City borrows 31000 to cover warrants as depositories named
After declaring Alamo National Bank and State National Bank city depositories for the year the council issued six promissory notes totaling 310000 to these banks for current running expenses. Notes mature with tax collection June 1 1917 at 5.5 percent interest while sinking fund yields 8 percent on 700000. Banks share loans and sinking funds.
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Alamo National Bank
State National Bank
Ing Fund
Kearny
Victoria Street
Uvalde Rock Asphalt Company
Market Plaza
Wright
Providence
R. I
East Houston Street
North Pine
New Braunfels Avenue
Wife hard to suit in Oregon rainwater tale
A man recounts that his wife longed for rainwater to wash clothes back in Western Kansas. He moved to Oregon two months ago hoping to escape, but she now wants to return to Kansas to dry the clothes with rainwater.
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Neodasha Sun
Kansas City Star
Oregon
Kansas
Kan- Sag
Mother Believes Lost Son in British Army Hero is Alive
Mrs. M. Hemsley of Galveston, after a decade believing her son dead, identifies Sergeant Vernon Edmund Challis of the New Zealand Field Artillery as a Dardanelles veteran now serving with the Anzac corps. She seeks contact through the New Zealand high commissioner while under medical care in Austin.
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Austin
Tex
M. Hemsley
Galveston
Anzac Corps
Hensley
New Zealand
Crewe Appointed President of Board of Education
The Marquise of Crewe, lord president of the council, is named president of the board of education in the British cabinet, succeeding Arthur Henderson who resigned August 8. Henderson will stay on as labor adviser. Crewe, a Liberal, has held multiple cabinet posts.
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London
Marquis of Crewe
Arthur Henderson
Board of Education
Mr. Henderson
Lord Crewe
Camp Mabry Prepares for 15000 Troops Arrival
Camp Mabry near Austin Texas will host 15000 troops from Fort Sam Houston in first class condition. A work detail of about thirty convicts cleared brush and weeds with full pardons granted by Governor Ferguson after completion. The division is to stay several days and marks the largest troop gathering at Camp Mabry to date. Water system has been materially improved to meet soldiers needs.
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Austin
Tex
Camp Mabry
Fort Sam Houston
Ferguson
Soldiers file suits against water company over shooting
Sergeants Harry Pirson and R M Martin and Private John Regoya of Company F fourteen Infantry sue the Bisbee Naco Water Company in Tombstone seeking 5000 each for injuries from a guard William Humphries firing on them at its Naco plant on the night of June 21. Walter F Paul was killed and the others wounded.
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Walter F. Paul
First Man with magazine and other plots teased
A Boston Transcript quote notes Penley Norris turning out tremendous numbers of stories with playful claims about an incubator used to hatch plots, reflecting lively media gossip about his writing.
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First Man
Penley Norris
Boston Transcript
French Spencer Seeks Speakership in Thirty fifth Legislature
Austin Aug 19 French Spencer of Decatur Wise county renominated without opposition for the Legislature seeks the House speakership in the Thirty fifth Legislature campaign manager A D Rogers says an aggressive drive will back his Prohibitionist candidacy. Other aspirants named include Mendell Fuller and Florer. Charter news lists several new incorporations and amendments filed including State Petroleum Waxahachie North Texas Warehouse and Galveston Island Transfer Company.
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Austin
Tex
George W. Mendell
Travis County
Fuller
San Jacinto County
Florer
Dallas County
Mendell
French
Rogers
State Petroleum Company of Houston
Capital Stock
L. B. House
F. M., Sager
8. V. Scott
Dan Dillon
Waxahachie Mutual Oil Company
Waxahachie
C. M. Coats
C. D. Pickett
C. D. Teutsch
North Texas Warehouse Company of Houston
William Pagen Jr
John N. Simpson
Sloan Simpson
Cecelian Society of
D’hanis
Rev. F. Maas
John M. Koch
M. M. Maas
Galveston Island Transfer Company
Galveston
New Thirty first Infantry Regiment Formed in Philippines
Cable instructions from the War Department steer the creation of the Thirty first Infantry in the Philippines. Lt. Col. Walter H Gordon of the Twenty seventh Infantry is promoted to colonel of the new regiment. Recruits will come largely from existing island regiments, with company strength reduced from 150 to 100 men.
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Associated Press
Manila
P. I
War Department
Philippines
Walter H. Gordon
Twenty-seventh Infantry
Thirty-first
Islands
Curious witness in trial reveals工
A terse exchange unfolds in court as a reserved witness answers to the question What do you make in the factory with I make $10 a week. The witness asserts he works in a large factory and earns ten dollars weekly in a concise, almost curt exchange during testimony.
Detroit Firm Raises Capital to Three Million
Detroit Michigan increases its capital stock from two million to three million. Certificates of dissolution filed by Mineral Wells Transfer Company of Mineral Wells and American Bank and Trust Company of Galveston.
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Detroit
Mich
Galveston
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