Mission San Antonio de Valero Founded in 1718
THIS DAY IN TEXAS notes the 600 mile 1718 voyagers from Mexico led by Don Martin de Alarcon and Father Olivares who founded the mission named San Antonio de Valero in honor of the Marquis de Valero. The expedition split amid quarrels and the Villa de Bejar was also founded later by Don Martin.
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Fray Antonio de San Buenaventura Olivares
San Antonio de Valero
Yanaguana
Father Massenet
San Antonio
St. Anthony of Padua
Price Cut On Wonder Drug Chloromycetin Announced
Detroit April 30 1944 Pare Davis & Co cuts the price of chloromycetin by 25 percent to broaden use worldwide. The drug treats fevers pneumonia surgical infections whooping cough boils and carbuncles. A previous 20 percent cut was made last February. Production capacity limits current sales. The drug was isolated from a Caracas mold.
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Detroit
Pare, Davis & Co
Caracas
Venezuela
Stockmen Deny Withholding Animals Amid Meat Price Debate
A spokesman for livestock growers denied accusations that farmers hoard cattle to push meat prices higher. F. E. Mollin of the American National Livestock Association said there are no cattle fit for slaughter now and that pasture cattle will arrive in midsummer with supply limited, shifting market timing to August through November.
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Denver
American National Livestock Association
F. E. Mollin
Mollin
Senator Vandenberg's Wife Hospitalized in Michigan
Mrs Arthur H Vandenberg wife of the Michigan Republican Senator was taken to a local hospital Sunday night in serious condition. Senator Vandenberg is recovering from a tumor operation at the same hospital about two weeks ago and has been ill for nearly three years.
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Washington
Arthur H. Vandenberg
Senator Vandenberg
United States
United States Line
America
New York
Brutal train and home assault shock Newton politics
A 20 year old Detroit woman slept on a Santa Fe train when a man slashed her throat. A 16 year old babysitter was beaten with a meat grinder at a nearby home. A Richmond VA man, Joseph Moore, was shot by a bystander and captured. Moore admitted the train attack but had no memory of the home assault.
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Newton
Kas
Lawrence Howard
Detroit
Mich
Edith Hershberger
Kenneth Granger
Otis Hays
Granger
Hays
C. H. Sherman
Joseph Moore
Richmond
Moore
Miss Howard
Marion Hawkins
Railroad
Hawaii
Surf
Calif
Hawkins
Phoenix
Ariz
Canadian Ship Sioux Aids Ill Greek Seaman
The Canadian destroyer Sioux rendezvoused with the Greek freighter Maria G. Cou loucounti in the North Pacific, transferring a seriously ill seaman believed to have a ruptured appendix. The ship met at sea 300 miles from Esquimalt, and the Sioux planned to sail to hospital in Victoria, leaving some crew on shore.
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Victoria
B.C
Sioux
North Pacific
Esquimalt
Maria G. Couloucounti
Shrine Circus Troupe Brings Big Top To Coliseum For Week
The Polack Brothers Circus moves into City Coliseum transforming it into a Big Top for a seven day run starting Monday at 8:15 pm. Shows Tuesday through Friday are at 3:45 pm and 8:15 pm with Saturday Sunday matinees at 2:15 pm. Free matinee tickets funded by local civic groups will guest 2,000 county children.
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Shrine Circus
Josephine Berosini
Berosini
Polack Brothers
Ben Hur Shijge
City Coliseum
Shrine Circus Troupe
Polack Brothers Circus
A. F. Jones
Jack J. Lamb
Ciretts
Shrine
Natal
Record Foreign Travel Year Seen by Richard Fiske
New York April 30 Americans head into 1950 with a record travel year ahead as Holy Year in Italy and currency shifts draw more visitors abroad. Travel officials expect 385 000 to 400 900 Americans will go overseas, spending about 220 million dollars, a yearly peak.
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Richard Fiske
New York
Italy
Britain
Department of Commerce
United States
Cunard Line
John E. Slater
American Export Lines
trans-Atlantic Air
Florida and Alabama face pivotal primaries shaping national politics
Florida opens with the Pepper Smathers Senate duel as 1,006,560 Democrats are registered and about 600,000 expected to vote. Alabama Democrats split over Truman civil rights policy as they select a state party executive committee for the coming four years. Indiana and Ohio also hold primaries with broad implications.
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Florida
Alabama
Indiana
Ohio
Claude Pepper
D-Fla
George Smathers
Pepper
Smathers
Democratic Party
Robert A. Taft
Eader
Taft
House of Representatives
R. A. Gray
Truman
Change Made In Subscription Rate Change
Effective May 1 the subscription rate will be 140 per month for The Austin American daily and Sunday.
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Austin American Daily
Truman To Try Personal Tour In Senate Race
President Truman plans a 10 state campaign trip in a non presidential year to press voters for pro Truman legislators. The tour runs May 7 to 16 visiting Illinois Iowa Idaho Oregon Washington Wisconsin and Pennsylvania with eight major speeches and 50 whistle stops. He aims to bolster support for his national program and a Democratic Congress.
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Washington
Truman
Congress
House
Senate
Democratic Congress
Pacific Northwest
Illinois
Iowa
Idaho
Oregon
Wisconsin
Pennsylvania
Thomas E. Dewey
New York
White House
Lincoln
Neb
Casper
Wye
Pendleton
Ore
Grand Coulee Dam
Wash
Butte
Mont
Fargo
N. C
Madison
Wis
Chicago
Democratic Party
Life with the Tax Gremlins cartoon briefing of tax share
An NEA feature outlines Uncle Sam as chief collector in a three way tax split with state and local governments. It notes a 30 percent warning light for national income and calls for better federal state local tax cooperation to avoid overlapping claims and lower living standards.
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Uncle Sam
Richard A. Mullens
NEA
Herbert Hoover
Sam
National Industrial Conference Board of New York
Washington
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