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CONDADO
VANDEZRBILT HOTEL
!
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.Q OBE CPENED
IN
TWO
WEEKS.
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Officers anc
Directors
of Holding
and
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Operating Companies
to Inspect
Proprety
sefore
Opening.
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In two we ks the
new
Hotel
Condado-
Varderbiit
will
be
~pened
and
alrcady
there
has
bern
many reservations
recived
from
the
United
Staies
from people who
expec:
to
visit
Porto
Rico
during
the
winter montas.
A. C. Ray, the manager,
says
that
he
is certain
from the
reserva-
tions already rec~ived tha: the first season
of the
Hotel
will be
a
success.
The entire
swaft of hojel employees
and
help
will airive
on
the
3an
Juan
ex
week
and
will *be here
one
week
before
the tormal
opening
on
Thursday,
Oect.
16.
Dractically all of the
staterooms
on
the
Brazos,
whi:h
is
sailing
on October
11,
have
been
t:served
by tne hotel for the
officers
and
lirectors
of both
the holding
and
ope-ating
companies
of
the
hotel
and their friends.
After che arrival here
on Wednesd:y,
October
15,
the
directors
of the
hotel
will
make
an
inspection
of
the property
before it is formally opened.
Later
during
the
week
they
will visit
Coamo
Springs,
which
is
also operated
by the same
company.
and they will visit
other points of interest
in
the
island.—
Porto Rico
' Progress,
Oct. 3rd.
TEACHERS
OATH OF PATRIOTISM
More than 600 teachers
in Dayton pub-
lic schools qualified for their positions
re-
cently when
hey took the oath of patriot-
ism
requirec by
a new Okio
law.
It
is
said to have
been
an
impressive
cere-
mony
when,
with
right
hands
raised,
they repeated:
‘I solemnly
swear,
or
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afirm,
tonat [ will suppoct
the
Constitu-
ijon of the United
States,
the
Constitu-
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tion of the State of *Ohio, and
the
laws
enacted
thereunder,
and that
1 will teach,
by precept
and example,
respect
for the
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