THE HOUSTON POST Texas 7/27/1915 U-Boat Sinks Leelanaw

1 Item Set of a complete (see below) edition of The Houston Post, Houston, Texas, July 27, 1915! Includes: ITEM 1.) "The Houston Post"; Houston, Texas, Tuesday, July 27, 1915; Vol. 30 - No. 115; COMPLETE (14 of 14 PAGES); Pages 1-14; Front Page, etc.; Page 1 has "England Claims Americans Made Rule o Blockade - Reply to United States' Protest on Detention of Neutral Cargoes Was Received - Points to United States' Policy During Former War - Ruling by United States Supreme Court On Famous Matamoros Case Relative to Goods Destined for Texas held to Apply to this Case; Summary of News; "Rolon Kirby"(?) Editorial Cartoon "At It Again!" with Teddy Roosevelt attacking "MollyCoddle"; Dallas Foreman Injured by Bomb - Attempt on Life of Man Employed on War Contracts - W.T. Moore and Son Seriously Hurt when Explosive Wrecked Room in Which They Were Sleeping; New York Police Lieutenant Charles Becker Given Two More Days of Life - Execution Postponed from Wednesday to Friday Morning - Arguments Upon Alleged New Evidence Submitted and Supreme Court Justice Ford Asked for More Time; Anahuac bank Was Robbed of $6000 - Three Texas Youths Captured At Parsons, Kansas; American Ship Was Torpedoed by Germans - Leelanaw Sunk After Crew had Taken to boats - taken Aboard Submarine - Few Details Received Indicate Rescued Men Were Carried to Scottish Coast by German Vessel. Contraband Flax Comprised Leelanaw Cargo (U-Boat, World War I, WWI); Germany Insisting on Own View of Prussian-American Treaty; He Has to Accept Pardon to Meet Death in Chair - Sam Bell in Arkansas Was Given Life Term in One Case and later Death Sentence; Teutonic Forces are Making New Drive - Indications That Climax to Struggle in Poland Will Come With Simultaneous Attacks on City (Warsaw); American Export Trade balance Was $1,094,422,792; Page 2 has Official Reports of Nations at War - World War I news from Austrian, Italian, German, French and British Sources; Standard Oil Company Of New Jersey bayonne Strike; Other WWI News; Election News; Mexican Revolution News; Page 3 has "Eastland's Death List is Growing; Survivors of Wreck Clinging to Bottom of Sinking Ship Eastland; lots of Eastland Photos; Page 4 has Baseball News for Texas League, American League, National League, Federal League, Southern League, American Association; Feature Article on Houston Buffaloes; Page 5 has Election News; Quarter of Page is Ad for Levy Brothers Dry Goods Company; Page 6 Has Editorials (Extra Session of Congress, Extending municipal Boundaries (Will St. Louis continue to rank as the fourth largest city in the USA?, Boston, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Detroit, Los Angeles are nipping at her heels); etc.; Miscellaneous Shorts, The Importance of Warsaw; Humor, Wisdom, etc.; Page 7 has "Japanese Official Was Pleased with Houston; Ban on Motorcycles for Rural Mail in New Order; Houston Pot Inaugural Name Given Big Celebration - Purchase of Watermelons and Portion of Utensils for Barbecue Orderd - Chief Justice Nelson Phillips to Be one Of Speakers; Paints will come all water route (Randolph Paint Company); Obituaries; Page 8 has "The Post's Department for Women Conducted by Harriot Russell; ads for Hammersmiths and Maxwell House Coffee; Fashions for Americans; Household Affairs; The Girl's Job; Page 9 Has Society News; Rotarians Go to Cincinnati Next - Ohio City Secured the Convention for 1916; GH&H Ad for Galveston Cotton Carnival; etc. Page 10 has column of "Railroad Schedules" including: Sunset-Central Lines (Southern Pacific System, All from Grand Central Station) H&TC (Houston & Texas Central) to Dallas, Fort Worth and Austin; T&NO (Texas and New Orleans) to Louisiana Points and New Orleans; H.E.&W.T. (Houston East and West Texas) to Shreveport; G.H.&S.A. (Galveston, Harrisburg and San Antonio) to San Antonio, El Paso and beyond; Galveston, Sylvan Beach and Seabrook; Victoria; S.A.&A.P. (San Antonio and Aransas Pass) from Union Station to Yoakum and Beyond to San Antonio (Route of the Davy Crockett); G.H.&.H. (Galveston, Houston a... read more