Presbyterians Prepare Patriotic Program At Assembly
Dallas May 22 The 129th general assembly of the Presbyterian church moves through committee reports to clear the decks for a patriotic program scheduled for this afternoon. An expected reunion overture from the Birmingham based assembly accompanies notes from the northern branch. The Civil War split churches North and South.
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Dallas
Tex
129Th General Assembly
The
Presbyterian Church In the
United States of America
General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church In the
United States
Birmingham
Ala
Church In Assembly
Special Preparedness Rates Stenography Course Ad
SPECIAL PREPAREDNESS RATES Course in Y W C A School of Stenography. Day Classes 1.00 per week. Register before June 1. Phone Crockett 1442.
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Y. W. C. A. School of Stenography
Garner 10 Hospital For An Operation
Representative Garner was taken to a hospital in Washington on May 22 for a minor operation. His ailment should not alarm friends, and his physician urged rest and a two week recuperation after the procedure due to a severe nervous strain from the War Congress.
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Washington, D. C
Garner
Congress
MISS ROLAND WEDS MISS RUTH ROLAND TO LIONEL KENT
Miss Ruth Roland, actress who visited here and appeared at the Empire Theater, married in New York to Lionel E. Kent, an automobile salesman in Los Angeles. A war rumor influenced a hastened June wedding before Lieut. Godfrey La Mothe’s arrival, with Roland a cousin of Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Garven of 1206 Hays Street.
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Ruth Roland
Empire Theater
New York
Lionel E. Kent
Los Angeles
Miss Roland
New York Herald
Godfrey la Mothe
Wilberforce Barracks
Sierra Leone
Mr. Kent
Kent
C. L. Garven
Hays Street
French Crisis Averted Opens Debate Postponed
Paris May 22 The War Minister Painleve told the military committee of the Chamber of Deputies that the government can seek a postponement of interpellations until next week. A round of applause followed his clear explanation of the immediate results of the French offensive and the anticipated consequences.
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Paris
Painleve
Chamber of Deputies
M. Plainleve
Taft Joins Artillery As Yale Junior Enlists
Charlie Taft Hl son of former President William H Taft and a Yale College junior was enlisted for the regular army artillery branch yesterday in New Haven Conn.
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Charlie Taft
New Haven
Conn
Charlies P. Taft Hl
William H. Taft
Yale College
Regular Army
Fort WorthChosen as Next Convent Meeting Site
The state convention of the Daughters of Isabella closed in Fort Worth at the Menger Hotel after selecting Fort Worth for the next meeting. Officers elected include state regent Mary A. Drake and state secretary Josephine Theis, with plans for charitable and social work to aid families of soldiers.
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Fort Worth
of the Daughters of Isabella
Menger Hotel
National Order of the Daughters of Isabella
Mary A. Drake
Josephine Theis
Austin
Alice van Cleave
Corpus Christi
Thomas Kehoe
Houston
State Monitor
Kk. Tynan Rice
San Antonio
H. H. Kane
Utica
N. Y
New Dining Car Joins Sunshine Special Service
The Missouri Pacific system introduces a new dining car on the Sunshine Special arriving in San Antonio at 8:05 Tuesday night for public inspection at the I and G N depot. J Wiley King reports the car left St Louis for its initial run. The car costs 25000, is eighty two feet long, all steel and feature rich fittings for diners. Eight such cars were ordered, war delays slowed construction.
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Missouri-Pacific
San Antonio
J. Wiley King
St. Louis
Presbyterians ponder Oglethorpe takeover by church
In Birmingham on May 22 the Fifty-seventh General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States opened with the question of whether Oglethorpe University should be taken over by the church still under consideration. No time yet for discussing uniting northern and southern church branches. the issue remains in committee with no report expected today.
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Oglethorpe University
Birmingham
Ala
Fifty-seventh
General Assembly of the
Presbyterian Church In
United States
American Socialists Named Delegates to Stockholm Conference
Chicago reports Morris Hilquistr, New York, Victor L Berger of Milwaukee, and Algernon Lee of New York will represent the American Socialist party as delegates to the Stockholm conference.
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Chicago
Morris Hilquist
New York
Victor L. Berger
Milwaukee
Algernon Lee
American Socialist Party
Stockholm
Gift Home ready for public view ahead of schedule
The Gift Home built in under eight hours will be fully furnished by Tuesday and opened for inspection Wednesday. The five room bungalow, planned for Monday erection and midweek finishing, was accelerated to allow four days of viewing before the prize presentation Saturday in the Buy-a-Home Campaign. Mrs. I. T. Thurman will host Wednesday through Friday from 4 to 7 p.m.
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I. T. Thurman
Judge Dismisses 99 Election Indictments in Cincinnati
United States District Judge Hollis Hollister sustained demurrers to indictments charging 99 men with election law violations in Cincinnati last November. The ruling clears the cases for lack of jurisdiction, with 60 defendants having pleaded guilty and held in Dayton awaiting sentence. prosecutors said appeals to the U S Supreme Court will follow.
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Cincinnati
Ohio
United States
Hollister
Dayton
Bolin
Supreme Court of the United States
Denmark Sees 150 Ships Lost Since War Start
Copenhagen dispatch reports Denmark has lost 150 ships to submarines or mines since the war began, with 210 Danish seamen killed.
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Copenhagen
London
Exchange Telegraph Company
Denmark
Marjorie Brinklow Wins Dress Prize at San Antonio High
The San Antonio High School graduation dress contest awarded Marjorie Brinklow the $5 prize for the prettiest dress under five dollars. Her net dress with tatting cost $4.75, made by Brinklow herself, with honorable mentions to Hazel Cannon and Elizabeth Utz for other low cost designs.
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San Antonio High School
San Antonio
Fire drill guidance from grammar school principal
The grammar school principal moved through rooms explaining fire procedures. Pupils listened with respectful attention until he came to his final instruction.
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Grammar School
Inventor unveils curved jaws for safe handling of fruit
A humorous line from a principal is followed by a quirky description of an inventor introducing a handle with semicircular jaws to hold a fruit during consumption. The tone blends playful schoolyard talk with a odd gadget reveal.
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