Entertainments At Army Camps To Benefit Service Members
Friday night programs at Camps Wilson and Kelly and the Base Hospital under the Army Y M C A auspices and at Camp Funston under the Red Cross. Donations support service members with performances by local musicians readers and bands across multiple camps with schedules and performers listed.
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Camps Wilson and Kelly
Base Hospital
Army Y. M. C. A
Camp Funston
Red Cross
James H. Bindley
Camp Wilson
J. F. Kline
Camp Kelly
A. M. Fischer
Frederick Abbott
William Herff
R. T. Chamber
Miss
Messrs. Simms
Reading
Miss Saynisch
Cisibiribin
Sunshine
Cottingham
Messrs. Stein and Keller
R. T. Chambers
San Antonio
H. W. B. Barnes
Lillian Ray
Madeline Sanders
Liszt
Ed Leighton
Daisy Marquis Briggs
Sullivan
Colburn
David Anderson
Rombey
Corrine Tayloe
Ella Wright
Marguerite Voight
Yawcob
Lucile Lucas
Fay Water
Camp
Funston Finnight
St. Mary’s
Gunter Hotel
Marseillaise
Alicia Petticlere
Cheney
Frederick Abcott
Houston
Arditi
Lucile
Mildred Wiseman
Kipling
Sidney E. Cornelius
Isador Duncan
Zalerie Pettus
the Smith Mystery
Onice McKeen
Mary Katherine Kemper
Ardella Adelman
Flora Briggs
Room for Soldiers The Bohemian National League of San Antonio
The Bohemian National League of San Antonio led by its president organizes efforts to secure accommodations for soldiers. Details on location timing and participant groups are not fully shown in the fragment.
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Room For Soldiers
Bohemian National League of San Antonio
Police unveil mobile machine gun for rapid response
New York police test a compact machine gun that can be mounted at the rear of an automobile or other fast-moving vehicle. The weapon is described as deadly and accurate and is expected to become a valuable addition to the department’s arsenal.
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New York
House of Parliament
Reading and recreation room for soldiers opened
K. J. Hausk opens a reading and recreation room for soldiers at 501 Grayson Street corner of Avenue D. Newspapers and magazines in English Bohemian Polish Russian Slovak and German will be free. The club rooms are open daily from early afternoon until 11 p.m. Miss Rosie Gold of the Bohemian League will supervise.
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K. J. Hausk
Grayson Street
Avenue D
Rosie Gold
Bohemian League
San Antonio youth jailed for repeat intoxication acts
A well known San Antonio police figure was arrested on intoxication charges after a Thursday night incident. He pleaded guilty at arraignment. Judge Wilkens sentenced him to 100 days in jail, noting the man’s four prior appearances and broken promises.
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San Antonio
Wilkens
City saves funds by disinfecting and returning supplies
Bedding clothing and other supplies tainted by contagious disease cases will no longer be destroyed. They will be sent to the county poor farm for disinfection and then returned to owners. The change, urged by Mayor Bell and Commissioner Lambert, saves the city from weekly destruction costs during disease spikes.
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Board of Health
Bell
Lambert
Rountree Heads to Minneapolis for Editorial Meeting
Lee J. Rountree former president of the National Editorial Association leaves Georgetown for Minneapolis to attend the upcoming meeting. He represents the Texas Press Association which at its Galveston gathering appointed a committee to offer sites for a home for veteran newspaper writers. Proposed locations include Rockport on the coast and Medina County near San Antonio with possible additional sites.
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Roundtree
Georgetown
Tex
Lee J. Rountree
National Editorial Association
Minneapolis
Texas Press Association
Galveston
Texas Association
Rockert
Medinake
San Antonio
France to seek U.S. participation in inter parliamentary conferences
Paris envoy Henri Bouillon arrives in London en route to the United States to urge Congress to nominate delegates for allied inter parliamentary conferences. He plans a New York and Washington visit then a Midwest tour to explain France’s needs and the value of American help in coordinating war work.
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Associated Press
London
M. Henrie Franklin- Bouillon
United States
American Congress
America
New York
Washington
Congress
Middle
France
Houses
Shipping Increase at New York Port Through June 1917
Report shows a net increase of vessels arriving from foreign ports to New York for the two years and eleven months ending June 30 1917 despite European war conditions. The period ends with a 773 vessel net rise versus the prior two years and eleven months.
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Europe
New York
City Boys Make Good On Farms Says Hall
William E. Hall, national director of the United States Boys' Working Reserve, reports farmers increasingly favor city boys over prior unskilled labor. He cites New York state demand for 22,000 boys, a drop of 16,000 hired men, and many farmers' children moving to towns, all suggesting city youths are proving reliable and preferable for harvest work.
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William E. Hall
United States Boys’ Working Reserve
New York State
New York
Hall
Tailor and customer argue over pockets in trousers
Look here, Snip said Slowpay indig nantly to his tailor. You haven't put any pockets in these trousers. The tailor replied he judged from Slowpay's account that there was nothing to put in.
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Slowpay
Men Refuse Breeches War Fashion Dilemma
A New York Herald debate questions if women and World War I push men toward breeches. Reports quote tailors and tradespeople on knee exposure, trousers’ popularity, and the idea that long pants persist, with humorous references to Beau Brummel and pantaleons.
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New York Herald
England
Beau Brummel
Democratic America
Private in National Guard seeks child visit before duty
Walter E. Cimiotti of the Seventh regiment wins a habeas corpus writ from Justice Ford to compel his wife Mrs. Etta Cimiotti and her parents Frank and Anna Kreuder to bring his eight year old daughter Madeline to court. He wants to speak with the girl before his regiment is called away, claiming his wife has kept him from seeing her since their separation in March 1912.
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New York
Walter E. Cimiotti
Seventh Regiment
National Guard
French Misconceptions About the United States in Paris Press
A compilation notes how Paris newspapers in past years misrepresented the United States. Articles mocked American fuel from Rocky Mountain gas pipelines, western deserts irrigated by Mississippi water, Indian reservations, pork packing fortunes, and presidents’ humble origins from Lincoln to Roosevelt and even Mrs. Roosevelt’s meals.
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America
Paris
United States
Rocky Mountains
Chicago
California
Ississippi
Arti
Great American Republic
Lincoln
Cleveland
New Jersey
Roosevelt
New World
Navy
Whit House
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J. C. Dielman
East Commerce St
San Antonio, Texas
Nola
Man of
Kaufman
Russia
Kaufman’s
Fox-Wohl
Palm Beach
Genine
City Boys
Fifth Avenue
Forty-second Street
Saint Pantaleone
Shaespeare
Jacques
Will
Kodakers
FREE
Kodak Place
E. Houston St
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