San Antonioan Promoted to Louisiana Rail Office Chief Clerk
J C Hall a well known San Antonian has been promoted to chief clerk to the general freight claim agent of the Southern Pacific lines in Louisiana with headquarters in New Orleans. The appointment takes effect August 15. Hall began his railroad career in San Antonio as a clerk in the Aransas Pass road freight claim department. He later served as special claim clerk in Houston and was promoted to traveling freight claim agent before the Louisiana appointment.
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Local Notices and Society Items from San Antonio Daily
Community notices include Garden Stables listings and San Antonio Traction conductors info. Humane Society office details for Bexar County, plus old and new phone numbers. Inquest into an unidentified Alamo Heights death yields no identity. High a plan for Gulf Highway support noted. Purity League to meet at Y M C A auditorium next Thursday.
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Bexar County Humane Society
Texas State Humane Society
Mackay Building
R. I. McCalla
E. M. Collins
Revival meeting and medical notices fill city page
A meeting to launch the fall campaign gathers supporters with Dr Burgin Godbey Porter Keller and others. Dr Charlotte Strum returns to resume practice Monday as Dr T T Jackson resumes clinic at 608 Moore. A contract for a barn at the poor farm costs 1315 dollars, signed by County Judge Shook. Grand religious rally at the Airdome features Godbey Porter Cross and Sid Williams.
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Airdome
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Veterans assemble for L L Stutsman funeral
Luther R Hare Camp No 1 United Spanish War Veterans meet at Riebe Undertaking parlors 221 East Commerce Street Monday at 9 30 am to attend the funeral of Comrade L L Stutsman Interment in National cemetery Henry F Geyer Commander
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United Spanish War Veterans
Riebe
East Commerce Street
L. L. Stutsman
National Cemetery
Henry F. Geyer
Awful Slam on Chicago Ends Los Angeles Romance
A crumpled marriage license filed in Chicago reveals the breakup of John Sbarro and Lupe Lujan’s Los Angeles romance. Sbarro, son of a Chicago motor dealer, returned home as Lupe, heiress of El Paso mining wealth, grieves over a planned Los Angeles home that never happened. The license sits ignored at the Hollenbeck hotel desk as the couple’s dreams dissolve and a long distance split ensues.
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Sinclair completes 18 hours in jail and vows crusade
Upton Sinclair and 40 inmates, black and white, serve 18 hours on a Wilmington jail stone pile for violating the Sunday blue law. He writes a poem The Menagerie during confinement and plans a crusade to enforce Sunday laws, citing harsh prison conditions and urging reform.
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Arden Colony
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Firemen Routed by Goats in Germantown Stable Blaze
Three big billy goats escaped from a nearby stable and charged the Germantown fire scene on Haines street. They forced a delay as firefighters, including Joe Nagel of engine company 19, leapt over a fence to escape the animal charge while two other men were gored back. The goats then drove the remaining firemen from the yard until the beasts wandered off in pursuit of greener pastures.
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Haines Street
Germantown
Joseph Nagel
Engine Company No. 19
William Hoffmaster
Collision Sinks Tug Henry 8S Stanwood in East River
The Red Cross steamship Stephenie collided with tug Henry 8S Stanwood in East River. The tug sank within minutes. nine crew members were rescued with difficulty by tugs and rowboats and several were injured.
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Huge Mastodon Teeth Found Near Walker California
Five exceptionally large mastodon molars were unearthed during Doggett mine excavation along the Klamath river in Northern California. The teeth, about seven inches across, suggest a herbivorous giant predating human history by millennia, and are studied by the University of California with arsenic-rich soil preserving them.
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California
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Klamath River
Man Ordered to Support Wife and Leave Sister-in-Law Home
In a Washington dispatch to the Cincinnati Enquirer, Jacob Coleman was ordered by the juvenile court to pay $4 weekly to his wife Bonnie Coleman and to abandon the home of his sister-in-law. The case noted Coleman had forsaken his wife and lived with his sister-in-law, prompting a humorous courtroom exchange about hot cakes and ham.
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Washington Dispatch
Cincinnati Enquirer
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Gambling raid leads to no arrests at Page Boulevard home
Night Chief Gillaspy and Lieutenant Tierney investigated a Page boulevard residence after a woman described a conspicuous gambling game. Patrols found a group playing hearts for matches in plain view, but no arrests were made as officers reported “nothing doing.”
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Page Boulevard
Tierney
Degraff Mayors and Marshals Abolition Considered
Bellefontaine dispatch notes Degraff council weighing removal of mayor and marshal offices. Report cites 1910 three minor arrests with none in 1911. The 1200 resident village bills itself as the state spotless town.
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Degraff Council
Bellefontaine
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