Leon Springs Augments Artillery Officer Training
Leon Springs Reserve Officers camp will add about 1200 artillery students from the regular army. Out of 2400 selected nationwide, about half go to Leon Springs, with others to Fort Sill Oklahoma and Douglas Arizona. Eight hundred more join Seventh Ninth and Twentieth artillery here, 400 with Third Twenty-first, and 400 to Douglas. 150 from each camp chosen for artillery work. Vocational training bill looms in Texas with Smith Hughes act provisions and a governor’s decision due.
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Leon Springs
Fort Sill
Okla
Douglas
Arizona
Hens
Carter White Lead Adv Offers Bulk Pricing Reedied
Short classified notice for Ed Steves & Sons advertising lead products. Special tale mentions Carter White Lead at $12.00 per 100 pounds with smaller sizes at usual advances. Includes an advertising tag for company and prices.
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Carter White
Steves& Sons
Steves & Sons,adv
Steves & Sons
Superintendent at Laundry Praises Tanlac For Stomach Trouble
H B Bond, superintendent at Ideal Penny Laundry, residents at 410 Schley Ave, says Tanlac cured a three to four month stomach derangement. He reports improved appetite, no gas or headaches, and no sick after eating. Tanlac sold in San Antonio by Wagner's Drug Store and E J H Meier under a Tanlac representative.
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H. B. Bond
Penny Laun
Schley Avenue
Wagner
Taniac
Tanlac
San Antonio
E. J. H. Meier
Ady
Ohio State to graduate aviators weekly for war effort
Ohio State University will graduate 25 aviators weekly after August 1 as the first class completes an eight week theory course. Graduates will train at a government flying field near Dayton then proceed to Southern France. The program, under Lt Stratemeyer, includes six schools selected by the War Department for aviator training.
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Columbus
Ohio
Ohio State University
Deyton
France
War Department
University of Illinois
Massachusetts Institute of Technol
Cadet School Opens as Army Seeks Lean Aviators Near Columbus
In Columbus New Mexico Lt Pulsifer and Major Converse lead a cadet program to train aviators in a six school system. Cadets must have three years college or equivalent and weigh under 190 pounds. Applicants are screened for physical fitness nerve and quick thinking with immediate discharge for those who fail to fit in.
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Columbus
N. M
Pulsifer
France
Converse
Toronto
Canada
Royal Flying Corps
Army
College committee to locate East Texas Agricultural College
The locating commission for the new East Texas Agricultural and Mechanical College will depart Austin on June 7 visiting Kerrville San Angelo and Sweetwater during a three week tour. Nineteen Texas cities bid to host the college with the governor lieutenant governor Speaker E O Fuller State Superintendent W F Doughty and Commissioner Fred W Davis on the panel. The group can pay up to 50000 for a 2000 acre site.
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Kerrville
Austin
Tex
East Texas Agricultural and Mechanical College
San Angelo
Sweetwater
E. O. Fuller
W. F. Doughty
Superintendent of Public Instruction
Fred W. Davis
Officers Ordered to Aviation Section Duty
Washington dispatch lists Captain Frederick S. Snyder Eighteenth Cavalry and Lieutenants Harrison H. Richards Fred Snydel Dana Palmer Edgerty and Walter Vaustsmerer as detailed to aviation section and to proceed to Fort Sam Houston for assignment.
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Washington, D. C
Fort Sam Houston
Frederick S. Snyder
Eighteenth Cavalry
Harrison H. C. Richards
Third Cavalry
Fred Snydel
Coast Artillery
Dana Palmer
Thirty-seventh Infantry
John P. Edgerty
Infantry
Walter V. Vaustsmerer
Sale. $12.00 Per 100 Pounds By Smaller & Sons Adv
A brief public sale notice notes a price of 12 dollars per 100 pounds offered by Smaller & Sons Advertisement for the item.
Willis Proves Only Bailt The Villista Raid Interlude At San Jose
A report from Presidio clarifies a supposed Villista raid near San Jose. No casualties occurred as the army states the event was merely a baila. Rumors of an imminent attack stemmed from a inebriated Mexican misreporting Villa’s approach.
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San Jose
Southern Department
Presidio
Columbus
Gas in the Stomach Warns of Excess Acid
An old health advisory warns that gas and bloating signal excessive stomach acid which can cause gastritis ulcers and heart distress. It recommends Bisulated Magnesia from a druggist, taken after meals, to neutralize acid and ease discomfort.
Dance party confusion sparks military inquiry at Presidio
Report says a dozen Mexicans and families gathered for a dance at a settlement near San Jose. They denied plans to raid, and the Presidio commander ordered an investigation. the matter is described as a closed incident by the Southern Department. Berlin denies Margarita submarine base report from London. A Minneapolis inventor offers an adjustable road scraper marketed as a show plow.
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Presidio
San Jose
Southern Department
Minneapolis
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T. B. Baker
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Uncle Manasseh
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Gulf
Menger
Elizabeth Walde
Ethel Lee Buxton
H. Dybwad
America
the Menger
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Baile
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Moon
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C. N. Stark & Co
Houston Street
Southwest Texas Distributors
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