Texas Strongman and Miss Schaeffer Entertains Crowds
Texas born strongman and a group of 26 girls perform feats of strength in a program titled The Life and Uplift of the Young American. The act features bending gas pipes, driving spikes, breaking planks, and swinging multiple girls on necks and shoulders. Miss Schaeffer, a Houston girl described as refined and beautiful, joins the tour with Antoinette and twenty stylish assistants.
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Tex
Miss Schaeffer
Houston
Texas
Teachers to Attend Texas Association Meeting in Fort Worth
About fifty residents of San Antonio will join the thirty-eighth annual Texas State Teachers Association gathering in Fort Worth on November 30 and December 1. Friday will be a school holiday to allow travel for the convention. San Antonio officials on the program include Superintendent Charles S. Meek and several teachers and librarians from local schools.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roy C. Sewell
Inis City
Wortham
Shelby County
George Adams
Bellevue
Athens
Boerne
Milam School Mothers’ Club of
San Antonio
Fredericksburg
J. D. Payne
Hondo
Beaumont
J. G. Sutton
Lufkin
Riesel
Texas State Teachers’ Association
Fort Worth
Charles S. Meek
W. J. Knox
Edyth Symington
Gussie Ellison
Elizabeth West
Carnegie Library
Emma Gutzeit
Sarah King
L. W. Fox
F. Hofstetter
J. C. Burleson
Emma Pirie
W. A. Hand
Federal Agricultural
8. C. Smith
Ida Millen
Sayin' teller and cashier joke in city scene
A newsboy asks about banking terms and defines a paying teller as the man who pays out money a receiving teller as the man who takes in money and a cashier as the man who gets away with the money.
State Apiary Aids Study Of Bees In Texas
The Texas Honey Producers Association met to structure a cooperative plan and elect officers. The State Experimental Department will establish a state apiary to study beekeeping under Texas climate. E G LeStourgeon leads efforts to locate the station here with a $25,000 capital stock and a large directorate. About 5,000,000 pounds of honey are expected to be marketed in Texas this year with origins in South Central and West regions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Texas Honey Producers’ Association
State Experimental Department
Texas
G. LeStourgeon
San Antonio
Louis H. Scholl
New Braunfels
William J. Stahmann
el Paso
E. G. le Stourgeon
A. M. Patterson
Devine
W. C. Collier
Goliad
Richard Voges
Path
Harry Bremer
Seguin
Wiley Winters
Jourdanton
State Experiment Station
B. Youngblood
Texas Experiment Station
The
Agricultural and Mechanical College
LeStourgeon
West
Not Getting It for Nothing
A brisk businesslike man enters a butcher shop and orders a roast beef. The butcher weighs a bone heavy cut and refuses to give the customer bone, joking that he is not giving it and the customer is paining him.
Norway weighs neutral league amid war tensions
Christiania Norway November 26 sentiment grows for a league of neutrals as Norwegians point to German warfare and urge United States action. They praise President Wilson's moderation and foresee a united neutral protest. Norway blames Germany for submarine incursions and seeks broader US support to avoid inaction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Christiania
Norway
League of Neutrals
United States
America
Wilson
Germany
Geremany
Belgium
Cold Snap Kills Thousands of Fish In Texas Waters
Commissioner Will Woods reports a sudden temperature drop killed thousands of red minnows trout and shrimp in shallow warmed waters near San Antonio en route to Houston. The event may reduce next year’s supply and a Galveston fisher gathered 1200 pounds of fish by hand from the water.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Will Woods
Fish, Game and Oyster
San Antonio
Houston
Commissioner Woods
Galveston
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Texas Ritchie
Antoinette Schaeffer
Albert B. Ritchie
Miss Antoinette Schaeffer
Ritchie
Antoinette
Light Daily
Kingsville
Mother’s Club
Kleberg
Mothers’ Club
L. T. Worley
Texas Congress of Mothers
Commercial Club
Kleberg County
Irving Fisher
Yale University
Fisher
Mothers’ Clubs
Worley
Tenth Ward
Parent-Teacher Association
Midland
Taylor and
Gainesville
Dallas
John S. Armstrong
Parent- Teacher Association of
Palestine
Lamar
Hostetter
GMA
Kalteyer
Nunnaly
Kalteyver’s
Drug Store
E. Houston St
Acts of
Davenport
King Furniture Company
West Commerce
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