Bailey Opens 1920 Texas Campaign for Governor
Former Senator Bailey visits Gainesville to kick off the 1920 Texas Democratic campaign and announce his candidacy for governor. Other declared contenders include Robert L. Henry R E Thomason Pat M Neff Dwight L Lewellen and Ben F Looney.
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Associated Press
Gainesville
Bailey
Texas
Robert L. Henry
Waco
R. E. Thomason
el Paso
Pat M. Neff
Dwight L. Lewellen
Dallas
Ben F. Looney
Greenville
Bailey denounces Progressives and promotes Jeffersonian ideals
Former Senator Joseph Weldon Bailey spoke in Gainesville denouncing Progressivism and the League of Nations while defending state rights, federal prohibition, and woman suffrage as threats to democracy. He warned of rising federal expenditures, proposed tax relief via bond refunds, and urged a return to Jeffersonian principles amid a Texas Democratic campaign split.
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Associated Press
Gainesville
Tex
Joseph Weldon Bailey
League of Nations
Bailey
Buchanan
Cleveland
Wilson
Mr. Bailey
United States
Army
Navy
Texas
House of Congress
South
Senate of
Senate
European Council
American Senate
Aden
Washington
Boundary case moves to Supreme Court with Cureton
Attorney General C. M. Cureton departed Austin for Washington to file an answer in the Texas Oklahoma boundary dispute now before the United States Supreme Court.
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Austin
C. M. Cureton
Washington
Supreme Court
Sweeping Amnesty Declared By French President Deschanel
Paris February 18 President Deschanel will announce a sweeping amnesty upon taking office extending pardons to civil and military offenders with the exception of treason convicts. The move aims to heal divisions after the recent upheavals.
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Paris
Paul Deschanel
New Business House for Main Street
Bryan will see a large reinforced concrete business block rise on Main Street south of Hotel Bryan. Owners John and Clarence Vick plan a one story building with potential for two more stories, 96 12 feet by 115 feet, a 25 foot south awning, concrete floors, and full modern facilities. Chambers-Wilson Motor Co. will use it as a garage and automobile sales agency.
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Bryan
Main Street
Same
Messrs
John and
Clarence Vick
Hotel Bryan
Fannin Street
John Vick
Houston
Dallas
Chambers-Wilson Motor Company
Texas
Cattlemen Call Joint Tick Eradication Meeting
Cattlemen of Robertson and Brazos counties are urged to attend a joint meeting in Hearne at 1 PM on Saturday February 28. R Q Astin president Brazos County Short Horn Breeders Association appeals to all cattlemen to ensure representation as government funding may end before tick eradication completes.
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Brazos
Robertson
Pryan
Texas
Hearne
First National Bank
Robertson and
R. Q. Astin
Brazos County Short Horn Breeders Association
Washingtons advice echoed in wartime pledge at rally
A speaker invoked Washingtons wisdom and urged voters to keep soldiers home. He described mothers in France scanning casualty lists and vowed not to send their sons to fight Europe’s wars, insisting American wars be fought for the United States.
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Washington
Europe
France
Prominent Texan Col William L Crawford Dies in Dallas
Dallas Feb 17 Col William L Crawford 81 prominent Texas attorney died at his home in Dallas. During the Civil War he served as Lieutenant Colonel of the 19th Texas Infantry and was a member of the Texas Constitutional Convention in 1875. He began his legal training in the law office of David Culberson, father of Senator Culberson.
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Nineteenth Infantry
Dallas
William L. Crawford
Nineteenth
Texas Infantry
Crawford
David Culberson
Senator Culberson
Poincare Retires From Presidency in France
Paris reports Raymond Poincare retires from the presidency of France and may become head of the French delegation on the reparation commission. Newspapers speculate Paul Durasta as possible appointee to the post.
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Paris
Raymond Poincare
France
Charles Jonnart
Paul Durasta
Income tax dodger arrested in Chicago case
Alberti Lauer, secretary of a large salvaging and contracting firm, is under arrest in Chicago accused of offering a federal tax collector a $15,000 bribe to avoid $150,000 in income taxes.
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Chicago
Alberti Lauer
Death of Miss Elizabeth McDowell in Bryan
Miss Elizabeth McDowell died at 10 50 last night at her brother H B McDowell's home in Bryan after a long illness. She was born May 1 1871 in Louisville Kentucky and had lived in Brinkley Arkansas. Survived by her father W C McDowell of Brinkley and four sisters. Funeral held at St Joseph's church with pallbearers named.
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Mary Elizabeth McDowell
H. B. McDowell
Jesus
Miss McDowell
Louisville
Brinkley
Arkansas
St. John’s Catholic Church
Ark
Bryan
W. C. McDowell
Brinkley, Ark
Chas. H. Gardner
EB. L. Woodfin
J. M. Oliphant
J. R. Gardner
Norfolk
W. J. Fesperman
Dorsey Mathis
Jonesboro
St. Joseph’s Church
J. B. Gleisner
T. J. Conway
M. W. Gillam
J. D. Ganter
John Daly, Jr
Jim Powers
J. T. Lawler
Lipton Accepts Challenge for American Cup Races
The New York Yacht Club has accepted Sir Thomas Lipton's challenge for the America's Cup races to be held July 15 off New York. The notice comes as other late bulletins report Allied Council replies to President Wilson on the Adriatic, Bolshevik fighting in Tiraspol and Odessa, and fires damaging Gay Oil warehouses in Fort Smith and Little Rock with substantial losses.
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New York
New York Yacht Club
Sir Thomas Lipton
Washington
Allied Supreme Council
London
Wilson
State Department
Davis
Fort Smith, Ark
Gay Oil Company
Same Company
Little Rock
Vicar Denounces Dancing. Church Windows Smashed in Aix
In Aix near Tulle France the vicar condemned dancing in a Sunday sermon and on Monday night church windows were smashed. Police suspect local youths.
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Tulle
France
Aix
Pennsylvania urged to hold special session on Hog Island yard purchase
Washington reports Representative Edmonds, ranking Republican on the House merchant marine committee, urged Governor Sproul to convene a special session of Pennsylvania’s legislature to consider buying Hog Island shipyard for a great shipping terminal.
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Washington
Hog Island
Pennsylvania
Edmonds
House Merchant Marine Committee
Sprul
Fire at Lorraine Hotel Kills Three In Providence
A blaze at the Lorraine Hotel in Providence, R I, today killed three guests and forced the remaining seventy eight occupants into the street. The building was left largely destroyed by the fire.
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Providence
R. L
Train crash injures eleven at Gibsland depot
In Gibsland forty miles east of Shreveport two white men and nine others were injured when a Vicksburg Shreveport and Pacific passenger train struck a freight car on the depot platform. Three people were reported seriously hurt.
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Shreveport
Richards Named Mayor Candidate in Waco Primary
In Waco on February 18 Ben C. Richards won the mayoral nomination in yesterday's primary defeating Albert Boggess. A second primary will be needed to select commissioners in three precincts.
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Waco
Ben C. Richards
Albert Boggess
All Bids Rejected For Former German Ships Sale
Washington February 18 The Shipping Board recommends to the Senate Commerce Committee rejection of all bids for thirty former German passenger ships offered for sale and seeks authority to renew negotiations to operate the vessels under the American flag.
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Washington
Shipping Board
Senate Commerce Committee
Payne
Kerensky Reported Imprisoned in Caucasus
London dispatch via Copenhagen reports Alexander Kerensky former Russian premier overthrown in 1917 has been imprisoned in the Caucasus according to Central News. The message notes Kerensky was seized after fleeing Bolshevik seizure.
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Kerensky
London
Alexander Kerensky
Caucasus
Central News
Copenhagen
Railroad workers plan program to fight high living costs
Washington reports railroad labor leaders launched a definite program to sustain the campaign against high living costs. They will table wage demands temporarily at President Wilson's request while preparing recommendations to Congress and a broader union conference.
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Washington
Wilson
Congress
American Federation of Labor
Samuel Gompers
Ter Perry
McAdoo Declines Presidential Candidacy and Primary Ballots
William Gibbs McAdoo announced he will not have his name placed on presidential primary ballots and urges uninstructed delegates to San Francisco. He says he seeks no nomination and wants a democratic convention driven by national interest and free action. He resignations from treasury and the U S Railway Administration followed prior private-seeking moves.
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William G. McAdoo
Wilson
San Francisco
New York
William Gibbs McAdoo
Secretary of the Treasury
McAdoo
the Treasury
United States Railway Administration
Miller Bell
Milledgeville
Georgia
Russian agitator arrested in Baku after Caucasus trip
A Russian political figure aimed to organize support for the Russian Democratic Center Party in the Caucasus. Caucasian leaders rejected him and upon reaching Baku he was seized by authorities and imprisoned.
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Caucausus
Russian Democratic Center Party
Baku
General Mickle Dead in Mobile at 74
General William Mickle adjutant general of the United Confederate Veterans and a renowned figure of the Confederacy died in Mobile today at age 74.
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General Mickle
Mobile
William Mickle
The
United Confederate Veterans
Confederacy
Gas Station Explosion Kills Gauger Near Ranger
William K. Carlysle, gauger for the Prairie pipeline, was killed and three other men injured when an air tank used to start gas engines at the pumping station four miles west of Ranger exploded yesterday.
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Ranger
William K. Carlysle
Prairie
Here
Return to Work by New Orleans Longshoremen
Coastwise longshoremen in New Orleans voted to return to work at the former wage scale after ten days on strike. They will continue under current conditions pending promised reconsideration of their issues by the National Adjustment Committee.
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New Orleans
National Adjustment Committee
Two Farmers Die in Forsythe Plow Dispute
In Forsythe Missouri on February 18 Thomas Cardwell fifty and his son Benjamin twenty six died after a quarrel over a damaged plow with Henry Hunt thirty two, who is jailed on the incident.
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Forsythe
Thomas Cardwell
Benjamin Cardwell
Henry Hunt
Prohibition Forces Local Justice To Quit
Police Justice George A. Little of Mineola New York resigns noting prohibition cut his revenues by about fifty percent since it began. He states the crackdown has left him unable to earn a living and he steps down today.
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Mineola
N. Y
George A. Little
Vienna Flu Harvest Claims Forty Thousand Infections
Vienna reports forty thousand influenza cases with a very high death rate. Among recent deceased is Dr. Ernest Wertzim a world famous specialist and surgeon.
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Vienna
Ernest Wertzim
County School Aid Recommendations From State Inspector
A rural county report lists aid recommendations from state education inspection. Schools: Tabor High $500 Edge $500 Kurten $500 Reliance $500 Bowman $500 Shiloh over $500 Wellborn $500 County superintendent Wm. ui. Powers comments on funding proposals.
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State Department of Education
Tabor High
Edge
Kurten
Reliance
Bowman
Shiloh
Wellborn
Wm. Ui. Powers
Deschanel Becomes French President in Historic Transfer
Paris February 18 Paul Deschanel became the tenth president of the French republic succeeding Raymond Poincare. The transfer of power occurred at the Elysee Palace after a critical period in France. Deschanel defeated Premier Clemenceau, renowned for leading France in the war.
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Paris
Paul Deschanel
Raymond Poincare
Elysee Palace
Deschanel
Clemenceau
Repairs to Pitts Bridge Near End
Judge J. T. Maloney told Eagle representatives that Pitts bridge across the Brazos River is nearing completion. The sunken mid span has been raised four feet and is close to level. supplemental steel piers will cap the old piers. A 140 foot steel span for the Brazos county approach is en route and expected to arrive soon.
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J. T. Maloney
The
Eagle Today
Pitts Bridge
Brazos River
Brazos County
Brazos County Bar Forms Committees for Memorials
The Brazos county bar met at the courthouse with Judge W C Davis presiding and Robert Armstrong as secretary. Committees were named to draft resolutions of respect for the late J E Butler and W B Hudson. Memorial services are set for Monday night March 15 in the district court room with public invitation.
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Brazos County
Court House
W. C. Davis
Robert Armstrong
J. E. Butler
W. B. Hudson
Butler
F. L. Henderson
W. G. Taliaferro
Lamar Bethea
Hudson
T. R. Batte
J. G. Minkert
Bailey declares for Texas governor as Henry backs him
Gainesville bulletin reports former United States senator Joseph Weldon Bailey announcing candidacy for governor on the democratic ticket. He also releases a telegram from former congressman Robert L. Henry of Waco withdrawing from the race in Bailey’s favor. The state enters a historic campaign.
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Gainesville
Joseph Weldon Bailey
United States
Robert L. Henry
Waco
Bailey
Texas
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Joseph W. Bailey
Senator Bailey
Oklahoma
Wildam L. Crawford
Poincare
Elizabeth McDowell
Trraspol
Odesa
Moscow
Deschaud
Bulletin
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