O Brien Urges America to Send Ten Million Men to Win War
Lieut. Pat O'Brien of the British Flying Corps told a San Antonio audience of his miraculous escape and wartime adventures. He urged America to deploy five to ten million men if needed and recounted his escape from a hospital after a crash and his daring journeys across Europe to safety.
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Germany
Pat O'Brien
British
Royal Flying Corps
San Antonio
Main Avenue High School
America
Momence
Canada
British Flying Corps
O'Brien
Lnes
Luxemburg
Berg
North Star
Holland
London
England
Willard Holbrook
Calotabs Calomel Reform Praised by Doctors and Druggists
Promoters claim Calotabs pure calomel without old side effects. A single at bedtime tablet allegedly cleanses the liver and purifies the system, leaving a hearty breakfast with no diet limits. Sold only in original sealed packages for thirty five cents with druggist recommendation and guarantee.
Mutiny of 7000 HM sailors ends by offer of good meal
Antociated Press correspondence from London reports that seven thousand German sailors mutinied at Kiel in October over harsh food and poor conditions. They planned to seize ships and sail to England under a white flag, but internal betrayals and offers of a replenishing meal led to a quieting of the revolt.
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London
Kiel
Wildelshaven
England
Germany
Wilhelmshaven
Solomon
Ali
Rigsby Buys Beacon Hill Lot for Fine Home Construction
W C Rigsby purchases 876 by 270 feet on Mirgonona Hulsade and Grand Avenues on Beacon Hill and plans one of the citys handsomest residences. The deal displaces Carlton W Adams two story home and involves transfers from J K B Adams Crain J Adams and others for 23000 dollars. Adams then buys a Magnolia and Blanco Road plot from C J Melliff and Roy M Beltel for 4500 dollars to fit the removal site.
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Mirgnona
Hulsade
Grand Avenues
Beacon Hill
Thesby
Carlton W. Adams
J KB. Adams
Carleton W. Adams
Crain J. Adams
J. E. Adams Jr
M. C. Seheble
C. J. Melliff
Roy M. Beltel
Magnolia
Blanco Road
Woman's Christian College of Japan Opens in Tokyo
In Tokyo on May 1, the first higher education venture for Japanese women opened as the Woman's Christian College of Japan dedicated its campus in the suburbs. Roland S Morris the American ambassador spoke among a large audience. The 84 students form the inaugural class as fund raising continues for a future site of 15 to 20 acres and new buildings in three years.
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Associated Press
Tokyo
Japan
Woman's Christian College of
Tokio
Roland S. Morris
University
War Industries Board Sets Lumber Margins for Atlantic Lumber
Washington June 14 War Industries Board announced new maximum retail margins for fir and southern yellow pine lumber for government emergency uses through July 13. Margins set by the price fixing committee and industry range from 2 000 feet to 2 1/2 dollars.
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Washington, D. C
War Industries Board Today
Atlantic Seaboard
Rates to Coast Promised Tourist Fares June Fifteenth
Local railroad ticket offices report notices from general passenger agents promising summer tourist rates to Pacific coast points set to take effect June 15. No offices have received concrete rates or details yet.
Summer Rates to Northern Points Hinted Amid Draft Distraction
The article notes expected summer rates to north and east but no official start date. It discusses draft unrest as men from all walks of life are drawn into service. At Camp Travis a former electrical company representative was assigned as a bunkie with a bell-hop who pocketed tips, while Guenther Trochee, a western Woastinghouse Electricals representative, was in San Antonio.
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Lipper
Camp Travis
Freckle Remedy From Lemons And Orchard White
Squeeze juice from two lemons into three ounces of orchard white to make a quarter pint freckle and tan lotion. Massage daily on face neck arms and hands to fade freckles and brighten skin. Harmless and inexpensive, available from grocers and drug stores.
Unclear fragment hints at camp and hotels
Fragmentary text mentions Camp Travis and a hotel, with unfinished reference to individuals described as ex-belhop and another person. The garbled lines lack verifiable actions, dates, or clear events to summarize meaningfully.
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Babylon
Grove
del Ee
Pat O’brien
Wight
Earth
W. C. Rigsby
Big Property
A College For Women
Institution For Higher Education
Met
Pacific
Troco
Troco Nut Butter Company
Milwaukee
Wisconsin
Hee
ST. Anthony
Glass House of
Telephone Crockett
T. B. Baker
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