Thieves Take Scrap Rubber Tires and Jewelry Stolen
A theft report lists a haul from the San Antonio Vulcanizing Company on North Flores Street Tuesday night including more than 500 pounds of scrap rubber and 15 inner tubes. Jewelry stolen includes a Shriner pin set with diamonds a ruby and cameo an unset diamond and a gold neck chain. Other items reported stolen include a watch ring tiger eye stick pin a leather handbag and a promissory note.
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San Antonio Vulcanizing Company
North Flores Street
Shriner
A. DeSalme
West
Houston Street
Carl Alleborn
Pecan Street
Charles Webb
Camp Wilson
Budget Presented for Robert B. Green Memorial Hospital
The hospital board and city and county commissioners reviewed the five month report and a proposed budget of 154 831 33 for the coming year with county bearing 64 percent and city 36 percent. The institution now serves 800 to 900 patients monthly as it expands across four floors. Operating costs for five months reached about 45 000, and urgent needs include a new boiler building about 6 900, a garage 5 000, two extra stories to the nurses home 22 000, repairs 2 600, and additional buildings 8 000.
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Robert B. Green Memorial Hospital
Board of Managers
Venizelos Returns to Greece with Frontline Presence
The photograph shows Eleutherios Venizelos, famed Greek statesman, speaking with a Salonica army officer. He has just returned to Athens to assume power granted by the people, after King Constantine abdicated and ignored the electoral mandate.
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Eleutherios Venizelos
Salonica
M. Venizelos
Athens
Constantine
Mayor Praises County Hospital Showing And Budget Hopes
Mayor Bell commends the isolation camp and County Home for the Aged for their performance over five months. He notes future budget decisions depend on joint city county review. He supports building needs including a new boiler room and comments on nurse housing location and climate concerns for staff comfort.
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Bell
Huns Retreat Echoes In Wartime Jokes
A fragmented Philadelphia Bulletin excerpt quotes Col Hradley Evans and Arthur Bal four on military strategy and humor. It parodies Hindenburg and Haig with comic gags about fly paper and a failing patient bill of five hundred dollars.
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Hindenburg
Siegfried
Scem
Haig
Petain
Col
Hradley Evans
Exéeligh
Arthur J. Balfour
Milly
Hiladelphia Bulletin
Garner Starts Hub Invasion Threat Over Pink Boll Worm
In Washington, Representative Garner of Texas announced a thirteen member committee to liaise with Texas officials and to press the House Appropriations Committee for a prompt 500000 bailout to curb a pink boll worm raid. The group will gauge Texas cooperation with the federal plan as the Agriculture Department backs the half million funding.
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Washington, D. C
Congress
Garner
Texas
House
Fitzgerald
House Appropriations Committee
Department of Agriculture
Army Orders Leave of Absence and Assignments Published
A dated Army orders bulletin lists officers granted leaves and reassigned across divisions. Captains Downer Lackland Burgher Chandler Caldwell and others receive leaves or transfers to Chicago San Antonio and various cavalry and artillery units. Several lieutenants and majors move to different regiments and reserve corps as part of routine reassignments.
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John W Downer
Field Artillery
Frank D. Lackland
Twenty-second Infantry
Michael M. M'Namede
Caveo
Ira A
Chicago
Det
T Gorge J. Gaaptain
Terry Allen
Clay Ell
Emerieutenants
Eorge
Howe
Alexander G. Conoley JR
Saegld
Twelfth Field Artillery
Harvey D. Higley
Econ Texteenth Field Artillery
Ernest L. Pell
Robert G. Caldwell
Henry D. F. Munnikhuysen
Frank Bloom
Thirteenth Field Artillery
Louis P. Ford
Frank D. Lack
Britain proposes coffee shipment plan with Brazil
Brazil may resume coffee exports halted last February under a British proposal to ship the commodity in German vessels seized by Brazil. The plan also asks the same ships to carry certain other wood. Swiss opticians unveil an arc light with carbon electrodes infused with tungsten for ultraviolet rich scientific use. The text notes the heaviest wood from Florida iron and the lightest from southeastern Missouri's "cork."
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Rio Janeiro
Great Britain
Brazil
Cncee
United States
Florida
Missouri
Officers to Dine and Meet at Hutchins Hotel
The Quartermasters Reserve of the Southern Department hosts a banquet and social at 8:15 Friday night at Hutchins Hotel Garden Street. Captains J. B. Ettridge G. W. Hawkins and Co W. Howell coordinate entertainment for a stag affair with Southern chicken chow and servitors. a charter member will outline association aims.
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Southern Department
Hutchins
Garden Street
J. B. Ettridge
G. W. Hawkins
Co. W. Howell
Weins
The
Quartermasters’ Reserve Association
First Espionage Act Warrant Seizes Wireless Photo Outfit
Government issues its first search warrant under the espionage act to search a railroad station baggage room after agents learn a small wireless plant was shipped. It turns out to be a photographer's outfit owned by an Italian. Federal and state cooperation enabled the warrant.
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Congress
R. L. Edwards
United States Commission
Robert L. Barnes
Bureau of Investigation
Barney
Soldier charged after ukulele theft and burglary
A soldier confessed to burglary and theft after being arrested by City Detective Neal and Sergeant Jacobs of the Quartermaster Department following a plan to buy a ukulele for his sweetheart's birthday. He climbed onto a motor truck parked behind Thomas...
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Neal
Jacobs
Quartermaster Department
Thomas
Thief Arrested After Break-In At Goggan Store
A white evangelist, 28, was arrested Wednesday night for breaking into Goggan store through a transom and stealing two ukuleles and a trumpet. He faces an additional charge of stealing a diamond ring from Army officer Charles Eletsoh of Troop I, Third Cavalry, after allegedly taking $1 earlier. He was transferred to county authorities.
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Goggan
Charles Eletsoh
Distinguished Sweep Keeps Debating College Degrees
In Edinburgh a chimney sweep and complainant named James Gregory L L D declares he earned the title from an American university. The attorney asks where the distinction came from and Gregory replies he swept the chimney three times and will trade an LL D for settlement, finishing with a final quip.
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Edinburgh
James Gregory
Jamie
Jamie Gregory
Novel Bathing Cap With Tight Band For Buoyancy
A new women’s bathing cap features an arty tight band encircling the head and a gir-filled chamber to provide buoyancy and water exclusion. The design aims to keep hair dry while maintaining a secure, stylish fit.
Flowers for sick soldiers at Fort Sam Houston
San Antonio Red Cross volunteers urge readers to send flowers to Mrs. T Coleman at 1107 Main Avenue by 5 PM Friday for delivery to Fort Sam Houston base hospital. Flowers should be arranged in small bouquets to facilitate distribution to individual patients as a gesture of support from the community.
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Fort Sam Ho
Fragmented Quote About Domestic Dispute
A fragment shows a sharp exchange about a wife likely to have the last word and the speaker noting she would say most of the words in a dispute. The text reads like a conversational snippet with incomplete context.
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