Advertising dinner honors Hucker Thousand Club at Gunter
About 200 people are expected at the Chamber of Commerce advertising dinner at 7 30 Thursday evening in the Gunter Hotel. The event celebrates San Antonio's most successful tourist season and recognizes the Thousand Club for increasing visitor numbers. Addresses will review the campaign's reach across tourist source regions and hotel and business leaders will describe the season's impact. San Antonio railroad officials and executives from Sunset Central lines are to attend. Coinciding with the municipal election, county school trustees will also be elected across Bexar County with results sent to Joe Newton.
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Gunter Hotel
Chamber of Commerce
J. W. Hucker
Thousand Club
San Antonio
W. G. Crush
Katy
W. B. Scott
Sunset Central Lines
Bexar County
Joe S. Newton
Commissioners’ Court
Robert F. Uhr
Flushing
Star Chamber
Allied Offensive Near Avocourt Looms
Paris dispatch reports German infantry attacks aimed at retaking trenches near Avocourt wood failed. French artillery repelled assaults west of Avecourt and near Meuse with heavy losses. bombardments continued in Lorraine and Meuse regions. General A Y E Dubail appointed military governor of Paris replacing ill General Maunoury.
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Paris
Avocourt Wood
War Office
Malancourt
Meuse
Somme
Vermandovillers
Chaulnes
Avecourt
Woevre
St. Mihiel
Lorraine
Domerre
Bremenil
Mar
Pagny- Sur-Moselle
Maizieres-Les- Metz
Metz
A. Y. E. Dubail
Michael Maunoury
Dubail
French Repulsed in Attempted Recapture Northwest of Acecourt
Berlin dispatch reports French attacks to regain ground in woods northwest of Acecourt were repelled. German headquarters announced the failure of repeated efforts to retake the positions.
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Berlin
London
Acecourt
Water Wheels Of Hama Impress Ancient Irrigation
The Syrian city of Hama, 110 miles northeast of Damascus on the Orontes, hosts four vast undershot water wheels used to draw irrigation water and supply the town. The largest wheel measures seventy five feet in diameter, uses mahogany construction, iron axles, and buckets on the rim to lift water to the aqueduct. The wheels operate day and night, and similar devices are used in California valleys.
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Hama
Syria
Hamath the Great
Popular Science Monthly
Damascus
Orontes
California
Eyelash valuation sparks railroad court case
Miss Julian Purebsky of Bayonne valued five singed lashes at 100 each after a Jersey Central locomotive threw cinders at her. The suit for 500 ended in a 200 settlement, 60 per lash less than her claim. Cuero Firemen organize two crack teams for May state meeting contests in New Braunfels.
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New York
Jersey Central Railroad
Julian Purebsky
Prospect Avenue
Bayonne
Miss Purebsky
Cuero Firemen
Cuero
Tex
State Volunteer Fire Department
New Braunfels
New Use for a Hyphen in a Primary School
A teacher demonstrates hyphen use by writing bird's nest and asking pupils what the dash does. A young Irish student replies in a playful quip that the hyphen is for the bird to roost, delivering a lighthearted classroom moment from the lesson.
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Emerald Isle
Army to Begin Using Mexican Railroads
Army plans to shuttle supplies to the base in Mexico via the Mexican Northwestern railroad while expanding truck convoys from Columbus New Mexico. Officers doubt the railroad's reliability as a sole line of communication and seek clearer guidance from Mexican authorities on commercial freight rules. Villa rumors and pursuit shifts spark renewed speculation about his location near Namiquipa and a strategy of dispersed bands to mislead pursuers.
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Villa
Santa Tomas
Namiqupa
Gavira
Juarez
Garcia
Mexico
Mexico Northwestern Railroad
George Bell
Fort Bliss
Mexican Northwestern
Elliott
Columbus
N. M
Casas Grandes
Mexico Northwestern
Engineers’ Department
Army
Carranza
General Pershing
Namiquipa
Dodd
Santa Maria
Santa Catarina
Chihuahua
el Valle
Parral
Resume Aero Service Resumes Flights After Weather Pause
Weather conditions halted army airplane dispatches for three days. Lieutenant Edgar S. Gorrell said resumption is expected today with a flight planned to Casas Grandes from Columbus N.M. as the first outbound leg of the resumed line.
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Columbus
N. M
Army
Edgar 8. Gorrell
Casas Grandes
General Funston Stays in San Antonio Directing Southern Dept
General Funston will not go to El Paso now. From San Antonio headquarters he will direct expedition affairs and oversee the border patrol from Brownsville to the California line. Parke remarks on wanting a lasting occupation while Lane jokes about starting a New York lawsuit.
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Funston
el Paso
San Antonio
Brownsville
California
Parke
Lane
New York
Cut Out Money Request Ad Promises Free Trial Pack
A newspaper advertisement urges readers to mail a cutout slip to Foley & Co. in Chicago to receive a trial package of Foley's Honey and Tar Compound for coughs colds and croup and Foley Kidney Pills for back pain kidney issues and constipation. A. M. Fischer Drugist Gibbs Building endorses the offer.
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Foley & Co
Chicago
Ill
Foley
A. M. Fischer
Gibbs Building
Ely's Cream Balm Relieves Cold and Catarrh Fast
Relief for clogged nostrils with Ely's Cream Balm. The antiseptic fragrance soothes swollen mucous membranes as it penetrates air passages to restore easy breathing. A trusted remedy for colds and catarrh offered by druggists.
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Ely
Temporary facilities discussed for Country Club golf play
Members discuss erecting temporary locker rooms with showers at the Country Club after a fire destroyed the main building. A committee meeting is planned for late Thursday to decide on the plan. The stockholders annual meeting is postponed to Saturday, April 8, from 2 to 5 pm in E. B. Chandler’s office.
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Country Club
The
E. B. Chandler
Chandler
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