Musical Clubs of San Antonio Busy for Soldiers
San Antonio musical clubs mobilize resources for soldiers with city ensembles and visiting musicians. Groups including the Tuesday Musical Club and San Antonio Musical Club stage hospital visits, flowers, and impromptu performances at YMCA buildings and camps. The San Antonio Symphony Orchestra under Julien Paul Bitz and the Mozart Society with its chorus give weekly concerts in camps and benefit Red Cross events, adopting wards and providing comforts to convalescents.
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San Antonio
Christian Asociation
Hospital Gann G Sometiies
K Hertzberg
France
Ife
Julien Paul Bitz
San Antonio Mozart Society
Women's Voices
Red Cross
Arthur Claassen
San Antonio Musicians Aid Camp and Hospital Entertainments
San Antonio musicians and organizations contributed to military camp and hospital entertainments. The Beethoven Singing Society and local soloists joined Red Cross and Young Men’s Christian Association efforts, delivering weekly performances as soldiers reciprocated with church programs and city concerts.
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Camp Travis
Beethoven Singing Society
Musicans
San Antonio
Young Men's Christian Association
Red Cross Entertainment Committee
Red Triangle Entertainment Committee
War time music in city and camps mobilized
The article notes Laurel Heights Methodist Church and Travis Park events as soldiers and civilians share singing during wartime. It highlights regulation military bands and a Kelly Field orchestra providing programs, with camp singing directors and YMCAs guiding singing. Parades feature marching soldiers with song to soften grim war life.
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Laurel Heights Methodist Church
Kelly Field
Travis Park
American spirit shines in crisis says French journalist Polybe
Joseph Reinach writing as Polybe in Le Figaro praises the American character noting a blend of rough labor and idealism. He argues the nation’s pursuit of power and liberty, the fight against tyranny, and the Statue of Liberty symbolize a durable moral force emerging in times of war and upheaval.
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Joseph Reinach
le Figaro
Paris
Polybe
Trenchman
Compte de Paris
M. Reinach
America
Fochs Army the Greatest and Global Forces
A Philadelphia Telegraph report claims General Foch will command the largest single army in history with near four million French troops, an English force at least half that size, and America soon reaching one million on the front. It asserts seven million soldiers under Foch on one front, surpassing Hindenburg and historic commanders.
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Foch
Philadelphia’ Telegraph
France
America
Genera Yoch
Hindenburg
Nepoleon
Effects of War Work Upon English Women
A pamphlet by Irene Osgood Andrews and Margaret A Hobbs analyzes war work’s effects on English women and children. It cites Health of Munition Workers Committee reports showing two to three years may pass before full health impacts appear, notes night work benefits and outdoor labor replacement, and highlights risks to home life from long hours and travel. It foresees potential long term gains from higher wages better conditions varied duties and broader outlooks despite social disruption.
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Irene Osgood Andrews
Margaret A. Hobbs
Great Britain
Homs
Shortening Crackers With Corn Oil Challenge Belief
A Terre Haute cracker bakery proved vegetable fats can replace lard in crackers. For ten months they used thirteen pounds of corn oil per barrel of flour and 25 percent rye flour with 76 percent wheat, producing soda crackers and saltines that withstood heat. Barley flour also works for cracker making.
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Terre Haute
Ind
United States Food Administration
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