Former NYSE presidents testify stock gambling view
Washington Dec 13 former presidents Frank K Sturgis and Rudolph Keppler told the Hughes committee that parts of stock market trading resemble gambling. Sturgis condemned short sales as moral obloquy while Keppler allowed legitimate manipulation with safeguards. They discussed annual exchange volume of about 196 million shares and broker roles, with Sturgis noting the exchange’s duty is to maintain a fair marketplace rather than moral reform.
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Washington, D. C
New York Stock Exchange
Money Trust
Frank K. Sturgis
Rudolph Keppler
The
Exchange
Sturgis
Untermeyer
Stock Exchange
Mr. Sturgis
Keppler
Mr. Untermyer
Untermyer
R. Untermyer
Isk
Itnees
E Stock Exchange
Shoplifters Roam San Antonio Merchants Daily Loot
City detectives report shoplifters steal between 200 and 300 dollars in goods daily from San Antonio merchants. In five days over 1000 dollars of dry goods garments shoes and hats have been recovered. Most thefts occur in West Side adobe buildings and are credited to Mexican women, with merchants often letting suspects go free upon return of goods. Detective Hanes notes the group is highly shrewd and fears daily spoils reach several hundred dollars. Merchants complain of prior detections without reporting thefts to police.
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San Antonio
Hanes
Waiters Seek $2 a Week Pay Rise in Galveston
Galveston hotel and restaurant proprietors face a wage increase request of $2 weekly for waiters. Respond by Sunday 10 a.m. or walkout threatens. Endorsed by Edward Flore of the Hotel and Restaurant Employer International Alliance and the Bartenders' Union official visiting the city. Most local establishments involved. meeting planned tonight to discuss the matter.
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Galveston
Tex
Edward Flore
International Alliance
Bartenders’ Union
Young Boy on Trial for Murder in Texas
Will Smith, 14, stands trial in Gainesville Texas for the murder of his father at Leo Texas. Jury selection completed yesterday. The boy shot after a reprimand for playing during work in a cotton field. Self defense will be his plea.
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Gainesville
Tex
Will Smith
Leo
Smith
Local Forecast for San Antonio and Vicinity
Tonight fair with probable frost. Saturday expect fair conditions across San Antonio and surrounding areas.
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San Antonio
Vicinity
Weather notes from multiple cities in early morning readings
Observations report temperatures and conditions across cities including St Louis Chicago Milwaukee St Paul Kansas City New York Boston and Washington. Winds range from southeast to northwest with fair or cloudy skies and varying low temperatures.
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ST. Louis
Chicago
Milwaukee
ST. Paul
Kansas City
New York
Boston
Washington
Road expert to oversee sand clay road demo in Bexar County
George D. Marshall, a government roads engineer, arrives in San Antonio with assistant W. E. Rosengarten to supervise a mile demonstration sand-clay road in Bexar County from Laredo to Temple. If weather allows, work may start next week with county labor under Marshall’s direction.
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George D. Marshall
Bexar
Marshall
United States
Prison Population Up in November Report
The November penitentiary report shows the convicts on hand rising to 3800 from 374? the month. Movements include 156 new, 7 recaptured, 4 discharged, 64 pardoned, 19 pardons, 17 escaped, 3 died, 2 delivered to sheriffs. State forces total 2951 across Huntsville Rusk farms and asylums. Lease forces 414 and Share forces 497 allocated to Lake Side Sugar Co Johns Burleson farms and others.
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Austin
Tex
Penitentiary Commission
Huntsville
Rusk
Harlem Farm
Clemons Farm
Imperial Farm
Ramsey Farm
Wynne Farm
Camp Goree
Insane Asylums
T. W. House
Johns-Burleson Farm
Basset Blakeley
The
Lake Side Sugar Company
H. L. Trammell
N. A. Shaw
Lynch Visits Houston for IC union Banquet
President Lynch of the International Typographical Union will remain in Houston over Sunday. A featured event of his visit will be a banquet Sunday night.
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Lynch
Houston
Tex
The
International Typographical Union
Peace Conference Opens in London St James Palace
Ottoman delegates refuse to greet Greek representatives until an armistice is signed. In London the peace plenipotentiaries from Bulgaria Serbia Montenegro Greece and Turkey prepare for talks that may redraw the near eastern map. Delegations stay in separate hotels and social events are planned, including a Stratford House dinner December 19 and a Mansion House lunch December 20.
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Constantinople
London
Greece
Ottoman Empire
Balkan
Near East
St. James Palace
Henry VII
Ing
Duchess of Sutherland
Stratford House
Mansion House
Greeks Drive Offensive in Epirus After Turkish Posts
Greek troops in Epirus began a general offensive with repeated attacks capturing Turkish front posts near Visati fortifications. General Sapountzakis reported vigorous action as two Greek battalions, aided by four field guns, landed west of Janina to lure Turkish forces. The Greeks suffered five killed and nineteen wounded with reinforcements re-embarking after skirmishes.
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Athens
Greece
Epirus
Balkan Peninsula
Visati
Sapountzakis
Pentepigedia
Janina
KNOWN Circulation Claims Boost Sunday Lieut Ads
A historic note extols the Sunday Lieut newspaper as the top San Antonio title with 21 000 strong weekly marching readers and 11 000 direct carrier homes. It claims higher net paid circulation than rivals, and that daily Lieut outpaces competitors in advertising patronage due to its broad reach.
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San Antonio
Texas
South
Rulers Mobilize Massive Armies in Probe of Turkish War
Three monarchs prepare for a potential European war over Turkey. Emperor William of Germany has summoned 150,000 reservists, and Czar Nicholas of Russia expects about 1,200,000 troops at his frontier.
American ambassador Whitelaw Reid seriously ill in London
Whitelaw Reid United States ambassador to Great Britain is gravely ill with a severe asthma attack. Specialists are attending him at Dorchester house as winter weather worsens his condition. He had been recovering from a prior cold after a speech at the University of Wales in October.
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London
Whitelaw Reid
United States
Great Britain
America
University of Wales
Abecrystwith
Dorchester House
Reid
Theater Owner Acquitted in Sunday Operation Case
Corpus Christi Texas December 13 Fred Bouvier owner of a moving picture theater was acquitted in justice court this morning on a charge of operating the theater last Sunday in violation of the state Sunday law. The jury was out only a few minutes. Seventeen similar cases remain on the docket awaiting trial.
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Corpus Christi
Tex
Fred Bouvier
Justice Court
Guessaz Indicted in Assault to Murder Case
Grand jury returned a true bill charging Colonel Oscar Guessaz with assault to murder City Detective A. F. Shiraz. The indictment was presented yesterday, the capital was lodged with Sheriff John W. Tobin this morning, and Guessaz must appear and post a $500 bond.
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Oscar Guessaz
A. F. Shiraz
John W. Tobin
Guessaz
Robs Helpess Cripple at Dwyer Near Fort Smith
At Dwyer near Fort Smith Arkansas a thief robbed Andrew Parker an old man who is unable to move except in an invalid wheelchair of his life savings 730 dollars just drawn from the Savings Bank to escape attachment in his wife's suit for divorce and alimony.
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Fort Smith, Ark
Dwyer
Here
Andrew Parker
Parker
Holloway En Route to Prison
MEMPHIS Tennessee December 13 In charge of Bud Russell a transfer agent of the Texas penitentiary at Huntsville Frank Holloway leader of the band of desperadoes captured in this city Tuesday left here today for the Texas prison Holloway escaped from the prison after serving six months of a seven years sentence for robbing a bank at Harrold Texas
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Holloway
Memphis
Tenn
Bud Russell
Texas
Huntsville
Tex
Frank Holloway
Harrold
Cavalry Home for Christmas
Troop F of the Second Cavalry left by special train for Marfa to relieve Troop M of the Third Cavalry. On December 17 troops J K and L of the Third Cavalry will be picked up at Finlay, Sierra Blanca and Fort Hancock to complete the transfer to Fort Sam Houston for the holidays.
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Cavalry
EL Paso
Tex
Second Cavalry
Marfa
Third Cavalry
Fort Sam Houston
Finlay
Sierra Blanca
Fort Hancock
Judge Maxey Takes Jurisdiction In Medina Dam Land Cases
Federal Judge T S Maxey announced he would assume jurisdiction over eight land condemnation suits by Medina Irrigation Co to flood lands for the dam. He will appoint commissioners to appraise property in the affected counties with appeals to the San Antonio federal court. Attorneys Creson West Van derHoeven represented the Medina company and the landowners.
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Medina Dam
T. S. Maxey
Austin
Medina Irrigation Company
Maxey
San Antonio
Charles C. Cresson
Duval West
Medina Company
T. T. van derHoeven
One Man Not Superstitious Appeals in Ads
Real estate man A. J. Wernette in the Orpheum Theater building defies Friday the 13th by placing 13 want ads each with 13 words, running 13 times starting today. Ads for a ten time run begin tomorrow, also Sundays, at one half cent per word. no 13 for 10 until June 13, 1913.
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A. J. Wernette
Orpheum Theater
Wernette
Katy 13 Not Negotiating OAS Schaff Says
C E Schaff president of the M K T Railway says Katy is not negotiating to buy English syndicate rights. He arrives in San Antonio from Houston and notes Katy cannot extend south of San Antonio due to a heavy workload. He says the M E T would traffic with any southern line and mentions joint use of terminals with Sunset Central.
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Katy
San Antonio
C. E. Schaff
Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway Company
Houston
The
Light
Spea
Antonio
Schaff
Ben
Sunset-Central Lines
Mr. Schaff
Viclin
San Antonians
Southern Pacific
S. A. Hopkins
H. Hildebrand
Sangnio
Rockport Exican
She - Schaft
St Louis
Ecem R
Kans & Texas
Sleep on Elevated Rail Sparking Rescue and Arrest
Oscar Sorensen, after buying liquor yesterday, slept on an elevated railroad pillar above crossings. He awoke to a train and wandered onto the tracks near the third rail before descent by firemen. He was arrested after being retrieved by ladders as trains waited nearby.
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Chicago
Oscar Sorensen
Sorensen
Will Test Liquor Law In Rockport Texas
Rockport Texas December 13 M Hanks saloonkeeper refused a new liquor license wired Comptroller Lang that he would test the Baskin M law's constitutionality.
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Rockport
Tex
M. Hanks
Lang
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William
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Sia
Franz Joseph
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