Robbers steal $20,000 gold from Sunset Express car
Two men hijacked the Sunset Western express from Bakersfield to Taft, taking $20,000 in gold shipped by the First National Bank of Bakersfield. Express messenger M. W. Hamby was beaten and partly conscious, unable to identify the robbers. Posses pursued near Maricopa and Taft as investigators assess the train’s brief stop and escape.
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Bakersfield
Cal
Sunset Estern
Bakersld
Taft
Firstational Bank of
M. W. Hamby
Hamby
Maricopa
First National Bank
Sunset Western
Santa Fe
Midway
Elite Hair Dressing Parlors Stock To Be Sold At Half Price
The stock of hair goods cosmetics and shell goods of the Elite Hair Dressing Parlors will be offered for sale this week at one half price. Included are stock and fixtures and the business can be bought from the receiver at a bargain. Located at 120 Alamo Street next to Plaza Theater.
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Alamo Street
Plaza Theater
Banquet for Mercedes Enterprise Proprietor F D Lamb
Mercedes Commercial Club to honor F D Lamb proprietor of the Mercedes Enterprise with a banquet Thursday night in Mercedes. Invitations extended from this city. Speakers include Warren G Harding who spoke for Taft at Chicago last June. Local attendees expected. Lap robes offered by Woodward Carriage Company.
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Mercedes Commercial Club
F. D. Lamb
Mercedes Enterprise
Mercedes
Commercial Club
Lamb
San Antonio
Rio Grande Valley
Warren G. Harding
Taft
Chicago
Record-Breaking Silk Cargo Leaves Yokohama for Tacoma
The Bellohfin liner sails from Yokohama to Tacoma with what is described as the largest ever raw silk shipment crossing the Pacific valued at 2,075,000 dollars. An attempt may be made to beat the eighteen day Yokohama to New York record set four years earlier by the Teucer and the Northern Pacific railroad.
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Tacoma
Wash
Blue Funnel
Bellohfin
Yokohama
Pacific
New York
Teucer
Northern Pacific Railroad
Dr AtLee Dentist Orthodontic Specialty Office
Dr AtLee practicing orthodontic dentistry in Gibbs building. Previously used phone 6757 now lists 160 as contact.
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Dr. AtLee
Gibbs Building
Railroad extension eyed from Dalhart to Ochiltree
May extend railroad plans emerge as F Charles Hamilton, former Texas Central GM now owner of Enid Ochiltree Western, moves to push a 113 mile link from Dalhart toward Ochiltree with finances nearly arranged. Also a promotional note for Hood's Sarsaparilla claiming cures for scrofula, catarrh, rheumatism, kidney complaints, dyspepsia and debility.
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Waco
Tex
F. Charles Hamilton
Texas Central Railroad
Enid, Ochiltree & Western Railroad
Dalhart
Ochiltree
Hood
Hood’s
Riebe Undertaking Co and Keeling Dentist Listings
Local business notices list Riebe Undertaking Co an auto ambulance service at 221 East Commerce with phone 341 and a second entry for Keeling a dentist at 417 Moore Building with an old phone number.
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Riebe Undertaking Co
Keeling
Moore
Fair Property 10 GE Sought By CY NTIGATE
The Inter national Fair grounds near San Antonio will be sold January 7 1913 to satisfy creditors. A syndicate of local business men plans to buy and then offer the property to the city for a public park and recreation area keeping the grounds intact. If rejected the land could be subdivided for profit. Mortgages total about 47 000 with a receiver managing the estate.
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International Fair Association
San Antonio
Dallas
Syrup of Figs Promises Quick Fix for Women
An advertisement extols Syrup of Figs as a universal health cure for women, claiming it cleanses the stomach liver and bowels, relieves headaches biliousness and constipation, and improves mood and complexion. It urges asking for California Fig Syrup Company and warns against counterfeit fig syrups.
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Senna
California Fig Syrup Company
Governor Plans Message Emphasizing Charity Board and Civil Measures
Austin Texas December 10 The governor nears completion of state institution tours and will draft a message to the Thirty-third legislature stressing Democratic platform pledges. He favors a state charities board to oversee eleemosynary homes, an employes compensation act limiting damage suit commissions, and a blue sky law modeled on Kansas. He will work with lawmakers on broad reforms.
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Austin
Tex
San Antonio
State Charities Board
Con
Sions
Noted minister Benoni Ives dies at 91 in Auburn
The Rev. Dr. Benoni Ives, close associate of Lincoln and Greely, died in Auburn at age 91. A Methodist revivalist, he organized and dedicated 2050 churches in eight years and served on the committee that drafted New York state's first Republican platform.
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Auburn
N. Y
Benoni Ives
Abraham Lincoln
Horace Greely
T. de Witt Talmage
Ives
New York State
Dentist Dr Weatherby and plumber A Collman listed
A brief classifieds item lists Dr Weatherby a dentist at 215 Ala Mo Plaza and A Collman a plumber at 416 Main Ave with upstairs office details.
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Dr. Weatherby
Alamo Plaza
A. Collman
Main Av
Peace or War Soon in Railroad Labor Talks
Houston December 10 The labor commissioner Neill prepares a final effort as tensions rise between Harriman lines and conductors and trainmen. If no agreement is reached in twenty four hours a permanent break may occur. Both sides show some yield but conferences today must find common ground on contested points.
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Houston
Tex
Neill
Harriman
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Onustieh In
Bears
TRE Centaur Company
New York City
California
Fixpress Messenger
Ecape
Margaret Anclin
Green Stockings
Klaw & Erlanger’s
MAT. Soc
New Amsterdam Theater
Ne Nis Band
Jane Courthope & Co
Ray
Royce Chartres
Lede
Krudson
Union Painlss
WNION
West Commerce Street
Woodward Carriage Company
Fair Property
CY Ntigate
Sam Berliner
San Antonio Traction Company
Federate
Confederate Woman’s Home
Kaufman’s
Mamma
Papa
AUF Man
Dr. Ives
Eimer & Amend’s
Beatie
Victor Talking Machine Company
Camden, N. J
Joske’s
Wagner
Louis Book and Cigar Store
East
Houston Street
E. Houston St
Thos. Goggan 6 Bros
Navarro Street
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