Dem US Navy humane contrast with German submarine crimes
The Bryan Weekly Eagle praises U S Navy humane treatment after sinking a German submarine on November 24. It contrasts American restraint with German methods, recounting rescues, burial at sea, and care for prisoners against German attacked ships, urging those actions as a rebuke to German autocracy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States Navy
Philip
Santiago
Annapolis
Republic
Fanning
Nicholson
Navy Department
Government Control of Railroads and Cooperation Dilemma
The piece outlines a three party tension among railroads and the government during wartime. It argues that self interest and distrust hinder unified policy, causing freight congestion and fuel allocation challenges. It notes equipment shortages, wage demands, and finance constraints as factors worsening railroad operation under pressure.
Wilson Plan Aims To Take Over Railroads For War Effort
The passage argues for government takeover of railroad networks during the war. It notes railroads were failing to coordinate due to self interest, and that President Wilson would guarantee income to owners while upgrading capacity. It predicts reduced overhead and consolidation under national control.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wilson
Europe
Russia, Hunger, and a German Peace Chance
The article argues Germany seeks peace with Russia mainly to gain food resources. It questions how Russia can supply Germany if Russians lack food and critiques Bolshevik control of food and gold. It notes White Russia's republic status and suggests Germany may want peace to free prisoners and save food, viewing food as Germany's primary peace objective.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Russia
Germany
Kalidenes
Petrograd
Farmers, pastors shape Texas county votes and aims
The text compares county demonstration agents to missionaries and district agents to presiding elders, with the bishop directing and Texans expressing themselves by ballot. It argues the agents seek better farm conditions and that farmers may change hearts to adopt scientific farming for better crops, money, and living.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Texas
South Texas Red Cross Drive Reaches 400000 Mark
Houston December 31 J W Bonnar South Texas chairman reports the Red Cross membership drive closed last Monday night with more than four hundred thousand members in his district and fifty chapters awaiting results County Chairman Abe Levy yet checks books but expects Harris county total over forty thousand.
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Houston
Red Cross
J. W. Bonnar
South Texas
Abe Levy
Harris County
Hobby Calls Conference On Drouth Relief And Acreage
Governor Hobby convenes the state council of defense and the drouth relief committee in Austin to seek federal drought relief and to discuss plans to increase next season’s crop acreage. He invites directors from the federal reserve banks and farm loan banks to attend and offer suggestions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austin
Hobby
State Council of Defense
Drouth Relief Committee
Federal Reserve Banks
Farm Loan Banks
Draft Cause of Tragedy Near McLain Oklahoma
Fear of the draft is believed to have driven Charles E Logan a farmer near McLain Oklahoma to kill his wife and baby as they slept, set fire to the house and then cut his own throat. Officers say Logan died kneeling beside a couch with charred fragments of the draft questionnaire in his hands. The theory that an outside killer acted is now abandoned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Muskogee
Okla
Charles E. Logan
McLain
Logan
Registration of 500000 Germans in U S proposed
The department of justice sets aside the week of February 4 to register 500000 unnaturali zed Germans in the continental United States by police or postmasters, under President Wilson's alien enemy proclamation to minimize enemy sympathizers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Dec
Department of Justice
Sydney
Continental
United States
Wilson
Mill Agrees to Pay Ten Cents for Meal Bags
A mill announces it will pay 10 cents per meal bag under specification D-205-W.19, outlining the payment policy and its application to supplier deliveries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ol Mill
Negroes Prosperous In U S Land and Property, Storey Says
Moorfield Storey, head of the NAACP, told a New York conference that African Americans own about 20 600 000 acres of land and property valued at 1 000 000 000 dollars. He praised wartime service and urged civil rights progress, condemning lynching as a crime and urging unity among races.
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New York
United States
New Hampshire
Vermont
Massachusetts
Rhode Island
Moorfield Storey
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
Waco
Memphis
East St Louis
Dyersburg
Storey
Von Kuehlmann to Reach Berlin After Peace Talks
Amsterdam dispatch reports German Foreign Secretary Richard von Kuehlmann will return to Berlin today and be greeted by the emperor. He may visit Field Marshal Hindenburg before resuming duties as Pan German papers mock him for betraying the army. Maximilian Harding says Alsace need not block peace.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Amsterdam
Exchange Telegraph Company
Richard von Kuehlmann
Berlin
Field Marshal
Hindenburg
von Kuehlmann
Maximilian Harding
Alsace
Stallion Sold For 30000 At Cincinnati Marketplace
One of the year's largest turf deals occurred in Cincinnati as H Bedwell acting for J K L Ross bought the great sire Marathon from J B Respress for about 30000 dollars. Bedwell had previously purchased the colt Cudgel for the same price from the same seller.
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Cincinnati
Dee
H (. Bedwell
Maryland
J B
Bedwell
J. K. L. Ross
Feed Control Work At A and M Improved By Texas Letter
B Youngblood director writes to The Daily Eagle praising the College Station feed control service. He argues the college location strengthens cotton seed product authority and feeding-stuff expertise, and that scientific guidance guides policing of pure feed laws. He contends moving the service would harm state agriculture and station work.
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Daily Eagle
College Station
Texas
The
Eagle
Food Control Service of Texas
National Agricultural Service
Legislative
Texas Station
B. Youngblood
Rockefeller urged Baptists to drop immersion as a membership requirement
John D. Rockefeller Jr proposed that Baptists abandon immersion as a prerequisite for membership seeking church unity and a future church with less focus on form. The suggestion drew mixed reactions from Baptist leaders and critics who warned against compromising essential doctrines.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John LD. Rockefeller, Jr
Rockefeller
New York City
Baptist Church
The
Church of the Future
Church of the Living God
Daily Press
Charles A. Eaton
Madison Avenue Baptist Church
Cornelius Woelfkin
God
Christ
Joseph W. Kemp
New York Times
John D. Rockefeller, Jr
John D., Jr
Fifth Avenue Baptist Church
J. H. Johnston
C. F. Aked
Johnston
Washington Heights
Abed
Rockefellers
Mr. Rockefeller
Cornelius Woeltkin
Flag Has 539 Stars
Baltimore Maryland January 2 Perhaps the most distinguished service mag in the country is flying from the flagstaff of St. Marys Industrial school here The flag bears 539 stars two of them are of gold for men who have already lost their lives in the service This school is conspicuous for the number of its pupils who have joined some military service The greater proportion of them are serving with the United States marines.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baltimore
St. Mary's Industrial School
United States Marines
White Russia Proclaims Independence Amid Minsk Assembly
London dispatches report the establishment of a republic in White Russia. A Rada has assembled in Minsk and will issue a decree declaring the state's independence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Russia
London
Petrograd
Rada
Minsk
The Shepherd Song Shows Gift of Kindness at Bryan's
A young girl with no money longs for toys in a Bryan store window. A charity worker notices her tears and selects a doll for the child, gifting joy as she departs, while the tale invokes the Christmas shepherd song and Bethlehem.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bryan
Santa Claus
Jesus
Bethlehem
Brazos Civil War Veteran Steven Greer Dies at 72
Steven Greer of Brazos County died Sunday afternoon December 6 1917 at age 72 born December 1 1845 on Rock Prairie. He served in the Civil War from 1862 to surrender and returned to farm. He married Sarah Ann Martin near war’s end and nine children were born. three sons survive with families. Funeral Monday at Simms burying ground with many friends.
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Steven Greer
Brazos County
Rock Prairie
Clapp Place
Sarah Ann Martin
Millican
Austin
T. Caywood
Free Baptist Church
Simms
Registrants Classified by City Board Members
Chairman P H Arrington and Dr W E Byars lead the board as they classify registrants from questionnaires sent since December 20. About 1800 uncalled individuals received 100 forms daily, with seven days to respond. Attorneys assist registrants in completing the forms as clerks mail classification notices.
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P. H. Arrington
W. E. Byars
All soldiers to get guns as supplies promise
Major General Crozier testified before the senate military committee that complete rifle supplies for all American forces will be ready within a month. Springfield rifles for regulars and national guardsmen are due before February 1, remodeled Enfields for the first national army finish in a week, and a full American Haie machine gun supply by July 1. Rifles for the next draft would be on hand before camp.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Crozier
Senate Military Committee
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Bryan Weekly Eagle
Elzer Harwell
Francis G. Conner
Luscitania
Belgium
France
PROUD
Hobby Calls
Hiss von Kuehlmann
Kha
Troubling Baptist Waters
Ring 42
G. D. Tucker
Shepherd Song
George W. Pittman
Waco, Texas
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