Missionary Conference to Open at Travis Park Church
A two day San Antonio Missionary committee meeting will begin Monday at Travis Park Methodist Church with pastors laymen and superintendents attending. Rev S H C Burgin will lead an elaborate program focusing on financial policy and missions in Mexico Cuba and beyond.
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San Antonio
Travis Park Methodist Church
C. F Reid
Korea
A. J. Weeks
Texas
Mexico
C. F. Reid
D. D
Southern Methodist Church
S. J. Drake
Methodist Church
Gosel
Thomas Gregory
Astor West End
A. B. Davidson
Government Hill Methodist Church
J. P. Curry
Cate
San Antonio Male College
N. J. Marall
Marshall Training Hool
The
Ideal Missionary Church
J. E. Harrison
San Antonio Female College
and . M. Carter
A. A. Hughes
Missionary Committee
Missionary Sunday
V. A. Godbey
Travis Park
Epworth League
C. B. Cross
South Heights
West Texas
Alarm at Night Warns of Croup in Homes
An alarm at night described as a loud hoarse metallic cough signals croup feared by households. The ad touts Foley's Honey and Tar Compound as essential, with Canton New York resident Edwards King Drug Co. citing its effectiveness for children’s coughs and hoarseness.
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Foley
H. W. Casselman
Canton
N. Y
Edwards King Drug Co
Belvidere
A. Kelly
Edwards King
Drainage congress to organize for swamp land work
The nineteenth annual National Irrigation Congress begins with plans to form a drainage congress to tackle swamp land drainage in the south. Samuel Fortier, irrigation investigator for the Agriculture Department, urged closer cooperation between state legislatures and the federal administration.
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Chicago
Ill
National Irrigation Congress
Samuel Fortier
Department of Agriculture
Health and Beauty Helps From Mrs Mae Martyn
In this health and beauty column readers learn do it yourself remedies. Advice covers skin care with spurmax lotion to clear pimples and a delatone mix for hair removal. A canthrax shampoo and eye tonic are suggested along with tonics and hair tonics like quinzain. A weight loss remedy using parnous in hot water is also offered.
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Clara
Treaseless cream jelly promises soft skin and fewer blemishes
A vintage beauty ad touts a cold water glycerine and almiozoin jelly to improve complexions. It claims wrinkles vanish after gentle massaging, with pimples and blackheads reduced after several treatments. Read Mrs Martyn's Beauty for $5.
Startling Banking Report Flags Officer Corruption Risk
The 1910 comptroller Murray report notes national banks show asset growth and record deposits while cautioning that dishonest officers taking compensation for loans is a growing evil. It calls for criminal legislation and liability for stockholders in national banks.
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Washington, D. C
Lawrence O. Murray
Congress
Murray
San Antonio Public Schools Extend Holiday Break
The San Antonio public schools will close from December 23 to January 1, inclusive. Teachers receive salaries on December 22. The board rejected a Red Cross request to sell Christmas stamps in schools. An appropriation funds Riverside Park school books and cases. Miss Addie McKenzie fills a vacancy, and Harvey Moore becomes general assistant at the high school.
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San Antonio
Red Cross Society
Riverside Park School
George Roe
Addie McKenzie
Effie Davenport
Harvey Moore
A. R. Thompson
Compliment on San Antonio Hotel Praises St Anthony and Swearingen
Bradbury F. Cushing, a prominent eastern hotelman, praised the St Anthony hotel and manager F. M. Swearingen during a visit to San Antonio. He said the hotel would be a model for New York’s Thirty-fourth and Broadway and called San Antonio’s hotels the city’s best investment with solid returns. He noted the ideal climate and full hotel services make the city a limitless tourist and winter resort and urged greater advertising in eastern states.
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San Antonio
St. Anthony
F. M. Swearingen
Bradbury F. Cushing
Pacific Coast
Thirty-fourth
Broadway Streets
New York
Burglars Use Explosive On Fort Worth Stores
Thieves dynamited the Fuqua Grocery and M Co Anderson Drug on Pennsylvania avenue Fort Worth last night taking 150 dollars from the grocery and 50 from the drug store. The blasts woke residents and police arrived to find a large stash of high explosives including dynamite and nitro glycerine left behind.
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Associated Press
Fort Worth
Tex
Dec
Fuqua Grocery Company
M. Co. Anderson Drug Company
Pennsylvania Avenue
Mauretania Floated After Grounding Near Dingle
The Canara liner Mauretania, which went aground near Dingle during a fierce storm, was floated this morning after salvage operations by tugs. No injuries reported and the vessel remained seaworthy.
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Associated Press
Liverpool
Dingle
Masons Install Officers Tonight in Texas Grand Lodge
The Masonic grand lodge in Waco will install officers tonight and adjourn after a day of routine business. Two to three hundred Masons remain for ten days of instruction as the grand chapter and grand council have adjourned. Newly elected officers include Sam P. Cochran as grand master and J. J. Mansfield as deputy grand master.
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Waco
Tex
Masonic Grand Lodge
Grand Chapter
Grand Council
Blue Lodge
Grand Lodge
Sam P. Cochran
Dallas
J. J. Mansfield
Columbus
A. W. Houston
San
B. F. Frymier
C. HM. Phillips
McGregor
E. R. Bryan
Midland
W. L. Grogan
Abilene
J. M. Lynn
Cotulla
W. M. Fly
Gonzales
W. P. Hepler
F. P. Boles
Mingus
Zalmanzig Appointed to Southwestern Insane Asylum Board
Governor Colquitt named Gus Zalmanzig of San Antonio to fill the vacancy on the board of managers of the Southwestern Insane Asylum after Robert P. Coon resigned to join the state democratic executive committee. Zalmanzig, a local lumberman, accepted the appointment without having previously applied.
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R. P. Coon
San Antonian
Colquitt
Southwestern Insane Asylum
Robert P. Coon
Gus Zalmanzig
Zalmanzig
Coon
State Democratic Executive Committee
Moving Picture Show Men Ask Delay in Austin Case
The moving picture show proprietors in Austin Texas face indefinite postponement as the Court of Criminal Appeals weighs a rehearing in their Waco appeal. Trials were set for yesterday but continued pending the court decision. The group vows to challenge the city's Sunday operation ban.
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Moving Picture Show
Austin
Tex
Court of Criminal Appeals
Waco
Moving Picture Shows
Wireless Company Placed in Receiver's Hands in Texas
Clinton G. Brown named receiver by Judge A W Seeligson to wind up Texas Wireless Telephone and Telegraph Company assets. Directors and stockholders meet to close affairs. liabilities about 2000 and assets around 10000. Office hubs listed in San Antonio and other cities. Company restructured from Collins Wireless after federal indictments. about 30 thousand invested with stockholders facing 20 to 25 cents on the dollar.
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Texas Wireless Phone & Telegraph Company
A. W. Seeligson
Afernoon
Clinton G. Brown
G. R. Spe
Pany
San Antonio
Telephone and Telegraph Station
Worth
Wichita Falls
Lufkin
Fredericksburg
Houston
Texas Wireless Telephone & Graph Company
Collins Wireless Telephone Telegraph Company
Man offers easy term houses near Car Ryan street
An advert describes a man selling new multi room houses at 1731 East Merce Street with down payments of 25 50 and 100 200 and monthly terms. The listings claim usable sizes of 2 8 4 rooms and emphasize affordable rents and close proximity to the Car Ryan area.
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Ryan
East Merce Street
Supreme Knight to be entertained in Austin
James Flaherty supreme grand knight of the Knights of Columbus arrives in Austin from San Antonio. A committee meets him at the train and escorts him to his hotel for a city drive. A formal entertainment by Capital City lodge and participation by Catholic ladies follows at the event.
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Knights of Columbus
Austin
Tex
James Flaherty
Supreme Grand
Antonio
Supreme Grand Knight
Capital City
Danderine Promises Long Luxurious Hair Growth
Advertised hair product Danderine claims to nourish roots, stop dandruff and itching, and produce abundant long strong shiny hair with regular use. A 25 cent bottle from drug stores or toilet counters is urged as a surprise result.
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Knowlton
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