Congress Faces New Devel opment in Peace Treaty
Washington July 25 The article reports Senate reaction to Clemenceau's statement on Rhine occupation and the choice between alliance or military action. It notes Foch's dissent and the fear that US obligations may be moral and economic rather than military, with Britain also stretched by global commitments.
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Washington, D. C
United States
Clemenceau
Rhine
Marshal Foch
Wilson
Lloyd George
France
Foch
UN Ws
America
Great Britain
England
Ireland
Caucasus
India
Egypt
Street rumor about a man paid for horse spit recipe
A man claimed poverty kept him from a home paper but sent $1.50 for an outside paper notice about preventing slobbering. The received recipe was to teach a horse how to spit, costing $1.90 in total.
Serious Charges Substantiated By General March
General March testified before the House sub committee that brutal treatment of enlisted men at prison camps near Paris was substantiated. He cited Lieutenant Hardboiled Smith, who faces an eighteen month sentence after conviction for cruel treatment, matching prior complaints by returning soldiers.
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Washington, D. C
Paris
General March
House Committee On War Expenditures
March
Smith
Americans Move to Open Trade With Germany
American consuls across Europe, cited by a semi official source, were ordered from Washington to remove all trade barriers with Germany in the last forty eight hours. Presidential orders to follow would formalize the shift. England had been closing in on German markets heightening tension in European trade. France and Britain speed up trade relaunch while America lagged behind.
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Paris
Europe
America
France
Training School for Nurses Seeks Young Women
Wanted two year training school for nurses offering eight hour system ten dollars monthly allowance and room board laundry during training. Apply at Physicians and Surgeons Hospital San Antonio Texas. Have you bought your Thrift Stamp today.
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Physicians and Surgeons Hospital
San Antonio
Texas
New Developments in the Shantung Settlement
President Wilson told Republican Senators he alone accepted responsibility for the Shantung settlement in the peace treaty. He described Lloyd George and Clemenceau declining to join talks on Japan's claim due to prior secret treaties with Japan. The decision to hand Shantung to Japan was said to rest with Wilson after negotiations with Japanese representatives.
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Washington, D. C
Wilson
Shantung
China
Japan
Lloyd George
Clemenceau
England
France
American War Dead in Europe Totals and Burial Plans
Casualties among American troops in Russia total 307 dead 304 wounded and 19 prisoners with 14 released and one died in prison. Archangel expedition deaths 189 wounded 287 missing 28. Vladivostok area reports 17 dead none missing. Bodies will be moved to a French cemetery along with those who died in Germany and Luxembourg. 76 in Italy to Genoa. By now 57 919 graves in Europe have been mapped and the work continues. All British graves located.
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Washington, D. C
Russia
Archangel
Vladivostok
France
War Department
Germany
Luxembourg
Italy
Genoa
Europe
Great Britain
Austria Refuses to Sign Peace Treaty Warily
Dr Karl Renner head of the Austrian peace delegation says he will not sign engagements he cannot enforce before leaving St Germain for Feldkirch Vienna reports say Vienna is incensed by treaty stipulations demanding surrender of thousands of milch cows to Italy Serbia and Roumania The American food mission warns of child malnutrition and deaths due to milk shortages amid the dispute
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Paris
Havas
Karl Renner
St. Germain
Feldkirch
Vienna
Italy
Serbia
Roumania
American Food Mission
John D Williams Pleads Guilty In SSI Evasion Case
John Dee Williams pleaded guilty before Judge Duval West in the United States District Court to failing to return and file a Selective Service questionnaire. He was sentenced to thirty days’ imprisonment for evading Section 6 of the May 18 1917 conscription act. The indictment was filed June 12 at Austin and the case transferred to San Antonio June 16, with filing in the judge’s court June 18.
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John Dee Williams
Duval West
United States District Court
Williams
Austin
Kimble County
San Antonio
Duval
Drouth Forces West cattle to Gulf and Southeast pastures
Severe drought in the Northwest may require Southeastern states to provide grazing for large herds from drouth stricken West and Northwest regions. Gulf States previously supplied pasture to cattle from western areas during prior droughts.
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Washington, D. C
Southeastern
Northwest
Gulf States
Heavy Rainfall Sweeps Texas Driving River Fears
Austin reports rapid Colorado River rise with flood stage likely within 24 hours. Marble Falls Bal linger and surrounding areas record heavy rainfall. Last night and today total about two inches, with twelve inches since Sunday night, the heaviest in Austin since April 1915's sixteen inches over 48 hours.
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Austin
Tex
Colorado
Marble Falls
Ballinger
Suit Filed Over War Risk Insurance in Texas Case
J M Hinkle of Ballinger Texas sues the War Risk Insurance Board in federal court to recover 10000 claiming his son Carl died of pneumonia after enlisting and signing for the policy in a hospital four days before death. The government refused payment labeling it death bed insurance.
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Ballinger
Texas
Carl
J. M. Hinkle
War Risk Board
Fire Roars Through Fort Leavenworth Prison Wing
A major fire damaged the west wing of the Federal Prison at Fort Leavenworth Kansas injuring no inmates as the wing under construction was engulfed in flames. Prison officials suspect incendiary origin and said inmates were in the east wing during the blaze which involved scaffold and timber but masonry walls held. Fire departments from Fort Leavenworth and nearby barracks responded to the Saturday incident.
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Leavenworth
Kan
Fort Leavenworth
Oil Belt Highway proposal before Texas Highway Commission
Delegations from Bexar Blanco Llano and other counties urged the Texas State Highway Commission to designate a new oil belt route from San Antonio to Eastland Wichita Falls. The proposed path would run via Blanes Johnson City Click Liano San Saba Goldthwaite Comanche and Hastland, shortening travel to oil fields by about one hundred miles. The hearing adjourned without action as the commission took the matter under advisement.
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Austin
Tex
Bexar
Blanco
Llano
State Highway Commission
San Antonio
Eastland
Wichita Falls
Blanes
Johnson City
Click
Lia
Ission
Kerr County Road Bond Election Re-run After Law Defect Fix
Comptroller Terrell reports Governor Hobby signed Kerr County road law correcting a defect in the prior bond election. Commissioners Court sets August 26 for a new vote while all bond provisions and private benefits remain unchanged.
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Terrell
Austin
Hobby
Kerr County
Commissioners Court
Kerrville
Not a Pleasant Forecast for Menswear Prices
New York reports suit prices to rise next fall by 25 to 40 percent. Statements from major clothiers and associations cite cloth shortages and higher labor costs as reasons. A $25 suit would move to $31.25, and a $50 suit to $62.50, while higher priced items see smaller increases.
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New York
Eaming
American‘Nothing Manufacturers’ Association
National Association of Clothiers
Brockaw Brothers
Rovers Peet & Co
Brill Brothers
Stein Bloch & Co
Boerne Woman Severely Injured in home accident
Mrs. in Boerne lost balance while standing on a chair post at her home and was impaled in the abdomen. Dr. Wright treated the wound, described as very serious, with the patient improving. The fragment ends with an unrelated sales promo mentioning bargains and a July 30 start.
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Jos
Rittimann
Boerne
Butchers Seek $1.10 Hourly Wages in Labor Demands
Chicago July 93 labor leaders say 80,000 workers from Armour & Co Swift & Co the Wilson Company Morris & Co and Gadahy & Co will demand a 30 cent hourly raise within 48 hours. Butchers splitters and floormen seek 1.10 per hour while unskilled labor asks 70 cents.
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Chicago
Armour & Co
Swift & Co
Wilson Company
Morris & Co
Gadahy & Co
Bargains in Real Estate in Blanco County Texas
A catalog of rustic ranch and farm parcels for sale near Fredericksburg and Blanco. Properties include 660 acres with 60 field acres and 50 tillable, 595 acres near a road 3 miles from Blanco, and 186 acre farm close to Fredericksburg with 70 acres cultivated. Prices range from 5 500 to 20 per acre with various trade options.
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Fredericksburg
Texas
Blanco
Blanco County
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