The Jarr Family at a Liberty Loan Meeting
Mrs Jarr recalls a Liberty Loan Town League meeting held that afternoon while Mrs Prink boasts a silver coffee urn and a servantless home. Mr Jarr remains wary of patriotism’s demands as gossip turns to quarrels over timing and tea.
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the Press Publishing Co
New York Evening World
Roy L. McCardell
Mrs. Jarr
Ladies’ Liberty Town League
Mr. Jarre
Ladies League
Liberty Loan Tengue
Mr. Darr
Mrs. Jare
War Work Uniforms and a Fractured Tea Party
In a dialogue set amid wartime duties, Mrs Stryver pushes for a striking women’s war work unit while Mrs Prink resists and resigns. Mrs Jarr recalls cost pressures on sewing efforts as a seamstress questions wartime economics, hinting at a rival league and even a fictional women’s regiment. The piece shifts to a farmer and a dry spell anecdote, reflecting local life under strain.
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Mrs. Stryver
Mrs. Jarr
Mr. Jar
Miss Lucy Burleson Becomes the Bride of a Naval Officer
Washington society notes a highly fashionable ceremony at St John s Lafayette Square with Miss Lucy Burleson marrying Ensign Edward Green Grimes Jr in a gown designed by the bride herself. The President and Mrs Wilson attended along with cabinet members and family. The reception followed at the bride’s parents home, and on departure the former Miss Burleson wore a brown triconet gown with white buttons.
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San Antonio
Philadelphia Ledger
Washington, D.C
St. John’s
Lafayette Square
Grey Burleson
Edward Green Grimes Jr
Wilson
Marshall
Burleson
Sidney Burleson
Mary Grimes
Dayton
Olio
Michard Yan .Wyck Negley
Burteson
Edward D. Grimes
Ohio
Red Cross Aids Soldiers Families through Home Service
The Red Cross home service section aids returned soldiers by supporting their families and homes. It protects health, ensures education for soldiers’ children, monitors housing and sanitation, and facilitates benefits under the War Risk Insurance as well as counseling and emergency funding when needed.
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The
Red Cross
Cross
Federal Vocational Training Board
War Department
Department of Tahor
Department of Labor
Miss Burger Entertains Hallowe'en Party at Home
Miss Evelyn Burger hosted a Hallowe'en party Thursday at 117 North Street with decorations dancing and games. Guests included Pauline Magott Stellan Mueller Vivian Stone Lucile Pardue Hilda Mueller Jeanette Lovytansky Josephine McCullough Lucille McCaun Harold Tatt Pauw Lindgren Harold Burger Robert Orth Joe Burger Stanley Lindgren Rodney Whitney and Martin Trole.
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Miss Burger
Evelyn Burger
North Street
Pauline Magott
Stellan Mueller
Vivian Stone
Lucile Pardue
Hilda Mueller
Jeanette Lovytansky
Josephine McCullough
Lucille McCaun
Harold Tatt
Pauw Lindgren
Harold Burger
War Work Calls Stimulate Local Women Helpers
Society venues and shops urged to cooperate with a wartime committee. Red white and blue receptacles placed for seed deposits as young women of the Council of Defense recruit ammunition workers. Mrs Griswold and Mrs Dibrell seek volunteers via Miss Mary Howard. Several society figures travel and guests arrive, including Mrs Stroud and Mrs Carey. A formal Camp artillery dance highlights Hallowe en decorations and officers host notable guests. Major personnel transfers bring Cabell and DeRosey Cabell to Fort Sam Houston. Elsie Scott returns to Austin for studies.
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Council of Defense
J. C. Griswold
John Dibrell
Mary Howard
Travis
Red Cross Women Circles Schedule Meetings
Local Red Cross circles from Mozart Society to Morrill High School announce weekly meeting times in central work rooms. Most groups meet mornings at 9 oclock on various weekdays, with one 2 pm business session at Morrill High on Monday.
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Red Cross Circle
Mozart Society
Red Cross
Woman's Club
Morrill High School
Child Welfare Conference Held In Wichita Falls
The tenth annual Texas Congress of Mothers and Parent Teachers Association conference meets November 6 to 7 in Wichita Falls with a film by Mrs. B A Sadler of Dallas showing child welfare work. St Marks Parish Aid hosts a luncheon November 8 at 12 30 with business at 2. D A R Alamo Chapter meeting postponed until quarantine lifts. Central Christian Church Ladies Aid Society meets Monday at 1. Merry Maids Musical Club meets Wednesday at 4. Halloween party hosted by Miss Alice Weston with guests including Misses Kroeger Hawking Wilkins Stauss Faber Tannery Erler Abt Sachs Kirkwood Gentle.
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Marrince
Mary ‘Theresa
Theodore F. Husloge
Muedday
St. Joseph’s Catholic Church
Cleet
Raymond Byrne
Dashiell Street
Bunea Awis
sMies Thelma Moody
Cornelia Weak
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Wichita, Falls
Congress
13. A. Sadler
Dallas
Mra
B. A. Waters
St. Mark’s
Alamo
the Daughters of the American Revolution
Ladies’ Aid
Society of the Central Christian Ghareh
Alice Weston
Helen Kroeger
Idella Hawking
Anna Wilkins
Lillian Stauss
Louise Faber
Lucille Tannery
Misa Erler
Mabel Abt
Hilda Sachs
Janie Kirkwood
Hallie Gentle
Sante Fe Trail Markers Placed in Kansas City
Five bronze tablets will mark the Santa Fe Trail in Kansas City after a 1000 appropriation by the Kansas City Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution. Tablets will stand at Westport Avenue and Main Street, near Westport High School, Linwood Tentevard and Euclid Avenue, Twenty-fourth Street and Jackson Avenue, and Twenty-seventh Street and Topping Avenue. The effort, dating back to 1905, involved leaders including Capt William Hickman and William M Johnson, with local figures advancing the project for years.
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The
Daughters of the American Revolution
Missouri
Wranklin
Independence
Westport Avenue
Main Street
Robert Gilfham
Westport High School
Linwood Tentevard
Hickman
Hickman Mills
William M. Johnson
Johnson County
Kansas
Airplane Tank and Wheelbarrow Carry Singer to Front
Miss Mariel Horisberg, Baltimore soprano, toured American camps with Y M C A entertainment units during World War I. Her convoy included a bathtub motorcycle ride, a limousine, airplane hops, a tank ride, a lumber mill stage, a saw carriage, timber drags, a handcar, and a wheelbarrow. She performed for GIs in France, aided by Red Triangle and Jaiberry Quartette enterta inment bureaus and later announced engagement of Lena Wild to Lieut Ernest Nitache of Medical Corps at Camp Travis.
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Kate Hornsberg
France
Liberty Quartette
United States
Horlsberg
Baltimore
Red Triangles Entertainment Bureau
Jaiberry
T Heldon
Miss Hobisberg
Mariel Horisberg
Neck of the Woods
Chen
Fridolin Wild
Lena
Ernest W. Nitache
Medical Corps
U. S. Army
Camp ‘Travis
Lavaca Street
Sir Francis Drake sails around the world to Bangor Maine
English captain Thomas Drake sails a 25,000 mile voyage aboard the 64 ton schooner Sir Francis Drake, launched from Seattle three years ago. The vessel spreads TH feet of canvas and carries a 6 horsepower gas engine. Drake, once a lumberman on Puget Sound, seeks distant shores without owners, naming his ship after the famed explorer.
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Cook
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Gravesend
London
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