Texas General backs civilian training camp at Fort Sam Houston
Brigadier General Cecil A. Lyon of the Texas National Guard visited San Antonio to discuss with Major General Frederick Funston plans for a civilian training camp at Fort Sam Houston. Support grows from the Chamber of Commerce and Rotary Club, with 400 applications needed before approval. A Galveston camp is unlikely due to troop and supply limits, making Fort Sam Houston the only viable site for Texas and neighboring states.
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Cecil A. Lyon
Texas National Guard
San Antonio
Majo
Frederick Funston
Fort Sam Houston
Texas
Lyon
Funston
Department
Plattsburg Barracks
New York
Chamber of Commerce
Rotary Club
General Funston
Galveston
Fort Crockett
Coast Defense Works
Leonard Wood
Man Reports Kidney Pills Restore Health
A. H. Francis of Zenith Kansas says Foley Kidney Pills eased his back pain and restored movement after other remedies failed. He notes they help middle aged and older adults with kidney weakness and sleep disturbed bladder ailments, sold by A. M. Fischer.
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A. H. Francis
Zenith
Kas
Foley
A. M. Fischer
Sale of Hydesville spook house to move to Lily Dale
A. L. Foote sells the Hydesville birthplace of modern Spiritualism to B. F. Bartlett who will transport it to Lily Dale in Chautauqua County. The site, linked to the 1847 1848 rappings, helped launch widespread seances and spirit circles across the United States and beyond.
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A. L. Foote
Hydesville
Newark
Wayne County
New York
B. F. Bartlett
Lily Dale
Chautauqua County
Spiritualists of America
United States
John D. Fox
London
Black Pete Escapes from San Antonio Jail
A notorious 20 year old known as Black Pete vanished from a secure cell at San Antonio police headquarters on Friday after noon or night. He had been jailed on a bacon theft charge and is believed to haunt Texas Arizona and Oklahoma cities as an elusive escape artist. Police fear he slipped past steel gates and an elevator shaft to vanish, with prior escapes recorded in El Paso and Fort Worth.
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Houdini
America
Texas
Arizona
Oklahoma
Pete
Central Police Headquarters
Liberty
Peté
San Antonio
Friday
Old City
el Paso
Tobin
Galbreath
Bexar Irfanie
Fort Worth
Oklahoma Cities
White
Icke
Stone Is Ordered for Robert B. Green Memorial Hospital Cornerstone
The cornerstone laying for the Robert B. Green Memorial Hospital is scheduled for mid March. A marble slab will conceal a weatherproof box filled with articles chosen by County Auditor Van H. Howard from city and county employees, including police and fire departments, with official information inscribed on parchment.
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Robert B. Green Memorial Hospital
van H. Howard
Funeral for Jesse Wimberly Confederate veteran
Funeral services for Jesse Wimberly, a Confederate veteran who died Friday morning, were held at 3 PM Saturday at the Sloan & Hagg chapel. Interment followed in the Confederate cemetery. Services conducted under Albert Sidney Johnston Camp No. 44, United Confederate Veterans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jesse Wimberly
Sloan & Hagg Undertaking Company
Albert Sidney Johnston
United Confederate Veterans
Postmistress Turns Beans Into Cancellation Records
In a Maine town a postmaster used red and white beans as a cancellation diary. The post office inspector found no daily ledger, but the postmistress proudly explained the beans counted each letter and postcard canceled that day.
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New York Sun
Maine
Postal Service
United States
Frisco Growth From 1776 Spanish Posts To Transcontinental Rail
Frisco’s swift growth traces San Francisco from a 1776 presidio and San Francisco de Asis mission to Yerba Buena, renamed San Francisco, with U S flag in 1846 and rapid 1848 population boom. Pony express began 1830 with 5 dollars for half an ounce, and 1869 saw Central Pacific reach Oakland, starting transcontinental rail.
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San Francisco
U. S. Geological Survey
San Francisco de Asia
Yerba Buena
Telegraph Hill
United States
East
Pony Express
Oakland
Sorghum doubts presidential bid cites nominating limits
Washington Star quotes Senator Sorghum saying he could not be nominated or elected and would not fill the role properly or gain credit if he did. Judge notes someone resolved to keep bad habits, avoiding New Year’s resolutions.
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Sorghum
Inter
Washington Star
Women’s Humor Curb Needed to Aid Proposals Says Miss Cayenne
A Washington Star exchange shows a matter-of-fact man asking if women have a sense of humor. Miss Cayenne replies that women do but must curb it to avoid spoiling efforts to propose by truly nice men.
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Miss Cayenne
Washington Star
Age 84 Man Struck by Fire Engine in City Street
Geronimo Trevino, 84, deaf and feeble, narrowly escaped grave injuries when he stepped into the street as a central fire station motor hose and chemical wagon slowed to turn onto Santa Rosa avenue. He was hurled aside after grabbing a lamp and was hospitalized with possible internal injuries. The blaze at 711 Morales Street caused minor outbuilding damage from boiling cotton seed oil.
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Geronimo Trevino
Central Fire Station
Commerce Street
Santa Rosa Avenue
Trevino
Concho Street
Wright
L. H. Printz
Morales Street
Carl Puppe Dies While Visiting Germany
Notice of Carl Puppe of San Antonio who died January 13 while visiting relatives in Germany. Born February 10, 1845 in Krojanke Weipreussen, he married Minna Weidner in 1874 and came to America in 1884. Survived by three sons, one daughter, seven grandchildren, and his wife predeceased him.
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Carl Puppe
San Antonio
Germany
Anna Zimmerman
Puppe
Mr. Puppe
Krojanke
Weipreussen
Minna Weidner
Berlin
America
Hermann Sons
Siemering Lodge
Hugo Puppe
Los Angeles
Cal
Oscar
Otto Puppe
Zimmerman
His Revenge Bootblacks Fight Over Shines
Two young bootblacks near each other quarreled with one vowing revenge. The smaller boy said he would not fight but would confront the gentleman he blamed as soon as he finished polishing the chairs and saluting the shine.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jimmy
Pageant heads jubilee in YWCA conference
Delegates attend a district conference in Fort Worth as the YWCA discusses activities for the fiftieth anniversary jubilee. About 150 delegates from Baylor University Southwestern University the University of Texas and others hear Miss Helen A Davis on organization and responsibility while Miss Grace Hoadley Dodge’s life story is presented. The pageant Girls of Yesterday and Today features about 100 participants. A luncheon and sessions continue through Sunday with seminars on city and student work.
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Young Woman's Christian Association
South-Central
West Texas
Beethoven Hall
New York
Lillian Cannon
Janie Polk
Association
San Marcos
Baylor University
Southwestern University
University of Texas
Grace Hoadley Dodge
National Board of the Association
Linguists in Macedonia Speak English or French Abroad
British and French troops in Macedonia will meet many locals who speak English or French without ever visiting those countries. Sir Charles Eliot was hosted in Ochrida by a Bulgarian gentleman fluent in English, and at an inn between Gradsko and Monastir by a local who spoke the language.
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Macedonia
London Chronicle
England
France
Charles Eliot
Ochrida
Gradsko and
Monastir
Greek Interpreter Studied Languages Across Prisons and Bosphorus
The Bulgar learned English at the American Robert College on the Bosphorus and spoke a curious form of literary French. He had spent nine years in prison at Rhodes for conspiring with brigands, shaping his accent and linguistic background.
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Robert College
Bosphorus
Bulgar
Rhodes
Sacking Reauirement and Farm Manners Note
Detroit Free Press quotes show a man wants to be a gentleman farmer but lacks farm work knowledge. The Shanghai foreign community of 15,000 hosts seven shooting clubs with 754 members, illustrating shooting as a favorite pastime among residents.
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Detroit Free Press
Shanghai
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