Big livestock exhibit and weeknight hours across venues
A broad Chronicle of the Week highlights an International Fair livestock exhibit and San Antonio merchants shortening weekday hours to six and Saturday closes at eight. It reports Fort Sam Houston duty changes, a major loan transfer, cholera fears eased in New York, and regional turmoil from El Paso to Teheran.
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Carter
Maneuver Division
Fort Sam Houston
San Antonio Hotel Company
New York Trust Company
Congress
Congressional Steel Trust
J. Pierpont Morgan
Charles M. Schwab
New York
Weather Bureau
Med Ali Mirza
Persia
Teheran
Charles Diehl
Gustav Lanson
Sorbonne
Paris
el Oro
Mexico
Meeting covers seed grading and saloon reforms across state
Local talks discuss grading of seed and July births rise, while Texas lawmakers eye liquor regulation and redistricting. National Guard maneuvers planned in Mabry Park. saloon free lunch rule debated. wool statistics urged. recall and recall-like measures surface as chambers convene and governors push appropriation and dry amendments.
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Twenty-Second Infantry
Fort Sam Houston
Mabry Park
Texas
National Guard
Austin
Colquitt
Gove
Humphreys
Pros
Woodward
New York
Samuel Gompers
Buck Stove and Range Company
Harvey W. Wiley
Owen
Oklahoma
Victor L. Berger
Congress
Wisconsin
William
Great Britain
Germany
Morocco
Versailles
France
Shah Moham
Don't Pull Out Gray Hair Sage and Sulphur Hair Tonic
An old remedy advocates stopping gray hair loss with Wyeth's Sage and Sulphur Hair Tonic. The ad touts the tonic as safe, balance-tested, and effective for restoring natural color, refreshing dry hair, and removing dandruff. Sold by W. C. Kalteyer on East Houston Street.
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Wyeth
Wyett
W. C. Kalteyer
East
Houston Street
Local Chambers Rally for Funds as land congresses loom
Southwest Towns seek funding through Chamber drives to send delegates to northern land congresses this fall. The Lone Star Poultry Association meets at Chamber quarters as various groups push for regional representation and infrastructure boosts.
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Chamber of Commerce
Lone Star Poultry Association
Bexar County Highway League
San Antonio
Brownsville
Texas cattlemen seek higher beef prices amid ruin fears
Ed Lasater, head of the Texas Cattle Raisers Association, warns ruin looms for cattlemen unless beef on the hoof brings better prices. General William H. Carter is relieved of duty and transfers command to General Hoyt. Chamber of Commerce committee travels to Austin to urge repeal of I. G. N. law.
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Ed Lasater
Texas Attle Raisers' Association
William H. Carter
General Hoyt
Chamber of Commerce
Austin
Typhoid eradiation drive and political unrest sweep era
Board of health vows relentless typhoid eradication as nationwide political skirmishes unfold. Taft signs arbitration pacts with England and France while election probes spark Senate action and redistricting moves ignite debate. Admiral Togo arrives in New York as Haiti riots continue and Mexico faces a broadened presidential contest.
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Texas Baseball League
Farmers’ Union
Senate
Prohibition
Colquitt
House
Vaughan
McNealus
Carter
Warren
Pros
Meachum
Abilene
Cone Johnson
Thomas H. Ball
Boll Weevil
Waco
Peter Radford
Texas Farmers’ Union
United States
England
France
New Orleans
Culebra
Lorimer
Texas
Burleson
Garner
Admiral Togo
Washington
Taft
Columbus
Ohio
Democrats
Congress
Marvelous Nighttime Beauty Revival Promised by Free Prescription
Grace Benson touts a quick skin transformation from a free prescription. She claims freckles, dark neck, wrinkled skin and rough hands disappear after one home mixture using Kulux Compound and witch hazel. Apply twice daily for soft, beautiful skin.
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Grace Benson
Self supporting asylum via irrigation for inmates
Announcement that the Southwestern insane asylum will become self supporting through an irrigation plant enabling inmates to raise vegetables. Reports on the local cotton crop are reassuring and several political and economic items follow including the Texas and Mexico Trust Company being organized with a 2,000,000 capital.
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Southwestern Insane Asylum
Texas and Mexico Trust Company
Texas Truck Growers
Berlin hosts note of nearing settlement in Morocco crisis
Berlin signals that a satisfactory settlement pleasing France and Germany is near as John G A Leishman is accepted as the U S ambassador to Germany. A strike of London dock workers called to begin today did not occur. Russia insists Britain must not intervene in Persia, warning of possible strain in relations.
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Berlin
Morocco
France
Germany
John G. A. Leishman
United States
London
England
Russia
Fort Sam Houston to Receive Eighty Thousand in Improvements
Government plans eighty thousand dollars for Fort Sam Houston improvements while a San Antonio chamber letter seeks cooperation to ship large exhibits to northern land congresses and a publicity league votes to spend forty thousand dollars on an incoming publicity campaign.
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Fort Sam Houston
North Texas
San Antonio
Couple Declines Marriage License Over Secret Policy
A law student and his betrothed refused to name themselves at Cincinnati probate court saying they would not publish the license for a year. Deputy Jacob Falk waited for them, but the pair demanded a secret, refused to disclose names, and left without result.
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Jacob Falk
Falk
The
Cincinnati Enquirer
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