Good Roads Boosters Depart for Corpus Christi
The advance guard of a fifteen automobile party from San Antonio heads for Corpus Christi to push highway improvements. led by William Cassin and including John Carrington and E A Kingsley. They plan stops at Pleasanton Campbellton and George West with a banquet at the latter. A return trip may follow the 8 A P railroad line.
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Corpus Christi
William Cassin
Good Roads
Corpus Christ
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D. E. Calp
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Colp
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Wanted to But Didn't Pork Credit Tale
Jim Smith owed a bill for pork at the grocery and, under strained credit, walked in and said he wanted to pay and buy more. The proprietor eagerly served him, but Smith admitted he could not pay after all, delaying settlement of the debt.
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Jim Smith
Rocery
Mr. Black
Jim
French musicians in strife as war drains money
Paris reports musicians including instrumentalists, singers, and teachers, many with savings exhausted and prices slashed, facing unprecedented hardship from the long war. Some rise to occasional engagements, but most struggle to survive. street players gain pity yet few seek aid, while the society L Aide Affecteuse aux Musiciens works to quietly assist as fund-raising疲 continues.
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Associated Press
Paris
America
Bir
Cue Press
Conservatory
L’aide Affecteuse Aux Musiciens
Founding a Career and Public Speaking Boost
An exchange about a great speech predicting influence for an engagement with a lecture bureau. Senator Sorghum asks if the speech will help, and a colleague asserts it will secure an engagement. A humor piece contrasts a colonel’s reaction to killing with another question about feelings.
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Sorghum
Brooklyn_ Citizen
Indoor Life Promotes Fat Reduction With Oil of Korein
A reminiscence style advisory urges indoors bound individuals to guard against excess fat gained from lack of exercise. It promotes Wagner's Drug Store oil of korein capsules as a daily after meal and bedtime aid, claiming quick weight loss, better digestion, and renewed energy.
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Wagner's
Atlanta woman becomes Georgia's first registered female lawyer
Mrs Minnie Anderson Hale of Atlanta Ga has been admitted to the bar under the new Portia law signed by Governor Harris She is the first woman lawyer registered under the act and is a 1911 graduate of Atlanta Law School after years of persistent effort to gain recognition
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Atlanta
Georgia
Portia
General Assembly
Harris
Hale
Atlanta Law School
Citizens push home rule charter revision petition
Petitions circulate to place a charter revision question before voters under the home rule act. A five member committee may be chosen by the people, taking the process away from the mayor and council. The current council appointed committee is drafting changes, and the council may reject the petition once enough signatures are gathered.
Belgians and Dutch Trade Harvest Work
A frontier harvest bargain forms between Dutch and Belgian farmers in Limburg. Dutch landowners harvest Belgian crops on Dutch soil, while Belgians may work Dutch land, to avoid crossing the electric frontier barrier. The barrier, seven feet high with a five-fold wire row, blocks any passage and even prevents letters crossing via small streams.
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Subway plan needs neighbor consent near Seguin road
San Antonio Belt and Terminal Company must obtain permission from abutting landowners before building a proposed subway across Seguin road about a mile east of the city limits. County Commissioners, after touring the site with Highway Engineer Fred Bennett, urged swift action once landowners approve, citing the elimination of a dangerous grade crossing and anticipated benefits.
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San Antonio
Dodson's Liver Tone Offered as Safe Calomel Alternative
Dodson's Liver Tone markets itself as a harmless vegetable remedy to replace dangerous calomel. It promises to normalize liver function, cleanse bowels, and prevent salivation, with a 50 cent bottle guarantee and refunds if not effective.
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Discoverer of the Missing Link Dies in Lewes
Charles Dawson longtime Lewes magistrate court clerk and archaeology student died aged 52. He located a skull in a gravel pit near Lewes, hailed by scientists as the missing link and the most important fragment of early human remains discovered.
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Associated Press
London
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Piltdown
Lewes
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Maximilian Ballin Enters Three Month Jail At His Request
Maximilian Ballin, brother of renowned Hamburg-American Line head, requested imprisonment in Auckland New Zealand after remittance money ceased during wartime. He had lived there for years, could not find suitable work, grew ill, and asked police to arrest him. Court described the sentence as charitable, not punitive, aimed at a man unable to support himself.
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Associated Press
Auckland
N. Z
Maximilian Ballin
Hamburg-American Line
Auckland Weekly News
New Zealand
Investigating London Shirkers From Lodging Houses
Recruiting authorities step up efforts to locate army service shirkers in London lodging houses and private homes. Officials believe a small but substantial number exist, enough to form an army corps.
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Associated Press
London
Incubator Newcomer Seeks Early Egg Lays
A neighbor inquiring about incubators notes four units have not yet laid an egg after two weeks. The remark appears in a humorous exchange quoted from Ladies' Home Journal and Life magazine, reflecting light social dialogue on poultry optimism and expectations.
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Ladies’ Home Journal
County Schools to Open for September Term
More than half of Bexar county schools will open Monday September 11 for a nine month term. Attendance is expected to rise after crops are laid by, with peak crowd around December. Principals urge parent attendance at opening sessions while renovations and health measures improve school surroundings.
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Los Angeles Heights
Alamos Heights
Harlandale
Stewart
Champe G. Carter
Tallest prisoner Joe Flaherty nabbed by short officer
The Anaconda Standard reports Joe Flaherty, reputedly the tallest prisoner, arrested by Policeman Tom Edmunds after Flaherty allegedly accosted several women on Park Avenue during an alcoholic spree. Edmunds chased him a block, catching the offender.
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