Navy Department Enables Full Payments on Naval Contracts
The Navy Department announces authority to make full payments on all naval contracts for work completed. Previously only nine percent of completed work could be billed under a prior act, a hardship that raised bids. Congress revoked the limit, allowing full disbursement. Attend the West Texas Fair in Kerrville August 23–25 with exhibits racing and amusements via the special train from San Antonio.
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Washington, D. C
Navy Department
Department
Congress
Aterrville
Eoial
San Antonio
Kerrville
Kerrville Fair
Business sessions close with officer elections in Columbus
The mal business session of American holic societies ends today with officers to be elected. The convention's remaining time will focus on social events including a banquet tonight for which about 1000 invitations have been issued.
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Associated Press
Columbus
Ohio
Army officer weds in San Antonio with elaborate wedding
Lieut John Jennings Kingman and Adelaide Warren, daughter of Captain and Mrs Charles G Mortimer, married at St Pauls Church last night. Chaplain Mills officiated as the Third Field Artillery band played. The reception followed for 200 guests at Captain Mortimers home before the couple departed for Mexico City and their future Louisville Kentucky home.
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San Antonio
John Jennings Kingman
Adelaide Warren
Charles G. Mortimer
St. Paul's Church
Mills
Third Field Artillery
Captain Mortimer
Lohengrin
Earnest Peak
Virgil Peterson
D. C. Kingman
Clarence Northrup Jones
Kingman
City of Mexico
Louisville
Battery C
First Birthday Party For Ella Mills On Marshall Street
Ella Catherine Mills celebrated her first birthday yesterday afternoon at her parents home on Marshall street. The dining room featured ferns and flowers with a dainty menu. Guests included Nellie Lamb Ruth Wooldridge Erline Plummer Maxine McFarland Lena Sloan Evelyn Garza Allie Young Mary Stang Bessie Young Maud Holcomb Clifford Sloan Walter Sloan Claude Stang Lawrence Goforth Frank Goforth Albert Wooldridge Joseph Garza and Chauncey McDaniel.
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Ella Catherine Mills
Marshall Street
Nellie Lamb
Ruth Wooldridge
Erline Plummer
Maxine McFarland
Lena Sloan
Evelyn Garza
Allie Young
Mary Stang
Bessie Young
Maud Holcomb
Clifford
Walter Sloan
Claude Stang
Lawrence
Frank Goforth
Albert Wooldridge
Joseph Garza
Chauncey McDaniel
Local Children Report Gains From Week's Collection
The report lists Jessie Perry 274 pennies Ina Bell Caruthers 200 and Lucille Palmer 145 as successful participants. The Woman's Christian Temperance Union plans an important meeting at 4 p.m. tomorrow with Mrs. B R Abernathy on Madison Street.
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Jessie Perry
Ina Bell Caruthers
Lucille Palmer
The
Woman's Christian Temperance Union
B. R. Abernathy
Madison Street
Willing Workers Club Holds Pleasant Riverside Park Meet
The Willing Workers of River side Park Baptist church met yesterday afternoon with teacher Miss Fay Spencer. All members attended and the gathering included games and amusements, followed by refreshments.
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Riverside Park Baptist Church
Fay Spencer
Boy From Del Rio Given A Home
Daniel M. Hernandez a 12 year old boy from Del Rio stranded in San Antonio after being refused admission to the orphans home finds a home with Nat Villareal. Hernandez plans to return to Del Rio for his mother’s consent to be raised and educated by Villareal. The sheriff’s office facilitated the boy’s return after Villareal offered to take charge.
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Daniel M. Hernandez
del Rio
San Antonio
Nat Villareal
Lunch for Friends at Miss Curran's Guenther Street Home
Miss Amanda Curran hosted a luncheon at her Guenther street home on a Tuesday at 1 o'clock. The table featured white and green decorations with lily of the valley place cards and white china asters as favors. A multi course menu was served to Elizabeth Guenther Byron McKaslin Elizabeth Groesbeck Stella Wagenfuehr Hattie Zadek Gertrude Kalteyer Birdie Zilker Elma Martin Elizabeth Byrd Helen Hertzberg Marion Hutchings Dicta Hutchings Charlotte Newton Mary Clapton Catherine Cooleridge and the hostess.
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Amanda Curran
Guenther Street
Elizabeth Guenther
Byron McKaslin
Elizabeth Groesbeck
Stella Wagenfuehr
Hattie Zadek
Gertrude Kalteyer
Birdie Zilker
Elma Martin
Breakfast for Miss Edward Webster at Magnolia Avenue
Miss Edward Webster hosted a 9 o’clock breakfast at her Magnolia avenue home. Guests included Miss Hazel Stewart William Heusinger and Girard Galpin. The meal featured four courses.
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Edward Webster
Magnolia Avenue
Hazel Stewart
William Heusinger
Girard Galpin
Eight Busy Bees honor Miss Isabelle Jackson with farewell dance
The Laurel Heights Eight Busy Bees hosted a farewell dance at the Misses Jackson home on Magnolia avenue for Isabelle Jackson who will soon leave for Guaymas Mexico. The parlor was decorated with wild flowers and ferns with hours of dancing and a punch and ice course.
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Laurel Heights
Misses Jackson
Magnolia Avenue
Isabelle Jackson
Guaymas
Mexico
Punch
Edward Webster
Winifred
Virginia
Felice Gaffney
Eugenia Taylor
Ruth
Gladys Logwood
Derrick Fall Injures Two Men on Brooklyn Avenue
T F Bledsoe and D A James severely injured when a derrick fell in the 600 block on Brooklyn avenue yesterday afternoon. Bledsoe suffers a broken right shoulder blade and contusions while James has a severely mashed right hand. Both were taken to Santa Rosa infirmary and are listed as favorable for discharge soon. The derrick was being dismantled when four gun rope broke, causing the timbers to drop.
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T. F. Bledsoe
D. A. James
Brooklyn Avenue
Mr. Bledsoe
Mr. James
Bledsoe
James
Santa Rosa
R. L. Dinwiddie
Camorra trial witnesses claim bribery and sightings
Aug. 23 witnesses for the crown testified they saw Nicola Morro Giuseppe Salvi and Antonio Cerratioy together the night Gennaro Cuoccolo and his wife were murdered. The defendants denied any acquaintance and alleged witnesses were bribed by carabineers.
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Interbo
Camorra
Nicola Morro
Guiseppe Salvi
Antonio Cerratioy
Gennaro Cuoccolo
Confederate reunion opens Kerrville West Texas fair
Hundreds of Confederate veterans families and San Antonio delegates attend Kerrville opening day of the West Texas fair which runs three days. Veterans will entertain this evening as livestock displays agricultural products and fine arts impress visitors. The event marks the best fair yet with races a Kerrville San Antonio baseball game and cowboy exhibitions attracting crowds.
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Kerrville
Tex
San Antonio
Stearns Electric Paste Promises Rats Roaches Vanquished
Advertisement urges public battle against rats and vermin with Stearns Electric Paste. Claims rats destroy more property than fires and spread disease. Promotes Stearns Paste as the reliable remedy for rats mice cockroaches waterbugs with 25¢ and 1.00 prices from Stearns Electric Paste Co Chicago Illinois.
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Stearns
Stearns’ Electric Paste Co
Chicago
Sinks in Mississippi near Brandywine landing
Passengers arriving today report the sinking of the small packet Harry Lee at Brandywine landing forty miles north of Memphis. The steamer Flenora rescued all on board. A Black fireman is reported missing. The Lee struck a snag and sank in nine feet of water.
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Associated Press
Memphis
Tenn
Harry Lee
Brandywine Landing
Flenora
Lee
Largest battleships ready for service
The Associated Press reports the US Navy will commission two new dreadnoughts, Florida and Utah, with 21 825 ton displacements and ten 12 inch plus twenty one 8 inch guns. Florida to be commissioned September 15 and Utah shortly before.
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Florida
Utah
Washington, D. C
United States Navy
Navy Department
Delaware
King George
North Dakota
Brigham Young
Meyer
Trelford Named Chief Clerk of International & Great Northern
Tom W. Trelford arrived in San Antonio to assume duties as chief clerk in the local office of the International & Great Northern railroad division freight, succeeding M. M. Nuessle who moves to a clerk in charge role under Horace Booth. Trelford previously served as chief clerk in Fort Worth. He is Ray Trelford’s brother, formerly assistant passenger and ticket agent in the local office.
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Tom W. Trelford
J. M. Ball
International & Great Northern Railroad
San Antonio
Mr. Trelford
Texas Pacific International & Great Northern
Fort Worth
Ray Trelford
Iron Mountain & Pacific
Dallas
Trelford
M. M. Nuessle
Horace Booth
International & Great Northern
Palestine
Nuessle
Bal
Cash Hidden In House Under August Anderson
Relatives of the late August Anderson found 1000 in a spice can 600 sewn in bedding 75 hidden in an old book and other small sums across the house after his death in Isa. About six years a widow he lived alone. A $1500 bank deposit was also located. They estimate another $2000未 to be found. He owned a fine farm with a daughter and grandchildren to share the estate.
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Anderson
Manson
Isa
Porter Held in Five Burglary Cases Before Habeas Hearing
S R Porter faced a habeas corpus hearing in the Seventy third District Court before Judge Birkhead. He is charged in five burglary and theft cases and three theft over 50 dollar cases linked to an alleged November robbery of the International and Great Northern freight depot. Porter was placed on 200 dollar bond in burglary cases and discharged on theft counts. The state alleges he and others stole tobacco from the depot, entering through a broken pane.
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S. R. Porter
International & Great Northern
Birkhead
Seventy-third District Court
Gey
Porter
Bridegroom seeks freedom after false swearing for marriage license
Clarence Nicholson, under $500 bond by Justice Fisk for false swearing to obtain a marriage license, applies for a writ of habeas corpus. Hearing set before Judge Birkhead in the Seventy third District court this afternoon. Complaint by Charles Williams, father of Mabel Williams Nicholson, says she is 17 and Nicholson swore she was over 18.
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Clarence Nicholson
Justice Fisk
Birkhead
Seventy-third District Court
Charles Williams
Mabel Williams Nicholson
Nicholson
Heat and drought grip Yoakum as grass withers
In Yoakum Texas on August 28 the temperature has ranged from 103 to 106 degrees and elders say this is the longest dry spell in years. Stockmen report cattle suffering as grass is burned and water becomes scarce across the surrounding country.
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Yoakum
Tex
Texas Dry Farming Congress Opens in Uvalde
The third annual Texas Dry Farming congress meets in Uvalde for a three day session beginning this afternoon.
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Dry Farming Congress
Associated Press
Uvalde
Tex
Auk
The
Texas Dry Farming Congress
Penniless Inmate Dies After Shielding Sage in Bomb Attack
William R. Laidlaw, a small salaried clerk who saved Russell Sage during a 1891 bombing, died in the Home for Incurables. Injuries left him a cripple, with Sage denying liability and decades of litigation ending as Laidlaw lost his funds and support from his sisters.
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William R. Laidlaw
Russell Sage
New York Herald
Henry W. Norcross
Boston
Laidlaw
Sage
Egg Hatches in Transit From Freight Crate
A crate of eggs sent from Mex ico Mo to the Arky Brothers Commission in this city arrived with one egg missing replaced by a live chick. Heat during transit caused the egg to hatch, producing a chick that settled in a shoe box with a small meal. The incident illustrates how the crate transformed en route.
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Mexico
Arky Brothers’ Commission Company
St. Louis Times
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