First Girl Recruiting Officer Opens New York Enlistment Station
Miss Edna Payne at age twenty one and sister Miss Lillian Payne inaugurate a New York enlistment station to spur national preparedness. They distribute posters and hand bills, have not yet signed recruits, and forward names to the nearest regular army or navy recruiting office.
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New York
Edna Payne
Lillian Payne
Uncle Sam
California
Army
Navy
Payne
San Antonio Ladies Host Red Cross Reception and Mardi Gras Events
The San Antonio Retail Merchants Association reception honored visiting women from the state association at the St. Anthony mezzanine. Mrs. H A Moos and Miss Lena Peters led greetings, with punch, music, Red Cross talks, and Red Cross fundraising cards. A moonlight dance and chicken dinner at the Automobile club followed, featuring numerous social host groups and couples. The night featured the marriage of Ensign Charles Gillian to Miss Ellen Lamar Camp at the bride’s parents home with Rev. Charles Rahe officiating.
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San Antonio
Grasso
Mary de Zavala
John Case Griswold
Winchester Kelso
Red Cross
Roy Campbell
W. 8. Hendrick
Mesdames M. Ransom
Corsicana
John Parker
Austin
Henry Wuokasch
Frank Weber W. J. Edgecombe
Estelle Byrom
Georgetown
P. G. Lucas
V. Grasso
Otmar Grasso
Mary C. Thigpen O’ Linton
San Marcos
Ada Hartsfield
Louise Lucas
Grace Young
Nora Cullum
Dallas
Irene Cullum
Mesdames Margery Wofford
Sabinal
Adolph Grasso
H. Moos
C. W. Ling
F. Vaden
A. R. McElreath
Sherman
A. Briam
W. L. Brady
Plainview
A. Ziegelmeyer
Galveston
Victor Keller
A.L. Curry
Perry Tyrrell
William Heath
E. Watson
W. A. Bedell
Charles Gillian
Misa Ellen Lamar Camp
John L. Camp
Charles Rahe
West End
Bride and Groom Go East After Wedding
Miss Louise Callans sang My Dear as the bride wore blue taffeta with American beauty roses. Miss Mattie Helen Terrell served as maid of honor and George Gillian of Hondo was best man. After a buffet, the couple left for an eastern trip then Norfolk, Virginia, Mr. Gillian's station.
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My Dear
Louise Callans
Mattie Helen Terrell
George Gillian
Hondo
Terrell
Gillian
Norfolk
Miss Marjorie Stinson To Fly Over Camp For Merchants
Miss Marjorie Stinson will perform a 5 PM flight over the civilians training camp, dropping flour bombs to illustrate war use as visitors inspect the camp. Two fast loop-the-loop aircraft near completion at the Stinson school, with pilots Bartlett of Bartlett Texas and Turnbull of Ottawa. Turnbull aims for European service. Bartlett seeks US Army aviation commission.
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Marjorie Stinson
Miss Stinson
Stinson
Stinson School
Roy Bartlett
Bartlett, Tex
George M. Turnbull
Ottawa
Canada
Turnbull
Europe
British Aerial Corps
Bartlett
United States Army
Aviation Corps
East Side School Contract Wins for Wright & Sanders
The city school board awarded Wright & Sanders a $54,484 contract to build the East Side grade school named Robert E. Lee. West & Gutzeit won the plumbing bid at $5940 and Martin Wright the wiring at $496. Adams & Adams prepared plans approved last week.
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East Side
Wright & Sanders
West & Gutzeit
Martin Wright
Adams & Adams
Robert E. Lee” School
Walton L. Hood
M. J. Kaine
American Seating Company
Gilbeau Street
W. J. Pyne
What He Really Was in the Stock Exchange
A quip turns on the speaker who admits to not being a bull or a bear but an ass. The exchange frame centers on a witty mislabeling during a social chat about market speculation.
Liquid fire from Verdun equates to medieval siege tactics
The Wall Street Journal notes German fire throwing devices at Verdun mirror early warfare. Modern "fire projectors" pressurize petrol to spray flames over 100 feet, enabling troops to attack while remaining under cover.
Women Run War Hospital In London By Women Staff
A London hospital on Endell Street near Covent Garden Market is staffed entirely by women from cooks to surgeons. It serves as a wartime innovation born from the Women’s Hospital Corps and can accommodate 509 wounded soldiers. The sight of male patients greeted by all female orderlies is noted as remarkable.
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Germany
San Antonio
Miracle
Rame
de Miracle Chemical Co
Dept. A-3
Park Ave
129Th St
New York
New York Sun
London
Endell Street
Covent Garden Market
Women's Hospital Corps
England
France
Hospital staff and giraffe remark in odd exchange
The text describes a hospital with various surgeons and staff, all under a chief surgeon, plus women students and administrators. It mentions the giraffe as an animal deemed utterly unable to make sound, and includes a quip about changing a quarter and a dime in a transcript fragment.
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Elg
Tire
Bacon
Egbert
Yonkers
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