The Texas City Star (Texas City, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 249, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 19, 1914 Page: 1 of 4
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TEXAS CITY, TEXAS, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 19,1914.
No. 249.
VOL. 2.
General Obregon Now Controls Mexico City
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intends to take Vera Cruz when
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Vera Cruz, Nov. 19.—General
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intends to take Vera Cruz when
El Paso, Nov. 19.—A Villaista
of General Carranza left
with
Carranza.
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It is understood that Carranza fled without making a fight.
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Locals and Personals
MONEY AND SUBSCRIPTIONS FOR
People from all over the Unit- not have time in which to make
sociation.
the secretary are very enthusi-
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TURKEY’S WAR MINISTRY
With but 24 days more of The
Major General J. Franklin Bell
between the 27 th and 22nd in-
the middle of next week. He
displayed if YOU win.
In some
will resume
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than the one presented by The
Army Notes
will not pay for the cost of the
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TRIBUTION
water and a secret ingredient, in-
PRIZES TO THE INDUSTRI- than gasoline.
23rd Infantry and Major AI-
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Mixed in Bloody
Mass With Horses
MAY ARRIVE
NEXT WEEK
Will Be Located
In New Building
ting along nicely.
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Sergeants Keller and Fann are
IT IS MAKING SUCH AN EX-
CEPTIONAL OFFER IN CON-
NECTION WITH THE DIS-
Second Lieutenant Emmett W.
Smith, 27th infantry, is detailed
as range officer, relieving second
Lieutenant William L. Roberts,
11th infantry, who will transfer
all property and instructions per-
taining to his duties to his suc-
cessor and then report to his
regimental commander for duty.
Lieutenant Smith will report to
chief of staff for instructions.
to win a car must face the fact
that he or she has not nearly
Enver Pasha, the war minister of
Turkey, is said to have the upper
hand in the affairs of his country at
present and is believed te be respon-
sible for the entry of Turkey into the
European war as an ally of tar aw/.
Tests of a recently patented
fuel for internal combustion en-
gines, composed of naphthaline,
Yesterday and today through-
out the local U. S. A. camps, was
partially devoted to "conferen-
ces" and “review of programs.”
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Publishing Company at the Tues-
day meeting of the directors.
white paper used in publishing
the paper delivered to the sub-
scribers which you turn in. BUT
THE STAR WANTS CIRCULA-
TION; IT IS GOING TO GET
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Private Hugh Edgley has re-
covered his health sufficiently to
join his company in the 23rd In-
fantry. He arrived yesterday
from Trinity, Texas.
will take more than 12,00 bales
of cotton to Liverpool.
The Kildale will probably leave
for Liverpool tomorrow with a
cotton cargo.
Mrs. T. M. Brundege arrived
from Houston yesterday en tai
extended visit.
len of the Engineer’s Corps left
yesterday morning about 7 o’-
clock on a test ride.
Jack Frost May Be
In Texas City Tonight
Kosenberg Library
Get Busy
Everybody, and sug-
gest a slogan for
Texas City. A good
original ‘punchy’ slo-
gan will be valuable.
CARRANZA’S SOLDIERS
FLEE FROM FIGHTERS
OF GENERAL VILLA
HAMILTON GROCERY CO., groceries and meats.
HARLOW-GAMMAGE DRY GOODS CO., dry goods,
and children’s wearing apparel.
JEWEL THEATER, moving pictures.
LONG SUPPLY CO., electrical fixtures and supplies.
LEINBACH’S CIGAR STORE.
RITTER-PAUL-FRIDNER, furniture and hardware.
TEXAS CITY LIGHT AND WATER CO.
TEXAS CITY LANUDRY AND DYE WORKS.
TEXAS CITY STAR, subscriptions.
TSCHUMY'S, 2115 Market St., Galveston.
WILLIAMS, SAM J. gents furnishings.
The steamship Massapequa, sailing from New York with $300,000 worth at supplies for the Belgian noncombat-
ants, the first installment of the relief provided by the Rockefeller Foundation.
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Charles Pond has purchased a
lot opposite the Wolvin School
on Sixth avenue and will have a
building constructed for the Gulf
Laundry, owned by him. An up-
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Miss Lois Benthall spent yes-
terday in Galveston on a pleas-
ure trip.
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subscriptions and i_______
stock in the Texas City Oil As-
others it is simply a
lethargy.
T. B. Trotter, a local business
man was elected Vice-president
Major G. Switzer and com-
panion officers out on a test
ride were due in Texas City this
afternoon or evening.
WEATHER FORECAST—Fat r tonight and Friday. Probably light frost. Moderate north easterly winds.
THE TEXAS CITY STAR
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cember 4, 1914, is granted Col-
onel Charles M. Truitt, 22nd in-
fantry.
SEE THE SAXON.
The SAXON ear which is to be awarded as a Christmas
Gift by the Merchants of Texas City will be on display in
front of EVERYBODY’S store tomorrow. Today it is being
displayed in front of Goodson’s Drug Store. All cash purchas-
es in the following stores entitle you to tickets on this car:
BUTTERFIELD, W. H. & CO., Drugs.
CENTRAL GROCERY, groceries, hay, flour and feed
EVERYBODY’S, dry goods, ladies and childrens wearing ap-
parpl.
FLATTO’S, shoes.
GOODSON DRUG CO., drugs.
Cheap Fuel
Has made many Cities.
It can make Texas
City. Subscribe today
for some stock in the
Texas City Oil Association.
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Twenty-Four Days are Left in Which to Win
a Saxon. Anyone Can Win by Exerting
Only Small Amount of Energy.
Some of the Red Cross nurses serv-
Ing in the war zone seem to be pos-
sassed of the strength of men. Two
e€ them are here seen carrrins a
wouuded English sailer.
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Leave of absence for one
month, is granted Lieutenant
Faunsley M. Miller, 27th Infan-
try.
lough at Fort Benjamin Har-
rison, Ind., where he was visit-
ing his family. On his return,
he stopped at Parsons, Kansas,
a few days.
C. H. Cassel is having a new
sidewalk put around his brick
building on Texas avenue and
adding improvements to the
building.
scriptions are here to be obtain-
ed only for the asking. Texas
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Better protect those plants to-
night. The weather man says
there will probably be a frost. Of
course, this does not necessarily
mean that there will be but when
the weather man says there will
“probably” be something, there
generally is. Light north easter-
ly winds are promised for to-
night and Friday.
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By United Press.
Munich, Nov. 19.—Austria has
its sunken road like Waterloo.
Vienna’s bluest blooded cavalry
butchered itself in a deep ditch
charging over unknown ground
in Galicia. About 900 bodies of
the cavalrymen were mashed in
a bloody mass with the horses.
It was the most disastrous
charge Austrian soldiers have
made during the war.
To ALL the “GET BUSY” slo-
gan is applicable. You will never
be given a more attractive op-
portunity to win an automobile
Following is a letter received
today from Fitzhugh W. Haensel
of New York:
Editor Texas City Star,
Texas City, Texas.
Dear Sir:
Will you please send me set
City. Carranza has moved his -----
government to Orizaba and now By United Press.
have arisen to prevent some who
have signified a desire to win
from entering actively into the
Washington and Kentucky, his
old home. Brigadier General
Thomas F. Davis is now in com-
mand of the Second Division.
of application blanks for the sub-
scriptions to the oil well fund.
If everything is satisfactory, I
will probably take 20 shares.
Sincerely yours,
FITZHUGH W. HAENSEL
A letter was received today
from J. A. Hennessey of Vicks-
burg, Miss., who subscribed for
$10 worth of stock. Many peo-
ple in both Houston and Gal-
veston are subscribing for stock.
Mr. and Mrs. Fred T. Behrman
have returned from a visit to
San Antonio and other resorts,
and are at home to their friends
on Second avenue north.
' the finish.
Some genuine work must be
put into the campaign frm now
until the end by everyone who
would win a SAXON. The sub-
“Get Busy” is Slogan For
All Who Would Win Cars
In Star’s Auto Campaign
OUS ONES WHO DESIRE TO
WIN A CAR FREE.
Were this a contest it would be
a different proposition entirely.
If anyone were taking any
chances it would be different.
BUT IN THIS CAMPAIGN EV-
ERYBODY WHO TURNS IN
THE REQUIRED NUMBER OF
SUBSCRIPTIONS GET A CAR
IRRESPECTIVE OF WHAT
OTHERS MAY DO. In other
words anyone turning in 210
yearly subscriptiohs to The Star
will be awarded a SAXON auto-
mobile. There is not a man or
woman in Texas City and but
few children of school age who
could not secure the required
Second division. General Bell
has been away on a two month’s
leave of absence, during which
one else. It will require more
astic. Every one realizes that
with cheap fuel, Texas City is
bound to make a great commer-
cial and industrial center.
All the banks of Texas City
are receiving money for stock.
The exact amount of money sub-
scribed to date is not known, but
it is known that it totals over
$2000. A meeting of the execu-
tive commitee of the association
will probably be held shortly, and
a report of subscriptions obtain-
ed will be made.
Messrs. D. W. Morton and A.
Pearaman, who operate in the
Humble Oil Fields, were in Tex-
as City today looking over the
situation. Although they did
OIL STOCK COMING IN RAPIDLY
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WHICH IT IS OFFERING AS dicate that it is more powerful fan try, Major Hagadom of the
OF SAXON’S
One or two subscriptions a
sist you in any Way . possible.
Simply call and see him or if
this is impossible phone or
write him. Every bt f help
possible will be given you to
The leave of absence grant-
ed Captain William H. Smith.
Medical Corps, by paragraph 7
special orders No. 205, current
series, these headquarters, is
extended ten days.
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Leave of absence for one
month, effective on or about De-
PREPARED FOR LONG WAR
By United Press.
Paris, Nov. 19—William Phil-
lip Simms, United Press Staff
Correspondent, who is at the
front, said France was apparent-
ly prepared to fight to the bit-
ter end. Preparations for a
year’s drawn out struggle have
This is an opportunity that
should not be neglected. The
car will be awarded YOU as
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evacuated. Many close advisors brigade, commanded by General
-$ C-----1 C "“t -ihh Benavides, occupied Guanajuato
last night. The Carranzistas
DYNAMITE VILLAGE
By United Press.
Paris, November 19.—Heavy
losses were suffered by the
French when they occupied the
village of Chuvancourt, which
number of subseriptions in the
next twenty-four days IF THEY
WENT ABOUT IT IN A SYS-
, TEMATIG AND BUSINESS-
matter of LIKE WAY.
Colonel R. L. Bullard left yes-
terday for Tennessee on a two
months leave of absence. His
wife’s father is very sick.
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Company D of the 18th Infan-
try was engaged early this morn-
ing with field firing tactics. This
was a form of target practice
better known as “combat prac-
tice.”
been turned in.
That means that ANYONE
has a good chance of winning a
SAXON even if they have not
started until this time. There
are persons in Texas City as well
as in the army and surrounding
territory who are simply wait-
ing for someone to see them and
get their subscriptions. Why
don’t YOU get busy and reap the
harvest of subscriptions which is
awaiting the ones who seize up-
on the opportunity and GET
BUSY NOW?
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J. W. Beatty, Drum Major of _ ____ _______ ____e_________
the 23rd infantry band, has just of the Keystone Printing_and
returned from a two months fur-
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The football players, injured
is expected to reach Texas City temporarily in yesterday’s game
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he spent a few weeks at the Bat- ,
tiecreek Sanitarium. The rest of just back from Vera Cruz,
the time he was in New York,
instances important matters
Vera Cruz, Nov. 19.—General it is evacuated by American
Obregon now controls Mexico troops next Monday.
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Carranza Moves His Government to Orizaba Near Vera Cruz
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ly all of the buildings in the
village toppled down upon the
French soldiers, who were un-
aware of the dynamited condi-
tion of the village. An uncon-
firmed rumor says the British
have occupied Lille. The allies
are hammering away to cut the
German lines north of Arras.
reached Texas City yesterday. It to-date laundry plant will be in-
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command of the fantryn teams, and who had to be
carried off the grounds, are get-
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those who hope to win must get
busy between now and the clos- industry than has thus far been
ing date. The time has arrived
when every person who wishes
ed States, are sending in their a thorough study of the sur-
-1------t-- -- money for rounding territory, they believe
t. P1 4: ■ the chances of striking oil or gas
Letters received by here are very good.
The Haakon of the Wolvin
line arrived in Texas City this
morning with a cargo of over
600 head of Mexican cattle. They
will be shipped to Fort Worth
packing houses.
The Ikalis of the Harrison line
enough subscriptions to any-
where near insure their safety at spirit of the campaign while with
Oscar L. Brown and Clifford
G. Risley of the 23rd infantry
band left November 15 on a
three months furlough. They
expect to enjoy the Holidays and
pick their Christmas turkey at
Peoria, HL
The leave of absence granted
Second Lieutenant Jasper A.
Davies, 27th Infantry, by para-
graph 20, Special Orders, No. 247
War Department, 1914, is ex-
tended one month.
soon as you secure the required
number of subscriptions. BUT
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should be procurable have as yet will not pay for the cost of the The Automobile Editor will as-
Was mined and blown up by the been made. General Joffre is
Germans before they left. Near- conserving his men.
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yesterday on business.
Lewis Boyce of Chicago is
here transacting business.
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CITY. THAT IS THE REASON Phone 51.
Star’s automobile campaign day will not win for you or any-
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Burdick, F. P. The Texas City Star (Texas City, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 249, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 19, 1914, newspaper, November 19, 1914; Texas City, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1594330/m1/1/: accessed July 11, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Moore Memorial Public Library.