Campaign to conscript members for Chamber of Commerce
The Chamber of Commerce launches a four day drive led by General W. C. Silliman and Admiral J. H. Haile to recruit 5090 new members. Districts are assigned, daily reports promised, and each side may press likely recruits into service for the effort.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chamber of Commerce
Army
W. C. Silliman
Navy
J. H. Haile
Chamber
United States
Silliman
Haile
James Kapp
Ernest Praeger
E. W. Knox
Percy Tyrrell
William F. Behring
A. W. Norcross
W. B. Hamilton
Leon Goodman
J. H. Savage
Woorter Lori
Carrington
George J. Roark
Campany
San Antonio Chamber Seeks 7500 Dollar War Support
The Chamber of Commerce plans to raise 7500 dollars to fund wartime activities as enlarged contingents of soldiers and sailors prepare to engage on Tuesday and Wednesday. President Franz C. Groos says funds are needed to carry out duties assigned by national chambers and Washington departments, with war costs straining the budget and business leaders urged to join to aid the relief effort.
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Chamber of Commerce
Franz C. Groos
Chamber of Commerce of the
United States
Washington
Chamber
San Antonio
Plot charges eyed in West Texas Farmers' and Laborers' Association case
United States grand jury investigates the Farmers and Laborers' Protective Association of America in Dallas amid suspected treason or conspiracy charges. Many witnesses from western Texas farms and laborers testified. G. T. Bryant, alleged state organizer, remains jailed. The probe expected to run through the week.
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Dallas
Tex
Texas
Farmers’ and Laborers’ Protective Association of America
United States Grand Jury
Association
G. T. Bryant
Grand Jury
Plot to incite mountaineers shocks Roanoke officials
William Velon McCoy and co-leader J. W. Phipps were arrested in St. Paul Southwest Virginia and brought to Roanoke. Government agents charge they sought to organize mountaineers to resist the draft act, claiming about 100 followers. Authorities allege plans included raiding St. Paul to kill revenue agents and landowners and divide the loot.
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Roanoke
William Velon McCoy
J. W. Phipps
St. Paul
Virginia
McCoy
Phipps
Man Arrested in Shreveport for Draft Law Opposition
United States deputy marshals in Shreveport Louisiana arrested a man who gave his name as A H Ford a saw mill builder and operator claiming to have been employed by the Panama building department. Ford was haranguing a crowd against selective draft enforcement and admitted opposition to conscription. He has not yet been formally charged but the marshal's office says charges will follow.
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Shreveport
United States
A. H. Ford
Ford
Panama
United States Marshal’s Office
Mexicans Detain Deserter Near Laredo
A sentry who fled with two military prisoners and crossed the river into Mexico Saturday night has been captured in Nuevo Laredo and is now in Mexican custody.
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Nuevo Laredo
Laredo
Tex
Mexico
Don't Experiment with Catarrh It Often Leads to Consumption
Catarrh is a blood condition not cured by sprays or douches. Local treatments waste time while disease advances toward lungs and consumption. S S S is urged as a blood-targeting remedy, sold by druggists, with expert advice available from Swift Laboratory Atlanta Ga.
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Medical Department
Swift
Swift Laboratory
Atlanta, Ga
Texas Woman Claims Tanlac Restored Health After Lost Weight
Mrs. Ruby Pierce of Galveston says a year of catarrh and nervous indigestion left her weighing 82 pounds and a bedridden wreck. After taking Tanlac under Wagner Drug Company in San Antonio, she reports rapid recovery to 103.5 pounds, restored appetite, sleep, and strength, and credits her mother for urging the remedy.
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Ruby Pierce
Avenue G
Galveston
Texas
Tanlac
Mother
Funn
Taniac
San Antonio
Wagner Drug Company
Tanlace
San Giovan Nin Cap tured By Italians
Italians reportedly capture San Giovan nia in Champagne near Casque Teton and Montbland battle zones with repulsed Allied forces. German bombardment pounds French positions around Dead Man Hill and Hill 304 on Verdun front as a French detachment penetrates to the second German line near Uffholtz in Alsace and reports many German dead and prisoners taken.
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Champagne
Casque
Teton
Montbland
War Office
Dead Man Hill
Hill 304
Verdun Front
Uffholtz
Algace
Madrid mass meeting calls for severing ties with Germany
Resolutions from a large Madrid rally in favor of the entente were delivered to the Spanish interior minister. The statements demand Spain break diplomatic relations with Germany after its breach of Spanish neutrality and accept the consequences.
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Madrid
Paris
Germany
Spain
Germans deny sending U boats across Atlantic
Berlin officials told The Associated Press no German naval forces had been dispatched across the Atlantic. A rumor that a submarine was in American waters was dismissed as a probable invention by early summer visitors to Maine coast resorts seeking to deprive the sea serpent of its prerogatives.
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Berlin
London
Associated Press
Foreign Office
Atlantic
American
Maine
Uboat activity eyed on Atlantic coast amid denials
Reports said German submarine activity rose along the Atlantic coast with a near torpedo incident east of Fire Island involving the destroyer Smith. Berlin denied submarines in the western Atlantic while later sightings were claimed off the Maine coast.
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Atlantic
Smith
Fire Island
Maine
Contorted Vision and City Impressions From a Freshman
A New York university freshman recalls his first city theme on impressions of New York. He began with the ferry panorama of skyscrapers crossing the Hudson, noting optical illusions of relative motion as a common phenomenon.
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New York University
New York
Hudson
New York Globe
Regents Talk With Gov Earn University Funds Control
At the Texas Governor’s request the University of Texas board of regents met the governor to discuss next two fiscal years’ appropriations. Six of nine regents attended the Austin session while 2000 students marched to the Capitol in protest of any removal of President Vinson or faculty.
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Austin
Tex
Board of Regents
University of Texas
W. P. Allen
W. J. Butler
Clifton
George W. Littlefield
W. R. Brents
Sherman
George McReynolds
Temple
A. W. Fly
Galveston
Fred W. Cook
San Antonio
J. Jones
Salado
C. FB. Nelley
el Paso
Capitol Grounds
Capitol Building
Eyes of
Texas
University
Vinson
Alumni Rally Protests Plan to Oust UT President Vinson
San Antonio Alumni and iix Students Association met at Terrell & Terrell to condemn Governor Ferguson's push to remove UT President Rh. E. Vinson and four faculty members. They voted to send two messages to the UT board and lead a large delegation to Austin to protest.
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San Antonio
Iix Students’ Association
University of Texas
Terrell & Terrell
Ferguson
Board of Regents
University
Rh. E. Vinson
Austin
Wilson
Leon Springs
University Regiment
Allen
Regents
San Antonio Tax Notice Demands 1916 Taxes Fast
Free Taxpayers Notice states taxes for the fiscal year 1916 in San Antonio are due now. Taxpayers are urged to pay soon to avoid a six percent annual interest and a two percent monthly penalty for five months, with payment due by May 31, 1917.
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San Antonio
Tex
TORNADO DEVASTATION KILLS 244 ACROSS SOUTHERN KENTUCKY AND TENNESSEE
The toll rises to 244 after a wide storm path hit Hickman and nearby towns. Bardwell Clinton Dyersburg and Sharon report extensive destruction with numerous fatalities and injuries. In Hickman two killed. Ledford and surrounding areas see multiple deaths. property losses mount across the region.
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Hickman
Syd L. Dodds
Ledford
Kentucky
Bardwell
Clinton
Dyersburg
Storms Leave 32 Dead Across Alabama Counties
A Sunday night tornado outbreak across Walker Jefferson and Shelby counties and beyond left 32 dead and more than 100 injured with property damage over 150000. Rescue work faced delays from fallen trees as hospitals received many injured and towns along the path were cut off with unknown damage in Sayre Village Springs and Bradford.
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Birmingham
Ala
Walker
Jefferson
Shelby
Sayre
Village Springs
Bradford
Massacre of Storm Toll Reported Across Alabama Border
Small communities along the Jefferson Blount line near Birmingham report 17 dead and about 40 injured. Carbon Hill west of Birmingham notes four dead and 21 injured, while Sylacauga and Bibbville report one death and several injuries. Sayre, a mining town, is nearly demolished with about seventy houses razed and $75,000 in property loss.
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Sharon
Cates Landing
Tennessee
Troy
Newbern
McKenzie
Lebanon
Nashville
Jefferson
Blount
Birmingham
Carbon Hill
Sylacauga
Bibbville
Sayre
Relief Work Is Prompt In Tornado Stricken Illinois
American sympathy moves quickly for Charleston and Mattoon after the weekend tornado. J J O Connor of the Chicago Red Cross arrived with fifteen nurses to supervise relief for about three thousand destitute residents. Communities across Illinois Indiana and nearby states sent food blankets and cots and more aid is ready if needed. In Missouri more than a dozen injured and about one hundred thousand dollars in losses followed a separate tornado near Fordland Hurley and Southwest Missouri towns.
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J. J. O'Connor
Chicago
The
American Red Cross
Vitalitas Promoted as Nature’s Tonic for Health
A vintage ad proclaims Vitalitas as nature’s mineral tonic for blood, muscle, nerve, and bone vigor. It markets Vitalitas as a spring tonic for chronic disorders like indigestion and rheumatism, claiming it strengthens the system when medicines fail and noting Sommer's Drug Store as a seller.
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Sommer
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