San Antonio Seeks Tourists With Rail Officials Visit
San Antonio to host general passenger agents from major railroads tomorrow via the Publicity League and Chamber of Commerce. They will tour the city, dine at the Gunter Hotel, and hear about Winter and tourist attractions. City officials and railroad leaders will discuss cooperation to boost travel and civic improvements funded by bond issue proceeds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Antonio
Publicity League
Chamber of Commerce
Gunter
Rockhill Country Club
Fredericksburg
J. G. Hollenbeck
Missouri Pacific
George F. Lupton
San Antonio & Aransas Pass
D. J. Price
G. H. Winsor
W. G. Crush
C. Dunlap
J. S. Peter
Walter Walthall
E. Fitch
Iron Mountain
G. M. Bynum
A. R. Atchison
E. H. Dallas
Santa Fe
H. W. Pinnock
Frisco
C. A. Baird
Pennsylvania Road
J. H. Savage
L. J. Hart
H. L. Beach
C. &. Fowler
H. E. Hildebrand
Ihoots Smith
Clinton G. Brown
Bankers Favor Plan to Buy Bond Issue
Local bankers discussed forming a pool to purchase all or part of the recent San Antonio bond issue with Mayor Brown and city council finance committee. A final decision was not reached. another meeting is planned with Dr. W. F. McCaleb T. C. Frost and Dr. Fred Terrell. A city needs schedule was presented showing monthly demand under the bond issue and the bankers will consider feasibility of the proposed purchase to avoid delays in bond operations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Antonio
Brown
Clearing House Association
W. F. McCaleb
T. C. Frost
Fred Terrell
Many Criminal Cases Appealed In Texas Court
Austin Texas August 27 The number of cases on the docket of the court of criminal appeals passed the 100 mark yesterday. So many cases filed since the vacation recess of the court is unusual.
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Austin
Tex
Court of Criminal Appeals
Papers to Be Consolidated in Baptist Publications
The Examiner of New York and the Watchman of Boston, Baptist publications, are to be consolidated. Meetings will be held in Brooklyn today and in Boston Thursday to complete the degree of consolidation.
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Boston
Mass
Examiner of
New York
the Watchman of
Baptist Publications
Brooklyn
Right to Sell Guns Questioned by Police Chief
Police Chief Lancaster questions the legality of selling 82 pistols at an upcoming auction. The Texas attorney general’s department will decide if revolvers may be auctioned as junk along with hundreds of other unclaimed items collected by the department over years.
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Lancaster
Attorney General's Department of Texas
Lost Daughter Tillie Reunited With Italian Father In New York
Joe Andranaco, long believed his daughter Tillie perished in the Messina disaster, waits in New York as Tillie arrives from Italy. Tillie had been washed from wreckage by a tidal wave and found three days later by Red Cross workers.
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Chicago
Joe Andranaco
New York
Italy
Tillie
Messina
Joe
Andranaco
Food Stuffs Condemned In Philadelphia
More than 100000 pounds of meat and eggs in Philadelphia cold storage since 1906 were condemned by state dairy and food commission agents. Warrants issued for arrest of dealers in unfit products. Additionally 40000 pounds of game stored in 1911 tagged unfit. New cold storage act imposes penalties up to 500 dollars or imprisonment for long storage. Farm finances to be discussed at National Conservation Congress in November.
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Philadelphia
State Dairy and Food Commission
Washington, D. C
National Conservation Congress
Gillespie County Fair Catalogue Promises Large Exhibit Wins
The twenty-eighth Gillespie county fair catalogue issued for Fredericksburg October 1 2 and 3 outlines events and numerous prizes across departments. Farmers of Gillespie county run the fair with rail access improving accommodations as crowds are expected. Open at 10 am October 1 with exhibits due by 6 pm October 0. Officers listed include president William Bierschwabe and secretary Henry Hirsch. directors span Bank of Fredericksburg Wahrmund Knopp Henke and others.
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Gillespie County
Fredericksburg
Texas
Fair Association
William Bierschwale
C. H. Nimitz
A. Gold
Henry Hirsch
Bank of Fredericksburg
C. E. Wahrmund
A. and
J. Knopp
Richard Henke
W. C. Henke
Krauskopf
William Bierschwabe
H. P. Gatrell
Charles Schwartz
Modern dances barred at Waco labor ball notice
Formal notice in Waco Texas says no new-fangled dances will be tolerated at the Central Labor Council ball next Monday night. The item appears with the warning on the program while another note mentions Philippine Islands pupils making their own desks and tables.
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Waco
Tex
Central Labor Council
Philippine Islands
Government to sell fur skins in St Louis fall sale
To test the American fur market the government will auction 2200 seal and 2000 silver fox skins valued at about 100000 this fall in St Louis. The Pribilof Islands skins are en route from San Francisco and will be cured and prepared before bidding. The Pelagie treaty previously directed London sales, but the government aims to establish a domestic market to cut transport costs.
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Washington, D. C
St. Louis
Pribiloff Islands
San Francisco
London
Coins Must Be Tied Up For Rural Route Coin Loss
The post office orders rural free delivery patrons to tie coins in bundles or enclose them in envelopes when leaving money for stamps at wayside boxes. It states that any such accommodation by a carrier is not a department directive. A separate anecdote recounts a Cleveland youth offering to help an elderly janitor with a ride, who declines and jokes about autos and fear.
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Washington, D. C
Post Office Department
First Oxford Chinese Doctor Earned by Regular Degree
Lionel Giles, newly awarded his doctorate in Chinese at Oxford, becomes the university’s first holder of a regular degree in that field. He is the son of Professor H. A. Giles of Cambridge and is connected with the British Museum.
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Lionel Giles
Oxford
H. A. Giles
Cambridge
British Museum
Moore obituary funeral set in city church
The funeral for A. J. Moore of this city, who died at Grand Lake Colorado last Saturday, will be held at 4 o'clock Thursday afternoon at the First Baptist Church with Rev. A. J. Porter officiating. Interment will follow at Mission Burial Park. Honorary pallbearers are R. F. Henry G. A. Maurer Ira Havins A. C. Dauchy L. Hillyer J. B. Brown. Active pallbearers: Richard Johnson C. C Odd J. G. Boles N. H. King R. O. Kluft H. L. Kokernot.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. B. Brown
Richard Johnson
C. C Odd
J. G. Boles
N. H. King
R. O. Kluft
H. L. Kokernot
Sunday Fined and Monday Arrested in Brooklyn Traffic cases
Thomas Sunday a 25 year old of Brooklyn was fined 1 after driving his wagon on the wrong side of the street following a Monday arrest. Ralph Monday 28 of Brooklyn was arrested Tuesday for rearraignment and held for examination while Sunday and Monday faced a week of legal events. In San Francisco voters approved bonds totaling 3 500 000 to extend the municipal street railway system to support the Panama Pacific exposition.
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New York
Thomas Sunday
Brooklyn
Walsh
Adams Street
Ralph Monday
San Francisco
Cal
United Railroads
Widely Known Author Dead in Philadelphia
Alice Miller Weeks, nationally recognized for children and young peoples articles in Sunday School publications, died at her Philadelphia home. In private life she was Mrs Alfred M Kruger. The report also mentions the common bladderwort, an aquatic plant that defends itself and captures worms and small fish using air-filled bladders and trap doors.
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Philadelphia
Alice Miller Weeks
Lfe
Alfred M. Kruger
Showers Expected Then Cooler Weather Forecast
Major Allen Buell of the local weather bureau says showers are expected within 48 hours, followed by cooler temperatures. While today and possibly tomorrow may stay hot, the change is anticipated as a natural shift, with temperatures two degrees above normal for this period but cooler nights easing the month’s end average.
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Allen Buell
Weather Bureau
Tea House A War Camp in Newport’s Return
Newport will see Mrs. Oliver Belmont return next month to Marion Pearl Marblehouse with her $75,000 teahouse furnishings. The teahouse is set to host the Suffragette League and society friends, while also serving as the hostile camp’s HQ per Mrs Stuyvesant Fish’s stance on suffrage. In Florisant a Catholic church marked 121 years with a dedication door rusty key on display. A Missouri lead belt strike settled with a 25 cent daily wage increase, Western Federation not recognized. A London water pump uses gas air explosions to lift river water into a vast reservoir.
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Newport
Oliver Belmont
Marblehouse
Farmington
Missouri
Western Federation of Miners
Ice factory planned near tracks by Merchants Ice Co
Merchants Ice Co plans a 100 ton capacity plant near I N G N tracks. Site purchased and a well bored. start date for the plant not set. Bids expected soon. construction likely to begin after current works completed. Counter-proposition seeks Chicago White Sox and New York Giants exhibition games in November to Charles Comiskey. Coliseum Band Concert set for Friday with San Antonio band. Sir Hubert von Herkomer enters film production, aiming for artistic and educational, realistic motion pictures.
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Merchants’ Ice Company
Chicago White Sox
New York Giants
Charles Comiskey
White Sox
Hubert von Herkomer
Herkomer School of Art
Bushey
England
Steam whistles keep residents awake near Southern Pacific yard
Dozens of complaints from residents living near the railroad complain of indiscriminate steam whistle blasts at night. City officials plan to review the law with Mr. Gillette and Assistant City Attorney Robert Harris, aiming to curb disturbances possibly by drafting an ordinance.
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Southern Pacific
Gillette
Robert Harris
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Hope OF Tammany
Edward E. McCall
New York Public Service Commission
Murphy
Tammany
New York City
Tiger
John Purroy Mitchell
William Gaynor
Joske’s
Joske's
Eeason
South
Joske
Ea Pniy
Gillespie Fair
Railroad
St. Ferdinand Catholic
Florissant
Lea
Coliseum
Coliseum League
Europe
Germany
Austria
Als
The
Christian Herald
Dr.Pierce’s
Golden
R. V. Pierce
Buffalo, N. Y
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