Fort Sam Houston contracts awarded for post improvements
Contracts totaling about 6655.88 are awarded by Post Quartermaster Martin Novak for enhancing Fort Sam Houston quarters grounds and buildings. Work includes a new fence for cavalry stables, plumbing updates, arc lighting, and street lamps with ten painters twelve carpenters and four cement workers at lower post, aiming to brighten day and night settings for San Antonio troops.
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Fort Sam Houston
Martin Novak
San Antonio
William Schuwirth Company
E Third Field Artillery
Quartermaster Department
Cavalry Post
Novak
Quartermaster Headquarters
Adjutant General's Office
Joseph W. Duncan
Camp Mabry
Austin
John T. van Orsdale
Seventeenth Infantry
Haligonian duped by Canadian money in New York hotel
Charles Mollman of Halifax recounts a New York con at a Grand hotel lobby and roof garden show. A Pittsburg stranger claimed Mollman’s Canadian money was bad and arranged a cafe meeting with a supposed manager who took $1100 before vanishing. Mollman reported a bunco to the police.
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Charles Mollman
Halifax
New York
Mollman
Cumberland Hotel
Fifty-fourth Street
Broadway
Pittsburg
Poe
U S Officials Appointed For Paris Agriculture Exhibit
Paul Chaussin of New York named general agent for the United States at the Paris international exhibition of agriculture pistaculture and oyster culture to be held from November 10 to December 31. Henry C Finckelstein of Washington named deputy general agent.
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United States
Associated Press
Washington
Paul Chaussin
New York
Henry C. Finckelstein
Paris
Sandals Offered In Opera Style At Reduced Price
Women’s one-strap sandals of soft dongola kid with white lining turn sole and low Cuban heels. Regular price $1.50. Tomorrow price $1.29 per pair.
Rates for longer hauls allowed to undercut shorter ones
The Interstate Commerce Commission granted the Carolina Clinchfield and Ohio railway permission to charge less for longer rail hauls within the south eastern states to keep freight rates competitive. The move affects Kingsport Tennessee routes to Georgia Florida Alabama Mississippi and Louisiana. The commission also suspended a 25 percent rate rise on feeding cattle filed by the Wabash and other carriers until December 13 1911. Button Gwinnett one signer of the 1776 Declaration of Independence was killed in a duel by General McIntosh.
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Washington
Interstate Commerce Commission
Carolina, Clinchfield
Wabash Railroad
Button Gwinnett
General Mcintosh
The Wonderful Watch Examination of its tiny power and parts
The article praises the watch as a marvel of tiny mechanics. It notes about 175 components and 2400 operations, with 432000 daily impacts on the fork, 157,690,000 blows per year, and 8,163,600,000 in twenty years. It equates motion to four fleas power and details lubrication needs.
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Scientific American
Casey Jones Song Sparks Prison Fine Clash in Clayton Jail
Mrs. Mamie Long, jailed with Mrs. Ethel Marik, begged husband James Long of New burg Mo to pay her $1 fine for striking Mrs. Charles Aehle on a street car. Marik, who has sung Casey Jones loudly, faces a $26.80 fine and costs. Grace Wilson must serve $25 in fines.
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Mamie Long
Ethel Marik
Clayton
James Long
Newburg
Charles&. Aehle
St. Louis Post Dispatch
Grace Wilson
Police Shootout Ends Fatal Street Crime in Louisville
In Louisville, Officer Michael Baldwin was killed at Nineteenth and Jefferson by a man later killed by another patrolman, Officer Michael Sullivan. The assailant, arrested on burglary charges, attempted to flee as Baldwin escorted him to the robbery scene for identification. Newman's Theater presents The Last of Diaz.
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Associated Press
Louisville
Michael Baldwin
Nineteenth
Jefferson
Michael Sullivan
Baldwin
Sullivan
Wave Restores Voice After Breaker Shock
Miss Mercedes Simpson of Chicago regained her voice today in Venice California after a huge breaker slapped her during a swim. A year prior she learned by phone that her friend was not expected to live and her voice failed then. Her mother had brought her west for health and today she spoke clearly again.
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Mercedes Simpson
Chicago
Venice
Los Angeles Times
Miss Simpson
California
Benevolent Tip Jar Hidden Behind Bar in Park Row Saloons
The New York World reports bartenders in Park Row saloons hide a crockery bowl of missed change. When a customer leaves short, the bartender deposits the money. Later a patron with no cash is offered a drink and a dime is rung up.
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Park Row
New York World
Tom McHugh
Man Kills Father‑In‑Law After Quarrel in Savannah
In Savannah Georgia Walter M McEachern shot and killed his father in law J R Fennell at about 7 am in their home. McEachern surrendered to police and will face coroner findings. He said he married Fennell s stepdaughter years earlier amid opposition and disputes over a recent quarrel involving hidden supplies and an alleged stick incident. He called a doctor who said Fennell was dead.
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Associated Press
Savannah
Walter M. McEachern
J. R. Fennell
McEachern
Snanem
Fennelly
Fennell
Right Arm Broken in Yoakum Automobile Incident
Miss Fannie Mae Hale of Yoakum Texas sustained a broken right arm this morning when starting an automobile for her uncle A J Ross of Dalgy. No further injuries reported.
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Yoakum
Tex
Fannie Mae Hale
A. J. Ross
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