Counting the Stars in a Global Sky Census
Greenwich observatory leads a census of over fifty million stars using 618 photographic plates and a ten inch chromatic lens. Two seventeen year olds assist, with results to be published after completing five thousand sky region counts and final calculations.
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Greenwich Observatory
Royal
S. Chapman
The
Royal Observatory
London Standard
Chapman
Mr. Chapman
Greenwich
Cape of Good Hope
Johannesburg
Franklin Adams
Mervel Hill
Surrey
Christmas Cheer drives aid as tempers rise in San Antonio
The Christmas Cheer headquarters hustles to fill baskets with meat, poultry, rice and beans while volunteers thaw out toys and bed coverings. A jail and hospital visit reveals mixed joy as a homeless man, a boy with club feet, and a cancer patient receive gifts, with donations still arriving to aid 69 Mexicans and local shelters before Christmas.
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San Antonio
A. W. Houston
South Flores Street
Helena Guenther
Misses Walton
Burton Anderson
Miss Ross
Louise
Mamie Burton
Cora Davenport
Cc. F. B
S. F
Lucian Beck
Santa Saa Claus
Santa Claus
Navarro
Santa
Governor Hadley on party overhaul after governors meet
Governor Hadley of Missouri returned from the Richmond conference and a talk with President Taft saying he did not plan to direct any party reorganization. He argued the GOP collapse requires uncovering why 4,000,000 voters deserted the party rather than exploiting Democratic errors. The rest of the text contains unrelated plea from a child asking Santa for food, clothes, and dolls.
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Herbert 8. Hadley
Missouri
Jefferson City
Conference of Governors
Richmond
Taft
Washington
National Republican Party
Hadley
Sheriff Ordered Written Answers In Habeas Corpus Case
District Judge R H Ward overturned long standing practice in habeas corpus matters ruling that when a sheriff is required to state why a prisoner is held the answer must be written. The Brooks case, an assault to murder charge, led to Brooks’ release after the chief prosecuting witness left town. Baker noted the state could not convict without testimony.
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R. H. Ward
W. S. Anderson
Criminal Court
L Cc. Baker
More Equipment for Guards in Texas
After a two week absence Adjutant General Henry Hutchings returned from Norfolk New York Washington and other cities. He attended the National Guard Association meeting and conferred with the secretary of war, signaling that the Texas National Guard will soon gain new hospital field equipment including an ambulance corps.
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Austin
Tex
Henry Hutchings
Norfolk
New York
Washington
Hutchings
National Guard Association
Texas National Guard
Social Club Cases Continued In Galveston Trials
Four Galveston Social Club cases once set for trial this week before the Twenty sixth District Court have been postponed until late January, possibly around the 20th, per Assistant Attorney General C E Mead who leads the prosecutions.
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Austin
Tex
Galveston
Waco to Have Playgrounds for City Park
Mrs William Cameron and her children presented a $500 check to Cotton Palace Association president W H Hoffman for playground installations in Cotton Palace Park. The city will install the playgrounds.
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Waco
Tex
William Cameron
W. H. Hoffman
The
Cotton Palace Association
Cotton Palace Park
Preparing for blindness by self education and resolve
W S Scamilin plans to cope with imminent blindness by becoming a lecturer and a skilled writer. He and his wife will stage lantern slide lectures on photography and the postal service, while he learns the typewriter by touch. He aims to deliver hour long talks with flawless slides.
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United States
Postal Service
State Departments Close For Christmas at Noon
Austin Texas December 24 state departments closed at noon today for Christmas with no business to be transacted at the state house until Thursday. A number of department attaches and heads have left for their homes to spend Christmas.
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Campbell
Austin
Tex
Thomas M. Campbell
Palestine
Texas
W. P. Lane
Wilson
New Jersey
Baltimore
State House
Gimbel Delicatessen Announces Christmas Day Specials
The Gimbel Delicatessen offers a special noon lunch tomorrow Christmas Day for 35 cents and a dinner from 6 to 8 pm for 50 cents. Location Crockett Street opposite the Grand Opera House.
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Gimbel Delicatessen
Crockett Street
Grand Opera House
Rotary Luncheon Seeks Talk on The Great Southwest
Rev. H. Percy Silver will address the Rotary Club at Friday’s luncheon at St. Anthony on The Great Southwest. A noted authority on the region, he has traveled the district as a mission worker. Members may bring a guest to an especially interesting meeting.
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Rotary Club
St. Anthony
H. Percy Silver
Great Southwest
City Official in Houston Dies After Stroke
Harry B. Johnson longtime deputy city assessor and tax collector and former railway man died after a paralytic stroke suffered early in the morning in Houston. He was born in New York in 1841.
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Houston
Tex
Harry B. Johnson
New York
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Merry Christmas
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