Dream of Jewish Republic in Palestine May Now Come True
News from New York reports the Kehillah endorsement that the United States and allies will back the establishment of a Jewish homeland in Palestine. Zionist interest surges with figures like Israel Zangwill and Jacob H. Schiff joining advocates as General Murray’s army advances toward Jerusalem. Washington informs that President Wilson and Arthur Balfour have discussed the plan, seen as a prophecy fulfilled.
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Palestine
New York
Kehillah, Ie
Unitedates
Hich
Washington
Indon
Israel Zangli
Jacob H. Kiff
Kuhn, Loeb & Co
Adolph Wisohn
Meral
Archibald Murray
Zionist Movement
Holy Land
Murray
Norman Hapgood
United States
Hapgood
Gaza
Holy
Russia
Great Britain
Zion
Chicago
Manchester Guardian
Asquith
Harry Johnston
London Evening News
Northcliffe
Britain
High Commission
Wilson
Arthur Balfour
Will Get Jobs Again
Texas comptroller Terrell assured employees who enlist for war service that their jobs will be held until discharge from active service. The pledge covers those in the regular army as well. He is the first state official to offer such assurances and others may follow.
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Austin
Tex
Comptroller’s Department
Terrell
Bicycles On Easy Payments From Portage Tire Co
Portage Tire Co offers bicycles priced 310.00 and up with easy payment plans. Located at 221 S. Alamo. Advert.
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Portage Tire Co
S. Alamo
Soldier’s ration now costs 37 cents
Washington report notes the War Department faces rising feeding costs for overseas troops and the national army. The quartermaster estimates the daily ration has nearly tripled since 1898 from 12.81 cents to 32 cents, with current figures showing 37 cents per man per day due to market changes.
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Washington, D. C
War Department
United States Army
Quartermaster General's Office
Backache Vanishes After Lydia Pinkham Remedy
Fort Fairfield Maine resident Mrs Alton D Oakes says backache from female troubles vanished after using Lydia E Pinkham Vegetable Compound. She reports improved health and a healthy baby girl and urges others to try the product. The company invites women to write for confidential advice.
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Fort Fairfield
Maine
Lydia E. Pinkham
Alton D. Oakes
Pecan Crop Promising for Texas Leaders This Fall
Texas nurseryman Charles Graebner of Duerler Manufacturing predicts the largest pecan crop Texas has ever produced barring pests. He cites inquiries from Texas, Louisiana and Arkansas showing widespread fruiting and expects a full harvest after last year’s 80 percent failure.
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Texas
Charles Graebner
Duerler Manufacturing Company
Suspected Smuggling Bites San Antonio Opium Plot
City detectives arrested two men and a 22 year old woman after a dawn raid at a lodging house on Avenue D. Opium was found in ties worn by the men and a quantity confiscated. One man 27 and the woman are held as man and wife. another man 24 arrived from El Paso. Temporary vagrancy charges filed. case referred to federal officers.
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Avenue D
San Antonio
Central Police
el Paso
New Artillery Regiments Begin Forming at Camp Wilson
Work to expand the Seventh Field Artillery into three regiments and the Third Field Artillery battalion into another regiment has started at Camp Wilson. Officers are assigned, men allocated, and June 1 begins the reorganization to bolster regular army war strength with new regiments, training at Leon Springs and Fort Sam Houston, while cavalry recruits are redirected.
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Seventh Field Artillery
Third Field Artillery
Camp Wilson
Sturgis
Millar
Leon Springs
Fort Sam Houston
Timon Case Ends Corpus Christi Election Probe
In Corpus Christi Texas on May 28 the US District Attorney asked a federal court to dismiss cases against Judge Walter F Timon and others in the Nueces county election probe The action follows a second appellate ruling in United States vs Dunn et al regarding the grand jury that indicted Timon Dunn and forty others
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Corpus Christi
Tex
Nueces County
United States District Attorney
Green
Walter F. Timon
Second
United States
Tom B. Dunn
Timon
Dunn
Jury drawn by clerk said to aid alleged election fraud
The Nueces County group claimed election corruption allowed the jurors to be drawn by someone other than the clerk. Joe Acebo, indicted for perjury tied to the fraud cases, was released under the same order.
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Dents
Nueces County
Joe Acebo
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