San Jacinto veteran relinquishes duties at senate chamber
Capt. W. P. Zuber 91, last survivor of the San Jacinto battle, likely cannot show visitors the senate chamber canvases. He is at his daughter's Hyde Park home and has relinquished duties for weeks. The legislature has renewed a $40 monthly pension. Capt. Alonzo Steele, the other survivor, died months ago.
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Austin
Tex
W. P. Zuber
San Jacinto
Senate
Hyde Park
Zuber
Santa Ana
Texas
Alonzo Steele
Hyde Park Fire Investigated As Suspected Incendiary
The Austin police probe the burning of Captain William A. Pitts's Hyde Park house. Pitts suspects arson after a threatening letter and unknown ignition raise concerns of incendiary origin amid tensions over Black tenants.
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Austin
Tex
Hyde Park
William A. Pitts
Captain Pitts
Toelieve
Duffy's Pure Malt Whiskey Endorsed as Health Tonic
A vintage notice touts Duffy's Pure Malt Whiskey as a safe tonic aiding digestion and preventing lung and stomach troubles. It claims fifty years of popularity, claims to restore energy, and notes sales through druggists and dealers, with Dusty Malt Whiskey Co. of Rochester, New York, offering recipe advice for table and sick room.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dusty Malt Whiskey Co
Rochester
N. Y
Cadet Militia Company Proposed From Garden Academy Students
Report by Col Edwin R York shows favor for forming a militia company from Garden academy cadets. Cadets inspected in ranks last week. Captain Lansing, a Garden Academy professor and former government service member, to command. Local talent would fill remaining ranks.
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Edwin R. York
National Guard
Garden Academy
Austin
York
A. W. S&s. Garden
Lansing
M Caleb Is President Eighth San Antonio Scientific Society Officers Elected
The San Antonio Scientific Society held its eighth annual meeting electing Dr. W F McCaleb as president and multiple vice presidents secretary treasurer and directors. Retiring President Bernard Mackenson reviewed the year and reports were approved. Refreshments followed. Dr W S Hamilton specialist skin diseases 527 Moore Bldg.
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San Antonio Scientific Society
W. F. McCaleb
Frederick Hadra
John Cotter
John F. Howard
A. H. Muir
J. B. Girard
Jesse M. Lee
M. J. Bliem
Bernard Mackenson
Charles H. Clark
W. 8. Chaplin
James Duryee Stevenson
Mackenson
Corpus Christi High School football honors 1911 season
Corpus Christi Texas December 13 1911 the high school football team celebrated a successful season with a banquet at the Bidwell hotel all fifteen players and coach Loffland attended five games produced three wins two ties and the squad included Everhardt Segrest Harris Boone Manzer ONeal Whitely Menger Leary Brownsing Woessner E McCampbell Buishick and W Moe Campbell.
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Stronar
Corpus Christi
Tex
Corpus Christi High School
Bidwell Hotel
Loffland
High School
Everhardt
Segrest
Harris
Boone
Manzer
O'Neal
Whitely
Menger
Leary
Brownsing
Woessner
E. McCampbell
Buishick
W. Moe Campbell
Lorimer Inquiry Nearing Early Conclusion
Prospect for an early end to the Lorimer election probe emerged as Judge P. Hanecy said he expects Lorimer to testify as the final witness before next week. Investigators indicated only one or two more witnesses remain to be called.
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Associated Press
Washington
Lorimer
P. Hanecy
West India Disturbance Downgraded to Slight Intensity
Washington reports the West India disturbance gathered near Cuba shows only slight intensity and its center lies south of western Cuba after days of watchful activity by the weather bureau.
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Associated Press
Washington, D. C
West India
Weather Bureau
Cuba
Uproar Over Arbitration Meeting at Carnegie Hall
A mass meeting in New York in support of arbitration treaties with England and France erupted into chaos when Alphonse G. Koelble proposed an opposing amendment. Police were summoned but no arrests were made as organizers claimed to allow all voices to be heard.
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Associated Press
New York
Carnegie Hall
England
France
Alphonse G. Koelble
New York State
Choate
Koelble
Germany
Rabbi Wise
Francis B. Loomis
Driveway Around Texas State House To Be Paved
Within ninety days the driveway around the Texas State Capitol will be paved with bitulithic material. Texas Bitulithic engineers have begun survey work and the project, costing about 15000 dollars, aims to enhance the building’s granite exterior.
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Austin
Tex
State House
Capitol Hill
Texas Bitulithic Company
Missionary Institute closes with call to bolster church faith
Dr. C. F. Reed of Nashville warns that Methodist church membership lags population growth, especially in cities. He cites loss of young men ages 16 to 30, shrinking congregations, and rising utilitarian schools as causes. Workers urged to boost fathers' faith.
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C. F. Reed
Nashville
Tenn
Methodist Missionary Institute
Reed
Taylor Fire Department Plans Racing Team and Cart
At the quarterly Taylor fire department meeting last night a racing team will be organized and a racing cart purchased for the department. A committee was appointed to ask the city council to buy gas lights for the fire wagons.
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Taylor, Tex
Taylor Fire Department
London suffragettes jailed after November protest
Twenty two suffragettes indicted in London for malicious damage after a November 21 protest at the House of Commons. Nearly 200 others had been sentenced on minor charges by police. All pleaded not guilty and received two month terms, with two prisoners discharged. Brakeman George Collinsworth killed in Faytteville accident reported in Smithville.
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London
House of Commons
Burglary Reported in Gonzales City
Burglars entered the residence of Hon. R. F. Nixon in Gonzales Texas on the night of Sunday December 10 and stole about $27 in cash. It is the first burglary reported in the city in some time.
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Gonzales
Tex
R. F. Nixon
Terrible Suffering Eczema in a Baby
A mother recalls her four month old son's face breaking out with eczema which spread to his hands and body by sixteen months. She describes a cloth mask, tied hands, and a recovery after using Hood's Sarsaparilla. The ad promotes Hood's Sarsaparilla and Sarsatabs as cures and system builders.
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Hood
Burke Makes His Man Quit In Brooklyn Bout
Sailor Burke of Brooklyn dominated Billy Avick the Nebraska Thunderbolt in a ten round fight in Brooklyn last night. Avick quit at the end of the ninth round after Burke clearly led throughout the bout.
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Burke
Associated Press
New York
Sailor Burke
Brooklyn
Billy Avick
Nebraska Thunderbolt
Lockhart High Defeats San Marcos Baptist Academy Basketball
Lockhart Texas December 13 High School basketball team defeated San Marcos Baptist Academy 15 to 13 on a local court yesterday. A return game is planned at San Marcos at a near date with both teams.
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Lockhart
Baptists
Tex
San Marcos Baptist Academy
San Marcos
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Chicago Young Men's Christian Association
Supreme Court
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