Reserve Board Organizes as Policy of Net Neutrality Emerges
The Federal Reserve Board formed by the new currency law took oath with five Wilson appointees at the Treasury. Hamlin Delano Warbur and Miller join McAdoo and Williams as ex officio members to establish a central banking system with first meetings set for Thursday.
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Washington
Federal Reserve Board
Wilson
Treasury Department
Charles S. Hamlin
FA Delano
Paul M. Warburr
Wat G. Harding
Adolph Miller
McAdoo
John Skelton Williams
Hamlin
Asatom
Reserve Board
Texans Back Cullop Amendment To Moon Post Office Bill
Washington report says a majority of Texans voted Tuesday for the Cullop amendment removing all post office employees from the civil service. Supporters listed include Buchanan Burgess Eagle Garrett Garner Grege Sumners Young with Hardy Rayburn Slayden Smith Henry and Stephens paired on the opposing side.
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Washington
Civil Service
Buchanan
Burgess
Eacle
Garrett
Garner
Grege
Sumners
Young
Hardy
Rayburn
Slayden
Smith Henry
Stephens
Captain George P Zeiss Dies in Waller Texas
Captain George P Zeiss died suddenly Saturday morning at his home in Waller Texas. Born in Germany in 1848 he came to America as a youth and settled in Illinois before moving to Waller seventeen years ago. He founded the German American Bank in Waller and stayed tied to local business interests thereafter.
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Waller, Tex
George P Teiss
Waller
Decedent
Germany
America
Illinois
Canal Will Open on August Fifteenth
Washington Secretary of War Garrison issued a statement Friday to dispel doubts about the opening of the Panama Canal on August 15. He said there is no known reason on the isthmus or in the War Department why the canal should not open to vessels needing water depths of up to thirty feet.
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Washington
United States
Department of Commerce
Wilson
Department
New York
Garrison
Vanama Canal
Obregon
Constitutional Army
City of
Mexico
Jorge Orozco
Constitutionalist Land and War Tax Commission
Laredo
Herrick
Paris
Chicago
Havre
Calvin Brown
Seine
Red Cross
Well Known Actress Isabelle Evesson Cooper Dies
The actress Isabelle Evesson Cooper died Monday at her Stamford Connecticut home. She gained fame touring the country in Little Lord Fauntleroy and played Rose Leigh in Rosedale.
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New York
Isabelle Evesson-Cooper
Stamford
Conn
Evesson
Lord Fauntleroy
Rose Leigh
Rosedale
Palestine Builds Surge as $300000 Projects Rise
Building operations in Palestine Texas are increasing with nearly 300000 dollars worth of structures under construction.
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Palestine
Tex
Wind Storm Damages Fort Bliss and El Paso Areas
A wind storm at Fort Bliss Tuesday night caused ten thousand dollars in damage and harmed multiple buildings under construction. A stable was torn down, trapping and injuring horses as the storm affected El Paso and surrounding suburbs.
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el Paso
Tex
Fort Bliss
Fort
Gas Struck at Santa Fe Well in Killeen Texas
Excitement rose this week as the Santa Fe well at Killeen struck gas after nearly two years of drilling. Drillers advanced through several hundred feet of solid granite, the hardest rock they've faced.
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Killeen
Tex
Santa Fe
Bond Issues Approved by Texas Attorney General
The attorney general’s department on Saturday approved bond issues for San Patricio County bridge bonds worth $10,000 Joaquin Independent School District Shelby County $40,000 and Dimmit County Common School District No 7 $7,500.
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Austin
Tex
Attorney General’s Department
San Patricio County
Joaquin
Shelby County
Dimmit County
Leach Cross Beats Rivers in Twenty Round Thriller
Leach Cross of New York defeated Joe Rivers of Los Angeles by decision after twenty rounds. Cross won every round from the tenth onward in a hard fought bout at a Los Angeles venue Tuesday night.
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Los Angeles
Cal
Leach Cross
New York
Joe Rivers
Cross
Kansas Mines Shut as Strike Halts Majority of Operators
At the Southwest Coal Operators' association offices in Kansas City officials announced that all but ten coal mines in Kansas were closed due to the strike by 4,000 miners several days earlier.
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Kansas City
Southwest Coal Operators’ Association
Kansas
English Educator Dies in London at 48
Sir Edward Anwyl professor of Welsh and comparative philology at University College of Wales Aberystwyth died Monday at age 48 in London. He was a leading scholar in Celtic studies and held a prominent position in Welsh language research.
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London
Edward Anwyl
University College of Wales
Aberystwyth
Carbajal and Army Vanish From Capital
Federal government in Mexico City dissolves as President Carbajal and cabinet flee to Vera Cruz after a peaceful transfer pact with the constitutionalists. Obregon to lead entry. amnesty awaited. Villa rumors loom on possible northern revolt.
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City
Mexico
Republic
Francisco Carbajal
Vera Cruz
Carbajal
Madero Congress
Carranza
Obregon
Constitutionalists
Eduado Iturbide
Federal District
Washington
City of Mexico
Iturbide
Mexican Federal District
Tula
General Obregon
Trainloads of Mexicans Used as Cotton Pickers in Texas
Trainloads of Mexican workers are being transported to various Texas locations to work as cotton pickers, according to the report. The movement highlights labor deployment across the state for agricultural harvests.
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Texas
Americans Stranded as Hook of Holland Harbor Mined
Reports from W T Metz rath and Wellesley Harrington describe Americans in the Netherlands facing hunger and danger as rail cars run packed and food runs out. Hoover aids 300, Paris banks tighten, and consular efforts seek relief while ships depart Havre and Havre to France.
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London
Hook
Holland
W. T. Metzrath
New Brunswick
N. J
the Hook
Netherlands
Alarm in Marine Circles Over War Time Ship Movements
As war with Germany looms, New York mariners watch transatlantic liners for capture risk. Kronprinzess Cecilie arrives at Bar Harbor prompting fear Kaiser Wilhelm II may appear elsewhere in American ports. Kaiser Wilhelm II unseen since Cherbourg July 29, agents fear wireless signals to avoid capture.
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New York
England
Germany
Cecilie
Bar Harbor
Wilhelm II
Cherbourg
Kaiser Wilhelm II
Cecille
WAR VESSELS LISTED IN AMERICAN WATERS
Washington reports the locations of foreign warships in U S waters. German ships Dresden Karlsruhe Nuernberg Strassburg Leip sic British Algerine Berwick Shearwater Essex Lancaster French Descartes Conte and others are noted in routes from St Thomas Havana Vera Cruz Mazatlan Tampico and Veracruz with uncertain final destinations.
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Washington
Navy Department
Germany
Dresden
St St. Thomas
Port Au Prince
Karls
Ruhe
Havana
Vera Cruz
Nuernberg
San Francisco
Cal
Strassburg
St. Thomas
W. I
Leipsic
la Paz
Mexico
Algerine
Mazatlan
Berwick
Canada
Bristol
Suffolk
Shearwater
San Diego
Essex
Tampico
Lancaster
Descartes
France
Conte
Fortune Hunter
A quip recalls a man named Jack who marries for fortune rather than beauty, with a wry reply that he married for booty.
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Jack
Malaria Remedy Ad Promises Quick Recovery
An old advertisement touts a prescription for malaria or chills and fever claiming five or six doses will break the illness and taken as a tonic will prevent return. Priced at 25 cents.
Perfectly Natural Dinner with Carnegie and a Lost Dime
Herbert Cory recounts a dinner where Andrew Carnegie, after speeches, dropped a handful of coins. A dime rolled away and Carnegie searched under the table, finally recovering 15 cents amid the laughter and audience curiosity.
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Herbert Cory
Andrew Carnegie
Corey
Saturday Evening Post
A Play Scene Interruption at English Provincial Theatre
During a recent provincial theater performance a meek young man called for Uncle-uncle and expected silence. A gallery heckler shouted a demand for money, interrupting the scene and altering the moment for the audience.
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Berlin
Harrington
Herbert C. Hoover
Henry W. Diedrich
State Department
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H. H. Harjes
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