Aliens to be naturalized at Kelly Field ceremony
Six hundred aliens from 32 countries will become U S citizens at Kelly Field on Wednesday morning in a Federal Court session led by Judge Duval West. The event opens with prayer by Rev. E Cameron, includes patriotic addresses by Judge Fly and Lieut. Black, and features 32 nationality groups from Austria to Wales.
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United States
Kelly Field
Post Exchange
Kelly Field No. 1
Duval West
United States Court of the Western District of Texas
Camp Travis
Camp Stanley
Fort Clarke
San Antonio
E. Cameron
Fourth Court of Civil Appeals
O. Black
Harry Robertson
Austria
Australia
Argentina
Armenia
Belgium
British Honduras
Canada
Denmark
England
France
Germany
Greece
Holland
Ireland
Italy
Mexico
Montenegro
New Zealand
Norway
Persia
Poland
Portugal
Roumania
Russia
Scotland
Serbia
Spain
South Africa
Sweden
Switzerland
Syria
Wales
Bee seeks Democratic nomination in July 27 1918 primaries
The San Antonio Light announces the candidacy of Senator Carlos Bee for the Democratic Congressional nomination at the forthcoming primaries on July 27, 1918. The item notes political advertising context and includes a historical aside about artillery and distant cannon fire in a Waterloo-era comparison.
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San Antonio
Carlos Bee
Waterloo
Creil
France
Soldiers overflow Community House on first weekend
Soldiers crowded the Community House as 4 000 men used the facility from dawn until midnight first weekend. Musicians filled rooms with piano violin and trumpet while desks and reading rooms stayed busy. Forty soldiers slept on cots outside and organizers plan to expand sleeping space as the cafe readies.
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San Antonio
The
Federated Women's Clubs
City clubs plan weekly public programs with dances
A plan to permit one civic club each night to present a program is under consideration. Several large musical clubs in the city have volunteered to take a night each week, offering a program and possibly a dance afterward.
Aqua planing contender offers regatta feature at Medina Lake
Willan H. Bonneville of Kelly Field proposes a gratis aqua planing act for the Fourth of July regatta. He will ride a surf board without reins on a Glx board, inviting a partner for a possible double ride. Bonneville touts aqua planing as a top Northwest sensation, likening it to flying.
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William H. Furlong
Highway Department
Chamber of Commerce
Medina Lake
Willan H. Bonneville
Kelly Field
Furlongs
Radio Students to Fly at Kelly Field Training
Kelly Field will take radio school students aloft in airplanes as part of training to help them understand aviator problems from the inside. They will not learn to fly but will experience flight several times to gain practical perspective on the work.
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Kelly Field
Kelly World
Camp Travis to Become Dog Free After Rabies Case
Camp Travis issues orders for all soldiers to remove pets from the cantonment and warns that dogs remaining will be shot. Stray dogs entering the camp are to be culled by military police after a rabies scare where seven officers and men were bitten. The dog involved was killed and lab tests confirmed hydrophobia. Raymond Winberg of Kenosha Wisconsin named chemical inspector at Philadelphia navy yards, youngest in the navy to hold such a senior post, not yet 20 and enlisted under a year ago.
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Camp Travis
Raymond Winberg
Ienosha
Wis
Philadelphia Navy Yards
Food Conservation and Thrift Stamp Speakers in County
Arrangements were perfected for three county wide meetings Tuesday at Sayers Leon Springs and Mimsendorf schools as part of a two week educational drive on food conservation. Canning demonstrations and talks on thrift stamps and food conservation will be given by a roster of speakers with a 3 pm gathering at the Chamber of Commerce. Quarantine camps at Camp Travis will be set up for contacts and carriers of communicable diseases with separate facilities for Negro and white troops.
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Bexar County
Sayers
Leon Springs
Wimendorf
Ench
Thrift
J. M. Vance
Canning
Miss M. Bobitt
W.S. Vly
George J. Roark
W. A. Robb
W. G. Iland
H. M. Madison
Miss Ivoox
Chamber of Commerce
Pam
Pravis
Camp Travis
Woman's Nerves Wade Strong
Winona Minnesota woman Gained nerves through Lydia E Pinkham Vegetable Compound after a year of insomnia and nervousness The ad cites Mrs Apert Surtze at 603 Olmstead St praising the remedy for displacements inflammation irregularities backache and nervous prostration over forty years of use.
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Winona
Minn
Lydia B. Pinkham
Apert Surtze
Olmstead St
Open enlistment for Troop D and Second Texas Cavalry
Troop D ranks open for enlistment at the Bexar Hotel recruiting station and Room 11 Alamo National Bank Building in San Antonio. Young men recently registered for military service may enlist. those who enlist may continue their current jobs until the Second Cavalry is called into active service. Col. W. B. Tuttle notes a San Antonio employer discharged a worker for enlisting and says such actions may lead to prosecution under the law.
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Second Texas, Cavalry
Bexar Hotel
Alumo National Bank
Second Cavalry
W. B. Tuttle
San Antonio
Second Texas Cavalry
Tuttle
Inlor
United States
Sing-Song at Travis Park Summer Series Opener
A summer sing song series opens at Travis Park on Thursday at 8 PM under the War Service Board. The program is prepared by G Bernard Chichester with Woolgust of Camp Travis as song leader and Herbert Wall and David Griffin assisting.
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Travis Park
War Service Board
G. Bernard Chichester
Mr& Woolgust
Camp Travis
Army “Y
Seret
Herbert Wall
Jender
David Griffin
Iender
Welly Mield
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Gulf States Shipbuilding Company
Ben’s
E. Houston St
Club
L. J. Smith
Community Hoodse
Oniler
Sayers, Leon Springs
and Elmendorf
Wieamy
Chichester
Wade
Lydia E. Pinkham
Reuter & Follansbee
Gulf States Shipbuilding Co
Frost
Texas
Datary
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