Texas Heroes Honor Roll of Texas Boys in Europe
A long list honors Texas servicemen by state, rank, and fate from World War II. Names span Pvt. Sidney Kornegay to Pvt. Starling Whittemore, noting Died of Wounds, Died of Disease, Died by Accident, Wounded in Action, and Missing in Action with many towns and units represented.
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Texas
Europe
Marcellus Hunter
Waskem
Callie Johnson
San Antonio
Jeff M. Tucker
Greenville
Jesse B. McAdams
Huntsville
Frank B. Hannah
Gatesville
Branch Miller
Calvert
Victor L. Bailey
Richard M. Brooks
Tolbert
Charles L. Hyder
Lewisville
Robert F. Washington
Dallas
Arthur W. Waldo
Hovey
William Young
Karnack
Shade Barnes
Ganado
Wyatt Carpenter
Shop
Hugh C. Yoas
Lytounsel McGlethen
Clodine
James W. Murray
Princeton
Shade E. Brent
Beaumont
Corp
Harry C. Fritsch
Elliner
Byron Mitchell
Teague
Joseph EK. Wilson
Kingsland
Otto M. Kieke
Burton
Fred L. Webster
Alvin
Jim B. Wilburn
Wolfe City
Cleveland ZR
Moffitt
Quinlan
Thomas R. Richards
Archie L. T. Stuart
Woodland
Henry A. Halty
Castro
Detroit
Lawrence McVey
Galveston
Isaiah Joseph
Houston
Barton
Bill Shumate
Brownwood
William F. West
Harlingen
John B. Williams
Matagorda
David L. Wright
Rule
Roy J. Radford
San Benito
Claude Evans
Corpus Christi
Earl M. Millard
Drapevine
William M. Baines
Eastland
Ames M. Halamuda
Garland Millar
San Aneta
Emmit Miller
Shepherd
Starling Whittemore
Waco
West Texas
Roosevelt funeral in Oyster Bay noted in Texas paper
The Texas newspaper recounts Colonel Theodore Roosevelt’s simple funeral at Sagamore Hill near Oyster Bay New York with domestic and international figures attending. It also covers state items including farm credit, bank bonds, pardons, flood conservation plans and motorists taxes in 1919 Texas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Theodore Roosevelt
Sagamore Hill
Oyster Bay
N. Y
United States
Roosevelt
Long Island Sound
Christ Episcopal Church
Theodore Roosevelt, Jr
Kermit Roosevelt
Europe
George E. Talmage
Christchurch
Thomas R. Marshall
Wilson
Peyton C. March
Army
C. McR. Winslow
C. McR. Winslow Represented the Military and Naval Services
Lane
William Howard Taft
Charles Evans Hughes
Elihu Root
Henry Cabot Lodge
Massachusetts
Leonard Wood
Gleaves
Henry L. Stimson
Alfred E. Smith
New York
Champ Clark
J. G. Cannon
House of Representatives
Republic Proclaimed in Luxemburg Capital
Paris reports a republic proclaimed in Luxemburg with Grand Duchess Marie withdrawing to her château near the capital.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
Luxemburg
Marie
Cave Dwellers In France
A brief note from Scientific American describes troglodyte life in modern France, where some residents still inhabit underground dwellings near Paris despite advances in civilization. It contrasts ancient caves with evolved shelter norms and notes ongoing underground living by a few French people.
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France
Tong
Scientific American
Europe
Paris
Many Varieties of Timber Growth and Local Packaging
Buriha grows over a hundred varieties of timber and used to export rubber in packing cases made from imported Japanese wood. It is now found that these packing cases can be produced locally at about half the cost, improving local production efficiency.
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Japan
No Slacker. A Father Son Conversation on Work and Pleasure
A father questions why his son does not devote himself fully to work. The son replies that work is enjoyable but he does not wish to surrender all to pleasure. The exchange reflects a gentle tension between duty and personal joy.
Bronze Casting in Siam by Chinese Touch Early Art
A fragment notes bronze casting as an ancient art in Siam influenced by Chinese methods during the eleventh century with Indian divinities created for religious purposes.
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Siam
Burleson Act Sustained in Cable Company Case
Federal Judge Learned Hand dismissed the injunction suit by Commercial Cable and Commercial Pacific against Postmaster General Burleson to block government seizure and merger of their lines with Western Union. Counsel for the companies said an appeal would be filed.
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New York
Commercial Cable Company
Commercial Pacific Cable Company
Burleson
Western Union Telegraph Company
Learned Hand
Texas lawmakers gather in session in Austin
Austin notes a long session beginning Tuesday with about 1 000 bills expected. Key reforms include separating banking and insurance divisions, revising election laws, new public utilities rules, health code revisions, equal pay and living wage aims, highway funding rules, a state board of equalization, and broad tax measures as lawmakers address federal highway funding and ample housekeeping bills.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austin
Tex
Legislative Investigating Committee
Department
Insurance Commission
Waco
Texas
Federal Congress
State Tax Assessors’ Association
Board of Equalization
House
Senate
Wife admits killing husband in Nassau County
Mme. Marie Augustine Lebaudy confessed to Nassau District Attorney Charles R. Weeks that she shot and killed her husband Jacques Lebaudy known as the emperor of the Sahara as he entered her home Phoenix Lodge on Saturday night. She said she shot him because he had threatened her life for fifteen years.
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Westbury
Mme
Marie Augustine Lebaudy
Charlies R. Weeks
Nassau County
Jacques Lebaudy
Sahara
Phoenix Lodge
Government recaptures Vorwaerts plant in Berlin clashes
Government troops retook the Vorwaerts plant in Berlin after heavy fighting on Saturday. About 300 Spartacans were captured, with over twenty killed and forty wounded. Government losses are reported as slight as fighting continues daily.
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Berlin
Vorwaerts
Marine Workers Resume Work After Port Strike
New York reporters say marine workers voted Saturday to return to work in response to President Wilson's request, ending a three day stretch that tied up the port. Stephen J. Condon, secretary of the marine workers, announced the decision.
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New York
Marine Workers
Wilson
Stephen J. Condon
The
Paderewski Wounded in Warsaw Hotel Shooting
Polish leader Ignace Jan Paderewski was slightly wounded when an assassin fired a single shot at him in his Warsaw hotel room. Several bolshevik plot suspects were arrested in connection with the attack.
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London
Jan Paderewski
Warsaw
Attorney General Gregory Resigns from Post
Washington—Thomas Watt Gregory, attorney general since 1914, has resigned due to pecuniary responsibilities and will return to law practice. President Wilson has agreed to his retirement next March 4.
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Gregory
Washington
Thomas Watt Gregory
United States
Wilson
Walker D. Hines Named Director General of Railroads
Walker D. Hines, assistant director general of railroads, was appointed director general by President Wilson on Saturday to succeed William G. McAdoo.
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Walker D. Hines
Washington
Wilson
William G. McAdoo
Pullman Collision Kills Twenty One in Batavia NY
Twenty one people died and several were injured in a rear end crash on the New York Central near South Byron Sunday.
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Batavia
N. Y
New York Central Railroad
Bill's Delusion of Eyes Speaking Detects Love
A quip on courtship notes Bill claims his sweetheart speaks with her eyes and predicts he will learn the error of this belief after marriage. The item reads as a light social joke from a newspaper humor column.
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Bill
Vacher Balm Ad Promises Quick Relief
An advertisement touts Vacher Balm as a faster remedy for croup, catarrh, colds, and sore throat than a $25 prescription. It markets samples and agent prices, notes imitations to beware, and lists E. W. Vacher Inc. of New Orleans as the source. A humorous aside questions wages with a wife joke.
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E. W. Vacher, Inc
New Orleans
Adv
Recipe forGray Hair and Health Ads
An advertisement describes a home hair darkening mix using Bay Rum Barbo Compound and glycerine to treat gray hair without scalp staining. It promises soft glossy hair and details are provided in Barbo Compound boxes. Also promotes Doctor Pierce's Pleasant Pellets for digestive health and a generic moral note about doing for others.
Quite Pleasant First Passenger Liner Night Game Exchange
Two passengers discuss a rough night on the Atlantic liner. One notes a rough ending. the other brags about a profit of a bit over two hundred dollars from the game.
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Texas Heroes
Sidney B. Kornegay
Malone
Fred L. Stanley
Granger
George F. Robertson
Amarillo
Roy Sebastian
Fate
Charles O. Strickland
Era
Herman E. Webber
Mykawa
Zellis Sellis
Sealy
William H. Johnson
Clifton
John R. Leonard
Coldthwaite
John L. Banks
Humble
William Bohler
Honey Grove
Henry Cantavespi
Pitts Ridge
Dan W. Cheaney
Aransas Pass
Luther Secrest
Southmayd
Guenther F. Clevenger
Harold F. Smith
Laredo
Percy McFarland
Tyler
John Tyler
Simms
Raymond R. Leonard
Fort Worth
Sigt
Earl Scott
Cook J. Klaus
Charlie Bird
Oaksville
Phelan
Crenshaw
Bryan
Arthur BE. Joiner
Granbury
Sam A. Puckett
Cookville
Claud I. Farmer
Killeen
William B. Camp
Longview
Jake J. Brode
Brookshire
DeLean
John
Whitley
James A. Terry
Sulphur Springs
Clifton C. Lockhart
Clarence Midmore
Brenham
James F. Breland
Lufkin
Hubert Carter
Hennie Johnson
Centerville
Charles A. Schenk
Schulenburg
Claude Tibbs
Bedias
Willie D. Linn
Clawson
James E. Tomme
Moody
Col. Roosevelt
Texas News
Jefferson County
Texas Bankers’ Association
Federal Land Bank of Houston
Harris County
Southland Life Insurance Company of
State Department of Insurance and Banking
Italy
England
Scotland
Cuba
Mexico
Attorney General’s Department
Cass County
Wheeler County
Eagle Lake
Kingston
Jamaica
Luling
State Fire Insurance Commission
Texas State Board of Pardons
Drouth
Annie Webb Blanton
State Superintendent of Public Instruction
State Department of Education
State Highway Commission
H. C. Hall
Bureau of Venereal Diseases
Hall
United States Health Service
Paderewski
Pullman
Wrigley
Goody-Land
Rae
Henpeck
Doctor Pierce
Dean
D. C. Ross
Fulton &J
Brooklyn
Tirst
Mrs. Ross
Doan
L. N. Vaughan
Notary Public
Ens
Boon
Thomas E. Creen
Boston
Dixie Company
Hot Springs
Ark
Bermuda
Laws
SAN Jacinto Seed Co., Inc. P. CO
Peden Iron & Steel CO
Minnesota
Green Mountains
San Jacinto Seed Co., Inc
Secret Service Company
Furlong, Inc
St. Louis
Millsaps Bros
Harriston, Mies
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