Central Trust plans new 12 story bank office in city block
The Central Trust Company will build a twelve story reinforced concrete office and bank building at the northwest corner of Houston and Navarre Streets. Cost about 500000 with completion expected early in 1919. Occupancy includes full Houston Street frontage on first floor and mezzanine for bookkeeping. The basement will host a barber shop restaurant and Turkish bath.
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The
Central Trust Company
Houston and
Navarre Streets
Houston Street
Gunter Hotel
Navarro Street
Maynes
J. P Haynes
Sanguinette & Staats
William Boclhaune
Atlee B. Ayres
Vermont
Havin
Refugees Stream into Jerusalem Amid Turkish Oppression
Armenians deported from Central Turkey to Syria and others fleeing oppression arrive in Palestine in large numbers under British occupation. In the week after Easter about 5400 refugees reached Jerusalem. The American committee for Armenian and Syrian relief opened a hospital and an orphanage, already taxed to capacity.
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Turkey
Syria
Palestine
Jerusalem
American Committee For
Paris Bombardment Causes No Casualties Or Major Damage
Paris reports a long range bombardment with three wide spaced shots causing no casualties and little damage. One shell pierced a roof and workshop on the sixth floor, breached a back wall, crossed a courtyard, and exploded in a stairwell after workers had evacuated moments earlier.
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Paris
Americans urged to double record by German war loan
Washington April 20. As American arms face Germany in France the national loan head quarters urged Americans to match Germany's war credits. Germany had seven loans with about 17 43 million in subscriptions and 6 768 000 in the largest issue while the United States two loans totaled 5 808 billion with 9 400 000 subscribers. The third U S Liberty Loan aims for 20 million subscribers and to double Germany's best distribution. Subscriptions to the Third Loan reached 1 238 098 950.
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Washington, D. C
France
Germany
National Loan Headquarters
United States
Treasury
Two Officers Killed in France Identity Confirmed
New York reports Captain James I. Miller United States Aviation Corps and Colonel R. C. Bolling Signal Corps Reserve were killed in action in France. Miller, 36, was formerly missing and seen fall behind German lines after joining the flying service in 1917. Bolling’s body was found near Pronne with a bullet in the heart.
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New York
James I. Miller
United States Aviation Corps
France
War Department
Columbia Trust Company
Miller
Flying Service
Bolling
Washington, D. C
R. C. Bolling
Signal Corps Reserve
Paris
Pronne
Envoy Loses Luggage in Havana Robbery Plot
In Havana on April 20 Pascual Moreno, employee of a Mexican rocation, was robbed of two trams, a satchel, and a box owned by Ysidro Fabela, Mexican minister to Argentina. A man posing as maritime police seized the luggage and ordered Moreno away. Cuban authorities launched a search, but the thief’s identity and luggage remain unknown. Women urge peace at Bern, Switzerland conference. The Swiss gathering plans a global call for collective action for peace and woman suffrage.
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Havana
Pascual Moreno
Rocation Hers
Ysidro Fabela
Argentina
South America
Moreno
Basgase
Bernie
Switzerland
International Conference of Women
Weather forecast for San Antonio and national cities
Forecast by The Light shows San Antonio and nearby areas with cloudy skies tonight and Sunday. Temperatures range from the mid 30s to mid 40s with northeast winds around 20 miles per hour.
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Vicinity
ST. Louis
Chicago
Kansas City
New York
Iust
Wastiington
Coe
Mob attacks and court hearing in Collinsville uproar
Speedy trial demanded as Henry Stheimer survived a mob attempt to hang him for alleged disloyalty. He faces a local defense hearing after being dragged from jail, forced to kiss an American flag, and subjected to a chair bound by a light cord. The case highlights wartime tension and loyalty questions near Collinsville Oklahoma.
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Dtiemer
Tulsa County
Collinsville
Sanitary Department
Joe
Rheimer
Miller
Home Guard
Council of Defense
United States
Rheimer House
Rheimer Place
Stheimer
Kansas Snowstorm Disrupts Telegraphs After Return of Winter
Kansas woke to heavy snow from a late winter storm. A sleet event snapped wires and poles west and southwest of Topeka while moisture in the wheat belt promises crop protection. Reports show five inches at Manhattan and a broad western snow blanket, with conditions easing toward Colorado and Texas regions.
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Kian
Kansas
Topeka
Great Bend
Shitchinson
Inireau
Bureau
Southwest
Missouri
Texas
Dalhart
Tex
Oklahoma
Salina
Colorado Line
Sulsa
Okla
Manhattan
Fort Worth
Seize Mooney Worker Kidnapped in California
Widward Morgan of San Francisco, slated to address a meeting in support of death-row inmate Thomas J. Mooney, was spirited out of town by a citizen committee. Reports claimed Morgan and Israel Weinberg were abducted, but Weinberg was later found not to be in Calexico area. The auto returned and Morgan reportedly remained with soldiers at Jacumba, with plans to return for the rally.
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Cat
Widward Morgan
San Francisco
Thomas J. Mooney
Morgai
Israel Weinberg
Liberty
California
Weinberg
Hl Centro
Morgan
Jacumba
San Diego
German Prisoners Demand Equality in POW Ranks
A Russian wireless dispatch from London reports German prisoners of war seeking equal status with officers, planning to prevent their release. Organized bands at a camp near Om are delaying transports from the east.
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London
British casualty totals rise in week end April 20
London reports 12 368 casualties for the week ending today with 575 officers and 1639 enlisted killed or died of wounds and 2173 officers and 1981 men wounded or missing. Casualties are about 50 percent higher than the preceding week as fighting continues. In New York Andre Tridley cites France has lost 1 300 000 killed in four years with nearly as many wounded or prisoners.
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London
New York
Mronce Jin
Sweording
Andre Tridley
United States
Seranee
Draft bill passed as Ottawa government expands military service
Ottawa drawn to action as a manpower resolution ends exemptions under the military service act. The minister of militia gains power to call men aged 20 to 23, unmarried or widowed with no children, and later ages 9 to 23 if needed, as Parliament approves the measure by a 4 to 1 vote. Irish students are sent home amid wartime drafts. In Britain, an extension of jury service to unmarried women aged 19 to 80 is proposed for national support work.
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Flame
London
Phins
Willian James Bull
House of Comons i
William
Mamimersmith
Wood Nominated as Brigadier Will Be Goethals' Assistant
Washington April 20 Lieutenant Colonel Robert K Wood nominated to become brigadier general and act as Quartermaster general of the faring it was learned today relieving Major General Goethals of the detailed work of the office Colonel Hugh Johnson also nominated for brigadier general will head traffic and storage services Goethals will supervise these tasks from his chief assistants and be released from routine policy questions related to hastening troops and supplies to France Johnson distinguished as deputy provisional general and right hand man to Crowder in mobilizing draft machinery
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Washington, D.C
Robert K. Wood
Goethals
Hugh Johnson
France
Woods
War Department
Johnson
Crowder
Bristow speech torn by Kans reply and Gardner resignation
April reports from Bristow and Kansas figures show Bristow denying a Kane Kuaeds claim and Governor Cupper deferring comment after brief remarks. In Missouri, Governor Gardner says he will resign to seek appointment as U S senator to replace W Z Stone, with timing under consideration.
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Kane Kuaeds
Emsworth
Siting
Ited
Sremiter
Insworth
Cupper
Rom
Adjutant General's
Lllsworth Homie Guards
State Guard
Gardner
Stone
Jepeerson City
United States
W. Z. Stone
Blind Girl Leads 18 Children From Brooklyn Home Fire
Rose Cohen a nine year old blind girl led sixteen other inmates from the Blind Babies Sun Shine Home in Bath Beach Brooklyn when a kitchen fire swept two floors. She guided and aroused the sleeping children then led them to the courtyard as smoke filled the building. Officials were not awakened until the children were outside.
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New York
Decisive British Counter Blow Drives Germans From Recent Gains
Marshal Haig’s forces struck last night on the Lys sector driving Germans from small ground won Thursday near Givenchy and Festubert. The British line was re-established as before the Thursday German attacks with German counter moves near Rubecq failing. Allied forces on the Western Front are growing stronger with British French American Belgian Portuguese and Italian units opposing German efforts.
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Givenchy-Festubert
Rubecq
Ilys Salient
Merville
Fabian
Flanders
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Arras
Saliers
Somme
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Charles Miller
Tiemer
Memphis
Tenn
J. M. Danley
Jonesboro
Ark
Department of Justice
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Danley
Lana
George Insrederick Dechane
Commurree
Poacre
NMRA
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SUPO
Dhada
Gompers
Cleveland, C
Socialism In
America
Samuel Gompers
American Federation of Labor
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Mr. Gornypers
American Socialist Organization
Spain
Cohuntas de Madrid
Amelia
Columbus
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Ellsworth
Hindenburg
Associated Press
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Flanders-Artois
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