Cloud Burst Drenches McCulloch County Saturday
A severe downpour in McCulloch County last Saturday caused rivers to swell rapidly. Voca reported a 12 to 15 foot rise in the San Saba, Lost Creek flooded, and bridges washed away while homes and outbuildings suffered damage across several communities.
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McCulloch County
Voca
Dept
San Saba
Lost Creek
London Road
J. H. Bradshaw
Alice County
Brady
Dave Harkrider
Harkrider
Calseek
Galt Creek
Pontotge
Comanche Creek
Mason County
Field Creek
Canada to mobilize its young men in war effort
The Austin American notes Canada lags in enlisting youth, urging public meetings and legal calls to arms. It argues the Allied obligation and Britain’s strain heighten Canada's duty to mobilize, despite low enlistment among twenty ones and public pressure. The piece frames the U S and Canada as sharing grievances yet stresses Canada must act.
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Quebec
United States
Wilson
Canada
England
Great Britain
Austin American
British and French Gain Ground After Bitter Fighting
London reports on the western front as British and French forces push forward along the Hindenburg line and in the Ypres sector. British artillery conducts raids near the coast while air raids on German bases in Belgium yield good results. Italian positions falter as Austro Hungarian forces claim prisoner gains and a strategic withdrawal near the Floridan front.
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London
Hindenburg
Teuton
Roeux
Berlin
Aisne
Ypres
Wydlsehaete
Belgium
Chamon
Pagne
Rome
Vienna
Jamaiano
Austro-Hungarian War Office
Yesterdas
Flondar
Ca|dormna
Hermaida
Trieste
Omers Sine
Music Charms Deaf Mutes and Their Sensations
A report on how deaf mutes experience music through vibrations. Testimonies describe shocks from feet to head and feelings in chest, lungs, temples, and legs while touching a piano. Teachers emphasize music as essential to education for the deaf.
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Mnusic
Science Monthly
Conscription Debate in Canada and U S Recruiting
The text questions Canada may face conscription similar to the United States as it mobilizes divisions to Europe. It notes heavy losses and decimated ranks, with recruiting lagging, especially in Quebec, and cites the Christian Science Monitor as authority for May recruitment figures.
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Canada
United States
Europe
Quebec
Christian Science Monitor
Timely Topics on Drouth and Building Costs
The note warns drouth has hurt crops and grass, urging careful cash use. It promotes MO. 5 Callaway General Merchandise in Ingraw, promising low stateside prices on lumber shingles roofing wire staples nails posts and groceries and dry goods to save money.
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Drouth
Post
Corn and Cotton Prices Soar in Opening Market
Chicago June 6 extreme advances in corn reached 8 7 8 to 9 1 4 cents as board of trade fixed maize at 1 65 a bushel to allow July gains amid federal guidance. Cotton prices surged in New York and Liverpool markets with July contracts near 22 58 per bale, over $5 above Monday’s low as buyers push ahead of holidays.
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Chicago
Board of Trade
New York
Liverpool
Daylight Store Offers Stylish Dresses and Accessories
Ad for stylish up to date dresses skirts and dress goods at the Daylight Store highlights vast waists and fashionable options in a large assortment.
American steamer sinks German submarine in melee
Washington reports an armed American steamer engaged a German submarine for about an hour and a half. The sub fired 35 shots and the steamer 25, with the final shot apparently sinking the submarine which rose from the water and disappeared. The steamer and its crew sustained no damage.
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Washington
State Department
Department of State
Pat Jean
Straw Hats at bargain price at Daylight Store
On our bargain counter straw hats valued up to 1.50 for 50c. Come and see them at Daylight Store.
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Daylight
Palm Beach
Burrier-Maier Co
Chronley Remanded After Saloon Liquor Purchase Case
Federal grand jury proceedings led to Chronley being sent to jail in default of bond. Evidence showed Chronley entered a saloon at a soldier's request and purchased liquor for him. United States commissioner A. L. Jackson presided on Wednesday in 2000.
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Federal Grand Jury
A. L. Jackson
United States
Chronley
Irregular Postcripts and Tech Notes Spark Industry Progress
A scattered set of notes covers irrigation in Spain and British East Africa plans for northern wireless stations along Abyssinia and Italian borders. Other items note a Hamburg fumigating boat’s fleet-wide killings, a Seattle patent for shock absorption in cars, a shaver lamp delivering diffused light, London bus trials with end controls, Duquesne Pa.’s electric steel furnace producing thirty tons per heat, and a Minnesota patent for freezing fish in oiled paper boxes for nail shipping.
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Spain
British East Africa
Hamburg
Seattle
London
Duquesne
First arrest for selling liquor to a soldier in uniform
The first Houston arrest for selling liquor to a soldier in uniform since President Wilson’s proclamation was made by Headquarters Detective McPhail. Joseph H Chronley, a Webster farmer, was held in custody.
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Houston
Wilson
McPhail
Joseph H. Chronley
Webster
Fredericksburg Market Produce Prices June 5
Market report from Fredericksburg lists butter at 25¢ per pound eggs 250 per dozen roosters shelled corn oats hens fryers and broilers 20¢ per pound ducks 30¢ each geese turkeys 15¢ per pound corn per bushel 1.10. Cotton price noted at 21.00.
Misread Fragments From Local Notice
Fragmentary OCR hints at a local notice involving individuals and a schedule or event. Readable names include wi dienes and jimity Chop with a date placeholder 13, a mela Miss fe suggesting a community announcement or clerkly public hearing.
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