High School Cadets Parade Features Diverse Events
Students from Avenue High and Western Military Academy trade drill displays in a three heat tug of war and a full afternoon program. The cadet corps of 225 girls perform flag drills, dances, races, calisthenics, and patriotic drills under instructors Viola Moore, Walt She, Bobby Cannon, and others. The final winner will represent San Antonio at the state meet in Dallas on April 21.
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Avenue High
Yviola Moore
Walt
Bobby Cannon
Inter
Military Academy
San Antonio
Dallas
Lean
Brackenridge High School
Schwab Field
Brackenridge
Gill
Reilly
Crack
Ferguson Predicts Extra Senate Session Needed
March 21 remark by former Gov James E B Ferguson notes the Legislature underfunded the penitentiary system. An emergency budget until August 1825 was set at 100,600 dollars instead of 500,000. Ferguson warns current expenses exceed 108,000 dollars monthly and predicts inmates may starve without more funds.
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Austin
James EB. Ferguson
San Antonio Plans Clean-Up Week Activities
Texas Clean-Up Week runs April 5 to 11 per state health board. In San Antonio, Dr. W A King announces city events starting with Sunday sermons on public health. Daily themes include Health Appraisal Day, General Clean-Up Day, Insect and Rodent Control Day, Child Welfare and Birth Registration Day, Disease Prevention Day, and Pure Food Day with lectures, posters, and coordinated trash removal efforts.
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Texas
State Board of Health
San Antonio
W. A. King
City Health
Ring
Tam
Through Pullman to Valley Starts
The first through sleeper from St Louis to the Rio Grande Valley via San Antonio will depart Sunday at 6 50 PM. It will reach this city on the LG NJ line at 9 30 PM Monday and serve the Valley over SPA UL G at 10 PM the same night.
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St. Louis
Rio Grande Valley
San Antonio
Missouri
IG. N
LG. NJ
Spa
UL & G
Brownsville
Former Senator Gets Six Year Term
Dallas news reports former Senator R. E. A. Decherd found guilty of forgery of land titles with a six year imprisonment sentence. The defendant had previously been tried twice, first receiving six and a half years, then a not guilty verdict on another trial.
Endorses Flappers Cigarettes Rouge in Lecture
Robert Hughes, novelist and motion picture producer, argued in a lecture that current manners and morals surpass those of any prior era in American history. He defended flappers and smoking against critics, recalling 1850 Scottish teachers teaching girls to smoke and noting past outcries over corsets as evidence of unfounded moral panic.
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le Bagrarento
Cals Marek
Robert Hughes
Hughes
Scotland
Alamo City Lodge Women’s Auxiliary Meeting Held
The Women’s Auxiliary of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen met Friday at noon for luncheon at the Original Mexican restaurant. A class of initiates joined the afternoon program as the drill team performed. Refreshments were served. Mrs. Alva Williams, Mrs. F. E. Lord, and Mrs. G. B. Johnson hosted. A dance was planned for Thursday evening, April 30, at Woodmen of the World hall for the public.
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Alamo City Lodge No
Brotherhood
Far Road
Alva, Williams
FE. Lord
GB. Johnson
Woodmen
Kiddies Need Sal For Hospital Fund Report
A fragmentary notice notes proceeds from a sale and a donation totaling 250 dollars to aid crippled children. The association emphasizes non remuneration for members and calls for support to improve life and future prospects for afflicted children.
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