Texas House Advances Highway and School Bills in Austin
The Texas House engrossed the Tillotson highway bill with minor changes and passed measures creating new independent school districts in Brazoria and Falls counties. Other actions included approving bills on pool room regulation, state bonds for El Paso School of Mines, and a constitutional amendment requiring voters to be U.S. citizens. Senate actions mirrored these moves with confirmations of independent school districts and oversight of redistricting proposals.
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House
School of Mines
el Paso
Senate
Austin
Tex
Tillotson State Highway Commission
Cunty
Valentine
Texan
Williams of McLennan
Germany
Dodd
Woods
Brazoria Independent
Freeport
Brazoria
Freeport Independent
Texas
Johnston
Harris County
State Highway Commission
Ferguson
Prairie View Normal
Brownsville
Willacy
Kleberg
Llano County
Hearne
Houston
Sam Houston
Thomason
Dudley
McFarland
Alpine
Easty
Branel Agricultural and Mechanical College
West Texas
Texas Company
Vill
Dean
Hudspeth
Jim Hoge
Kine
Taylor
Denton
Committee On
United States
House Proceedings Narrow in Session with Minor Actions
The house met on Saturday with two cars and little business. No vote to schedule the submission bill for Friday. Readers will act this week. A bill to raise deputy county official salaries passed, expanding from Dallas to Harris and other counties.
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Dallas County
Harris
Germany declares unrestricted submarine warfare
Germany announces unrestricted submarine warfare and a starvation blockade against England with plans to use submarines to strike within sixty days. The move risks severing diplomatic ties with the United States as Berlin cites baring zones around Great Britain France Italy and the Eastern Mediterranean and warns American ships and nationals to avoid the area.
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Washington
Germany
England
Gerard
Berlin
State Department
Count von Bernstorff
von Hindenburg
von Tirpitz
United States
Whktson
Lansing
Wilson
British Isles
Great Britain
France
Italy
Mediterranean
North Sea
Terschelling
Adir
Farover
Faroe Islands
Cape Finistero
Lusitania
Riga
Volhynia
Galicia
Bukowina-Roumania
Jacobenn
Kimpelung
Goldern Bystritza
Texas Roads See Operating Revenue Rise in Five Months
For the five months ending November 30, 1916, Texas railroads reported operating revenue of 59,822,744.88 dollars, up 11,478,499.88 dollars or 23.74 percent from the prior year. Total operating expenses rose to 58,077,851.16 dollars, up 3,200,073.70 dollars or 9.18 percent, with income from operation at 21,745,393.72 dollars, up 8,278,426.18 dollars or 61.47 percent. Freight revenue reached 42,536,?elon values noted, passenger train revenue rose 3,033,196.92, and other revenue increased 271,135.95 as tariffs and tonnage grew.
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Austin
Tex
Texas
Texas Railroad Commission
Railroad Commission
Editors Hold Convention United for Texas Paper Plans
Beaumont editors from about thirty Texas papers convened in a Gulf Coast Presse club meeting. They endorsed a county superintendent bill and discussed manufacturing print paper from cotton stalks and other Texas materials, plus rapid settlement of cutover East Texas lands.
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New Orleans
Gulf Coast Press Club
Gulf Coast
Texas
W. C. Blake
Jasper Newsboy
Houston
Club
Farm Loan Associations
Texas committee organizes Wilson inaugural parade float
Mrs. Cato Sells of Cleburne is named chairman for Texas to prepare the state's inaugural parade float for March 5. Her arrangements committee includes Mrs. Morris Sheppard, Mrs. W. R. Smith, Mrs. John N. Garner, Mrs. M. L. Goodwin, Mrs. John H. Stephens, Mrs. Frank Leckhart, and Mrs. Joseph H. Eagle.
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Washington
Cato Sells
Cleburne
Wilson
Texas
Morris Sheppard
W. R. Smith
John N. Garner
M. L. Goodwin
John H. Stephens
Frank Leckhart
Joseph H. Eagle
12c Loan Urged by Texas Farm Union Leader
Fort Worth Tex A 12c loan on cotton was the dominant note in the address of H N Pope president of the Texas Farmers Union delivered to the state convention in session Tuesday He stated that with a 12c per pound loan the South would become the center of the world's commercial power
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Fort Worth
Tex
H. N. Pope
Texas Farmers’ Union
South
Navy May Fill Orders for Armor Piercing Shells
Contracts exceeding three million dollars for armor piercing shells were awarded by the American Navy to Hadfields Limited of England. The British government had ordered the company to halt work while war needs persist, but the Navy may still fulfill the orders.
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Washington
Hadfields, Limited
No Further Riots Feared After Baths At El Paso Station
Nine hundred twenty nine Mexicans were processed at the U S immigration station on the third day of quarantine enforcement to prevent typhus. No rioting occurred and officials now believe the bath riots danger has passed.
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el Paso
Tex
United States Immigration Station
United States
Admiral Dewey Will Filed for Probate in Washington
The will dated December 17 1915 was filed Friday for probate and provides a life annuity of 500 dollars to his sister Mrs Mary P Greeley. It directs a suitable stone over his grave in Arlington National Cemetery and leaves the remainder of the estate to the widow and his son George Dewey Jr with executors named without bond.
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Washington
Admiral Dewey
Mary P. Greeley
Arlington National Cemetery
George Dewey, Jr
Oldest Victoria Cross Holder Captain Jones Dies
Eastbourne reports the death of Captain H. M. Jones the oldest VC holder. He earned the cross for gallantry in the 1855 Crimean War battle of The Quarries.
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Eastbourne
H. M. Jones
Mexicans Driven Across Line Near Ruby Arizona
Mexican raiders who clashed with American troopers and cowboys at Ruby Arizona were driven across the border Sunday by U S forces. They sought refuge in adobe houses which were burned as troops pursued them into the hills after a Friday morning cattle roundup observed on the American side.
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Arivaca
Ariz
Ruby
Paper Mill Owners Meet Publishers
Informal conference in Chicago brought together representatives of the American Newspaper Publishers Association and the Print Paper Manufacturers Association. They voted to appoint a committee to meet after the FTC report on the print paper situation is delivered this week to see if the findings suggest adjustments to current problems.
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Chicago
American Newspaper Publishers’ Association
Print Paper Manufacturers’ Association
Federal Trade Commission
Armor Plate Plant Sought by Texarkana and Atlanta Officials
A Texarkana Texas board of trade meeting with Atlanta Texas businessmen discussed locating a government armor plate plant in the region. They plan to gather all data for the naval board visit and note Cass County iron ore fields lie about fifteen miles away while both Texarkana and Atlanta push for the plant.
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Texarkana
Tex
Atlanta
Texas
Texarkana Board of Trade
Naval Board
Cass County
Atlante
Pape's Diapepsin Promises Quick Stomach Relief
An advertisement touts Pape's Diapepsin as a fast, harmless remedy for indigestion and related stomach distress. It urges readers to buy a fifty cent case for home use and promises rapid relief from gas, heartburn, bloating, and dyspepsia. Also notes Russians planning to colonize in South America and plumbers' average wage of five dollars per eight hours.
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Pape
South America
Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Linked to Sterility Cure
A Poplar Bluff Missouri woman writes that Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound improved her health and enabled her to bear a daughter. The advertisement claims the remedy helps many women become healthy and capable of work and invites others to seek confidential advice from the Lydia E Pinkham Medicine Co. in Lynn Massachusetts.
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Lydia E. Pinkham
Poplar Bluff
Dia E. Pinkham
Hustony
Cya Otry A. Pinkams
Allia B. Timmons
Almond St
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