Lone Star Poultry Show Opens Monday with Grand Display
The sixth annual Lone Star Poultry Association show opens Monday at 117 Main Avenue with a giant display of fancy pheasants tailing five feet and more. John Jacobs of Bexar County chairs entries amid an expected 600 to 700 birds and animals from Texas including ducks geese pigeons rabbits and Belgian hares. Judging starts Tuesday under H. B. Lansden of Manchester Tennessee as officers list C C Leel president and R H Friedrich F W Huftmeyer F S Hayes among the lineup.
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Lone Star Poultry Association
Main Avenue
John Jacobs
Bexar County
Texas
San Antonio
H. B. Lansden
Manchester
Tennessee
C. C. Leel
R. H. Friedrich
F. S. Hayes
F. W. Huftmeyer
Show Committee and Leaders Named for Boerne Event
George Gray of Boerne and a list of officers including Mrs. S. M. Applewhite W. T. Mitchell Gus ward I T Brown L A Elmen dorf F C Wantzloeben and Ben Andrews form the committee with C C Leet as chairman and I T Brown as superintendent of the show.
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George Gray
Boerne
S. M. Applewhite
W. T. Mitchell
Gusward
I. T. Brown
L. A. Elmendorf
F. C. Wantzloeben
Ben Andrews
C. C. Leet
Gus Eward
F. S. Hayes
George D. Gray
D. J. Pulliam
Sam Slack
EurekaLote Remedy Promises Cure for Many Ailments
The advertisement touts Eurekalote as a universal remedy for colds coughs bronchitis croup measles la grippe pneumonia Brights disease and tuberculosis. It lists drug stores in the area selling it including Wagners Carson s Garretsons and Fritsches with Eureka Remedy Co. supplying through the Kampmann Blog and a local phone number.
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Bright
Appman’s
E. Commerce
Dougthit’s
N. Flores St
Eurekasote
Eureka Remedy Co
Kampmann
Travis
Scientific Society Names 1917 Committees In San Antonio
Dr. J S Lankford announced the 1917 standing committees at a board meeting in the Stevens building. Executive includes Wilson Howard Heusinger Muir James Moore and Lankford. The next meeting will feature Dr J A Udden speaking on Glimpses From the Geological Past of Texas. The public is invited.
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J. S. Lankford
Scientific Sociey of
San Antonio
Society
Stevens
Edward A. Wilson
John F. Howard
Edward W. Heusinger
A. H. Muir
A. J. James
A. G. Moore
Lankford
Malone Duggan
J. A. Udden
Bureau of Economic Geology and Technology
University of Texas
Texas
Publicity Sparks Woman’s Recovery From Gall Stones
Letter from DeKalb Missouri inspired Mrs Georgia Coe Thomas of Lancaster Missouri to try Fruitola and Traxo after doctors advised surgery. She reports dramatic relief within a month as stones passed and health returned. Fruitola and Traxo are products from Pinus Laboratories Monticello Illinois available without prescription.
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R. C. Dunlap
DeKalb
St. Joseph, Mo
Georgia Coe Thomas
Lancaster
Edsall
Pinus Laboratories
Monticello
Ill
Illinois
San Antonio Forming Salesmanship Club for All Sellers
The World's Salesmanship Congress spurs a San Antonio club for salesmen and sales managers across lines. Clifton George leads the effort with a full meeting planned in two weeks and a tour by W S James to promote the idea in Kansas City and other cities.
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Detroit
San Antonio
United States
World's Salesmanship Congress
Clifton George
World’s Salesmanship Congress
George
Houston
Dallas
Fort Worth
World’s
Salesmanship Congress
Kansas City
Wichita
Oklahoma City
W. 8. James
Clifton George Company
James
Mr. George
Axson Lectures On Modern Drama Begin Friday
Dr. Stockton Axson, formerly of Princeton and now with the Rice Institute, will open a six lecture series on The Modern Drama in Beethoven hall this Friday January 12. Lectures are free under the joint sponsorship of the Carnegie Library and the San Antonio school board.
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Stockton Axson
Princeton
Rice Institute
Houston
Beethoven Hall
Axson
San Antonio
Carnegie Library
Shakespeare
Shaw
Ibsen
Bernard Shaw
John Galsworthy
England
America
Colorado
California
Nueces Causeway Road 10 to Open Soon
Corpus Christi January 6 An announcement says the temporary roadway across the Nueces Bay causeway between Corpus Christi and Portland is nearly finished and will open within a week or ten days. Bartlett and Ranney of San Antonio hold the contract. a dredge will complete permanent work and repairs by February 15.
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Corpus Christi
Nueces Bay
Portland
Bartlett & Ranney
San Antonio
Elder Brothers Low Bid Found on Collins Garden Sewer
A recomputation shows Elder Brothers as the lowest bidder for the Collins Garden sewer project, beating McKinzie Construction and Young & Ramsey. Council review questioned Young & Ramsey's bid balancing with lumber and concrete costs, and Frank Young suggested the conference to reassess.
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Collins Garden
McKinzie Construction Company
Young & Ramsey Co
Elder Brothers
Kearny
Young & Ramsey
Frank Young
McKinzie Company
Erwin
War Department assigns 15 NCOs to civilian military education duties
Fifteen non commissioned officers, mostly from the Southern Department, were ordered by the War Department to report to the Central Department for duty at educational institutions. Capt. Edgar Z. Steever, returning from San Antonio, spearheads the program, with many officers moving from active field roles to infantry and cavalry training assignments across Texas and New Mexico.
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Washington, D. C
War Department
Southern Department
Central Department
Edgar Z. Steever
Steever
Washington
San Antonio
Chicago
Patrick J. O'Toole
Fourth Field Artillery
Mexico
Edward J. Turgeon
Seventh Cavalry
Alfred Brandt
Fourth Infantry
Brownsville
Tex
Thomas W. Dinwiddie
Sixth Infantry
Jesse 8 S. Carter
Harry A. Schoenfeld
Twelfth Infantry
Nogales
Ariz
Samuel P. Cooper
Sixteenth Infantry
George Cockriel
Twenty-eighth Infantry
Fort Ringgold
Herman Schierloh
Thirtieth Infantry
Eagle Pass
Louis H. Cook
Thirty-fourth Infantry
el Paso
John Simpson
Transfers of Sergeant George J. Forgit Fort Sam Houston Infantry
Sergeant George J. Forgit of Company F Thirty-seventh Infantry at Fort Sam Houston Texas transfers within infantry assignments.
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Thirty-seventh Infantry
Fort Sam Houston
Tex
George J. Forgit
Disposition of Roumania by Central Powers debated
German and Austro Hungarian papers clash over Roumanias fate after occupation. Vossische Zeitung backs full Dobrudja and Wallachia for Bulgaria and Austria Hungary, Moldavia would compensate Russia for Poland and Lithuania. Berlin Tageblatt favors Roumanias reestablishment without Dobrudja and suggests Ferdinand ousted. proposes Prince Francis Joseph as successor.
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Berlin
Jan
Roumania
Austria-Hungary
Bulgaria
Vossische Zeitung
Dobrudja
Wallachia
Moldavia
Russia
Poland
Lithuania
Berlin Tageblatt
Ferdinand
the Tageblatt
Francis Joseph
Wilhelm
Mohenzollern- Sigmaringen
German Red Cross to issue decorations for rubber collection zeal
The central committee of the German Red Cross Societies announced it will award special decorations to individuals who have shown notable zeal in collecting old rubber. The move highlights wartime efforts to gather scarce materials.
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Berlin
German Red Cross Societies
Medals Awarded in Artistic Design to Over Two Thousand
Decorations of iron bronze and silver with artistic design awarded widely, with over two thousand given predominantly to school children.
Six French soldiers attempt escape from Mayence camp
The Berliner Tageblatt reports six French soldiers tried to escape a prison camp near Mayence. They overpowered a guard but were caught by a patrol after breaking through the camp enclosure. Three surrendered. two were killed and the others resisted.
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Berlin
Berliner Tageblatt
Mayence
Frequent trouble hunter charms in Baltimore quip
A Baltimore American quip notes a man who never fails to get the game he goes after, while others call it luck. The joke suggests he is always hunting trouble and highlights a sly, entertaining portrayal.
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Baltimore American
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Eurekalote
Houston Street
Salesman Ghp Club
Wilson
N. A. Hawkins
Ford Motor Car Company
John Wanamaker
Thomas Lipton
W. S. James
Nueces Causeway
Sen Onis
New York Sun
Frank Bros
Teuton
Hotel Lanier
Joe J. Nix
St. Mary’s and
Travis Streets
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