City Fires Prevention Conference Aims to Lower Insurance Rates
A San Antonio meeting at the Chamber of Commerce brings together a building trades committee and a chamber special committee to discuss fire prevention. With Texas fire losses rising, insurers urged for a 31 percent rate increase, and the talks seek to avert higher rates through local prevention efforts.
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San Antonio
Building Trades
Chamber of Commerce
Texas
Commissioner of Insurance
Village butcher describes summer resident as a real lady
In a private chat at home the village butcher tells his wife about a new summer resident. he boasts she is refined yet admits she cannot distinguish meat cuts or real from mock meat, calling her select and exclusive.
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Miutton
Christian Hegis
Guard Mobilizing Rapidly for Texas Militia Deployment
Brigadier General John Hulen commands a reinforced brigade as mobilization proceeds from militia offices. Captain James D. Long will supervise mustering with Major Wolfe. Coast artillery units depart Gulf and Atlantic points for San Antonio and Marathon camps near the border.
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Office of Militia Affairs
James D. Long
Wolfe
Texas Militia
Hulen
John Hulen
National Guard
Henry Hutchings
San Antonio
Miliia
Hutchings
Coast Artillery
Gulf
Atlantic Seaboard
Marathon
March to Army Post for Fort Sam Houston Mobilization
Three San Antonio militia infantry companies move from the Market House and San Pedro park to Fort Sam Houston mobilization camp to join the alert. Recruits arrive at armory and downtown stations as Companies A B C D reach required strength. Troop First Texas Cavalry seeks Washington dispensation to join the squadron. Houston troop arrives. Troop C surpasses minimum readiness.
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San Antonio
Fort Sam Houston
Militia
Market House
San Pedro Park
First Texas Cavalry
R. O. Whiteaker
Washington
Wilson
National Guard
Texas
New Mexico
Arizona
Hutchings
Houston
Corsicana
Amarillo
Gift Chapel to Be Used as Soldiers Club at Fort Sam
Fort Sam Houston chaplains request San Antonio citizens to contribute toward furnishing a new soldiers club in the gift chapel. The plan includes a reading room writing room and a picture show.
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Fort Sam Houston
San Antonio
Free Reading and Writing Rooms Set at Chapel Services
Chaplains Barton W. Perry and R. Fleming Jr. arrange free moving pictures each night, a free reading room and writing room, and a free telephone to the city at the chapel. Sundays will hold church services in the main room. The facility includes rugs, easy chairs, and writing tables to support visitors.
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Barton W. Perry
Third Field Artillery
R. R. Fleming Jr
Nineteenth Infantry
Dr W S Hamilton Chosen President Of Medical Society
Dr W S Hamilton of San Antonio was elected president of the Texas Roentgen Ray Society at a State Medical Association meeting in Galveston. Hamilton served as secretary last year and returned to San Antonio Wednesday night. Several San Antonio doctors attended, including Dr Charles S Venable Dr W H Hargis and Dr F C Walsh. The convention closes Thursday night with doctors returning Friday.
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W.S. Hamilton
San Antonio
Texas Roentsen Ray Society
State Medical Association
Galveston
Hamilton
Charles 5. Venable
W. H. Hargis
F. C. Walsh
Charles Dixon
Homer T
Porter F. Loring Re-elected Texas Funeral Directors Secretary
Porter F. Loring of the Shelley- Loring Undertaking Company was re elected secretary of the Texas Funeral Directors Association at the Houston convention. He first won the post at the 1915 convention. Irvin Smith and A A Zizik attended from Sloan & Hagg and Zizik Undertaking, and plan to return Saturday.
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Porter F. Loring
Shelley- Loring Undertaking Company
Texas Funeral Directors’ Association
Houston
Mr. Loring
Irvin Smith
Sloan & Hagg
A. A. Zizik
Zizik Undertaking Company
Bank Reform Talks Underway in Patterson Conference
Patterson Judge Ward and Attorney General Cureton discuss a proposed plan to replace the West Texas Bank and Trust Company. The Boyle committee arrived to examine the likely origin of a new bank and its potential takeover. No details were released, and officials said nothing decisive has been done.
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Insurance
Banking
Patterson
R. H. Ward
C. M. Cureton
Roberts
R. J. Boyle
West Texas Bank & Trust Company
Rickard offers $150000 for aviation show in South America
Tex Rickard promoter of major fights offers Miss Katherine Stinson of San Antonio $150000 to perform loop the loop and aviation exhibitions in South America for thirty weeks at $5000 weekly starting January 2037. It is unclear if she has accepted. reputedly the largest sum for aviation displays.
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Washington, D. C
Tex Rickard
Willard-Moran
Katherine Stinson
San Antonio
South America
Miss Stinson
Neutrals Lose Ships Torpedoed In War Claims
In the House of Commons Thomas J. McNamara, financial secretary to the admiralty, said 37 unarmed British merchantmen and 22 neutral vessels were torpedoed without warning between April 7, 1918 and May 7, 1816.
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London
Thomas J. McNamara
Admiralty
House of Commons
Roberts joins conference in Austin on bank liquidation
Roberts liquidating agent of the West Texas Bank & Trust Company arrives in Austin to resume talks with the conference led by the Commissioner of ... in San Antonio.
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Austin, Tex
I. KK. Roberts
West Texas Bank & Trust Company
San Antonio
Lapham and Anderson Reach State Golf Finals
Mrs. J. H. Lapham of San Antonio and Mrs. Reuben Anderson of Fort Worth advance to the finals in the Woman's state golf tournament at Fort Worth after semi final wins. Lapham eliminated Mrs. R. M. Silsbee of San Antonio while Anderson defeated Mrs. Lloyd Whitney of Fort Worth.
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Lapham
Fort Worth
Tex
J. H. Lapham
San Antonio
Reuben Anderson
R. M. Silsbee
Anderson
Lloyd Whitley
Voice of Miss Howler-Did fills two rooms in line
A quoted line from the Boston Transcript notes Miss Howler asks if her voice filled the arawog room, and the reply says it filled the refreshment room and the conservatory.
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Miss Howler
Plans for Vigo to New York fast steamship line
The coming budget will fund a Vigo to New York fast steamship line with six day crossings. Steamers will connect with special Paris trains, making the route about 1000 miles shorter than Liverpool or Southampton passages and aiming to become the main artery between America and the continent.
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Madrid
Paris
Vigo
New York
America
Liverpool
Southampton
Texas National Guard Recruiting Surges Across State
Applications pour into the adjutant general's department from Texas youths eager to enlist in the Texas National Guard. Those meeting preliminaries are sent to Fort Sam Houston to join the nearest company, easing recruitment to war strength, General Hutchings reports.
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Austin
Tex
Adjutant General's Department
Texas National Guard
Fort Sam Houston
Hutchings
Furniture Prices Rise as Costs Increase in Chicago
Chicago furniture makers report across the board price hikes for office and household pieces this week. They cite higher material costs and a 25 percent rise in labor costs affecting nearly all furniture articles.
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Chicago, Ill
Starve Patients Doctor Advocates Diabetes Treatment
Chicago May 11 at the Illinois Homeopathic Medical Association convention Dr C T Hood of Chicago urged physicians to starve diabetic patients saying the method is absolutely safe and often produces improvement.
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Chicago
Illinois Homeopathic Medical Association
C. T. Hood
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Dallas
Fourth Texas Infantry
Ae. A
Fourth Infantry Machine Gun Company
Itspany
Bern
Beaumont
Third Texas Infantry
W. O. Breedlove
Ric Hotesy
W. L. Rutan
Orange
Houston Light Guards
Company
Third
Texas Infantry
Chty
Boguillas
Funston
Medina
Call Crockett
Carter-Mullaly Transfer Co
Army Post
Dr. W. S. Hamilton
Roentsen Ray Society
Honor Porter F. Loring
Texas Funeral Directors
Rickard
West Texas Bank
U.S
Spain
L. 5. Davidson
Scurry L. Tennell
Medical Corps
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