Horrifying battlefield tales reach Newport News from New Zealanders
A letter from Sergeant William F. May of the 48th Infantry at Camp Hill Newport News Virginia recounts chilling accounts from New Zealand soldiers returning from France. They describe gruesome Verdun fighting including decayed flesh for juice, and French bulldog killings of German foes with teeth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Tannenbaum
William F. May
48Th Infantry
Camp Hill
Newport News
France
New Zealand
Battle of
Verdun
May
Ninth Infantry
Loeb
Kaiser
48Th
Laredo
Last Day For Issuance Poll Taxes In Laredo Webb County
With a rush at the eleventh hour the city and county tax offices in Laredo and Webb County bustle as many residents seek poll tax receipts to vote in this year’s elections. The line of applicants builds since Monday as the year’s tax issuances are expected to surpass 1916, though many eligible young men are serving in the colors. To accommodate latecomers both offices will stay open until midnight tonight.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Laredo
Webb County
Clever smuggling stunt unearthed at international footbridge
A Mexican driver on the Laredos route was stopped by a customs inspector at the international footbridge yesterday. While delivering ice, the wagon revealed two five gallon cans with a false bottom. A stick tapped bottom half and water filled the top with about twenty five pounds of sugar hidden below. The driver claimed he hauled the load for another party and the case is under thorough investigation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
International Footbridge
Laredos
Herb ine relief promises fast stomach relief
An old advertisement touts Herbine as a quick remedy for heartburn indigestion and stomach distress. It claims to expel badly digested food restore tone in the stomach and bowels and sells for 50 cents through all druggists.
Crisis in Austria Hungary Looms Over Central Europe
Washington dispatches report a looming crisis in Austria Hungary as race, language, and religion fuse into mounting tensions. Bohemia seeks independence. Czechs resist German dominance, Czech language gains official status, and German influence wanes while the empire’s multiethnic core fractures. Powerful clergy and nobility in several provinces face erosion of prerogatives as questions rise about the empire’s fate and its European alliances.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington, D. C
Austria-Hungary
Europe
House of Hapsburg
Thucydides
Bohemia
Prague
Carniola
Carinthia
Masovia
Austrian Silesia
Thames
Seine
Tiber
Potomac
Red Book highlights Rocky Mountain resources and tourism
The January issue of the Rail road Red Book reviews Colorado Utah and New Mexico regions served by the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad. It presents optimistic telegrams from editors and covers mining manufacturing agriculture shale oil and major Rocky Mountain attractions including National Parks forests trout streams and highways.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rocky Mountain
Denver and Rio Grande
Colorado
Utah
New Mexico
Rockies
Watch The Times Everyday for Opportunities
A promotional note offers a subscription at 50 cents per month for access to daily opportunities and updates from The Times.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
the Times
Social calendar events at YMCAs and clubs Thursday
Thursday features Red Cross Surgical Noon at the Ys with Horace Hamlin at 2 30 P M. Heights Red Cross Knit Circle meets Mr T A Bunn at 4 P M. The Woman's Club programs at the Army Y M C A in the evening. Friday includes a Thrift Stamp party at former Latin American club rooms at 5 P M under Woman's Club, Boy Scout Troop No 2 meetings, Latin American Club weekly hop 8 P M to midnight, and Matra Club box party at the Strand.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Red Cross Surgical
Horace Hamlin
Heights Red Cross «Knit i; Circle
T A. Bunn
Woman's Club
Matra
Strand
Submission Reflections and Local Social Notes
A literary poem ponders submission and the cost of fighting for truth. Local society items report visitors from Toronto and Monterey, Red Cross sewing progress, a Bridge Club gathering with prizes, and preparations for a Thrift Stamp Party highlighting community spirit in Laredo.
Personal visitors and arrivals listed in city social notes
The city records a stream of visitors and residents staying at the Bender hotel and elsewhere. Encinal, San Antonio, Monterey, Dallas, Chicago, New York, and other places are represented by G A Welhausen H W Jefferies J B Hazelrigg Chio H Stowers J J Sanders B B Brooks Randolph Robertson and many others visiting or stopping in the area.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
G. A. Welhausen
Encinal
H. WH. Jefferies
J. B. Hazelrigg
San Antonio
Chio
H. Stowers
J. J. Sanders
Ranger
B. Brooks
Alice
Bender
Randolph Robertson
Monterey
M. J. Castro
J. P. Argueso
New York
Joh Elridge
Jeff Elridge
Longview
Dr. Carroll
Mexico
C. Barnard
Bolching
J. G. Masson
B. Hlaneison
C. B. Watts
Toronto
Can
C. H. Woodson
E. M. Mentor
Dallas
J. B. Brooks
Altice
Chas. M. E. Ora
Chicago
E. F. Sida
A. V. Sembio
R. P. Tyarly
R. E. Hix
Bartlesville
Okla
I. Rey
A Million Men In Germany Strike For Peace Talks
London reports the German strike widens with Berlin alone at about 700000 on strike, 58000 women among them. Strikers demand immediate general peace negotiations with no indemnities and no annexations, impacting numerous factories including munition and shipyards.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Germany
Associated Press
London
Exchange Telegraph
Copenhagen
Berlin
Nort
No Time Set for Draft As Congress Prep Looms
Washington reports no time has been set for the next military draft. The president can call an additional million men, and Secretary Baker has legislation ready for presentation to Congress, though timing remains unsettled.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
the Times
Washington
Baker
Congress
Mercury Squad Established for Urgent Messages
United States training camps appoint mercury squads of runners tasked with carrying messages to endangered outposts. The system, adopted from Europe, aims to maintain communications when standard signaling is compromised or destroyed. Major General Scott introduced the idea to counter interrupted lines and ensure rapid delivery of critical orders.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Times
Washington
United States
Mercury
Europe
Maor
Scott
College girls to register for farm work next summer
Washington January 31. The department of labor plans registration of college girls and other women for voluntary farm work next summer. The farm service division chief says much female labor is usable and needed nationwide.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
the Times
Washington
Department of Labor
Farm Service Division
Rations For Wealthy Women Implemented In New York
In New York on January 31 a voluntary food rationing program for wealthy women began at the home of Mrs. William Douglas Sloane. Over 300 enrolled for the honor system with a goal of 60,000 members. The federal food board states the plan targets housewives with ample means.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Times
New York
William Douglas Sloane
Federal Food Board
Berlin strike toll estimated at 120000
Amsterdam reports a semi official Berlin statement placing the number of strikers around 120,000, issued yesterday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amsterdam
Berlin
Germany extends strike near Berlin with 400000 out
The German strike spreads from Berlin districts including Tegel Aldershof Spandau and Mariendorf where about 400000 men have stopped work. A similar number of workers abstain in other parts of the empire.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amsterdam
Berlin
Tegel
Aldershof
Spandau
Mariendorf
Empire
Italian Attacks Fail on Northern Front as Prisoners Rise
Berlin reports Italian assaults yesterday on the northern front collapsed under German defense, with the war office noting prisoner gains to 600. London notes a quiet British front aside from artillery activity near Lens and a raid that netted a number of prisoners.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berlin
War Office
Teutons
London
Lens
Work for Women Special to The Times
Washington January 31 Mrs George Lathrop president of the American Fund for French Wounded says American women should not go abroad until sent for They are willing to do anything but without training as nurse typist or telephone operator should be barred They ought to work at home by saving food A vast field for feminine work is open in this country Red Cross hospital supplies are vitally needed in France for the next three months and should take precedence over everything else in anticipation of a German drive this spring.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
the Times
Washington
George Lathrop
American Fund For French Wounded
United States
Red Cross
France
Need for Ships Drives Four Minute Men Campaign
Edward N. Hurley, head of the U S shipping board, told a delegation of four minute men that the nation must mobilize to build ships and train 250000 skilled workers within 60 days. He urged expedited shipyard construction to support troops in France and warned that industry and local needs must yield to wartime ship production.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Times
Washington
Edward N. Hurley
United States Shipping Board
Hurley
France
Trustee's Sale of Merchandise and Fixtures
By virtue of authority vested in me under deed of trust executed January 19, I will on February fifth between 10 and 12 a.m. offer for sale at public outcry to the highest cash bidder the stock of merchandise and fixtures formerly belonging to Domingo Arredondo at 1111 Lincoln Street, Redo City, Texas. Contents total eight thousand three hundred eighty six dollars and eighty three cents for merchandise and four hundred seventy nine dollars and seventy five cents for fixtures. Right to reject any bids reserved. C. S. Dudley trustee North Texas Building Dallas Texas. 1-31-41.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Domingo Arredondo
Lincoln Street
City of
Laredo
C. S. Dudley
North Texas Building
Dallas
Texas
American Trench Raids Leave Casualties in France
In France two Americans killed four wounded and one missing believed captured after a dawn raid on an American trench front in heavy fog. The attack featured a fierce artillery barrage. Washington counts list American deaths from shell fire chiefly shrapnel. enemy losses from American cannon and machine guns are said equal or greater.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
France
Washington
State of siege declared at Hamburg and surrounding districts
Copenhagen reports a state of siege in Hamburg Altona and Wandsbeck per a socialist paper. London records a rise in British shipping losses in the latest weekly summary noting nine vessels destroyed greater than 1 600 tons and six under 1 600 tons.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Copenhagen
Hamburg
Altona
Wandsbeck
Hamburg Do
London
Want Reichstag Summoned
London January 31 socialist leaders in Germany according to advices. The report notes pressure for summoning the Reichstag and discusses possible political maneuvers amid tensions in the German government and public sphere.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Reichstag
London
Germany
Wilson Addresses American Farmers in War Year Call
President Wilson in a message to farmers at a University of Illinois conference urges aid for the coming war year. He says outcomes of this year will determine the country’s war effort, while wage increase demands before the railway commission total about 40 percent, nearly $500 million annually.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Washington
Wilson
United States
University of Illinois
Railway Commission
New Drug Shipped Overseas Aids Soldiers
A large quantity of a newly discovered drug has been sent to American forces overseas. The drug detects kidney defects in an advanced stage, helping minimize diseases among soldiers and supporting medical efforts in the field.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
the Times
New York
Jan
HEALTHIER IN TENTS CLAIM FOR ARMY MEN
Washington January 31 Secretary of War Baker said Surgeon General Gorgas believes men in camps live a healthier life in tents than in barracks The military affairs committee reported favorably two resolutions making two million men in class one available for service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Times
Washington
Baker
Gorgas
Military Affairs Committee
Boxing Coach Appointed at Phillips Andover Academy
Al Delmont, once a noted lightweight, is chosen boxing instructor at Phillips Andover Academy. The Tigers lose two regulars Burns and Kichmke and eight other players to enlistment or draft. Johnny Dundee cancels a bout in Philadelphia due to New Orleans bookings. Veteran Steve Yerkes reportedly set for a Cardinals return. Waite Hoyt rumored for a regular pitching role with the Giants this spring.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
al Delmont
Phillips Andover Academy
Ty Cobb
Tiger
White Sox
Norse
Havana
Way
Detroit Tigers
George Burns
Howard Kichmke
Johnny Dundee
Willie Jackson
Philadelphia
New Orleans
Ife
Steve Yerkes
Cardinals
Waite Hoyt
Giants
Special Election Set to Fill Walter Woodul Vacancy
A city county special election will be held in February to fill the vacancy caused by Walter Woodul's resignation from the legislature. Two attorneys, Paul W. Evans and Edwin A. Atlee, are the leading candidates in what is expected to be a close contest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walter Woodul
Paul W. Evans
Edwin A. Atlee
Milk Price Rise Notice by M A Harper
Notice to the public that starting February 1 the price of milk will be 20 cents per quart and 60 cents per gallon signed by M A Harper residing at 129 At.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
M. A. Harper
Reichstag President Asked to Summon Body Immediately
A report states the president of the Reichstag was urged to convene the assembly at once in response to alarming events of the last ten days.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Reichstag
Paris Air Raid Kills Twenty and Wounds Fifty
Twenty persons were killed and fifty wounded in last night's air raid over Paris. One raider was brought down, its occupants are prisoners.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
Lagu
Berlin Calls It Reprisal
Official statement says fourteen tons of bombs were dropped on Paris last night as reprisals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berlin
Paris
Bolsheviki Announce New Army To Support Europe Revolt
Petrograd on January 31 reports the official Bolshevik government statement that the new workmen and peasants army will serve to support the coming social revolution in Europe. The notice frames the force as a support to revolutions sweeping the continent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Petrograd
Europe
British Casualty List January Totals 73,017
London reports January British casualties at 73,017 with 358 officers and 13,698 men killed or died of wounds, 1,205 officers and 67,756 men wounded or missing. The total is about 6,000 less than December casualties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Also Mentioned on This Page
Rush
Austria
RED Book
Mra
Violet
Oberfeld
Army Y. M CA
Miriam Teleliner
Mrs. Watts
Canada
Tampico
Miss Brackens
J. W. Derby
City
Mr. Randolph Robertson
Auction Bridge Club
R. L. Muller
High Score Club
M. T. Cogley
B. F. Wright
Mesdames E. H. Buenz
J. K. Leyendecker
J. B. Morton
L. J. Christen
J. S. Penn
A. Wormser
E. H. Sauvignet
W. N. Young
Leon Daiches
M. S. Ryan
J. Martin
Mesdames Shelby, Tucker
Greer
Jones
Dwyan
Thrift Stamp Party
Poster
Applewhite
Joseph Netzer
Slaughter
Harry Shelby
Hall
Asher Smith
Cohn
Buenz
McKinney
Serve the Cause of Freedom
U.S. Food Administration
E. A. Atlee
Representative Woodul
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!