Great Voices to Hear at Jubilee Saengerfest in Dallas
The Thirtieth Jubilee State Saengerfest will bring 2500 singers from more than twenty Texas cities to Dallas May 11 to 14. The program features the Texas Saengerbund Male Chorus, mixed church choir, a women’s chorus, a schoolchildren chorus, the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, and renowned soloists including Marie Sandelius, Rudolph Berger, Mme Rosa Olitzka, and Arthur Hackett. A Kammers session closes the event at Turner Hall.
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Plang
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New Braunfels
Turner Hall
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St. Louis
Confederate veterans to camp in Jacksonville parks in May reunion
Jacksonville announces park camping for 1000 to 1200 Confederate veterans during May 6 to 8 reunion. Parks like Dignan and Springfield will host tents among forest trees with amusement devices, free motion pictures, athletic events, and May day festivities for thousands of visitors.
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Hemming
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Daughters of the Confederacy
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Riverside Park
Fairfield Park
Hemming Park
Dignen Park
Oakland
Suffragettes Plan Nationwide Open Air Rally May 2
San Antonio Equal Franchise Society to join national suffrage rally May 2 with open air program at suffrage headquarters at 10 am. The event will feature a reading of a national resolution to Congress and a national hymn, with plans for a banquet and a broad nationwide demonstration from coast to coast.
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National Congressional Committee
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Desha Breckenridge
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Lecture on Christian Science in San Antonio
The First Church of Christ Scientist San Antonio announces a free lecture on Christian Science at the Grand Opera House Sunday afternoon April 26, 1914 by C. C. Eaton G B member of the Board of Lectureship The Mother Church Boston Mass. Public invited.
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San Antonio
Texas
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Boston
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Ady
San Antonio Kennel Club Dog Show Ends With Wins
The San Antonio Kennel Club closed its show at 117 Main Avenue with Mrs. T A Coleman assisting and President Stanley J. Miller praising the event as the best yet. Dallas man A Self won all-around best, Corinne Frances Kreuger’s two pound papillon was cutest, Col F A Chapa’s Helen the St Bernard was prettiest, and numerous owners won breed or special prizes. Judge George W Clayton presided with acclaim as the crowded venue applauded the results.
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San Antonio
A. Self
Girard Fraser
Joe Scheussler
B. C. Watson
G. N. Reuter
W. G. Coffey
A. Morton
W. B. Tuttle
Br. C. D. Eppwright
Dr. Rushing
E. C. Norman-Bennett
R. A. Smith
W. O. Learn
John W. Ackerman
George W. Clayton
English Aviator Flies Into Sea After Signal Malfunction
An English aviator experiences an emergency as his aircraft flare misfires and succumbs to flames, plunging into the sea. Reports indicate rescuers are searching the area as authorities investigate the incident.
Munich Doctor Links Heat to Salt Loss in Body
Two eminent physicians travel to China to study native methods for fighting epidemics, with emphasis on cholera, as heat allegedly reduces body salts below required levels.
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Munich
Aesee
China
Spanish Is Largest Group of White Foreigners in Texas
The 1910 census bulletin shows Texas with 234,179 foreign white stock whose mother tongue was Spanish, 7 percent of the state's white population of 3,204,848. German, English and Celtic, Bohemian and Moravian follow, with Nebraska and Omaha figures also listed for comparison.
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Census Bulletin
Texas
Nebraska
William J. Harris
Bureau of the Census
Omaha
The Busy Boy and Inventions in Brief
A humorous exchange about a gum chewing office boy. Reports on Spain cotton trials boosting its value as a future major crop. A French inventor creates a bicycle mounted, removable glass shield for rain and ventilation. A new bevel guide for saws replaces a mitre box and works with any lumber width.
Prisoners Tortured to Bring Confession in Riga Case
Seventeen young workmen charged with attempted murder of a Riga sal amander works engineer faced torture claims during four hour examination. Eight men drew six years hard labor, seven four years, one thirty-two months, and one was acquitted. Accused described being gagged naked, beaten, flogged, burned feet, and warned to confirm false confessions.
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ST. Petersburg
Riga
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