Booklets on Babies Help San Antonio Families
San Antonio parents will receive free infant care pamphlets through city and state health boards and the national government. Secretary Herring will mail out the large sealed envelopes once birth certificates arrive, with plans for a birth certificate identification card featuring the Alamo image for long term citizenship and identification use.
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Boards of Health
San Antonio
Herring
Alamo
How I Darkened My Gray Hair
A home recipe using Barbo Compound bay rum and glycerine to darken gray hair. Mix 7 oz water with a small box Barbo Compound 1 oz bay rum and 1-4 oz glycerine. Apply every other day until the desired shade. it reportedly dandruff relief and acts as a hair tonic.
Red and Blue Armies Eye Fiesta Subscriptions Campaign
Two rival camps, the Red army led by General John Williams and the Blue army under General E E Hillie, marshal 25 companies each to race for 25000 in Fiesta San Antonio subscriptions. The Central division pledges half the proceeds to both sides as plans unfold for a broader 1917 Fiesta.
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John Williams
Gunter Hotel
Hillie
St. Anthony
Red
Blue
Williams
San Antonio
RE. E. Hillie
E. E. Hillie
W. C. Silliman
P. L. Jackson
John Fentiman
E. W. Knox
B. R. Webb
Ed Finck
R. T. Pruitt
George Holmgreen
Willard Berman
Charles 8. Meek
Percy Tyrrell
R. P
Porter Loring
C. T. Priest
W. 8
Hendrick
C. T. Fincham
Max Blum
Jack Raybould
Ed Fomby
A. E. Norton
Herbert Hayes
E. J. H. Meter
C. V. Birkhead
Sylvan Lang
Wallace Rogers
Albert Steves Jr
Martin Wright
Fred Hummert
James Chalkley
Rafe Bynum
Tony Castanola
J. R. Davis
Army of the Commonweal
Atlee B. Ayres
Fiesta Association
President Ayres
Rotarians Plan Home Baked Thanksgiving for Camp Wilson Soldiers
San Antonio Rotary Club launches drives to collect cakes pies and cookies for 15 000 soldiers at Camp Wilson. Leaders and volunteers will visit clubs and organizations to solicit pledges and organize concentration stations for easy collection and delivery.
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Rotary Club
San Antonio
Camp Wilson
The
Red Cross
W.S. Hendrick
George Holmgreen
Herbert Hayes
Elmer Abbey
Hugh McClellan
Max Blum
A. W. Norcross
Porter Loring
Harry Hertzberg
Ed Finck
Walton Hood
Paul Bosselmann
Craig Adams
Bert J. McLean
E. E. Hillie
Tusday
Crockett 10
Henry Green
Texas
Holmgreen
Tom
Herman F. Faust for Justice of the Peace
Herman F. Faust, Republican candidate for Justice of the Peace, has held long service in city and county administrations for over thirty years. He is known for satisfactory duty performance and now asks voters to rally to his support. He opposes machine politics and ring rule.
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Herman F. Faust
Justice of the Peace
Postmistress of Nieppe Decorated by France
Mlle Ogee the Nieppe postmistress on the Belgian border was awarded the War Cross by the French government. When Germans invaded the town the commander sought info on French troops, but she hid the telephone and telegraph instruments and refused to reveal them despite threats.
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France
Paris
Mlle
Ogee
Nieppe
Reece
County approves estimate for McRae road contract
County commissioners and Auditor Van Howard approved C C McRae No 4 estimate of 467.50 for building the Benton City road. The Leonard road change was authorized shortening the route by about 300 yards with donation of land by Ferdinand Eckert. Local ads note services, auctions, and businesses in Crockett Texas.
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C. C. McRae
Benton City
van Howard
McRae
Leonard Road
Ferdinand Eckert
Eckert
Charles X. Gutzeit
Poll tax office urges early payments amid steady but lower batches
The poll tax office reports 65 issues yesterday the largest day since opening October 1. Collector Bitter asks businessmen to pay now to avoid late rushes and mail checks for property taxes later. Citizens note LL. B. Camp on the so called Republican ticket voted in the Democratic primaries. Nelson Lytle is urged for County Criminal Court judge citing over three thousand cases handled with satisfaction. Debating Club meets at Bonham School debating US ban on munitions exports to warring Europe.
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LL. B. Camp
Hughes Club
J. L. Camp
United States
Floresvile
Nelson Lytle
Democratic Campaign Committee
Campaign note from candidate for Precinct No 4 election
A candidate for Commissioner of Precinct No 4 requests votes and support for the November 7 election. The letter promises to serve the public to the best of the candidate's ability.
Declamation event and local ads listed in Texas notice
Action shows a debate between tives and negatives with speakers and a declamation by Henry Steinboemer. The page lists law firms and professionals including Newton & Newton, Kamp man Building, Dr Foster dentist Gibbs Building, plumber Oliver Condova, and Ward & Bickett attorneys in San Antonio with contact numbers.
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Ward & Bickett
R. H. Ward
John H., Bickett Jr
Attorneys
Bedell Building
San Antonio
Texas
Phone Crockett
Telegraph Enjoined Foreclosure Sale in Canales Case
Chief Justice W S Fly of the Fourth Court of Civil Appeals dictated a telegram to Sheriff J P Osburn to halt the foreclosure sale of 200 acres of Fructuoso Canales land and improvements, home stead protected by Texas homestead laws, to allow time for further inquiry after Judge Woods filed the petition in Fructuoso Canales and wife vs Andrew Canales and J P Osburn. The sale had been set for Tuesday November 7.
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W. S. Fly
Fourth Court of Civil Appeals
J. P. Osburn
Jim Wells County
Jim Wells
Joe Murray
Woods
Fructuoso Canales and Wife
Andrew Canales
Fructuoso Canales
Texas
Appelle
Zionists plan circus to fund annual Texas gathering
San Antonio Zionists announce a November 26 circus at Muth's Garden to defray convention expenses for the Texas Zionist Association meeting in San Antonio late December. The event includes side shows a baby show refreshments amusements a cabaret and dancing with music by the Army YMCA minstrel group. Miss Hattie Rabe is general chairman.
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Texas Zionist Association
San Antonio
Obituary notices for Joe E. Tondre and Edward Lyons
Joe E Tondre 48 died 1 50 PM Saturday at sister Idas home 612 East Corvallis San Antonio. Survived by widow three daughters Fritz Herman all Castroville mother Rosa Tondre brothers Aloys William Edward sisters Ida Ellis A Dippett. Body to Castroville Monday noon for funeral and interment. Edward Lyons 54 died Saturday in San Antonio after three months here native of Massachusetts. Survived by daughter Irene Snyder Victoria Texas. Body held by Riebe Undertaking pending advices.
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Joe E. Tondre
Ida Ellis
Corvallos Street
San Antonio
Castroville
Frieda
Elsie
Hulda
Fritz
Herman
Rosa Tondre
Aloys Tondre
William Tondre
U.S. Army
Galveston
Edward Tondre
Pearsall
A. R. Dippert
Pearce-Robinson Undertaking Company
Irene Snyder
Victoria
Tex
Riebe Undeotana Company
Shelley Loring Undertaking Co Automobile Equipment
Shelley Loring Undertaking Co reports automobile equipment offerings with both hones 971 arty in shorthand.
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Shelley-Loring Undertaking Co
Put Up More Entanglements Belgium
Belgium seeks more entanglements as discussions at The Hague continue amid wartime diplomacy. Authorities report ongoing efforts to manage alliances and strategic standoffs through late 1940s era talks.
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the Hague
Austrian Officers Sentenced to Death for Treason
The New Zurich Gazette reports two high Austrian officers with Slavic names were tried by court martial in Vienna and sentenced to death for treason.
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Zurich
New
Vienna
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Levine
Kirschbaum
Alamo Plaza
Lady
Fort Sam Houston
Eagles
O'Connell Loan Co
Houston St
St. Mary's St
Lanier
Hudson
Richey Auto
Crockett
Gaees Jewelry Co
R. L. Hays
Horace E. Wilson
State Bank
Boston
E. Houston
J. F. Carl
Bedell Funlding
Prescher’s Orchestra
Gallagher
Tom Newton
George West Ranch
Stanley Cassin
Tom Newton Jr
Young Cassin
P. Brown
Gunter Bldg
Magnolia Grove
W. O. W. Hall
Camden
Blum St
O. E. Puppe
Trav
W. W. Lee
Calvary Baptist Church
Riverside Shooting
Adv
Carson St
Willett
City
R. Ellsworth
W. Houston and Laredo Sts
R. P. Ingram
John D. Robinson
Gunter
John A. Bitter
Alamo Furniture Co
Main Ave
Flores
Net Ae Ney
L. Robertson
Travis
Harlandale Bath
Wm. H. Russell
Kampman Bidg
Woodrow Wilson Debating Club
Bonham School
Europe
John H. Covington
Commissioner's Precinct No
Bexar County
Tive
Albert Buss
Elbert Biggs
Roland Voight
William Lohmueller
Henry Steinboemer
Newton & Newton
Kampman Bldg
Dr. Foster
Gibbs Bldg
Oliver Condova
John D. Hartman
Chandler
Kansas City Star
Joe EK
Tondre
Edward Lyons
Massachusetts
Wachtebeke
Hostetter
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