San Antonio Women Back Suffrage at Luncheon Speech
About 250 San Antonio women attended the Equal Franchise luncheon at the St. Anthony hotel. Olga Lantegoinea, 14, spoke on why women must have the ballot, arguing it protects health, wages, and moral conditions, while a Tennessee governor’s daughter cited youth support.
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San Antonio
Enthusen
Equal Franchise
St. Anthony
Equal Franchise Society of
M. Eleanor Brackenridge
W. B. Russ
Board of Health
T. A. Coleman
Rufus Lewis
Nashville
Tennessee
Mamma
Miss Panishurst
Daddy
California
Olga Lantegoiae
Number Seven
Oime
Weather Summary Across Regions and Tourist Forecasts
Washington forecast notes fair conditions for East and West Texas on Sunday and Monday. City observations show St Louis 48 clear southeast wind, Chicago 44 SW wind, Milwaukee 42 south wind, St Paul 42 cloudy south wind, Kansas City 46 SW wind, New York 42 clear, Boston 86 clear, Washington 40 clear with light south wind and Sunday fair.
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ST. Louis
Chicago
Milwaukee
ST. Paul
Kansas City
New York
Boston
Washington
Launches search for aviator Horace Kearney in missing hydroplane
From Los Angeles authorities launch parties search the south coast after the hydroplane Snookums carrying Horace Kearney of Chicago and passenger Chester Lawrence goes missing after passing Point Firmin at 1 20 pm. Fears grow as weather hampers locating the craft and its crew with planes cars and boats scouring Ventura to Malibu areas. Kearney had planned a Santa Monica bay to Point Dume crossing and left Newport at 12 40 pm bound for San Francisco. He had prepared a will leaving most property to his mother in Kansas City Missouri.
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Los Angeles
Snookums
Horace Kearney
Chicago
Chester Lawrence
Redondo
Point Firmin
Kearney
Santa Monica Bay
Point Dume
Ventura
Newport
San Francisco
Lawrence
Santa Monica
Oxnard
Point Vicente
Malibu
Telephone and Telegraph
J. A. Kearney
Kansas City
Blanco Wins Battle for Casas Grandes in Mexico
Gen. Jose Blanco with 700 federals seized Casas Grandes before rebel forces could arrive. Federals Caravee, Rojas, Salazar and Porras march toward Chihuahua. Orozco Jr. remains south and inactive. Blanco plans to advance from Juarez into the rebel path, fortified and provisioned as rebels traverse desert with scarce supplies.
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EL Paso
Tex
Jose Blanco
Casas Grandes
Caravee
Rojas
Salazar
Porras
Mexican Central Railroad
Chihuahua
Blanco
Villa Ahumada
Juarez
Pascual Orozco Jr
Rebes
Orozco
Robbery on street car targets railway official
Ely Ensign, traveling passenger agent for the Atlanta and West Point Railway, with Houston headquarters, was robbed on a South Alamo street car yesterday afternoon. A wallet holding 75 dollars was taken. Police were notified and detectives are handling the case. Ensign was aboard a crowded street car from the San Antonio and Aransas Pass Railway passenger depot when the theft occurred. the loss was not discovered until he reached the city.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ely Ensign
Atlanta & West Point Railway Company
Houston
Tex
South Alamo Street
Ensign
San Antonio
Patrick resumes work as broker in St Louis
Albert T. Patrick, pardoned from Sing Sing, has set up a desk in the Milliken Helm Commission offices in St Louis. His brother in law John T. Milliken is president of the firm, and Patrick hints he may join the commission. he says he is merely helping out and declines further comment. Patrick’s recent farm stay near Eureka, Missouri, improved his health and appearance.
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St. Louis
Albert T. Patrick
Sing Sing
William Marsh Rice
Texan
Milliken- Helm Commission Company
Chamber of Commerce
John T. Milliken
Patrick
Eureka
Canton Sent to Jay as Sheriff Threats Court House Attack Grow
General Canton of the Oklahoma militia rushed to Jay to assess threats of Sheriff Thomason who vows to seize county records and move them to New Jay. Thomason has raised a force to fifty men, all armed and quartered at New Jay, after Canton had been dispatched from Grove to investigate.
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Fort Smith
Ark
Frank Canton
Oklahoma
Grove
Jay
Thomason
Old Jay
New Jay
Canton
Cruce
May sue for millions over Quaker Oats control
Former District Attorney Sims and Albert E. Welsh meet with Justice Department officials alleging minority stockholders of the Great Western Cereal company suffered a $1,000,000 loss when Quaker Oats gained control by buying majority stock from Joy Morton. They claim potential damages up to $3,000,000 through criminal action.
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Washington, D. C
Quaker Oats Company
Sims
Albert E. Welsh
Chicago
Department of Justice
Welsh
Great Western Cereal Company
Joy Morton
Great Western Company
Novena at St Marys Begins Amid Christmas Prep
A novena starts Tuesday at St Marys Catholic church and runs through Christmas Day. Evening sermons by Rev James H Quinn, benediction, communion and confessions planned. Communion times are 6 30 and 8 15 each morning.
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St. Mary’s Catholic Church
James H.quinn
First draft of San Antonio charter weighs two thirds street cost
A committee led by Mayor Jones reviews a lengthy charter draft proposing no recall and shifting street improvement costs to abutting property owners. It would appoint the city auditor via district judges and county judge, with a five member commission and mayoral control limited to tie votes.
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Jones
San Antonio
T. N. Smith
Chester Terrell
R. J. Boyle
Heaving
Fire and Police
Board of Commissioners
Bexar County
Texas
Traffic Squad Prepared for Holiday Rush in San Antonio
First Assistant Police Chief Christian plans to expand the traffic squad with foot and mounted officers to handle expected crowds during the holiday season. Increased patrols will cover key downtown routes including Houston and Commerce streets and Alamo plaza to prevent congestion amid weather delays and heavy shopping.
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Christian
San Antonio
San Antonians
Lancaster
Houston and
Commerce Streets
Alamo Plaza
Alamo
Commerce
Commerce and Navarro
St. Mary's
Soledad
Houston
Grand Opera House
Interest in Town Replaces Cash Bonus
The San Antonio Uvalde and Gulf line loans a modified bonus deal with Corpus Christi. Cash drops from 100000 to 60000 while the road gains a half share in a townsite project. Aransas Pass has 40000 of the funds and Mathis 25000 is secured. track-laying toward Campbellton is delayed by rain but expected to start operations by mid January.
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J. E. Franklin
San Antonio, Uvalde & Gulf
Corpus Christi
Aransas Pass
Mathis
San Patricio
Pleasanton
Campbellton
Bond issue discussion to boost city hospital plan
The Chamber of Commerce citizens committee will meet Monday night in the chamber auditorium to debate a municipal bond issue. City physician Dr. L L Shropshire may attend to share views on funding a new hospital and how large the bond should be. The panel has also examined public schools with school board members last week as part of its inquiry.
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Chamber of Commerce Citizens’ Committee
Chamber of Commerce
L. L. Shropshire
San Antonio
Gill Seeks Explanations From Delinquent Banks
Commissioner Gill telegrams 25 Texas banks that failed to file November financial statements. With 10 days passed since December 3 notice, he warns of appointing a special examiner at the banks expense unless reports arrive promptly. Total banks to report: 760.
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Austin
Tex
Commissioner of Insurance and Banking
Gill
Misuse of Mails Charged In Buick Oil Swindle
The federal grand jury in St Louis indicted Benjamin F Moffatt of Chicago on six counts alleging use of the mails to defraud in promoting Buick Oil company sales. The indictment for a $500000 nationwide swindle was reported today by the jury.
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ST. Louis
Jealous American Woman In Paris Shoots Walter Mumm
Paris reports a dramatic shooting in Rue de Belles Feuilles as Marie Van Rensimer Barnes wounds Walter Mumm. He remains in serious condition in hospital after a jealous struggle for control, with Barnes fleeing to London aboard a Calais ship.
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Paris
Walter Mumm
Marie van Rensimer Barnes
Rue de Belles Feuilles
Mumm
Barnes
America
New York
Mr. Mumm
London
American Woman Barnes in London After Paris Shooting
Mrs Marie Barnes the American suspect in the Paris shooting of Walter Mumm spent an hour at the Carlton hotel London before heading to Bos ton station. She refused visitors and stayed in seclusion while answering questions with evasive replies. A de Mumm brother of the victim appeared at the hotel and met Barnes, then left the city shortly after.
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London
Marie Barnes
Walter Mumm
Paris
Carlton Hotel
Boston
Rate Advance Suspended on Grain Exports by ICC
The Interstate Commerce Commission suspended a proposed rate advance on grain exports shipped from Kansas City Omaha and other Central Freight Association points through Illinois Central Kansas City Southern and Missouri Pacific lines to New Orleans Galveston and other Gulf ports until March 31.
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Washington, D. C
Illinois Central
Kansas City Southern
Missouri Pacific
Kansas City
Omaha
Central Freight Association
New Orleans
Galveston
Gulf
Interstate Commerce Commission
Secretary of State Knox to Decline Arbitration Request
One of his final duties is to file a polite reply to Sir Edward Grey declining Britain's request to place the issue of free tolls for American coastwise ships in the Panama Canal before The Hague arbitration.
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Mr. Knox
United States
Edward Grey
Foreign Office
Panama Canal
Court of Arbitration
Train Collision Kills Two Children In New Jersey Bus Crash
The Atlantic City Express struck a Perth Amboy Transportation bus at an unguarded Sewaren crossing. Two bus passengers, Daniel Thorton five and his mother Mrs Thorton, died. Dying: Margaret Thorn ten. Six injured, bus driver Elmer Glover twenty, blamed for steering from behind a glass partition amid cold conditions.
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Perth Amboy
N. J
Atlantic City Express
New Jersey Central
Sewaren
Daniel Thorton
Chrome
Thorton
Margaret Thorn
Woman 80 and Child Four Charged With Theft
An 80 year old woman and a four year old girl were arrested at 6:25 PM after being seen shoplifting at an East Houston street store. Police found about six articles in their possession including four hair combs and a bolt of ribbon. They were detained at police headquarters with the woman refusing to give an address.
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Bennett
Houston Street
Reid's Illness Deepens in London Ambassadorship
London December 14 Ambassdor Reid rests after a perilous night as physicians report the case is grave though a trifle better. Specialists attend hourly with Mrs Reid and her daughter Mrs John Ward keeping vigil in the sick room while stimulants are used to sustain him through a critical stage.
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London
Ambassador Reid
Reid
General Botha Resigns as South African Premier
Johannesburg dispatch reports General Louis Botha resigning today as premier of the South African union after leading the union since 1907.
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Botha
Johannesburg
South Africa
South African Union
Revolution in Mexico Aided by Americans
Washington reports a Senate sub committee inquiry will accuse American financial interests of backing the Diaz overthrow and Madero rise in Mexico and Cuba. It cites funds, arms shipments, oil ties, and cipher communications as proof of U S base support for revolutions and warns of renewed trouble for Madero amid anti American sentiment.
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Washington, D. C
Dee
Mexico
Cuba
Senate For Relations Committee
William Alden Smith
Michigan
Congress
United States
Smith
Madero
Diaz
Standard Oil
Istas
Ard Oil Company
Gov
Senor Liman
Tour
New York
Mexico City
Paris
Thi
United States Senate
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Olga L. Applewhite
East Texas
West Texas
Pacific Coast
Eld
U. S
William Crozier
Ordnance
Crozier
Cereal Company
ST. Mary’s
Franklin Road
New Town
Chamber of Commerce Committee
Munm
Philander C, Knox
New Jersey
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