Train Hospital Ready For Border Duty
A medical train has arrived in San Antonio and will proceed to McAllen in the townsville district to bring back soldiers needing treatment at the base hospital. The train includes ten Pullman cars designed for service and can accommodate up to 200 patients. Captain H. H. Bailey,Medical Corps, commands the operation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Antonio
McAllen
Townsville
Ing
H. H. Baily
Medical Corps
Russian evening signals midweek social at St Anthony
Wednesday night the St Anthony roof garden hosts Miss Doris Houston for a Russian evening honoring guests Miss Annabelle Dilworth of Gonzales and Miss Margaret Lofton of Fort Worth. Thursday the Ala mo Heights Methodist missionary society holds a 4 p m social at 105 Montclair Avenue. Mrs Charles G Starr and her committee have packed six boxes of books for the border and request donations of books magazines writing paper pencils and games for ongoing aid.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Doris Houston
St. Anthony
Annabelle Dilworth
Gonzales
Margaret Lofton
Fort Worth
Missionary Society of
Alamo Heights
Charles G. Starr
Dorothy Mooney
Belcourt
Wolff & Marx
Imogene Young
Kaufman
Belcourt Seminary
Misses Lofton
Dilworth
Young
Eleanor Wurzbach
Ruth Shaw
Hazel
Laura Virginia Adams
Major
Sterling Price Adams
Hester Foster
Waco
Regina Corona
Misses Foster
Johanna Rothe
Hondo
Grace MacClannahan
Donations Aid Soldier Boxes To Field Hospitals In Mexico
A community drive sent care boxes to field hospital No. 8 and No. 7 near Laredo Mexico, to D Company Second Maine infantry, sick soldiers at Mission, Third Cavalry at Mercedes, and Hot Wells camp near El Paso. Donors include Wolff & Marx Company and many named individuals. more donations urged for dispatch on Saturday.
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Mexico
Second Maine Infantry
Laredo
Mission
Third Cavalry
Mercedes
Li Paso
Wolff & Marx Company
Sam C. Slack
Benno Raytor
Maria Fenwick
Moore
Bertha Eloise Hilton
J. G. Willacy
Marshall Eskridge
Lillian Austin
Leary
L. B. Moore
Edwin H. Lee
Bailey
Texas Postmasters Are Named
President Wilson nominated Texas postmasters for Alvarado Buda and Garrison with H. Campbell W. Puckett and W. C. Young named on August 23.
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Texas
Washington, D. C
Wilson
Alvarado
W. W. Puckett
Buda
W. C. Young
Garrison
Philadelphians Aid Teuton Defense
Berlin reports the Association for Defense Preparation of Friedenau received one million marks from the Philadelphia branch of the organization.
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Teuton
Berlin
Sayville
Association For Defense Preparation of Friedenau
Philadelphia
Shoes Daring Drama Tops Grand Opera Run
The Bluebird photoplay Shoes stars Mary MacLaren as a shop girl in a tale of poverty, desire, and sacrifice. Also showing the Poe adaptation The Raven with Henry Walthall and Wanda Howard, featuring a recreated Poe home scene and a faithful script by George C. Hazelton.
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Bluebird
Mary MacLaren
Grand Opera House
Edgar Allan Poe
the Raven
the Empire
Henry Walthall
Wanda Howard
Poe
Fordham
N. Y
Essanay
George C. Hazelton
Park Encounter Sparks Curious Candy Gift
A mother recalls a park meeting where a polite boy accepted candy from a woman. The boy reports saying he wished his father had met the woman before becoming acquainted with the mother.
He Fell in Love With His Wife at Don-Ton Park
John Drew Comedy stars the Albert Taylor Stock Company in the laughable old farce about a Scottish marriage law. The plot follows two principals who wed by ceremony without presence then meet at a resort under false names and fall in love unaware of each other. Amusing misunderstandings bring hearty laughs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Drew
Don-Ton Park
Albert Taylor
Maud Adams
Negro officer fined after vehicle collision
A collision between a motor fire truck and a military truck, driven by Lieutenant Albert W. Ford of the Eighth Illinois infantry, occurred Tuesday afternoon while responding to an alarm. Ford was fined $25 by Police Judge Lowther on Wednesday morning.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albert W. Ford
Eighth
Illinoois Infantry
Ford
Lowther
Collision at South Alamo and Garden streets injures two
A fire truck and a small Army truck collided at the South Alamo and Garden intersection. The Army truck entered the crossing seconds before the fire unit and swerved right to avoid impact but was struck. Both vehicles suffered considerable damage and a fine was paid.
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South Alamo
Garden Streets
South Alamo Street
Guenther Street
Garden
Dog Tents and Army Dogs
In a brisk exchange, Mrs. Torkins asks Charley about dog tents in the army. He confirms the term and notes the dogs are provided for, joking that the SPCA may have influenced the decision while expressing affection for the faithful animals.
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Charley
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Army Innovation
Medical Department
W. P. Fitch
Esther Westmoreland
Eagle Lake
Mary Fitch
New Orleans
Oscar McElhenny
Felice Gaffney
Aurelia Wood
Winifred Gaffney
Dorothy Dibrell
Peggy Bliss
Mary Fly
Kate Buckman
Phylis Shiner
Jamie Kerr
Myra van Hoogenhuyze
Edwine Lovelady
Grace McClannahan
Gertrude Cummings
Louise Berrey
Charlotte Newton
Imogene Young of Kaufman
Mesdames Walter Taylor
W. E. Fitch
Jack Rowe
Oscar Mecklehenny
J. P. Lovelady
W. T. Beard
National Biscuit Company
P&eoo
Emil Blum
East Houston St
Thelma Neal
Elizabeth Bynum
Josephine Bell
Verna Raby
Thelma Bennett
Earl McGoldrick
Teddy Mclhenny
Jack Cassity
Robert Ayres
Aubrey Schofield
Atlee Ayres
Reed Brown
Richard Vander Stratton Girard Galpin
Leslie Neal
Clements Adams
Virginia Roach
J. W. McDade
W. 8. Sutton
Lillian Sutton
Austin
Edwina Snyder
Taylor Street
Joe
Neruda Purington
Galveston
Delta Gamma Taus
Sam Kaufman
William Bennett
Milton Kline
Edward Sibiey
Perry Eberling
Kingston Brown
R. B. Webb
Erna Webb
F. M. Coleman
St. Louis
Miss Webb
R. R. Russell
Corinne and
Elma Dil Russell
Los Angeles
Cal
Mae Belle Allen
Calvert
Elizabeth Senior
August Briam
Viola
Hilda
Empire
Bertin
Countess de Chevanne
H. L. Wagner Drug Co
Milburn Drug Co
A. W. Fischer
Hertzberg
Houston and
St. Mary’s Sts
Ficer
Menger
A la Carte
the Menger
Hot Wells Hotel
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