Christmas Cheer relief work ends with surplus plan
Relief efforts by Christmas Cheer in San Antonio wrap up for 1913 as headquarters close after distributing about 100 baskets and other goods. Treasurer reports roughly 1309 dollars donated plus groceries and clothing. a Tuesday Travis Club meeting will decide on any surplus distribution to families.
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Travis Club
Leo Cotton
Benno Kayton
James M. Young
Santa Claus
Young
San Antonio
Mrs. Young
Th Travis
Record of County Bond Issue Ready
The county prepares five separate records for a $1,009,000 bond issue, completed and duplicated for New York firm Dillon, Thompson & Clay and the state Attorney General B. F. Looney. Judge Davis expresses satisfaction with rapid compilation after extensive transcription of court records and orders.
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New York
Austin
Dillon, Thompson & Clay
B. F. Looney
Dillion, Thompson & Clay
Attorney General’s Department
Davis
Examiners Vote Thanks From Texas Board of Dental Examiners
The Texas State Board of Dental Examiners adopted a resolution of thanks after its semi annual session in San Antonio. Thirty one applicants sought state dental licenses. The board thanked the San Antonio Chamber of Commerce for hall use and support from the San Antonio Dental Society Bexar County Dental Society Noa Spears Company and local press for assistance.
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Texas State Board of Dental Examiners
C. M. McCauley
San Antonio
St. Anthony
Bexar County Dental Society
Noa Spears Company
Press of
Married Christmas Day Weddings On The Matrimonial Seas
Twenty couples wed on Christmas Day as pastors officiated for young pairs who had obtained marriage licenses the day prior. Some couples delayed to Wednesday to secure documents from County Clerk Frank R Newton at his home. The season saw many marriages but not as many as last year. Marriage Registrar A H Coates worked through Wednesday issuing papers.
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Frank R Newton
A. H. Coates
Americans Building Up Trade In Africa
Washington D C Dec 26 The Department of Commerce releases data showing the United States led exports to South Africa in 1912 for the first time in over five years despite German competition. The statement credits American manufacturers with securing markets and notes German capital and travelers versus US efforts. It warns the United Kingdom about American aggressiveness in South Africa.
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Washington, D. C
Union of South Africa
Department of Commerce
United States
South Africa
Hamburg
South African
Germany
United Kingdom
Department
Officers Map Country Progress on U S Topographic Chart
Special detachments of officers have completed less than one fifth of the planned topographic map of the United States. The full survey may take about 40 years. First Lieutenant Edmund L. Zane and lieutenants William N. Hensley Jr. and Emil P. Pierson have been assigned to map duties.
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United States
Southern Department
Rio Grande
Texas
Edmund L. Zane
Fourteenth Cavalry
Fort McIntosh
William N. Hensley Jr
Thirteenth Cavalry
Emil P. Pierson
Unclear Court Comment on College Course Plans
A judge noted a student plans a full college course load while remarks hint at a liquor bill exceeding 30 dollars for the first month. The text references North Dakota production data with a figure of 499 480 tons of ena.
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North Dakota
Traffic relations with telegraph firms to stay intact
Western Union Vice President Brooks reports no disruption to traffic and plant relations with Southwestern Telegraph & Telephone due to the latter selling its telegraph stock under an agreement with Attorney General McReynolds. Austin relays that both firms can operate independently while the telegraph system improves and earnings fund rehabilitation.
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Western Union Telegraph Company
Southwestern Telegraph & Telephone Company
Telephone Company
Telegraph Company
United States
McReynolds
Brooks
Western Union
F. H. Austin
Austin
Telegraph
Judge Cannot Collect Not Allowed Fees for Tuberculosis Colony
The attorney general's opinion in Texas states that county judges who place a patient in a tuberculosis colony perform non civil non criminal proceedings and cannot collect compensation from Grayson County. It notes a $3 delinquent culg act fee applies to final disposition, payable by the county.
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Austin
Tex
Attorney General’s Department
Grayson County
Jews to Hold Festival of Shabbas Hanukkah at Temple Beth El
The Jewish community holds Shabbas Hanukkah services at Temple Beth El led by temple juniors. On Sunday December 28 at 3 PM a children's day program features organ, processional, ritual service, songs, and speeches by many named participants including Max Katz Ruth Dubinski and Aaron Zadek with the school presenting segments and a Hanukkah hymn.
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the School
Leo Veith
Mildred Goodman
Pauline Hess
Ralph Hess
Ruth Yane
Henrietta Newding
Aaron Zadek
Minnie Wolf
Helen Rose Rabe
Laura Norman Friedlander
Sidney Kline
Marion Volk
Adrian Zadek
Lester Sack
Marion Levy
Rose Bernice August
Judith and
Ruth
Martha Livingston
Mildred Wallach
Mo Oz-Zur
The
School
Hilda Solomon
Milton Joseph
Hannah Meyers
Jake Wolf
Nessie Levison
Helen Arstein
Devere Belin
Vivian Arstein
Jeanette Levytansky
Corinne Ucovitch
Carolyn Victor
Gustav Saper
Mamie Weber
Paul Summerfield
Lillie Solomon
Jake Myers
Reuben Karren
Pauline Katz
Ruth To
Naomi
Gladys Roseman
Ray Oppenheimer
Fannie Milgram
Hannah Brown
Perry Kallison
Mattie Lee
Sarah Dodie
Bernard Asner
Rosa Kaufman
Louis Myrowitz
Eleanor Harris
William Wolf
Henry Leopold
Lucile McCaun
Caroline Halff
Hugh Halff
Charity
Pauline Veith
Rose Lipman
Rose Newding
Israel
Egypt
Andrew Smith
Babylon
Lewis Kayton
Persia
Philip Hirsch
Greece
Jerome K. Harris
Judah Maccabee
Nathan Katz
Liberty
Fritz Strauss
Lillian Rosenman
Jack Berman
Clarence Nordhaus
Samuel Marks
Aline Sulzbacher
Tragedy in Oak Cliff Leaves No Clear Motive
Dallas report says investigation found no cause for the double tragedy in Oak Cliff as B F Long killed Mrs Pollard and then himself after a private talk. Witnesses Grugett and Mrs Witherow offered no new details. probe continues. United States tungsten output last year was worth $502,158.
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Dallas
Tex
Oak Cliff
B. F. Long
T. J. Pollard
L. C. Grugett
Witherow
United States
Man shot after street collision on Christmas day
Urbano Sanchez and Julian Neri, both 21, were involved in a collision at Buena Vista and Pecos streets. Neri is jailed on assault to murder charges after Sanchez was wounded in the left arm by a pistol shot five feet away. Authorities recovered Neri two blocks away. Sanchez surrendered at city hall after overnight at home.
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Urbano Sanchez
L Street
Julian Neri
Buena Vista
Pecos
Neri
Sanchez
Coy
Holman
Firemen Busy as Blaze Strikes Watson Frames
Fire at 1 45 Friday morning damaged a frame building at 8617 South Flores owned and used as a real estate office by Fred Watson, with flames reaching an adjoining Watson property. Firemen contained the blaze with two street alarms and quick extinguishing of a chimney fire on Christmas Eve.
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South Flores Street
Fred Watson
Mr. Watson
Starr Street
Oakland Street
River Avenue
Farmer kills eight rattlesnakes in lone den
A Texas farmer, Tom Wheless of Travis County near Austin, killed eight large rattlesnakes in one den while hunting. The snakes measured from eight to seventeen rattles each. Elsewhere in Italy, extracting oil from tomato seed has grown into a notable industry.
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Austin
Tex
Travis County
St. Patrick
Tom Wheless
Mr. Wheless
Italy
Veteran Officer Pyron Dies After Long Service in Bexar
Charles J. Pyron 56 a Bexar county native and long time deputy sheriff died at 9 30 p m at 549 South Presa street in San Antonio He served as deputy sheriff deputy constable and deputy grand jury bailiff and was active in justice administration Funeral services were set for 3 p m Sunday at his sister s home 1021 South Alamo street with interment in Confederate cemetery He survived by his widow a daughter his mother sister and a brother Also a member of Alamo Methodist Church
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Charles J. Pyron
Bexar County
South Presa Street
Mr. Pyron
Bexard County
O. C. Pyron
Clara Muller
San Antonio
M. L. Pyron
Boerne
Alamo
Pyron
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