Four traffic accidents report contains child injury
Police records show four Saturday accidents with one injury to six year old Jose Martinez struck by a motor delivery truck at 401 South Laredo Street. No arrests. other incidents involved cars at North Lores and Romana Streets and South Flores and Beauregard Streets. the Army truck left scene.
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Jose Martinez
South
Laredo Street
Lichter Bakery
Stiehard Gerfers
Furnish Avenue
Fernandez
P. C. Neal
North Lores
Romana
Emil Barosk
Yoakum
Tex
South Flores
Beauregard
Loneliness drives soldiers to seek home folks in San Antonio
San Antonians respond to letters from Camp Travis Fort Sam Houston Kelly Field and other posts where soldiers describe loneliness. Home-town requests from Madison Wisconsin to Bristol Connecticut prompt local readers to help. Readers from Laredo to Ohio offer to connect and welcome soldiers, while scattered replies continue to arrive through The Light and Home Folks editor column.
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Home Folks
Camp Travis
Sevice
Madison
Wis
Camp Stanley
Baltimore
San Antonio
Omaha
Ned
Kelly Field
Tiptonville
Lake County
Tennessee
Kelly
Pittsburg
Muskogee
Lawton
Okla
Travisman
Fort Sam Jlouston
Old Georgia
Georgia
San Antonians
Laredo
Bristol
Conn
New Haven
Hartford
Forestville
Plai
Athinta
Habun
Eldorado
Sam Antonio
Norfolk
Alabama
Taladega
Montgomery
Selma
Ala
Columbus
East Liverpool
Wellsville
Ohio
Mairquette
Mich
Kokomo
Ind
Kellyfield
Denver
Colo
Marietta
Boston
Mass
Lima
N. Y
Pasadena
Cal
St. Louis
Camp Travis to Supply 59 Student Officers for Engineer Camp
Fifty nine enlisted men from Camp Travis will join an engineer training camp opening in May at Camp Lee Virginia. Thirty from the 315th Engineers and 315th Engineer trains and others from multiple regiments will be selected to attend, with age limits 21 to 31 and selection based on character and aptitude.
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Camp Travis
Camp Lee
Petersburg
Goth Division
315Th Engineers
315Th
343Rd
315Th Field Signal Battion
344Th
357Th Infantry
358Th Infantry
346Th
859Th Infantry
360Th Infantry
843Rd Field Artillery
344Th Field Artillery
345Th Field Artillery
Ingineers Corps
Liau
Camp engineers eligible for commissions and merit based
The text states engineers at the camp may be commissioned as Lieutenants as vacancies arise, based on merit from training performance and satisfactory service between graduation and commission date. The school offers 59 men a chance to win commissions. A worker in a Midland munition factory faced a $150 fine for having matches.
Williams Widely Known as Possible Crozier Successor
Brigadier General Clarence C. Williams, once department ordnance officer here, is named as a possible successor to Major General Crozier as chief of ordnance. A Georgia graduate, Williams rose from colonel in this department to brigadier general in France in 1917 and recently returned from service in Washington.
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Clarence C. Williams
Crozier
Department Ordnance
France
San Antonio
Williams
Southern
Military Academy
Georgia
Artillery School
Ile
Washington
Tax closes Philadelphia saloons as licenses expire
Philadelphia faces the closure of 250 saloons by May 31 when the license year ends. LD Clarence Gibboney, secretary of the Law and Order Society, cites existing federal taxes as the reason for the shutdown.
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Philadelphia
Clarence Gibbones
The
Law and Order Society
Gibboney
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Tango
Texas
Lone Star San Antonio
Empire Mexican Restaurant
St. Mary’s St
Safety Deposit Boxes
San Antonio Loan & Trust Co
West Commerce Street
Adna
Johnston & Buett
General Agents
Crockett 59
Liberty Mills
Norton
San Ant
Joske
Tonio
Grey Rose
Navy
Riege
Joske’s Beauty Parlors
London
Vor
Midland
Edison
Maverick-Clarke
Better Business
St. Mary’s Street
Maverick-Clarke Better Business Show
Hornberger, Schmitt & Company
Ediphone Dept. Crockett
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