Detectives nab pickpocket ring leader after street car scuffle
Chief J J Lawrence believes the gang’s leader is in the city jail after a fight when attempting to rob Gillam Bull at 524 Montana street shortly after 7 PM Saturday. Bull grabbed the watch on the Southern Pacific street car rear platform then held the thief until Officer Hoffmann detained him. Companions escaped in the rush.
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J. J. Lawrence
City Detective Bureau
San Antonio
Gillam Bull
Montana Street
Gascaret Detox Ad Promises Quick Relief From Many Ailments
An old box advertisement touts Cascarets as a 10 cent remedy to cleanse the stomach liver and bowels overnight. It claims relief from headaches biliousness indigestion sour stomach gases and backache and warns of benefits lasting months for both adults and children.
Protest Letters Oppose Crockett Street Through Alamo Plaza
Letters of protest against cutting Crockett Street through Alamo Plaza are being sent to Mayor Clinton G. Brown and the city council. The petitions, signed by prominent local business and social figures, will be presented at the April 23 council committee meeting.
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Crockett Street
Alamo Plaza Park
Clinton G. Brown
City of
San Antonio
Crockett St
Alamo Plaza
Old Town
Thomas Atlee Coleman
The
Battle of Flowers Association
Mabel Massey Bates
Barnard E. Bee
J. J. Stevens
San Antonio de Bexar
J. E. Webb
Alamo
Daughters of the Republic of Texas
E. D. Brown
City Federation of Clubs
Leroy S. Bates
Woman's Club
Farmers Institute Planned in Wilson County
Preliminary steps toward forming a farmers institute were taken at a Sutherland Springs meeting Saturday afternoon. The group aims to unite farmers for mutual benefit and to obtain a government farm demonstrator for Wilson County at a future date. W G Hand, field agent of the Federal Department of Agriculture, was noted in attendance.
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Bexar County
Ray Mackey
Real Estate Exchange and Agricultural Bureau
Chamber of Commerce
Manufacturers’ Club
San Antonio
E. W. Kirkpatrick
Wilson County
Hand
Ray M. Mackey
Farmers’ Institute
Sutherland Springs
W. G. Hand
Federal Department of Agri
Charity Societies Form in Cuero as State Association Grows
Professor C S Potts, president of the State Conference of Charities and Corrections, announced that charity organizations for the indigent and sick are expanding across Texas. Cuero is the latest town to report forming an associated charity with Adolph Kleberg Jr as president, W H Graham as vice president, and Paul Dornbluth as secretary treasurer.
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Austin
Tex
C.S. Potts
State Conference of Charities and Corrections
Cuero
Adolph Kleberg Jr
W. H. Graham
Paul Dornbluth
Wyeths Sage and Sulphur Hair Remedy Advert
An advertisement touts Wyeths Sage and Sulphur Hair Remedy as a ready to use tonic that darkens gray hair naturally and evenly. It claims to remove dandruff stop itching and thinning while making hair look younger and more luxurious.
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Wyeth
St Mary's Students to Present The Yellow Robe Play
St Mary's College plans a Wednesday April 22 performance of The Yellow Robe or My Friend From India at the Grand Opera House. Leon Kaufman leads as Eben Ezer Packingham with a supporting cast including E. Walter Tynan Louis Vogel Clarence Wetherell Merlin Miller John Bowen Harry Powell Richard Aldworth Ralph Kingsley Gilbert Dietzel. The plot follows a New York rich packer aiming to join high society while a staged impostor and Buddhist theme unfold amid college music.
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India
St. Mary's College
Grand Opera House
Ebenezer Packingham
Kansas City
Leon Kaufman
E. Walter Tynan
Louis F. Vogel
Clarence O. Wetherell
Merlin T. Miller
John G. Bowen
Harry C. Powell
Richard T. Aldworth
Ralph W. Kingsley
Gilbert N. Dietzel
Ebenezer Packing
New York
Milk analysis offered free by Texas Pure Food Department
Pure Food Commissioner C O Yates announces the state will analyze any prepaid milk sample free of charge to determine purity. The program aims to ensure safe daily milk for Texans and strengthens oversight by the department the commissioner recently assumed.
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Austin
Tex
C. O. Yates
Texas
Pure Food and Drug Department
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Wm. Rogers & Sons
Park Hill
Packing House
Katy
Collins
Losoya
H. E. Dickinson
Cqo
Crockett
Mrs. Diggs
San Antonio Loan & Trust Co
Commerce Street
Angus
Read Estate
Wilson County Plan
Ladies Secret
ST. Mary's
Charles
James Tweedles
Boston
Order of the Yellow Robe
Packingham
Soldier Boys
Pure Food Commissioner
South
San Antonio Traction Company
Dittlinger Lime CO
New Braunfels, Texas
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