Astoria Opens Centennial Celebration With Gala Exposition
Astoria prepares for the centennial marking John Jacob Astor era with an exposition from Aug 9 to Sept 3. More than 200000 spent on grounds, featuring a 12000 prize motor boat race, a stockade replica, Glenn Curtiss flights, hydro-aeroplane display, and a Tonqua ship destruction reenactment. Organizers expect up to three quarters of a million visitors.
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Astoria
Ore
John Jacob Astor
Great Northwest
Astor Family of
New York
Pacific Coast
Pacific Seaboard
Hardy Band of
Glenn Curtis
Band of Birdmen
Tonqua
Treasure legend of Big Keyes ends quest in Oklahoma
Big Keyes a Chickasaw Indian claims to be over a century old and says he helped hide a silver treasure eighty years ago in a cave along the White River in Southwestern Missouri. He describes the tribe fleeing Georgia for Arkansas and Missouri, mining silver, burying bars, then sealing the cave and marking the trail to it before returning to Oklahoma. He searches for the elm-tree entrance but cannot locate it.
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Associated Press
Exeter
Big Keyes
Oklahoma
Keyes
White River
Missouri
Georgia
Arkansas
Texas Ready to Return Flag to Ohio Regiment
After 46 years Texas will return the flag of the Seventy seventh Ohio volunteers captured by a Texas regiment at Marks Hill Arkansas in late 1864. A house resolution to return the flag passed this morning and a committee was named to pick the flag from the Confederate museum in the capitol and prepare shipment to Ohio.
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Texas
Associated Press
Austin
Tex
Seventy-seventh
Ohio Volunteers
Lone Star
Marks Hill
Arkansas
Ohio
Capitol
Boilder Explodes Aboard Rhine Steamer Guttenberg
A boiler on the Rhine steamer Guttenberg exploded today in Rotterdam. Two sailors were killed, the captain and several passengers were seriously injured, and three others are missing.
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Associated Press
Rotterdam
Stearns' Electric Rat Paste Sets Global Standard
For over thirty years Stearns' Electric Rat and Roach Paste has been the exterminator of choice worldwide. It targets rats mice cockroaches and waterbugs with an absolute money back guarantee if it fails. Available at druggists genuine 25c and 1.00 from Stearns' Electric Paste Co Chicago Ill.
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Stearns
Stearns’ Electric Paste Co
Chicago
Ill
Committee Awaits Ruling Before Acting on Election Inquiry
Austin Aug 9 Pending an opinion from the attorney generals department the senate election fraud investigation committee plans no forceful attendance of witnesses. Rep Fred Stephens of Liberty county and Senator Watson declined to appear as did others. Joseph A Worsham testified about a former Dallas law partner and alleged payments to Alexander Pope and Charles C McDonald for anti cause activities.
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Austin
Tex
Attorney Generals Department
Senate Election Fraud Investigation Committee
W. H. Gray
Fred Stephens
Liberty County
Buckle
Senate
Senator Watson
Joseph A. Worsham
Dallas
Hopkins County
Typographical Union to Debate Wage System in San Francisco
International Typographical union news committee meets in San Francisco as part of the convention. Thomas F. Gaffney of Syracuse is elected chairman and Samuel Hadden of Toronto becomes secretary. The panel will consider adopting a universal wage system and arbitration with employers.
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Associated Press
San Francisco
International Typographical Union
Thomas F. Gaffney
Syracuse
N. Y
Samuel Hadden
Toronto
Secretary McDonald Denies Prohibition Pay Allegations
Secretary of State C. C. McDonald returned from San Saba and vigorously denied claims before the senate investigating committee that he received $75 a day for prohibition work in the last campaign. He said he did not receive any pay and that someone had been jokingly made a victim.
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Austin
Tex
San Saba
C. C. McDonald
Senate
Fisher outlines policy on west development in Denver
Secretary of the Interior Walter L. Fisher told a Denver audience he supports westward development and seeks to learn what the real west wants from public domain resources. He opposed compensation to the federal government for use of these resources unless it aids development. The talk drew anti federal faction critics allied with Pinchot policies.
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Associated Press
Denver
Colo
Walter L. Fisher
Secretary of the Interior
Fisher
Bridge Over Peyton’s Creek Near Wadsworth Completed
Capt. J. W. White, contracting builder, has completed a substantial bridge over Peyton’s creek two miles south of Wadsworth. The bridge has been accepted by the commissioners in whose precinct it was built and is praised as one of the best in the county.
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Bay City
Tex
J. W. White
Peyton's Creek
Wadsworth
Young Toledo Woman Awarded Ph D by Michigan
Miss Dorothea Jones, 19, of Toledo, has earned the degree of doctor of philosophy from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. She is believed the youngest person in America to receive the honor.
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Associated Press
Toledo
Ohio
Dorothea Jones
University of Michigan At
Ann Arbor
America
Hearne 23 Buried in Austin Tuberculosis Claims Life
Hamilton W. Hearne, 23, grandson of Capt. H M. Metz, died at his grandfather's home in Austin from tuberculosis. Funeral services were held this afternoon at 1806 Brazos Street with interment in Oakwood Cemetery.
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H. W. Hearne
Austin
Tex
Hamilton W. Hearne
H M. Metz
Brazos Street
Oakwood Cemetery
Burial Arrives for Mining Man Col. W. C. Green
The body of Col. W. C. Green, who died at Sonora in Cananea, arrived in Los Angeles. No funeral services will be held here as they were conducted in the Mexican mining town before the departure of the remains.
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California
Associated Press
Los Angeles
W. C. Green
Sonora
Mex
Cananea
Peaceful End Maned Death of J. W. Gates
J. W. Gates died at 5 10 PM after a long European illness linked to throat abscess toxins spreading to the kidneys and lungs. His wife Mrs Dellora R. Gates and son Charles G. Gates were by his bedside in Paris as doctors tried restoratives and oxygen before the peaceful passing.
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Charles G. Gates
New York
Gros
J. R. Ryan
London
Mr. Gates
Gates
Dellora R. Baker
St. Charles, Ll
John W Gates Life Of Risk And Rail In Wall Street
John W Gates rose from an Illinois farm boy to a famed wire magnate known as Moonshiner Gates and Bet you a million Gates. He built a vast wire empire and merged several plants to form Consolidated Steel and Wire, then expanded into finance and oil rivals, fighting Standard Oil and leading Texas company battles. Gates chaired multiple major firms, including Baltimore & Ohio and Republic Iron, dying after a lifetime spent in bold financial combat.
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Gates
Standard Oil Company
Iron and Steel
Illinois
Turner Junction
Chicago
Johnny" Gates
Isaac Ellwood
DeKalb
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Ellwood
Texas
St. Louis
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Edenborn
Johnny
Missouri
Braddock
Joliet
Allentown
Consolidated Steel and Wire Company
Johnny” Gates
John W. Gates
Wall Street
Illinois Steel Company
J. Pierpont Morgan
Lloyd L. Smith
New York
Charles G. Gates
Exchange
New York Exchange
England
Drake
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Western Maryland Railroad
Republic Iron and Steel Company of New Jersey
American Salt Company
United States Realty and Steamship Company
National Bank of North America
Texas financier John Gates dies in Paris at 68
Well known in Port Arthur and Beaumont Gates built hospitals colleges hotels water works and wholesale stores he funded a sugar refinery and a paper mill project tied to patent rights He organized the Gulf Coast Good Roads Association and advocated surfaced roads linking Houston Galveston Beaumont San Antonio and New Orleans. He spent his later years in Port Arthur and retirement from Wall Street.
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Port Arthur
Mary Gates
Beaumont
Gulf Coast Good Roads Association
Houston
Galveston
San Antonio
New Orleans
Gates
Wall Street
Gates Death Leaves Texas Company Unaffected
At the Texas company offices in Houston the death of John W. Gates is seen as not affecting operations. Executives state Gates did not intervene recently and delegated duties to a competent team. A will is presumed. no announcements will be made until the estate is dispositioned.
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Associated Press
Houston
Tex
The
Texas Company
John W. Gates
Gates
Must Have Witnesses to Report in Cotton Ginning
The Texas law requiring monthly cotton ginner reports must be tabulated in the presence of three credible witnesses. Governor appoints Austin newspaper men Fred Harvey Brice Hoskins and J A Fernandez as supervisors for the tabulation.
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Austin
Tex
Fred Harvey
Brice Hoskins
J. A. Fernandez
Eighth Live Stock Show Dates Set for Lockhart Carnival
The Eighth Annual Live Stock Show and Carnival in Lockhart announces November 15 16 and 17 as event dates with a San Antonio carnival company secured. Officers named include Dr D A Combs president and Seymour Lissner vice president. Committees cover attractions horses swine and poultry with several named members and plans to secure attractions for all departments. The event features hive stock and poultry as key draws.
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R. A. Beaty
A. W. Jordan
J. R. Raney
J. P. Cardwell
W. B. Swearingen
M. O. Flowers
S. W. Smith
C. H. Beaty
W. F. Blunt
Joe Ellison
A. Walter
F. N. Clifford
Seymour Lissner
C. J. Williamson
J. E. Shinn
Lea Beaty
W. M. Schofield
Campaign Against White Fly In Texas Citrus Belt
The Texas state department of agriculture launches a vigorous statewide campaign to combat the white fly a pest threatening citrus trees and fruits. Growers have pressed for help and the department seeks legislative funds to extend the fight throughout the citrus region.
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Austin
Tex
State Department of Agriculture
Texas
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