Railroad timetable update from the north and south routes
A dated list of arrivals and departures across multiple lines including the G N and K T unions with trains from Houston Galveston Dallas Fort Worth and Kerrville and schedules for local mixes to Laredo Palestine Austin Waco and Cuero Victoria with times ranging from early morning to late evening and notes of express mail and westward services.
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North
Palestine
Mexico
Laredo
Boas Oe
Union Station
Houston
Galveston
Dallas
Fort Worth
Waco
Austin
Dallas, Ft. Worth
Mail and Express
Taxi Driver Shortage Threatens London
London faces a taxi driver shortage as Scotland Yard’s exam hurdles deter recruits. The British Motor Cab Company runs a training school costing 3500 to 4000 dollars per month, open free since January, yet only 82 of 450 candidates passed topography tests. Ex-army men and city workers make up most applicants, with examiners using tricky questions to trap candidates.
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London
lLondon
Scotland Yard
British Motor Cab Company
Pimlico
Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup Endorsed for Teething Pain
An old advertisement touts Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup as a sixty year trusted remedy for teething pain, wind colic, and diarrhea. It claims the syrup softens gums, soothes the child, and is harmless, urging readers to ask for this specific product at twenty five cents.
Faked Stuart Silver Seized by London Traders
In London on April 21 traders warn that many Stuart silver pieces are fakes. Sharpers insert genuine hall marks into spurious tankards and cups, deceiving even expert appraisers. Spoons and salt cellars bear marks of truth while the rest of the piece remains twentieth century.
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London
The Queen of the Carnival Known at McDonald’s
A claim she is the queen of the carnival surfaces as she selects wall papers, pictures, and moulding at McDonald’s. The note places her at 322 E Houston St while praising McDonald’s for its lines of wall coverings and decor.
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McDonald's
McDonald
E. Houston St
Fifty girls offer skin grafts to save Mrs Herbst in Shrewsbury
About fifty girl workers at a Shrewsbury sewing factory volunteer portions of their skin to graft to Mrs A H Herbst wife of the United Brethren minister who was badly burned. Doctors fear wounds will not heal without grafting and most volunteers belong to the church.
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York
Shrewsbury
A. H. Herbst
United Brethren Church
Otto Kahns in London and oil strike at Trickham
The New Yorkers Otto H. Kahn and wife arrive in London to seek a country seat for the coronation season and have a Covent Garden opera box. In Santa Ana, Trickham Oil & Gas reports a successful oil strike at 985 feet with plans to pump once equipment is mobilized. The Trickham venture, led by Fred W. Turner, involves local and Chicago stockholders near Trickham, 1200 feet from a nearby Santa Ana Industrial well.
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London
Otto H. Kahn
Kahns
Covent Garden Opera
Santa Ana
Tex
Trickham Oil & Gas Company
Chicago
Trickham
Santa Ana Industrial Company
Fred W. Turner
Floresville Schools to Close May 26 With Seven Graduates
Floresville public school will close May 26. Seven students form the graduating class led by valedictorian Mattie Myers and salutatorian Annie Johnson. Malda Fezzell serves as historian as Prof. W B Toone is re elected superintendent and Prof. W H Butler continues as principal.
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Floresville
Tex
Mattie Myers
Annie Johnson
Malda Fezzell
W. B. Toone
W. H. Butler
Morris Block Signs Four New Players News Item
Morris Block signs four new players but they won’t join until McDonald departs. The piece notes delays and mentions Jane McDonald and a laundry as part of the scattered text.
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Morris Block
Healthy nerves cure praised in Dr Williams Pink Pills
Mrs Donald Galloway of 1516 Hardesty Ave Kansas City Missouri describes relief from nervous prostration after a year of dizziness breathing difficulty and tremors. She credits three boxes of Dr Williams Pink Pills with restoring sleep appetite and strength and says the pills are safe non habit forming and effective. The ad notes pills cost 50 cents a box six for $2.50 with direct mail from Dr Williams Medicine Co New York and offers a free booklet diseases of the nervous system.
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Donald Galloway
Hardesty Avenue
Kansas City
Dr. Williams
Dr. Williams Medicine Co
N. Y
Damages Sought Over Sultan Abduls Hamids Appendix Demo
Mile. Kayser sues the ex sultan Abdul Hamid IIs surgeons claiming damages after they removed her appendix at Hamidieh hospital Salonica to demonstrate their skill. The alleged motive was to reassure a daughter of the ex sultan suffering appendicitis about operations.
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Constantinople
Abdul Hamid
Mile
Kayser
Milo
Hamidieh Hospital
Salonica
Paris Opera Discovers Magnere the Peruvian Tenor
Andre Messager announces the discovery of Magnere a Peruvian tenor engaged to debut in Lohengrin at the Paris Opera. Magnere who visited a sick mother impressed in Chile and in private musical circles prompting the opera directors to hear him.
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Paris
Andre Messager
Magnere
Opera
Lohengrin
Chili
Lehman Campaign Fights Berlin Dog Killing Edict
Mme Lilli Lehman protests Berlin’s dog license law that permits authorities to kill unlicensed dogs. Since April 1 the poor’s pets have been sacrificed for city sanitation, with some owners choosing mercy by having animals killed prior to street shooting.
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Berlin
Mme
Lilli Lehman
Lehman
Mme. Lehman
Boy Scouts Plan Begun in Paris Grendale Quarter
Paris reports a committee formed in the Grenelle district to enroll boys for a scout troop. Organizers aim to extend the project to other Paris quarters with additional committees.
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Paris
Grenelle
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Adolph Herfi
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R. W. Hearne
Charles Schreiner
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Alfred Dreiler
M. Baump Platt
John J. Stevens
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