San Antonio Weather Looks For More Showers
Rain fell yesterday in San Antonio lowering temperatures from 98 to 81. Forecasts suggest possible showers this afternoon or evening, with the mayor and officials noting fair but uncertain conditions and humidity favoring more rain. Reports also indicate rain extending to Luling and San Marcos before clearing to cooler weather.
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San Antonio
Mercury
Buell
Southwestern Telegraph & Telephone Company
Luling
San Marcos
Western Union Telegraph Company
Major Beecher B. Ray Nominated Deputy Paymaster General
President Taft sent to the Senate the nomination of Major Beecher B. Ray United States Army to be deputy paymaster general with the rank of lieutenant colonel. The move follows a congressional investigation into Ray activities in 1908 and other army actions. The president and Secretary Stimson decided to refer the nomination to the Senate for disposition.
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Washington, D.C
Taft
Senate
Beecher B. Ray
United States Army
Ray
Stimson
Lyon happens in at San Antonio amid hot convention week
Col Cecil A. Lyon admits he happened in to San Antonio a day before the fourteenth district GOP convention and county reorganization. He says he is here on personal business and may stay briefly, leaving by tomorrow. the heat and politics are not his focus. Harriet Martineau’s deafness is noted with a remark about trying smoking as a remedy discussed with a scientific acquaintance during evenings on a knoll porch.
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Col
Cecil A. Lyon
San Antonio
Bexar County
Republican Party
Harriet Martineau
Kerrville West Texas Fair Sets Attendance Record
Kerrville Texas August 23 The fourteenth annual West Texas fair closes tonight with record first day attendance and steady gains each day. San Antonio day drew over six hundred visitors. Angora goat exhibits touted as the largest in America and best in the nation.
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Kerrville
Tex
San Antonio
America
William Roeder Jr
Bruno Schwethelm
Schreiner Cattle Company
J. H. Ward
J. M. Webb
M. V. Gregory
J. C. Baxter
Ernest Beckmann
T. A. Dowdy
George Williams
J. C. Reese
Arthur Real
Ivey Reese
W. H. Bonnell
J. A. McBryde
Howard Lacey
James Prentice
Ward & Garrett, Witt & Sons
D. H. Reese
B. F. Denton
J. L. Gilbert
Association
Alvin Dilley
Kerr County
Remschel
W. R. Schreiner
W. G. Carpenter
Mayor Remschel
Alvin Dillie
H. Mosel
A. Cc. Schreiner
Fred Real
H. Schuetze
Nathan Herzog
M. F. Weston
G. F. Schreiner
Bullet from Own Gun Ends Bandit on Train
A lone bandit who bound three mail clerks and robbed passengers on Union Pacific train No. 101 was fatally wounded by a shot from his own revolver in Topeka Kansas. Conductor M E Smith tackled the attacker in Topeka yards after the bandit fired. the gun misfired, the bullet hit the robber’s heart, and he died in hospital with the stolen mail recovered.
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Topeka
Kan
Union Pacific
Kansas City
St. Louis-Colorado Limited
Lawrence
Topeka Yards
M. E. Smith
Mercer Man Wins Ten Cent Verdict Over Erie Railroad
H. Clay Johnson of Mercer sued the Erie Railroad for 10 cents after he paid with a five dollar bill for a Shenango ticket and the conductor levied a ten cent penalty for no ticket. Johnson won the verdict before Justice T. W. McClain and warned of further action if the railroad does not settle.
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Mercer
H. Clay Johnson
Johnson
Meadville
Shenango
Erie
Justice of the Peace
T. W. McClain
Erie Railroad Company
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Panamas
Bangkoks
Oxfords
Edwin Clapp
Frank Brothers
Alamo Plaza
Main Plaza
Rank Bros
Lyon
Kerrville Fair
Corn Club
Wolfson
Arrow
Cluett
Yauru
Lintex Lawn
Russo
Roger & Gallet
Point de Paris
Saul Woltson
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