Red Cross Parade Feature Opens War Fund Campaign
A Sunday Red Cross parade led by Lieut Colonel Haight and Joe Walsh will mark the campaign opening for the War fund. Junior Red Cross members from city schools will march, with military bands from Camp Travis and Fort Sam Houston. The parade starts at 4 30 and bands will play Onward Christian Soldiers as Red Cross songs are sung.
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Red Cross
Haight
Camp Stanley
Joe Walsh
War Fund
Winchester Kelso
Charles 8. Meek
Studdard
Main Avenue High School
Slader
Mothers’ Congress
Southern Department
Fort Sam Houston
Camp Travis
Washington
Bexar County
San Antonio
A. C. Pancoast
St. Anthony
Srnday
J. J. Stevens
Gunter Hotel
George W. Simmons
St. Louis
France
Simmons
April San Antonio death rate up slightly says registrar report
The April mortality rate in San Antonio rose to 2.333 per 1000, with 350 resident deaths and an inclusive general rate of 2.693 per 1000 using 54 deaths contracted elsewhere. Infant deaths show Mexican parentage rising, 71 under one year, 34 Mexican infants under two, plus 10 non Mexican. Adults 20–30 years total 51 deaths, with higher counts 70–100. Thirteen deaths by violence. Births totaled 228, with 129 males and 99 females. Attendees at a preliminary meeting include H W Potter, Camp Travis’ Newman, and others.
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San Antonio
McGee
City Health Department
Feast of Weeks Observed at Temple Beth-El
The Feast of Weeks will be celebrated at Temple Beth-El Thursday evening, marking the revelation of the law on Mount Sinai. Confirmation services follow Saturday morning with Helen Gomez Pauline Katz Elizabeth Oppenheimer among the confirmands. the ceremony features invocations hymns prayers and multiple responses by the confirmants and choir.
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Mount Sinai
Moses
Temple Beth-El
Temple
Helen Gomez
Pauline Katz
Elizabeth Oppenheimer
Shema
Boruch Shem
Yimloch Aroney
Pauline Watz
Yevorechecho
Hallaluyan
Music clubs to meet for patriotic San Antonio association
A Thursday morning War Service Board gathering sowed the seed for a San Antonio patriotic music association modeled on Chicago’s Civic Music. A citywide meeting is set for May 30 at 8 30 in Main Avenue High School auditorium to organize and pledge cooperation among local musical groups and interested individuals. Soldier musicians may perform a program at the event.
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Patriotic Music Association
San Antonio
War Service Board
Chicago Civic Music Association
Main Avenue High School
Fort Sam Houston Named Texas Supply Zone HQ
The Quartermaster department designates Fort Sam Houston as the Texas zone headquarters to purchase supplies for training camps locally. The plan aims to buy food clothing and equipment within the zone aligning with nearby factories and posts. Texas industries could benefit if they prepare to meet demand across the designated camps.
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Quartermaster Department
Pos
Sible
Fort Sam Houston
Texas Zone
Texas Industries
Casualty List Report From General Pershing
Casualty list reports deaths and injuries among U S personnel with locations from Ohio to Rhode Island. The names include Killed in action Corporals Luther Giffield and Joan A Johnston and many Privates, plus wounded and missing individuals across states and cities.
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Luther Giffeld
Ohio
Joan A. Johnston
Bryant
Ark
Harry BR. Long
Manchester
X. HL
Clinton M. Bowe
Harvey
Wash
Shorvald
Bend
Minnesota
Edgar W. Chandler
Fargo
S. D
George W. Lee
Buhl
Idaho
Mrtan Mileski
Essex
Conn
Carl D. Rosequiett
Evans Corps
Chas, M'Swiggan
New York
DE W. Rolling
Winston Salem
William Ae Thibodeau
South Pars
Frank Igor
ChicaGo
Wagonet
Clifford Elston
Ernest Campbell
Hing- Fin
Spring
Kerkhoven
Ham
Mass
Clelle
M. Singleton
Ubank
John J. Leighton
Miladelphia
Tandel G. Willpeams
Morriston
Lester McArtry
T Louis
Banter Hayes
Anderson
South Carolin
Ratitews
Tulsa
Okla
Tazzo
Delia Cate Missen
Charles W. Chapmax
Waiterloo
Iown
Robert Baker Macdowell
Jersey City
Nod
Edwin J. Barnes
West Haven
Augustus H. Chapman
Colchester
Frank J. Antroniki
Webster
Anellary Barbeau
Danielson
Connecticut
Erchmiel
Brooklyn
Elliott
Raymond Ely
Haverhill
Paul A. Peterson
Middletown
WALTER _R. PIERCE
James FE. Pitochelli
Pawtucket
Rhode Island
Carlisle Tieman
Dayton
Kr, Howard A. Were
Ansonia
Obituary of J. L. Wight Confederate veteran dies at 82
J L Wight 82 a Confederate veteran died at 11 45 p m Wednesday night at the residence of his daughter Mrs W H Ferguson 604 Hunstock Avenue He was a native of Clay County Missouri came to Texas in 1864 and served from 1862 to the end of the Civil War He helped secure Bandera County's first marriage license in 1856 Survived by two sons Henry Wight of Clebourne and William Wight of Sweetwater and three daughters all of San Antonio Funeral arrangements send body to Sweetwater by Shelley Loring with ties to early Texas history including Lyman Wight the first jail builder and early mills in Austin San Antonio and Gillespie County
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J. L. Wight
L. L. Wight
W. H. Ferguson
Hunstock Avenue
Mr. Wight
Clay County
Missouri
Texas
Fort Mason
Bandera County
Wight
Sweetwater
Willian Wight
Henry Wight
Cleburne
J. M. Minear
William Teel
San Antonio
Lyman Wight
Ife
Austin
Old Mill Bridge
Gillespie County
Shelley-Loring
Baptist unity talks denied by Southern head
HOYT SPRINGS Tex May 16 President J B Gambrell of the Southern Baptist convention denied a press report that representatives of the Southern Baptist Association would confer with the Northern Baptist convention on unity between the two Baptist bodies. The undertaking notes from Pearce-Nobinson and others mention burial arrangements and funeral directors in the city, with addresses and phone references for Cr 5 38 and 453 Soledad St.
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Demles Church Unity
Paris
Hoyt Springs
Tex
J. B. Gambrell
Southern Baptist Convention Today
Southern Baptist Association
Northern Baptist Convention
Line to Be Presented May 27 By Paine In D C
John Barton Paine chief counsel of the Railroad Administration sets May 27 to hear C W Williams of Fort Stockton in a case to retain the Kansas City Mexico Orient Railroad as a short line under federal control. Officials seek that government continue control of their property despite July 1 relinquishment provisions.
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K. CG. M
Washington, D.C
John Barton Paine
Railroad Administration
C. W. Williams
Fort Stockton
Kan City
Nanthione on the wire in New York Evening Post
An unclear wire story fragment shows Nanthione and Sir Socrates discussing proofs and a demand to tell someone that it is a mond Ieeustless Monday in New York. The text is garbled and lacks concrete facts or dates.
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Nanthione
Socrates
Frente
New York
Zemo Soothe Skin Irritations Fast, Simple Remedy
When Itching Stops There is a safe dependable treatment that relieves itching torture and skin irritation almost instantly. Ask any druggist for a 35c or $1 bottle of zemo and apply as directed. It banishes most eruptions and leaves skin soft, smooth and healthy from pimples to eczema. The K. W. Rose Co. Cleveland, th.
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K. W. Rose Co
Cleveland
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