Council Amends Health Rules Strengthen Jitney Law
City council approves permanent sanitary ordinances for bottling works hotels bakeries and food shops licensing fees 4 to 25 with 5 to 100 daily penalties and requires health inspections and inoculation certificates. Jitney ordinance updated bonds licenses for public service autos. Election judges for the upcoming special election named. Also approved fire hose purchase and a street name change petition and sewer work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States Public Health Service
City Health Department
Lambert
Health Department
United States
Public Health Service
George A. Lowther
Eureka
Galveston, Harrisburg
Army Personnel Changes at Camp Travis and Fort Sam
Promotions and assignments update for Camp Travis and Fort Sam Houston officers. Major R. K. Cole, Dallas, promoted to Medical Reserve Corps. Lieut. Edgar R. Hiatt from Fort Clark to Camp Travis. Lieut. Joseph H. Page ordered to Douglas with the Seventeenth Cavalry. Various leave grants and duty transfers across Fort Sam Houston, Camp Travis, Rich Field, and publications of new postings.
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R. K. Cole
Travis Base Hospital
Medical Reserve Corps
Dallas
Edgar R. Hiatt
Fort Clark
Camp Travis
Joseph H. Page
M. Tt. C
Douglas
Seventeenth Cavalry
Rupert P. Ricker
Fort Sam Houston
A. E. Pickard
Twelfth Cavalry
Gerald G. Hughes
Rich Field
Eugene T. Edwards
Ford
Quartermaster Department
William E. Shea
Camp Travis Base Hospital
Allentown
FP. Matz
Shea
Charles B. Dumphy
Bing Field Artillery
Fort Bliss
Calotabs Calomel Parade Delights Readers
Calotabs, the new harmless calomel, claims to purify the liver and system without nausea. One tab at bedtime, with water, leaves you feeling fine next morning and ready for breakfast. Sold only in sealed packs for thirty five cents with money-back guarantee if not delighted.
Austria Gives Up All Rights In New Treaty
Washington June 1 The United States reads the Austro Hungarian German treaty as complete subjugation of Austria Hungary and the end of any semi independence for Czechs Jugo Slavs and other anti German elements It shows Austria Hungar y surrenders control of its military establishment to Germany including personnel The US government had sympathy for nationalist wishes but this pact forecloses any peace that does not recognize separate national existence for these peoples and foresees no independent political status within the empire
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Washington, D. C
Austria- Hungary
Germany
Austria-Hungary
State Department
United States
Austria
Austro-Hungary
Lansing
Bohemian Riots Fail to Subside Amid War Strain
Riots in Bohemia intensify with clashes between crowds and police in Chosen and Prague. Fire is set to barricades and the city hall while officers are said to have perished. Kolin sees the Austrian flag replaced by the Bohemian banner as German-language papers report sackings in Prague.
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London
Bohemia
Vienna
Kolin
Prague
The
Zeitung
Neueste Nachritchen
Stuttgart Neueste Nachritchen
Hoover warns war may last five years in new appeal
Philadelphia June 1 Herbert C Hoover in a speech at the Academy of Music urged greater food conservation and condemned Germany for extortion. He warned the war could continue five years if men are needed abroad and shipping remains tight. He cited hunger lines in London and urged a 15 percent cut in US consumption this year to save 1,500,000 tons of shipping for allies. He predicted normal prices if America’s harvest holds and freight rates stabilize. Portage Tire ad at end.
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Philadelphia
Inerbert C. Hoover
Academy of Music
Germany
America
Hoover
France
Italians claim plot to place Asquith in power
In London a trial heated cross examination revealed Captain Harold Spencer testified that Italian deputies and British embassy members in Rome provided information on a Camarilla plan to restore premier Herbert Asquith, along with Caillaux and Giolitti, to power. Naval circles in Annapolis note Spencer’s earlier fame, marriage to a countess, and later activities as a war correspondent amid speculation about his connections and title.
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London
Noel Pemberton-Billing
Harold Sherwin Spencer
Spencer
Rome
Camarilla
Herbert H. Asquith
Joseph Caillaux
Giovanni
Giotti
England
France
Italy
George Keppel
Holland
Hall
Admiralty Intelligence Department
U. 8
Annapolis
Harold Spencer
Academy
New York
Peanut use to grow in San Antonio industry leader says
At a meeting in the Gunter Hotel the Manufacturers’ Association discussed expanding peanut use as a raw material. Charles Graebner outlined progress in promoting peanut cultivation, while M Madison noted San Antonio factories buy less than other Texas cities. Texas led 1917 peanut acreage and production, with forecasts of 1,500,000 acres planted in the coming season. Peanut oil, glycerine, and peanut hay cited as valuable byproducts and drought resistant compared with cotton.
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San Antonio
Manufacturers’ Association
Gunter Hotel
Charles Graebner
San Antonio T
Hr. M. Madison
Texas
Mr. Madison
Union
Alabama
United States
Europe
Pacific Coast
Orient
Peanut farming in Texas profits grow for farmers
June 15 in Southwest Texas notes peanuts resist pests while in hull. Farmers see more income from peanuts than any other crop. Black sandy soil deemed best. San Antonio ready to process large peanut output with a nut sheltery and soap factories refining peanut oil. Cotton seed oil mills have installed crushers. Mr. Madison says threshers needed to hull nuts, but cooperative societies are supplying suitable farming implements and threshers.
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Texas
San Antonio
Madison
Y s Tod Casualty List
Casualties reported by General Pershing to the War Department list killed in action died of wounds died of disease wounded severely missing in action and one air accident. Names include Timothy Donnellan Gustave Hillert John Mintyre Joseph Raczor Walter Caul Walter Carroll Joseph Frank Harold McNeary James Garvin William Hostetter Erbert Koethke Patrick McGuire John Peroni Robert Rut terford Anne Sanders Russell Thompson Wallace Williams Dan Arratagel Mike Cogura Athanasi S Curtis Ralph Destinn Robert Geddis John Hoey Herman Lambert Edgar Lewis Joseph Paitride Edward Wager Edward Wager and others with locations in New York City Bemidji Milwaukee Philadelphia Chicago Norfolk Verolacca St Ansgar Brandon Sault Ste Marie Houston and more.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Timothy Donnellan
New York City
Gustave Hillert
Bemidji
Minn
John Mintyre
Philadelphia
Joseph Raczor
Milwaukee
Wis
Tim Long
Chicago
Walter G. Caul
Norfolk
Sault Ste. Marie
Mich
Wallace H. Williams
Joplin
Thurston R. Chamberlain
Guerneville
Cal
Lee V. Carnum
Andrew Pearson
Lamberton
James D. Ward
Houston
Tex
Edwin
Degenkolbe
Itasca
Ill
Dan
Robert Geddis
Miles City
Mont
John E. Hoey
Pony
Everbitt H. Hows
Herman Lambert
San Francisco
Edgar C. Lewis
Ashland
Joseph M. Paitride
Werner
N. D
Stanley Smith
Mingo
Towa
Edward B. Wager
Sener
Daniel Brandon
Towners
Privates Ath Cc
Caverly
Manchester
Batiiste CO
Hotel Guests and Visitors Listed for City Hotels
A compilation of names and hometowns shows numerous guests registered at major San Antonio hotels. George W. Oakley of Chicago and J. A. Graham of San Benito are at the St. Anthony, with others from Houston, Dallas, Durant and Newcastle noted at the Gunter, Menger and Lanter. Names include Miss Nona Willaims and Mrs. A. Scott among attendees. notices also list W. M. Holland and J. J. Toone visiting from Denison and Lanier respectively. An advertising line for screen doors and related supplies closes the item.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George WW. Oakley
Chicago
St. Anthony
Ben W. Wald
San Marcos
Gunter
M. H. James
Houston
Menger
San Antonio soft drink makers fail to gain extra sugar
Washington June 1 The San Antonio soft drink industry will get no sugar concessions from the food administration though much output goes to army camps. The rule requires 20 percent less sugar than before. B A Peden and J B Carrington urged Hoover to ease limits for Texas but were refused. A compromise allows a 25 percent increase over allotted amounts for three months to adjust to the new rule.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington, D. C
San Antonio
Food Administration
B. A. Peden
Texas
J. B. Carrington
Hoover
Carrington
Notable Generals Dined Together at Sam Houston Event
Prominent military figures including Sam Houston Zachery Taylor Ulysses Grant and Robert E Lee and John Hood shared a dining gathering described in a contemporary account. The article notes the assembly of famous soldiers and hints at the significance of their meeting in a historic context.
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Sam Houston, Zachery Taylor
Grant, Lee, Hood
Mesquite Ban Discusses June July Use And Sugar Content
A Mesquite ban outlines plans for actions in June and July and notes the plant contains 21 percent sugar. It suggests chemists could work on a formula to use it as a substitute.
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W. L. Richter
Jarnest Broggi
A. A. Garcia
J. Trainer
A. A. Gray
KJ. Garza
Rafael Gonzales
A. L. San Miguel
Jesus Rodriguez
A. J. Nichols
Alex Garcia
T. M. West
L. J. Schwartz
Augustus McCloskey
Sean Buer
William Fenstermaker
Ande Rubiolo
Bascom Bell
J. G. Boles
Mason Williams
Ed Seng
G. M. Barnes
Ernest Kische
H. G. Rossi
W. Springall
W. D. Collins
J. S. Phillips
J. D. Dobbs Jr
W. L. James
Dr. W. Robbie
H. W. Wenber
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Lye
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B. E Hagkell
Ninetieth Division Officers Training School
359Th Infantry
Willard A. Holbrook Jr
West Point
Diaftor
Holbrook
Frank ©. Moyer
D. B.C
Dental Hospital
Charles White
United States Guards
George J. Vernor
Camp Tosenho
Johnston
Jacksonville
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Solener St
Grockett
Dottery Imal Whivr
Knight Cate
Travelers’ Cigar Shop
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Ford Cars
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Noa Spears Co
Itt Leseys
Y’s Tod Casualty List
Pershing
War Department
Warry Swanson
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Hugh L. Sutherland
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Brooklyn
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