pressed the enemy, destroying a German sniping post found by a patrol and forcing the withdrawal of a machine gun hidden in fog to enfilade Allied lines.
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France
Rush Empties West Faced with Flood Emergency Fears
Washington reports the government railroad administration rushed empty cars from the eastern congested area to the West to speed corn shipments to elevators and cotton to Southern sea ports for shipment to New England mills under government orders.
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Washington
Middle West
Government Railroad Administration
New England
Ders
Grubbs vocational school savings figures released
The document outlines savings totals for Grubbs vocational school including a $1,000,000.00 claim and immediate savings of $871,923.95. It lists annual savings from board of control operation $250,000.00, depository law operation $150,000.00, and department reform $598,894.00, summing to $999,694.00 in total annual gains.
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Grubbs Vocational School
Board of Control
Germans Planned To Blow Up Hotels In New York City
A WWI era report describes German plots to attack the United States including plans to blow up the Ansonia Hotel during a Fleet Review ball in New York City May 14 1915. It details spy leaders like Count von Bernstorff and the impact on U S security and naval power.
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Wilbur Bates
New York
Whartons
William J. Flynn
United States
Secret Service
Kaiser
America
Strand Theater
Army
Count von Bernstorff
von Papen
Boy-Edé
Alvert
Berlin
Ireland
Germany
Ansonia
New York City
Narrows
New York Harbor
Connecticut
Wilson
Lusitania
Hotel Ansonia
United States Secret Service
Train Hits Loaded Bus in Barnum Fatal Crash
A southbound Northern Pacific train struck a bus carrying twenty five children from a consolidated school near Barnum Minnesota. Seven children were killed and the others injured along with the bus driver.
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Barnum
Minn
Here
Northern Pacific
Administration bill would draft skilled experts into service
Washington February 2 the senate military committee approved a bill to authorize the president to call skilled experts from industry and agriculture into military service regardless of existing classification under the draft this measure aims to bolster wartime manpower.
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Washington
Administration
Senate Military Committee
Salina Woman 96 Still Unresponsive After Sleeping Incident
In Salina Kansas on February 2 authorities report efforts to awaken Mrs. Mary Kerr age 96 after she was found asleep at her daughter’s home last Tuesday have failed.
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Salina
Kan
Mary Kerr
Hall's Catarrh Medicine Claims Cure for Catarrh
Advertises Hall's Catarrh Medicine as a constitutional remedy from Toledo Ohio that cures local catarrh by acting through the blood. Offers one hundred dollar reward for any case not cured and urges readers to send for circulars and testimonials. mentions F J Cheney & Co. Toledo Ohio. Produces family pills for constipation.
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Hall
F. J. Cheney & Co
Toledo
Ohio
F. J. Cheney
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Department of Agriculture
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