Fort Worth Fifth to Sixth St storeroom lease offer
Business opportunities lease storeroom between Fifth and Sixth on Main street in Fort Worth's business district at 325 dollars per month. Also ads for fast selling San Antonio restaurant on Main Street and a grocery store for sale at 1101 East Commerce. Other notices seek a party with an automobile and funds for real estate investing.
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Main Street
Fort Worth
Heart of Business District
Speed Brog
San Antonio
F. McCarty
Moore
Money to loan on city property and farms
Classified note from several lenders advertising money to loan on improved city property at 7 to 8 percent with terms up to ten years. Also offers loans on farms and ranches, business and residential property with varying rates. Contact T W Campbell and A E Heilbron among others in San Antonio and Crockett offices.
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Arnold, Aby & Peyton
T. W. Campbell
Bankers’ Mortgage Co
Postoffice
San Antonio
Tex
Joan
A. E. Heilbron
ANS
Nowlin
Crockett
Parsy Ma&els Levans
Travis
Rogers-Hill & CO
Auction Monday at 10 a.m. 312 Alamo
Antonio auction firm offers a wide home contents sale including piano, dining set Early English furniture, beds, dressers, bookcase, chandeliers, kitchen cabinet, ranges, heaters and other items to be sold. Auction details list address and items to be sold.
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EERIE
Devine St
Sommer & Cunningham
West Fall Ave
Denver Heights
Palmetto Ave
Alamo
PIANO TUNING AND INSTRUMENT SERVICES listed
An assortment of small ads including piano tuning by Ernest Applewhite a blind state school graduate, violin for sale and repair services, hand made violins with trial terms, music store bankruptcy sale, lost keys with reward, a horse for sale, a guide to local hotels with a blue coat, a team of horses and stationary engines for trade, and a mud chain vulcanizer with rewards offered.
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Ernest Apple-White
State School For Blind
R Crockett
Nordmann
Goliad ST. Crockett
Losoya St
Dtory
Come
Come and Ace
eCurry
W. Comerce
Harry fTionan
Grayson St
Phone Crockett
Lamar
Ewes Jewel Hotel
Grand Opera Ouse
Im Opera House
L. Swigard
Ca St
North St. T
Austin Road
High School Clubs Convene on Club Affairs and Holidays
About 500 students from various clubs and classes heard Principal Ryan urge shorter meetings to aid janitors and promote neat rooms. He advised delaying dances during Christmas holidays citing family time and post-holiday study effects. A February and June class yell showcase followed as 600 pupils cheered.
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Ryan
June 1917 Graduates Plan Get-together Social
The June class social committee announced an all around get together to be held Saturday night in the music room. A 10 cent per member assessment was levied with Caron Wilde collecting. The yell committee proposed many class yells and Carroll Pahlmann was named temporary yell leader. The full class of nearly two hundred practiced the new yells amid noticeable noise.
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Caron Wilde
Yell
Carroll Pahlmann
Candy pull fuels Feb graduation class celebration
The February graduating class hosted a large candy pull after a victory by the football team from San Marcos. Piano solos readings songs and speeches highlighted the evening. A class meeting planned social activities for the February Huisache annual estimated at 300 to 400 dollars and a Brackenridge Park photo hike was held. Committees and officers were announced including Yell committee Dwight Bourn Earle Waddell and others.
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San Marcos
Kile
McGarrity
Brackenridge Park
Yell
Dwight Bourn
Earle Waddell
Gerard Galpin
Sarah Halliday
Bernardine Appleby
Bonnie Lee Farrior
Edith Thorne
Grace Ryan
Margaret Buchanan
Thuse Meeting Draws 600 Football Fans
In the high school auditorium a Thursday afternoon rally drew about 600 football supporters to cheer the team toward victory. The event showcased school spirit and community backing for the upcoming game.
German Club Plans Open House And Theater Party
At a Friday meeting the high school German club arranged an open house for officers of all school clubs next Thursday. Invitations were sent to each organization’s officers. The group also approved Christmas entertainment plans and voted to stage a theater party with a Mexican supper and informal dancing afterward. The usual program was postponed due to a football game with Austin.
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Deutscher Schuler
High School
Austin
Arbitration wins at Hayne Debating Club
The Hayne Debating Club met Friday to debate whether the U S president should appoint a compulsory arbitration board for labor disputes. Daton Wilde and Osias Wolfe spoke for the affirmative, Jack Berman and Coulter Timpson for the negative. Wilde earned best speaker honors.
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Hayne Debating Club
United States
Daton Wilde
Osias Wolfe
Jack Berman
Coulter
Timpson
Kingdon Thomas
Lewis Kayton
Harold Bateman
Henry Herndon
Caron Wilde
Milton Ling
Hayne
Caren Wilde
Frank Williams
Osias Wolf
Sim Kelly
Jeffersonian Society Leaderless as President Resigns
Allan Mayor announced he is leaving school and relinquishing the Jeffersonian presidency. No immediate successor chosen. election set for the next meeting. Henry Leopold Burton Davis and Charles Lentz added as members. debate team selections announced after moving to Room 33 due to demolition.
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The
Jeffersonian Literary Society
Allan Mayor
Harold Scherwitz
Mayor
League Park
Jefferson Club
Henry Leopold
Burton Davis
Charles Lentz
Jeffersonians
Harold Simon
Robert Melton
Kenneth McCalla
Travis Mourland
John Haile Jr
Harold Lee
Burbank Studied At Scientific Society Meeting
The article notes that Burbank was studied at a Scientific Society meeting and discussed by Miss Caroline Randall who showed pictures of Darwin. Charles Andrews spoke on "Budding" with illustrative examples, focusing on Burbank's discoveries.
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Burbank
The
Scientific Society
Caroline Randall
Grafting Topic Taught and Tungsten Talk At School
Miss Irene Ellison demonstrated grafting methods while Miss Bertha Booth spoke on tungsten. Miss Irma Gesche led the parliamentary drill as year books were distributed and accepted. Bertha Booth becomes property keeper, Irene Hoyle gains active status. Christmas party with extensive social committee plans and a large banquet.
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Irene Ellison
Bertha Ooth
Irma Gesche
Bertha Booth
Irene Hoyle
Mark Twain Club Meets With New Extempore Feature
Friday gathering of the Mark Twain Club featured tales told by Miss Halene Henning Miss Helen Althoff and Miss Eugenia Brannon followed by an extemporaneous program by a member Miss Marjorie Baty produced Without a Title The group adopted Emma Fox's Parliamentary Rules for Women's Clubs with Lorraine Sinsheimer directing the first drill The social committee announced Thanksgiving visitors day plans and Philo mathean Debating Club invited attendance
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Mark Twain Club
Halene Henning
Helen Althoff
Eugenia Brannon
Marjorie Baty
Philomathean Debating Club
Mark Twains
Emma Fox
Loraine Sinsheimer
Spanish Club Meetings Shuffle to Wednesdays
The Spanish Club opened with a reading of a classical poem by Alex de la Garza and Miss Pompoza Meza presenting an original piece on Min erva. A proposed amendment to conduct meetings entirely in Spanish was defeated by a large majority. The group voted to move meetings to Wednesdays and discussed pending memberships for Eda Goldbeck and Charles Lopez. The club praised the year and rehearsals for the Christmas play continue twice weekly.
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Alex de la Garza
Pompoza Meza
Minerva
Eda Goldbeck
Charles Lopez
Friendship Club Helps Plan Show At Y W C A
The high school Friendship Society displayed new pins last Thursday at the Y W C A. The pins feature a design with the letters Y W C A.
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High School Friendship Society
Y W C A Circus Plans Highlight Club Efforts
Members organize a two day Y W C A circus set for November 24 and 25 with candy sales led by Bernadine Appleby Edith Thorne Louise Lucas Bonnie Lee Farrior and Grace Ryan in red and white costumes Three side shows led by Elizabeth Ripley Ruth Gray and Margaret Mueller ticket sales five cents to fifteen cents via Friendship members Decorations overseen by Willie Scott Margaret Silsbee Ruth Gray and Edna Skinner Hospitality questions addressed by Blanche Aydlett Willie Scott Jessie Scott Mary Larkin Alfie Colgazier Helen Scholz Hallie Baldwin Ethel Huse and Helen Callahan A member drive splits the club into two teams led by Elizabeth Joyce and Mary Larkin with white and red colors and a contest lasting a month to recruit new members.
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Bernadine Appleby
Edith Thorne
Louise Lucas
Bonnie Lee Farrior
Grace Ryan
Elizabeth Ripley
Ruth Gray
Margaret Mueller
Elsie Booth
Ruth Snyder
Jessie Scott
Dorothy Robinette
Gussie Hillie
Ruth Lane
Willie Scott
Margaret Silsbee
Edna Skinner
Mrs. Love
Elizabeth Joyce
Blanche Aydlett
Mary Larkin
Alfie Colgazier
Helen Scholz
Hallie Baldwin
Ethel Huse
Helen Callahan
Debate On War At High School Congress
The high school congress debated whether Entente Powers have a better chance to win the European war than the Central Powers. William Mitchell and Clarence Fawcett argued for England and allies. Bascom Humphrey and Sylvano Berliner for Germany and Austria. Judges favored the negative and named Bascom Humphrey best speaker. Theodore McLean declaimed on The Old Flag. New members Herff Applewhite and Thomas Strange were sworn in. Clyde Stevens’s application was read for next meeting. The subject for the next meeting will be whether San Antonio should return to aldermanic government.
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High School Congress
William Mitchell
Clarence Fawcett
England
Bascom Humphrey
Sylvano Berliner
Germany
Austria
Theodore McLean
John Strange
Herff Applewhite
Thomas Strange
Clyde Stevens
San Antonio
Autograph Requests From Submarine Officers Survive Battle Tales
A Budapest Az Est newspaper writer relays life aboard a Austro Hungarian submarine told by German officers. They recall sinking a British vessel and a phlegmatic captain who asked for autographs. Another tale features a honeymooning captain wife aboard a merchant ship and the green parasol farewell on the sinking ship.
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Paris
Az Est
Budapest
Deshabille
Cherie
Edible and Poisonous Mushrooms Distinguishing Signs
A Smithsonian botanist explains how to tell edible mushrooms from deadly toadstools. Relying on color or odor is unreliable. only botanical features such as the presence of a volva and a ring, gill color, and spore structure can identify safe varieties like the field mushroom and edible puffballs.
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China
United States
Smithsonian Institution
Destro Angel
United States National Museum
Mushrooms Named for Edible Varieties and Foraging Clues
The passage describes edible mushrooms including morel in spring woods and coral mushroom on decayed logs or shady ground. It notes white or yellow stems, fresh odor and taste improve dishes, and mentions shaggy mane ink caps sulphur colored polypore and oyster mushrooms as safe familiar options.
Women secret police inspectors detain outspoken soldier in Berlin
A Paris Journal report says a stout well dressed woman, identified as a secret police inspector, ordered a Berlin tram stop and had an on leave soldier arrested after he spoke about hardships and Verdun. The elderly policeman complied amid passenger protests.
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Paris
Berlin
Verdun
Secret Police
London Jacket Aims to Deflect Pistol Bullets
A London invention proposes a bullet proof soldier jacket lined with steel to fit modern needs. The design resembles no ancient armor but is claimed to deflect a 45 caliber pistol bullet fired from twenty feet.
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London
Sweden probes shale deposits for illuminating oil
Experts investigate ite alum shale deposits in Sweden seeking illuminating oil sulphur and other by products.
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Sweden
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