Hold Summer Normal Session to Begin June Fourteen
The twentieth annual San Antonio summer normal starts Wednesday June 14 and runs six weeks at Main Avenue high school. City Superintendent C B Meek and County Superintendent P F Stewart endorse the program. the faculty includes Arnold Johnston Knox Ryan Gibbons Smith Harris and others. Advertising notes train fares include New York round trip at 84 15 and Sutherland Springs Sunday service at 60 cents with 8 15 a m departure and 9 15 a m arrival on Southern Pacific lines.
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San Antonio
Miss Adah Gibbons
Sidney C
Not the Same Booth Tarkington Dinner Tale
A New York dinner recounts Booth Tarkington praising vivid portrayals of colored characters. He tells a story about an old man named George Washington who registers to vote and denies the cherry tree tale, highlighting humor in political register and identity.
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Booth Tarkington
New York
Agke
George Washinton
George Washington
George
New York Telegraph
Shackleton's Endurance Expedition Survives Iceberg Disaster
Lieutenant Shackleton reports the Endurance was crushed by ice in the Weddell Sea after drifting from December 1914. The crew abandoned ship October 27, reached Elephant Island April 14, and Shackleton and five volunteers left to seek help reaching South Georgia by May 19.
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London
Sir Ernest Shackleton
Port Stanley
Falkland Islands
Endurance
Weddell Sea
Shackleton
Elephant Island
South Georgia
Frank Wild
King Haakon Bay
Stromness
Falklands
South Greenland
South Polar
British Territory
Caird Coast
New South Greenland
Post
Ernest Shackleton
Morning Post
It's delightful at Sutherland Springs Hotel opens for season
It's delightful at Sutherland Springs. Hotel and Park opens for season Sunday, June 4. Two through sleepers to Memphis and Chicago daily. Southern Pacific adv. Also a Sunday 8:13 a.m. 5:15 a.m. service noted.
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Memphis
Chicago
Southern Pacific
Sutherland Springs
Vacation Tax Helps Sick Infants Through Summer Relief
A two dollar “vacation tax” donation to The Light funds milk and ice for ill babies via the Public Health Nurse Association. The program, urged as vacation season begins, aims to ease heat related illness for children and invites further contributions to aid infant welfare.
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Public ‘Health Nurse Association
Nurses’ Association
San Antonio
Public Health Nurse Association
E. S. Parsons
Help for Working Women in Frankfort Kentucky
A Frankfort woman, Mrs James Conley, testifies she suffered from female weakness and could not work until Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound helped after three bottles. The letter promotes the tonic as a forty year old valuable female invigorator and invites women to seek confidential advice from the Lydia E Pinkham Medicine Co.
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Frankfort
Lydia E. Pinkham
James Conley
St. Clair St
Notable Guests and Arrivals at San Antonio Hotels
A list of visitors staying at the Gunter St Anthony and Menger includes C. L. Belt of Karnes City Ira W Nord of Del Rio Mrs. James A Orr of Port Aransas and many others from Texas and beyond. Notable names include D W Wimberly from New York J R Hewitt from Rayville La W E Smith from Kansas City and J Newman from Philadelphia among arrivals and guests.
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C. L. Belt
Karnes City
Gunter
Ira W. Nord
del Rio
St. Anthony
James A. Orr
Port Aransas
Tex
Menger
Joe Kerr
Sanderson
E. P. Martinez
Laredo
D. C. Robinson
Itasca
T. J. Lawson
Benavides
D. W. Wimberly
New York
J. R. Hewitt
Rayville
Pete R. Key
W. E. Smith
Kansas City
J. Newman
Philadelphia
E. D. Staggs
Kingsville
EB. H. Palmer
Gulfport
Miss
H. D. Thatcher
W. G. Storts
St. Louis
Memorial Service Planned for Thomas M Mulry
San Antonio members of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul will attend a communion mass at Sacred Heart Church in New York at 7 30 Sunday for Thomas M Mulry a prominent Catholic layman and longtime SVP leader who died March 10.
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Thomas M. Muiry
New York
San Antonio
Society of St. Vincent de Paul
Sacred Heart Church
Mulry
United States
Daily drills put guardsmen in shape
Donna Texas June 2 Daily drills on the San Antonio National Guard target range keep troops ready for border duties. About 1500 Mexicans are reported across the border with artillery. Companies A from Dallas and B C D from San Antonio drill and practice. Humor arises over a sentry and a stray dog encounter. Health of the battalion is good.
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San Antonio
Donna
Tex
National Guard
Dallas
Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonic Advertisement
An old advertisement promotes Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonic as a malaria preventive and system builder. It states the formula on the label is quinine and iron in a tasteless form, and highlights the product as a trusted old standard.
Sermon and Services for Soldiers This Sunday
Soldiers will gather for a 9 oclock Sunday sermon in the assembly tent preached by Rev M F Ham. On Tuesday evening he will speak at the tabernacle with music by the Thirtieth Infantry band. Automobile owners are asked to loan cars for soldier use.
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M. F. Ham
Dodson's Liver Tone Replaces Dangerous Calomel
Dodson's Liver Tone claims to replace calomel in treating sluggish livers and constipation. The ad asserts calomel is mercury and harmful, promising a 50 cent bottle will purify the liver, cleanse the bowels, and avoid salivation with a pleasant, child friendly taste.
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Dodson
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Levine
Palm Beach
Kool Kloth
Wilson Bros
Alamo Plaza
New Orleans
S Malted Milk CO
He, Wis.,u. S.A
St. Anthony Hotel
T. B. Baker
Pres
Gen. Mgr
Merchants Transfer Company
Chas. Zoller
Dolorosa St
New
Greenland
Onagkleton
Antarctic Explorer
Kansas
Mrs. Conley
St. Vincent de Paul Society
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