Fight at Quinaga Begins Between Villa and Mexican Govt Troops
Fighting between Villa forces and government troops began at Ojinaga at 5 20 this morning. The clash started from the southwest and grew with daylight into rifle fire. No artillery or bombs used in the first attack. American patrols guard the ford opposite Ojinaga, bullets reported on the American side. Ojinaga officials say Villa forces were driven away after two hours.
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Associated Press
Presidio
Texas
Villa
Ojinaga
Ford
Community canners installed in Anderson County
Walton Peteet and Miss Cornelia Simpson return from a successful tour of three Anderson County rural communities Swanson Hill Tennessee Colony and Four Pines organizing community canning clubs. Canners will be built and installed within weeks cost about 100 dollars each with central locations on major highways. The system provides cans heat sugar and ingredients with toll for labor yielding uniform marketable products. Peteet and Simpson plan December trips to Cherokee County to organize more canneries and coordinate with local clubs.
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Walton Peteet
Cornelia Simpson
A and M. College
Anderson County
Swanson Hill
Tennessee Colony
Four Pines
Peteet
Miss Simpson
Texas
Brazos County
Mr. Peteet
Miss Simps
Cherokee County
Spy Menace Soon to be Reduced
Assistant Attorney General Fitts told the Washington chamber of commerce that enemy propagandists will be rounded up and the spy menace largely eliminated in the United States. He linked the statement to the pending plan to register all Germans and curb their movements. He warned that a few thousand agitators will be brought under the law as patriotic resolve grows.
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Washington
Fitts
Washington Chamber of Commerce
United States
Judge Fitts
Y M C A War Fund Campaign Under Way in Texas
Dallas November 14 campaign to raise 400000 for Y M C A war work in Texas prior to November 19. L A Coulter state campaign director announces the drive, with six districts and towns at least 500 population to be active. Local committees named and daily progress reports will be sent to headquarters. Dr Poulter Christian osteopathic physician listed at 3712 26th St. Phone 658.
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Associated Press
Dallas
Texas
L. A. Coulter
Drafted Men Must Fill Questionnaire
Washington officials announce the classification of the 9,000,000 men registered for military duty and those to be registered later. The Pro vost Marshal General Crowder issues the questionnaire that every registrant must complete and submit, detailing the order of call and the five classes.
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Associated Press
Washington
Crowder
Cotton futures rise with gains at close
The report notes cotton futures advancing about 30 points from last night’s close. Bryan spots valued at 27 14 cents middling basis. Cottonseed priced at 700 dollars per ton.
Telegraphy course arranged by A and M for men in draft
A and M college offers two telegraphy courses for men subject to the draft in Brazos and Texas counties. One course mirrors signal corps work. the second teaches telegraph code enabling 100 letters a minute. Successful students receive certificates and file their names with Washington officials for advancement. Bryan residents may live at home. others must arrange board. About 20 to 25 students have applied for the regular signal corps course arriving December 1.
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Brazos
Texas
A. and
M. College
Bolton
Department of
Electrical Engineering
Company of Signal Corps
Washington
Bryan
Signal Corps
Concentrated Cotton to be Protected
The Texas state fire insurance commission and the national board of fire underwriters cooperated to protect about 400000 bales of cotton stored in Houston, Galveston and other Texas locations from incendiary fire. The underwriters committee of Dallas insurance men P P Tucker D D McLeary and Charles W Thomas works with the commission to safeguard resources vital to the war effort.
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Austin
Texas
State Fire Insurance Commission
Texas Committee
National Board of Fire Underwriters
Houston
Galveston
P. P. Tucker
D. D. McLeary
Charles W. Thomas
All Insurance Men of
Dallas
The
Commission
Texas boy missing in German submarine attack
Corpus Christi reports navy recruit Ernest Gragg, 20, a Corpus Christi high school graduate and gunner on the steamship Rochester, missing after the ship was sunk by three German submarines. His father R B Grage, a linotype operator, anxiously awaits confirmation as others from the crew are unaccounted.
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Corpus Christi
Germany
R. B. Grage
Ernest Gragg
Young Gragg
Corpus Christi High School
Rochester
Paul Freeman
Young Freeman
Panama Zone
Gragg
Red Cross
France
Complete German Defeat in Flanders Reported
London reports a complete German defeat in Flanders as British forces repelled a failed attempt to recapture ground near Passchendaele. The war office states the British held the gains from the prior advance.
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Flanders
Associated Press
London
Germany
War Office
Pass
Chendaele
Capture of Peimolona Reported in Lugana Feltre Area
Berlin announces the capture of Peimolona in the Lugana valley and Feltre west of the Upper Piave river, per German headquarters.
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Associated Press
Berlin
Peimolona
Lugana
Feltre
Piave River
Brotherhood Men to Meet Wilson on Monday
Four railway brotherhood chiefs will meet President Wilson on Monday November 26 to discuss wage increases for conductors and brakemen. Wilson plans to urge deferral of any strike during wartime and prevent transportation shutdowns, while labor leaders resist committing to arbitration.
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Associated Press
Washington
Wilson
Submarine Control Progress Satisfactory
Washington reports important progress in locating submarines and defeating them with persistently hunted torpedo boat destroyers. Secretary Daniels notes 4000 submissions to the naval consulting board since the war began and cites admiration for American designs and possible cargo protection advances.
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Washington
Daniels
Naval Consulting Board
United States
Germany
Prison System Crops Yield Over Million
Austin Texas November 14 Having earned about 1 000 000 from crops and other resources the Prison Commission deposited 530 000 to the state treasury for the prison system Likely first such profit in its history The commission controls funds and may only spend by its order The legislative investigation committee plans to seek a law change to place funds in the general revenue fund.
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Austin
Texas
Prison Commission
Legislative Investigation Committee
General Revenue Fund
Mexican labor shortage hits Texas border counties
Austin reports a shortage of Mexican labor along Texas border counties as Mexicans fear U S draft up to age 65. Judge W F Seabury of Brownsville cites word of the draft and notes hundreds have crossed into Mexico. He warns that if the condition persists, importation of Negro labor may become necessary in the region.
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Associated Press
Austin
Texas
W. F. Seabury
Brownsville
House of Representatives
United States Army
Mexico
Texas A and M Stock Judging Team to Compete in Chicago
The Texas A and M stock judging team was selected to compete in the international contest in Chicago on December 1. Members are G. R. Warren Yantis Texas W. J. Ray Torrington Wyoming A. L. Smith Blanco and E. M. Regenbrecht Sealy Texas. The team plans to visit agricultural colleges and major stock farms in the Midwest and will face strong national rivals after earning bronze medals from 1913 to 1916.
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Chicago
Texas A. and
M. College
G. R. Warren
Yantis
Texas
W. J. Ray
Torrington
Wyoming
A. L. Smith
Blanco
E. M. Regenbrecht
Sealy
Missouri
Iowa
Vermont
Middle West
A. and M
United States
Swiss Offer to Supply Serbian Civil Population
Washington reports the Swiss government offers to provision the Serbian civil population under guaranty and to assume distribution responsibility. Serbians estimate a quarter of the population has perished from hunger disease and privations caused by the war.
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Washington
Serbia
I W W Members Routed by Tulsa Vigilantes
Tulsa authorities halted three automobiles carrying International Workers of the World as a mob in long black robes and masks punished each man with tar and thrashings near Archer Boulevard. The I W W prisoners were bound for a remote area where assailants recited a vigilante verdict. Shot and smoke filled the night as signs warned I W W members to flee Tulsa.
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Tulsa
Okla
International Workers of the World
Boulevard Avenue
Archer
Irving Place
Belgium
Osage Hills
Every Alien Enemy Must be Registered
President Wilson is set to issue a proclamation requiring all alien enemies in the United States to register as a step against spies and sabotage. Attorney General Gregory presented draft regulations at a cabinet meeting to carry out the plan, modeled on English and French measures. The move follows a rise in fires and signals of enemy propaganda prompting stricter actions against German residents. The plan would give Germans weeks to report names occupations and connections to postmasters or a government agency. Unregistered individuals would be rounded up and prosecuted, aiding identification of suspicious persons.
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Washington
Navy
Wilson
United States
Gregory
England
France
Smallpox patient dies as city fights spread
From Tuesday's Daily Eagle Ed Luck, one of the negro smallpox patients died Saturday night and the other case is reported very low. The health department of the city is making a strong fight to prevent a spread of the disease.
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Daily Eagle
Luck
Health Department
Germans Suffer Big Losses in Italy Action Near Piave
Rome reports Italian forces withdraw from the north east of Fisigno as the Piave front sees ongoing action. German troops cross near Zenson but are not yet dislodged. An enemy crossing attempt between Quero and Fenere is repelled with heavy losses.
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Associated Press
Rome
Fisigno
War Office
Piave
Zenson
Quero
Fenere
Cotton consumed in October totals 695,458 bales
Washington reports from the census bureau show cotton consumed in October at 595,322 running bales and 100,136 bales of linters.
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Associated Press
Washington
Census Bureau
Eighteen Carloads of Airplanes Arrive for Richfield Cadets
Eighteen carloads of airplanes have arrived for use at Richfield and 150 aviation cadets are expected this afternoon or tomorrow morning. Construction is complete and officials await students. Cadets will start with ground training and machine mechanics before actual flying begins, with planes to fly over Waco like birds.
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Waco
Richfield
Corn Crop Report Announces Record U.S. Harvest
Washington on November 8 reports preliminary farm crop estimates from the Agriculture Department. Corn is put at 3,191,083,000 bushels, larger than any prior U.S. crop by over 60,000,000 bushels, with buckwheat potatoes and sweet potatoes also listed at substantial totals.
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Associated Press
Washington
Department of Agriculture
Six Eggs in Seven Days Contest Records Set
First week results of the First Texas National Egg Laying contest show two Single Comb Rhode Island Red hens owned by R L Poll and C M Evans laying six eggs in seven days. Other top pens include Barred Plymouth Rock and White Wyandotte hens with five and four egg tallies. A Barred Plymouth Rock pen owned by Fred Clark produced 19 eggs, matched by Evans RI Reds.
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The
Agricultural Experiment Station
P. H. Harvey
R. L. Poll
C. M. Evans
Bryan
Texas
Rhode Island
Plymouth Rock
Fred Clark
van Horn
D. C. Moore
P. H. Homan
R. L. Penick
Thirty Minute Rule May Be Suspended
The Texas railroad commission considered suspending the Thirty Minute Rule at its November hearing in Austin. If lifted trains could exceed 30 minutes to wait for connections at junctions, up to 50 minutes may be allowed. Railroads argued the rule hampers wartime conditions and the proposal appears likely to advance.
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Associated Press
Austin
Texas
Railroad Commission of Texas
Mae
German Economic Collapse Vexes Afterwar Plans
An Americanized German wartime traveler reports Germany faces a worsening economy with possible property confiscation and war-loan repudiation. He notes hatred of America among the people but that German elites seek American credit postwar. Emigration laws are feared, with many eyeing destinations in the Americas and Australia.
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Associated Press
Berne
Germany
Ballin
America
Switzerland
Admiral von Capelle
Reichstag
Wilson
United Stattes
Central Powers
South
North America
New Zealand
Australia
Premier Kerensky Enters Petrograd as Maximalists Defect
Stockholm dispatch reports Premier Kerensky entered Petrograd with a majority of Maximilist troops joining him. The Swedish Swedish News Agency correspondent notes the defections come from Haparanada on the Russian border.
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Associated Press
Stockholm
Kerensky
Petrograd
Haparanda
Kerensky Seizes Russia as Provisional Government Consolidates
Finnish telegraph bureau reports the provisional government controls almost all of Russia except a small Petrograd area. Kerensky has entered Petrograd and is said to have defeated the Bolsheviki at Tsarskoe Selo. Cossacks reportedly destroyed the rear guard. telegraph lines are in Kerensky's hands.
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Russia
Kerensky
Wohle
Associated Press
Seeben
Petrograd
Stockholm
Tsarkoe Selo
Relief in trenches as third battalion advances
From the American front in France on Tuesday the third American battalion occupies the first line while the second American detachment returns to billets. Relief occurred on a brilliant starlight night without German knowledge.
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Associated Press
France
State Officials to Pay War Postage
Austin November 14. The attorney general’s department told the state highway commission there is no provision in the war revenue act of October 5 exempting state officials and employees from the extra postage. Officials must pay one cent extra on official communications sent by mail. The state is exempt from taxes on transport charges by freight and on telegraph and telephone messages.
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Associated Press
Austin
Texas
Attorney General's Department
State Highway Commission
War Revenue Act
Distinctive Chevrons Put On British Soldiers
London October 13 British soldiers who served in the great war will wear a new uniform badge a chevron instantly issued by the war office. Red chevrons mark service beginning in 1914 blue for service after 1914 and an extra blue stripe for each twelve months served. Officers and privates alike will wear the stripes.
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London
War Office
German Public Opinion Shifts Away from Pan Germanism
An article notes Germans increasingly doubt a centralized Pan German concept after the war. It argues widespread Pan Germanism is waning as fears grow of global hatred and tougher future economics, while Austro German ties remain strong due to financial and military dependence.
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Quinaga
Y. M. C. A. War Fund
Brotherhood
Mr. Stock
Texas College
Italy
Europe
Naumann
Austria
Eee Otrey
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