City to Motorize Garbage Department in San Antonio
San Antonio moves to replace horse drawn wagons with motor trucks and trailers. Commission approves purchase of ten additional trucks and eighteen trailers, bringing total to twenty three trucks. Four horse drawn wagons remain for suburbs. Incinerator and plants planned. railroad cars to haul garbage to sites. Officials note time and money savings and improved efficiency.
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Arntonio
Phius
San Antonio
Lambert
Lambert Monday
Snore der Aor
Wright
McMillan
Blenderson
M. M. Flores
Dr. Leibrecht
G. We. O'Neill
Harrison
Frank Dawson
Joe Caurein
Terrell
Maddox
To. Cardenas
A. Harman
A. J. Lowell
Shaw
GL. Shit
Ben Moselvy
Cavanaugh
Emil ‘Oudgate
Yom Addicks
Li. Burtner
W. Noack
So J. Mohlasier
LB. Ward
Key Barneburg
H.l Knight
Gu. Newman
P. Terrest
Voernissiog
France Street
Eba
Lake
Sycamore
Phim
San Jacinto Street
Yale
Cincinnati Avenues
Mothers to care for boys in army camps across country
A local effort by Miss Emma L Adams of the War Camp Community Service aims to match mothers at home with boys in San Antonio and other camps. Volunteers will act as camp mothers, sending letters and keeping home mothers informed, with plans for a wider national reach.
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Emma L. Adtums
War Camp Community Service
San Antonio
Military Camp
Uncle Sam
Texas
Camp Travis
Miss Adams
Warn Against Trading Liberty Bonds for Stocks Nationwide
The United States Chamber of Commerce, at the government's request, is distributing posters to warn the public against exchanging Liberty Bonds for industrial stock or shares from firms seeking such trades. The campaign urges holders to keep bonds, sell them in open market if needed, or buy new bonds instead, stressing bonds as a safe wartime investment.
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United States Chamber of Commerce
Chambers of Commerce
Theo
Carrngton
Chediana Agtenie Chamber of Cornice
USIL
Ligge Guilding
Washington, D. C
Liberty
United States
Strategy of German withdrawal and British tactics in the west
London Times outlines two kinds of German withdrawals in the western front as France and Britain push to exploit positions. It notes isolated forts and hills like Lassigny and Steloi near Dickebusch, stressing costly retirements for the enemy while Britain seeks to press the initiative on favorable ground.
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Werberut Sidebotilam
London Times
San Antonio
Philadelphia, Public Ledger
The
Public Ledger Co
London
Lys
Ancre
iSemmel
Steloi
Dickebusch
Vursely
Lassigns
Awolu
Acassis
Noyonus
Nack
von Bohe
Irance von Bolm
Laon
Peel
France
Amoerienr
Prince Kuhio Opens Public Beach at Waikiki
The estate of the late Queen Liliuokalani opens a Waikiki beach area to the public for the first time. Prince Kuhio Kalaniolani, long in control of the property, removed a fence that had kept the beach private, and the site is dubbed Kuhio Park. He serves as Hawaii’s delegate to Congress and seeks the Republican nomination.
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Honolulu
Lilioukaani
Tionuilulu
Waikiki
A. Kuhio Kalaniannole
Prince Kuhio
Cupid
Hawaii
Goa
Lathers
Kuhio Park
HELP IN HARVEST HARVON CITY DRAFT WORKERS JOIN STATEWIDE EFFORT
In Huron South Dakota Aug 20 workers from cities rush to harvest fields to aid farmers in gathering a record crop. Businessmen swap offices for overalls and work late into the night earning 44 cents an hour, with wages often donated to the Red Cross or war funds. Women help in many areas as people from all walks of life join the effort.
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Huron
South Dakota
Red Cross
Executive Officer Relieved at Kelly Field in Signal Corps
Lieut. Col. C. Danforth, longtime executive officer at Kelly Field, has been relieved of duty with the aviation section of the signal corps and ordered under reassignment to Camp Zachary Taylor in Louisville Kentucky. He began at Kelly Field early this year and previously commanded the second training brigade. His successor has not yet been named. Danforth began military service in 1898, rising from private to sergeant major and earning commissions in successive infantry units. He studied at Fort Leavenworth before becoming a first lieutenant in 1903 and serving until 1917 when he received another promotion.
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C. ¥. Danforth
Kelly Field
Signal Corps
Camp Zachery
Taylor
Louisville
Danforth
United States Volunteers
1St Infantry
Tenth Infantry
Infantry
Cavalry
Fort Leavenworth
Infantry Major Transferred to Aviation Section in 1928
In February 1928 he moved from infantry to the aviation section of the signal corps with the rank of lieutenant colonel. He is scheduled to be transferred back to infantry with the same lieutenant colonel rank.
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Signal Corps
Infantry
Ce Gee
Advertising for City Police In Public Want Ads
The article notes Pittsburg Wittsburg city now invites eligible applicants for police and engineers via want ads rather than political patronage. It questions how this shift from boss politics to merit-based hiring may affect local municipal politics and voter influence.
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Pittsburg
John
Jin
Mike
Wittsburg
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