Shoe Exibit At Joint Meeting Delights Texas Dealers
The Texas Shoe Retailers and the Southwest Shoe Travelers Association plan a joint convention in San Antonio from February 12 to 14 at the Gunter Hotel. The three day program features a major footwear display, talks by merchants from across the country and attendees from Mexico, with tours and an opening theater party for ladies.
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Texas Shoe
Southwest Shoe Traveler's Association
San Ajitonic Almultan
Ben E. Walter
Guoeter Hotel
Mexico
Longméwer
Deniaon
John Bickley
Houston
Beaumont
Ben, Weber
San Antonio
Onis
Bert L. Brown
Georgel. Cohen Jr
Galvestons
George Volk
Dallas
A. ‘Wanquet
Flour shortage may drive use of substitutes in Southwest
A Price Food Interpreting Committee meeting revealed flour supplies in the Southwest are stretched. Wheat allotments through July 1 have been ground into flour and passed to trade, risking a shift to substitutes like corn meal, gris, oatmeal, and beans. Restrictions on wholesale and retail stems aim to curb profits, with city sales limited to five pounds and country sales to ten pounds, and a required balance of substitute flour per pound of flour.
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Southwest
Jess Hays
Price Food ‘Interpreting Committee
Wheatless days ordered for San Antonio restaurants
A Tuesday agreement by San Antonio restaurant men and bakers bans white bread and white rolls, making every day wheatless. Similar action reported in Houston with bakers promising wheatless bread for restaurants, boarding houses, and eating places. Meatless breakfasts and future pastry substitutions also discussed.
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San Antonio
Resturant-Men
Anya
Houston
Busy Year Report for City Detective Department
The annual report of James W. Garuthers, captain of the city detective department, covering the period through February 4, 1918, shows 1773 arrests and transfers to county, state, or federal authorities. The document, filed with Fire and Folica Commissioner Lowther, is the first authentic statement of police results and references anti-vice campaigns, with a copy to be sent to the War Department in Washington, D.C.
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James W. Garuthers
Folica
Lowther
War Department
Washington, D.C
Corporation Court
San Antonio
The Piggly Wiggly Sashays of Real Womanhood Debate
The passage contrasts a false display of real womanhood with a yard wide standard. It argues that true womanhood means willingness to help drive and rein pull, and to work and be harnessed on either the Gee or Haw side, not merely sit by.
Four Inch Heels Spark San Antonio Society Row
The High-Heel Society of San Antonio erupts in a clubroom dispute over shoe heel height. Mrs Higher Than Ever confronts Mrs High But Practical in a pointed exchange about four inch heels and duties, ending with a motion to adjourn and a next meeting called by chairman Clarence Saunders.
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High Heel Society of
San Antonio
Clarence Saunders
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Setanzanta
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Mr Client
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Rerien
the Piggly Wiggly
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