Burglars in Windles Stir Night of Drama and Romance
In a Windles country house a female owner discovers two burglars inside as Eustace and Jane Hubbard improvise a tense but humorous night. Mrs Hignett confronts crisis with panic, engagement news, and an armed nurse, while Sam endures a rattling cupboard vigil as the plot unfolds toward a cliffhanger.
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Eustace
Windles
Montagu Webster
Sam
Smith
Webster
Mrs. Hignett
Jane Hubbard
Horace Hignett
Jane
Vassar
Duke of Wellington
London
Bream Mortimer
Bream
Lion Proves Quirky Star in Early Film
A lion resists screen time and shows temper when told it must perform for a moving picture. The animal's unusual behavior highlights the challenges of filming wildlife on early cinema sets.
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Tempermental
It would soon put the bootleggers out of business
The quotation notes that law abiding citizens refusing to buy liquor would undermine bootleggers, implying enforcement or moral pressure would end the illicit trade. The exchange highlights temperance era sentiment and the economic impact of consumer boycotts on illicit liquor operations.
Reductions In Fire Insurance Rates Across Texas
The Texas state fire insurance commission issued new schedules cutting rates for private garages, open cotton yards, theaters, and other classes. Private garages drop to 20c for up to three machines with 10c for each additional, max 60c. Open cotton yards lose the 25c charge for unwatchful yards and private protection drops to 25c, totaling a 50c cut. Cotton in barns on private premises falls to 2.25 from 3, and standard fireproof theaters see substantial reductions. An improved and betterment insurance option allows lessees to insure improvements on rented property. Oil mills' rates rise due to higher loss ratios. other declines occur for brick hospitals, sprinklered mercantile buildings, fuel oil and gas stores, and naval stores like pitch and rosin.
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Austin
Tex
State Fire Insurance Commission
Texas
J. J. Timmins
Commission
U S Agents Seize Radical Rebel Circulars in Del Rio
In Del Rio Texas on Monday Agent Parker of the Department of Justice bureau of investigation ordered the confiscation of one hundred thousand inflammatory revolutionary circulars. The circulars claim Mexico's civil war became a national war and accuse Obregon of selling the country for warships airplanes and money.
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San Antonio
Tex
del Rio
Parker
Bureau of Investigation
Department of Justice of
Mexico
Obregon
Kirby Purchases Lumber Mills and Vancouver Firm
Houston financier John H. Kirby to gain control of a $4,000,000 lumber enterprise through purchase of a large Oregon mill and controlling interests in the Vancouver Lumber Company of Vancouver, B C. The deal includes fir cedar and shingle mills, 1 250 900 000 feet of timber, and $500 000 in logging equipment with the Oregon mill valued at about $1 500 000.
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Seattle
Wash
Oregon
Vancouver Lumber Company
Vancouver
B. C
John H. Kirby
Houston
Texas
L. F. Chester
British Columbia
Chester
Caldwell Receives 25 Pairs of Quail for Field Trial Course
Caldwell Texas reports C B Oliver president of the Texas Amateur Field Trial Club has received 25 pairs of quail. The birds were liberated on the Caldwell field trial course to bolster the dwindling domestic supply and were imported from Mexico.
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Caldwell, Tex
C.B. Oliver
Texas Amateur Field Trial Club
Caldwell
Mexico
Oklahoma City Superintendent A C Parsons Visits Texas Cities
A C Parsons superintendent of Oklahoma City public schools will visit Texas cities including Austin Beaumont Port Arthur Palestine Tyler Texarkana Mount Pleasant and Greenville to assist in the Texas educational survey work.
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Austin
Tex
Beaumont
Port Arthur
Palestine
Tyler
Texarkana
Mount Pleasant
Greenville
A. C. Parsons
Oklahoma City Public Schools
Texas Educational Survey
Italian-Belgian Team Wins Six-Day Race at Madison Square
Maurice Brocco and Marcel Buysse of the Italian-Belgian team won the thirty-sixth six-day bicycle race at Madison Square Garden finishing one lap ahead of the field on Saturday.
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New York
Maurice Brocco
Marcel Buysse
Madison Square Garden
Blizzard Disrupts Wire Service Along East Seaboard
A blizzard whirling along the Eastern seaboard on Wednesday disrupted wire communications and extended its impact far south into the Southern states, tracing a path of outages and delays.
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Seaboard
Washington
Wilson Heads Houston Schools
Houston school board elected Dr. H. B. Wilson, then superintendent in Berkeley California, as Houston schools superintendent. His term starts in June with a salary of eight thousand five hundred dollars per year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Houston
Tex
H. B. Wilson
Berkeley
Cal
Charity Hospital Tax Exemption Upheld by Supreme Court
The Texas Supreme Court ruled that a charity hospital is not subject to taxation even when it accepts paying patients. The decision, issued Wednesday in San Antonio, involved the Santa Rosa infirmary.
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Austin
Tex
Supreme Court
City of
San Antonio
Santa Rosa Infirmary
Tragedy at Utah Fuel Mine No 2 Recoveries Rise
Over 100 bodies recovered in Castle Gate Utah after mine disaster. Tuesday three more bodies removed from mine No 2 bringing total to 18. Sixty still trapped within mine chambers awaiting rescue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Castle Gate
Utah
Utah Fuel Company
Lenroot Quits as Chairman in Wisconsin Oil Inquiry
Senator Lenroot of Wisconsin resigns as oil committee chairman and member Tuesday, overshadowing other oil inquiry developments. The move affects leadership as the investigation proceeds.
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Lenroot
Washington
Wisconsin
California Fig Syrup Adventures for Mothers
A vintage call to mothers pressing California Fig Syrup as a trusted remedy for children. The ad claims a teaspoonful today prevents illness tomorrow and warns to ask for genuine California Fig Syrup with age appropriate directions printed on the bottle.
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California
Best Ingredients in Brandreth Pills for Constipation
Advertisement claims Brandreth Pills use top ingredients for constipation and advises taking one or two at bedtime. It also touts a cheap mirage product for expelling worms, names Dr Peery’s Deal Shot at 372 Pearl St. N. and notes cold as a natural disinfectant.
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Dr. Peery
Pearl St. N
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