San Antonio June 1917 graduation boasts record class
The June 17 1917 commencement at Avenue high school held in George W Brackenridge High School auditorium drew over two thousand attendees. 223 graduates received diplomas as the largest class in city history, with F M Bralley of the College of Industrial Arts Denton delivering the keynote on democracy in education.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
In Avenue High School
George W. Brackenridge High School
Garden Street
Bersides
San Antonio High School
South Side
Lula M. Griesenbeck
J. H. Groseclose
Methodist Church
H. H. Ryan
Vincent’s
Charles S. Meek
F. M. Brasley
College of Industrial Arts
Denton
Brasley
Bicycle Deals on Easy Payments at Portage Tire Co
Portage Tire Co offers bicycles priced from $10.00 and up with easy payment plans. Located at 221 S. Alamo.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Portage Tire Co
S. Alamo
Trade Editors Aid Washington War Effort Meeting
About 300 engineering technical and trade editors met in Washington with the Council of National Defense to plan war support. Editors and newspaper publishers observe voluntary censorship and promote government war aims. Speakers included Secretaries Lansing Baker Daniels Lane Houston Redfield and Wilson and Defense Council advisers.
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Washington, D. C
Council of National Defense
Lansing
Baker
Daniels
Lane
Houston
Redfield
Wilson
Defense Council
Advisory Commission
San Antonio Offers Free Home Canning Classes for Women
The San Antonio Council of Mothers and local domestic science staff sponsor six afternoon classes next week at Milam Crockett Beacon Hill Bowie Brackenridge High Schools to teach canning drying and salting of garden produce. Miss Emma Pirie supervises with teachers Ida Millen Bennie Campbell Mary Andrews Jane Applewhite Kate Andrews and Mrs. S. Schugart. A small fee covers gas. attendees bring produce and jars or may join without material already.
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San Antonio
Milam School
Mason
North Hackberry Street
Crockett School
West Commerce
Cibolo
Beacon Hill
North San Jacinto
Virginia
Bowie
North Colorado
Arbor Place
Brackenridge High School
South Alamo
Main Avenue
Council of Mothers
Emma Pirie
Ida Millen
Bennie Campbell
Mary Andrews
Jane Applewhite
Kate Andrews
S. Schugart
Big Onion Movement Moves 3700 Carloads Northward
Horace Booth of the International and Great Northern reports over 3700 carloads of onions shipped from the Laredo district with about 1000 more to go before harvest ends. Each car carried roughly 20 percent more onions than last year, and railroads had to improvise by using refrigerator and converted box cars to handle the crop amid wartime equipment shortages.
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Laredo
Horace Booth
International & Great Northern
California
Atlantic Seaboard
South
Texas
Fred J. Lewis Dies in Oklahoma Hotel Fire
Fred J. Lewis, former Austin resident and comptroller's attache, perished in a Stone Bluff Hotel fire near McAlester Oklahoma. The blaze began at 2 am and three men died including Lewis. he was 48, born in Rusk Texas and once served as a justice of the peace.
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Austin
Tex
McAlester
Okla
Fred J. Lewis
Comptroller’s Department
Stone Bluff
Mr. Lewis
Lewis
Oklahoma
Rusk
Indictment for Missouri lawmakers links slush fund case
Frank K. Harris of Rolla Missouri Democratic floor leader and Ray Cummins secretary of the St. Louis Police Relief Association were indicted for conspiracy tied to a police slush fund in St Louis. The charges follow James J. Mackey of Rolla who allegedly acted as go-between for the politicians seeking forty thousand dollars to aid passage of a police salaries bill.
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ST. Louis
Frank K. Harris
Rolla
Missouri House of Representatives
Ray Cummins
Police Relief Association
Bargain Health and Beauty Lotions at Low Prices
In-store specials include Jergens Benzoin and Almond Lotion for 18c, Jardin de Rose Face Powder for 35c, Castile Soap cake for 14c, 8 oz Pure Hydrogen Peroxide for 10c, 20 Mule Team Borax two 15c boxes for 20c, and Non-Spi Deodorant for 43c. First floor display.
Cloth sale notice with discount per yard
A fabric advertisement states a width of a hundred inches and two yards cover a bed in white. It warns against replacing the same quality at a price below 20 cents a yard and offers discounts of 15 cents per yard until remaining stock is sold.
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Dodson
36 inch English Repp for All Garments
Promising quality English white repp suitable for suits skirts dresses nurses uniforms and childrens wear. Yard wide neat durable this fabric is offered at 29 cents per yard.
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New High School
F. M. Bralley
Bralley
Ryan
Marjorie Brinklow
University of Texas
Ruth Henry
Henry Genard
Southwestern
Hildred Carter
Harold Bateman
Aang M
Fred Hein
Baylor
Maurice Gengler
University of Virginia
Joiner Cartwright
Ruth Ragsdale
Bernardine Appleby
Texas Federaion of Women's Clubs
W. B. Hamilton
Elmo Austin
Bessie May Appman
Charles Andrews
Irma Adier
Andrew J. Allensworth
Helen A. Althoff
Douglas Anderson
Elizabeth Armour
Florence Lucille Avant
Harold A. Bateman
Weldon Leroy Bradshaw
Orin D. Bowles
Robert Lee Bennett
Francis Marion Burkett
Lillian Browne
Marvin Brown
Mary Elizabeth Bowen
Vera Omega Brubaker
Winnie E Barber
Mary Lavina Briscoe
Dwight Bourn
Leslie Biggs
Tillie Brown
Frank E. Brown
Tillie Brophy
Eula May Blackmon
Delka Rushick
Florence Agnes Buehler
Helen Oliphant Bates
Hazel Cannon
Lottie Mae Coleman
Thelma Conn
Marjory Belle Cameron
Clara May Cumberland
Hildred Alta Carter
Evelyn G. Conrads
Amanda J. Curran
Terrell J. Cartwright
Joe R. Cartwright
Victor I. Coppard
Lois Henry Coleman
Arthemice F. Heennessy
Aurelia Hager
Sarah Harris
Clara Huffmeyer
Erwin August Hassmann
Byron C. Hopper
Halene Henning
Virginia Hamilton
Sidney Wilson Hall
Christine Amanda Hill
Archie G. Helland
T. J. Hart
Jerome K. Harris
Frederick W. Hein
Neil Enoch Johanson
Marion Johnson
Robert Jones
Isadore Manuel Jacobs
Beatrice W Harbert Jones
Stuart Goodloeohnston
Russell C. Jonas
Robert Henry
Lucille F. von Weise
Oward Webster
Amelie Whitney
Christine E. Warden
Iona White
J. C. Williamson
Marian Julia Wise
Marie Welte
Edwin Perry
Ward
Evelyn Williams
Elgina Wolfe
Winkenhower
Maxine Elliottells
Henry Dayton Wilde
Osias Wolf
Claudius Oscar Wolfe
Mildred B. Wallach
James Bennet Wooding
Gladys Woods
Isabel Josephine Wesing
Ardis Mary Young
Hortense K. Zoeller
Ardis McCuray
Julia Lobban
Archie Landrum
Penelope Borden
Washington
Dadson
Menger
Fort Sam Houston
Camp Wilson
Aviation Camp—Society
Leon Springs
Cairo
Nice
The
Riviera
Seville
Mexico City
United States
Grant
Lee
Sherman
Sheridan
Ord
Miles
Roosevelt
Funston
Pershing
Elizabeth Walde
Ethel Lee Buxton
Crockett
the Menger
Edwin H. Lee
Walde
Buxton
BIG Onion
Missouri
At Wolfson
Turknst
Wirthmor
Wolfson’s
Minti
Commerce Street
Saul Wolfson
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