Rookie cadets train for battalion clash at Camp Cecil A Lyon
Civilians learn horsemanship and drill as Major Laubach directs a week of exercises at Camp Cecil A Lyon. Rookies receive instruction in signaling, first aid, topographical sketching, and machine gun operation with afternoons devoted to optional classes and a horse riding program.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Howard L. Laubach
Cecil A. Lyon
Landtenant
Bernard R. Peyton
Third Field Artillery
Laubach
E. A. Miller
Field Artillery
Salado
Veterans Social Promises Notable Program at Camden Street
The Confederate Veterans hold a monthly social at 207 Camden Street this afternoon. Prof S W Van Deman performs Old Gray Jacket's Pilgrimage set to music, based on T L Krebs's verses inspired by a monument to the Unknown Dead. Miss Mildred Taylor reads, other musical numbers planned. Advertisement notes a $75.35 New York round trip via Diver Route, rail both ways, and a burning locomotives feature.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Camden Street
Old Gray Jacket
8. W. van Deman
T. L. Krebs
Mildred Taylor
Mayor seeks ruling from Supreme Court in Uhr case
The mayor seeks a Supreme Court of Texas ruling after the Fourth Court of Civil Appeals upheld City Commissioner Uhr’s right to nominate all police and fire department employees. The appeal moves forward via City Attorney George R. Gillette, with a rehearing filed and the court expected to rule next week before summer adjournment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Supreme Court of Texas
Clinton G. Brown
Robert F. Uhr
Fourth Court of Civil Appeals
Supreme Court
Appellate Court
W. S. Fly
Uhr
George R. Gillette
Terrell Bartlett to Present Austin Dam Report
Engineer Terrell Bartlett will appear before the Austin city council on Monday to present a detailed report on changes in dam construction. The document analyzes whether alterations strengthened or weakened the structure and discusses the final plan deviations disputed by constructors and other engineers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Terrell Bartlett
Austin Dam
Austin
Bartlett
City Council of
Bartlett & Ranney
San Antonio
Record cattle sale at Silas Tow ranch sets prices
In Norway Iowa eighty head sold in three hours for sixty four thousand dollars. A bull brought four thousand dollars the highest price, a bull calf two thousand one hundred dollars and a heifer calf five hundred. Average price paid was six hundred fourteen dollars. Hundreds of stockmen from the United States and Canada attended with eighty expected at a similar sale in Harlan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Norway
Silas Tow
United States
Canada
Harlan
Red Cross Supplies Ready For Packing In San Antonio
San Antonio branch begins packing Red Cross supplies in about four days to be held for national orders. About 2500 items include 36 bathrobes donated by Mrs. T C Frost, 1000 yards gauze cut into bandages, and many pajamas shirts arms slings bed shoes and more. Judge Kelso invited to Waco to help organize similar effort there.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Red Cross
San Antonio
American Red Cross Society
National Organization
T. C. Frost
Rotary Club funds aid Texas militia recruiting posters
The San Antonio Rotary Club used remaining burro fund money to print posters urging Texas youths to enlist in the Texas organized militia. Colonel Hoover lamented lack of advertising funds, and 3,000 enlistment targets were planned within seventeen days. Posters will appear in prominent downtown show windows.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Antonio
W. S. Birge
Balanc
Texas
Humorous Exchanges From Two Papers In 20th Century Rail
A dialogue from the St. Louis Post Dispatch notes Harold’s academic decline felt by peers not teachers, while the Louisville Courier Journal jests about fortune telling and a paying teller for financial news.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harold
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Louwisville Courier- Journal
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Cheek & Neal
Maxwell House
Fern Leaf Creamery
Golden Orchard
Gengler
Armour’s
Miode
Neufchatel
Sierra
Iowa
Gebhardt
Houston Street
West Houston Street
G. Washington
All National Biscuits
Anger’s Products
Ey Kash
Lowe
E. Com
E.com
E. Commerce
Avenue C
W. Commerce
Flores
Avenue D
Alamo
N. Flores
Mt Garden Corner
Dawson and
Pine Sta
Main Ave
Soledad St
W. Houston St
Mistletoe Ave
Howard St
Laurel Heights
E. Commerce St
N. Flores St
Gengler’s
Knox
Cox
Domino
Armour
Acon
Banner Oats
Eee Rt
Sur
Impor
Ted
Reguli
Resh Mackerel
Navigator
Faut
Heinz’s
Durkee
Libby
Sreiner's
Jacket
New York
Southern Pacific
Ady
Austin City Council
Memphis
Chicago
Rotary Club
Tex
Fairview Oil Company
Houster Capital
F. E. Koehler
A. A. Young
F. M Sager
Howard Glass Manufacturing
Henrietta
Capital
H. H. Howard
A. Henderson
W. H. Howard
M. & L. Transfer and Storage Company of
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Capital Stock
J. R. McKinley
W. T. Leachman
Frank B. Salter
H. Hog Remedy Company of
Dallas
John K. Sweet
Robert E. Hodgman
Warren D. Jones
A.M. Thomas & Company
Humble
Purpose
Thomas F. Cruse
Lee Wilkenson
W. B. Sherrod
Varner-Allen Hardware Company
Paris
Incor
H. A. Varner
T. R. Allen
Vv. W. Haygood
Detroit State Bank of Detroit
Guaranty Building Company of
Thrall-Stiles Oil Company of
Thorndale
Manalin
Peruna Company
Columbus
Ohio
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