Troops Begin Austin March Marked by Smooth Start
The Twelfth Division moves from Wetmore to Comal and Landa's Park en route to Austin as field maneuvers commence on Monday. General Greene leads the main body, with Wisconsin brigade advancing. water supply arranged by train, camp covers 80 acres, and signaling systems activated for day one.
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Camp Wilson
Austin
Wetmore
Comal
Wisconsin
Landa’s Park
Luexella
Post Road
Henry A. Greene
Greene
Greehe
General Green
San Antonio Hadeen
Signal Corps Reeps
Eld
Milor
General Ricardson
Fort Sam Houston
Wetore
D'Visal
North Carolina National Guard Ordered to Mexican Border
Washington Sept 16 The War Department ordered the North Carolina National Guard to the Mexican border. The force includes three regiments of infantry two troops of cavalry one ambulance company and one field hospital unit. No further border withdrawals were announced today though additional withdrawals are expected soon.
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Washington, D. C
North Carolina National Guard
War Department
British Censors Open Navy Mail in Shanghai
The Navy Department reports British censorship opened official mail addressed to its offices. All censored letters came from the Near East and were stamped with censor marks. The letters were mailed in Shanghai where U S has a post office and American soil. British intercepts included private letters to American sailors.
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Washington, D. C
Navy Department
Great Britain
Department
Near East
State Department
Shanghai
United States
Kaiser Seeks 10 Cheer German People
Berlin reports a telegram from the Kaiser to the empress announcing a decisive victory by German Bulgarian and Turkish forces over the Russo Romanian army in Dobrudja Field Marshal von Mackensen confirms the win and Bulgarian Turkish German troops capture 522 officers 28 000 men two standards 130 guns and other booty News boosts morale as western front setbacks are noted and Bucharest admits recent rally northward in Dobrudja
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Berlin
Dobrudja
Germany
von Mackensen
Roumania
Bucharest
Roumanians Retreat On Critical Black Sea Front
Berlin dispatch reports Roumanian forces withdrawing along the Czernavoda to Midzidish to Constanza line. The rout is framed as decisive, with the outcome of the Dodrouka battles viewed as determining the fate of Russo Roumanian forces in the region.
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Berlin
Sayville
Koelnische Volkszeitung
Czernavoda-Midzidish-Constanza
Dodrouka
Weather for Sunday Clouds and warming trend forecast
The first cool snap's aftermath brings cloudy skies and rising temperatures with a low chance of rain Sunday. Major Allen Buell of the local weather bureau notes a formative pattern as the high moves south and lows form in the west with no defined storm systems yet.
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Allen Buell
Weather Bureau
Weather Outlook for East and West Texas
East Texas Sunday partly cloudy and warmer. Monday partly cloudy. West Texas Sunday and Monday generally fall with cooler, unsettled conditions.
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East Texas
West Texas
Weekend Weather Outlook From Major Cities
The Light reports forecasts across cities including Saint Louis Chicago Milwaukee Kansas City New York Boston and Washington. Temperatures range from 60s to mid 80s with sun and clouds and light winds from the south west north and northwest.
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Light &T. Louis
Chicago
Milwaukee
Kansas City
New York
Boston
Washington
Florina Falls to Serbians in Macedonian Front Clash
Reports from Athens say Florina, base of Bulgaria's right wing in Macedonia, has fallen to the Serbians who push toward Monastir. Serbian forces led by Prince Alexander aim to clear the path for reconquest as Italian and Allied units loom for a possible flank.
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London
Florina
Macedonia
Athens
Monastir
Alexander
Albania
Adriatic
Serbian War Office
Sarrail
Sofia
Dogilena
Struma
Sarrall
Veterans Plan Welcome at Congress Avenue Bridge
Confederate veterans at the Confederate Home will line up at the south end of the Congress avenue bridge on Saturday September 23 to welcome 15 000 troops from San Antonio returning from Fort Sam Houston. The veterans will display the stars and stripes stars and bars and Lone Star flags as Congress avenue is decorated for the event.
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Austin
Tex
Congress Avenue
San Antonio
Fort Sam Houston
Edison to Welcome Telegraphers on Edison Day
Thomas A Edison invited the 614 Time Telegraphers Association and the U S military telegraphers corps meeting in New York September 26 and 27 to visit his Orange plant. Telegraph workers designated September 27 as Edison Day. Edison, once a telegrapher, is exceptions to his rule and will receive visitors.
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Edison
New York
Thomas A. Edison
Time Telegraphers' Association
United States Military Telegraphers’ Corps
Orange
Mr. Edison
Bev eridge to Lead National Hughes Fairbanks Tour
New York Sept 16 Former U S Senator Albert J Beveridge Indiana will begin a national tour October 5 to campaign for the Hughes and Fairbanks ticket lasting through the end of the race Chairman William R Willcox announced Beveridge will speak at stops across the country highlighting the ticket and platform he will hail from Indiana and is a prominent Republican figure in the bid for the presidency
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Ever
Hughes
New York
William R. Willcox
Republican National Committee
United States
Albert J. Beveridge
Indiana
Fairbanks
Wells predicts German peace bid in November
H. G. Wells writes in the Sunday Pictorial that Germany will sue for peace in November, asserting a major shift in wartime diplomacy with potential accord on a negotiated settlement.
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London
H. G. Wells
The
Sunday Pictorial
Germany
Sympathetic Strike Planned for Monday in New York
Street railway union leaders plan a sympathetic strike set for Monday. A cable message to Mahon in London asks him to return and lead the action. Subway and L line service remains normal, with Bronx surface lines only slightly improved. Mahon was recalled from England to direct further steps as strike benefits begin after the second week. General Organizer Fitzgerald leads in Mahon’s absence and says the fight is progressing satisfactorily.
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New York
Street Railway
Mahon
International Union
London
Interborough
Bronx
William D. Mahon
Amalgamated Association of Electric Railway Employes of America
England
American Federation of Labor
General Convention
British Isles
Carmen
Greece forms new cabinet as war drift looms
London reports Greece installs M. Calogerophoulos I as premier after weeks of diplomatic wrangling with Entente and pro German factions. The cabinet signals likely pro Allied stance, while censorship muffles precise intentions amid Saloniki reports of Army surrender orders. The government bars male departures aged fourteen to forty five.
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London
Athens
Constantine
Greece
M. Calogerophoulos I
Remier
Calogerophoulos
Ionian Bank
Theotokis
Zaimis
Venizelos
Hellenic Kingdom
Saloniki
Christodoulos
Fourth Army
Memorial Fund Planned for Victoria Cross Sapper Hackett
Mexborough Urban District Council begins collection for a memorial to Sapper William Hackett posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross. Hackett dies after aiding three men in a tunnel, refusing to leave a wounded comrade as a gallery collapses. He leaves a widow and two children. tunnelling company officers send a $335 check to the widow.
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London
Mexborough
Sapper
William Hackett
Hackett
Sapper Hackett
Nottinghamshire
Funeral of Mrs Howe on Monday
President Wilson will attend the funeral of his sister Mrs Anna A Howe in Columbia South Carolina. He will depart Shadow Lawn tomorrow afternoon and return Tuesday night canceling all principal engagements for the week. The funeral train will be met in Trenton New Jersey and proceed to Columbia via Washington, with the president on the return trip Monday evening.
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Asbury Park
N. J
Wilson
Shadow Lawn
Columbia
S. C
Anna A. Howe
Howe
New London
Trenton
Washington
D. C
Bremen Submarine Bremen Sighted Near Mon tauk Point
New London hears that the Amerika, third of new German undersea ships, was sighted off Montauk Point by a yacht crew amid foggy weather. Dockyard activity resumes as a large screen boarding trailer is installed to shield the submarine from onlookers.
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New London
Conn
Bremen
Montauk Point
New Light & Power Co Plans Texas Expansion
A. E. Fitkin and George Haley arrive in San Antonio to organize the Commonwealth Light & Power Company with a $25,000,000, electric light and power venture. They plan to acquire smaller Texas plants and base operations in San Antonio as headquarters while preparing to compete with Texas Power & Light.
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A. E. Fitkin
New York
A. E. Fitkin & Company
San Antonio
Texas
Electric Light and Power Corporation
George Haley
Texas Power & Light Company
Dallas
Haley
Theommonwealth Light & Power Company
Fitkin
Corportion
Eastern Capital
St. Anthony
Texas Power & Light Company of
South
Commonwealth Corporation
Texas House race shapes up for key clerk posts
Austin report shows candidates for chief clerk and reading clerk slots for the upcoming legislature. O P Basford seeks reading clerk again, Teddy Reese pursues assistant reading clerk, and contenders for chief clerk include Bob Barker Ed Graham Laten Stansberry W R Nabours and J J Stephens with W E B Long stepping back.
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Austin
Tex
O. P. Basford
Reading
Teddy” Reese
House
W. E B. Long
Long
Bob Barker
San Antonio
Ed Graham
Hillsboro
Calender
Laten Stansberry
Forney
W. R. Nabours
Montague County
J. J. Stephens
Upshur County
Hughes Campaigning Through Bridgehampton to Midwest Tour
Charles E Hughes spends his last night in Bridgehampton with Mrs Hughes before a New York departure for an eight o clock Monday morning special train tour of the Midwest. Mrs Hughes joins the trip for the full campaign run until its end. Justice Maylor Pitney visits the Hughes home as a guest.
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Bridgehampton
N. Y
Charles E.hughes
Mrs. Hughes
New York
Middle West
Maylor Pitney
Justice Pitney
Taft
Princeton
Wilson
Texas School To Benefit From Army Reorganization
Secretary of War Baker assured Senator Sheppard and President Bizzell that Texas Agricultural and Mechanical College will receive its full share of provisions in the army reorganization bill. This enables greater development of the college and opens military careers for graduates under the new law.
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Texas
Washington, D. C
Sheppard
Bizzell
Texas Agricultural and Mechanical College
Baker
Texas School
Submarine Caught in a Net Off British Channel
A German merchant submarine, Bremen, was caught in a net in the British Channel in August, per a wireless message from the Lancaster to the Conde. The capture was announced by the British admiralty as the two warships searched near Panama for traces of the Bremen.
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Norfolk
Lancaster
Conde
Bremen
Panama
Navy weighs salvage of cruiser Memphis in grave condition
The Navy Department seriously considers salvaging the cruiser Memphis now wrecked on jagged rocks. Dynamite would blast away rocks. hull and machinery cost about 4 million dollars, not counting guns and furnishings. She lies in sixteen feet of water with a 26 foot normal draught as a possible restoration prospect.
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Washington, D. C
Navy Department
Memphis
Dubose
No War College Yet Postponed Indefinitely
The army war college session delayed from September 15 to October 15 has been indefinitely postponed by the War Department. The Mexican situation and uncertainty over General Pershing’s expedition withdrawal are cited. The Mexican-American joint commission may run for weeks, delaying troop withdrawal until an understanding is reached.
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Washington, D. C
Army War College
War Department
General Pershing
Mexico
Copper from Chile ships to New York market
Copper producers face unprecedented demand at home and abroad and seek other markets. A shipment of 6500 tons of copper ingots and bars, worth over four million dollars, arrived in New York on the steamship Sherman from Valparaiso and Antofagasta and was consigned to American interests.
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New York
Sherman
Valparaiso
Antofagasta
Chili
Telegraph Wires To Chihuahua Cut By Villa Bandits
Telephonic wires between Juarez and Chihuahua City were cut today, likely by Villa bandits. The line only functions south of the border for about fifteen miles.
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Chihuahua
EL Paso
Tex
Juarez
Chihuahua City
Villa Bandits
Culberson Urges Daniels to Include Texas in Armor Plant Tour
Senator Culberson asked Secretary Daniels to visit Texas sites for a proposed government armor plate plant. Four Texas locations were offered with Beaumont drawing the most attention. He believes Texas ore deposits may win serious consideration if inspected by the secretary and project officers. itinerary remains undetermined.
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Washington, D. c
Senator Culberson
Secretary of the Navy
Daniels
Texas
Beaumont
Culberson
Italians Break Austrian Line On Isonzo Front
Italian war office reports breakthroughs along the Isonzo line with over 10 000 officers and men captured in two days. Vienna confirms gains on the Carso northern wing and reports five hundred prisoners and three machine guns taken in counter attacks.
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London
Isonzo
Vienna
Cadorna
Wippach
Vipaccio
Carso
San Grandellimorna
Gorizia
Tyrol
Fassen
Mount Cauriel
Vallone
Monfalcone
New German Loans Subscriptions Totals 60.5 Million Marks
Berlin reports public subscriptions by private industrial concerns totaling 60.5 million marks. The Berlin Assurance Company subscribed 15 million, the Rhine-Westphalian Coal Syndicate 40 million, and the Upper Silesian Railway Implement Facie contributed 6.5 million marks.
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Berlin
Berlin Assurance Company
Rheinish-Westfalian Coal
Upper Silesian
British OTs Gm Defeat Admitted on Somme Advance
British forces continued limited advances on the Somme with the capture of 61 officers and 1700 men today, bringing total Allied gains over two days to about 4000 prisoners, six guns, and numerous machine guns. Germany admitted losses at Courcelette Martinpuich and Flers as Haig reported a one to two mile advance over six miles of front. French lines also progressed despite German counterattacks near Bouchavesnes Berny.
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London
German War Office
Courcelette
Martinpuich
Flers
Douglas Haig
Somme
Bouchavesnes
Berny
Trop Kaiser
France
Teuton Knell
Verdun
Champagne
Rheims
Germans panick as Somme offensive advances
In a dated dispatch the Allied powers claim the German rear shows panic while British and French forces push the Somme front. They report four thousand unwounded captives and a growing artillery advantage as winter nears.
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Weather Forecast
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Entente
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Balkans
Seemer
Japan
Columbia, S. C
NEW Light & Power CO
Texas Power & Light Co
Husband
WAR College
Chile
Pierce
Isonzo Front
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