Soldiers Praise Camp Wilson Rations Experts Defend Food Quality
Reports of half rations are denied as soldiers and cooks at Camp Wilson emphasize careful preparation and inspection. Government inspectors oversee meat and canned goods at Chicago packing plants and Fort Sam Houston training kitchens to ensure high standards.
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Uncle Sam
Texas
Camp Wilson
Chicago
Sam
Chincgo
Echoo
Fort Sam Houston
United States
Army
California
Albert D. Knisker
Quartermaster’s Corps
Mess Call in the Texas Militia Camps
An outdoor army stove is built into the ground as the white-clad cook finishes the evening meal. Soldiers stand in line to receive rations and move to the mess table. The table sits long enough for a company. Men eat as they wish and proceed to wash dishes, using hot water and towels provided for cleaning mess kits.
Pan American Round Table Organized In San Antonio
Final plans announce the Pan American Round Table a luncheon group studying the Pan American republics. Mrs J C Griswold leads as director general with two luncheons monthly at the Menger Hotel and 21 San Antonio women representing 21 republics.
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Pan-American Round Table
J. C. Griswold
A. C. Pancoast
Menger
Pan-American Union
San Antonio
Griswold
John Barrett
Pan- American Union
Round Table
Argentina
Roy Beitel
Bolivia
A. B. Weakley
Brazil
Mary Bryant
Chile
Harry
Paraguay
J. R. Sprague
Peru
Kearney Mason
Uruguay
Eli Hertzberg
Venezuela
H. 8. Milliken
Salvador
United States
Must Salute Enemies On Neutral Ground
The Swiss army general staff orders French English German and Austro Hungarian prisoners in Switzerland to salute officers of their enemies with the same respect as their own superiors. It stresses neutral grounds where race hatred is forbidden and declares prisoners equal in the eyes of Switzerland for their conduct in honorable battle.
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Berne
Switzerland
Atlantic City Sip Recalled In Repeated Tales
A comic exchange unfolds as a husband explains he keeps meeting his wife’s friends and has heard her Atlantic City Sip story about seventeen times, reflecting repeated storytelling in domestic life.
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Atlantic City
Indianapolis
Dodd Retires After Forty Years as Cavalry Leader
Brigadier General George A. Dodd, recently promoted, retires at age sixty four after four decades in the U S Cavalry. He led fast marches against Villa at Guerrero and Colonia Dublan and helped shape modern cavalry through the monkey drill.
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George A. Dodd
Vila
Mexico
Villa
Guerrero
Dodd
Villistas
Hachita
New Mexico
Colonia Dublan
United States Army
Wilson
General Dodd
Williamsport
West Point
Third Cavalry
Powder River
Arizona
Oklahoma
Chicago
Fort Ethan Allen
Cuba
Spain
el Caney
Fort
Ethan Allen
Philippines
Luzon
Samuel B. M. Young
Boys on Border 10 Be Sent Box Tuesday
Tuesday is the regular day for sending a care box to the San Antonio boys on the border. The Girls' National Honor Guard will attend the shipment with Miss Katherine Franklin delegating duties to Miss Jean Aubrey. Donations may be left at the Red Cross station Avenue E and Fourth street or in a running list of subscriptions kept by The Light.
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San Antonio
Avenue E
Fourth Street
National Honor Guard
Texas
Donna
Second Texas
Company C
Texas Cavalry
Laredo
Big Bend
A. B. Spencer
W. P. Rote
Franklin
UT Football Players to Return After Army Discharge
Washington announced all college soldiers may resume fall studies, freeing nearly 100 UT regulars. Notable names include K H Berry former captain, Simpson star tackle, and C E Turner end, with others to join on September 15 for possible first team duties.
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Austin
Tex
Washington
University of Texas
K. H. Berry
Denton
Simpson
C. E. Turner
New Mexico
University Summer School Sets Record Enrollments
In Austin Texas on July 29 the university reports 1464 students registered for the summer term, up from 1230 last year. Beginning 1917 the summer term will extend by one month, with the September vacation sole break. regulations bar instructors from teaching in both the summer and regular sessions.
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Austin
Tex
University Summer School attendance may near two thousand
Officials of the summer school predict enrollment could approach 2000 next summer, based on a belief that instructors need annual recreation and leisure to advance their scholarship.
Miss Etta Pickering Leaves for Omaha
Miss Etta Pickering, secretary of the Young Women's Christian Association in San Antonio for three years, will depart Tuesday to assume the general secretary role in Omaha Nebraska. She will visit Ohio for vacation first and begin work in mid September leaving behind many friends and farewell events. The association board has no successor lined up amid concerns over finding a replacement during the off season.
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Etta Pickering
Young Woman's Christian Association
San Antonio
Omaha
Neb
Ohio
Miss Pickering
Association
Young British Captain Held at Doeberitz Camp
Captain James Montague Hullings, barely eighteen, sits as a British war prisoner at Doeberitz. He led a battalion as a brevet major after joining the army at sixteen and becoming a first lieutenant at seventeen. The German authorities grant him respect and favorable treatment. An artificial horn with elasticity and insulating qualities is being produced in Germany from treated hides.
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Berlin
James Montague Hullings
Doeberitz
Loos
Germany
Iron promises quick strength boost for age defier
An advertisement touts nuxated iron as a life extending tonic turning 50 into vigor and claims many patients raised strength by up to 200 percent in four weeks. It warns against older iron forms and notes doctors widely prescribe the product with a money back guarantee.
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New York
N. Y
Agsi
E. Sauer
M. D. Note, — Nuxated Iron, Recommended Above By Dr. Sauer
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Knisker
the Peruana Co
Columbus, Ohio
Lee
Exchange Department
Kine Furniture Company
West E
GMP
Bodd
Eral Dodd
San Nicolas
Aligangan
Wheaton
Fourteenth Cavalry
Tenth Cavalry
Twelfth Cavalry
Douglas
Pershing
Sibley
Frederick W. Sibley
Glenn Springs
Girls’ National Honor Guard
University Summer School
North Tuesday
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