Foraging Across the Volga Weary Travelers Face Food Lines
W T Ellis reports from a Volga journey about constant food seeking by passengers, bread shortages at Petrograd to Astrakhan, and bustling river ports. He notes peasants supply markets, widespread eating on deck, and extensive river traffic with 2000 steamships and diverse cargo along the Volga.
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W.T. Ellis
Russia
Volma
Mississippi
Slac
National Geographic Sociery
Petrograd
Vna
Moscow
Ashrakhan
Astrakhan
Food Inn
Bazar
Lucky
Pssengers
Volga
Karmarks
Music Galore Promised at Two City Parks
San Antonio residents will enjoy a mid week concert at Koehler Park and a Travis Park community singing event Thursday. The Koehler Park program mixes dance numbers with standard pieces under Director W H H Smith. At Travis Park Sergeant Wall leads a state and college song night with a flag or pennant carried by attendees. Notable guests include Mrs Laura Maverick and pianist Ernest Kingswell Smith. The events begin at 7:30 and 8:39 respectively with children’s chorus and mass singing featuring soulful solos.
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Koehler Park
Travis Park
San
Hvs
Maryland
Wiill
Sergeant Wall
Main Avenue High School
Laura Maverick
New York
San Antonian
Ernest Kingswell Smith
Victoria
Levine
Smith
Camp Tra Vis
Army
Sergt. Herbert Wall
Camp Travis
Popukirs
Zip
Sergt Reuben Besk- Vo
Deaura Mavericktes
Rachmaninoff
Lift Off Corns Freezone Is Magic
Freezone promises painless corn removal with a tiny bottle sold by druggists. It claims instant relief for hard and soft corns and calluses without soreness. The ad touts ether-based discovery from Cincinnati and urges quick purchase.
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Cincinnati
Wolfson's Golden Anniversary Sale
Wolfson's marks its golden anniversary with continuous June shopping. The final three days promise deeper discounts on fresh and new summer merchandise as shoppers seize items.
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Wolfson
Charters filed for Texas businesses and railroad line
In Austin on June 27 charter filings include Needville based Char tereals Farmers Gin Company with 14000 capital stock and incorporators J J Leiner M M Hoone and Ky Koesle Hidalgo Sugar Company of Pharr with 24000 stock and incorporators md Kadghbter E J Knight Jr and George C Dreeding Locust Oil Company of Dallas with 10000 stock and incorporators G f Ray de B Cranfil and J Z Buttle Planters Gin Company of Richmond with 13000 stock and incorporators A M Holmes J A Farmer and S J Winston Curties Company of Houston with the capital stock 0 000 and incorporators Carl Lies Smith and M H Ities Sulphur Spur railroad Company of Bay City with 50000 stock to build a three mile line in Matagorda County Incorporator names listed Amending capital stock for Angleton State Bank of Angleton First State Bank of Hiesel Newton Weller Wagner Company of San Antonio Parox Film Corporation of New York granted permit to do business in Texas with 1000 stock Texas headquarters at Austin.
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Austin
Chartereals Farmers Gin Company
Needville
Fort Bend County
Capital Stock
Incorporators
J. J. Leiner
Mo M. Hoone
Ky Koesle
Hidalgo Sugar Company
Pharr
Incorportors
MD. Kadghbter
E. J. Knight Jr
George CU
Locust Oil Company
Dallas
G. Ff. Ray
de B. Cranfil
J. Z. Buttle
Planters’ Gin Company
Richmond
A. M. Holmes
J. A. Farmer
S. J. Winston
Curties Company
Houston
Carl Lies
Smith
M. H. Ities
Sul
Oat Flour Valued For Food Use In Baking
Oat flour offers high food value and serves as a wheat substitute in breads cookies and wafers. It can replace up to 50 percent in most recipes and up to 100 percent in cookies and wafers. A 50 percent substitution yields good yeast breads and lighter loaves with mixtures such as oat plus corn or corn meal. Ground rolled oats preferred for cookies and crackers per University of Washington home economics studies.
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University of Washington Home Economics Department
Former Y worker wins citation on battle field
Rev John Clifford former Y minister at Tucson and Camp Travis worker is cited for meritorious service in France. He dragged a wounded colonel under fire to a hospital after rescuing him on the Marne, amid shellfire. Clifford 47 a Oxford graduate, came to the U S in 1914 and later served at Camp Travis. His son joined the 115th ordnance company of the 90th Division. Mrs Clifford lives in San Antonio.
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John Clifford
Tuscon
Arizona
Canravis
France
Clifford
Marne
Cltford
Sion
Oxford
Tucson
America
Camp Travis
San Antonio
Ite
Jamaica
Dutch East Indies
England
Family links span lineages in Plattsburg marriage tale
Captain Anderson Dana, newly married at Plattsburg and grandson of journalist Charles A. Dana, recalls his grandfather’s belief in marriage as a stabilizer. He recounts a Washington Star anecdote about a supposed truth machine for lies, joking that you have already married one.
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Anderson Dana
Plattsburg
Charles A. Dana
Gou
Washington Star
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Lone Star Brewing Ass’n
W Rose Co
Cleveland, Os
Texas
NOA Spears CO
Lesoya St
Royal Typewriter
Potchernick-Haak Typewriter CO
St. Mary's St
Pittsburk
Scotswain
Pat Ang Sandy
Jeld Farm
Ehteleen
Pat
Sordy
Travis
Koehler
Nainsock
Zephyr
Berkley
Atta
GB. Doward
Dreane
J. Gung
Calvin Groom
Washinton
China
Battle Field
Tila
Gude
Pepto Mangan
Red Blood Builder
M. J. Breitenbach CO
Artesian Ice Factory
E. Houston
Moore
Dean Specialty Works
Crockett
Crockett Thot
1. C. Smith
Afbevyer
Rane
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