Venice Struggles Amid War as Lagoon Defenses Hold
A Paris or Rome desk report from Jan 16 describes Venice nearly emptied of its 160,000 residents, with the city relying on lagoon defenses and navy led batteries to fend off Austrians. Sailors man floating batteries along the Piave fronts while fires, bricked monuments, and closed shops mark a wary, quiet city.
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Preas
France
Venice
Venetian
the Adriatic
Burano
Canal Silone
Salt
Piave Vecchia
Porte Grandi
Piave
Flanders
San Giovanni and
San Paolo
San Marco
Doge
Colleoni
Court House Demonstration Kitchen Approved in Commission Meeting
County commissioners approve Miss Gillespie’s plan to install a demonstration kitchen in the courthouse with a portable stove and raised seating for women. The board supports expanding girls’ club work to twenty schools countywide and plans to canvas good roads bonds in Millican district. The courthouse overhaul and steam heating installation progress were reported as satisfactory.
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Good Roads
Millican
Miss Gillespie
Gillespie
Stamps Use Records Sought by Texas Legislator
Austin reports Representative W. J. Hudspeth proposes a law to require heads of state departments and attaches to maintain records showing where every postage stamp provided by the state is used. He notes current practice lacks checks, with thousands of dollars spent annually without traceable purposes.
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Associated Press
Austin
W. J. Hudspeth
Senate
House
Army bank theft at Camp Funston ends with big loss
An official audit shows Captain Lewis Whistler stole 62,826.21 dollars from Camp Funston army bank last Friday night. Four men were killed and a fifth wounded with an axe during the robbery. The final accounting was released at division headquarters under Colonel G. W. Packer.
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Camp Funston
Kans
Army Bank of
Lewis Whistler
G. W. Packer
Return Iron Crosses Protest by German Officers
London reports an appeal urging mutilated German officers and soldiers to return their iron crosses in protest against homewarriors and leaders of the fatherland party wearing the insignia. The appeal drew a large response with 1300 crosses from Berlin sent to the war minister on the first day.
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London
Fatherland Party
Amsterdam
Berlin
Bryan Red Cross plans monthly income for growing chapter
The Bryan Texas Chapter of the American Red Cross seeks to operate on a business basis with a fixed monthly income from members to fund ongoing work through the summer. A committee will collect voluntary monthly contributions on the first of each month, seen as vital support, not dues or tax.
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Bryan
Texas
American Red Cross
Red Crags
Red Cross
Hungarian cabinet resigns over military program failure
London dispatch reports the Dneesten cabinet has resigned due to the inability to secure support for its military program. The resignation follows failed efforts to obtain backing for the armed forces plan.
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Associated Press
London
Dneesten
Nothing to report in official statement from London
London report cites an Associated Press notice dated January 16 stating today’s official bulletin says there is nothing to report. The terse line reflects silence on ongoing events and closures.
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Associated Press
London
Fountain Named for Member of the Exemption Board
Dr. J. L. Fountain was appointed to the Brazos County local exemption board replacing the late Captain P. A. Arrington. The governor acted promptly to ensure the questionnaire work continued as delays had stalled operations. Fountain, a longtime resident since 1875, formerly a dentist with deep local ties and ample time for duties, took the oath immediately.
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J. L. Fountain
Brazos County
P. A. Arrington
Arrington
Fountain
Astin
Fountain Bros
Income Tax Help Delayed by Missing Blanks
Volney Reed assists taxpayers in preparing statements at the Astin building, but his work is hampered by the late arrival of blank forms including 1030 A for those with net income up to $3,000. Several taxpayers have already visited his office seeking aid.
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Volney Reed
Astin
Death claims respected Bryan citizen Dr. D. A. Skelton
Dr. D A Skelton 67 dies at home in Bryan after a three week illness of yellow jaundice. A native Texan born May 24 1850 he lived in the county about forty years and served as night watchman for the Bryan compress since 1902. He leaves a widow three children and three half brothers with funeral services held at Mechanics avenue and Boonville cemetery conducted by Dr M E Weaver.
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D. A. Skelton
Bryan
Mr. Skelton
Walker County
Texas
Missionary Baptist Church
Webb Ward
Skelton
Willard Skelton
Cameron
M. H
W. H. Edinburg
Huntsville
C.C. Edinburg
Mechanics Avenue
Boonville
M. E. Weaver
First Baptist Church
Diseases Menacing Soldiers of the American Army
Miss Elizabeth Speer, lecturer on venereal diseases, spoke in Bryan and addressed A and M College students after touring local officials. She cited selective draft exams showing alarming disease levels and urged public action to protect the army, noting Canadian soldiers sent home and a frank effort to keep the American army clean.
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Elizabeth Speer
United States
Bryan
Woman's Club
Maloney
A. and
M. College
Miss Speer
War Department
France
Weather Report for Tonight and Thursday
Tonight will be generally fair and warm. Thursday brings warmer conditions as a disturbance centered over New England causes moderate to heavy precipitation along the Atlantic coast eastern lake region and Ohio valley. Falling temperatures follow in the northeast. Precipitation scattered in Texas Panhandle Rocky Mountain region and along the Pacific coast. Clear skies in Texas with 76 at Brownsville and 36 at Amartillo. Houston 59.
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New England States
Atlantic Coast
Eastern Lake Region
Ohio Valley
Texas Panhandle
Rocky Mountain Region
Pacific Coast
Texas
Brownsville
Amartllo
Houston
Qust No Men to Give Women Place in Field of Labor
Washington reports the labor administration will not replace men with women where men are available, while Secretary Wilson assumes control of a war labor program and forms a six man one woman advisory council to guide policy. The council will expand to include military and agricultural representatives as needed. It will standardize policies, ensure worker supply, and manage disputes, living and housing issues.
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Associated Press
Washington
Labor Administration
National Labor Administrator
Wilson
National War Labor Board
Advisory Councilors
Council of National Defense
Secretary of Labor
Department of Labor
War, Navy and Agricultural Departments
Shipping Board
Allied planes drop Wilson message over Belgium
The newspaper Les Nouvelles reports that several allied airplanes last Thursday dropped a thousand copies of President Wilsons message to Congress on occupied areas in Belgium.
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Amsterdam
Les Nouvelles
Wilson
Congress
Belgium
Deaths Reported in County Clerks Records
Death certificates filed list Tony Fazino aged about 78 died January 12 of senility and Vincia Patrinella Coroba aged 22 died January 5. Coroba was born in Texas.
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Ferguson
Tony Fazino
Vincia Patrinella Coroba
Texas
Farmers Report Encouraging Ground Conditions and Peanut Yields
A local farmer found ground wet to two feet while digging post holes, signaling a much better season than last winter. Another farmer recalls threshing 150 bushels of peanuts and 500 bales of peanut hay, and plans 40 acres this year, noting peanuts as the best feed crop and urging broader peanut planting to solve feed shortages.
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Eagle Reporter
Romanian minister freed after Bolshevik arrest
London officials report that the Romanian minister to Petrograd and staff, arrested by Bolsheviks on Sunday, were released Tuesday afternoon according to a Reuters dispatch from Petrograd.
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London
Petrograd
Reuter Petrograd
Peace Talks Resume at Brest-Litovsk
Associated Press reports on January 16 that negotiations at Brest-Litovsk between the parties resumed Monday afternoon, according to the Berlin Volkssche Zeitung.
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Associated Press
Amsterdam
Brest-Litovsk
Berlin
Volkssche Zeitung
State rate laws remain in effect under government operations
Washington January 16 Associated Press director general McAdoo announced that all state rate laws and regulations will remain in full effect by government operations.
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Associated Press
Washington
McAdoo
Secret 1915 Caillaux German Links Revealed
The state department released intercepted 1915 messages showing Caillaux in contact with German agents in Argentina. Despatches warned against praising the French premier and planned seizure of a ship carrying important documents, with Germany to treat Caillaux with courtesy during capture.
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Associated Press
Washington
State Department Today
Caillaux
Argentina
Bernstorff
Argentine
Germany
France
Lenine Shot At While In Auto In Petrograd
Four shots rang out Monday night as Nikolai Lenine premier rode to a council meeting in Petrograd. Lenine escaped unharmed. one party member was slightly wounded in the hand.
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Associated Press
Petrograd
Nikolai Lenine
Koshelviki
Council of the People’s Commissioners
Whistler's Army Bank Heist Cash Recovered at Camp Funston
Associated Press reports Cap tain Whistler's alleged accomplice case narrows as more than 62000 dollars taken from the army bank at Camp Funston is found hidden in the walls of Whistler's quarters in Camp A Kansas. The recovery is described as closing the accomplice theory.
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Associated Press
Camp A
Kansas
Army Bank
Camp Funston
Whistler
HFT Distribution On A New Basis
Washington January 16 The fuel administration plans an order to cut off supplies to less essential industries and limit supplies to important industries until the eastern fuel famine is relieved.
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Washington
Jan
Fuel Administration
Seven Million Needed to Drive German Retreat
Senator McCumber warned in Washington that the United States and its allies must greatly speed up shipbuilding and raise troop deployments. He argued England bears the war’s burden and urged five million American troops plus seven million to force German withdrawal.
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Great Britain
United States
Senator McCumber
Associated Press
Washington
Senator MceCumber
North Dakota
Senate
England
French Penetrate German Trenches In Vosges Action
French troops after hours of artillery preparatio ns attacked the Vosges sector and temporarily penetrated German front trenches. An Atlantic Port reports a six inch metal tube with fuse found beside the dry dock in the navy yard labeled This is a twenty five second explosion bomb.
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Associated Press
Berlin
Vosges
Atlantic
Jan
Navy Yard
Fire Marshal Inspects Business District for Hazards
City Fire Marshal John Daly Jr. began an inspection of the business district to locate hazards that could cause a fire. Dangers were noted and proprietors urged to remove them with noncompliance to be prosecuted. Cooperation could greatly reduce fire losses.
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John Daly, Jr
Watson Denied Rehearing by Court of Criminal Appeals
The Court of Criminal Appeals overruled the motion for a rehearing in the J. B. Watson case from Freestone County, announced today by the New York Associated Press.
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NY Associated Press
Anata
Court of Criminal Appeals
J. B. Watson
Freestone County
Willard Resigns War Industries Board Chairmanship
Daniel Willard, president of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad, resigns as chairman of the War Industries Board saying his full time is needed by B and O. The move comes from Washington dated January 16.
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Associated Press
Washington
Daniel Willard
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company
War Industries Board
Willard
Baltimore & Ohio
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DR. Skelton
New Labor Commission
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Caillaua
United States State Department
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Auto
GAOH
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Watson
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