Women Organize to Campaign for Brazos Dry
A large women’s mass meeting at the Methodist church pledges support for the local option drive to make Brazos dry. Leaders outline committees for personal work finance young people parade and more, with prayer three times daily and vows of sacrifice for victory.
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Brazos
Methodist Church
Magrail
Dallas
J. C. Williams
Mamie Shel Waldrop
W. A. Broyles
East Side
H. *N. Cochran
West Side
A. J Buchanan
Houston Cole
Ray Montgomery
Edith Cavitt
W. B. Cline
H. O. Boatwright
J. Webb Howell
Geo. Adams
Mis. Hattie Lewis
Elizabeth Wilson
Twelve Months of Exports Six Billion Twelve Months of Exports Six Billion
Exports in August valued at 490,009,825 up 115,500,000 from July as per the commerce department. The twelve months ended August total 6,200,219,805, against 4,759,590 prior year. Imports for August 270,609,379 up 45,000,000 from July. twelve months ended August imports and exports abroad rise. Gold imports 18,692,170 and exports 46,049,306.
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Washington
Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce
Department of Commerce
Mrs J E Blaylock Dies in Waco At 27
Mrs J E Blaylock daughter of Rev and Mrs J M Bullock of Bryan died in Waco last night at 7 30. Funeral tomorrow at 3 at Steep Hollow church with interment after services at the Bullock home. Survived by husband two children parents three brothers and four sisters. Baptist member active in church work. Crenshaw sister from Fort Worth attended.
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J. E. Blaylock
J. M. Bullock
Bryan
Waco
Steep Hollow Church
Bullock
County
Herbert Crenshaw
Fort Worth
The
Baptist Church
Mrs. Crenshaw
Eleven White Men Leave Monday for Training Camp
The local exemption board will dispatch eleven white men to Camp Travis next Monday under orders to send all available white men. Three white men remain. one hospitalised with appendicitis, one with a wife in danger, and another’s exemption appeal pending. George Chance’s appeal was denied by the district board. George Brandon’s case remains unresolved. No instructions for Negroes have been received. Names listed include Hilario Guadiano Thomas Nolan Walter Hicks Geo Chance Eric Holland Neugent Claydon Louis Cisco Hardy Todd Tony Lapaglia Claude Ferguson Willis Wiles.
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Camp Travis
George Chance
George Brandon
Hilario Guadiano
Thos. J. Nolan
Walter W. Hicks
Geo. G. Chance
Eric O. Holland
Neugent R. Claydon
Louis H. Cisco
Hardy M. Todd
Tony Lapaglia
Claude R. Ferguson
Willis W. Wiles
Germany's Secret Twenty Million Loan to Greece
Athens reports Germany provided a 20 million dollar loan to the Constantine government via a credit arrangement settled after the war, with no cash transfer and Greece paying 6 percent interest. The Bank of Greece issued 20 million in banknotes, and Venizelos calls for new management and charter limits as he overhauls the central bank amid political uproar.
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Associated Press
Athens
King
Constance
Venizelos
Constantine
M. Venizelos
Berlin
Greece
Germany
Bank of
Europe
Miners Accept 10 Cents Ton Increase
Coal operators and miners in the central competitive field reached a full agreement on the amount of wage increases. Pick and machine miners will get 10 cents a ton, unskilled labor will receive 1.50 a day, and yardage and dead work will be paid on a straight 20 percent increase. The duration of the new contract will be discussed further.
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Washington
Officers Training Camps Open January Fifth
The third series of officers training camps will begin January 5 and run to April 5. It serves to educate enlisted men in the national army and national guard for commissions and will admit 2490 graduates or undergraduates from schools and colleges.
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Associated Press
Washington
Army and National Guard
Revival of general rank for Pershing and staff chiefs
The War Department plans to restore the full general grade to appoint Major General John J. Pershing as commander of the American expeditionary forces in France. Secretary Baker has sent a program to Congress proposing the general title for the chief of staff and several lieutenant generals to command corps under Pershing, with passage sought when Congress reconvenes in December.
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Washington
War Department
John J. Pershing
France
Baker
Department
Wershing
Senate Military Committee
Congress
One Chinese Prison That Makes Profit
A Chinese model prison near Peking earned $300000 in reserves and pays its expenses under Wang Yuan-cheng who survived a bayonet attack by twelve inmates seeking revolt. Six hundred men and one hundred women are confined. twelve inmates participated, while the rest aided in protecting staff and maintaining order.
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Peking
Wang Yuan-cheng
China
Prson
Wang
Yuan Shih Kai
Liberty
Fishing Schooner Sears Crew Rescued After Gulf Storm
The captain and eight crewmen of the Pensacola based large fishing schooner Sears were rescued by an Italian steamer in the Gulf of Mexico after three days battling a tropical hurricane. The nine exhausted men were brought to a Gulf port and the dismantled vessel towed to safety. The hurricane struck early Friday, leaving the crew with little food or water and scant hope of rescue.
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Gulf Port
Pensacola
Gulf of Mexico
Aviator in Prison at Jefferson Barracks
Joseph P. Saxe a private in the aero division of the signal corps and recently on duty at Scott aviation field near Belleville is a prisoner at Jefferson Barracks south of St. Louis He was arrested Sunday and detained at the barracks on request of Major Remburg commander at Scott field Before Scott field Saxe was stationed at the aviation grounds near San Antonio Texas He photographed aeroplane flights and with officers flew over Scott field for pictures Colonel Murray at Jefferson Barracks said Saxe was held without charges awaiting the adjutant general of the United States senate action
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St. Louis
Joseph P. Saxe
Aero Division
The
Signal Corps
Scott Aviation Field
Belleville
Jefferson Barracks
Remburg
Scott Field
Saxe
Aviation Grounds
San Antonio
Texas
Murray
United States Senate
Kingdon Gould to be named first sergeant in Army HQ unit
Camp Dix New Jersey October 8 Kingdon Gould private in the national army to be named as a member of the headquarters company with the rank of first sergeant.
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Camp Dix
Wrightstown
N. J
Kingdon Gould
National Army
American Destroyer Collides With British War Vessel
An American destroyer in European waters collided with a British naval vessel during a heavy rain storm. The British ship towed the disabled American destroyer to port after rescuing the crew. no Americans were injured and the destroyer has been repaired and returned to active service.
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Associated Press
Washington
Navy Department
Germany Rejects Separate Peace Proposal Claim
German foreign secretary Kuehlmann said Germany has made no proposal for a separate peace to France or Great Britain in response to Verkhovesky's Petrograd speech. The statement was delivered from Amsterdam on October 3 by the Associated Press.
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Associated Press
Amsterdam
Germany
France
Great Britain
Kuehlmann
Verkhovesky
Democratic Congress
Petrograd
Exemption Case from Houston District Seeks Presidential Ruling
The case of James A Benedict, a married man with a dependent wife and child, seeks a gubernatorial appeal to the president through the provost marshal general. His claim for exemption from the draft was denied, and the Houston district board seeks broader relief and a more liberal policy for married men with dependents.
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City of Houston
C. J. Kirk
Houston
Hobby
Bedict
Board of District No. 3
Army
Southern District Board
San Antonio
Houston Board
Benedict
City of
Army of the United States
Board of Houston District 3
Broad Meaning to Barratry Statute
Austin Oct. 3 The attorney general office said that the barratry statute passed by the thirty fifth legislature applies to mercantile agencies that do a debt collection business. Any person who seeks to obtain employment to prosecute defend or collect claims by personal solicitation falls under the law previously limited to lawyers.
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Austin
Attorney General's Department
John W. Hornsby
Travis County
Intermountain rate case reopened on new tariff proposals
Washington Oct. 3 By orders of the interstate commerce commission the intermountain rate case was practically reopened for consideration of new tariffs proposed by the railroads. The changes would raise about seventy percent of current schedules by ten to sixty percent.
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Associated Press
Washington
Interstate Commerce Commission
Peru Congress Debates Germany Relations
Lima Oct 3 The Peruvian congress considers the international situation affecting its relations with Germany. The foreign and war ministers have been summoned to congress to provide the requested information.
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Germany
Congress
Mason of Illinois Resents Imputations in Helfin Charge
Representative Mason of Illinois defends himself against Helfin accusations linking him to treason and to Emma Goldman as the Helfin charges reemerge in the House.
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Mason
Illinois
Associated Press
Germans Claim to Take Position on Hill 344
German forces report capturing a French position twelve hundred yards wide on the northern slope of hill 344 east of the Meuse. The claim comes from Berlin via Associated Press.
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Associated Press
Berlin
Meuse
Lower California Concession Declared Void
The Procurator General of Mexico reports to Ambassador Bonillas in Washington that the concession of about 15.4 million acres in Lower California to Flores Hale and company has been voided for failure to meet the requirement of establishing a set number of Mexican and foreign families on the land within the specified period. The U S Department has asked for explanations and for land to be opened to settlement.
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Associated Press
Mexico City
Procurator General of the Republic
Tobassador Bonillas
Washington
Lower
California
Flores Hale
Private in New Army Commits Death by Own Action
San Antonio October 3 Private Herbert B Webb Battery A 344th field artillery at Camp Travis committed death by own action by cutting his boat with a razor in the battery barracks Monday afternoon. Webb was drafted at Rusk Texas. home listed as Troup Texas. Several fellow soldiers in the room could not prevent the death. he died within a few minutes.
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San Antonio
Herbert B. Webb
Three Hundred and Forty-fourth Field Artillery
Camp Travis
Webb
Rusk
Texas
Troup
Fool's Gold May Be Turned Into Real Gold
Chicago October 3 The state geologist Joseph E Pogue says pyrite fool's gold found in coal is rich in sulphur used for explosives and war needs He urges state mine owners to profit by turning this waste product into real gold through processing and refining.
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Chicago
Cotton Price Chart From Norden Co 25 Year Survey
The Eagle received A Norden & Co of New York’s chart titled A Quarter Century of Coin. Printed for distribution without charge, the annual/chart revision displays graphically the cotton market fluctuations over twenty five years.
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A. Norden & Co
New York
Eagle
Coalition Government Formed in Petrograd Congress
The democratic congress voted in favor of forming a coalition government in Petrograd on October 3.
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Associated Press
Petrograd
Democratic Congress
Belgium receives additional two million loan aid
The United States government has advanced Belgium two million dollars, adding to previous loans totaling seven million five hundred thousand for six months and a prior one million nine hundred thousand dollars, as reported by Associated Press from Washington.
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Associated Press
Washington
Oct
Belgium
Officer Killed in Action on British Front
Washington reports Lieut. G. P. Howe of the medical officers reserve corps was killed in action on September 28 while on duty on the British front in France.
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Associated Press
Washington
G. P. Howe
Medical Officers Reserve Corps
France
Russian Railway Workers Threaten 10 Strike Action
Pemageek reports that Russian railway employees demand improved pay and conditions. They say they will stop work tomorrow if demands are not met by the major railways.
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Associated Press
Pemageek
War tax bill signed by Clark and Marshall
Washington reports the war tax bill was signed by Speaker Clark and Vice President Marshall and sent to the White House for final action.
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Associated Press
Washington
Clark
Marshall
White House
Rain Delays Cotton Picking in Southwest Belt
Heavy rains delayed cotton picking in the southwest belt while other sections benefited, according to the weekly cotton bulletin issued in Washington.
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Associated Press
Washington
Weekly Cotton Bulletin
Teuton War Homes At Chinese Resort
German and Austrian residents convert Peitaiho summer homes to year round use as wartime life expands. Prominent Germans from Shanghai and Tientsin maintain properties while the German legation hosts interned sailors in a large summer house. A band and orchestra support a growing community presence through the winter.
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Associated Press
Peitaiho
China
Tientsin
Shanghai
Peking
Peitaibo
Annihilate band of bandits near Chihuahua City
Juarez Mexico Oct 3 a flying cavalry squadron of federal troops overtook and annihilated ten bandits after they killed a major general of Murguia staff west of Chihuahua City An American report from the state capital says Martin Lopez with fifteen men now operates as a bandit in Guerrero district and General Alamas moves against him with federal cavalry Murguia orders execution for bandits upon capture
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Juarez
Mexico
Murguia
Chihuahua City
Martin Lopez
Guerrero
Alamas
Newspaper Woman Accused of Resisting Conscription
Mrs Annabelle Parker McCann of Brooklyn former newspaper woman was arrested in Barnstable Massachusetts on charges of trying to persuade men to resist conscription.
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Barnstable
Mass
Annabelle Parker McCann
Brooklyn N. Y
Premier Lloyd George vows retaliation for German raids
Crowds in London urged reprisals as Premier Lloyd George declared decisive action. He stated that Britain would bomb Germany with compound interest, promising rapid and strong retaliation.
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Will
Lloyd George
Associated Press
London
French Bomb Baden in Retaliation Attacks
Paris reports continued reprisals for German attacks on French cities with bombings aimed at the German town of Baden last night.
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London
Boden
Germany
Asserted
Paris
Baden
Dusselsdorf Darkened As Germany Orders Lights Out
Amsterdam reports Germany orders lights out in the government district of Dusselsdorf and much of Westphalia to blunt air raids. Similar blackout measures were enforced in western Germany.
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Dusselsdorf
Associated Preas
Amsterdam
Germany
Westphalia
Revolts Suppressed in Tamber Officials Declare
Petrograd reports an official announcement that revolts at Tamber have been suppressed. No further details provided.
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Associated Press
Petrograd
Tamber
Coalition Favoring Amendment Deliberations in Petrograd
The democratic congress declared support for a coalition government and voted an amendment to exclude Bourgese elements and those linked to the Korniloff movement from the coalition while opposing a coalition with the entire Constitutional Democratic party.
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Associated Press
Petrograd
Democratic Congress
Bourgeouse
Korniloff
Constitutional Democratic Party
Oxman Perjury Charge Dismissed in Mooney Case
In San Francisco on October 3, the complaint accusing Oregon cattle dealer Frank Oxman of perjury in testimony against Thomas J. Mooney, convicted for murder tied to the preparedness parade bombing, was dismissed.
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Associated Press
San Francisco
Frank Oxman
Oregon
Thomas J. Mooney
Artillery Fighting on Verdun Front
Paris reports ongoing artillery fighting on the Verdun front with no infantry operations of note last night.
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Verdun Front
Paris
Former Sheriff Killed in Sweetwater Pistol Battle
Sweetwater Oct 2 G McMeans former sheriff of Ector county was killed in a garage pistol battle with Frank and Gus Homer Monday afternoon. Frank Homer was seriously wounded as ten shots were fired. The feud roots trace to a Snyder killing last year. McMeans was en route to Baird for his brother-in-law’s killer trial.
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Sweetwater
G. McMeans
Ector County
Frank
Gus Homer
Frank Homer
McMeans
Baird
Johnson
McMean
Snyder
Supreme Court Asked to Rule on Selective Draft Law
Washington Oct 3 The supreme court was asked to rule on the constitutionality of the selective draft law at the earliest date. Solicitor General Davis filed the motion The court took the motion under advisement and noted appeals from persons convicted under the act.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Davis
Two Felony Trials Set Before Judge Morehead
Two felony cases are on call for trial tomorrow before Judge Morehead. Ed Shannon, a colored man, is charged with the murder of Pascal Rodriguez near White Switch. John Bowen, colored, faces burglary charges for breaking into Mrs. Annie Smith's home in the city's western area.
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Pershing
Lima
Peru
Clifornia
New Army
OXMAN
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