Households urged to sign Hoover pledge at San Antonio meeting
A food conservation meeting in the Wolff & Marx Auditorium urged San Antonio housewives to sign Hoover pledge cards to be distributed citywide by July 24. Miss Mary Gearing warned that unequal distribution and food shortages demand rationing and intelligent eating choices, with emphasis on reducing meat and wheat while using cornmeal and cottonseed flour.
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Wolff & Marx
San Antonio
National League For Woman's Service
Mary Gearing
Home Economics
University of Texas
Washington
Herbert Hoover
National League For Women's Service
Miss Gearing
United States Food Administration
Germany
England
Means
United States
Ray
Monterey Street
E. A. Wilson
Willetta Duncan
Duncan
Emma Pirie
Soldiers Club to Open for Army on Opening Night
The Soldiers Club on the sixth floor of the Calcasieu building will be opened Friday night for enlisted men and invited guests from San Antonio units. Nat M. Washer and other War Recreation Board leaders will speak. musical numbers and readings are planned. Travis Park will be illuminated for soldiers use, with concerts and other entertainment penciled in. Brackenridge Park opening program will seat 1000 with benches and parking. the Alamo reading tables will be available 8 am to 8 pm.
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Soldiers’ Club
Calcasieu Building
Travis Street
Avenue C
War Recreation Board
San Antonio
Nat M. Washer
The
Harry L. Miller
James Parker
Malvern Hill Barnum
Sam ¢. Bell
Francis B. Doherty
Barton W. Perry
Emmet Roundtree
Rosary
Mammy
Mrs. Roundtree
Hazel Hutchings
Miss Harral
Nancy Brown
Elsie Hines
Eloise Braun
Mildred Taylor
Travis Military Park
Martin Wright
Travis Park
Recreation Board
Brackenridge Park
the War Recreation Board
R- Clarence Jones
Hugh McLellan
Central Christian Church
Alamo
Daughters of the Republic
Gunter Hotel
Public Service Company
Family found dead in Mauston home
Chief of Police broke in to Louis Alsbacher’s home in Mauston Wisconsin and found Alsbacher his mother and Mary and David Gray dead from bullet wounds in a mass killing that appears to be connected to his missing appearance at city hall.
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Mauston
Wis
Louis Alsbacher
Ofice Today
Bentley
Alsbacher
Mary
David Gray
California Syrup of Figs Advised for Constipation
A vintage health ad promotes California Syrup of Figs as a safe first treatment for children’s constipation and sickness. It urges mothers to check tongue coating and watch for symptoms, claiming a teaspoonful clears stubborn bowels within hours and warns to avoid counterfeit syrups.
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California
California Fig Syrup Company
Soldiers Invited to Use Alamo as Headquarters
The women in charge invited all soldiers to use the Alamo as a headquarters when in town and will stand extra watch so the boys may write letters and read.
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Martin Wright
Alamo
Rotary club cards reveal humorous summer queries
Ten Rotary members at the St Anthony Hotel luncheon received numbered questions. Charles Ade opened with a tale of dodging bill collectors. The lineup included Frank Winerich as toastmaster Ed McClannahan announced the second card. The ensuing eight questions drew laughter from 200 attendees and yielded witty, ridicuolous answers, with Don Fraser and George Holmgreen among the respondents.
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Rotary Club
St. Anthony
Charles Ade
Ade
Frank Winerich
Ed McClannahan
Walton D. Hood
Max Blum
Don Fraser
Ed Raymond
Tom Smith
George Holmgreen
W. B. Hamilton
Harry Reuter
Mr. Fraser
Europe
Mr. Holmgreen
Porter Loring
Brazil May Accept Britains Coffee Shipping Condition
State Department officials were inclined to believe Brazil would accept Britain's condition that coffee for British ports be shipped on confiscated German ships, with a counter provision allowing other ships if the confiscated vessel cannot be used.
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Washington, D. C
State Department
Great Britain
Brazil
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Dalkowitz
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Georgette
Millinery Department
F. E. Tucker
Milan
Palm Beach
Cor. N. Flores
Jaza
Soldiers
NOA Spears CO
Losoya St
Fae Matthews
Houston St. Uve
Kepley
Kepley’s
Up Stairs Shoe Store
Alamo Plaza
National War Army
New York Call
Russia
Alexander Kerensky
Napoleon
Lodi
America
East St. Louis
Tino
Ireland
China
Spain
Hudson Maxim
Literary Digest
All News
Alls Company
New York
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