Hotel Astor at Grand Impresses in One-Act Run
Amusements review notes Allard Musical Comedy Company’s one act tabloid musical comedy Hotel Astor with Jess Allard as a top blackface bell boy and Bonnie Lane in a soubrette role. Encore heavy Pajama number draws crowd. Hotel Astor slated again with changes. Royal Theater offers Good for Evil two reel feature and multiple first run reels including The Flame in the Ashes and The Riot. Cosmopolitan Life in Cairo is highlighted as Pathe worthy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Allard
the Royal
Royal Theater
Kay Bee
Keystone Company
Cairo
Egypt
Pathe
GETS-IT Corn Cure Promises Quick Pain Free Relief
An advertisement touts GETS-IT as a fast painless corn remedy that shrivels corns and ends pain without harming healthy flesh. It claims easy application, no bandages or cutting, and also promises safe use on warts callouses and bunions. Sold by E Lawrence & Co Chicago at 25 cents a bottle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E. Lawrence & Co
Chicago
Banks Get Deposits With Government Funds
The Treasury Department began placing additional $50,000,000 government deposits with banks in agricultural states to aid crop movement. Initial deposits went to reserve cities in the South, with Baltimore Richmond Atlanta and Memphis among those receiving funds. Memphis and Atlanta reportedly each received $750,000.
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Washington, D. C
Treasury Department
Baltimore
Richmond
Atlanta
Sausage advice and fair travel ads in one clipping
A note urges buyers to ask for sausage with a TIN TAG to ensure freshness. An advertisement promotes a Kerrville Fair event in August 2022 with a round trip price of $1 and a display in the Grand Opera House lobby.
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Grand Opera House
Union Meat Company
Record Kerrville State Fair Sees Large Attendance and Racing
Kerrville Tex Aug 21 attendance surpasses three thousand with crowds filling exhibits across stock poultry and agricultural halls. Afternoon racing features three purses totaling 210 dollars plus a dummy roping contest and foot races as judges prepare to award prizes.
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Kerrville
Tex
Fair Yesteray
Rose Simmons
O. G. Parke
Dick Barnitz
J. R. Schumacher
E. M. Ford
B. M. Hixson
George Zenner
Cure for Pimples Offered by Cuticura Soap and Ointment
A testimonial from Miss Mamie Mitchell of Ruffin North Carolina describes severe facial skin disease including pimples and itching lasting three years. After four weeks using Cuticura Soap and Ointment the skin improved completely. The ad promotes Cuticura products with sample offers and a Skin Book from Cuticura in Boston.
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N. C
Mamie Mitchell
Cuticura
Dept. T. Boston
Obituary briefs for Hummert and Rees families in St Louis
Frederick Hummert Sr aged 77 died in St Louis on Tuesday and will be buried there today. He was born in Germany and came to the United States twenty five years ago. He leaves five sons Fred Herman William Henry and August and four daughters Mrs Doenges Meinhart Lahrman and Vasal all of St Louis. Lola Rees aged 23 died yesterday in a local hospital after a short illness. She was Texas native who had lived in San Antonio the last two years. She leaves a father and an infant son. Funeral for Hummert to be held this afternoon at 4 from Riebe Undertaking Parlors with burial in city cemetery.
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Louis Book Store
San Antonio
Kerrville Nine
Kerr County Boys’ Corn Club
Kerrville Merchants
Tivy High School
Alvin Dille
H Remschel
G. Lehreiner
Agricultural and Mechanical College
R. R. Rosa
Louis Vasal
St. Louis
Heat Ruins Pavements in Wichita and Kansas City
Heat from extended drought grips Kansas, Wichita, and Topeka, with temperatures above 100 degrees for three weeks. Gardens near Wichita suffer vegetable shortages as the heat swells pavements and drought-stricken areas face crop distress in Kansas and Missouri.
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Kansas City
Wichita
Kas
Topeka
Kansas
Missour
Auto Bandits Rob Bank In Hamburg Suburb
Two men in a taxicab robbed the Communal Savings Bank in Wilhelmsburg early today. They fired on the cashier who resisted and died from a bullet. The robbers fled with a satchel of cash. the exact total will be known after inventory.
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Hamburg
Wilhelmsburg
Fire Leaves Hundreds Homeless in Jersey City
A blaze in a waterfront barrel factory destroyed property valued at $700,000 and left 400 people homeless. The fire damaged about 40 buildings, including several tenement houses, yesterday in Jersey City, New Jersey.
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Jersey City
N. J
Texas Wonder cures kidney and bladder troubles ad
The Texas Wonder claims to cure kidney and bladder issues in men and women, dissolves gravel, and aids diabetes and rheumatism. It promises bladder regulation for children and offers mail order for $1.00 with two months of treatment per bottle.
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Texas
E. W. Hall
Olive
Eek
St. Louis
Adv
Attorneys Appointed to Defend Negro Accused of Killing Doctor
Judge Anderson names Sid Overton and T E Simmang to defend Lee Johnson in the murder case of Dr. Augustus Maverick. No venue change sought. Johnson to be present at 9:30 a m trial. Attorneys pledge to honor court orders and pursue a not guilty plea, claiming shooting was accidental.
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Lee Johnson
Augustus Maverick
T. E. Simmang
Sid Overton
Anderson
Thirty-seventh District Court
Galbreath
Johnson
Millard
Austin
Palestine
Texas
Simmang
Bexar County
Secrecy Over Lee Johnson Prisoner Location Grows
Sheriff Matthews shrouds where Lee Johnson, the San Antonio killer of Dr. Augustus Maverick, is held. The prisoner was moved from the county jail to an unknown North Texas site, possibly Dallas, while officials say he may still be confined in Travis county jail.
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Austin
Tex
George S. Matthews
Lee Johnson
San Antonio
Augustus Maverick
North Texas
Dallas
Travis County
Scouts in Movies Feature President Wilson Visit
Washington August 21 The eight Boy Scouts plan to appear in a 8000 foot film with President Wilson on the White House grounds. The picture will show the president greeting the boys and directing they scout work. Film crews will also visit Camp Archibald Butt to capture scenes from the summer camp.
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Washington, D. C
United States
Boy Scouts
Wilson
White House
Boy Scout Movement
Archibald Butt
No Action On Scotland Home Rule By Royal Clan
The Royal Clan of the Order of Scottish Clans in Philadelphia declined to take a position on Scottish home rule. The group said it is non political and that any action would violate its principles as members from the United States and Canada gathered for their annual session.
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Philadelphia
Royal Clan of the Order of Scottish Clans
Scotland
United States
Canada
Fredericksburg Railroad Nears Completion Date Target
The last carload of bridge timbers arrived for the Fredericksburg line as contractor Foster Crane plans to start tunnel work Monday. Tracks into Fredericksburg are the remaining task and a September 10 target for the first train is possible, with a San Antonio delegation expected for the celebration. Six criminal appeals are docketed for the October term, three from Harris and three from Lamar counties.
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Fredericksburg
Foster Crane
Big Hill
Crane
Waco Named Site for 1914 World Convention
A telegram from Marshall A. Hudson of Syracuse N Y president of the Baraca Philathea movement announces Waco Texas has been chosen as the 1914 world wide convention site. Macon Georgia and Birmingham Alabama also sought the gathering.
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Waco
Tex
Marshall A. Hudson
Syracuse
N. Y
Baraca Philathea Movement
Macon
Birmingham
Ala
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Fletcher
Chas. H. Fletcher
Ley Ph
Centaur Company
Murray Street
New York City
Hotel Astor
Kerrville Fair
The
Fair Association
T. E. Simmany
Slayer
Dr. Maverick
Wolfson’s
Saul Wolfson
Court of Criminal Appeals
Lamar
Harris County
Charles Suesberry
W. M. Andrus
William Thompson
Lamar County
Ed Miller
Babe Ford
Jim Cole
Martin Wright
Bedell Bl&g
AVE. C. Crockett
New
Laird ‘3 & Schober’s
Alamo Plaza
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