Nervous Shock Fatality After Auto Accident in Texas
Mrs. Charles Stark aged 74 died from nervous shock after an auto overturn near the Houston and Texas Central tracks. Driver E F Eisenbeiser and three others were in the car. the vehicle left the road and no one else was injured. Mrs Stark died shortly after, the shock noted as the cause. Also reports of a typhoid fever epidemic at Henderson Texas prompted State Health Department action.
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Charles Stark
Austin
Tex
E. F. Eisenbeiser
Houston
Texas Central Railway
Eisenbeiser
Henderson
State Health Department
Collins
C. E. Lincecum
How to Reduce Your Weight
A promotional piece touts oil of kerein capsules from Summers' Drug Store as a safe simple weight loss method. It claims rapid weight reduction with daily doses after meals and a nightly capsule, plus weekly weigh-ins, and asserts improved digestion and buoyant feeling.
Just Apply This Paste and the Hairs Will Vanish
A beauty paste called delatone promises hair removal with no pain or skin damage. Mix the powder with water, apply to hairs for two or three minutes, rinse to vanish all visible hair and leave skin smooth. The ad warns to use genuine delatone for best results.
State board fixes 45 cent ad valorem tax rate in Texas
Officials report the Texas Automatic Tax Board set the 1916 state ad valorem tax rate at 20 cents per 100 property value, with school rate also 20 cents and Confederate pensions at five cents, totaling 45 cents. The cut of 10 cents from last year reduces total tax slightly despite broad valuations.
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Austin
Tex
Texas
State Automatic Tax Board
Ferguson
Comptroller
Traveling man killed in Mount Pleasant case unfolds
L C Meader 30 a Dallas traveling salesman was killed by a blunt object in Mount Pleasant. Clem Gray brother of Dora Gray posted 7500 bond and surrendered to Sheriff Cooper after returning from a car ride with Meader. A grand jury investigates as differing stories circulate.
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Mount Pleasant
Tex
L. C. Meader
Dallas
Clem Gray
Dora Gray
Meader
Gray
Cooper
Acid stomachs blamed for a range of illnesses warning against acids
A New York physician warns that excessive stomach acidity causes most intestinal troubles and many vital organ diseases. He cautions against artificial digests and recommends bisulated magnesia after meals to neutralize stomach acid, noting it provides rapid relief without side effects. Ensure purity with sealed magnesium products.
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New York
Socialists Call for Belgian and Polish Independence and Federal Union
At The Hague opening, the International Socialist Conference urged full restoration of Belgium and Poland and a Democratic federal union of the Balkan states. Emile Vandervelde pressed Belgian independence, while Algernon Lee noted wartime effects on American socialism and urged no annexations or indemnities after the war.
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London
Belgium
Poland
Balkan
International Socialist Conference
The
Hague
Emile Vandervelde
Vandervelde
Socialist Party
Alsace-Lorraine
Algernon Lee
New York
America
Mr. Lee
Socialist Party In America
United States
Lee
Knights of Columbus Expand Troop Relief Stations
The Knights of Columbus announce thirteen more recreation stations for American troops on the Mexican border, joining the two already in Brownsville and El Paso. The facilities will offer showers reading material correspondence and special entertainment for soldiers. Extra banquet precautions were noted after a prior Chicago event.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Davenport
Brownsville
el Paso
Knights of Columbus
Mundelein
Chicago
Coliseum
Uhr suit on trial tests city charter section 25
The injunction suit by City Commissioner Robert F Uhr against Mayor Clinton G Brown contends section 25 of the city charter is unconstitutional. The hearing before District Judge W F Ezell began Tuesday and did not conclude. Uhr argues the provision conflicts with the charter division of power and could create dual police forces and threaten city finances beyond the taxing limit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert F. Uhr
Clinton G. Brown
W. F. Ezell
Uhr
Hearing on discharge of West Texas Bank as executor
The hearing in Judge James R. Davis court resumed on Tuesday to decide discharge of West Texas Bank & Trust Company as executor of the Simmons estate and Artesian Belt railroad manager. A proposed $250,000 bond issue to pay claims and rehabilitate the railroad was discussed, with a receivership suit awaiting resolution pending the outcome.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West Texas Bank & Trust Company
Simmons
Artesian Belt Railroad
James R. Davis
Leroy G. Denman
Simmons’ Estate
Seventy-third District Court
Davis
Jail arrests in theft case recover tires and tubes
Detectives Harvey and Guerra report the recovery of several automobile tires tubes and casings from Quick Tire Service Company after arrests Monday night and Tuesday morning. A 22 year old negro is charged with theft and a 35 year old junk dealer with receiving and concealing stolen property.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Quick Tire Service Company
Harvey and Guerra
Justice Court
Call to Duty 2: Reservists Report for Southern Department
Some 477 reservists reported to the Southern Department headquarters and were assigned to regular regiments after President Wilson called up reserves. Discharges rise as militiamen seek release under the dependent family provision with about ten per day, while hundreds may follow in a week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Southern Department
Wilson
Army
J. W. Heard
Department Adjutant's Office
United States
Heard
United States Service
National Guard
Grove's Tonic Ad Promotes General Tonic Use
An advertisement extols Grove's Tasteless Chol tonic as a valuable general tonic. The copy notes its fitting for energy and health and cites 50 cents price. The snippet ends with a dated line from Austin Texas August 1 noting an insurance record finish.
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Grove
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