Ypres Battle Reports German Defense Shift In April Fighting
London dispatch reports Germans on the defensive as Allied forces press at Ypres with heavy German losses claimed. French say progress north of Ypres with prisoners and six hundred German dead at Yser Canal. Berlin notes Austrian submarine attack on French cruiser Leon Gambetta with survivors. Paris reports German artillery not respecting Red Cross marked convent buildings. three nuns killed.
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Associated Press
London
Ypres
Sr Rees
Flanders
Yser Canal
Berlin
Leon Gambetta
Paris
Red Cross
German Gas Bombs Fail in Belgian Action
Reports from Havre and Berlin on April 28 describe German gas bombs as ineffective against Belgians who employed preventive measures. German forces reportedly suffered heavy casualties from Belgian machine guns as they attacked in large numbers. Additional dispatches state Hartmanns Weilerkopf remained under German control claims despite French announcements, and German forces reported advances in Russian Poland north of Suwalki. In the North Sea a Belgian relief steamer reported a German fleet of sixty eight vessels, and German aviators claimed a French plane shot down at Altkirche.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berlin
Russian
Poland
Suwalki
Associated Press
London
Scott
North Sea
Loss of French Cruiser Leon Gambetta Reported
Official statements say the cruiser Leon Gambetta was torpedoed Monday night off the Italian coast at the Otranto Canal entrance and sank in ten minutes with all high officers at their posts. Some 1236 are known to be rescued, while unofficial reports claim the ship is beached on the Italian coast.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Leon Gambetta
Otranto Canal
Woman Vote Buyer Exonerated by Grand Jury
Paris April 28 The grand jury exonerated Mrs Mattie O Neal on a vote buying charge from the city election last week A man arrested faced the same charge It is alleged that women s votes sold for three to twelve dollars each Also includes a Farm and Fireside note on Spanish peanuts as hog feed claiming three cents a pound and growing interest in peanut cultivation in the Southwest Texas crop value cited at two million dollars annually.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Paris
Mattie O'Neal
National Farm Paper
Springfield
Ohio
Texas
Mob kills Black suspect near Somerville trestle
Somerville Tennessee April 28 Tom Brooks a Black man accused of killing two white deputies was fatally harmed by a mob. He was taken from officers en route to jail and killed at a railroad trestle near Somerville.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Somerville
Tenn
Tom Brooks
Spanish peanut prospects and hog feeding yield in the plains
The article notes Oklahoma plans to plant near 100 000 acres of Spanish peanuts in 1915 after a poor 1913 harvest. It cites a USDA test in Southern Arkansas yielding 800 pounds of pork per acre from Spanish peanuts and mentions hog feeders in Oklahoma Arkansas and Texas who fatten fifty to sixty hogs on ten acres, gaining 100 to 125 pounds of pork in five to six weeks.
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Oklahoma
United States Department of Agriculture
Arkansas
Texas
American reporter arrives in Galveston denying Vera Cruz sentence
Philip McCleary, the American newspaper man once reported by Washington to be sentenced to be shot at Vera Cruz, arrived in Galveston today from Vera Cruz and denied any sentence or trouble.
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Galveston
Associated Press
Tex
Philip McCleary
Washington
Vera Cruz
Farmers stake in Russia's drive to reach the Mediterranean
Fireside, the National farm paper from Springfield Ohio edited by Herbert Quick, argues American farmers have a direct financial stake as Russia fights to move wheat to the Mediterranean. The piece notes Russia's wheat surplus and the impact on U S prices as control of Black Sea routes by Germany and Turkey shifts trade and history.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ranean
National Farm Paper
Springfield
Ohio
Herbert Quick
Russia
Mediterranean
Black Sea
Eee
United States
Europe
Germany
Austria
City Court Guilty Pleas In Vagrancy Cases
Three pleas of guilty were entered in city court. Charley Cooper was fined $5 and costs for vagrancy. Lillie Freeman pled guilty to vagrancy and was fined $5 and costs. Lucile King also pleaded guilty to vagrancy amid a surge of recent arrests in justice and city courts, prompting a push for employment.
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City Court
Charley Cooper
Lillie Freeman
Lucile King
Justice
Time limits for infection health table
Guidance on communicability for common infections. Diphtheria remains contagious until two consecutive negative nose and throat cultures. Chicken pox stays infectious twelve days after eruption and until crusts heal. Mumps is contagious two weeks after onset and one week after swelling ends. Measles remains contagious ten days after rash and until discharges and cough stop. Scarlet fever may be contagious thirty days after onset and until symptoms subside.
Communicability Periods For Smallpox And Whooping Cough
The text states that smallpox may be communicable from the onset through fourteen days after development and once scabs separate and scars heal. Whooping cough remains communicable for eight weeks after onset or one week after the last characteristic cough.
Young Polish Boy Dies a Hero at War
Vienna report tells of Jan Wisniewski a 10 year old from Rychwald who fled Russians, joined Austro-Hungarian forces, carried ammunition to trenches, saved comrades and died of shrapnel wounds after reaching safety. He is mourned by his company.
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Vienna
Associated Press
Jan Wisniewski
Maehrisch-Weisskirchen
Jan
Rychwald
Wellborn News Reports Local Trip and Growth in 1915
A Wellborn community group led by J. P. Royder and others enjoyed a river trip to the Nav. osa with fish and wildlife. The new Houston and Texas Central station nears completion and local stores expand. School progress and a graduating class of eight are noted along with sanitarium visits and widespread attendance during rain and overflow concerns.
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J. P. Royder
M. B. Autry
Jeff Royder Jr
Howard Lee
Guy Foster
Forrest Royder
Wesley Cothran
Navasota River
Howard
Wesley
Mr. Autry
Houston & Texas Central
Evry
T. H. Royder
Goree Neeley
Dr. Lee
Tabor
Abram Hensarling
Douglas Royder
Mr. Adams
A. & M. College
Wellborn
Tex
Ari
Smith-Oliver Oil Company Chartered in Bryan Texas
New Texas corporation chartered in Austin figures Smith-Oliver Oil Company of Bryan with incorporators F. C. Oliver George W. Smith and W. D. Lawrence and capital stock set at 12 500 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Texas
Austin
Smith-Oliver Oil Company
Bryan
F. C. Oliver
George W. Smith
W. D. Lawrence
Jewson Reform in All London Apr 28
Petrograd correspondent reports Count Ignatieff the Education Minister has rebuffed anti Semitic officials and reforms for Jews are granted in Russia Admissions to schools in Kiev freed of artificial restrictions and Jewish students admitted to Yuriev medical courses Health resorts in Siberia the Caucasus and Finland to be open to Jews next summer Antisemitic agitation halted by the government.
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London
Associated Press
Petrograd
Jewish Chronicle
Count Ignatieff
Russia
Kieff
Yurieff
Siberia
Caucasus
Finland
Gover
Vilna and Dmitriyesk Authorities Accept Jewish Doctors
The report notes that authorities in Vilna and Dmitriyesk have accepted the service of Jewish doctors, reflecting concessions in medical staffing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vilna
Dmitriyesk
County to Work Prisoners for Fines
Mayor W. W. Harris said he arranged with County Judge J. Maloney for the county to take charge of city prisoners unable to work the city’s fines. Male prisoners earn 50 cents per day, females 80 cents, with credit of 50 cents per day on their fines by the city.
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W. W. Harris
T Eagle
J. Maloney
Eac
Cardui touted as aid for women’s health in Pleasant Hill notice
Mrs. Walter Vincent of Pleasant Hill links years of nervous headaches back pain and weakness to poor health, claiming Cardui the vegetable tonic restored her strength and appetite in three months. The ad promotes Cardui as a women’s treatment and invites readers to request a 64 page treatment book from the Chattanooga Medicine Co.
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Pleasant Hill
N. C
Walter Vincent
Chattanooga Medicine Co
Visory Dept
Chattanooga
Tenn
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France
Altkirche
Turkey
Bosphorus
Marmora
Dardanelles
England
Belgium
Manton M. Garrick
M. D
Wellborn News
Daly
Dunn
X Daly
Bryan, Texas
Vin
Cent
Cardui
Cardus
Severn
Severa
Severa’s
Albert Skrabalak
Walnut St
Binghamton
Ww. F. Severa CO
Cedar Rapids, Iowa
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