Schools Should Train Pupils as City Officials
Mrs. Rena Maverick Green urged San Antonio public schools to add a practical municipal government course with lectures by city officials. She argued schools should prepare youths for future community service and efficient local government, stressing diverse education and home-school cooperation.
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Rena M. Green
San Antonio
Son Antonio
Rena Maverick Green
History Club
St. Anthony
Green
Hecrers
M Antonio
Mrs. Green
Jose de Ta Mata
Trade with West Indies and Port Rico prospects
The article cites Les Lies Weekly on the Cuba, Porto Rico, Santo Domingo and Haiti riches totaling 5 million with 21 million inhabitants capable of settlement. It notes sugar, cacao, coffee, pineapples, bananas as main exports, Goba’s vast sugar plantation, and West Indies dependence on these islands for sugar. Post Spanish war US ownership spurred modernization, tobacco under cheese cloth, and rising wealth. Port Rico’s future hinges on stable government, roads, schools, banks, and steamship links with the United States, plus tourism potential.
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Cuba
Leslie
Porto Rico
Santo Domingo
Dominican Republic
Haiti
Goba
West Indies
Marieta
Porto Rita
United States
Sam
Porty Rico
Majori
Conia
Ted Bintas
Petition for Food Supply Depots Filed in US House
Washington March 6 petitions signed by about 100000 Americans urge President Wilson and Congress to establish nationwide food supply depots to curb speculators and stabilize prices for workers. The push cites Army and Navy figures showing wage-earners paying high costs and points to Canal Zone commissary success as a model. It argues for government retail depots and measures to reduce food costs during the war.
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Washington
United States
House of Representatives
Wilson
Congress of the
Kent
Independent
California
Socialist Party
House Committee On Interstate and Foreign Commerce
Army
Navy
Uiy
Sam
Panama Canal Zone
Congress
Germany
Canal Zone Administration
Medianie
Slike
West End Sewing Society keeps faith with orphans
In San Antonio a Civic sewing circle, the West End Sewing Society, marks 23 years of quiet service. Four presidents in 25 years, dues five cents a month, and every meeting is devoted to sewing for Protestant Orphans' Home. Members avoid gossip, tea, and noise, and have produced over 2354 garments, with a bed endowed for the boys ward.
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Harmony
West End Society
Orphan‘s Home
Society
San Antonio
Orphans’ Home
West End
Anna Schofield
J. F. Roundtree
Rot‘ers
Ohio
EB. D. Pierson
Patience Allis
Roundtree-Rogers
Marshall Freeborn
Charles Bradley
Rowena Shaeffer
Mera
Tol Warlhea Moore
Agnes
Boatman
Anno ‘Schofield
Tinnin
S. Dowden
Jennie Owen
Harvey Matthews
J. J. Mayer
Mya
Wharton
Devig
W. [Iford
John W. Shoemaker
Nex Pinnin
Nina
Nnparticular
West End Sewing Society Keeps Quiet Harmony
In a long standing West End sewing society, gossip and quarrels are curbed by harmony and a strict rulebook. Members meet every five weeks, maintain a shared sewing basket, and loyalty to West End means no outside sewing. if a member moves away, they lose the right to host or participate in sewing at home.
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Perlite
T van Eee
Ule
Lab
Wey
Harmony
Kociety
West End
Switzerland Faces Hard Times With Quiet War Strain
Report from SuiRne Switzerland notes a wartime mood though life continues in Berne. No tourists, mines and Alps draw locals upward as business sinks. Hotels stay open, but the crisis worsens if shortages persist. Wheat supplies halt via Amsterdam Rhine Russia and Romania threatening famine pressures. Italy curbs cargoes to Genoa amid Allied blockade tensions.
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Suirne
Switzerland
Berne
Capt
Amsterdam
Rhine
Russia
Rumania
Italy
Genoa
England
Swiss dilemma amid wartime pressure deepens
The text notes Italy’s entry into the war zone and Switzerland’s increasingly precarious position. It describes Switzerland as trapped at the center of conflict, compelled to maintain strict neutrality in political, financial, and economic terms amid threats from France, The UK, Germany, and Austria.
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Italy
Switzerland
Wsll
France
Germany
Austria
Paris Sees Loss as Mrs Mackay Retires from Society
Paris notes a major social shift as Mrs John W Mackay announces retirement to southern France after decades in Paris high society. The 75 year old American hostess, famed for elegant gowns and wit, will leave a role difficult to replace in Faubourg Saint Germain and on the Riviera, ending a era of lavish entertainments.
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Paris
Johm W. Mackay
London
Holdig
Faubourg
St. Germain
Riviera
France
Pari
Stops Tobacco Habit in One Day
The Elders Sanitarium at 644 Main St Joseph Missouri offers a free book on ending tobacco use. It claims a one to five day home program, aiding cessation for smoking chewing or dipping. The pamphlet targets men and reports improved health after using the method.
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Sanitarium
Main Bt
St. Joseph
Melennrar
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