City School Board Plans Four New Rooms At Briscoe School
The board approved a $9000 addition to Briscoe School on South Flores to provide four more rooms amid crowded conditions. An architect will submit plans soon with Beacon Hill and Garden Street additions also contemplated. Trustees set Saturday noon for candidate announcements and scheduled a ballot-form meeting for Tuesday. Good Friday holiday granted for students.
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T. M. Dechman
Briscoe
South Flores Street
Beacon Hill
Garden Street
Mike Goggan
Postoffice Clerk Arrested in Baton Rouge
L Bozeman chief night clerk at Baton Rouge postoffice was held under 250 dollar bond by the U S commissioner on charges of detaining and withholding the United States mail. Inspectors made the arrest. Bozeman has long served in government employ.
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Postoffice
Associated Press
Baton Rouge
L. Bozeman
Ontario Premier Hints Abolition of Treating in Bars
Toronto April 4 Sir James Whitney premier of Ontario foreshadowed government plans to introduce legislation to wipe out the treating system in public bars.
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Associated Press
Toronto
Ont
James Whitney
Ontario
Erday
Baby healed after Cuticura remedies for severe eczema
A Patchogue family describes their infant suffering from a severe eczema spreading across face and neck for nine months. After trying several ointments with little relief, they used Cuticura Soap and Ointment, which reportedly healed the baby's skin and left him with a normal appearance.
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Baker St
Patchogue
N. Y
Neny Sister
Pink Pills Promise Spring Blood Rejuvenation
An ad touts Dr Williams Pink Pills for Pale People as a spring blood builder and nerve tonic. It claims they restore red blood, relieve fatigue, headaches, irritability, and weakened digestion, and urges readers to mail for a booklet or purchase by mail.
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Dr. Williams
Dr. Williams Medicine Co
Schenectady
N. Y
Nervous Prostration Cure Report From Galveston
Mr. C. H. Jones of 2301 Avenue B Galveston Texas describes years of nervous prostration with muscle jerks and disturbed sleep. He says after using Dr Williams Pink Pills by the third box he improved rapidly and was cured, praising the pills for doing all they were claimed to do.
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C. H. Jones
Avenue B
Galveston
Texas
Rheumatism cured by Dr Williams Pink Pills
Mrs Valerie Boudreaux of Thibodaux Louisiana credits Dr Williams Pink Pills for Pale People with curing her long standing rheumatism after fifteen years of pain and failed medical treatments. She notes drastic improvement and full recovery.
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Valerie Boudreaux
Thibodaux
Williams
Dr. Williams
Bexar Republicans Endorse Taft and Plan Taft Clubs
By a vote of 18 to 1 the Bexar County Republican committee endorsed William Howard Taft for the Republican presidential nomination and protested the combining of national committeeman and state chairman roles. The meeting began a county committee reorganization with 30 regulars and about 50 vacancies and appointed precinct committeemen for multiple districts.
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Bexar County
Republican Committee
William Howard Taft
H. F. MacGregor
Houston
Col
Cecil A. Lyon
Bexar County Committee
Julius M. Oppenheimer
Taft
Oppenheimer
J. H. Reilly
T. 8. Harrison
M. Freeborn
J. W. Sansom
N. Underwood
Dr. F. Terrell
R. H. Smith
Alf Krauss
John Richey
T. B. Applewhite
J. D. Mann
Richard Zeniers
W. H. Hester
J. E. Ballscheidt
William Tesseman
F. Harris
G. R. Schlather
A. H. Boogel
A. P. Hobrecht
Officers on Hunt for Negro Fanatics
Lafayette Louisiana April 4 For the first time in weeks since the axe man began a round of carnage the dread axeman killings abated and negroes in surrounding towns slept last night without pickets to watch their cabins Clementine Barnabet the negro who confessed to brain ing 17 persons with her own hands remains in jail claiming her revelations about a religious sect sacrifice worshippers a voodoo doctor mystic charms and candiah bags tell the true story of the axe murderers All fear of other axe men is discussed by authorities
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Associated. Press
Lafayette
Clementine Barnabbet
Candiah Bags
A Mother's Care Promotes Foley's Honey and Tar
A careful mother will not give medicine without knowing it is pure and free of opiates. Foley's Honey and Tar Compound is recommended for croup whooping cough bronchitis and all throat chest and lung affections. Best and safest for children and grown persons. Edwards King Drug Co.
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Foley
Edwards King Drug Co
Smithville Bonds Vote to Improve San Antonio to Houston Highway
A bond issue of 100 900 was voted in Bastrop county Smithville precinct to finish the highway from the Caldwell county line to the Fayette county line along the route San Antonio through New Braunfels San Marcos Lockhart Smithville La Grange to Houston. Houston businessmen pledge to build a shell highway from Houston to Smithville. The Bastrop vote funds unimproved segments and minor repairs in Comal county will be addressed soon.
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Smithville
Bastrop County
San Antonio
Houston
D. E. Colp
Bexar County League
New Braunfels
San Marcos
Lockhart
la Grange
Colp
San
Caldwell County
Fayette County
Comal County
Will of Judge Robertson Leaves Estate to Robertson Heirs
The will filed for probate in Austin reserves approximately $100,000 for John Ben Robertson Warren E Robertson and Miss Margaret Robertson share equally. Judge Robertson notes his wife is provided for by her separate estate and that this disposition reflects her wish. The two sons act as executors.
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Austin
Tex
James H. Robertson
John Ben
Warren E. Robertson
Margaret Robertson
Refugees Buy Tickets From San Antonio to East
San Antonio police report heavy ticket sales to eastern destinations for Mexican refugees. Over 100 tickets were sold in a week by G M Bynum, agent of the International and Great Northern railroad. Refugees once planned a quick return to Mexico but now may stay months seeking carnival trips or permanent residence in the United States.
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Mexico
G. M. Bynum
International & Great Northern Railroad
Mr. Bynum
San Antonio
Staes
Amend Cotton Ruling Expands Cotton Tariff Rules
The railroad commission in Austin Texas issued a ruling amending the general cotton tariff to apply the concentration rules to cotton linters as well. It finds many railroads statewide did not clearly understand this provision of the tariff.
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Austin
Tex
Rilroad Commission
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C. H. Arnold
Marshall Street
Brackenridge High School
South Alamo Street
Terrell
Sam Harris
Finance Committee
Paul Scholz
Frederick Terrell
T. C. Dechman
John F. Fentiman
Charles Lukin
Cutiura
Easiy
BEXAR
County Committee
MacGregor
Lyon
Joseph Thibodeaux
Barnabet
Clementine
Louisiana
San-A-Lac
Ayer
Lace West
Woodward Carriage Company
Frank A. Winerich, Prest
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