Fifteen Light Employees Enter Military Training and Service
Fifteen men from the San Antonio Light join officers training camps or Texas National Guard duty. The group includes editors and reporters who trained at Leon Springs and Camp Wilson, with several already commissioned or nearing officer status. Others from The Light staff, such as Laurence Flume Bernard Horner and Dewey Sinclair, join Battery B and the ordinance corps as war looms.
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San Antonio
John V. Brogan
the Light
Kansas National Guard
Brogan
Army
Robert G. Coulter
Coulter
Fort Sam ‘Houston
The
Light
Leon Springs
Ray M. Hare
Hare
Star
Citizens
Camp Wilson
Aldes H. Cadwallader
Cadwallader
Chicago Art Institute
Germany
West Texas Military Academy
Notable Personnel Changes in Mail and Circulation Units
Collectors Frank Roberts Russell Patterson William Ford and Louis Vinz of the mail and circulation departments are noted. Frank Fletcher has been enrolled in the naval reserve.
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Frank Roberts
Russell Patterson
William Ford
Louis Vinz
Frank Fletcher
Naval Reserve
Special Preparedness Rates at Y W C A Stenography School
Day classes offered at the Y W C A School of Stenography for one dollar per week. Register before June 1 and call Crockett 1442 for details.
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Y. W. C. A. School of Stenography
Oil Works In Use Berlin Reports Bucharest Recovery
A Berliner Tageblatt correspondent notes from Bucharest that 40 percent of Romanian oil works destroyed during Falkenhayn era have been rebuilt and are operating again. German and Austro-Hungarian refineries are back, Dutch-owned sites partly so, but Standard Oil properties remain unrepaired and unused.
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Berlin
Berliner Tageblatt
Bucharest
Thompson
von Falkenhayn
Wallachia
Standard Oil Company
New Automatic Car Signal Uses Dials and Vibrating Hand
A novel signaling device for automobiles operates almost automatically. It employs large directing dials with arrows to show the car’s intended turn and a vibrating hand indicator to warn when the vehicle will stop.
Black Sheep May Lead New Serbia After War
Vienna report says central powers with Bulgaria plan a expanded Serbia united with Montenegro and part of Albania with Durazzo as a port. Prince Mirko of Montenegro, 38, long called the black sheep, is favored as future ruler, having spent war years in Vienna and negotiating with Austro-Hungarian authorities.
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New Serbia
Vienna
Fremdenblatt
Bulgaria
Serbia
Montenegro
Albania
Durazzo
Mirko
Nicholas
New
Antivari
Scutari
France
Danilo
Peter
Cettinje
Return to the old stile in twilight memory
A pair long parted meets by an old stile in twilight. Sandy and Mary rekindle memories, admire each other, and recall carved initials as an airplane passes overhead, bringing a quiet, nostalgic mood.
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Mary
Sandy
Minneapolis Tribune
Tapan Controls Vast Fushur Coal Fields in Manchuria
The article asserts Tapan holds the world’s largest coal reserves in the Fushur fields of Manchuria, with an estimated total tonnage exceeding 000,000,000 tons of bituminous fuel.
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Fushur
Manchuria
Two British Tanks Aid Troops in Wancourt and Heninel
London May 19 A front correspondent describes how two British tanks aided infantry near Wancourt and Heninel south of Ondhy. They breached barbed wire hedges, cleared machine gun nests, and prowled streets leaving lanes for advancing troops. The tanks moved relentlessly for forty hours under tough conditions with crews guiding them.
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London
Wancourt
Henmel
Ondhy
Guemappe
Escaped from Bavaria by British Officers
Lieutenant Bertram Ratcliffe of the West Yorks regiment, after two and a half years in Bavaria, escaped with four fellow officers from a German train. He described a dusk dash to liberty, pursued briefly, then outdistanced by a heavy tramp over ploughed fields. They lived on a tin of chocolate and biscuits, faced freezing nights with only a warm officer’s coat for cover.
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London
Bertram Ratcliffe
West Yorks Regiment
Bavaria
England
Ratcliffe
Taxpayers Notice San Antonio April 9 1917
San Antonio Texas residents and firms are warned that fiscal year 1916 taxes are due now. Pay by May 31 1917 to avoid six percent interest and two percent monthly penalties for five months. Signed J F Garland Commissioner of Taxation. An invented medicine glass with a graduated funnel to measure and pour doses.
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San Antonio
Tex
California Bathing Suits and Beach Accessories
California bathing suits in jersey with V neck and sailor collar, priced from 2.00. Hats and caps for beach wear in rubber, water wings 25c, bathing suit bags 25c to 50c, bathing shoes in canvas and satin from 25c to 1.50.
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Milady
California
Jersey
Haven of Safety for Russian Munitions
The article describes Taganrog as a potential relocation site for Petrograd munitions if German forces threaten Petrograd. It notes Taganrog’s geography on the Gulf of Azov, its population, accessibility issues, and economic profile including tanneries and tobacco factories. It also mentions Rostov’s prominence, historical notes, climate, and two notable buildings. A separate line notes rubber pads invented to improve footing when digging or climbing ladders.
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Petrograd
Taganrog
Don
Gulf of Taganrog
Sea of Azov
Black Sea
Crimea
Constantinople
Portus Pisanus
Peter the Great
Russian Empire
Rostov
Marseilles
Europe
Russia
St. Johns
Newfoundland
Alexander I
Teherkoy
Deserter Shot Near The Hague After Caf World Tale
A German deserter recounted crossing the frontier after insulting an officer. In a cafe near the front, a non commissioned officer allegedly ordered the shooting. As he spoke, a woman invited him outside, and a shot from the German side killed the man as the woman crossed into the frontier.
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the Hague
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Claude V. Birkhead
Kenneth Perry
Texas National Guard
Columbus
Kenneth Co. Perry
Ordinance Department
Dewey Sinclair
Ernest Erben
Charles Russell
Ajohn
Fay
Secore
Fobert
Lawrence Plume
San Antonio Printing Co
Crockett
Soledad
Bernards Horner
Atatt
Hostetter
Joske
J. F. Garland
Joske’s
German Line
Queen Theater
Ltutia
Milemon Castle
International
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