Liberty Bond Mass Meeting at Sherman Saturday
Acting on Treasury direction I call all Grayson County citizens who can do 80 to assemble in the county court room in Sherman at 2 o clock p m Saturday May 26 1917 for a meeting to decide on a speedy sale of Liberty Loan bonds allotted to Grayson county. The war’s outcome rests on this effort and patriotic citizens should attend, with county newspapers urged to publicize and send representatives.
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Secretary of the Treasury
Grayson County
City of
Sherman
Central Christian Church Sermon Focus May 27
The morning service at Central Christian Church will discuss The True Source of Authority. Evening service is canceled due to ongoing activities at First Christian Church.
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First Christian Church
Graduating Exercises for 1917 Texas Baptist Memorial Sanitarium Nurses
Invitations issued for the Texas Baptist Memorial Sanitarium Training School for Nurses Dallas class of 1917. Twenty four graduates, including Miss Rebecca Longley, will receive diplomas at the city hall auditorium on Tuesday evening May 29 at 8 30.
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Rebecca Longley
Texas Baptist Memorial Sanitarium Training School
Dallas
City Hall
Longley
Denison Auto Sociability Run Planned to Ten Towns
Denison Chamber of Commerce announces an automobile sociability run on Thursday June 7 starting in Denison and visiting Ambrose Bells Whitewright Luella Tom Bean in Grayson county and Bonham Ector Savoy Trenton in Fannin county. About 50 to 75 autos expected with many ladies in the party. Arrival time in Whitewright to be announced later.
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Denison
Denison Chamber of Commerce
Ambrose
Bells
Whitewright
Luella
Tom Bean
Grayson County
Bonham
Ector
Savoy
Trenton
Fannin County
Cotton Belt Eastbound Schedule Item
Railroad timetables show a Cotton Belt East line entry with a stop at Tall 9:50 a.m. and a departure at 3:30 p.m. The fragment mentions age three as a passenger detail.
Train schedule snippet M.K. & T northbound southbound
Local timetable fragment shows M.K. and T. lines with northbound at 10 55 AM and southbound at 10 50 PM.
Registration Day Details for Selective Draft
The county will set up registrar and registration places in each voting precinct for men under 31 by June 5. Those over 2 years old must register or face arrest. Registrants receive a blue card. nonresidents use a white card via the Sheriff. Ill individuals may deputize others to register for them. Prisoners are provided special provisions. On June 5 registrants give full personal data and answer twelve questions, with affirma tion required in the registrar’s presence.
Dallas to Host 100 Mile Auto Race Benefiting Red Cross
Dallas will stage the Century Grind on June 2 at the State Fair of Texas speedway. A 2500 dollar purse and a trophy go to the winner. Preliminaries include short-distance races as the dirt-track veterans eye a coveted national title. The State Fair season promises its largest exposition, with expanded premiums and new exhibits.
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RED Cross
Dallas
Texas
State Fair of Texas
Red Cross Society
Southwest
Daddy's Evening Esfairy Tale by Mary Graham Bonner
A children tale narrates snakes eating once every three months. Wriggler the snake dislikes a bite yet must finish what he starts, then all snakes sleep after a long meal. After the feast, Red Tongue notes another feast will occur in three months. Cork slabs expand for cold storage insulation in England.
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Mary Graham Bonner
Daddy
Red Tongue
Wriggler
England
Festival Romance on the Porch in Ferndale
In Ferndale during the strawberry festival, Walter Blake flirts with Margaret Fischer but plans to court Margaret McConaughty. Miss Fischer expects his company. Walter declares he will attend with Margaret McConaughty, making the festival a porchside duo rather than a church event.
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Sarah McConaughty
Catskills
Margaret
Walter Blake
Walter
Ferndale
Miss Fischer
New York
Liberty
Margaret McConaughty
Margaret Fischer
Miss McConaughty
Blake
McClure
Maidie Trades Office Work for a Chance at Sea
Maidie, eager to be a writer, takes an unskilled job in her uncle Judson's office and helps a young man named Webster in the filing department. Their flirtation grows as he hints at a shipboard future, and Maidie later encounters him again at Aunt Mary's cottage where a new offer as mate and mascot awaits.
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Maidie
Judson
Jud
Mason
Young Webster
Webster
Miss Mason
Ware
Mary
Aunt Mary
Joanna Jo and Billy’s sudden marriage plan
Mrs. Van Kreeper schemes to bind Joanna to one of two wealthy suitors Reginald Crecy or Houghton Vance by pressing a marital duty. Joanna resists, reveals bold independence, and in a shrubbery moment she and Billy confess love and agree to wed.
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Joanna
Reginald Crecy
Houghton Vance
Smmall
Suddsy
Ine
Houghton
Sudds
Mercy
Mr. van Kreeper
Reggie
Billy
Capt
Miles Standish
Priscilla
John Alden
McClure
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Liberty Bond
Central Christian Church
Cotton Belt
East
Ethe Strawberry Festival
MR. Sudds
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