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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 23, 1911
Page
7
El Paso notes a three day celebration of statehood for Arizona and New Mexico the final laws to be decided at a mass meeting under city trials and chamber of commerce auspices. The plan centers on welcoming the new states into the sisterhood.
The National Association of Railroad Commissioners sub committee completed hearings in Chicago on express rates. Chairman C. F. Staples will draft a report for sub committee members and the association meeting in Washington next October.
I C Baker urged Governor Colquitt to support a bill to curb loan sharks by stripping usurers of accrued interest and awarding court costs to the plaintiff. Current laws fail to deter small claims, as lenders win judgments by default and collect illegal rates, prompting calls for a broad usury probe and court action.
Secretary of the Interior Fisher reached Katalla aboard the Admiral Sampson and, after clearing cables, wore a climbing suit and rubber boots to board a launch to Controller Bay. He inspected the harbor, will travel up the Bering River, and plans a six mile wade to disputed coal fields near Stillwater. He is expected in Cordova Thursday.
Three hundred members of the American Philatelic Society held the twenty fifth annual convention in Chicago. Reported private stamp collections of members are valued at about 3 million dollars.
At Bremerton Washington on August 23 the navy announced final government recognition of Admiral Togo's visit to America. The Nippon Yusen Kaisha ship Tamba Maru sails for Japan on August 29 and will be escorted to sea by the cruisers West Virginia and Colorado, which will salute in open waters.
H. E. Chaffee of Amenia North Dakota denied a romance linked to a $25,000 gold brick swindle. He said his son C. W. Chaffee eloped with Jessie L. Beesley and called the affair a kiddish prank. He planned to recover the loss and asserted he would get the money back.
Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup advertised as a long used remedy for mothers and children during teething. Claims to soothe the child soften the gums and ease pain, with additional cure for wind colic and diarrhea, described as harmless. Sold at twenty five cents a bottle.
R F Marshall a former deputy constable of Oakcliffe suburb Dallas swallowed carbolic acid and morphine in a saloon on the court house square last night and died at his gate after taking a baby who ran out to greet him. No reason for the act is known.
The Denver board of supervisors voted to build a memorial tablet at the Overland Park crash site for aviator Ralph Johnstone who died at the meet on November 17. The monument will mark the spot whereJohnstone's machine fell.
Gertrude Bowman aged 16, daughter of Mr and Mrs W Bowman, residing sixteen miles southeast of Vernon, accidentally drowned yesterday afternoon after falling into a water tank on her father's farm while filling a barrel.
Arrive and depart times for Kerrville area trains listed with services to Houston coast Kerrville and east departures. Minor OCR fragments show No 8 No 6 No 2 and No 4 schedules with times such as 6:40 pm 7:15 am 2:16 pm and 8:00 pm and notes on Sunday exceptions.
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