Kelly Field, Texas. January 5, 1919.

Kelly Field, Texas.  January 5, 1919.

The Big Picture: Birds eye view, Camp Travis, San Antonio, Texas, October 27, 1917.

Camp Wilson, Texas. 1917

Camp Wilson, TX.  Copyright deposit January 2, 1917.

Aerial view of Motor Truck Group, Ft. Sam Houston, Texas, Major F.H. Pope, Cavalry, commanding, December, 1916

Wyoming Tribune for September 25, 1916: Villa seeking alibi for Columbus Raid. Guard to go to San Antonio.

  
A dramatic Monday newspaper.

Villa looking for an alibi for Columbus.

The Guard to go to San Antonio.

Austria was without bread, and prohibitionist were submitting a bill to the Legislature to deprive the populace of booze.

Dwight and Mamie Eisenhower, married on this date in 1916

The Eisenhower's at his duty station in San Antonio, 1916.

On this date, in 1916, Dwight and Mamie Eisenhower wed in Denver Colorado, her hometown.  She was 19 years old, and he was 25. The wedding took place at her parents home and was presided over by a Presbyterian minister.  The couple met in San Antonio where she was attending finishing school, and where the family also wintered.  Her father was a meat packing executive for Doud & Montgomery and had retired at age 36.  Dwight Eisenhower was, of course, a serving office in the U.S. Army.  An excellent training officer, Eisenhower was not assigned a role that lead in his entering Mexico during the Punitive Expedition, and indeed he remained in the United States in a training role during World War One.

Saturday, March 26, 1910. The Immigration Act of 1910.

The Immigration Act of 1910 passed prohibiting entry into the United States of criminals, paupers, anarchists and diseased persons.

Court House Square, Shreveport, La.  March 26, 1910.

 

Panoramic view of San Antonio, Texas, March 26, 1910.

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Wednesday, March 23, 1910. End of the Spanish Rif War, Kurosawa.

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