Camp Funston Begins Intensive Training for Officers
The second period of officer candidate training at Camp Funston starts Monday, splitting students into infantry artillery and cavalry, with seven weeks of specialized, harder work. Some men transfered to Fort Leavenworth and Fortress Monroe. others move into horse care and field duties as the camp reorganizes.
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Camp Funston
Infantry
Field Artillery
Company of Engineers
Fort Leavenworth
Coast Artillery
Fortress Monroe
Army Rifles
Cavalry
National Army
Navy Youth Trevino Completes Training for Ship Duty
Roy Trevino a 15 year old volunteer apprentice electrician at the San Antonio Navy recruiting office has finished his instruction at Portsmouth New Hampshire and is ready to be assigned to a warship. Letters to his brother and sister in law indicate eagerness to begin active service after over a year of electrical work in San Antonio.
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Roy Trevino
San Antonio Navy Recruiting Office
Portsmouth
N. H
Sam
R. C. Trevino
West Commerce Street
Trevino
Tricky Foreign Advice Mocked By German Consul
Kurt Ziegler, the German consul at Henver, mocks Trust in English aid and ridicules naive allies. He cites a dysppeptic farmer tale about a large pill to illustrate how people cling to help yet overlook practical risks, per the Washington Star.
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Serbia
Belgium
England
Kurt Ziegler
Henver
Washington Star
Peddler Offers Almanacs With Holidays or Weather
A peddler explains two almanacs to a farmer offering a choice between one with many holidays and another with more good weather. He highlights the virtues of the two volumes and obligingly assists in the selection.
Texas Officers Depart For Fort Leavenworth and Fortress Monroe
San Antonio crowds at the Sap depot bid farewell to more than 250 student officers from Leon Springs. The engineers proceed to Fort Leavenworth for studies, while the coast artillery contingent goes to Fortress Monroe for preparatory work.
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Camp Funston
Fort Leavenworth
Fortress Monroe
Sap Depot
Texas
Wiliam Aubrey
A. B. Weakley
T. T. van derHoeven
Sap
Fort Teavenworth
San Antonio
Leon Springs Camp
Coast Artillery
Liberty Loan Prevails In Latonia Derby Thriller
Liberty Loan won the Latonia derby by five lengths amid a tight early pace. Loftus eased the colt midway and he quickened, with Cudgel looming then breaking clear before Liberty Loan drew away. The colt finished the mile and a half in 2.40 4-5, within two seconds of the track record.
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Latonia
Liberty Loan
Loftus
Cudgel
A Dairy Lunch and the Handwriting on the Wall
A writer from the Post-Im pressions visits a modest luncheon with a Boswell. They study a wall menu and the great man proclaims the handwriting on the wall. He orders English beef and kidney pie followed by strawberry shortcake.
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Boswell
New York Evening Post
Patented Two-Wheeled Weevil Harvesting Machine
A novel two wheeled vehicle designed to move over growing cotton and collect boll weevils has received a patent. The device operates by navigating through cotton fields and capturing pests without damaging the crop. Inventors claim improved efficiency for pest control and harvest yield.
Japan Refuses to Join US China Peace Note
Washington reports Japan rejects sending a note similar to the United States on China. Secretary Lansing briefed England and Japan on U S action, while Ambassador Sato met with Secretary Lansing in secrecy. Japan edges toward a East Asia Monroe doctrine and non intervention in China.
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Washington
Japan
United States
Far East
China
England
America
Ching
Lansing
East
Sato
State Department
Germany
St Marys Alumni Banquet Highlights and Speakers
More than a hundred members and guests attended the sixteenth annual St Marys Alumni Association banquet at the Gunter Hotel. Judge James R. Davis led, remarks celebrated the class of 1917, and multiple speakers including Rev Father Mays Rev Father Tragesser and William Campbell shared tributes and jokes. The event featured comedy arts and impromptu talks and marked a generous treasury balance after expenses.
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St. Mary's
Menger
Ed Graebner
Father Mays
Brothers of Mary
Father Tragesser
Catholic Normal At
St. Louis
William Campbell
The
Southern Messenger
John Ryan
St. Louis College
Father Leimkuehler
Wm. R. Lamm
Toney Castanda Jr
Hugh B. Rice
Contractors Bid For Warehouse Construction Invited
Bids due noon Wednesday June 20 for a hollow tile warehouse 408 by 205 feet with two division fire walls and rubberoid roof. Complete building or separate tile cement and lumber construction bids requested. Right to reject any bid.
Banquet Honors Texas Guests With Liederkranz Choir and Alumni
A humorous Hugo Kaufman monologue opened a banquet where the San Antonio Liederkranz double quartet and Marimba Land performed. Texas visitors praised Alabama hospitality as General Steiner welcomed them, with a Texas special train departing Montgomery for Atlanta at midnight.
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Hugo Kaufman
San Antonio Liederkranz
St. Mary's College
Albert Steves Sr
John J. Stevens
Lee Petrich
B. J. Lange Sr
Peter O'Brien
Paul O’brien
Rudolph Menger
Henry Maracheau
Joseph Courand
Ernest Steves
William Wielmann
Robert Terry
Henry Richter
Eugene Fecci
Leo M. J. Wielmann
John W. Tobin
James F. Davis
William A. Menger
Paul Villaret
Arthur D. Heye
Steve Seffel
Hugh B. Rice
A. A. Zizik
Andres Coy Jr
Rudolph Richter
Hermann Richter
Dan Sullivan
Fritz Reuter
W. W. Hume
Louis Tragresser
Robert May
Anthony Wolf
George Mechel
Peter
A. Frische
John Ryan
Luis Fecei
Edward Nigeli
Leon Kaufmann
Edward Stenzel
Robert Fentiman
Louis Schneidermeyer
Joseph Ryan
Tom J. Newton
Peter P. Hoefgen
Nelson Lytle
Charles ‘Fong
Pat Y Sharvehnessy
Henry J Menger
Gilbert Dietzel
O. W. Kraus
E d Neumann
Charles W. Meyer
Murt McCarthy
Texas
Montgomery
Atlanta
Texas Rotarians Have Fine Time in Alabama
Rotarians from the twelfth district traveling to Atlanta meet Alabama clubs in Mobile and Montgomery. Brigadier General R E B Steiner of the Alabama National Guard welcomed the visitors at a Country Club supper and dance after a city tour. General Steiner, noted for his rapid Army ascent post border duties, addressed the group.
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Steiner
Texas
Montgomery
Alabama
Ala
Atlanta
Alabama Rotary Club
Mobile
The Understudy Joke Sparks Divorce Advice
A discouraged man seeks a divorce. The lawyer doubts a separation for spurious grounds. The man retorts that his wife bites him whenever she throws at the dog, a paradoxical complaint from a beggar in a New York Times humor item.
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New York Times
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