Parade marks carnival close with queen's procession
The Battle of Flowers parade culminates carnival week with a royal procession escorted by cadets and troops. The Ben Hur Arab patrol and several bands lead the pageant while Sheriff John W. Tobin serves as marshal and rides Redbird. Alamo Order hosts a coronation ball in Beethoven hall. final Procession of Products and a carnival ball close the festivities.
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West Texas Military Academy
Peacock Military School
John W. Tobin
Redbird
Milt Mooney
Texas
Order of Alamo
Beethoven Hall
Carnival Association
Beethoven Society
Progressive Republicans Denied Formal Recognition in Senate
The senate Republican committee voted seven to four against recognizing the progressive Republicans as an organized group. Also noted is Leila Holterhoff, a blind Los Angeles girl who excels in many activities and languages, aided by her mother’s devoted instruction.
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Mis
Leila Holterhoff
Los Angeles
Webb Favored Factory Relocation and Tax Breaks in 1911
The San Antonio Express interview quotes J. E. Webb supporting factory locators and tax remissions, clashing with Texas constitution, while Mayor Bryan Callaghan backs locating industry but denounces tax exemptions for private firms. The piece ends with a political prompt asking voters to choose Webb, Ward and the Water Works company.
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The
San Antonio Express
J. E. Webb
Bryan Callaghan
San Antonio
Mr. Webb
Webb
Callaghan
Texas
Webb, Ward and the Water Works Company
Prohibition Convention Opens With Fiery Proposals
The gathering, chaired by Ball, launches support for Phoasolution Ten with speakers Vaughan and Murphy denouncing saloons. Local self-government questioned as prohibitionists push a July success. Priest Murphy delivers a forceful anti liquor speech amid calls for clean cities as Fort Worth and Dallas figures participate.
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Fors
Vaughan
Mayfield
Terrell
Lattimore
Cofer
Brownlee
Walker
Baker
Ball
Prohibition
Bailey
Fort Worth
Horace W. Vaughan
Texarkana
Tom Swope
Houston
W. W. Thomas
Dallas
G. W. Eichelberger
Patrick J. Murphy
Dalhart
America
Texas
William Poindexter
J. B. Gambrell
J. G. Miller
George C. Rankin
E. B. Mayfield
R. H. Kirby
W. J.townsend
T. L. Blanton
T. G. Harris
C. 8. Bradley
A. E. Baton
Louis G. Swope
E. W. Whittaker
A. M. Craig
J. T. King
Ben H. Kelly
EB. P. Tumbard
Reuben Ellarde
Plan to Use Old Battleships as Coastal Forts
Rear Admiral Bowles proposes embedding obsolete battleships such as the Indiana Massachusetts Oregon and several monitors as fixed coast defense forts within artificial shoal islands. The vessels would be immobile but protected by sand and armor, offering durable defense and productive reuse of costly ships rather than scrapping.
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Washington, D. C
Uncle Sam
Francis T. Bowles
United States Navy
Fore River Ship Building Company
Quincy
Indiana
Massachusetts
Oregon
Terror
Monterey
Pacific Coast
United States
Americans Rob Europe of Her Art Treasures
The Frick purchase of Velasquez Philip IV for $500000 and Widener’s Rembrandt Mill highlight fierce debate over authenticating treasures. A London Velasquez misattribution is exposed, while an American rug inquiry proves scientific scrutiny beats hearsay in art judging.
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New York
Velasquez
Philip IV
Henry Frick
Rembrandt
P. A. B. Widéner
Atlantic
Dulwich’ Gallery London
Philip IV of
Mr. Frick
Schwartzau
Austria
Parma
Metsu
London
Kensington Museum
Heaven and Earth
Allan
Dulwich Gallery
Kaiser Violates Rule Against French in Italy Message
Berlin April 21 The Kaiser is accused by ultra patriots of breaking his own rule by sending congratulations to the king of Italy in French and having the dispatch printed in French in the official paper The patriotic press condemns the act as an abuse that should cause horror and notes that the king of England would not use French for such a message.
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Berlin
Italy
Patriotic Post
England
The Value of Love and Modern Work Strain
The Swedish reformer Key argues that modern labor drains vitality and excludes people of today from love, depriving both marriage prospects and the full experience of love due to current work conditions.
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Ee Key
Worth $100000 Husband in Poorhouse
William W. Barnes eighty four year old occupant of Crow Wing county poorhouse owns part of mining lands on the Cuyutaron range in Minnesota. He is said to be the husband of the daughter of Penny Mix of Camden New York who refuses to sign papers to ratify a sale of Minnesota Iron lands to bail him from poverty. The wife is reputedly worth $106000 in her own right and has not aided the effort.
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Annie Nathan Meyers
Brainerd, Minn
William W. Barnes
Crow Wing County
Minnesota
Tought
Births Reported In City Addresses
Birth notices list newborns to Mr and Mrs Rodriguez in the South Dakota area on April 15 a daughter to Mr and Mrs Henry at 308 South Center Street and to Mr and Mrs John Turk on April 12 at 438 West Myrtle Street a son to Mr and Mrs E at 14 Avenue D ome and another birth to Mr and Mrs J F Howard on April 19 at 107 East Mulberry Avenue.
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V. Rodriguez
South D
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Panamas
Houston Hat Co
Alamo Plaza
Curios
A. Meert
Commerce St
H. G. Austin
J. M. Nix
R. R. Russell
Ira Havins
Potter
J. C. Kinney
John Shook
A. J. Moore
S. H. Kampmannen
Frank Winerich
G. Bedell Moore
Associated Press
Trusts and Corporations
Bowles
Rob Curope
Frick
Kaiser
Monet Credit
Ae - Credit
Honrrasceae
Alfred Benjamin
Sampeck
Chicago
Banister
Faultless
Aaron Frank Clothing Company
Houston ‘Street
Gariety Brand Clothes
Alfred Decker
Mix
W. W. Barnes
Rich Mines
Losoya Hotel
Losoya Street
Losoya
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