The Matagorda County Tribune (Bay City, Tex.), Vol. 75, No. 44, Ed. 1 Friday, November 1, 1918 Page: 4 of 8
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THE DAILY TRIBUNE
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have made it necessary
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The general election will be held
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If it is true that the Germans in-
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“Well,”
IN SAN ANTONIO.
sun-
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return
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The rumor is persistent
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the American soldier is
AUSTRIA OUT—WHO NEXT?
much attention
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- ■ General Foch gets through with
him and his military satellites.
and But the German believes he created
that occasion demands, they find i germ
On* Year..
Six Months
car
no money
premier.
SUBSCRIPTION RATES.
WEEKLY
preponderance of man power, against jects when peace finally comes,
whom Ludensdorf cannot cope.
to
the
the penalty just as the law compels
the individual criminal to expiate his
crimes ?
game
Ludendorff hesitates to abandon hto, your
time or another in the education
Dr. Claxton says:
“Most of the secondary and higher
caused consternation among the staff
members and clerks of Federal Direc-
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his statement that he' conceived the idea of having doctors |
could not treat with a bunch of liars, and nurses <
the wings had been loosened,
had been issued of such
to make vision defective and
had been killed as a
the feet of her adversaries,
reign of war lords and
The Gulf Coast section of Texas is
rapidly coming into its own. Its
broad fertile plains, its splendid cli-
mate. the absolute certainty of ample
rainfall and the productivity of theI less to lose.
the thousands of homes | is a treacherous, albeit
and Oklahoma, and other ■ well-intentioned
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behind in her war
pledges and can’t ' make her
system self-sustaining.
in Houston for the Greek
a
whim of sentimentality the Ger-
marched their troops t-----
It is to be
let him tear loose.
strings tied to him hang switched their efforts to flying camps
Not only does Charles find himself
more au-
impressedI ed toward
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Fl
” ‘I voluntarily against
Garmany and against which she will
be powerless to cope. The bloody
battlefield, with all of its direful re-
I suits, will be as nothing compared to
the commercial warfare which will be
waged against Germany for the next
fifty years. What Butler Brothers
have done will be followed by all the
large importers in the United States,
Its ravages have been worse England and France.
or* QTirl ifci 1 rhf liPa hac linon 1
tion, now is the time for it to put its ■
thinking cap on and get aown to.
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the business of the country.
Ing will be a most welcome departure. [ hinged for the past fifty years.
----- ’ strong pressure, based upon
It now looks as though Austria is' measures, is being brought to
States we have got to hand it to ’em I aches among
for putting over a trump card. There jin Texas
is nothing they could have done that,
could have caused more suffering or
more genuine trouble and sorrow.
have i
to wool-gathering all right enough.
Ducks
,«re plenti- !
doing their |!
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WAR-TIME NEEDS OF <
COLORED SCHOOLS.
will cure my catarrh.
pay a dollar an hour and board.
Concretely, that is the condition ot
work prescribed by an applicant at
the United States employment service
The applwpyt does- 1
whether -the steamboat..!.
Emperor Charles says it will be im-
possible for Austria to make a sepa-
rate peace, at the same time his pe-
mie submits an acceptance of all of
President Wilson’s demands. Looks
as though the official wires in Aus-
tria-Hungary are badly crossed.
MATAGORDA COUNTY TRIBUNE
By TRIBUNE PRINTING COMPANY, Inc.
CAREY SMITH, Editor _
Postoffice at Bay City, T^xas, as second class mail matter
under Act of Congress, March 3, 1879.
Any erroneous leiieciion upon the character or standing of any pm son or
business concern will be readily and willingly corrected upon its being
brought to the attention of the publishers.
The paper will be conducted upon the highest possible plane of legitimate
newspaper business.
steamboat line, he did know that the
-------- I federal government had an employ- t
seveial calls w i , ment service to whom he appealed for
information on the subject.
It is unnecessary to say that the
man was set right in his understand- z
jing of the true conditions in San An-
tonio. The department learned of the r-
man’s ability and offered him employ-
ment in the line of work best suited.
I to his talents.
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Quite a crowd of duck hunters ar- ll'|
rived in the city from Houston yes-
terday and are now in the rice fields p ■.
indulging in the festive sport,
and geese are becoming , pi
ful every day and are
share of damage to the rice in the|l
fieWs-__; |
Many of the influenza patients ar*; [l
back at their work, but still incapac? j
tated and unfit. The “wearing down'
process is quite as difficult as th* |
18-25-1w[trouble itself.
men
, vi, were
' workers, often in the middle of
night, have hurried in cars to
places mentioned and found that their
informant merely had been seeking
' to cause trouble.
; It will be recalled that last winter
when pneumonia broke out in the
-------» intended, but they camps of the country that frequent
put the whole German empire rumors of a very similar nature were
■ i —•-■ui- I circulated. These were found to be
! false. Then it was charged ground
that the glass had been found in food of sol-
kaiser is intent on abdicating,
the rumors, !
there are any
the fellow that tied them'.
a inadequate support from the church
He believes I organizations back of them. But
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abandoned and forsaken by
With the demobilization
army
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The most significant peace prospect;
to come to light in recent days is the.
activity of the New York bankers in J
their preparations for after-the-war!
business. Big business interests, es-
pecially New York financiers, keep
constantly in touch with affairs na-
tionally and internationally and any
radical trend of their activities may
he taken as a safe indication of com-
ing events. Peace looms nearer every.
day’ __live and to enjoy the greatest of all
The felicitations of Emperor Charlie' possible pleasures,—to give and to re-
and Emperor Willie are ridiculous and [ ceive, to extend and Share happiness
amusing. If what has been allowed, and to encourage the great Christian
to leak through indicates anything at, spirit,
all, both of these arrogant would-be; other’s
world rulers have all they can attend (pleasures and happines that as much
to at home and it is well for 1
that an avenue is still left t
through which they can exchange
greetings, condolences, felicitations
and promises of loyalty, for, verily,
this is all that is left them.
Fake letters j
stevedore regiment. The 1
white soldiers’ father was killed while i
been frequent | fighting to free the salves, the ‘Y ,i-n gan Antou,o
man’s father was a slave owner and, stipulate
And it might be that Ludensdorf
quit rather than to be captured. Still
justifying the general opinion that he
is the brains of the German army.
Turkey will
anyway, but who wants that kind of
turkey ?
significant statement:
decided not to burden our shelves and
customers with made-in-Germany
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"When individuals disagree and kill • which, of course, opens up the whole [ Parents, friends and relatives of men
ie law immediately classes them as [question of Austria’s racial disrate-’ in the service have been the people
fact gration. [attacked. Every effort has been made
The emperor is reported to
given his word to
separate peace would be entered into,
but emperors’ words do not seem to
Our authorities are asking us
Christmas shop as usual—“keep
home fires burning,” as it were. They
[claim that the living are entitled to
“The demands which the many nec-
, 'th" ’
people that public purse have made it almost im-
scbools to
I can only praise enough money to keep open,
me.” When ' Church organizations have found that
hear such rumors do not pass contributions have been somewhat les-
Pros-; sional soldier, especially in Germany.. them on.
and is is likely to become a tiling of curi- [ help beat the German at his
in the United States. Just as culty in raising funds,
loved ones are defeating and time, the high prices of food and ma-
with type, which is instinctive if not good beating him 1'" ” "p ’----- J-
He cannot bear to think that j Europe.
FOOD FACTS AND INFLUENZA.
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Massachusetts has paid a toll of 11,- war policies.
000 lives to the ravages of influenza. [
Other States have paid as dearly in'
most sanguine had ever
allusion in any of his public utter-
savings i ances has ever been made t0 Turkey
street!'”— — ~.“ -Z .
There’s
Your cook, if she
dissatisfaction and heart; tastes and stirs with the same spoon, i Contril,utions
’ —health. You owe it. to your;
i reliable people” as to the horrible con-j country to keep your physical effi-:^ an^ nee(js of colored schools
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the; sense. 1
civilian should be above him. where- j
’ ’ ’i dudgeon.’
press charges. The charges in Texas Hindenburg, with better grace, stays
are now high enough to strap anyone. by the ship, even though there is like-
who receives much express and plen- pihood of a new captain.
tv high to give the companies some! Meanwhile Doctor Solf fidgets in
very handsome profits. If anything,[ speculation over those terms which!
they should be lowered. [the a.......
:---— j wondering
Many of the farmers are anxious for | will have to swallow to accept, them, |
dry weather in order that the corn in; because with the western front crum-;
the fields may be gathered. On ac-,
count of the great rush to save the' door, there seems nothing else for with bacteria,
fine cotton crop this important work Germany to do. Houston
was necessarily neglected, but now j
that the cotton is fairly well out the
farmers are ready to turn their atten-
tion to the corn.
Ludensdorf says there
more war and plenty of it.
it seems
ring while Germany
of her retreat specialists.
This paper thoroughly agrees
Allison Mayfield, chairman of
Texas railroad commission in his pro- a
test against the proposed raise in ex- [ fore, he resigns in high
Darn [ diets at training camps. Again this
proved false. Then the propagandists
the law immediately classes them as
criminals, notwithstanding the
that no more than two are injured.
Nations, with potentates, kings, em-
perors and princes at their heads, can
fly at one another’s throats with every
conceivable instrument of destruction be counting for very much these days.
land wholesale murder, and we are
I taught that this is war, that progress callously ignored, but his
can be made, nations’ integrity be; gust cousin in Berlin is so
preserved and the countries at war
Austria has followed Bulgaria into
the allied camp.
She has not said “unconditional
surrender” as yet. and, perhaps, she
will not have to. but that is what her
latest note to President Wilson in-
volves.
It accedes to his views without con-
dition, which was rather more than
most of us expected, for in his repiy
to Austria’s request for an armistice
he indicated that the Czecho-Slazs
would have to be given their freedom.
They ask us to share one an-
would-be [ other’s burdens end to exchange our
them [of the world-wide gloom as possible
them might be obliterated. Keep the Christ-
mas spirt aglow.
Austin, Texas, October 29.—As a re-
suit of the tour of inspection made by [
Major John C. Townes, supervisor of '
the selective draft, and Major W. B.
Russ of the medical department of
the military camps, calls for men to
report at the camps will be issued to-
day or tomorrow.
They found the influenza situation
very much improved and in fact the
disease is on the wane at the military,
camps. There are s— - ,
had been canceled some time ago be-
cause of.the prevalence of influenza
which will now be issued.
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THRIFTY FIGHTER
and it was charged that engines had
been tampered with, that wires and
[nuts on
Sure, but .that gogles
that Foch will do the war-. nature as
taxes the ability many aviators
i result.
[ Later came nation-wide charges
get in by Thanksgiving that Red Cross garments issued to the
soldiers by the Red Cross were being
marketed generally at a price 1
fifty to seventy-five cents,
an effort to discourage Red
knitters giving their time and money
and assistance to the government. The barkation
government since has taken chaige
of all knitted garments and issues
them as it does other clothing, requir-
ing a strict accounting.
Now, with the soldiers of the United
States carrying the Stars and Stripes
through Germany’s “impregnable
lines,” the propagandists are seeking
to cause worry by circulation Ox re-
ports of lax conditions in army camps,.
They have charged all manner of
things which never have been proven.
Wilhelm says he is willing to take
the presidency of a German republic.
No doubt, but that Willie will be will-
Turkey did not pay much attention ing to take anything, from the office
to Germany’s threats of coercion and,of constable to the postmastership ot
as an answer set upon the German Sauer Kraut on der Frankfurter, be-
population in Constantinople with riot- [ for
ing and fighting. Germany is losing her
■.props one at a time and is, indeed, in
the language of Maximimlian Harden,
“left all alone.”
Now comes official information
life and suffering. War, with all of from Austria advising us that there is
its devastating results is tame com-1 a strong probability of the early de-
pared to this awful disease. If the mobilization of the Austrian army,
medical fraternity ever did anything Thus the Wilsonian leaven is work-
in the way of research and investiga- ing in all parts of the world, and as
' a result the awful and “incinvible(?)”
down to, German military machine will find it-
work. Surely if the germs of other self
'diseases can be found, isolated and Christmas.
^successfully combatted the influenza of the Austrian
later have to ( forces will be turned on the
And we front within less
[ attacked.
have 1 by the German sympathizers to cause
the kaiser that no' dissatisfaction at home, to cause wor-
ry at home,
would go forward to the
weaken their morale.
Emperor Charles’ wail about a sep-
arate peace is far-fetched, ill-advised
and utterly ambiguous, for the allies
had just as soon take them all on at
once as one at a time. They will all
be in the same band wagon by Christ-
mas anyway, so why the necessity of
a few details?
I
pie to stand behind their government. [ eluding especially the effective small
Parents, wives, children of the men [ schools of the industrial type, are in-
ists seem to take matters much hard-; in camps are warned to pay no atten-; dependent in character, and have no
er, which is no more than natural, tion to the constant rumors that are income except from donations,
since they had more to gain, if not j calculated but which are never print-1 ‘ ------- ----— — -------v -
For them defeat leaves' ed as authentic, in responsible news- ■ essary war appeals have made on
goods and accepted our losses, forget- soils are elements that cannot for all [ practically nothing: not even a pro- * papers. Beware of the people tha’- public purse have made it almost
.i.. - - -• ■ i- 11 - -•------~ — /! K-rr to live.. | tell of horrible con(lltions in army j possible for these private scliools
A few kings may be permitted to. camps or elsewhere
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San Antonio, Texas, October 30.—
Wanted a job on a steamboat at Sau
! Antonio. Texas, where the sea breezes
---— ------3 men^ is an[wm cure ray catarrh. The job must
...-.American soldier, one is a Y. M. C. a an iiour and ooard.
country and has' A. secretary, and one is a darky fiom;
every an American s,-------- —
are (
by force of arms in terials have made it necessary for
I the schools to raise more money than
j ever to maintain the old standards. A
[number of the best teachers have gone
into the service of the nation, many
(By Lou E. Stallman. Registered Red of tjiem teachers who, from sheer de-
Cross Dietitian and Government Votion to the work, had served for
Food Demonstrator.) I low salaries ’Vhe high cost of living
There is nothing in food itself to bag forced other teachers to seek more
allied war council is drawing up, [foster the disease, but without proper remunerative fields of labor.
just how much Germany: care foods may serve as carriers of; “Some negro schools
the germs. Unwrapped bread, for in-; known and have many
stance, may carry the germs to your ■ frten(is. Rut many
Fruit skins may ‘ J
Bakery
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FOR SALE—320 acres improved
black land, corn and cotton farm
good drainage; between Blessing and
Midfield; can divide. Price and
terms right. E. F. Earl, exclusive
agent, El Campo, Texas.
pass ’ contributions have been somewhat les-
andIsened, and the independent schools
have experienced considerable diffi-
At the same
must be
Proof that
’ 3 from I not forgetful of his financial obliga-,
This was j tions toward the "folks at home is |
Cross found in the report of the Knights of,
Columbus general secretary at an em-
- * '• l camp, that during two days
he sent express company money or-
ders aggregating $12,000 to soldiers’
relatives, this sum having been en-
trusted to him by American fighting
men.
Perhaps there is nothing that has
ever happened to the United States
which has been more disastrous to
the country at large than this awful
scourge of influeza and its attendant
evils. I'
than war and its toll of life has been
greater than the casualty list on the,
front. It has left in its wake sorrow | throughout the county next Tuesday,
and suffering in many a household November 5, The battle royal of bal-
and has laid its hand heavily upon tots will hinge upon the powers of
Its go-; the two dominant parties, as it has
A
war
bear
definitely out of the war. Her sup- everywhere to sustain the prestige of
pliance to Italy for a direct, independ- democracy, the president claiming
ent peace means as much for the gen- that any rift in the regular order of
era! allied cause as if they had sur- things now will be tantamount to se-
rendered absolutely to the allied coun- rious opposition to the present war
tries. Austria’s internal affairs are program,
militating against the successful par- js to vote for democrats, more as
ticipation in the war as much as her vote of confidence than as a political
lack of success on the battle fields.' expediency or necessity.
Another prop of Germany has gone in dent claims that, under the present
spite of Emperor Charles’ determina- circumstances, the country as a whole
tion not to make a separate peace, for js pledged, under a democratic admin-
Austria is suppliant and impotent at istration, to win the war, and that
Thus the' should any appreciable gains be made
lords and would-be t‘by the republican forces, it would be
world rulers is drawing to a close. [ regarded by the outside world as an
---- i abandonment of the administration’s
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The allied nations as an armistice; Butler Brothers, one of the nation’s
condition will demand the surrender largest retail concerns, have refused (
of the German fleet including all sub-[109 cases of German made goods or-
marines and the occupation of all for- dered by them in 1914. Tn giving out!
tified towns on the Rhine by allied. their reasons they made the following
troops. Germany finds herself in a significant statement; “We long ago
position not to deny a single demand
made by the allied commanders, so
the beginning of the end is in sight. «------ - - i „ . . , . . , ..
Wo wnnid like to see the French ting the whole transaction as rapidly < time be overlooked by the investor and . fession by which to live. (
Iwmt march through the as possible. We propose to not han- farmer. Added to this the cheapness! A few kipgs may be permitted to; camps or elsewhere and
Xts of Berlin in retaliation ot the die any more made-in-Germany | of the lands will play an important i survive, for poHtlcs and the past still, chargBt to someonejold
humiliating terms imposed upon the goods.” This, coming from one of the• part eventually in the settling up o.,
French in 1871, when to gratify
mans marched their troops through lively the industrial warfare that has coming fast.
Paris. It is to be hoped that nothing been predicated
will be left undone which might go
to show the military caste of Germany,
that they have been licked to a frazzle.
Camp Travis, Texas, October 28.—
German propagandists again are seek- your
troduced the influenza in the United;ing to cause t—
’em! aches among the thousands of homes ’ is a treacherous, albeit perhaps a
__'in Texas and Oklahoma, and other [ well-intentioned person to have
’ [sections of the country, from which | around. Kitpw that your milkman is[tke means to give for education. It
;men have gone forth to do their part! an honest and a sanitary man. Try i shOuld not he forgotten, however, that
in the present war. Insiduous and, to eat at restaurants which have been i not]n-ng js gained by responding to ap-
venomous as the plans have been, they | inspected and pronounced safe. [peals for gifts to schools that do no
have always been discovered in time | After you have taken these precau-; or have no value as educational
to prevent them being successful. ; tion, watch yourself and your diet.; institutions.' Many such appeals are
Now comes the German and the Ger- ■- Now is the time to keep yourself in I raaii0
man sympathizer with stories “from1 good health. You owe it. to your; “Determinationoftherelativemer-
I reliable people” as to the horrible con-j country to keep your physical effi-;^ an(j nee(iS of colored schools has
|ditions which have been found to ex-! ciency at the highest possible pitch., become a much more simple matter
’ ist in the hospitals and military train-! See that you are getting plenty d s;nce the publication of bulletin 1916
[ing capms of the country. According[ bulky foods,' green stuff, fruits and'No of the bureau of educatton.
;to these people the men are given no | vegetables. Remember that clean which lists practically all the col
Germany now denies that her an-' attention, they are allowed to die of (milk is one of the best triends ><>« j sclwi4s ot the South, with deserin-
thorities ever promised to quit war'cold, or of hunger. They have been! can have m the whole world of foods. Uo]>. aiu, recommendations fo ’ each
destruction or called off any of her' given no medicine, or improper medi- j DEMOCRACY,
submarines. President Wilson knew cal attention.
she would deny something, somewhere, I
sometime, hence 1-------—*------------.
I-' Jvuv-j. j
through the as possible. We propose to not han-; farmer. Added to this the cheapness
of Berlin in retaliation of the die any more made-in-Germany j of the lands will play an
the goods.” This, coming from one of the; part eventually in the settling
largest firms in the United States, is I this, the best part of Texas,
significant and shows conclu- i perity for us is on the way
of I need to be decorated, hut the profes- Jyou
notes perhaps;
all for,
I
The ease with which [
of ties to prominent Red Cross people in the darky’s grandfather was a sIave ishaii run jn the San Antonio River
... . rm, __ . . . _____~ i i-Ln cry'niirjdcj t 7
j San
! that
With every exchange of views be-1 er,
tween Berlin and Washington peace,
prospects become brighter. Is it pos-j
sible that the four years of murder,)
arson and destruction, is about to end.;
school The bureau will gladlv sup
pleraent the information contained in
this report and answer any iiies-
said the captain of artil- regarcj to these schools.”
caught in the. act of in-, lery, as he stood watching three; --------0_o--------
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To make thisjleries gardens in Paris, “I guess that
decided these men [ if we came over here to make the
world safe for democracy, we have
spread their stories finished the job and can go home,
lose ‘
; bling, and Austria opening the back i door.
j i_ — r** r i L i y
be covered|
probucts ex- type, are not so widely known. They
Chronicle, posed to the air and handled care- nGeti money urgently; they need
— [ lessly by salesmen who take no sani- I money, not only to do the necessary
tary precautions may be the source of work that they have been doing for
someone’s serious illness. Your maid, years, but they need more money to
if she does not wash and scald the provide the special training impera-
dishes properly may be the cause of. tively needed for large numbers of
downfall. Your cook, if she [ colored people in the war emergency
5 to schools that are do-
ling a necessary war work should make
la patriotic appeal to anyone who has
[the means to give for education.
Brand them as false
own
should be “shot at
germs will sooner or later have to. forces will be turned on the western j of the hundreds ot tnousanas sne nas.x^- Then they l
isuccumb to medical science. And we (front within less than forty-eight| slain. Kaiser Bill will have a hard.m the hope of ma ing peop e
believe this all will eventually be ac-1 hours, giving General Foch, indeed, a, time explaining all this to his sub-;
complished.
The premier of Greece may visit
Houston, news dispatches now inform
us. The Greek premier should come
prepared for a disappointment in that
Houston has just paid out all her sur- [
plus on the fourth liberty loan, is
way behind in her
I and the United States has never been
at. war with Turkey, but so sane, so
just and so utterly democratic are
the principles laid down by him, that
Turkey has found a just reason to
abandon warfare and seek peace and
justice, such as can be given her by
the entente allies. From the tons of
all current public documents it is be- might not have accomplished
ginning to look as though our boys which they were i—.«*-----
will be
spring.
'll
are ivell
influential
worthy schools,
iboth of the academic and industrial
stood watching three i
could not treat wun ui uc.““c“Un““7nflUenZa germs into the food; Yanks playihg baseball in the Truil- I WANTED STEAMBOAT
England, alone, has captured near-, of men in the camp. To make this j1'-™— ,n p>iris.
ly 400,000 enemy prisoners since the more realistic they
the Italian j beginning of the war to say nothing, or women s------
western[of the hundreds of thousands she has . rise.” Then they ---------- --- ,
forty-eight; slain. Kaiser Bill will have a hard in the hope of making people ose | >oo > P1
1 [faith in the government and its ef-(players, one of those men is
[forts. This story was started in va-[---------------------
[ rious sections of the <------- -
Every nook and corner of the been attribufed to practically
President Wilson’s fourteen “laws [United States “went over” in the re-' camp in the United States.
of peace” cut more ice than even the Scent bond sale. The ease with which j Added to this haxe
hoped for. No this country raises money is what has telephone calls from anonymous par-.
jarred loose the slats in the sides
Hapsburgs and Hohenzollerns.
Antonio and elsewhere alleging | They are playing ball in the grounds • win(js ]ejsureiy v-ay through
men in camps were without cov-, that were once the private groun a. or wither it
vere without food, etc. These of an emperor. If that isn t demom cKug-chug its course ficm the
:ers. often in the middle of the;racy to the Nth powei, what do jon Aiamo to ^e old missions in the en-
the call it?’ Ivirons of the city.
—o o———— ■ recejp(. appijcation first
'I OM N’ES IO ( ALL caused consternation among the staff
TEXANS TO CAMS'. meml)ers and c,erks „f Pederal nIrM.
! tor Lewis, for in this busy govern-
ment office there is seldom a sound
above the clicking of typewriters or
the conversational tones of depart-
ment heads.
But someone had told a man in a
rural section of the Lone Star State
that steamboat men were needed at
San Antonio, and while he had not
known before of the existence of this
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The special war-time needs of many
of the colored schools are emphasized
Then letters naturally' in a letter addressed by Commission-
men and ' er of Education P. P. Claxton to a
! number of persons throughout the
The latest efforts of the Germans country who have been interested at
in the United States has been direct-, one
of those whose ' of the negro.
be [ with the necessities of the situation [ loved ones are in camps.
made safe in the future for their sub-; as to be willing to accept the heredi- have been sent consolding them in the I schools for negroes in the South are
jects. Why should not those high in [tary presidency of a German republic, loss of their sons, husbands or friends. [ supported by private philanthropy,
authority, responsible for all this. The arrogance appears to have been Investigation proves the parties alleg-(These schools are largely denomina-
world-wide suffering, be made to pay, pretty nearly squeezed out of the ed to be dead, to be in good health. [ tibnal, and have some assured though
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Hapsburgs and Hohenzollerns, i
now that occasion demands, they find! germ of dissatisfaction.
themselves just as easily jostled about . he lessened the willingness of the peo-' many of the best private schools, in-
and over-ridden as other mortals.
Ludendorff and a few other militar- [
-1 in, camps are warneu lo pay iw aiten- ; nepenaenr, in cnarticLei, auu u
. tion to the constant rumors that are, income except from donations.
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Smith, Carey. The Matagorda County Tribune (Bay City, Tex.), Vol. 75, No. 44, Ed. 1 Friday, November 1, 1918, newspaper, November 1, 1918; Bay City, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1294518/m1/4/?q=music: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Matagorda County Museum & Bay City Public Library.