Country Store Night at Grand Promises Big Giveaways
Manager Valdez promotes a Grand Country Store tonight starting 8 30 with at least 200 in goods, about ten valuable presents and many smaller items. Extra electric fans to handle crowds, plus acts by Auriema the top female impersonator. Amateur night Thursday replaces Friday with a strong bill including Japanese produced drama and Italian three reel Out of Darkness.
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Grand
Valdez
Auriema
San Antonio
Italia
Olive
Klaw & Erlanger
Mary Pickford
Nina of the Theater at Wigwam 2
Alice Joyce stars in Nina of the Theater a two part Kalem drama at Wigwam 2 Wednesday. The story follows Nina who may sacrifice her face to save her lover and keep him from death as she endures the surgeon's knife. Also Carlyle Blackwell in The Siren in two parts.
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Alice Joyce
Nina
Tragedy of the Orient heads Royal bill
A two reel Broncho feature titled The Tragedy of the Orient tops a seven reel bill at the Royal. The story centers on a geisha maiden who falls for Japan's throne heir and sparks a court scandal.
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Royal
Japan
the Royal
Policeman Sobieski Hurt In Falling From Cab
Mounted officer Sobieski, early Sunday, was seriously injured when thrown from a cab during an attempt to arrest a man accused of stealing a large quantity of cats from Garden Street stables. He is in City Hospital with possible internal injuries and severe wounds. The suspect was later arrested by other officers.
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Sobieski
Garden Street
Cones Photographs Accepted for American Photographers Exhibit
J. W. Cones has three photographs accepted for the Photographers' Association of America exhibit in Atlanta. Of 106 entrants 35 had all three works accepted, 30 had two accepted, and the rest had one. The annual exhibit showcases the best photographers in the country.
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Cones
J. W. Cones
Photographers’ Association of America
Atlanta
America
Bliss to Inspect Mexican Prisoners of War at Fort Bliss
Brig. Gen. Tasker H. Bliss commander of the Southern Department travels from El Paso to Fort Bliss to inspect several thousand Federal soldiers and families held as refugees after fleeing General Villa. Bliss has been conducting site inspections across border points and is now west of El Paso. The Third Field Artillery battalion at Eagle Pass is marching overland to Fort Sam Houston, expected to finish in about a week.
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Department
Tasker H. Bliss
Southern Department
el Paso
Fort Wingate
General Villa
Uncle Sam
General Bliss
United States
Mexico
Brownsville
Laredo
Eagle Pass
Third Field Artillery
Fort Sam Houston
Ate
Water rights hearings begin in San Saba
The state board of water commissioners heads to San Saba for a series of hearings on permits to appropriate water from the San Saba for irrigation and other uses. The board will be away from Austin for several days.
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Austin
Tex
State Board of Water Commissioners
San Saba
Social rounds and church notes fill West End scene
Ladies and church groups meet across West End with teas and rehearsals. Misses King Bourland and Wyschetzki attend dances and weddings while families tour Chicago and Morgan Point. The Pan American Exposition commission and Travis Park groups plan meetings as local socials continue through June.
Wagon Load of Liquor Seized After Juneteenth Feasts
Two men are jailed after detectives Beck and Norton arrested them at dawn Sunday, seizing an express wagon of whiskey hidden under hay. Police say the pair supplied a bootlegging operation during the Juneteenth celebrations, mingling with crowds and selling bottles after saloons closed.
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Beck
Norton
San Antonio Beef Sales Reported At 9.80 Cents Per Pound
The Washington Star notes Swift & Company's fresh beef sales in San Antonio for the week ending June 20 averaged 9.80 cents per pound. The report highlights pricing details and market activity in the local meat trade.
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Swift & Company
San Antonio
Society for Thrift Seeks 50000 Dollar Congress Aid
Washington June 22 The American Society for Thrift asks a Senate appropriations hearing to obtain 50000 dollars for an international thrift congress in San Francisco during the Panama Exposition. S. W. Straus of Chicago will speak for the proposal, arguing the government funding will be repaid many times over as thrift is promoted nationally and individually. Great Britain will represent at the congress.
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Washington, D. C
Congress
International Congress For Thrift
San Francisco
American Society For Thrift
Senate Appropriations Committee
S. W. Straus
Chicago
Great Britain
The Secret of Beauty Free by C Allen Gilbert
A free panel reproduction titled The Secret of Beauty by artist C Allen Gilbert offers readers a colored 11x22 inch image of a girl figure. Send 10c in stamps to cover wrapping and postage to Gouraud's Oriental Dream readers at 37 Great Jones Street New York.
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Gouraud
VFERD
T. Hopkins & Son
Great Jones Street
New York
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Beulah
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Woman’s Missionary Society of the
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W. R. Bradshaw
Leigh Street
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Elizabeth Harrison
Garrett P. Robertson
Lucile Bourland
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Miss Bourland
Irene Young
Gordon Bourland
Helen Wyschetzki
Edward Glandon
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Ted H. Milburn
Robertson
Glandon
William Terry Thrift
Nixon
Stella Hasy
Ima Thrift
Claude Bourland
Helen Schenk von Wyschetzki
St. Patrick's Church
Will James
Yale
Gunter
Phyllis Shiner
Margaret Haile
Ray M. Hare
Sam McFadden
John M. Steinfeldt
Morgan's Point
Texas Commission
Oak Room
the St. Anthony
Travis Park Methodist Church
W. E. Smith
Guilbeau Street
San Pedro
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A. W. Cunningham
Blanco Road
Helen Huppertz
Claudia Street
A. E. Huppertz
Joe S&s Newton
George A. Stowers
Walter Whisenant
Hkttleson
Kyle
Esther Patton
Lockhart
J. R. Holcombe
Pierce Avenue
P. H. Swearingen
Helen Kirby
Nadinda
Washington Star
Hertzberg's Optical Department
E. Hertzberg Jewelry Co
Houston and
St. Mary's Sts
Society For Thrift
Beauty
C. Allen Gilbert
White Horse Tavern
Washer Bros. Co
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J. A. Greene
the Light
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