Alamo Heights Eyes $10000 School Addition Bond
Citizens meet at the school to back a bond election for adding ten thousand dollars to the crowded building. The sinking fund holds ten thousand dollars and organizers plan to issue bonds to use the money for expansion. The old structure would house classrooms while the new wing adds domestic science and manual training and an assembly room. A. T. Stevens leads the Civic League.
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E. Hight
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A. T. Stevens
The
Civic League
Eastern Star Chooses San Antonio for 1917 Convention
Corpus Christi reports Grand Chapter Eastern Star selects San Antonio as the 1917 convention city with over one thousand delegates expected. Miss E Alice Holman announces a new class in the Dunning Work at 10 o clock Friday morning at the Mayor Temple of Music.
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Eastern Star
Corpus Christi
Tex
Grand Chapter
San Antonio
E. Alice Holman
Mayor Temple of Music
Texas shippers oppose ICC intra state rate control
The Texas Industrial Traffic League plans a Dallas meeting October 17 to ward off ICC power over intra state rates. A league member says the move aims to rally shippers across Texas and halt federal encroachment on states' rights.
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Austin
Tex
Conference of Shippers
Dallas
Texas Industrial Traffic League
Interstate Commerce Commission
League
Texas
Three Street Car Accidents Reported Downtown
Patrolmen logged three crashes involving four street cars on Wednesday afternoon and night. A westbound car hit an open switch at West Commerce and Medina, striking an eastbound train. A collision with an Alamo Heights car and an automobile driven by Nicolas Oudie occurred near River Avenue. J Dinwitty, stopped at the Alamo Hotel, was struck on Hast Houston street but not seriously hurt.
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Central Headquarters
Prospect Hill
West Commerce
Medina Streets
Medina Street
Alamo Heights
Nicolas Oudie
Lakeview Avenue
River Avenue
R. T. Maxwell
A. P. Shaw
Neals
J. Dinwitty
Alamo Hotel
Houston Street
Mr. Dinwitty
Too Bad Indeed A Night With a Noisy Child
A fragment recalls Mrs Commuter awakening to requests from a child during the night. At six in the morning a six year old asks softly if it is too bad that one of Harry MecCole s pollywogs died. The mother remains silent as the child calls again.
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Harry MecCole
Pollywogs
New York Times
Man Loses Nerve After Dentist Visit
A Baltimore American brief notes remarks about James after a dentist visit. He reportedly “lost his nerve” and could not say whether he was scared or the dentist was shocked by his reaction.
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James
Baltimore American
Social Calendar Highlights Local Clubs and Visits
A busy schedule features Delta Sigma Upsilons, Friday bridge at Mrs Carr’s West Woodlawn home, St Mark's Parish Aid luncheon, Tuesday Musical Club at Mrs Hertzberg, and multiple school and club gatherings. Mrs Kampmann and daughter return from Chautauqua. Beta Beta Alphas meet at Miss Watson’s home.
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Robert W. Carr
West Woodlawn Avenue
Eli Hertzberg
UT visitors and local social events listed for weekend
A club with 68 members and its musical department will host Miss Minnette Thompson and four UT guests Friday to Sunday for Texas vs Oklahoma A and M football festivities. Other social notes include visits, dinners, a December 29 dance at the Gunter, and a New York City marriage announcement for Melitta Faust Goeth with plans to be at home in Austin after November.
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San Antonio
Ralph Jackson
Minnette Thompson
Mary Pierce
Pearl Zilker
Dorothy Wilcox
Mary Shelton
University of Texas
Jeannette Hagelstein
Texas U.oklahoma A
J. W. Howard
Gunter Hotel
Mary Howard
Ward-Belmont College
Yuletide
Joseph Faust
New Braunfels
Melitta
Ralph Conrad Goeth
Austin
New York City
Enfield Road
Texas
Church of England Sends Its Greeting at U S Episcopal Convention
Representatives of the Church of England delivered greetings at a joint session of the American church convention in St. Louis. Bishop Huysche Yeatman-Biggs and other delegates stressed wartime strains but expressed support for the U S Episcopal Church. mite box funds collected for women missionaries at the united offering service accompanied the sessions.
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ST. Louis
Protestant Episcopal Church of the
United States
Church of England
Convention of the American Church
Tony
Huysche Wolcott Yeatman-Biggs
Worcester
England
H. H. Montgomery
Society For the Propagation of the Gospel of the Church of England
George Thornloe
Algoma
Ont
David Williams
Huron
Episcopal General Convention elects Mann and officers in New York
Communion offerings gathered at the altar. The Rev. Alexander Mann of Boston was re elected president of the House of Deputies and of the General Convention’s presidency. James G Glass named assistant. Thomas F Galtler of Memphis elected chairman of the House of Bishops as three week sessions begin in New York.
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New York
Alexander Mann
Boston
Mass
House of Beenties
Protestant Episcopal General Convention
James E. Freeman
Minneapolis
Minn
House of Deputies
Samuel Hart
Middletown
Conn
Henry Anstice
House of Bishops
James G. Glass
Anniston
Ala
Anstice
Thomas F. Galtler
Memphis
Tennessee
Private Smith Killed Near Brownsville
Private D. T. Smith, 23, of Schoolfield, Virginia, in the First Virginia Infantry, was struck and killed Wednesday afternoon 14 miles north of Brownsville, Texas. He was identified early today and reportedly was absent without leave at the time of the fatal accident.
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Brownsville
Tex
D. T. Smith
Schoolfield
Virginia Infantry
Here
Smith
Will Plan Methods to Train Officers
Presidents of 19 colleges and universities are called to the War Department for a conference at the Army War College on October 17 to discuss organized military courses under the army reorganization law. The aim is to build a 50 000 strong corps of partly trained junior officers from approved institutions. National guard units of college students have been mustered out to form the first reserve officer increment.
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Washington, D. C
War Department
United States Army
Army War College
Army General Staff
National Guard
Simple Truth on Defense Lawyer's Plea
A defense attorney told the court that his client was more a crook than the lawyer, a line the judge accepted as the truth. The judge sentenced the prisoner at the bar to ten years of hard labor.
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Justinian
Chicago News
CheDox Ctors Digest Health Quackery Inquiries
A letters page shows readers seeking tonics for growth, weight gain, and ailments. Responding advice touts three-grain hypo-nuclane tablets, baimwort tablets for kidneys, three-grain sulfuric tablets, plain yellow minyol for dandruff, mentho laxene cough remedy, and five-grain artolone tablets for weight reduction.
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Princess
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Wm. Fox
Royal
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Wheel of the Law
Charlie Ghaplin
the Pawnbroker
Wigwan
Union Country
Gerda Holmes
Bruce McRae
Invisible
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Marguerite Clark
Childlock
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Wolff & Marx
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Theodore Roosevelt
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Fischer's Drug Store
Avenue D
Shippers
Hertzberg
Delta Sigma Upsilons
St. Mark's
Fannin School Mothers’ Club
Parent-Teachers’ Association of
Los Angeles Heights
History Club
C. P. Stafford
West Craig Place
Teachers’ Association of
Collins Gardens
Isaac Simpson Kampmann
Caroline
Chautauqua, N. Y
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W.A. Adams
Marian Watson
Colonial Tearoom
Arthur W. Seeligson
Ernestine Friedman
T. T. VanderHoeven
Carlos Bee
Daisy Marquis Briggs
Travis Club
Venice
Myrtley
Marion Goods
Lucile Gray
Lily Burnside
Dorothy Cooper
Oran Kirkpatrick
Peg O' My Heart
Rutie Evans
Ienvoil
Kipling
Imogene Powell
Jessica Smith
Christeen Hill
Pauline Smith
Mary Kathleen Kemper
Rosana
Emma Young
Flora Briggs
Department of Philanthropy
Woman's Club
Mrs. A. Sachs
Ee von Schmidt-Pauli
Newark
Helen Rohde
Alfred W. Rohde
Cedar Street
Luther League of Grace Lutheran Church
W. M. Madill
College Street
Toronto
Canada
Gertrude Olga
T. M. Stotts
Tulsa
Okla
Mary Pauline Fordtran
California
Omaha
Alice Coad
Miss Fordtran
Wyoming
Frederick J. Combe
Chicago
Culver
Ind
Culver Military College
William Fordtran
Frederick J Combe
Charles Ogden
Galveston
Carrie Louise Fordtran
Bristol School
Otiolene
Apeeay
Ethel Eldridge
Houston
Theodore W. Friedrich
Walter A. Newman
Manassas
Newman
Medical Reserve Corps
Virginia National Guard
Fitzhugh Lee
Frederick Funston
Adina de Zavala
Nashville, Tenn
Miss Mary
Protestant Episcopal Convention
Bishop of
Gouraud
T. Hopkins & Son
Private Smith
Virginia
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