Federal agents find many registration poll tax discrepancies
Special Agent E. T. Needham and two FBI colleagues reviewed military registration lists from about 15 precincts in San Antonio and found an average of 30 discrepancies per precinct between poll tax and registration lists. Officials estimate up to 1000 apparent discrepancies citywide, likely 300 real failures to register, possibly many due to dummy or fictitious poll taxes.
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E. T. Needham
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Needham
San Antonio
National Guard
Frank R. Newton
Robert L. Barnes
Bureau of Investigation
Barnes
Newton
Mexico
Tampico
Adjutant General
Washington
La Creole Hair Dressing Restores Gray Hair Color
Gray bleached faded hair product La Creole promises to revive gray hair to its original dark color without odor or stickiness. It claims harmlessness, easy washing, and no effect on styling, with a 30 year usage record and available from Van Vleet Drug Co for $1 prepaid.
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van Vleet Drug Co
Memphis
Tenn
Rules for Bread Contest Announced at Food Conservation Meeting
The rules for a bread contest offering a sack of 100 percent wheat war flour as prize were announced by the committee at Wolff Marx Auditorium. Entries must be one loaf per person, labeled with maker name and address, delivered Friday morning.
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Wolff & Marx
Er. A. Wilson
Alice O'Grady
Tom Brown
Hoover
St. Louis
Chicago
Man credits Tanlac with 25 pound gain and renewed vigor
Stephen Schneringer, head baker at the Brown Palace Hotel in Denver, claims Tanlac cured four years of nervous dyspepsia, fatigue, and weight loss. He says he gained 25 pounds to reach 145, now sleeps well, works easier, and many coworkers started taking Tanlac. Tanlac sold in San Antonio by Wagner's Drug Store and E H Meier.
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Stephen Schneringer
Brown Palace
Nver
Colo
Eighteenth Ave
Taniac
Tanlac
Brown Palace Hotel
San Antonio
Wagner
E. J. H. Meier
Ady
Army Announces Officers Assigned to Expeditions and Posts
The signal reserve and other officers are listed with new commissions to First Field Battalion Fort Sam Houston and Paris based American expeditions. Names include S John G Flesch Ennis, Herbert Horsley, Earl Uller, Bert Smith, Fred Dorsten, McCutcheon, Venney, Bryant, Campbell, Masterer, Aggert, Rund0 Alfred Traux and several lieutenants. Junior aviators Thurban Ban Gearhart Rinehardt Deuel Burwell Jernigan Noel J. William P. Peeles Lloyd Fredendall among twenty eighth infantry quartermaster corps detail.
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Ignal
John Rundo
Alfred F. Traux
Paris
Roy F
Se Te Gloire
J. Albert
Thom I Clark
John F. Nolen
OSCAR_B
Park
Fort Sam Houston
Thurman H. Ban
Guy L. Gearhart
Claude K. Rinehardt
Thorn Deuel JR
B. Burwell
Aen
Jernigan Nobe A
J. B
William P, Peeles
Norman W. Peck
John E
Lloyd R. Fredendall
Twenty-eighth Infantry
Detailed Quartermaster Corps
Winking Not Indecent Says Dallas Police Judge
Police Judge Bennett Hill ruled winking at a woman is not an indecent gesture and can be interpreted in many ways. He refused to convict a young man of mashing after testimony showed he winked at a woman he passed on the street in Dallas Texas.
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Dallas
Tex
Bennett Hill
Opening of Soldiers' Club Planned With War Recreation Board
A War Recreation Board special committee met to plan the Soldiers' Club on the Calcasieu building top floor. Attendees included Capt. George Grunert and four army chaplains plus War Department reps. The club opens Friday night with an entertainment program and there is a call for donations of tables and games.
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The
War Recreation Board
Nat Washer
Harry L. Miller
Elbert M. Vail
Soldiers’ Club
George Grunert
Parker
Roy S. Wallace
W. H. Macpherson
War Department
Commission
Calcasieu Building
Recreation Board
Eli Hertzberg
Army
Hertzberg
Obituary notices for Florence A Ohnesorge and Charles Vogt
Miss Florence A Ohnesorge aged 22 died Tuesday morning. Funeral at 65 oclock from 710 Montana Street with Rev Father Fietcher of St Marys Catholic Church officiating Interment City Cemetery No 1. Survived by parents Mr and Mrs Fritz Ohnesorge a sister Fern and a brother Harry. Charles Vogt 25 died Monday afternoon at his Sulphur Springs road home. Body to be sent to Boerne for burial. Survived by brother Tom of Hunter and sister Mrs Gertrude Ferguson of San Antonio.
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Florence A. Ohnesorge
Montana Street
Father Fietcher
St. Mary's Catholic Church
Miss Ohnesorge
Fritz
Charles
Charles Vogt
Sulphur Springs
Boerne
Riebe Undertaking Company
Vogt
San Antonio
Little Rock
Ark
Tom
Hunter
Gertrude Ferguson
Mrs Nancy E Clayton Dies in San Antonio Home
Nancy E Clayton aged 69 died Monday night at 9 at her daughter Mrs E Moffett’s residence 2619 Durango Street. A native of Arkansas she had been in San Antonio a week from Utopia Texas. Survived by husband W J Clayton two sons J T Clayton of Eugene Oregon and Eugene Clayton of Utopia four daughters Mrs Marvin Ramsey Sabinal Mrs Charles Wisdom Adkins Mrs Walter Wayze Utopia and Miss Ruby Clayton Utopia. Body to be sent Tuesday to Utopia by Sloan and Hagy Undertaking Company funeral Wednesday at 10 in Utopia.
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Nancy E. Clayton
Durango Street
Arkansas
San Antonio
Utopia
Tex
Moffett
W. J. Clayton
J. T. Clayton
Eugene, Ore
Eugene Clayton
Marvin Ramsey
Sabinal
Charles Wisdom
Adkins
Walter Wayze
Ruby Clayton
Sloan & Hagy Undertaking Company
Tragic Death of B A Wilson Sent to St Louis
The body of 38 year old B A Wilson who died at a local sanitarium Sunday night was sent to St Louis by Shelly Loring Undertaking Company. A native of Wisconsin he had been in San Antonio ten days coming here from El Paso.
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B. A. Wilson
St. Louis
Shelly- Loring Undertaking Company
Wisconsin
San Antonio
el Paso
Miss Laura Hood Wiley Dies In San Antonio at 23
Miss Laura Hood Wiley aged 23 died at 6 15 oclock Monday at her home 931 Fowler Street San Antonio. She is survived by her mother Mrs Emma Wiley of Chicago. A native of Canada she had come from Chicago eight months ago for her health. The body was sent to Chicago for interment Tuesday by Sloan Hagy Undertaking Company.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Laura Hood Wiley
Fowler Street
Emma Wiley
Chicago
Canada
San Antonio
Sloan & Hagy Undertaking Company
Funeral held for Enrique Rodriguez at local chapel
Enrique Rodriguez aged 42 died at a local hospital Monday night. His funeral was conducted at 4 pm Tuesday from Shelly Loring Undertaking Company chapel, with interment in San Fernando Cemetery. He had been a California native and longtime resident of San Antonio.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Enrique Rodriguez
Shelly- Loring Undertaking Company
San Fernando
Rodriguez
California
San Antonio
Mrs. D. E. Brown Dies in San Antonio at 76
Mrs. D. E. Brown aged 76 died at 7 30 pm last night in a local hospital. A Tennessee native she had resided in San Antonio for six weeks. The Shelley-Loring Undertaking Company holds the body awaiting instructions from Dallas relatives.
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D. E. Brown
L. E. Brown
Tennessee
San Antonio
Shelley-Loring Undertaking Company
Dallas
Napoleon and Belgium Maps Bring High Prices at New York Auction
Rare books and autographs sale in New York's Collectors' Club featured three field maps of Northern France and parts of Belgium from the New York Herald and a Napoleonic autograph letter to the Duke of Bassano, sold to G. F. Hellman for 110 dollars. Gabriel Weis bought eleven folio pages of Napoleon’s memoirs from Gourgaud for 160 dollars. Three Gourgaud letters on Napoleon’s St. Helena treatment sold to E. F. Bonaventure for 116 dollars.
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France
New York Herald
Belgium
James Jackson
Duke of
Franklin edition of Cicero's Discourse on Old Age
A crimson morocco bound 1744 edition from Benjamin Franklin press presents Cicero's Discourse on Old Age translated by Judge James Logan with Franklin's introduction. The topography is described as Franklin's finest issued work.
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Morocco
Cicero
Benjamin Franklin
James Logan
Franklin
Lucerne Tree or Tree Alfalfa Ayles in Ornamental Plant
The lucerne tree or tree alfalfa Medicago arborescens is described as an ornamental plant with attractive foliage that livestock highly enjoy.
Dinner by Chinese at Menger Hotel for Red Cross
The Oriental dinner at the Menger Hotel on Thursday will be staged by 400 Chinese wards of the United States at Fort Sam Houston to aid the San Antonio Red Cross chapter. Chinese cooks will prepare the meal and Chinese waiters will serve in native costumes with a Chinese orchestra and music.
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United States
Fort Sam Houston
San Antonio
American Red Cross
Menger Hotel
Red Cross
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