Aldermen Pass Smoking On Street Cars Veto Overridden
The San Antonio city council, after a long session, overrode Mayor Brown’s veto of the ordinance banning smoking on street cars. The measure received a two thirds majority amid debate, while other items included street and sewer bids, sidewalk plans, and a proposed freeway widening project.
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Brown
Hoefgen
Saunders
Chapa
Warren
Baldwin
Steves
Hiische
Uhr
Weakley
Neal
Nay—Lambert
Dielmann
Rische
West Commerce Street
Alazan Creek
Lambert
Beacon Hill
Houstontreet
Commerce Street
Guenther
Johnson Streets
Alerman Saunders
Comitee
Ariven
San Antonio
Irwin
G. & H. Hagel
Q. B. Lee
Nestor
Market Square
Soledad Street
Mein Plaza
Houston Street
East Commerce Street
City Hall
Alamo
Main Plazas
Travis Park
Courts Overlook Law As Texas Judges Short on Indeterminate Sentences
In Austin on April 14, Captain E P Smith, clerk of the Court of Criminal Appeals, said few district judges comply with the indeterminate sentence act from the Thirty third Legislature. The law requires the jury to set punishment and the court to impose a minimum sentence and a maximum at the jury fixed term, but many judges pronounce the sentence at that term.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austin
Tex
Court of Criminal Appeals
E. P. Smith
Trade excursion to visit 50 cities on six railways
The fourteenth annual Chamber of Commerce trade excursion left Houston on April 14. The group will cover 740 miles across the southwest, visiting 50 cities over six different railways before returning. The excursion aims to boost regional commerce and industry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Southwest
Houston
Tex
Chamber of Commerce
You are entitled to the best. You won’t get it unless you ask
An advertisement claims PERFECTION LARD is “yT.” and urges readers to demand the best by asking for it. The copy implies a branded product in a period advertising voice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Foley
Fischer’s Drug Store
Hello Bexar Transfer and Taxi Co 1914 taxicabs
Classy 5 and 7 passenger automobiles advertised for hire by the Bexar Transfer and Taxi Company. Phones listed as 749 for contact in this 1914 notice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bexar Transfer and Taxi Co
Rules on Border Stream Fishing Tax and Licenses
Texas game fish and oyster department issues rules taxing border stream fishing at one fifth of one percent per pound. Fishing without a license is illegal and dynamiting fish near state borders remains a violation even if done from another state. Jurisdiction covers half of the Red river on the Texas side.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austin
Tex
Game, Fish and Oyster Department
Texas
Yates Begins His Duties as Texas Commissioner
AUSTIN April 14 Claude O Yates of Austin has begun work as state pure food and drug commissioner succeeding J B Abbot. He plans to study the office before stating a position on the federal injunction against the former commissioner. Pending appointment of a permanent district attorney to fill Maury term designated Ewing Boyd to act. Maury’s body to rest beside his mother at Center Texas.
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Austin
Tex
Pure Food and Drug
Claude O. Yates
J. 8
Abbot
Yates
Houston
Richard G. Maury
C. W. Robinson
Criminal District Court
Ewing Boyd
Mr. Maury
Center
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Agnell
Vernon Castle
Boston
Adele
Collins & Harlan
Billy Murray
Peerless Quartette
American Quartette
Victor
Castle House
East 46Th Street
New York
Castle House Orchestra
Dorri
Houston,and Navarro Sts
Thos. Goggan & Bros
San Antonio, Texas
Red River
Oklahoma
San Antonio Traction Co
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