Plans to Get 70 Books for Border Soldiers
Miss Elizabeth West of the Texas Library Association leads a drive to donate books to militiamen on the Texas border. With the Woman's Auxiliary Y M C A committee, the effort seeks history natural history agriculture and fiction for Camp Ilson and other camps along the Rio Grande. The Antonio Carnegie Library cannot ship books out of town, so purchases will be made to fill requests.
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Elizabeth West
Texas Library Association
Mili‘tiamen
Carnegie Library
San Antonio
Woman's Auxiliary
Young Men's Christian Association
C. Ligooski
Texas
Rio Grande
An Antonio
Camp Ilson
Barn Fire Destroys Top Floor at Lassiter Home
Fire damaged the top of a two story frame barn at 2619 Buena Vista Street owned by Mrs. Northcott. Roy Lassiter reported a noon Monday blaze started after two boys admitted lighting cotton in the barn, with damage pegged around 100 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roy Lassiter
Buena Vista Street
Northcott
Wright
Swift & Company Establishes $2 Million Pension Fund for Employees
Swift & Company of Chicago announces a pension plan benefiting more than 30 000 workers including 8000 in Chicago and staff at San Antonio. The fund totals 2 million dollars with annual 400 thousand possible from earnings. Benefits include ages 60 65 or 50 55 pension eligibility and a minimum 240 a year maximum 5000 with survivor benefits for spouses and children.
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Swift & Company
Chicago
San Antonio
Louis F. Swift
Swift & Company Pension Plan
Board of Pension Trustees
Chicago Militia Men in Fine Spirits Says Major Vincent
Major Charles R. Vincent of the First Illinois Field Artillery reports San Antonio militiamen are healthy and high in spirits. He arrived in Chicago to recruit 400 extra men as two new batteries form, noting a 110 degree heat and snake and spider sightings, with health under 3 percent ill and food ample. He will set up a recruiting office at 505 South State Street.
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Baker
Chicago
San Antonio
Vincent
Kenny
Regular Army
South State Street
Obituary notices for Belle Jones and C B Miller
Mrs. Belle Jones age 38 of 502 Chestnut Street died Sunday night in a sanitarium. Survived by husband W L Jones, three children Myrtle Irene and Hurstel Jones, and Baptist Church member. Funeral Monday at 4 pm Sloan Hagg parlors, burial Cemetery No 1. C B Miller of Sutherland Springs died at home Sunday at 1:15 am. Body prepared by Sloan Hagg Undertaking. Native of Canada, 72, resided in Sutherland Springs five years, to be buried in Westboro Missouri with daughter Ola A Miller.
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Belle Jones
Chestnut Street
W. L. Jones
Myrtle
Irene Jones
Hurstell Jones
Cc. B. Miller
Sutherland Springs
Sloan & Hagg Undertaking Company
Mr. Miller
Canada
Ola A. Miller
Westboro
Texas
Shelley Loring Undertaking Co Advertises Auto Equipment
An OCR fragment shows Shelley-Loring Undertaking Co advertising automobile equipment with contact phone 971. The piece also includes a dialogue about buying a book and a joke about balancing a book on the head as a way to acquire a good carriage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shelley-Loring Undertaking Co
Algy
Fudge
Gambling Raid Nets Seven Arrested In Poker Game
Police raided a room above a restaurant on West Commerce Street at 11 30 Sunday night arresting seven men for gambling. Two large tables chips and several decks were seized. They received a continuance until Tuesday for trial in corporation court.
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Welch
Guerra
Dunning
West Commerce Street
Corporation Court
Camping Trip Under Sheriff Leads Local Officials
County Judge James R. Davis and family plan a camping trip around Comfort with J Ross Boles as probation officer escort. Deputy Marshal arrest reports also note a 10 year old Mexican girl restrained in a peonage case with bond set at $1000.
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James R. Davis
Comfort
J. Ross Boles
Judge Davis
Mr. Boles
Judge
United States
John L. Dibrell
Spencer
Department of Justice
R. L. Edwards
War delays completion of Robert B. Green Memorial Hospital
County Commissioner Charles X. Guutzeit says European war disrupts materials for the hospital floor delaying completion probably until January. German sourced composition floor material is nearly exhausted in the US, a domestic substitute exists but production is slow. tiling is costly but viable. An official of the Coast Guard reports an electric fish light using dry batteries is over 150 times more powerful than current acetylene lamps.
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Robert B. Green Memorial Hospital
Charles X. Guutzeit
Germany
United States
America
Gutzeit
Rourney
Saloon Permit Ban Near Government Hill Denied
County Judge James R. Davis declares no saloon permits will be granted for Government Hill near Fort Sam Houston and declines daily applications while supporting General Funston’s stance. He notes existing saloons at mobilization start will remain undisturbed.
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Government Hill
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Sen Oe Eeers
H. Calvert
Ainsworth
ROYAL
Muriel Ostriche
Carlyle Blackwell
Sallie
Empire
Cleo Ridgley
Wallace Reid
Paramount
Pathe Weekly
el Paso
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J. Stuart Blackton
Albert E. Smith
Chas. Richman
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Cyrus Townsend Brady
Jasper Ewing Brady
Charles Richman
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Newport
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Maison
Miss Woodruff
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Viola Allen
Frank Daniels
Mr. Jack
Paris
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Mary Pickford
Eternal Grind
Penoion
Swift & Co
Alamo Plaza
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The
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Broadway
Lawrence Nelson Hall
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Opera House
D. W. Griffith
Mae Marsh
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Mitra Seamen
Sierras
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Grands Pars
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Paris and Ivory Garter
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Monarch
Lakeview Avenue
Kuntz-Albaugh Lumber Co
Alamo St. Cr
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Houston and
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Gibbs Bldg
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West
Salinas Street
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Adams Street
Richey Auto
Phone Crockett
Kuntz- Albaugh Lumber Co
Sheriff Tobin
John W. Tobin
Rockport
W. G. Schuwirth & Co
Commerce St
Crockett
Dulling Printing Co
Losoya St. Crockett
O'Connell Loan Co
Houston St
Adv
J. F. Carl and
R. H. Ward
Bedell Building
Horace E. Wilson
State Bank
Mr. Penwiggle
Washington Star
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Commerce Street
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Coal and Wood Sunset Wood CO
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San Francisco
Sunset Limited
Atlanta
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Japan
Alaska
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Edward McClannahan
C.P
T.A
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D.f.&p.a
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Gunter Hotel Corner
Park
Illinois Millionaire Battery
New Braunfels Tigers
East Houston St
J. W. King
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Call Crockett Carter-Mullaly
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