City approves tentative budget totals and bank bids
San Antonio commissioners adopt a $1,812,297.49 tentative budget with a $71,000 cut and select Alamo National and State National banks as city depositors at 3 percent interest. Appointments in health and park departments are confirmed, and bids for printing, sidewalk work, and sewer projects are actioned with further bids and contracts to follow.
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Bell
Alamo National
State
San Antonio
McMillan
BOCK
Carnegie Library
Lambert
Charles Bosshardt
Board of Health
Lilizabeth Keneny
Ray Lambert
Denney McGee
Julius Krysch
Kirkpatrick
Frank Guardo
Theodore Anderson
Joe Carle
John Garza
Elmer Weirnett
Percy Faison
O. A. Hull
Herman Nester
Henry Steingruber
al Hanson
W. A. King
L Board of Health
C. S Venable
T. T. Jackson
C. D. Dixon
D. Berrey
Garland
Express
Wooley Construction Company
Elmira Street
Camp Wilson
Farnin Street
Governor Ferguson Proclaims August 21 Election on Constitutional Amendment
Sheriff posts notices statewide as required by law. Proclamation calls for creation of districts for conservation and development of natural resources including irrigation drainage and power projects. The legislature may call elections within districts to issue bonds or levy special taxes. Deputies will post notices at all election precincts at least thirty days before voting day.
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Ferguson
Tobin
Calotabs Declared Delightful Calomel Tablet
Advertisement touts Calotabs as a improved nauseated calomel tablet claiming no taste or nausea. It promises a thorough liver cleanse and relief from biliousness indigestion and constipation with one tablet at bedtime and a morning awakening. Sold in sealed packages twenty doses for thirty five cents with refund by druggists if not delighted.
Tanlac aids weary salesman in daily health rebound
E A Wallhoefer a retail salesman living at 110 Lamm Street says Tanlac has restored his appetite and strength after three years of stomach trouble and weakness. He reports better sleep, six pound weight gain, and relief from headaches and dizziness, with Tanlac sold in San Antonio by Wagner's Drug Co. and B J H Meier under a Tanlac representative.
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Tanlac
E. A. Wallhoefer
Lamm Street
Wagner
Mr. Wallhoefer
Tanlace
San Antonio
Wagner’s Drug Co
B. J
Americans Begin Real Training in France Camp
In France July 17 the American general arrived and began supervising initial work of troops. The French training troops join to aid with experience as locals welcome the newcomers with enthusiasm. Troops billeted across the countryside and adjust to French life under clear skies and active camps.
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Associated Press
France
Hike Planned At Camp Funston Tightens Discipline
Camp Funston tightens discipline across all units as sentinels increase and visits become stricter. Student officers plan a long practice march starting Thursday night, with rookies in heavy packs aiming to cover about twenty miles by Friday afternoon. Captain White announces Brewer of Missouri will arrive for athletic duties, while civilian clerks receive $1500 to $2000 in June pay.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Camp Funston
H. H. White
YMCA pool draws record attendance this week
Seven hundred nineteen women and girls swam at the Young Woman's Christian Association pool last week the highest weekly total. Fifty five took lessons and six hundred sixty four went swimming. The Business Women's Club held a swimming party after hours Saturday as the pool closes at five each Saturday afternoon.
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Young Woman's Christian Association
Business Women's Club
Aid Texans to Help Farmer Labor Shortage Amid War
State officials urge bankers and business groups to aid farmers facing seed and cash shortages. A Texas meeting in Austin will plan a permanent labor conservation system with delegations from major cities and discuss suspending the Mexican head tax to boost labor supply. County superintendents receive instructions for mobilizing the US Boys' Working Reserve, targeting 50,000 Texas enrollees.
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Austin
Tex
State Department of Agriculture
Fred W. Davis
United States
Davis
Texas
State Labor Department
State Council of Defense
San Antonio
Houston
Texarkana
Dallas
Fort Worth
Brownsville
Corsicana
Sherman
Gainesville
Navasota
Corpus Christi
Brenham
Waco
Points
Federal
Department of Labor
T. C. Jennings
State Department of Labor
United States Boys’ Working Reserve
Jennings
Cuero Volunteers To March To Goliad For Duty
About thirty six coast artillery volunteers from Cuero Texas recently transferred to an infantry company under Capt Wayne B Davis at Goliad were ordered to report there. They will march in war style from Cuero with an automobile ahead to carry supplies for lunch and will report to Goliad the next morning. The state covers transport only to training camps. F N Clifford leads the march and the group aims to be a well conditioned unit.
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Cuero
Tex
Coast Artillery
Wayne B. Davis
Goliad
Davis
F. N. Clifford
Commercial Club
Colored Organdies and Novelty Tissues Advertisement
An old newspaper ad lists 40 inch colored organdies at 27 cents and novelty tissues at 29 cents, 28 inch wide with gingham patterns and small silk figures, described as fine quality and in a good assortment of shades.
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Rose
Copenhagen
Lavender
Madras
Harwood Veteran Re enlists after relinquishing pension
Harwood resident John Norwood recently enlisted in Company K First Texas Infantry after relinquishing his Spanish American War pension. The unit now numbers 83 men with a possible full 100 this week. A cadet group from Caldwell County remains at Camp Johnston awaiting commissions.
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First Texas Infantry
John Horner
War Department
Caldwell County
Camp
Unston
F. 3. Roberts
J. B. Hatchett
Garland Powers
Lockhart
Zeb Nixon
George Walker
Luling
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BANKS
Crockett
SAN Antonio Printing CO
Soledad St
L. B. Clegg
Franz ©. Groos
W. F. Sibert
NOA Spears CO
Losoya St
Office of Painless
Matthews
Houston St
Calomles
Geo
TEAAS
Wolfson’s
Sherelene
Saul Wolfson Dry Goods Co
Harwood
Judge Roberts
Rough Riders
Mr. Hatchett
Luling Company
Mephisto
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