Further Log Of American Lives May D It
The Persia sinking details remain sparse as of January 4. Ambassador Penfield reported no new information from Vienna. Consul Garrely confirmed affidavits saying no warning before the sinking. The cabinet debated possible U S entry into hostilities if losses grow. In Kovel, Russians gain influence in Balkan affairs while Turkish forces push on the Tracian Greek front seeking to regain losses.
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Associated Press
Washington
Penfield
Vienna Foreign Office
Garrely
Alexandria
Persia
Submarine Sunk Off Danish Coast. Crew Saved
London January 7 The Admiralty announces the sinking of a British submarine off the Danish coast this morning. The vessel is unnamed and the crew was saved.
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Associated Press
London
Admiralty
Russians Press On In Fierce Frontier Fighting
Paris dispatch says on the Tarnopol Trembovla front fighting grows more ferocious with 800000 men and 3000 cannons in action. Cannon fire is audible thirty six miles away and windows shake from the blasts as Russian officers report slow but steady advances amid strong German resistance.
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Associated Press
Paris
France
Havas Petrograd
Tarnopol“Trembovla
Russian fighting eases between Pripet and Bessarabia frontier
Vienna dispatches report reduced Russian violence in the area between Pripet and the Bessarabian frontier. An Austrian force retreated from Czartoryssk cemetery after a sanguinary clash.
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Associated Press
London
Vienna
Pripet
Bessarabian
Czartoryssk
London Polls Likely Force Quick Vote on Compulsory Service Bill
London reports indicate the government will seek general consent to the new compulsory service bill as a general election appears unnecessary for passage. Observers believe the measure could be approved without an electoral contest.
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Associated Press
London
German Proposals Satisfactory for Lusitania Crisis
Washington dispatch states German proposals were received by Ambassador Bernstorff and are believed to satisfy the United States. The plan includes indemnity for American losses and a pledge that submarine commanders in the Mediterranean will not torpedo privately owned liners without warning.
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Washington
United States
Bernstorff
Germany
Mediterranean
Death of Mrs. Alice Erwin Hudson Brings Bryan Community Sorrow
Mrs. Alice Erwin Hudson wife of Judge Victor B. Hudson died at 2 20 p m Thursday at the family home in Bryan aged 47 She was active in First Methodist Church Home Mission Society Daughters of the American Revolution Eastern Star United Daughters of the Confederacy and Bryan Woman's Club She is survived by her husband and two children funeral held at 4 pm with large attendance and city offices closed in tribute.
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Wayne Evans
Hugo
Hudson
First Methodist Church
Alice Erwin Hudson
Chappell Hill
Washington County
Tex
Lycurgus Erwin
Bryan
Victor B. Hudson
Hugo, Ok
Charles B. Hudson
Hudson & Hudson
Home Mission Society
Daughters of the American Revolution
Eastern Star
United Daughters of the Confederacy
Bryan Woman's Club
William Erwin
Otey
F. E. Wooten
Hockley
J. F. Gammill
Calvert
City
C. T. Tally
F. L. Henderson
Ed Hall
H. O. Boatwright
R. H. Harrison
J. T. Maloney
Lamar Bethea
W. Wipprecht
Jno
A. Moore
E. W. Crenshaw
J. W. Doremus
Joe B. Reed
L. L. McInnis
M. Caldwell
L. D. McGee
W. E. Saunders
R. M. Nall
Robert Armstrong
T. C. Nunn
W. B. Hudson
Brazos County
J. E. Gammill
Erwin
Ed Harris
Fulshear
Five in Bell County Indicted by Grand Jury
Temple Texas January 7 Bell County grand jury recessed until February 14 and returned nine indictments charging five persons with violation of the local option law in place about ten days. Three arrests were made at Belton and two in Temple.
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Temple
Tex
Bell County
Belton
Death of D L Foster of Steep Hollow
David L. Foster of Steep Hollow died at his daughter Lucy Wilson’s home in Thorndale on Wednesday night January 8. Born November 1838 in Hines County Mississippi he was 77 years 1 month and 29 days old. He served in Campbell’s Company Twenty-seventh Louisiana Regiment in the Civil War and moved to Brazos County twenty years ago. Survived by widow Jennie Looney and five children with twenty-two grandchildren and many relatives. Funeral held at Steep Hollow with interment in Steep Hollow cemetery. services by Rev C T Tally and Rev Thompson. Steep Hollow school dismissed for the hour.
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David L. Foster
Steep Hollow
Lucy Wilson
Thorndale
Brazos County
Mr. Foster
Hines County
Mississippi
Jennie Looney
Minden
Campbell
Louisiana
W. B
B. L. Foster
O. B. Hopkins
Cottonwood
Ella Berry
Celina
Tex
Bryan
International & Great Northern Railroad
C. T. Tally
First Methodist Church
Thompson
Methodist Church
Get Rid of Stumps Now Promote Efficient Cultivation
The Progressive Farmer urges readers to value stump removal as the first step toward productive farming. It cites cooperation among landowners and small farmers, promotes stump pullers for up to eighteen inch stumps, and notes dynamite or fire as economical options for larger stumps depending on conditions.
Safety Scout Oath for School and Play
Rhyme urging daily safety awareness at school and during play. It emphasizes careful behavior, looking before running, and guarding fun through thoughtfulness and responsible conduct.
Haul From Mail Train Robbery Valued At 10000 To 15000
Estimates place the loot from a Southern Pacific westbound mail car robbery between 10000 and 15000 dollars. A shipment of 9000 dollars in currency bound for Del Rio Bank was seized, plus 3000 in Carranza currency. Ten Laredo packages were also reported stolen as investigation continues.
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Associated Press
San Antonio
Tex
Morton E. Banks
Houston
del Rio Bank and Trust Company
Citizens’ Bank and Trust Company of
Carranza
United States
New Orleans
Laredo
West
Floyd Thomas Executed in Fairfield Amid Crowd Turmoil
Associated Press report from Teague Texas notes Floyd Thomas, a Black inmate, was executed at Fairfield on Thursday afternoon. As sheriff and deputies moved him from the jail, he requested permission to address the assembled crowd outside.
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Thomas
Jim Casey
Fairfield
Floyd Thomas
Associated Press
Teague
Tex
Drainage as essential for Southern farms
The article argues that with annual rainfall ranging from 45 to 60 inches across most of the cotton belt, large areas of low land remain undrained and soils suffer from drought. It criticizes past half measures and urges broad, planned drainage designed by experts to serve the whole farm or basin, warning that uncoordinated efforts waste money.
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Cotton Belt
Engineers Abney and McCormick Near Completion of Road Survey
Engineers Abney and McCormick report about 80 percent of field work done on the good roads project in the district. They expect the preliminary survey to be finished soon, hindered recently by rainy weather that caused several days of work stoppage.
Robbery at St Paul Collector’s Vault
Thieves blew the vault at the St Paul collector's office last night stealing between 600 and 5000 dollars in cash and possibly up to 1,000,000 in internal revenue stamps. The exact total is unknown and no clues are reported.
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St. Paul, Minn
Internal Revenue
Wilganowski Reward Paid for Marlin Murder Case
Sheriff Platt received a $1,000 check from the late Ed Wilganowski’s sons as payment of the reward for the arrest and conviction of his slayer in Marlin. The case drew Bryan interest since defendant Kate Wilganowsk i, a former Bryan resident, married the victim and later moved to Marlin where she was sentenced to life for the murder.
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Marlin, Tex
Platt
Ed Wilganowski
Marlin
Wilganowski
Bryan
Kate Wilganowski
Marrid Wilganowski
Riggins Hotel in Waco Sold at Public Outcry
The ten story Riggins Hotel built by J. W. Riggins was sold at noon on the courthouse steps in Waco. Mercantile Trust Company of St. Louis bought the property for $225,000, to satisfy district court judgments. Hotel furnishings sold earlier to Albert Pick of Chicago for $50,000.
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Waco
Tex
Riggins
J. W. Riggins
Court House
Clint Padgitt
Mercantile Trust Company of
St. Louis
Seventy-Fourth District Court
Albert Pick
Chicago
Bookseller ad offers Life of Booker T. Washington
Classified ad from Boyd Publishing Company Dallas Texas seeks agents to sell a Memorial Edition of the Life of Booker T. Washington. Offers 10c canvassing outfit and full instructions with complete book postpaid for $1.00. Best terms guaranteed.
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Booker T. Washington
Boyd Publishing Company
Dallas
Tex
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Kovel
Balkan
Mrs
Alice Erwin
Antonio Rodello
Associated Pressa
San Angelo, Tex
D. L. Foster
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AIC
Anuitu Iwians Uniu
Burleson
Abney and McCormick
Paul
Riggins Hotel
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