Maury Williamson Fish and Game Protection Drive Gathers Steam
A mass meeting at Columbia and a Williamson County banquet launch the Maury Williamson Fish and Game Protective Association. Prominent officials push for strict enforcement of laws and a regional fish hatchery, urging broad enrollment and ongoing local organizing. The appeal highlights birds protecting crops and the 20 year best spawning season.
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Court House
Columbia
W. D. Howser
Williamson County
Maury-Willamson Fish and Game Protective Association
Tennessee
Rye
den Howser
Maury-Williamson Fish and Game Protective Association
Franklin
Bagamé and Fish Protective Associa
Farmer
Not Union Hours in a Soldier's Tale
A Boston Globe exchange has a worker questioning a veteran about a battle that allegedly lasted from 6 AM to 7 PM. The soldier affirms the long ordeal while the worker quips that unions would not tolerate such hours. The humorous exchange highlights labor era frustrations with work time.
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Boston Globe
Juarez as a Wild Town in Villa’s Era
The piece recalls Juarez as the widest open town in Villa’s heyday. Caballeros rode long distances to sample it while El Paso throngs carried money to gamble and drink. Villa funded the war through gambling revenue as bullets scar the walls and Maderistas, Villistas, and Huertistas are pictured in stark postcards. People sense an omen as they depart.
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New York
Juarez
Villa
el Paso
Gen
Juares
Regiment of Vets to Form First Spain War Unit
Representative L C Dyer of St Louis says a regiment of veterans from the Spanish War is to be organized for service in Mexico. He has received many letters from veteran officers and enlisted men nationwide and will visit New York Boston Portland and other points to organize the first unit. It will be officered by ten veterans who have seen active service in Cuba or the Philippines.
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Washington Dispatch
New York
L. C. Dyer
St. Louis
Spain
Mexico
Boston
Portland
Cuba
Philippines
The Awakening
A woman drops a dime in a subway crowd and moves toward the station while a fat man also chases the coin. She wins the race to the train, thanks him, and takes her seat as a dime falls into her lap revealing a hidden meaning.
Indians Offer Services to Volunteer for Mexico
The Oneida Indians plan a volunteer company to serve in Mexico, including Carlisle and Haskell graduates Tom Schenadere and Jonas Wheelock. They join Menominee military figures and Chippewa groups ready to respond to a call, as five Indians testify in a federal court liquor case in Hau Claire.
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Oneida Reservation
Carlisle and
Haskill
Tom Schenadere
Jonas Wheelock
Carlisle
O Menominee Indian
Faciliarees
Philipp
Jae
Hau Claire
Mexico
Women of France Enlist in Uncertain War Roles
A Paris dispatch to the London Times reports women serving at depots of the Seventh Battalion engineering corps. Twenty eight women feed clerks and act as store keepers tailors and corps workers in uniform. The experiment extends to several depots as auxiliary soldiers are replaced.
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Army and Navy Journal
Paris
London Times
Engineering Corps
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Craige & Davis Hdn. Co
Bell Telephone
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