Buena Vista Playground Declared Finest in Southwest
Flora M. Rothwell reports August activity at the Buena Vista playground where 2086 children used the new steel apparatus including six swings rings ladders and bars. The facility features a three chute multiple slide club games courts croquet and a crochet class with mothers providing treats. plans call for similar equipment at Washington square San Pedro park and South Heights park.
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Buena Vista
Flora M. Rothwell
Washington Square
San Pedro Park
South Heights Park
Kansans Ready 10 Start Motor Trip to San Antonio
The First and Second Kansas Infantry prepare to depart Camp Lyon by motor trucks Wednesday afternoon or Thursday morning for San Antonio. Four motor truck companies will carry troops to their new station, with arrivals of Wisconsin brigade and First Illinois Field Artillery expected soon. The Seventy-first New York Infantry heads home from Brownsville, followed by the Fourteenth and Third New York, ending the 15,000 National Guard border deployment.
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Kansas Infantry
San Antonio
Kansas
Wisconsin Brigade
First
Illinois Field Artillery
Landa's Park
Leon Springs
Camp Lyon
Austin
New York Infantry
Brownsville
New York
National Guard
Schools to Be Graded by County Board in Harlandale
Teachers at Morrill High School Harlandale attend the Bexar county institute as grading of their schools by the county board of trustees is explored. Grading considers grounds buildings equipment water teaching force and finances with possible top marks not expected for country schools. The program includes Miss Wertz Houston on Starting the Child Right and Principal Ryan San Antonio High on The Elective System. The institute closes Saturday.
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Bexar County Institute
Morrill High School
Harlandale
County Board of Trustees
Sunday 8:15 A.M. Sutherland Springs Train Ad
An ad notes 60 cents for Sunday service with Southern Pacific Lines at 8 15 a m. Generous. a quirky line about a dangerous dog and giving him to a friend ends the fragment.
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Sutherland Springs
Southern Pacific Lines
Fort Sam Houston to Get $750000 War Dept Warehouse Upgrades
A board of army officers will plan comprehensive improvements at Fort Sam Houston funded by 750000 dollars authorized after President Wilson signed the army appropriation bill. Warehouses will serve the quartermaster corps medical signal and engineers with twelve blocks near New Braunfels avenue set aside for these facilities. Railroad tracks will connect to external lines improving loading for regiments horses and mules.
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Army
Secretary of War
Fort Sam Houston
Wilson
Congress
Quartermaster Corps
Medical Department
Signal Corps
Corps of Engineers
New Braunfels Avenue
Infantry Post
Wilson Street
Harry L. Rogers
Southern Department
War Department
Washington
Morris Sheppard
San Antonio
Sheppard
Katy
Southern Pacific
Camp Lyon
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