Restraining order halts Medina Valley irrigation project
A judge’s restraining order forces Medina Valley Irrigation and officials to keep flood gates open at the Medina dam to prevent flooding land owned by Albert Reitzer in Medina County. A hearing set for August 23 at Kerrville courts will decide eminent domain rights and reservoir pricing amid ongoing lawsuits.
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Medina Valley Irrigation Company
R. H. Barnes
Thirty-eighth Judicial District
Medina Dam
Albert Reitzer
Medina County
Burney
Kerrville
J. B. Palfrey
C H. Kearney
San Antonio
Medina Company
C. L. Bass
Shooks& van derHoeven
R. A. John
Public Service Corporation
Commissioners’ Court
Medina
Stole 50 Fowls a Night Confessed Theft
Rome Georgia August 10 Henry Richardson a Black resident confessed stealing 1000 chickens in three months with an average income of 100 dollars per month. He admitted taking as many as fifty chickens in a single night.
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Rome
Henry Richardson
Massacre at Puruandiro Reported by Mexican Commission
A Mexican commission told the interior minister of a June slaughter in Puruandiro that claimed more than 200 lives on orders of the jefe politico. The killings began in the jail and continued with executions of prisoners and boys as guards sealed the cemetery gate. Survivors spoke only with difficulty amid terror.
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Mexico City
Minister of the Interior
Puruandiro
Jefe Politico
Doctor warns kissing spreads disease in children
Dr J M Buem cautions that babies suffer when kissed as germs in saliva can pass infections such as diphtheria tuberculosis scarlet fever tonsillitis sore throat mumps measles and flu. School board members oppose kissing by teachers and students and a ban may be added to regulations amid nationwide anti kissing campaigns.
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J. M. Buem
St. Louis
Forty-Year Romance Ends in Cleveland Wedding
Dr William H Falls age 62 and Cordelia W Coffey age 58, both of Cincinnati, wed at Trinity Cathedral in Cleveland. The longtime couple began courting as children and have known each other since she was eighteen. Falls will give up his Cincinnati practice to reside in Cleveland. both had never married before. There is no honeymoon planned.
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Cleveland
Ohio
Trinity Cathedral
Wm. H. Falls
Cordelia W. B. Coffey
Cincinnati
Dean du Moulin
Colquitt
Gunter
Will
Wilson
National Democratic Party
Baltimore
Woodrow Wilson
New Jersey
Thomas R. Marshall
Indiana
Democratic Party
Texas
Democrats
Guv Colquitt
United States
Ernor
Weather observations from eight cities at 8 p m
Readings show varied conditions with temperatures from 66 to 76 as Sunday forecasts range from fair to rain. Winds range up to 12 miles an hour from several directions.
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ST. Louis
Chicago
Milwaukee
New York
Boston
Washington
No wire carry by any paper but San Antonio Light
The statement claims that no published day leased wire from the Associated Press to San Antonio is carried wholly or partly by any newspaper other than the San Antonio Light. This is presented as unfounded and without factual basis.
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Associated Press
San Antonio
Senate Fails Quorum Delays Business On August Session
In Washington the Senate could not transact due to a quorum absence, approving only a bill and a resolution before adjournment. Debate covered Page’s vocational education bill, good roads, rural routes, and a ship registry measure. House moved through pension bills and labor committee pledges, with Taft urging medical aid for Indians.
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Washington
Senate
Page
Borah
Pomerene
Senate Judiciary Committee
Standard Ofl
American Tobacco Companies
Brandegee
Bristow and
Simmons
House
Department of Commerce and Labor
Representative Wilson
Labor Committee
Wilson
Labor
Industrial Commission
Department of Labor
Great Lakes
Board of
Democrats
Taft
Police Chief Killed in Brownsville Shootout
Brownsville Texas August 10 1930 Police Chief Joe L Crixell was shot dead on Main Street as he approached a saloon. Deputy Sheriff Paul McAllister was arrested by Ranger Captain J M Cox after the fatal 45 caliber pistol firing six bullets into the chief. Crixell a 40 year old husband and father of four died within minutes. funeral held this afternoon.
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Brownsville
Tex
Joe L. Crixell
Paul McAllister
J. M. Cox
Crixell
McAllister
Corpus Christi
Federals Looting Border, Rebels Claim Two Hundred Men
An unofficial report to Gen. Orozco via Juarez describes two hundred federals looting ranches on the Mexican side and possibly continuing into Texas. Capt. Carvalho says a clash opposite Fort Hancock drove them into Texas. Orozco orders cooperation with U S troops to hunt the bandits while Mormon colonists near Colonia Juarez move toward the border.
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EL Paso
Tex
Pascual Orozco
Juarez
Carvalho
Orozco
Ojinaga
Fort Hancock
Texas
Sierra Blanca
United States
Mexico
Guzman
Mexico Northwestern
Laguna
Madero
Chihuahua
Colonia Juarez
Ojitos
Llorente
Disbrow Dominates Beach Car Race At Galveston
Louis Disbrow won the 200 mile Galveston Beach race driving a Simplex in 186 minutes 17.90 seconds. Harry Endicott finished second in 188 minutes 23.50 seconds, George Clarke third in 195 minutes 47.12 seconds. Disbrow earned 1250 dollars, Endicott 500, and he set a beach one mile record of 81.11 seconds with an average 145 mph.
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Galveston
Louis Disbrow
Disbrow
Harry Endicott
Mason
George Clarke
Bob Evans
Flanders
Edincott
Police Battle With Mob as Socialists Rally in Pittsburgh
In Pittsburgh on August 10 a mob of about 10 000 confronted 100 police at Kelly and Homewood avenues during an open air socialist demonstration. Police used riot sticks. many injured and taken to hospitals. Police, fearing more trouble, deployed 50 mounted officers and 50 patrolmen. The protest ended after more than an hour with dispersal and ongoing marches through the streets.
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Pittsburg
Kelly
Homewood Avenues
Frankstown Avenue
Pennsylvania Avenue
Oakland
McQuaid
Taft
Central Station
Columbia
Homewood
Hall freed after hung jury in wife murder case
BHGUSAW Hall, accused of killing his wife in this city last December, was released from jail after a July term district court hung jury. His bond remained set at $2000 as he awaits further action.
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Bhgusaw Hall
Scientist predicts continental doom and world cataclysm
Dr Milton Albert Nobles of Philadelphia a Woodstock figure warns of a vast recurring geologic cycle. He describes volcanic activity lifting and sinking continents causing massive upheaval and emigration from Europe to prepare a new western hemisphere world order.
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New York
Milton Albert Nobles
Philadelphia
Woodstock
West Tirty-third Street
Manhattan
Old World
Dr. Nobles
Italy
Lithunia
Slavonia
Poland
Europe
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Georgia
Main Street
Galveston Beach
Clark
Fedehalg
Scientiot
Plank
O. B. Colquitt
Rawlins Colquitt
J. Sheb Williams
St. Anthony
Market Hall
Ehave Stee
Col. J. Sheb Williams
Walter Collins
Hillsboro
James B. Wells
Jake Wolters
Houston
Wells
W. A. Hanger
Fort Worth
Senator Hanger
Colonel Wolters
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