Committee to aid land purchase for Fort Sam Houston
A committee of property owners is authorized to work with government officials to acquire about 150 acres between the military reservation and the Fort Sam Houston drill grounds. C. C. Cresson chairs the committee to solicit options for one year, with aims to secure options on tracts worth around 300000 dollars.
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Fort Sam Houston
Congress
Sheppard
Smith's Hall
Frank Street
Hood and
Wilson Streets
New Braunfels Avenue
Austin Road
C. C. Cresson
Charles Klaus
Ford Binz
M. Staley
W. L. James
Semp Russ
Mr. Cresson
Pine-Tar-Honey Aids Bronchitis Relief
An old remedy describes chest tightness leading to bronchitis and promotes Pine-Tar-Honey as a treatment. It claims moisture from honey softens dryness while pine tar loosens phlegm and antiseptic action reduces congestion, strengthening tissues and easing breathing. Price 25c.
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Dr. Bell
Citizens to decide on committee work Thursday meeting
A city gathering is scheduled for Thursday night, April 20, to review committee work. Mr. Cresson cites options at about 1.5 times assessed property value and hopes for settlements before considering condemnation if necessary.
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Cresson
Fiesta Week Visitors Campaign Aims To Draw Big Turnout
Fiesta Association plans a week long visit boost for Fiesta Week April 24 to 29 in San Antonio. A broad advertising push includes folders and posters, with 16 sheet ads on billboards in 40 Texas cities and posters in railroad stations.
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Fiesta Association
San Antonio
Chamber of Commerce
Texas
Negro wanted for murder in Rockport arrested in barber shop
A 35 year old black man was arrested by Detective Joe White at 7:36 p m Thursday in a Rockport Fast Commerce street barber shop on a murder charge. He was identified by J A Johnson of the Rockport police and remains to be sent to Aransas County Sheriff Brundage who plans to escort him back Friday night.
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Joe White
Commerce
Hockport
Tex
J. A. Johnson
Rockport
Brundage
Aransas County
San Antonio
Success of a New Remedy for Backache Kidneys Rheumatism
Letter from Mrs Margaret T Snider praises Dr Pierce Anuric tablets for backache and kidney relief. The note urges others to try the new uric acid solvent and claims Anuric is highly active. Dr Pierce’s name and Buffalo institute are cited with offers for samples and drugstore availability.
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Pierce
Margaret T. Snider
Dr. Pierce
Invalids’ Hotel and Surgical Institute
Buffalo
N. Y
Black bass consignment to be released in San Antonio River
Commissioner Lambert receives notice of a liberal shipment of black bass from the San Marcos hatchery. On Congressman Slayden’s request, the fish will be liberated in the San Antonio river, above Brackenridge Park. Previous consignments have grown large enough for good fishing, though no fishing is allowed within city limits.
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Lambert
San Marcos
Slayden
San Antonio
Brackenridge Park
Delve Into Malaria Fight With Grove’s Tasteless Tonic
An old ad promotes Grove’s Tasteless Chilli Tonic as the cure for malaria and a tonic to bolster the system. It notes the label lists Quinine and Iron as active ingredients in a tasteless form.
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GROVE
Auto Leap Through Bridge Rails No One Hurt
C Derr of Crowles Auto Livery Company escaped unhurt when his car plunged fifteen feet from a bridge into the San Pedro creek after swerving to avoid a oncoming vehicle at North Flores and Laurel streets at 3 AM Friday. He remained in the seat as the car struck the ground.
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C. Derr
Crowles Auto Livery Company
North Flores
Laurel Streets
San Pedro
Derr
Flores Street
Kerr
San Antonio Star Fullback Weds Grace Strong in New York
Jimmy Dignowity former Harvard full back and San Antonio native married in New York last Saturday to Grace Newell Strong author of There’s a Key to Every Heart. Dignowity born in San Antonio is a fiction writer on college life. Parents reside in New York where he works in brokerage. They met in Boston five years ago after his Harvard mining engineering degree. Uncles A S and Henry Dignowity of San Antonio. Mrs Dignowity is wealthy and related to Admiral Dewey.
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Jimmy Dignowity
San Antonio
Harvard
New York
Grace Newell Strong
Dignowity
Miss Strong
Boston
Jimmy
Harvyara
A. S
Henry Dignowity
Mrs. Dignowity
Admiral Dewey
Travel deal to Washington in April and May
Passenger fare 55.25 for round trip to Washington with travel dates April 13 14 15 and May 12. Includes turning locomotives observation cars on Southern Pacific line. Advertisement invites try today and notes Santone Brick Chile available at grocers and butchers.
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Washington
Southern Pacific
Chile
High School Physics Class Tours Flying School
Main Avenue High School students explored aviation at the Stinson School of Flying on the South Loop. Flyers Minard Stinson and Katherine Stinson performed stunts as Arbuckle from Madill completed a final air exam before a gusty wind disrupted the flight line.
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Main Avenue High Schol
Stinson
South Loop
Minard Stinson
Katherine
Marjorie Stinson
Katherine Stinson
Miss Stinson
Arbuckle
Anna Jones
William Corey
Remittance Petition Circulated For Hopkins Fine
Petition to Governor Ferguson seeks remittance of a $100 fine and $133.15 total costs imposed on Mrs. Mary Hopkins for pistol-toting after the Sam Rosenthal killing on May 27 1915. Hopkins was acquitted in district court but fined in county court under Judge Nelson Lytle.
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Ferguson
Mary Hopkins
Sam Rosenthal
Ben Cosven
Retiring Constitutionalist Currency Under New Bills Plan
The Mexican consulate reports First Chief Carranza has ordered a monetary commission to halt current Constitutionalist currency and prepare non counterfeitable bills. The commission includes the secretary of the treasury, the national treasurer, and three financiers to back the new money with specie reserves. Gold and silver duties are being collected to bolster the reserve.
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Carranza
Monetary Commission
Treasury
Caballero Acquitted in McCain Murder Case at Brownsville
In Brownsville on April 7, 1946, Rojerio Caballero was found not guilty of murder in the death of Dr. Er. S. McCain during border bandit outrages last summer. Three other charges against Caballero stood. cases against Ramon Pizana and Lorenzo Lopez were postponed to the next court term. Sealed bids for 5000 mature cavalry horses and 1200 artillery horses were invited by Fort San Houston Depot Quartermaster, with bids due May 1.
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Brownsville
Tex
Rojerio Caballero
Er. S. McCain
Caballera
Ramon Pizana
Lorenzo Lopez
Fort San Houston
Texas
Ady
Prominent Couple Weds in Beeville Texas
Theo dorg Febricius of Copenhagen Denmark and Miss Virgie Nielson of Beeville were married Thursday morning. Fabricius is a nationally prominent landscape painter who arrived in America three weeks ago for the wedding. Nielsen is the daughter of KH Nielsen, president of the Beeville oil mill and a local society figure.
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Beeville
Tex
Theodorg Febricius
Copenhagen
Denmark
Virgie Nielson
Fabricius
America
Vagrant Arrested Then Freed Over Vagrancy Charge
A white man about 453 years old was arrested at 2 AM Friday by Patrolman Trevino on a vagrancy charge. Judge Lowther dismissed the case after arraignment in police court on the basis of the law against those without visible means of support. From pockets the prisoner produced 331.98 dollars, plus 3.45 for a trip to Eagle Pass and back listed in an ad. The note mentions Russian resistance to typhus germs.
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Trevino
Lowther
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