Germany's World Plan in lecture on Europe Before the Great War
F H Moore of Southwestern University outlined Germany's aims and the rise of modern republics in a Bryan Woman's club talk titled Europe Before the Great War. He traced imperialism, national development, and Prussian influence leading to 1914 with rail, routes, and fleet plans cited as factors in Germany's push for dominance.
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Southwestern University
Bryan Woman's Club
Europe
Hunland
France
Bryan Woman’s Club
F. H. Moore
Germany
Mr. Moore
Spain
England
United States
Frederick the Great
Bismarck
William
Rhine
Belgium
Holland
Constantinople
Persian Gulf
Turkey
Egypt
India
Panama Canal
West Africa
Serbia
Death of former Salvadoran president Melendez reported
New York dispatch records the death of Carlos Melendez a former president of El Salvador. The announcement notes the death occurred yesterday and became public today in New York.
Canadian search asked for Wichita balloon crew
St. Louis October 9 The Canadian government through the local British consul was asked to begin a search for Captain Dammann and Lieutenant Verheyden of the balloon Wichita who have not been heard from since the race began ten days ago. The flyers are believed lost in Canadian wilds with provisions for three days.
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St. Louis
Dammann
Verheyden
Wichita
The Union of Virtue and Happiness in Civic Life
A thinker's assertion that virtue and happiness are inseparably linked, urging citizens to promote progress by practicing integrity and duty. It emphasizes that without virtue, talents and achievements fail to earn respect. It advocates firmness to uphold the reputation of an honest man.
Chaplains Disagree Ad On War’s Effect On Doughboy Faith
Two former army chaplains now Louisville ministers clash over soldiers religiosity. Rev. Akin says most soldiers did little serious religious thinking and prayed mainly in emergencies. Rev. Mallinckrodt argues soldiers showed greater religion, citing fortitude of men in Gail France during heavy losses and their last moments in hospitals.
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Louisville
Ernest Akin
Unitarian Church
Harris Mallinckrodt
Cavalry Episcopal Church
Akin
Mallinckrodt
U. S. Army
Gail
France
Prohibition on Lighters Delivers Freight Ban in New York
The railroad administration barred freight delivery by lighters to steamers in New York harbor today amid the three day longshoremen strike. The move halts cargo transfers as dock workers protest in the port.
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New York
Railroad Administration
Bryan concert band to perform Friday evening in Carnegie library park
The Bryan concert band has borrowed instruments from First Baptist church and A and M college for a Friday night 8 15 program at Carnegie library park featuring twenty pieces. The program offers popular music with a touch of classical selections and aims to raise funds via Saturday tag day led by Bryan Woman's club volunteers led by Mrs Mark Francis who donated a cornet.
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Bryan
First Baptist Church
A. and M. College
Carnegie Library Park
Bryan Woman's Club
Mark Francis
Wheat Weevil Infestation Hits Chicago Market
Chicago October 9 growers report an epidemic of weevil in wheat arriving at the Chicago market. Shortage of railroad cars kept grain in old elevators allowing weevil to multiply. Weevil infested wheat cannot be graded above sample and buyers deduct five cents a bushel on rejected carloads.
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Chicago
Steamer Yaklok in Distress Drifting for Aid
A wireless call from the disabled American steamer Yaklok reached Barrington Nova Scotia. The Yaklok is totally inoperable and adrift. The steamer Anacortez is about seventy miles away and moving to assist, after reporting the position.
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Halifax
Barrington
Novascotia
Anacortez
Miss Carolyn Kern Wins Automobile in Newspaper Contest
Miss Carolyn Kern wins a Dort touring car as the result of her efforts in a Houston newspaper subscription voting contest. She stood third among candidates outside Houston and also won a $75 cash prize for turning in the most subscriptions. She is credited with between eight and nine million votes, exact figures unavailable by telephone.
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Carolyn Kern
Houston
Miss Kern
John Patronella Home After Naval Transport Service
John Patronella returns to Bryan after 27 months in the U S Navy with 22 months aboard the transport De Kalb. He was discharged in Dallas on October 1 as a coxswain. The De Kalb, formerly the German raider Prince Eitel Friederich, carried Marines to battles and survived two submarine attacks.
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John Patronella
Bryan
Naval Service
U. S. S. de Kalb
Patronella
Dallas
DeKalb
Prince Eitel Friederich
Newport News
United States
Navy Yard
Philadelphia
Fifth Marines
Chateau Thierry
Belleau Woods
Covington
Santone Diocese Plans 100000 Seminary Fund Drive
San Antonio’s Catholic diocese aims to raise 100000 for a new ecclesiastical seminary. Bishop A J Crossaerts reported about 4000 in subscriptions toward a 40000 local quota. The campaign starts October 27 for a week, with districts organized to reach the goal in a 61000 square mile diocese serving around 200000 Catholics.
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San Antonio
A. J. Crossaerts
Catholic Church
Drossaerts
Two Shot Near Pittsburgh Amid Donora Strike Clash
In Donora as a clash between negro workmen and foreign born strikers erupted, two men were shot and wounded and a number injured. State police dispersed the crowd with no serious casualties reported.
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Pittsburgh
Donora
Wilson Rested Well After Night at White House
President Wilson enjoyed another good night and showed further improvement today, according to reports from the White House.
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Wilson
Washington
White House
Foreigners Leave Vienna by Official Order
Vienna reports all foreigners ordered to depart. Eight thousand from east Galicia have already left and authorities plan more trains to speed the exodus.
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Vienna
Galicia
S M U Poised to Defeat A M in Dallas Showdown
S M U plans a big upset at Gardner Park Dallas reserving a thousand seats for Saturdays clash with A and M. The teams met two years ago with A and M winning 77 to 0. S M U has defeated Burleson and Wesley colleges in Dallas and coach Driver expects a tough but winnable game.
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Gardner Park
Dallas
Burleson College
Wesley College
Driver
Methodists
Stefansson urges Canada to import reindeer for northern settlement
Arctic explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson arrives in Winnipeg and calls on Ottawa to back reindeer and musk oxen ranches in unsettled northern Canada. He says the industry could open vast virgin lands, reduce living costs, and provide meat, fuel, clothing, and implements, with imports from Norway and a 1000-reindeer starter herd.
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Winnipeg
Man
Vilhjalmur Stefansson
Canadian Rockies
Ottawa
Canada
Stefansson
Northwest Territory
Lapland
Lake Louise
Chicago
United States
Alaska
Norway
Quebec
Labrador
Yukon Territory
Manitoba
Saskatchewan
Alberta
Reds Rally Past Sox In Offbeat Eight Inning Standoff
Cincinnati exploded for four runs in the first to seize an early lead and held on as Chicago battled back. Williams started for Chicago but exited in the first inning after the Reds knocked in four. James relieved with Schalk catching. Eller and Rariden formed the Reds battery.
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Chicago
Cincinnati
Williams
Reds
James
Schalk
Eller
Rariden
Red
Bryan City Bonds Attract National Attention In 1919
City Manager Greer notes Bryan’s achievement as New York managers cite the Bryan system and its bond sale. Newark and Bryan articles praise the charter, bond disposal, and a sliding scale plan for light usage once the city owns the plant. The city’s light and power debt totals 286000, with utilities funded by earnings.
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City Manager Bulletin
City Managers’ Association
New York
Daily Eagle
Bryan, Tex
Greer
Bryan
John Drake
Mulberry Street
Newark
Drake
Texas
Commissioner’s Cow and Poundman’s Gun Trial Prominent
W L Wyatt pleaded guilty to aggravated assault and paid a fifty dollar fine. The state dismissed counts of carrying a concealed weapon assault with a prohibited weapon and assault with intent to murder. The dispute began when a city commissioner's cow, staked across a road, was taken by the poundmaster. Joe Howard, employed by the commissioner, tried to secure the cow’s release. Words and a rock led to Wyatt firing a pistol, wounding Howard. A private prosecutor handled the case.
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W. L. Wyatt
Wyatt
Joe Howard
Howard
Public and labor seek immediate steel strike arbitration
Washington reports at the industrial conference the public group calls for a three month industrial truce and a presidential arbitration board. Bernard Baruch proposes the truce and a permanent multi ex president board. Samuel Gompers urges immediate steel strike arbitration with six panel members split among capital labor and public representatives.
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Washington
Bernard Baruch
Samuel Gompers
Gompers
Gavin McNab
San Francisco
Aviators die in transcontinental air race crash spree
Three aviators were killed as the Army's 5400 mile Mineola to San Francisco air race resumed. Maj. D. H. Crissey and Sgt. Virgil Thomas died in a Salt Lake City crash, and Sgt. W. H. Nevitt, observer for Col. Gerald Brant, perished in Deposit, New York. Four of 62 entries were eliminated yesterday, with others still uncertain.
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Mineola
L. I
Army
San Francisco
D. H. Crissey
Sergt
Virgil Thomas
Salt Lake City
W. H. Nevitt
Col
Gerald Brant
Deposit
N. Y
First Lieutenant Maynard Leads Transcontinental Air Race
Chicago report notes First Lieutenant Maynard took off shortly after 7 that morning from Chicago heading toward Rock Island Illinois as leader in the transcontinental airplane race.
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Chicago
Maynard
Here
Rock Island
Plane crashes into Lake Erie in transcontinental race
Airplane No. 45 fell into Lake Erie east of Ashtabula this morning during the transcontinental air race. The two occupants were rescued and salvage efforts for the aircraft are underway.
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Ashtabula
Lake Erie
Here
Lieutenant Maynard Reaches Iowa In Continental Derby
Des Moines Iowa October 9 Lieutenant Maynard landed at 10 55 this morning. Omaha October 9 Lieutenant Maynard leading in the continental derby arrived at 12 48 today, covering 118 miles from Des Moines in 1 hour 14 minutes.
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Iowa
Des Moines, In
Maynard
Omaha
Des Moines
Aviator Maynard Leads Distance Chicago to Des Moines Flight
Lieutenant Maynard topped the field in distance flown as 30 of 48 planes departed Mineola for Buffalo after a Chicago start, with the Des Moines leg completed earlier that day.
Fire Destroys Part of Wagoner City Oil Town
Lightning struck an oil tank yesterday in Wagoner City Burkburnett field causing severe damage. Fire swept part of the small town but was halted by a heavy rainstorm lowering losses to about seventy thousand dollars.
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Wichita Falls
Wagoner City
Burkburnett
Constitution No Bar to Corpus Christi Federal Loan
At Austin on October 9 the attorney general advised Representative Carlos Bee that no Texas constitution provision bars Corpus Christi from borrowing federal reconstruction funds. The clarification follows a bill proposing a five million dollar loan to the stricken city.
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Austin
Texas
Corpus Christi
Attorney General’s Department
Carlos Bee
Washington
Japanese Forces Ordered to Co operate With Americans
Japanese troops in eastern Siberia have been ordered to co-operate with American authorities in running the trans Siberian railroad. The step follows strong representations by the United States government that American lives property were inadequately protected by Japanese forces in the area.
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Tokio
Siberia
United States
Japan
Hobby and Campbell Obtain Release for Texas Ranger Brown
Jefferson City Mo October 9 At the request of Gov Hobby and former Gov Campbell of Texas Governor Gardner today paroled Allen Brown a former Texas ranger serving a fifteen year sentence in the Missouri penitentiary for robbery Brown was said to have had an excellent record while serving as a ranger He was paroled to Governor Campbell.
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Jefferson City
W. P. Hobby
T. M. Campbell
Texas
Gardner
Allen Brown
Missouri Penitentiary
Brown
Campbell
British miners push plan for nationalization
London reports that British miners press for full nationalization of the mines. A deputation will urge Premier Lloyd George to accept the demand, and if he refuses, a special trades union congress will be convened to decide next steps.
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London
Lloyd George
Trades Union Congress
Hamilton appeals tax case over women voting in primaries
The appeal to the third court of civil appeals questions the constitutionality of statutes granting women the right to vote in primaries. W. T. Hamilton seeks to stop Lee Davis, Mc Lennan county tax collector, from issuing poll tax receipts to women.
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Austin
W. T. Hamilton
Lee Davis
McLennan County
Third Court of Civil Appeals
Hamilton
NAVASOTA'S TROUBLES
Navasota city council on October 9 adopted a motion directing the city attorney to investigate cancellation of the light and water company franchise or legal means to secure service. The move followed a demand by franchise holders that rates be readjusted at the end of a five year period amid claims of over a year of unsatisfactory service.
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Navasota
Light and Water Company
Labor agents detained for labor work in Aransas Pass area
A telegram to Governor Hobby from General Wolters reports labor agents entering the Aransas Pass district to recruit laborers for other sections will be detained and put to work in the devastated area.
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Austin
Aransas Pass
Hobby
General Wolters
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