Thirteen Negroes Hanged at Fort Sam Houston
Associated Press report from San Antonio dated December 11 states thirteen soldiers were hanged at Fort Sam Houston for complicity in a Houston riot. Names include William Nesbitt, Larned Brown, James Wheatley, Jess Moore, Charles Baltimore, and others. Sentences issued by court martial include discharge, penitentiary terms, and five acquittals.
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Associated Proas
San Antonio
Tex
Fort Sam Houston
Houston
William Nesbitt
Larned Brown
James Wheatley
Jess EK. Moore
Charles Baltimore
William
Brackenridge
Thomas Hawkins
Carlos Snoderas
Ara Davis
James Diving
Frank Johnson
Riley Young
Pat McWhorter
Record crop highs push 21 billion value this year
Washington December 11 crop production this year surpasses all prior years with farm product values unofficially estimated at twenty one billion dollars. The Agriculture Department reports a historic bounty exceeding previous records.
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Associated Preay
Washington
Department of Agriculture
MODEL MARKET BAKERY LOAVES AT 12 CENTS
Advertising brief shows 1b loaves at 12 cents and 1b loaves at 14 cents available wherever sold under Model Market and Bakery branding.
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Model Market & Bakery
Life Inmates of Twenty-Fourth Infantry Executed at Camp Travis
The condemned men of Company C1 shouted good bye as they died on the scaffold two miles east of Camp Travis Arroyo. Guards of Company C nineteenth infantry led negro inmates to the seafield in trucks for execution under a post engineers scaffold. Prayers by a negro minister and two army chaplains accompanied a hymn as the command linked rope and the men dropped dead instantly. Of sixty tried by the same court forty one were sentenced to life imprisonment. one man was...
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Twenty-fourth Infantry
Nineteenth Infantry
Beon
San Antonio
Arroyo
Camp Travis
Ufe
Senate Probes Military Operations by War Department
The Senate Military Affairs committee ended a general inquiry into the wire department's role in arming and equipping American forces. Secretary of War Baker and other department heads will be called to explain various features of war activities.
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Associated Press
Washington
Wire Department
Senate Military Affairs Committee
Haker
Russians Rebel Against Germans Gather Bolsheviki Rule
London report cites Bolsheviki control in Moscow and Petrograd as garrisons disobey the rulers. German reinforcements arrive in France. western front artillery activity noted. Official communications hint at impending major attacks while forces move from the front.
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Associated Press
London
Moscow
Russia
Times-Dispatch
Petrograd
Die
Ite
Particu Jakis
Nationwide Prohibition Move Backed by House
Washington December 11 the House, by unanimous consent, seeks to consider a conditional amendment for national Prohibition which has already passed the Senate Judiciary Committee and was favorably reported.
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Washington
House
Senate
Woman Suffrage Amendment Reported Without Recommendation
Washington document 11 shows the woman suffrage constitutional amendment reported by the House Judiciary Committee without a recommendation. The Associated Press notes the measure's progress and political context.
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Associated Preas
Washington
House
War Bread 1 lb Leaves at Sixteen Cents
Fragments indicate a wartime bread item priced at a reduced rate, with mentions of a one pound and fourteen pound quantity and a market name MODEL MARKET indicating a wartime retail notice.
Food admin allows ten-cent beet sugar wholesale rise
The Food Administration authorized a ten cent per hundred pounds increase in wholesale beet sugar. A German message notes carrier issues and a reported pigeon incident near a burned area, with a waiter mentioned among the scattered details. The report includes uncertain fragments about a pigeon wing and an explosion on a Thursday.
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Washington
The
Food Administration
Matifan
New York
Renate WI Inquire into Coal Supply Shortage
The Senate ordered an inquiry into the causes of the coal and avk ar supply shortage.
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Renate WI
Senne Haw
Mrs Harkley Visits Carinbad to Check Ill Mother
Mrs. G. W. Harkley of Junction City Texas arrived in Carinbad yesterday to tend her ill mother Mrs. Alley. She traveled part of the way by auto and joined the train at Big Springs. Mrs. Alley was reported holding her own.
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G. W. Harkley
Junction City
Tex
Carinbad
Yeaterday
Alley
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