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Newspaper
Oxford Eagle
Location
Oxford, Mississippi, United States of America
Date
Mar 21, 1918
Page
5
Railroads under government control will cut travel luxuries for major league clubs this season. Most teams will carry 15 to 16 players plus the manager, simplifying trunks to light steel cases and using street cars instead of taxis. If injuries occur, Wires back home for replacements. road trips may be slower with smaller rosters.
A committee of one hundred laymen was formed for the next five years with Josephus Daniels, Secretary of the Navy, as a member. The meeting included a survey of the church mission fields and discussed the church's funding needs.
A joint committee of the Methodist Episcopal Church and the Methodist Episcopal Church South will begin a series of conferences tomorrow. They will determine the raise per annum for the next five years before the meeting concludes.
Miss May Boyle O'Reilly described Europe as wrecked by war in a Springfield speech to the Mid Day Luncheon Club. She, a former war correspondent and Red Cross nurse, spoke of three years in war zones and noted her father Irish poet John Boyle O'Reilly. She planned a second address at a Knights of Columbus mass meeting on One Thousand Days Back of the Front.
Chicago reports Fred Miller of the Blackstone Hotel devised a dasheen or war flour. The formula blends dasheen with wheat flour to yield a tasteless but potent flour, producing fine bread and pastries.
Denver report states Dr. William K. C. Berlin claims to have invented a liquid fire of greater destructive power than any used in World War I. He says the invention has been offered to the Government for use in Europe amid ongoing conflict reporting.
The Second battalion of the Forty Third Infantry United States Army has evacuated North Louisiana oil fields in Shreveport moving about six hundred officers and men to Camp Nicholls New Orleans after guarding duties since January.
Reports from Milwaukeedate indicate Lenroot leads with 60,643 votes to Thompson 60,109 as 14 counties still report. Socialist Berger totals 33,799. Davies wins Democratic nomination. La Follette Republicans’ Thomp son races close. Mrs Kirby and Kirby return from Oklahoma and Missouri. Miss Emily Hedleston visits Memphis.
O H Mahaffey chief engineer at Life and Casualty in Nashville says Tanlac cured a two year stomach trouble, restored sleep and energy, and helped him gain forty pounds. He remains on the job and praises the remedy. Tanlac sold in Oxford by Rowland Drug Company.
President Wilson issued a proclamation directing the Navy to take over 400000 tons of Dutch shipping in American waters. The vessels will be manned by U S forces and used to transport men to France and food to the Allies, with Dutch owners fully compensated. Formal possession to occur Thursday morning amid prior armed guards and looming Dutch protest.
The Indiana Poster Advertising Association met in Indianapolis on March 20 and endorsed clean billboard advertising while renewing loyalty to the Government. A banquet is planned that evening with poster men from several states and Canada attending. W. O. Tarkington of Kokomo is president and M. S. Hufford of Fort Wayne is secretary.
The eleventh annual Tennessee Equal Suffrage Association convened at the-Chisea Hotel in Memphis with leaders from Knoxville and Chattanooga. A campaign is launched to secure favorable action by the next Legislature on ratifying the Federal constitutional amendment granting women the vote. In Washington the Senate Judiciary Committee approved sending the Overman Bill to the Senate with a favorable recommendation, placing the executive director under presidential control.
In Frankfort on March 20 the Kentucky House killed a bill to legalize prize fighting. Only three lawmakers supported the measure while forty voted against it, blocking any prize fighting in the state.
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