League seeks more war work as women register in San Antonio
The National League for Woman's Service continues a city census of female activities at Wolff & Marx Joske's Catholic Woman's Club and the YWCA. Registrations expose alien enemies and a few indifferent women while most seek to aid the war effort through social work, canteen service, motor driving classes, and food conservation efforts led by Mrs. Mulliken and other committee leaders.
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National League For Woman's Service
San Antonio
Wolff & Marx
Joske's
Catholic Woman's Club
Young Woman's Christian Association
League
H. S. Mulliken
Catherine McGown
Marjorie McGown
Juanita Hopkins
Jean Aubrey
Estelle Staacke
Elizabeth Kokernot
Hester Schreiner
Clara May Brooks
Constance Ball
Gertrude Negley
Jeanette Hagelstein
Lucile Buckman
Ira Ogden
Mulliken
Crockett
Clinton Brown
W. D. Syers
Kate Buckman
Frank Davis
Fort Sam Houston
Roy Campbell
San Antonio Prepares Bi Centennial Exposition in 1918
With wartime limits, plans shift from an international bi centennial exposition to a city celebration. The Bi Centennial Exposition Company will wait on grounds proposals and the mayor will appoint a fifty member city committee to work with a governor committee on a fall 1918 patriotic demonstration.
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San Antonio
Nat M. Washer
R. J. Harding
L. J. Hart
T. B. Baker
Selig Deutschmann
Attorneys Rule Appeals Possible on School Consolidation
The Texas attorney general's office ruled that an appeal may be taken from a board of trustees decision denying consolidation of two or more schools in a common school district upon request by patrons and interested parties. The opinion was issued to Prof. W. F. Doughty, state superintendent of public instruction.
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Austin
Tex
Attorney General's Department
W. F. Doughty
State Superintendent of Public Instruction
Panhandle in Need of Rain Drives Insurance Official Report
Austin Texas June 16 Charles Austin state commissioner of insurance and banking returned from a Panhandle trip on official business. He found grain crops north of Fort Worth in good condition but warned the Panhandle needs rain to ensure a strong corn and wheat harvest.
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Panhandle
Austin
Tex
Charles ©. Austin
Fort Worth
No Lawyer This Time in Smuth Town Case
An Atlanta lawyer recalls a newly qualified Smuth judge presiding over a first criminal case. The defendant, an elderly Black man accused of robbing a hen coop, had prior similar charges and was acquitted. The exchange ends with the man stating he has no lawyer and will tell the truth.
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Atlanta
Smuth
Henry
New York Times
Texas citizens form permanent group after Ferguson veto protest
In Dallas on June 14 a Texas citizens meeting made a permanent organization to oppose Governor Ferguson's veto of the University appropriation. Resolutions call for a self executing annual appropriation, opposition to politics in university affairs, and urging a legislative inquiry into charges against the university. A minority resolution to impeach Ferguson failed. Ex Governor Sayers elected chairman. nine member executive committee to name local committees and carry the campaign statewide. About five hundred university alumni were invited to join.
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Dallas
Tex
Organization of Texas
Ferguson
Vinson
Chester Terrell
W. Fisher
Dexter Hamilton
T. P. Buffington
W. B. Gardner
W. W. Turney
el Paso
Herbert Ardrey
James P. Haven
Will C. Hogg
Thomas H. Stone
P. W. Pennybacker
Ss. W. Fisher
Joseph D. Sayers
James McClendon
Sayers
Texas
Practice Makes Perfect Christening Praise
A Minneapolis Tribune item notes a christening where a baby’s calm behavior drew praise from the clergyman. The mother humorously says the couple trained the child with a pail of water for ten days before the ceremony.
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Minneapolis Tribune
Relic of Supreme Court Act Attacked in Texas
In Austin on June 16, a motion for a rehearing of Corey et al vs Richardson in Bexar county was filed challenging a 1917 act. The act lets a three judge Civil Appeals committee pass on writs of error, a delegation defendants say violates the Constitution and due process.
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Austin
Tex
Supreme Court
Corey Et al
Richardson
Bexar County
Court of Civil Appeals
General Juvencio Robles Obituary in San Antonio
General Juvencio Robles 68 died in this city May 24 and will be sent to Mexico City for burial by Shelley Loring Undertaking Co. He served fifty years in the Mexican army before retiring and moving to San Antonio. He resided at 611 Sixth Street and is survived by son Rodolfo and daughters Mrs. Guadalupe R Robles and Mrs. Carolina R Rasgacho.
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Juvencio Robles
Mexico City
Shelley-Loring Undertaking Company
General Robles
San Antonio
Sixth Street
Rodolfo
Guadalupe R. Robles
Carolina R. Rasgacho
Florist Ernest Natraia Dies at Home in San Antonio
Ernest Natraia aged 45 a florist died Saturday afternoon at his residence behind 726 Avenue C. Native of South America he had lived in San Antonio for four months. Zizik Undertaking Company holds the body pending instructions from a cousin in San Francisco.
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Ernest Natraia
Avenue C
South America
San Antonio
Zizik Undertaking Company
San Francisco
T D Eldridge Dies in San Antonio At 30
T D Eldridge aged 30 died at 11 p.m. Saturday at a local institution after arriving in San Antonio four days earlier from Pearsall. A past master of the Masonic Blue Lodge and member of the Royal Arch Masons, he is survived by his widow, two daughters Irma and Janie, two sisters and a brother, all of Pearsall. Sloan and Hagg Undertaking Co will send the body to Pearsall for interment.
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T. D. Eldridge
San Antonio
Pearsall
Masonic Blue Lodge
Royal Arch Masons
Irma
Janie
Sloan & Hagg Undertaking Company
Shelley-Loring Undertaking Co. Automobile Equipment Ad
A fragment shows an ad for Shelley-Loring Undertaking Co offering automobile equipment and general services with the line Both Phones 971 Adv. The piece appears alongside a traveler anecdote about a country hotel waitress named Ella who asserts her independence.
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Shelley-Loring Undertaking Co
Try Anything
A small boy wails at a garden gate claiming his parents will not take him to the pictures tonight. An old woman questions his crying and notes that sometimes they do and sometimes they don't take him.
Kahn Attack Sparks Questioned Patriotism in Congress
San Antonio and Fort Sam Houston faced a political clash as Representative Slayden attacked Representative Julius Kahn of California over alleged German birth influence. Kahn, a Republican on Military Affairs, defended his patriotism and noted colleagues with U S birth who served in earlier wars. He insisted Slayden’s charge was puerile and unworthy of debate.
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Washington, D. C
Julius Kahn
California
Slayden
San Antonio
Fort Sam Houston
Kahn
Representative Kahn
Wilson
Reagan Houston
Washington
Dallag
Germany
Slavden
Sheppard
Senate
House
Mr. Kahn
Mr. Slayden
W. P. Peter
Dallas
Committee On Military Affairs
United States
Austin Launches $100 Million Red Cross Campaign
An aggressive campaign starts in Austin and Travis county next week to raise $100,000,000 for the National Red Cross fund to aid soldiers. Austin and the county’s share is $70,000, with committees formed and plans outlined for a thorough campaign.
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Austin
Red Cross
Tex
Travis County
National Red Cross Fund
Inglish Inspects Galveston Docks
Wallace Inglish state fire marshal returned from Galveston after several days inspecting wharves and docks. The State Fire Insurance Board, of which he is a member, cooperates with the State Council of Defense to conserve property at Texas ports.
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Inglish
Galveston
Austin
Tex
Wallace Inglish
State Fire Insurance Board
State Council of Defense For
Knights of Columbus staged patriotic program for soldiers
Knights of Columbus plan a patriotic program for soldiers at Camps Wilson Funston and Kelly next Saturday night in the San Antonio Council club rooms at 515 Navarro Street. Augustus McClosky greets guests, James Joyce dances, a boys quartet sings, speeches on Columbianism Catholic Army citizenship and American values are planned, with recitations, comic sketches and audience singing of America and the Star Spangled Banner.
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Wilson
Funston
Kelly
Knights of Columbus
San Antonio
Captain Joyce
Frank Cloonan
E. Barber
A. I. Mahoney
Ben Newman
O. G. Gernier
America
Editor Returns Compliment in Witty Exchange
A lengthy, uncredited speaker offers a poem with no pay, calling it a compliment. The editor replies with courteous banter, suggesting a mutual exchange in a genteel newspaper moment.
Questions Rise Over Texas Highway Registration
Secretary of State Bartlett said his office is flooded with inquiries about the new highway laws and auto registration. He noted the state department handles no vehicle registrations and advised all such letters be referred to the Highway Department at the capitol in Austin.
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Austin
Texas
Bartlett
Highway Department
State Department
Capitol Station
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