Clara Driscoll Sevier Defends Alamo Plans Against Criticism
Clara Driscoll Sevier responds to claims of financial interest in Alamo property, denying any ties to San Antonio holdings and condemning a publication for insinuations. She asserts personal funding of the Alamo effort, cites state support, and urges approval of the Daughters of the Republic’s preservation plans.
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Alamo
San Antonio
Daughters of the Republic
Colquitt
Hugo-Schmeltzer
Lanham
T. M. Campbell
Clara Driscoll Sevier
Lyceum Lecturer Bendel Tours Texas from San Antonio
E Bendel of Cleveland spends days in San Antonio at the Gunter hotel before a Texas lyceum tour. Managed by the Coit Lyceum bureau he notes rising southern interest in lyceum and Chautauqua entertainments and plans stops in Alice before returning to San Antonio.
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E. Bendel
Cleveland
San Antonio
Gunter Hotel
Texas
Geeum
Bendel
Coit Lyceum Bureau
Colt, Redpath
Lyceum
Mr. Bendel
Alice
Santonio
Contests Expected At Council Meeting
City council faces a busy agenda with several contested items. Mayor Jones to announce police force changes including Stevens dismissal and Pipes appointment. Stevens supporters plan delay for investigation. November payroll of 52000 and a measure to require a seven minute streetcar schedule are on the table. A special improvement district and $240000 bond issue for Commerce street widening await petition action. Alderman Boynton to push purchasing agent position. Uhr urges quick adoption of tighter rush hour streetcar timing.
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Jones
Charles F. Stevens
Robert Pipes
Stevens
Commerce Street
Boynton
Uhr
Key as deadly weapon sparks assault to murder charge
William Miller told Justice Ben Fisk that a locomotive key struck him on the head by George Sebring, a Sunset boilermaker sub-foreman. The judge doubted the weapon's lethality but a murder charge was entered, with the iron key kept as evidence.
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William Miller
Ben Fisk
George Sebring
Miller
Fisk
Sebring
Coalition Formed In Mexico Aims For De La Barra Presidency
Secret service in San Antonio notes a new coalition among Francisco Leon de la Barra Emilio Vasquez Gomez and Jesus Flores Magon to install Magon as provisional president and de la Barra as permanent president with Vasquez Gomez as vice. Orozco visits El Paso as movements intensify and preparations unfold for a possible Madero ouster and new cabinet roles including Pascual Orozco Jr as minister of war.
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Francisco Leon de la Barra
Emilio Vasquez Gomez
Jesus Flores Magon
Magon
Mexico
Sr. de la Barra
Sr. Vasquez Gomez
San Antonio
Madero
Porfirio Diaz
Orozco
el Paso
Pascual Orozco Jr
Fort Sam Houston
Mrs. Orozeco
Coalition
City Street
Cientificos
de la Barra
Jesus Flores
Americans Under Arrest In Parral Murder Case
Friends in El Paso report J I Long and Oscar Langendorff, son and brother in law of J I Long, held in Parral on charges of murdering the Parral police chief and two officers during a bandit attack on the Palmilla mine. A Mexican police force pursued bandits. miscommunication left the mine camp vulnerable before the shooting killed the police chief and two others.
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EL Paso
Tex
J. I. Long
Parral
Mexico
J. Long
Oscar Langendorff
Palmilla
Alvarado Mining Company
Langendorff
Long
Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets Promise Quick Digestive Relief
An advertisement touts Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets as a fast remedy for tightness in the stomach caused by undigested food. It claims immediate relief within moments, praise for improved appetite and sleep, and states the product is harmless with no systemic effects. Sold in drug stores for 50 cents per box.
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Stuart
Orozco Spotted In El Paso Amid Rumors Of Escape
Pascual Orozco was seen in El Paso on December 7 with a full beard, socializing in a cafe and not fearing arrest. Gomez Robelo claims Orozco remains in Mexico and has no plan to cross to the American side where officials await him. A $1000 gold reward is reported for his location.
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EL Paso
Tex
Pascual Orozco
Gomez Robelo
Orozco
Mexico
Robelo
Federals reinforced as rebel bands threaten railway in Chihuahua
Gen Jose Blanco arrived in Juarez with six hundred federals from Casas Grandes and departed on two trains to join federals from Chihuahua to attack rebels Caraveo and Rojas who are destroying the government railway. The Casas Grandes withdrawal leaves Western Chihuahua at the mercy of Salazar's rebels and triggers an exodus of Americans who had returned to the district.
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EL Paso
Tex
Jose Blanco
Casas Grandes County
Juarez
Blanco
Orozco
Chihuahua
Caraveo
Rojas
Casas Grandes
Salazar
Plan to Put Party Back in Running
Governor Blease of South Carolina attended a luncheon with the president and declined to recede from his stand on lynching. He said he stood by conference records and apologized to no one for remarks made at the Richmond conference.
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Blease
South Carolina
Richmond
Gambling Raids Net Detentions in county
Deputy Sheriffs Newton and Diaz conducted raids last night arresting four Mexicans and seven negroes. In the Buena Vista street saloon rear in the 100 block, Mexicans were taken to jail on gaming charges. A second raid in a two story Zavala street rear stable uncovered negroes at or watching a crap game.
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Newton
Diaz
Buena Vista Street
Zavala Street
Plan 10 Experiment on Poor Farm Tract
County Commissioners set aside eight acres of the new poor farm tract of 100 acres for a demonstration farm under government experts. They will test Kaffir corn cane and cotton to find methods increasing yield. If successful, results aim to improve returns on the remaining land and guide county farming practices.
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United States Department of Agriculture
Bexar County
Cruiser Des Moines heads to Port Arthur for ten days
The U S cruiser Des Moines has sailed from Port Aransas for Port Arthur for a ten day stay and will return to Mobile Alabama after this period according to current orders.
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Port Arthur
Corpus Christi
Tex
United States
Des Moines
Port Aransas
Mobile
Ala
Delicate Errand Turns Matrimonial Intent Revealed
A new line in a converse reveals a young man seeks a marriage with the speaker's daughter while the speaker plans to marry the young man’s mother, doubting the suitability of the match. The exchange hints at comic or ironic social dynamics.
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Daugh
Gridiron Club Puts On Blithe Taft Era Satire
A campus dinner features a spoof of the Clapp committee with figures lik e Mary of a Vine-Clad cottage and Alice in disguise. Guests praised the evening as the most entertaining in years, while a procession of political and literary caricatures kept laughter lively.
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M. Dixon
Clapp Committee
Saul
Bourne
Taft Cabinet
Col
Jim Ham Lewis
Joan of Arc
al- Bert J. Beveridge
Mary
Bill Flynn
Penrose Legion
Cc. P. T
Cholera Crisis Deepens in Constantinople
London dispatch reports the Turkish government faces a critical cholera emergency in Constantinople. An official warning urges residents to cooperate with authorities to curb the disease, which may reach catastrophe proportions as the war peace talks appear near.
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London
Constantinople
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