Society Calendar Highlights Local Club Activities
In this week of social events many groups hold meetings and performances. Miss Helen Linecott hosts a lawn party while Miss Helen Zweig performs a dramatic recital at the St Anthony theater. Red Cross Circles meet at Wolff and Marx auditoriums and a Council of Jewish Women study circle gathers at the Gunter Hotel. Multiple church circles and Women’s groups plan gatherings at 2 to 4 p.m. A community meeting is set for 7:20 p.m. Tuesday as Captain Boteler arrives as dramatic director at Camp Travis. Mrs Boteler, formerly Evelyn James, is noted as a sculptress who posed for a Kenyon Cox design on a new $100 bill.
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Ward Roteler
Boteler
Camp Travis
Franklin Sargent
School program to feature Red Cross pledge and patriotic talks
The program includes a Red Cross pledge by Carlos Bee and Ira Kircheville, songs and four minute talks by pupils. Attendees are urged to attend. Mrs. F. C. Beck visits Smithville to see Mr. and Mrs. Vick Loefflein. Mrs. George Powell hosts informal gathering from five to seven Tuesday at 429 East Myrtle Street to meet Mrs. Ernest Powell. Miss Anne Bremond of Austin visits Miss Katherine McGown. Swift & Company reports beef sales in San Antonio for the weekend ending May 18. Domestic beef price listed.
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Terest
Red Cross
Carlos Bee
Ira Kircheville
George Powell
East
Myrtle Street
Ernest Powell
Swift & Company
San Antonio
Women replace men in lumber box plant at Marinette
In Marinette Wisconsin a box manufacturing company shifts work to women due to a male labor shortage. Fifty girls operate machines and perform tasks across assembly, bottling case production and printing rooms, with output exceeding one thousand cases per day. In Houston Texas Mrs Bowles of Oakland and Capt F W Bowles 79th Artillery injured in a motor collision, recovering. six others injured but not seriously.
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Houston
Tex
Bowles
Oakland
Ned
F. W. Bowles
79Th Artillery
Wisconsin license fee law upheld by supreme court
The Wisconsin license fee law, a tax on life insurance companies doing business in the state, was upheld as constitutional by the Supreme Court in a case brought by Northern Mutual Life Insurance Company.
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Washington, D. C
Wisconsin
Supreme Court
Northern Mutual Life Insurance Company
Sinn Fein leaders arrested as work continues in calm
In Dublin and London reports say Sinn Fein leaders were arrested yet the movement remains active as substitutes replace jailed figures. Proposals name Prof. McNeil and Alderman Kelley to fill vacancies despite De Valera and Griffith’s detention.
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Sinn Fein
de Valera
Sinn
Light's Editorial for Women on Perspective and Time
The piece compares viewing stone carvings at St Pauls with judging wartime events. It argues distance reveals meaning, that rough surfaces in life or history may become delicate tracery with a longer view. Today harsh facts seem ugly yet the pattern may emerge later.
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St. Paul's Cathedral
London
Nalve
Italian Allied Forces Reported In Best Of Condition
Italian and allied forces on the mountain front are in the best of condition with strengthened defenses and vast stores of guns and ammunition. British General Plummer notes new mountain positions around Asiago, while Diaz bulletins cite British operations in the region as three Austrian armies concentrate north.
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Preas
Plummer
Asiago
Diaz
Mount
Tomba
Conrad von Hertzendorf
Tenth
Kraus
Plave
Borevich
Austria
Piave
Adriatic
Venice
Est
Fagare
Zenson
von Buclow
Fiave
von Buelow
Montello
Piava
City Journal to publish city records in St Louis
The city of St Louis will start the City Journal in early June to print aldermen and public service board records. It aims to end city record printing in newspapers after contracts expire in June. Eugene Cuendet will edit. the paper will be issued weekly on Tuesdays and sold for one cent.
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ST. Louis
City of
City Journal
Board of Aldermen
Board of Public Service
Municipal Journal
Kiel
Eugene Cuendet
City Register
Watch Chain Causes Death in Fort Worth Power Plant
Fort Worth Texas May 20 Frank Hill an electrician was killed at a power plant while at work It is believed his watch chain fell from his pocket and touched a heavily charged wire A co worker escaped unharmed The incident is described as an accident at the plant with no further details available.
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Fort Worth
Tex
Frank Hill
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Hemp
Georgette Crepe
May Marsh
Rawak
Cecile
C. O
D’s
Young People's Christian Temperance Union
Helen Zweig
Elizabeth M. Davis
St Anthony
Red Cross Circle
The
Central Christian Church
Wolff & Mark
Red Cross Circle of
Alamo
Daughters of the American Revolution
Wolff & Marx Auditorium
Lotus, Phoenix and
Nautilus Clubs
Council of Jewish Women
Gunter Hotel
Flower Circle
Travis Park
Woman's Alliance of the Unitarian Church
Mary Elmendorf
Woman's Missionary Conference of the Methodist Church
Young Women’s Auxiliary
First Baptist Church
Irene Black
South Street
Mrs. F. C. Beck
Smithville
Mr. and
Mrs. Vick Loeftein
Anne Bremond of
Austin
Katherina McGown
Dublin
Count Plunkett
Dr. McCahan
Washington
Lawrence Ginnell
Mount Joy
Charles Collins
Christopher Mulling
Brittay
Feardear O Honrihane
James O’brien
Skibbereen Southern Star
Morris
Travelers
the Times
Ireland
the Light
Looney
Fritz R. Smith
Board of Pardons Advisers
Texas Jeweler’s
Whathersford
A. R. Russell
Hertzberg
Houston and
St. Mary's Ste
Crackett
Percy Tyrrell
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