Yuletide Reaches San Antonio as City Plans Holiday Spread
San Antonio nears Christmas with unprecedented shopping rush ending late Saturday. Stores close Monday as churches hold services and citizens anticipate gifts, meals, and charity events led by the Christmas Cheer Association. National Guardsmen at Camp Wilson and a Gunter Hotel show highlight the holiday observance.
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San Antonio
San Antonians
Santa
St. Nicholas
Nat M. Washer
Christmas Cheer Association
Fine Chow for Soldiers Brightens Camp Christmas
Camp Wilson and Fort Sam Houston will host an extra fine Christmas with turkey and abundant treats. Thousands of guardsmen will enjoy leisure from duty, and gifts arrive from Washington stars along with regimental trees and observances. The Third District of Columbia infantry will receive $1000 in 20 pound agate sacks, a Y. M. C. A. tree, 100 boxes of candy with givers' names, and department gifts including $5.13 checks for all Agri culture personnel. Troop A funding from Washington totals $77, while the First and Second Wisconsin infantry plan a joint Christmas Eve program and a midnight mass at Seventh Illinois infantry camp marks its first since the Civil War.
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San Antonio
Gunter Hotel
Camp Wilson
Post Office
Express
Witnes
Illinois
Wisconsin
Fort Sam Houston
Third District of Columbia Infantry
National Capital
Washington Star
Washington
Department of Agriculture
Department
Troop A
District of Columbia Cavalry
Wisconsin Infantry
Seventh
Ilinois Infantry
Reverend Shaw grants service dispensation for large open air mass
The dis pensation allows a vast crowd of soldiers and civilians to attend a Christmas service to be held outdoors at Camp Wilson due to space limits. West Virginia infantry wives visit San Antonio for holidays and will dine in camp on Christmas day. Twelfth division units plan modest Christmas events with gifts from home and exchanges, plus numerous small trees to mark the day.
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Bishop Shaw
Camp Wilson
West Virginia Infantry
San Antonio
Twelfth Division
County Delivers Christmas Cheer to Inmates
County plans festive meals for inmates at the Home for the Aged Juvenile Home and county facilities. Aged residents receive a turkey dinner while jail and convict camp inmates enjoy roast pig with apple sauce. The Home tree from First Presbyterian Church was moved and decorated for residents. Juvenile boys will attend a celebration hosted by Rev Father W W Hume with gifts and a special feast.
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Home For the Aged
First Presterian Church
Father W. W. Hume
San Antonio
Father Hume
Salvation Army Christmas Food Drive Feeds City Poor
Scores of food baskets were sent to the city poor on Saturday by the Salvation Army. The annual drive is funded by street-contributed donations during the holiday season. The campaign uses black pots on tripods as a symbol with the slogan Keep the Pot Boiling. This year’s gifts matched last year’s, bringing happiness to hundreds of families lacking Christmas joy.
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Salvation Army
United States
City honors Texas troops with mailed resolutions and gifts
The San Antonio city council approved a patriotic resolution for soldiers in the Second Texas Infantry at Corpus Christi and Troop C, First Texas Cavalry at Ruidosa. Copies were mailed to individual infantry members, while cavalry copies were distributed by Captain Whiteaker to the men. Packages included a Santa Claus themed card signed by the mayor, with some gifts and a large unaddressed box of books to be shared among the units.
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San Antonio
Second Texas Infantry
Corpus Christi
First Texas Cavalry
Ruidosa
Mackey
Whiteaker
Lambert
Brown
Citizens’ Committee
Santa Fe has cars surplus in Texas railroad brief
Railroad Commissioner Mayfield asked for daily car reports to ease a shortage. F G Pettibone of the Santa Fe replied that Gulf Colorado and Santa Fe has a surplus and no real need for daily distribution reports. Mayfield noted no Santa Fe complaints and welcomed the surplus.
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Tex
Earl B. Mayfield
F. G. Pettibone
Santa Fe
Mayfield
Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railway
Fettibone
Texas
Veterans Meeting and Community Notices Across San Antonio
A San Antonio column lists the Albert Sidney Johnson Camp No. 144 Confederate Veterans meeting at Sloan & Hagg parlors on Pecan Street for social time, plus numerous ads for local services. It notes a school board meeting in the State Bank building and announces a U S W V joint installation at Moose Hall with the Ladies Auxiliary.
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Albert Sidney Johnson
Sloan & Hagg Undertaking Company
Pecan Street
Avenue C
John L. Bullis
United Spanish War Veterans ‘T
Ladies’ Auxiliary
Christmas Bundle Event and Night Festivities
Description of a Christmas bundle given to the police, a Grand Leap Year Dance by W. O. W. degree team Sam Houston Camp No. 65 at the W. O. W. hall on December 30, 1916, with admission 25 cents. Willett's Union Orchestra noted among events. Overland car theft reported on Houston street and Main avenue around 5:30 pm. pilferer seen driving away. Also mentions theft of 40 pounds of butter from N. Tyler's wagon on Soledad Street and two bicycles found and held for owner identification.
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Sam Houston
W. O. W. Hall
Willett’'s Union Orchestra
Overland
W. B. Thompson
Soledad Street
N. Tyler
Main Avenue
East End
Lawmakers Consider Secrecy of Jury Lists in District Courts
Lawmakers plan to amend the law to keep juror lists secret in district courts. Lawyers back the move reportedly. currently lists can be copied after handover to Sheriff Tobin about ten days before jurors appear. Federal court practice keeps juror panels private, with disclosure deemed contempt of court, Deputy Clerk Campbell notes.
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Joan W. Tobin
A. I. Campbell
Federal Court
Five Brothers Guard Affections Quip in Chicago Herald
Dialogue snippet shows Alice declaring five brothers guard her affections and Agnes noting brothers would trifle with hers first. Published as a humorous exchange in the Chicago Herald.
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Alice
Agnes
Chicago Herald
Zionist Convention Set For San Antonio in December
Texas Zionist Association to hold its annual meeting December 2 3 in San Antonio with sessions at 117 West Commerce and a public mass meeting at Temple Beth El December 31 6 p m Dr P M Raskin to speak amid talks on Jewish national center in Palestine and world Zionist aims Waterproof cork fabric garments touted as new French invention offering porosity and ventilation.
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Texas Zionist Association
San Antonio
Texas Association
Federation of American Zionists
Palestine
Berman & Zadek
West Commerce Street
Temple Beth-El
P. M. Raskin
Switzerland
England
Jewish Publication Society of America
Army Goods Recovered In Hospital Property Thefts
City Detectives Proudfoot and Harvey recovered two hundred pillow slips a dozen blankets and as many bed sheets from an East Commerce street house on a warrant requested by local officials. A man around forty was arrested on charges of receiving United States government property identified as stolen from the base hospital. Thefts of blankets have occurred in recent weeks and the pillow slips were said to have been stolen last Wednesday.
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Proudfoot and
Harvey
East Commerce Street
United States
Central Station Manager and Applicant Exchange About Efficiency
A brief exchange shows the manager and applicant discussing efficiency studies. The applicant notes his study interrupted regular work and led to quitting the tread to focus on efficiency concepts.
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Washington Star
Central Station
New York Sun
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