Miss Winnie Davis Morrison Dies After Short Illness
Winnie Davis Morrison 25 of San Antonio died Thursday morning at 925 South Presa after a brief illness. A Texas native, she worked as an operator at the Southwestern telephone exchange. She is survived by her mother Mrs. J H Morrison, a sister Mary, and a brother R D Morrison, all of San Antonio. The body will be sent to Hempstead and later to Garrison by Shelley-Loring Undertaking Company for burial, with some relatives listed from Center and Garrison.
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Winnie Davis Morrison
South Presa Street
Texas
San Antonio
Southwestern Telephone Exchange
J. H. Morrison
Mary
R. D. Morrison
Hempstead
Shelley-Loring Undertaking Company
Mrs Luella McDuffie Dies at 33 in San Antonio
Mrs. Luella McDuffie aged 33 died at 7 30 o clock Wednesday night in a local sanitarium She came to San Antonio from Garri son ten months ago She is survived by her husband J C Mc Duffie three children Burnie Alvie and Mary her father J Deal all of San Antonio and four other relatives
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Lueila McDuffie
Luella McDuffie
San Antonio
Garrison
J. C. McDuffie
Burnie
Alvie
Mary
J. Deal
Don’t Ignore Pain Urging Medical Checkups
An old health ad warns pains in kidneys, chest, stomach, joints or headaches may signal serious illness. It promotes GOLD MEDAL Haarlem Oil Capsules as a daily health aid and urges buyers to avoid substitutes with a money back guarantee.
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Bright
Haarlem
Rabbi L Glaser Dies in San Antonio at 34
Rabbi L Glaser, 34, of San Antonio, a native of Russia, died Wednesday afternoon in a local hospital. Survived by a widow and two children, funeral is set for 3 PM Thursday at Shelley-Loring chapel with Rabbi Gerstein officiating and interment in the Orthodox Jewish cemetery.
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L. Glaser
Russia
San Antonio
Shelley-Loring Undertaking
Gerstein
Shelley Loring Undertaking Co Automobile Equipment
Local ad for Shelley Loring Undertaking Co offers automobile equipment and lists two phone numbers, 971 and another contact option, indicating a commerce or services advertisement.
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Shelley-Loring Undertaking Co
Dancer awarded $20,000 in Lackawanna crossing case
A federal jury awarded Mrs. Daisy James of Newark $20,000 for the loss of both feet after being struck by a train at the Greenwood avenue crossing in East Orange in June 1915 while she was a dancer at the Winter Garden in New York. She had sued for $100,000.
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Trenton
N. J
Daisy James
Newark
Winter Garden
New York
Delaware Lackawanna & Western Railroad
Greenwood Avenue
East Orange
What He Called Her Grandma and Grandpa in Conversation
A man asks for tension free guidance on how to address his future mother in law. His friend jests that after the first year he called his wife’s mother Grandma, illustrating evolving titles within marriage. The exchange ends with the humorous solution of using Grandma for familiarity.
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Inswin
DVICE v Dy readers seek health cures and weight questions
Readers ask about weight loss from 240 to 190 pounds and general health. Answers recommend tablets and tonics, with directions to buy from drug stores and use as directed for improved nutrition, nerves, and vitality.
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Neals
High School Pie Drive To Aid Soldiers Thanksgiving
Two hundred large pies will be baked by Main Avenue, Brackenridge, and Douglass high schools for the Rotary Club led Soldiers Thanksgiving at Fort Sam Houston and Camp Wilson. Miss Emma Pirie oversees the effort with the three schools preparing mince apple potato and pumpkin pies labeled per variety. Army trucks will deliver the baked goods in pasteboard plates on pine trays to maintain condition.
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Fort Sam Houston
Camp Wilson
Emma Pirie
Main Avenue High School
Brackenridge High School
Douglass High School
Miss Pirie
Charles S&s. Meek
Rotary Club
Col
W. S. Hendricks
Boerne Women Bake for Soldiers in Thanksgiving Drive
Boerne residents coordinate with Rotary Club of San Antonio to supply home baked cakes pies and cookies for soldiers at Fort Sam Houston and Camp Wilson. Mothers' Club votes to solicit donations with Ye Kendall Inn Phillips and Becker hotels pledging. Donations collected November 29 sent to Rotary headquarters in San Antonio.
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Boerne
Tex
Fort Sam Houston
Camp Wilson
Rotary Club of
San Antonio
Mothers’ Club
Boerne Dancing Club
Wisconsin Boys
Kendall Inn
Man With Nerve Story From Douglas Wyoming
Henry Stephens living about fifty miles north of Douglas is under a doctor's care in Douglas after breaking his leg in a fall on the range. He mounted his horse and rode ten miles to a sheepherder's camp before help arrived, then rode six more miles to Douglas to see a physician. He is improving and expected to recover fully.
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Douglas
Wyo
Henry Stephens
Stephens
Free Lecture on Christian Science in San Antonio
The First Church of Christ Scientist San Antonio announces a free lecture on Christian Science at Beethoven Hall tonight November 16 1916 at 8 oclock by Virgil O Strickler member of the Board of Lectureship of The Mother Church Boston Mass. Public invited. Doors open 7 p.m.
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First Church of Christ, Scientist
San Antonio
Texas
Beethoven Hall
Virgil O. .Strickler
Boston
Mass
Nobel Prize in Literature Bestowed on M. Romain Rolland
Romain Rolland of France is awarded the 1915 Nobel Prize in literature. the prize for 1916 goes to Verner von Heidenstam of Sweden. Rolland, a pacifist writer, fled to Switzerland at the war’s start, author of Jean Christophe and Au Dessus de la Melee.
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M. Romain Rolland
Stockholm
Verner Heidenstam
Rolland
France
Switzerland
Paris
Jean Christophe
Plans discuss next Flower Battle for Fiesta parade
The San Antonio Battle of Flowers Association reviewed its history and mapped plans for the next April Fiesta at a luncheon at the Menger hotel. Past presidents were honored and invited guests from related groups attended as speakers outlined origins, reorganization in 1909, and the need for an auditorium to host the queen coronation. China is becoming a large leather market, importing over 4,000,000 dollars annually.
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San Antonio
Battle of Flowers Association
Menger Hotel
John J. Stevens
G. Newton
T. A. Coleman
Atlee B. Ayres
Winchester Kelso
Kelso
John B. Carrington
Chamber of Commerce
San Jacinto
T. T. Jackson
D. J. Woodward
J. H. Kirkpatrick
John Turner
Ed Finck
Cascarets Offer Gentle Liver and Bowel Cleansing
A 1900s style advertisement promises bilious symptoms like headachy and coated tongue will vanish after taking Cascarets. It claims the product removes liver and bowel poisons, leaves you feeling fit, and that it is gentle and non gripe. Mothers are advised to give Cascarets to sick children, emphasizing safety and appeal to kids.
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Cross
War Wound Toll. 33,000 Disabled Men in Europe
The British official press bureau reports severe disability from the war across Europe. It lists 33,000 plus men permanently disabled with many reformable cases such as eye and limb injuries. Funds support training and wages starting at $5 weekly to rehabilitate incapacitated soldiers.
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London
Europe
Indian cattle king owns vast South Dakota holdings and cattle trade
Louis Agard, a wealthy Native American from Standing Rock, controls about nineteen quarter-sections of land in the reservation and McIntosh area. He sold stock calves at St Paul for a record $10 per hundredweight, with stock heifers at $6.75 and cows at $6. His wealth centers on cattle, not wheat farming, after twenty seven years in the business.
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McIntosh
Q Ban hair treatment promises gray-to-dark transformation
An advertisement claims Q Ban can restore hair color and vitality without dye. It urges daily shampooing for a week then two to three times weekly, stating gray hair will gradually darken and hair become healthy and lustrous. Summers and drugstores stock it, and the method is described as harmless.
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Ady
Dumas Named Trench Hero of France in World Conflicts
Paris honors Arthur Isidore Dumas a veteran who died at 70. Born in the Pyrenees in 1846, he served in Zouaves, the French army, and campaigns from Oran to the Soudan, fought in South Africa, and joined Belgian and French forces in World War I. He survived multiple wounds and captures, aiding the Marne defense and Verdun preparation before Bezonvaux.
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Paris
Alexander Dumas
Arthur Isidore Dumas
France
Dumas
Clery
Pyrenees
Pontifical Zouaves
Montana
Transvaal
Belgium
Albert
Haelen
Antwerp
von Kluck
Gallieni
Meaux
Marne
Aisne
Dardanelles
Salonica
Orient
Forty-fourth
Verdun
Bezonvaux
War Hero Captain Dumas Death in Crery Assault
The article details Captain Dumas wounded near Crery on February 26 while breaking through enemy circles. He recovered to join the Somme offensive on July 1, later receiving a thigh wound on August 12 as French forces stormed Crery. He pressed on with his men and was killed by a bullet to the forehead while leading a charge.
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Ruary
Dumas
Somme
Crery
Odorless Onion Hailed At Vegetable Growers Meet
Chicago delegates at the ninth annual convention of the Vegetable Growers Association of America forecast an odorless onion. A local dealer says it will be tearless and edible without keeping people from socializing, likening its popularity to strawberries and watermelons.
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Chicago
Vegetable Growers’ Association of America
Quotable exchange on smoking habits from San Francisco Bulletin
A San Francisco Bulletin excerpt features a couple discussing the husband’s smoking. The wife claims he smoked before marriage but now never touches the weed, and one person affirms with a sharp reply about breaking a lifetime habit requiring strong will.
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A &T
San Francisco Bulletin
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