Play festival at San Pedro park showcases supervised youth games
Five thousand school children from about twenty schools gathered at San Pedro park for a Saturday play festival under the San Antonio Playground Association. George Wheeler and Miss Kathleen Cleaver directed events with Miss Edith Jimison. hundreds attended as Boy Scouts aided, and the program included dances, singing games, relay and obstacle races, with performances by Crockett and Bonham schools and the high school orchestra.
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San Pedro Park
San Antonio
Edith Jimison
Belle Dilgarde
F. W. McAllister
Penelope Borden
Bonham School
Gembler
Alicia Petitclerc
Brown
Commissioner Lambert
Brackenridge Park
Philip Cook
Wesley House Kindergarten
Crockett School
Mayor Brown
Phillip Cook
Oioe
Nellie Boren
Madam Petitclerc
Wesley House
Flags of Nations
Fern Hirsch
Miss Jones
Bobby Shalto
Berger
M. Bergen
J. C. Gembler
Austin
Burnett
Margel
Collins Gardens
Highlang Park
Bonham
Cook
Lamar School
L. Cook
Riverside School
de Zavala School
Wolff & Marx
Collings Garden School
Johnson School
Harris School
Lambert
Bowie School
Grand Army of the Republic
Birth Rate Falls Off In Bavaria During War
Munich reports a dramatic drop in Bavaria birth rate, the empire’s highest prior to the war, with statistics showing a decline of nearly sixty three percent in the last twelve months. Advertising note lists Rambler and Syracuse bicycles via Portage Tire Co. 221 S Alamo St. (Adv.)
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Munich
Tate
Bavaria
Empire
Rambler
Syracuse
Portage Tire Co
Alamo St
How to Safely Peel Your Face
An aging complexion can be removed by nightly application of mercorized wax, then washing off to reveal fresher skin. Freckles, blotches, and pimples fade as discarded skin sheds. A lotion with saxolite dissolved in hazel water erases wrinkles and crow’s feet.
Suffrage Week Observed in Alamo City
The San Antonio Equal Franchise Society designates a week of suffrage with daily 8 pm gatherings at suffrage headquarters on Commerce Street. Speakers include lawyers teachers ministers and prominent civic figures with themed evenings Monday judiciary committee Tuesday ministers Wednesday prayer meetings Thursday lawyers Friday Trades Council Saturday teachers led by Mrs. Rena Maverick Green.
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San Antonio
C. A. Riley
Samuel Marks
E. Garfield Johnson
J. Porter
Caston Hartsfield
Thomas Gallaher
Harry C. Leonard
George H. Badger
Antis
Trades Council
William L. Dunne
Rena Maverick Green
Training Camp Planned at Fort Sam Houston
General Funston proceeds with civilian training camp plans for June at Fort Sam Houston assuming normal conditions. If the Mexican situation worsens the camp may be canceled or postponed, as a larger expedition could tie up the mobile army and prevent civilian instruction.
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Fort Sam Houston
Funston
Suffrage Resolution Reconsideration Set For March 28
Support is urged for the House to reconsider the suffrage resolution on March 28 after it had voted to postpone. San Antonio telegrams from prominent men urge Senator Morris Sheppard to back the federal amendment granting women equal suffrage. nationwide activity is reported by the Equal Franchise Society and Congressional Union.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Judiciary Committee
House of Representatives
San Antonio
Morris Sheppard
Caruso Duet Sparks School Lesson
A Philadelphia teacher used a gramophone to introduce pupils to opera. She played a duet by two famous stars, and a pupil correctly named Caruso while another quipped Caruso’s man Friday, prompting a light moment in class.
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Caruso
Philadelphia Record
Wright declares candidacy for San Antonio Police and Fire Commissioner
The candidate Phil Wright announces his bid for the office of Commissioner of Police and Fire and seeks public support. The notice appears as political advertising. The freight schedule noted references 60 cents and a Sunday return from Sutherland Springs on the Southern Pacific line.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Antonio
Commissioner of Police and Fire
Phil Wright
Sutherland Springs
Southern Pacific
Any Woman Can Save Five Dollars An Hour Dry Cleaning
An advertisement touts at home dry cleaning with two ounces of Solvite in two gallons of gasoline. It claims garments such as ribbons, silks, laces, furs, dresses and more can be cleaned without soap and water, no shrinking or fading, and no pressing required. It warns gasoline is inflammable and to clean outdoors away from fire.
Women Now Cabbies Boost Budapest Taxi Service
Budapest officials approve employing female drivers as older men join munitions work. Public cabs nearly vanished as all able bodied men were drafted, and cab owners sought permission to hire women to operate the streets.
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Budapest
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Elberta
Knox Gelatine
Fancy
Congo
E. B. Tea
People’s Blend Tea
Washington
Dales
H. P
Walker
Swan
the Peoples Gash Stores
San Pedro Park Playground
Lamar
Hoffmann-Hayman
Apex
Jay Phillips
Alamo City
Equal Franchise Society
W. H. Phillips
Cibolo Gravel Company & P
NOLAN
Phone Crockett
Sean Antonio
Texas
INO
Stevens
Pres
Barry
Hatch
Mar
G. P. Ry
Landa
Salado
M. K
G. Hi
Senator Sheppard
W. Commerce St
Union Painless Dentists, Inc
Aidaephan Ceres
Dalkowitz Bros. Co
North Flores and
West Commerce Streets
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