Toll road to Medina Lake hinges on $7,000 pledge
Medina Lake Toll Road Association members canvass San Antonio this week to raise the final $7,000 needed to finance a macadam highway from San Antonio to Medina Lake. If built, the toll road would cut travel time to about one hour and boost tourism, but pledges are trailing.
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How to Keep Flies: A Summer Household Guide
A Kansas City Star excerpt extols keeping flies for nature lovers, noting flies breed in garbage, manure heaps, and unwashed containers. It urges embracing summer access with minimal screens, describing fly habitats and the potential disease risks.
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Exposition Not Abandoned Says Bi-Centennial Stockholders
Stockholders meeting in the Bedell building urged San Antonio to continue the Texas Bi-Centennial Pan-American Exposition. They favored private subscriptions before large bond issues and heard letters from out of town commissioners and Senator Morris Sheppard endorsing the project. A seven-member committee will be named to study continuing plans.
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Jitney bond limits liability for personal property damage
The article notes that the San Antonio jitney bond covers no damage to personal property. It states a jitney may collide with automobiles or buggies without the bonding company liable for repairs. Courts have ruled jitneys increase public hazard, citing several decisions.
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Father of Seth Jones Dime Novels Dies at 76
The Kansas City Star notes Edward B Ellis, creator of Beadle & Adams dime novels, died at age 76. He wrote Seth Jones in 1859 and hundreds more, shaping boy readers with clean heroes, courage, and moral tales while selling millions of copies worldwide.
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Governor and Senator Share Old Time Anecdote at Tonopah Dinner
The Tonopah gathering features Governor and Senator Key Pitman recounting a Missouri tale about Claiborne Jackson. The humor centers on Jackson pursuing five sisters and an octogenarian father who fumbles language as the plot twists around a wedding proposal.
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Four Field Hospitals Run Mock War Care at Landa Park
Four field hospitals from Illinois and Wisconsin units march from Camp Wilson to Landa Park for a two day outward trek and two day return. The exercise simulates caring for 864 wounded across an army division of 20 000 men, with near 1000 hypothetical patients handled at the park. Brigadier General Hill and General Funston attend a New Braunfels dinner where Harry Landa commends the troops for discipline and orderly encampment.
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Boundaries: US favors straight lines over European curls
The Cleveland Plain Dealer contrasts North American borders with European ones, noting U S lines run north south or east west and follow rivers or ridges where not straight. It argues modern borders still follow old, irregular practices but the New World remains more business like and practical.
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Mayor and railroad president visits Cupples barn
An angry complainant confronts Cupples about a bull that chased him across a field. The mayor of Scaroro and president of the Scarboro & TaItville railroad appears, remarking the need to move the bull, while the farmer asserts ownership of both field and bull. The exchange ends with a quiet acknowledgment.
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