Panama Canal Details on Vessels and Locks Planned
A Washington dispatch outlines the Panama Canal project including zone size, ownership, and rights. It describes the six double locks at Gatun Pedro Miguel and Miraflores, lift totals, dimensions, and the use of electric towing locomotives. It notes excavation totals, labor force, and the canal's anticipated completion before 1916.
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Jonathan Winfield
Washington, D. C
Isthmian Canal
Cmmission
Panamaanal
Canal
Anama
Colon
United States
Spubliec
Panama
United Sates
Atlantic
Pacific
Hore
Limon Bay
Gatun
Gatunake
Bas Obispo
Culebra
Pedro Miguel
Miraflores
Jatun
Gatun Lake
United States Army Quartermaster’s Department
Canal Zone
Europe
Barbadoes
West Indies
Cristobel
Canal Commission
French Canal Company
Guith
Pecans and Vigilantes: San Antonio’s Old Hanging Tree Tale
An excerpt recalls the legendary old pecan tree near the Oak Street freight depot in San Antonio where vigilantes lynched horse thieves in the 1850s. Led by A. C. Mitchell and Sam Childress, the group enforced swift justice amid lawlessness, with mixed claims of innocence and guilt, and hardened frontiersmen facing danger to uphold order.
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Southern Pacific
Oak Street
San Antonio
A. C. Mitchell
Sam Childress
Mitchell
Childress
Vigilantes Tree Remains Standing Over Notorious Desperado Lair
A San Antonio legend recalls Bob Augustine a feared gunfighter blamed for mob violence and hangings at Military Plaza in 1356. The vigilantes’ tree still greens today as witnesses say the town punished lawlessness while old timers recount groans and eerie shapes among its branches.
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Texas
Sage Tea Hair Remedy Promises Hair Growth Recovery
Druggists report high demand for sage based hair care, with Wyeth's Sage and Sulphur Hair Remedy marketed as old fashioned sage tea plus sulphur to restore color and reduce dandruff. Sold at fifty cents a bottle and backed by a refund guarantee through W. C. Kalteyer at 488 BE Houston Street.
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Wyeth
W. C. Kalteyer
Houston Street
Girl Wedged in Pier Rescue Under Waves
Miss Florence Cassidy, about 200 pounds, became trapped beneath a pier during rough surf. Lifesavers and a crowd tried to free her. after a hole was cut in the planking, strong men pulled and she was rescued unharmed.
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Florence Cassidy
Los Angeles Times
Miss Cassidy
Chicago
Woman “Cowboy” Confesses to Horse Theft in Sunnyside
Gertrude Coon pleaded guilty to eight horse thefts from the T. C. Power ranch at Sunnyside and was sentenced to three years in prison by Judge Ewing. Her accomplice H. Beslin received five years. They were arrested last week at Chinook.
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Gertrude Coon
Ewing
T. C. Power Ranch
Sunnyside
Great Falls
Mont
New York American
Gertrude
Beslin
Chinook
Venice
England
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