Amendments for Civil Service and City Charter Adopted
San Antonio civic groups push civil service and home rule reforms with 156 page charter amendments. A May 25 special election seeks voter approval amid no organized opposition and aims to clarify duties of commissioners, create a city auditor system, and fund new public works including an auditorium and street maintenance.
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George R. Gillette
Citizens’ Charter
San Antonio
Board of Health
Civil Service
Char&y
Board of Equalization
Citizens’ Charter Revision Committee
City Hall
Best Medicine in the World Promoted by Local User
Forbus Tenn resident David Evans praises Thedford's Black Draught as the best family medicine. He states his family recovered from grippe after two packages, urging others to try the vegetable remedy for constipation indigestion biliousness and related stomach liver and bowel troubles at one cent a dose.
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Thedford
Taxpayers Notice San Antonio April 1917
San Antonio tax notice urges all persons firms and corporations owing 1916 city taxes to pay promptly to avoid six percent annual interest and two percent monthly penalty for five months with payment due by May 31 1917 signed J F Garland Commissioner of Taxation
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San Antonio
Tex
Northwestern Hospital Corps to depart for Atlantic service
Northwestern University Hospital Corps departed Chicago for the Atlantic seaboard tonight to prepare for service in the French field. Four other Northwestern students left today for service in the American field ambulance service, including James L Patten son of James A Patten Chicago grain operator.
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Chicago
Northwestern University Hospital Corps
Atlantic Seaboard
Northwestern
James L. Patten
James A. Patten
American Field Ambulance Service
No Candy Ban At Camp Fort Sheridan Training Camp
Sweets were banned at Fort Sheridan officers training camp with no candy sold on the reservation including the post exchange. Atlanta camp opened with twenty five hundred prospective officers starting the first day of regular training for the first army of half a million men.
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Fort Sheridan
Ill
Atlanta
Austin High to Graduate 95 Pupils in June Exercises
Austin Texas May 16 One of the largest graduating classes so far this season will include 95 seniors from Austin High School. The mid summer commencement is set for June 8 in the high school auditorium.
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Austin
Tex
Austin High School
Doan's Kidney Pills Endorsed by San Antonio Plasterer
A San Antonio plasterer, Wm E Sueltenfuss of 312 Camargo S and St, testifies that back pain and kidney trouble improved after using Doan's Kidney Pills. The ad urges all households to rely on Doan's for kidney relief, priced at 60 cents at dealers, from Foster Milburn Co Buffalo N Y.
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Dean
Wm. E. Sueltenfuss
Plasterer
Camargo S&st
San Antonio
Doan
Mr. Sueltenfuss
Foster- Milburn Co
Buffalo
New Texas Rates Debated in Shreveport Hearing
The Wednesday session of the Shreveport rate case examined George T. Atkins, manager of the Shreveport Chamber of Commerce, as the Texas rates discussed by the Interstate Commerce Commission draw concern from Texas shippers. Testimony emphasized Texas rates seem high and may advantage out of state rivals, with the hearing possibly extending less than two weeks as witnesses are called. E. P. Byars proposed a Kansas Nebraska style remedy and tariff for short hauls, but railroad officials rejected its applicability to Texas conditions.
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Shreveport
Thurrell
George T. Atkins
Shreveport Chamber of Commerce
Texas
Interstate Commerce Commission
Atkins
E. P. Byars
Fort Worth
German girl aviator joins Luftstreitkräfte on front
In Geneva a 21 year old Fraulein from Constance, tied to a rich family, has become a lieutenant in the German army. She flies as an aerial scout and has reportedly brought down three enemy aircraft on the Vesgas Bel fort front, following the death of her fiancée in France last November.
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Associated Press
Geneva
Constance
Flying Corps
France
Fraulein L
Konstanzer Zeitung
Vesgas-Belfort
Rintelen Tells All On Munition Plot Trial
Captain Franz Rintelen of the German navy on trial in New York for conspiring to disrupt the U S munition industry in 1915 has made a complete voluntary statement to the government without any bargain, announced today by his counsel Albert Massey.
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New York
Franz Rintelen
Albert Massey
Polish king accession debate divides Amsterdam papers
Warsaw telegrams report local Polish press split on governance. Some demand quick resolution with a king or regent, while the Radical press presses for a Polish republic.
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Amsterdam
London
Warsaw
Roosevelt accepts New York State major general offer
At a two hour conference with Governor Whitman Colonel Theodore Roosevelt said he would take the state service major general commission if the federal army bill passes without a provision allowing him to sail to Europe with an expeditionary force.
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Albany
N. Y
Whitman
Theodore Roosevelt
Europe
Unclean Windows and Lighting Dull Factories
A Scientific American note, cited by the Pennsylvania Labor Department, blames poor illumination on dirty windows and dusty lighting fixtures. It warns clean glass and well washed bulbs are essential for worker health and efficiency, citing widespread neglect in industrial buildings and artificial lighting.
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Scientific American
Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry
Aviators Injured In Newport News Air Accident
In Newport News Virginia on May 16 instructor Ted Hequembourg and student Lawrence Curtis were seriously hurt when the flying boat they were using fell fifty to seventy five feet during a lesson at the Atlantic Coast Aero Nautical Station. Officials cite banking too sharply as the cause. the aircraft was badly smashed.
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Newport News
Ted Hequembourg
Lawrence Curtis
Boston
Hequembourgs
Curtis
Atlantic Coast Aeronautical Station
Woman shot at spy near Wanette Oklahoma
Mrs. Katrina Couch, wife of Rev. James Couch of Wanette, reported shot as a spy in Germany last Friday. She left St Francisville for Germany three months ago and is believed to be there now. The 45 year old mother of five has German parentage and has lived in America since girlhood.
Gambrell Elected President At Southern Baptist Session
Rev. Dr. J B Gambrell of Dallas Texas was chosen president for the year at the Southern Baptist convention opening in New Orleans on May 16. He won 553 votes of 1149 on the first ballot after other candidates withdrew. Dr S P Brooks of Waco Texas was elected one of four vice presidents. The convention runs to May 22. Separately in Cleveland Ohio three thousand delegates and as many alternates from 38 states will attend the Northern Baptists convention opening today and continuing through Tuesday.
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New Orleans
J. B. Gambrell
Dallas
Texas
Southern Baptist Convention
Gambrell
S. P. Brooks
Waco
Cleveland
Northern Baptists Convention
Presbyterian general assembly opens in Dallas seeks union
Eighteen hundred churchmen including Rev. John A. Marquis of Cedar Rapids Iowa arrive in Dallas for the Presbyterian general assembly starting tomorrow for a nine day session. The executive committee meets as premilitary conferences on home missions and education proceed. Union of the Northern and Southern branches is seen as the most important issue with brighter chances than ever.
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Dallas
Tex
John A. Marquis
Cedar Rapids
Presbyterian General Assembly
Presbyterian Church
United States of America
Presbyterian Church In the
United States
Bread price inquiry to probe New Orleans loaf cost
May 16. City Commissioner Harold Newman announced a public investigation into the 10 cent loaf policy adopted by 105 of 110 bakeries in New Orleans to determine if the reduced weight and price are justified.
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New Orleans
Harold Newman
Bakers in Chicago Ghetto to raise bread prices
In Chicago on May 16, several bakeries in the Ghetto district plan to raise prices for pumpernickel rye and white breads from 10 and 15 cents a loaf to 20 and 25 cents. Separately, Egyptian state railways use tanks holding two tons of ice and electric fans to circulate air inside cars.
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Chicago
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