Music Festival Chorus Plans Renewed Work After Picnic
The Music Festival Chorus resumes Monday evening, September 11, with Haydn’s Creation and modern works. The group, now said to be the largest in its history, held a summer picnic at Dambert Beach, Brackenridge Park, with many members and a river dip followed by a luncheon. Charity details and plans for October were discussed as the chorus looks to an annual outing.
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Music Festival
Haydn
Dambert Beach
Brackenridge Park
al Hanson
Koehler Park
A. M. Fischer
Associated Charities
Orchestra and Officers of Sunday School Standings
The First Presbyterian Sunday School orchestra includes Joe McAllister Jules Dulling and other members in both standing and seated groups. The ensemble supports a large program with 760 members and full organization across departments. The school is praised as a standard Sunday school by the International Association.
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Joe McAllister
Jules Dulling
F. H. Palmer
J. E. Winters
Irving M. Dietz
A. B. Weakley
J. W. Culver
G. 8. Raymond
Byterian
International Association
Music in the Churches Travis Park and others blend sacred concert
Music programs across several churches include organ preludes and postludes by Gounod and Wagner, titles like Sanctus and Magnificat, solos by Miss Elsa Harms and Miss Madeline Sanders, and duets at Central Christian, First Presbyterian, and Laurel Heights Methodist churches.
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Travis Park Methodist Church
Batiste
St. Cecua
G. E. Gwinn
Elsa Harms
Charles M. Lee
Gilbert E. Schramm
Wagner
Laurel Heights Methodist Church
F. L. Carson
Emmett Rountree
Harrington
Steele
King of Love
Madeline Sanders
New Records Issued by Columbia Company
Columbia Company issues many new records including Wake Up America a top preparedness song Godowsky Chopin Nocturne in E flat Robin Adair by Columbia Stellar Quartette playful Casey at Home with Prince Orchestra They Didn’t Believe Me from The Girl from Utah and many other melodies and vocal performances by notable artists such as Kathleen Parlow Henry Burr Albert Campbell and Al Jolson across classical and popular genres.
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Saint Saens
Grenadier Guards
Columbia Oratorio Chorus
Stainer
Luis Graveure
Peter Rabbit
Kathleen Parlow
Dvorak
Ernest R. Ball
Rhoda Bernard
Nathan
Marie Sandelius
Godowsky
Lizst
Henry Burr
Albert Campbell
al Jolson
Robinson Crusoe
Grace Nash
Edgar Stoddard
Arms Around
Lindy Lou
Marguerite Farrell
Fox Trot
Lefty
Grenadier Guards Band
Tancreds
Loveland
Heaven Is
Home
Doctor Berry and the Brookville Patient
The tale from Brookville Indiana recalls Doctor Berry’s patient Samuel Baker who mocked the sage advice. After refusing medicine the physician advised mimicry of a chicken to recover. A week later Samuel returns visibly ill and explains his poor diet delayed his recovery.
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Doctor Berry
Indiana
Brookville
Cincinnati
Samuel Baker
Samuel
Sunset Concert Band Formed by Southern Pacific Railroad Men
San Antonio yard and track workers organize the Sunset Concert Band with 25 instruments. Officers elected include Frank J. Klevenhagen president and C. M. Click Jr vice president. T. Caruth named leader. Members play various B flat E flat and F notes as listed, with flag purchase and July 4 flag-raising planned on rip tracks.
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Southern Pacific Railroad
San Antonio
Frank J. Klevenhagen
C. M. Click Jr
A. Bagarry Jr
T. Caruth
Monclova
Mexico
Sunset
B. Clark
T. Click
Val Click
D. Collins
W. J. de Lacy
F. J. Klevenhagen
W. E. Mechler
J. B. Johnstone
J. G. Sherwood
S. Schrier
N. C. Riggs
E. Philippi
R. Bridgewater
Southern Pacific Rip Tracks
Train Robber Demands Money Amid Night Passenger Turnout
A train robbery unfolds as passengers prepare to sleep with a robber towering over a clergy man. The minister retorts that faster collection plates might yield charity if such energetic thieves passed the plate. A Maryland inventor touts shipboard life preserver pillows from waterproof material for quick attachment.
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Harper’s Magazine
Maryland
The Play of Kindergarten and Playground
An article by Elsie Ashmore argues directed play develops essential societal qualities. It stresses the roles of kindergarten and playground in moral instruction, leadership by kindergartners, and the need for guiding supervision over mere apparatus.
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Elsie Ashmore
Cleveland
Pittsburg
George E. Johnson
Tanner
Horne
Rubber in War Times Prompts National Geograhic Bulletin
The National Geographic Society reports rubber's pivotal role in World War I logistics and U S punitive expeditions. Rubber underpins transport for troops and supplies, with 18 000 car automobile trains used to rush Verdun reinforcements.
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Washington
Europe
United States
Mexico
National Geographic Society
Rio Grande
Verdun
Tropics
Charles Goodyear
Connecticut
Rubber's journey from native sap to global commodity
A historical overview traces rubber from its early use by indigenous Haitians to repel rain and erase pencil marks, through Goodyear's birth year, Mackintosh’s rainproof design, and the spread of rubber harvesting in the Amazon, Orinoco, and Congo. It notes production, by products, and 1914 prewar trade, with country roles and costs.
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New World
Haiti
United States
Charles Goodyear
Boston
Brazil
Madrid
Mackintosh
Charles Mackintosh
Amazon
Orinoco
Congo
South America
Africa
Fiji Islands
Sumatra
Ceylon
Straits Settlements
Exiled Moroccan ruler Muley Hafid watched in Spain
In Barcelona on June 17 Muley Hafid former sultan of Morocco is under close guard by Spanish authorities due to two German submarines nearby and fears of a secret transfer across the Mediterranean. He refused to leave his hotel unless paid and hinted at settling in the North, amid questions about a royal wedding blessing.
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Barcelona
Spain
Muley Hafid
Morocco
Teutons
Muley
Mediterranean
Secret Service
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Leigh Concert Company
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Washington, D. C
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First Presbyterian Church
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