New Shriner Band Formed in San Antonio Texas
The all Shriner band organized by Alzafar Temple in San Antonio has 17 members with applications pending. Louis Witt elected band leader. First rehearsal set for Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. at the Scottish Rite Cathedral on St Marys street. Enrollment expected to reach 26 by week’s end. First public appearance scheduled for Saturday at 7 p.m. at the same cathedral with 200 candidates expected for the Pilgrimage to Mecca.
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Texas
Alzafar Temple of
San Antonio
Louis Witt
Scottish Rite
St. Mary's Street
E.G
Niz
Jon Davies
A.C. Miller
J. E. Valmer
Dw. E. Winters
G. J, Gooch
C. FE. Wise
Will
Mecca
Training Camp Activities Expand To Include Regular Army
Dr Joseph Raycroft of the national Commission on Training Camp Activities visits San Antonio to announce plans to extend camp welfare programs to regular army posts and stations. He says Fort Sam Houston and Camp Travis will come under the commission and that instructors will serve smaller posts department wide.
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Commission
Joseph Raycroft
National Commission
San Antonio
Army
Raycroft
Mid-West
Southwestern
Camp Pike
Ark
Camp Logan
Houston
Southwestern Department
Fort Sam Houston
Camp Travis
Archduke Leads Austrian Army Amid War Mobilization
Archduke Joseph is named commander of an Austrian army group while Archduke van Neetzendorff becomes guard regiments colonel. The dispatch notes troops cleaning up and a San Antonio community house for soldiers, praising the Alamo atmosphere and ongoing camps under Camp 3 supervision. Dr Smaycroft, a former University of Chicago and Princeton educator, joins the commission.
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Archduke Joseph
Vienna
Amsterdam
Wield Marshal van Neetzendorff
Emperor Charles
Tle
San Antonio
Alamo
Jon
Smaycroft
University of Chicago
Princeton
War Savings Stamps replace Burroughs Adding Machine conve
War Savings Stamps will replace the four day Burroughs Adding Machine Company convention in Detroit and Cedar Point. The plan shifts to issuing War Savings Certificates with twenty five dollar stamps to top sellers as a war measure to conserve work time and bolster the industrial drive. Readout notes San Antonio sales honors and endorsing candidates in Texas education races.
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Burroughs Addings Machine Company
Detroit
Cedar Point
Ohio
San Antonio
Dishop
B. Eckert and Wit, Voss
Happy-go-lucky soldier seeks home towns in San Antonio notice
A long column from the Home Folks editor asks soldiers stationed in San Antonio to send their names, addresses, and home towns so townsfolk can connect. It lists dozens of towns including Lowell Massachusetts Sioux City Iowa Portland Oregon and others awaiting readers from those places. Also notes other soldiers seek correspondence from home towns and invites replies. A separate tax law note and a light anecdote follow.
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Lowell
Mass
Cano del Sio
Vex
Hon Tie
Isle of
Lo Jasting Sunshine
Hawaii
Sioux City
Towa
Home Works
Mawarden
Iowa
Wakefield
Neb
Jomncaster
Paulings
San Antonio
Memphis
Iow
Portland
Ore
Pitcairn
Pac
Asheville
N.C
Tatalhurst
Douglas
Berkeley
San Francisco
Oakland
Cal
Washington
Loogootee
Seymour
Ind
Mount Pleasant
Tawa
Nettleton
Pas Lima
Ohio
Detroit
Mich
Philadelphia
New York
Broadway
New
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Frank Bros
NEW Shriners’ Band
Alzafar Temple
Moss
Travelers’ Cigar Shop
The
Republic
Republic-Torbensen
Winerich Motor Sales Co
Frank A. Winerich
Antonio
Woodward Carriage Company
Republic Motor Truck Co
Alma, Michigan
Aechduke
Josephs
Detroit Company
San France
M Wtter
Hdward J. Han
Pope Benedict
Catholic Educational A
Pacific Coast
Horsford
Annie Webb Bhinton
Superintendent of Public Instruction
Annie Webb Blanton
Vublie
State Department of Education
Eleanor Chackenridge
Ella Carruthers Porter
Dallas
Terrell
Ft. Worth
Tex
John 8. Surner
Blair
Corsicana
Johnson
Tyler
Lex
Frank C. Jones
Harper Kirby
Austin
S. M.N. Marrs
Merrell
A. J. McCalhim
K Rrussell
Cex
Ink Wharton
Winchester Kelso
Volitical Ady
Fisher Cunningham
Gal
Paul Steffler
Alamo Streets
Lowell, Mass
York
70Th Street
Second Avenue
Sewickley
Hood River
Westfield
TalPayette
Wigin
Scotland
Billings
Mont
Winnish
Kingston
Omaha
Marshalltown
Nashan
Vinand, N. J
Beloit
Bridgewater Mass
Denver, Colo
South Bend
Elkhart
Lor
Ansport
Lancaster
Mennmore
Lotasi
Livingston
Bloomington
Wis
Crawford, Colo
Sedro- Wooley
Wash
Illensburg
Cleveland
Delavan
St. Ansger
Barnesboro
Des Moines
Booneville
Dearborn
Micho
Lwin Mars
Yana
Grosse Vointe
Tose Lake
Wymouth
Ny We
Eagle Lake
Garden City
Minn
Carbonsidle
Granville
Burnside
Vesper, Kan.i
Washington, D. C
Polk
Mexico City
United States
Menthera
Congress
Playsteiia
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