American Legion Plans Milam County Meeting Cameron Milam County hosts gathering on June 21 to discuss post formation
A call to Milam county veterans from World War I invites all who served in the US armed forces to a preliminary meeting at Cameron courthouse on Saturday June 21 at 3:00 PM. The group plans posts across the county and aims to secure a Texas Division speaker. Attendees expected include many 86th Division veterans returning home and others from local units.
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Milam County
United States
Court House
Cameron
American Legion
Texas Division
86Th Division
War Savings Seeds of Fortune Plant in Camp Lands
Medical department personnel listed from camps in Douglas Texas and Camp Pike Arkansas Camp Travis Texas and Rich Field Waco Texas are named along with a Plant a crop meditation on patience and growth mirroring savings in War Savings Stamps as seed that slowly matures into financial reward. The piece ends urging patience until harvest.
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Camp Hospital
Douglas
Ariz
W. Read
U. S. Navy
H. D. Carmichael
19Th Infantry
E. F. Neiast
J. P. Baskin
Central Infantry
T. C
Camp Pike
Ark
Joseph W. Spradley
Medical Department
Camp Travis
Texas
F. L. Bunton
J. H. Burns
Clarence M. Redfield
150Th Aero Squadron
Rich Field
Waco
John B. Henderson
T. Earl
Overman Committee Finds Bolshevik Ties and German Propaganda
The Overman Senate committee reports three main findings: brewers used wealth to influence governments and newspapers, existence of parlor bolsheviks ready to overthrow the U S government, and active German propaganda before and after U S entry into WWI. It proposes tighter control of foreign language press, explosives, and publication ownership disclosures, peacetime laws, mail solicitation transparency, and stronger federal practice laws.
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Overman Senate Committee of
United States
State Fair to Feature 1919 Savings Campaign Exhibit
The Eleventh District Savings Division will cover every phase of the Savings Campaign at the State Fair of Texas. A special tent is likely to house the display due to space limits in permanent buildings. A premium list for the farm boys and girls encampment October 6 19 is issued with emphasis on the Savings Movement. War Savings Societies Day October 10 is expected to be a major fair attraction with many plans to engage society members. Have you bought your Thrift Stamp today.
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Eleventh District
Savings Division
Texas
Savings Movement
War Savings Societies
It Was A Long Chase
An old sailor offers to work for a meal and rounds up sheep as directed. He returns hot and happy to find the flock folded but a hare among them mistaken for a lamb. The tale appears in the Pittsburg Chronicle Telegraph. Also a note that malaria causes more illness and deaths in India than any other disease.
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Pittsburg
India
Appellate Court Frees Sapp on Bond in Angelina Case
Lou Sapp, jailed in Ellis county for 20 years, is released on bond by the Court of Criminal Appeals after a venue change from Angelina county. The Sapp brothers were tied to the deaths in Hardin county and Beaumont arrest records. E. E. Sapp faced a 99 year sentence in Bryan for his wife’s death. Lou Sapp had worked as a Beaumont city fireman at the time of arrest.
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Ellis County
E. E. Sapp
Bryan
Lou Sapp
Beaumont
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Sevele Mason
KERR
Ball
Rebbers
Milam County Hardware CO
Cameron, Pexas
Pyson-Preeman-Holtzclaw CO
Eron
Minneapolis
Tom S. Henderson, Jr
Air Service, Military Aeronautics
C. M. Pearce
First Field Artillery
Ira H. Kidd
St. Rainbow Division
Frank L. Hunter
36Th Division
Ezra M. Hearne
133 Field Artillery
Robert E. Wiley
Bat
C. L. Butchee
College
G. L. Humbles
Elas
Dobbins Big Cash Store
John Bremond Coft
Cheek & Neel
Coopers
van Camp Pork & Beans
J. D. Dobbins
Grocer
Gus Evans
Geo.a Thomas & Sons
Karo
Mary J
Neal
Felix Matula & Co
Castoria
The
Herald
Santa Fe
Wm. Strzinek
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