Honor Roll Texas Heroes in Europe Army Casualties
Readable names list soldiers from Texas noted as killed wounded missing or captured in Europe. Includes Pvt Jasper Skeeter Hayle Lake Pvt Simon AL Cassano Elmhorff Capt Phil J. Keiser San Antonio Pvt Luciano Billaniesta Trowns Ville Pvt John A. Prithe Bogela Pvt Jethro McMahon Cypress Pvt Henry Bo Morgan Shise Pvt Cheradi Leaeue City Thos Edwin Jotntan Waco Corp Creorve Piteceraid Whernuthy Ist Isarey Moore San Antonio Pvt Marl NX Furgidtiar Civte Plob bake ry lies Mea Wile yn Pwr AV ur ob Contain Attanety yt Marold thastrengs hk Mirr tertt PAP toon Sewrdh click aviite Corp Ron Morton bat Vea yt Hoerhert 1 Tustur Sinta Pst Geopee Metvensie Indy Sydney Wo Noll Guatnesyitle Corp Tomer a Richardson Poin Kine Myvt Atructin Poawelas Youkum Py Burton Mt Donseive Gonzales Helen Claude Barham Nacordoche POU Ec ioPhele re Corp Ervin Weiker Round Top Pvt Felix Martinez Deeville Myt Floyd Ko Weleh Lufkin Pvt Vanl A Walker Tahoka Pvt Willie Leek Shiner Leroy Parker Houston Pythra F Hoffman Shelbyville Pvt Joseph Ro Smith Sparta
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T. Atere
Ciba
Eve Hiner
NwWarg
Ted
AM Corp
Marold Thastrengs Hk
Click
Aviite Corp
Ron Morton
Bat
Sinta
Geopee Metvensie
Indy
Sydney
Guatnesyitle Corp
Tomer A Richardson
Poin Kine
Donseive Gonzales
Helen
Claude Barham
Nacordoche Pou Ec ioPhele Re Corp
Ervin Weiker
Round Top
Felix Martinez
Deeville
Floyd Ko Weleh
Lufkin
Vanl A. Walker
Tahoka
Willie Leek
Shiner
Leroy Parker
Houston
Pythra F. Hoffman
Shelbyville
Joseph Ro Smith
Sparta
Army commissions issued for engineers and support corps
Washington lists newly issued army commissions with names and hometowns. First lieutenant engineers James W Sessums of Houston. second lieutenant engineers Louis W Robertson of El Paso. second lieutenant ordnance Warren KB Healingreen of San Antonio. Ira L McColester of Weatherford. Also numerous quartermaster, sanitary, motor transport, air service production and air service officers named with cities including Dallas Galveston Fort Worth San Antonio Georgetown Hers ton Gatesville Kelly Field Port Sam Houston Austin Farmersville Vernon and others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Antonio
William de Miller
Herston
Fred G. Prewitt
Gatesville
Card J. ‘Tillman
Kelly Field
Leutenant Sanitary
Nelson N. Blosse
George EF. Simmons
Houston
Motor Transport Corps
Stanley Curtis
el Paso
William A. Friars
Fort Sam Houston
Larue Nelson
Rellda. Williams
Port Sam Houston
Air Service Production
House Adopts Principal Items in War Revenue Bill
Washington house speedily approves major tax provisions of the war revenue bill. Key measures include estates taxes estimated at 110 million dollars, transportation 187 million, amusement admissions 100 million, excise taxes 518 million, beverages 1.137 billion, tobacco 341 million, capital stock 70 million, automobile license 72.95 million and stamp taxes 32 million.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
House
Washington
2000 Texas Draft Men Called
Texas selective service calls 1941 white men for general service to report at Camp Travis from October 7 to 12 and 70 white men for limited service to report at Jefferson Barracks Missouri on September 30.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austin
Tex
Texas Selective Service Department
Camp Travis
Jefferson Barracks
Missouri
Washington
Crowder
Woth
Neroves
Belgium Rejects Separate Peace Offer From Germany
Paris reports Belgium, after allied consultation, has refused the suspected separate peace proposal from Germany without elaboration.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Belgium
Paris
Germany
Aviation Instructor Killed In Fort Worth Field Crash
Lieutenant C. R. Jones, an accuracy stage instructor at a Fort Worth flying field, died Friday when his aircraft went into a tail spin. His home is listed as Chicago.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fort Worth
Tex
C. R. Jones
Chicago
British Forces Near St Quentin Smash German Positions
British and French troops drive toward St Quentin in a large offensive. British units report capturing towns and guns after a heavy smash through German defenses and taking prisoners.
Serbs Drive Bulgarians. Allied Forces Press On In France
Russian and Allied dispatches describe Serbian forces pursuing retreating Bulgarian units while British French and American troops advance in Picardy. Haig’s armies push through Hindenburg defenses near St Quentin and Gouzeaucourt, seizing outer lines and taking prisoners as they close on the key city.
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Picardy
St Quentin
Cambrai
Gouceaicourt
Oenet
Epetis
Diathy
Hatteras
St. Quentin
Haig
Hindenburg
Hopehy
Gouzeaucourt
Argicourt
Petain
Five Negro Soldiers Hanged for Riot Participation
A Fort Sam Houston court martial sentenced five Black soldiers to death for their role in the Houston riot of 1917. President Wilson upheld the verdicts, commuting ten other sentences. Executions proceeded at dawn with secrecy, while 10 convicts with commuted sentences prepared for Leavenworth.
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San Antonio
Joseph Smith Unapolis
James Robinson
Hartford
Conn
Albert de Wright
Columbus
Ohio
Houston
Texas
Fort Sam Houston
Wilson
Twentyfourth Infantry
Fort Leavenworth
Kaw
National Registration Triumph Report From War Mobilization
Washington reports complete returns from the September 12 registration in thirty one states and the District of Columbia showing 7 651 252 men enrolled compared with Crowder’s estimate of 12 778 758. He calls it a national triumph indicating strong war support though several states including Texas had incomplete totals.
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Washington
District of Columbia
Crowder
Tennessee
Texas
Texas Tax Receipts Jump in Fiscal Year 1918
Washington reports the internal revenue commissioner says Texas total tax collections for the year ending July 1 1918 rose by 3267434 over the prior year. The gain reflects stronger government revenue during wartime.
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Washington
Internal Revenue Commissioner
Texas
Levee Bond Issuance Halted During War Says Engineer
Austin Texas state reclamation engineer Arthur A. Stiles announces that Washington capital issues commission blocks new levee district bonds and prevents districts from finishing levees before the 1919 crops. He urges readiness to survey after the war ends, with Dallas approval required before federal consent. He notes levee bonds prioritized for food production and cites progress in Sulphur bottom and neighboring counties with land near a bale per acre, targeting 1919 crop protection.
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Austin
Tex
Arthur A. Stiles
Capital Issues Commission
Washington
Stiles
Dallas Regional Reserve Bank
Dallas
Delta
Hopkins
Lamar
Franklin
Titus
Harris County Registers 24941 Men for Military Service
Harris County, Houston, Texas reports 24 941 men aged 18 to 45 registered for military service on Thursday. The count exceeds the government estimate by 968, indicating higher local enrollment than projected.
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Houston
Tex
Harris County
Aviators Die In Midair Collision At Rich Field
Waco Texas cadets F J Oliver of Iowa and F P Slater of Trenton North Carolina died when their planes collided 300 feet above Rich Field and crashed to the ground.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Waco, Tex
F. J. Oliver
Iowa
F. P. Slater
Trenton
N. C
Rich Field
State Board Of Education Funds School Bonds And Grants
The Texas State Board of Education at its first meeting of the new fiscal year approved issuing school house bonds totaling 233275 and road bonds for Free stone county district No 9. It paid 90000 in outstanding debts and allocated federal aid for vocational agriculture to numerous schools along with Houston and San Antonio for radio and buzzer training. The board asked Judge J F Carl to press defense council for industrial education support under the Smith Hughes act. Bonds issued covered districts in Sweeney Callahan Coryell Dallas Hall Haskell Jones Kaufman Runnels Wilbarger counties. Vocational aid was granted to many Texas districts including Bellville Brady Choate Cleburne Cleveland Crawford Crystal City De Leon Dilley Kilers Industrial Falfurrias Grand Saline Granger Groesbeck Hillsboro Jacksboro Kendleton Kountze Marlin Marshall Penelope Pilot Point San Augustine Shiro Stave Orphans Home Tuleta Woden Yancy Jasper.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austin
Tex
State Board of Education
Freestone County
Houston
San Antonio
J. F. Carl
State Council of Defense
Board of Education
N.S. Munsdon
Sweeney Independent
Callahan County
Coryell County
Dallas County
Hall County
Haskell County
Jones County
Kaufman County
Runnels County
Wilbarger County
Bellville
Sao
Brady
Choate
Cleburne
Cleveland
Crawford
Crystal City
de Leon
Dilley
Kilers Industrial
Falfurrias
Grand Saline
Granger
Groesbeck
Hillsboro
Jacksboro
Kendleton
Kountze
Marlin
Marshall
President Wilson Orders Action to End Strikes
President Wilson personally intervenes in war labor disputes, warning striking workers at Bridgeport and ordering return to work or face a year ban from federal employment and loss of draft exemptions. Smith & Wesson plant in Springfield is commandeered to operate for the war. The move signals that labor disputes will not hinder war production as federal powers tighten control over war industries.
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Washington
Wilson
Bridgeport
Conn
War Labor Board
Smith & Wesson Company
Springrfield
Mass
War Department
Congress
Federal Employment Service
Debs Sentenced to Ten Years on Espionage Charges
Eugene V. Debs was sentenced to ten years in the Moundsville penitentiary on each of three counts of indictment for espionage. The sentences run concurrently. A motion for new trial was overruled and an arrest of sentence motion denied. Debs was admitted to $10,000 bail.
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Eugene V. Debs
Cleveland
Ohio
Moundsville
W. Va
D. C. Westhaven
Debs
Soldiers killed in Missouri train wreck near Marshfield
Twenty five soldiers died and thirty were injured in a head on crash between a troop train and a freight train one mile east of Marshfield Missouri. The collision occurred Tuesday causing extensive damage and prompting emergency response.
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Springfield
St. Louis
San Francisco
Marshfield
British Week Casualties Rise to 21 445
Casualties among British forces for the week ending Sunday total 21 445, up from 20 640 the prior week.
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London
Now raises 600 chickens on Oregon Illinois farm
Oregon Ill resident Mrs D M Alters reports using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound to treat organic trouble that kept her from work. She raises 600 chickens annually on a small farm and credits the remedy with restoring health and productivity. The ad includes guidance to contact Lydia E Pinkham's Medicine Co. for advice and mentions self-help quotes and other product pitches.
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Oregon
Ill
Lydia E. Pinkhams
Ouraper
D. M. Alters
R. R
Lydia KE. Pinkham
Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonic Promises Strength
Advertises Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonic as a blood purifier and strength builder. Claims elderly and young weak individuals gain vigor and stamina to endure summer heat with enhanced energy and overall system improvement. Ends with a price note of 6 cents.
No more do neighbors speak over the fence
A Wooster couple quarrels after a Scandinavian neighbor accuses his wife of insulting her. The scuffle centers on a boastful back yard remark about weeds, misunderstood as a Swede insult, prompting renewed neighborly rifts.
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Scandinavia
Wooster
Indianapolis News
Women and Footwear Sayings in Early Wit
A wry remark notes women wearing tight shoes while hats fit different heads. The exchange contrasts fashion constraints with wit about gender and propriety in a bygone era.
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Texas Heroes
Europe
Jasper Skeeter
Hayle Lake
Simon AL Cassano
Elmhorff
Phil J. Keiser
Luciano Billaniesta
Trowns Ville
John A. Prithe
Bogela
Jethro McMahon
Cypress
Henry Bo Morgan
Shise
Cheradi
Leaeue City
Set
Thos
Edwin Jotntan
Waco
Corp Creorve Piteceraid
Isarey Moore
Burton
Outeitmaritto
Pio
Santa
Lore
Sis
Inter
Ilies
Ty Kheleb
Mss
Prine
Gettaek
Feptoedig Myarte
Gliese
Hemin Des
Aisne
Courlindon
Lorraine
Pershing
Pont-a-Mousson
Eastern Front
Istuer
Fritz
Arkansas
Camp Pike
Ark
Louisiana
Mississippi
Nebraska
Camp Funston
Oklahoma
Camp Cody
N. M
Camp Greenleaf
Wisconsin
Camp McArthur
Camp Sherman
America
Lydia Einkham
Tennyson
Vacher- Bolin
E.W. Vacher, Inc
New Orleans
Ady
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