Petrol License Rules Tighten English Private Cars
United Kingdom petrol rules restrict private auto use to licensed purposes. Licenses limit travel to essential reasons, medical needs, funerals, red cross work, or station business, with monthly coupon books and penalties for misuse. Police conduct surprise checks. many licenses canceled. Gas substitutes and sport travel bans accompany petrol limits, pushing motorists to pushcarts amid a motorless era.
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Red Cross
Lcensee
2 Inc
London
French Refugees Forced to Flee Now Return Home?
Surviving French refugees hurried from homes during the German offensive last March carry belongings and farm animals by wagon toward safety. The procession faces a hopeful return as American forces push back the enemy and Marshal Foch tightens the front.
Soviet Negotiations Push for Consul Release
The Soviet government proposes to exchange diplomats with Britain if neutral powers guarantee safe passage for Bolshevik envoys, with Litvinov and colleagues to depart under Dutch protection. London and Paris officials are involved as negotiations continue, while unrelated tax and finance remarks appear alongside.
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Amsterdam
Russia
Great Britain
London
Tehiteherin
Vossische Zeitunng
Petrograd Telegraph Agency
Soviet
M. Litvinoff
Litvinoff
Rec
Scandanavia
Holland
Norway
Sweden
Mit
Vinoff
Hts
R. S. Lockhart
Fordney Says War Revenue Bill Overestimates Funds
Washington, Sept. 9 A. Fordney of Michigan, ranking Republican on the Ways and Means Committee, told the House the war revenue bill would raise about a billion dollars more than the committee estimate of 8.114 million. He based his figure on last year's bill, which underpins the pending measure designed to raise 8,750,000,00.
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Washington
D. C
House
Ways and Means Committee
Representa Cordney
Michigan
Republican Committee
Fordney
Obituary notices for Huppertz Weber Segal and others in San Antonio
Obituary notices report Herman Joseph Huppertz 73 died at home on Garden Street after a long San Antonio residency. funeral at St Marys Church with burial in old St Josephs Cemetery. Also listed are FH Weber 42 an employee from Kansas, David Segal 83, Russian-born resident of Galveston, with funeral plans and interment details in local Jewish and Orthodox cemeteries.
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Herman Joseph Huppertz
Herman Joseph Shiypeetz
Gulves
Garden Street
San Antonio
George Hupnertz
Chicago
Paxchal Auppertz
New Mexico
William Schoeh
Mars
Fromme
Kingsville
Mary Huppertz
Ad. A. Weber
A. Weber
Uso
Porter Street
Au Motive
Kansas
Gus
Henry Weber
Charles
Robert Weber
Emma Weber
A. I. Smith
Roy Fods
Grover Smith
Ludwig Undertaking Company
Davitt Segal
David Segal
Ye ‘Way
Russia
Galveston
Shelley- Loring Undertaking Company
Porter Loring Funeral Director Ady Magy McCollum Undertakers
Porting porter Loring Funeral Director at 206 Jefferson Street listed with Ady Magy and McCollum Undertakers. Ambulance and Lung Motors Service. Core scene at Pecan Cr, 104. Albuquerque street placeholder text.
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Porter Loring
Jefferson St
Ady
Magy & McCollum
Lung Motors Service
Army Moves At Camp Travis Reported In Patchy Entry
Army personnel at Camp Travis are listed in a fragmented report noting leave of absence granted to Second Lieutenant C Peterson and assignments for Major Edward Bailey with the sanitary trains of the Fifteenth Division. First Lieutenant Andrew B. Waddle is reported removed from duty with the Fourteenth Cavalry, then reassigned to the hospital at Fort Sam Houston. The document includes garbled dialogue about medical advice and personal habits, with stray quotes about taking medicines and a soldier describing his own health and treatment.
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C. Peterson
Camp Travis
Edward Bailey
Ong Ehlinger
M. C
Andrew
Waddle
Dental Corps
Mourtosnth Cavalry
Bags Hospital
Fort Say Houston
Record Enrollment Expected at San Antonio Schools
San Antonio public schools opened with war work added to the curriculum and officials predicting a near 25,000 enrollment. Teachers plan individual student programs, with commercial courses likely to be popular. War work and Red Cross activities will be prominent, and military training may return in Brackenridge and Main Avenue high schools, though not compulsory.
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San Antonio
Main Avenue
Brackenridge High
G. B. Mock
Red Cross
Manin Avenue
Brackenridge High School
Tuttle Named Utilities Officer at Camp Travis
The War Department telegraph instruction announces Maj. Wilkams B. Tuttle of the Quartermaster Corps as utilities officer at Camp Travis. He is president and general manager of the San Antonio fraction Company. The report notes communication difficulties over the telephone.
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Tuttle
War Department
Maj
Wilkams B.tuttle
Quartermaster Corps
Camp Travis
Major Tuttle
San Antonio
Vainly to hide as German airmen pressed defense
Special cable reports American aerial photographers compiling a striking set of images while German Pfalz Fokker and Albatross planes harass. Lieutenant R. B. Bagby of New Haven, Missouri, shoots down one Albatross near Romain, while Lieutenant George M. Comey of Los Angeles helps direct artillery as three Americans chase another German into their lines. The encounter ends with Comey and his observer unharmed after safe landings.
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Fincolneyre
San Antonio
New York World
Press Pad. Co
N.Y. World
Pfalz
Fokker
Romain
Tam
R. B. Bagby
New Haven
George M. Comey
Los Angeles
Comey
Bagby
Haig Drives In Nearer to St Quentin Front Update
British forces press toward St Quentin as French advances along the canal push defenses near Liez and Ta-Verre. German resistance in the St Gobain-Laon sector strengthens while French inroads threaten the massif to the west. American troops extend river line east of Conde toward Rouillon and Rheims with Musenurt reportedly in their hands.
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Haig
ST. Quentin
Liez
Ta Vere
Petain
Crozat
Canal
la Vere
St. Gobuin
Laon
Berlin
Soissons
Cormans
Traffaux
Flanders
Lys
Aisne
Conde
Rouillon
Rheims
Musenurt
Revillon
British Forces Advance Near Gouzen court In WWI Report
Special dispatch from Sept 9 details British patrols pushing toward the Hindenburg line around Navrimcourt Wood and Gouzencourt. Forward progress includes Beudecort and Saulcourt captured with German withdrawal toward Moehy line. fighting near Roisel and Vembeilles with accelerated advance beyond Noise.
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Phil Ginks
New York Times Co
San Antonio
France
Navrimcourt Wood
St. Quentin
Tindenburg
Gousencourt
Beudecort
Saulcourt
Moehy
Hindenburg
Willers Faucom
Honssoy
St. Emilie
Cologne
Roisel
Vembeiles
Hoyecourt
Germans fight to hold front as war drags on
A Berlin lecture quotes General von Freytag-Loringhoven saying Western Front fighting is less serious than earlier in the war. He stresses not delaying mobilization, warns Britain and the United States must recognize German invincibility, and calls for continued determination at home and on the front. Amsterdam reports many German officials in Belgium called to front lines with women to replace them. London says eight hostile planes and one balloon were shot down on Salween Day, with bad weather hindering air operations.
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Amsterdam
Berlin
van Freytig-Loringhoven
Genera
von Freytar-Loringhoven
Heritain
America
Belgium
Nieuwe Hotterdam Courant
London
Salwenlay
Americans Do Things That Cant Be Done In War
A Detroit sergeant, Lescinsky, led fourteen men through enemy lines on two trips and captured 30 prisoners including two wounded officers and fourteen NCOs with no shots fired. Captain Donovan of Grand Rapids commanded units in the Castile trench where a brigade endured machine gun fire and close artillery by 75s and quick-firers. Also, a cable confirms Lieut Eugene W. Coleman, previously listed as killed, is alive. his father in St. Louis reports the news.
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Castile
Reading
Donovan
Grand Rapids
Wich
Nesta
Lescinsky
Detroit
St. Louis
Iugene W. Coleman
France
B.A. Coleman
Indians in Revolt Sample of News From Reds
An Associated Press dispatch from Stockholm notes refugees arriving from Russia describe Bolshevik control of information and suppression of opposition papers. They report conscription in the United States and Canada facing famine threats, with bread scarce and prices high. The refugees say Russia exceeds wheat and rye shortages, while Bolshevik promises to improve supply are widely credited.
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REDS
Iy Ino Associated Press
Stockholm
Sundy
Sept. S
Finland
Sweden
Russia
Russtatt
Eigland
Apnear
Petrograd
Moscow
Associated Press
Agv
America
United Stat
Western Front
United States
Canada
Helm
Sheldon White
Sud Europeai
Mrourgeois
Trotsky
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England
Coorg
the Press Publishing Co
He New Ore Evening World
Petal Control Department
Cears
Raior Sea
Spuir
Marshal Foch
Washington, D.C
Internal Revenue Bureau
Hanks
Congress
Army
F. Secona
Mt. Deany
Q. At. C
Hort Sim Houston
Jaint
Tony
Helmg
Voc
Pinkhaty
Tania
Allie
Boston Transcript
Gouzencourt
Wolfson’s
Warner
Redfern
Warner’s
Warner's
Val
Torchon
Saul Wolfson Dry Goods Co
Cailaincourt
Onv Ling
Holnon
Tope
Germany
Grove
Grove’s Chill Tonic Tabla
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