New Officers Guests Visit San Antonio by Motorcade
Fifty lieutenants in the signal corps were guests of the Chamber of Commerce in a motor tour of San Antonio. They toured Camp Travis Brackenridge Park and residential areas, then were entertained at the Sunset Station and St Anthony Hotel with a citywide drive led by Mayor Bell and County Judge Davis. Otto Klaus, the only San Antonian, joined the party, which arrived after 9 am. Charters Filed: McGhee Ribber Co of Waco $75,000. The Electric Garage of Galveston $4,000. Electra Oil Co of Vernon $16,000. Auto Tire Co of West Texas of Wichita Falls. increases capital stock from $10,000 to $36,000.
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Signal Corps
Kelly Field
Chamber of Commerce
Camp Travis
Brackenridge Park
San Antonio
Klaus
Lisut
Otto Klaus
Sunset
Bell
Davis
J. H. Haile
St .Anthony Hotel
Austin
Tex
McGhee Ribber Co
Waco
Capital
G. & McGhee
Beulah F. Spruce
L. H. Coleman
the Electric
Galveston
Ebb, Barnett
W. L.lifrey
G. A. ‘Erckener
Vernon
Electra O11
Calotabs Purified Calomel Promoted by Doctors
Physicians and druggists praise Calotabs as a modern purifying calomel free of old style side effects. A single tablet at bedtime purges the liver, cleanses the system, and leaves a healthy appetite next morning with no diet or habit restrictions. Sold in original sealed packages for thirty five cents, guaranteed by your druggist.
British Ace Fonck Scores Six Kills in One Day
Paris May 11 Lieutenant Fonck vowed revenge for Lieutenant Chanut and then set a world record by downing six German planes in a single day. He attacked an enemy escadrille, shot down two, pursued a third and sent it to earth within minutes, then returned for fuel and continued to overwhelm another squad. Chaput, who had 16 German planes, was killed last Friday.
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Paris
Chanut
Fonck
Chaput
Obituary for Mrs Johanna Zillian of San Antonio
Mrs Johanna Zillian aging toward ninety died at 1 50 a m Friday night at 110 Newton Street native of Germany she had lived in San Antonio thirty eight years Funeral Sunday at 4 p m from Riebe Undertaking Company chapel services by Rev A Wolff interment at the old Lutheran Cemetery Pallbearers Joe Vinek Phil C Blank A Goeth Charles Koch Emil Haueisen and mil Goering Funeral Directors Pearce Robinson Undertaking Co ongoing local undertakers listed
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Johanna Zillian
C. Masgerstadt
Newton Street
Germany
San Antonio
Riebe Undertaking Company
A. Wolff
St. John's Lutheran Church
Old Lutheran Cemetery
Joe Vinek
Phil C. Blank
A. Goeth
Charles Koch
Emil Haueisen
Mil Goering
Crusade Against Idle Men In City Arrests Made
Police and detectives arrested a variety of men Friday on vagrancy charges. Fines ranged from 10 to 20 dollars after Police Court trials. Chief Jaancaster says the campaign will continue until idlers either leave or take work, including hard labor on the city chain gang, to meet labor demand for crops. Travelers' Citur Shop, Ave, advertises like.
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Pool
Jaancaster
Philadelphia woman writes on San Antonio for Alaska trip
Agnes R. Burr of Philadelphia, en route to Alaska to write a travel book for a Boston publisher, pauses in San Antonio for a week. A newspaper veteran of twenty years, she will pen articles for two Philadelphia papers about San Antonio camps. Burr, who uses the pen name Barbara Boyd, has syndicated pages for the International Press Association in Baltimore. The Alaska trip results will be published in the See America First series by Page Publishing Company.
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Alaska
Boston
Agnes R. Burr
Philadelphia
San Antonio
Miss Burr
Barbara Boyd
International Press Association of Baltimore
America
Social Register of Hotel Guests in San Antonio Notes
A roster of visitors includes George Cooper of Monterey Mexico at St Anthony and Mrs J S Seabury from Boston at the Menger. Others listed are H L Roberts of Hitchcock at the Gunter and A A Messier of Houston at the Lawlor with J Thomas of Boston registered at the Menger. Names from Corpus Christi Laredo El Paso Oklahoma and Chicago appear among guests at Lanier St Anthony Gunter and Menger.
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G George Cooper
Monterey
Mexico
St. Anthony
J. S. Seabury
Boston
Menger
H. L. Roberts
Hitchcock
R. 4A
Womack
Corpus Christ
Lanier
A. D. Sary
Laredo
Ly. Alston
el Paso
Meuser
Misa Halile Livingston
Range
A. A. Messier
Houston
Lawlor
HK. M. King
It. A. Davies
B. Neale
Chicago
Gunter
Charline LeGrone
Oklora
Ms. W. Marke
Harriett Burke
Harlingen
J. Thomas
W. On, Young
MM. Mayfield
Kansas
Lanter
Army Personnel Changes At Camp Travis And Fort San Houston
Army personnel moves list relocations and duty changes for officers and enlisted men across Camp Travis Eagle Pass Fort San Houston and related depots. Highlights include Captain Alexander Boynton reassigned from 360th Infantry to a depot brigade and Lieutenant Henry Pfacle reassigned as range officer, with several lieutenants named as instructors and specialists at Camp Travis and the division target range. Captain Samuel Marcus promoted to captain at Kelly Field, noted as one of the army’s youngest medical reserve officers from Chicago.
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Want
Filip Hollywood
Flal Th
Can ‘Travis
Camp J Jackson
Columbia
Arylery
Alexander Boynton
360Th Infantry
Henry C. Pfacle
No al, Sre Infantry
Camp Bullis
Paul B. Wi
I, Kh
Janes W. Ramacy
M. Re
Camp Travis
TW. R. Mann
Hied Infantry
Eagle Pass
Louis V. DeBirny
del Tio
Kelly Ficia
Samuel M. Marcus
Kelly Field
Chicago
Americans Not Yet Deported In Mexico Case
Official advices from Washington indicate Robert H. Murray of the Committee on Public Information at Mexico City has not been deported. Murray and AP correspondent F C Scoville have been brought before a court on charges tied to news dispatches, with a decision pending.
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Washington, D. C
State Department
Robert H. Murray
Committee On Public Information
Mexico City
Murray
F.C. Scoville
Associated Press
French Advance Lines On Two Fronts
French leaders emphasize staying power over territorial gains as the war enters a critical phase. They note fresh German divisions in Flanders and on the Somme, signaling continued pressure while asserting Allied progress against German front lines.
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Eterno
Germain
Flanders
Somme
Lavish Shells Burst Before March 21 Assault
AP correspondence reports German batteries before the British front on March 21 fired more than 1,500,000 shells in three hours, over 8300 per minute, across about 50 miles. By contrast, Germany’s total shellage in the Franco Prussian War was about 650,000.
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Associated Press
Berne
Germany
Italy Reinforces Reserve Army for Supreme Emergency Uses
Washington May 11 Italy's contribution to the reserve army for General Foch grows behind the lines in France to nearly a quarter of a million men officials report. The force is being strengthened steadily for supreme emergency use.
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Washington, D. C
Italy
Foch
France
American troops urged to write Mothers Day letters
Gen John J Pershing urged all officers and soldiers of the American expeditionary forces to write letters home on Mothers Day. The order, cabled from France, was read at Camp Travis as officers and commanders echoed the request to honor patriotic women who support and inspire service members.
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John J. Pershing
France
Secretary of War
Ait
Camp Travis
Corpus Christi Women Learn Canning Methods From Demonstrator
Corpus Christi women gathered at Corpus Christi High School for a canning demonstration led by Miss Pauline Murrah, urban food demonstrator. The class plans to meet twice weekly to teach glass and steam pressure canning, with certificates awarded to graduates who can then work in other districts. The effort is backed by the City Federation of Women and the Texas Federated Clubs fifth district. Wilbarger County also reports heavy rain aiding crops.
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Corpus Christi
Lex
Pauline Murrah
Murrah
Food Conservation Committee
Washington
Texas Federated Clubs
City Federation of Women
Emmett T. Coleman
Presbyterian Church Ireland ends conscription linked to home rule
Belfast May 11. A manifesto from the committee on the state of the country of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland states strong opposition to any conscription tied to home rule.
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Belfast
Committee On
General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church In Ireland
Presbyterian Church In Ireland
Prospector’s Molten Find Sparks War Effort in Mammoth
In December 1914 Hubert O. Boykin discovered yellow molybdenum rich ore near Mammoth Arizona. Germans courted the find for Krupp gun works but war crippled the contract. Britain and France later backed mining, and Mammoth’s plant now churns molybdenum for U S and Allied munitions.
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Arizona
Hubert O. Boykin
Tucson
Ariz
Harold Blake Schumm
Public Ledger
Texas
Gzold
Mammoth
Boykin
San Pedro
Shelfire
University of Arizona
United States
Germany
Kaiser
Jlamburg
Krupp Gun Works
Hamburg
Liege
Antwerp
Marne
Canada
Australia
Uncle Sam
What Sherman Said About War and When He Spoke It
The Columbus Dispatch reports that General William T. Sherman declared war is not glory but hell during a Civil War veterans reunion in Columbus on August 12, 1880. In Franklin Park he spoke despite rain, warning that many young soldiers see only glory, while war brings horror. He added he would face it if necessary.
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William T. Sherman
Columbus
Ohio
Sherman
President Hayes
Franklin Park
Inventor Develops 24 Cylinder Aircraft Engine Concept
L. R. Carpenter of this city claims to perfect a 24 cylinder aviation motor weighing about 100 pounds. He asserts the design will produce more than 800 horsepower, using extensive aluminum in construction per the Cleveland Plain-Dealer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
L. R. Carpenter
Cleveland Plain-Dealer
Carpenter Claims Air War Motor and Bomb System
Mr. Carpenter describes a self developed air cooled 48 cylinder motor dubbed the Carpenter Multiple Motor. He says it rivals the Liberty engine and offers a timed airship bomb capable of dispersing multiple smaller bombs over several square miles. He has studied aviation years and built a airship Bicket measuring 28 by 30 feet.
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Mr. Carpenter
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