Merry Makers Plan Welcome for New Year
San Antonio society plans festive New Year events across the city hotels and clubs. The St Anthony Hotel will host a midnight dinner and music by Prof. William Smith with hundreds already reserving tables. Other happenings include the Casino dance, Menger dinner dance, San Antonio Country Club ball, and a cabaret style program at the Automobile Club with Joe Walsh and an eight piece Travis Club ensemble.
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San Antonio
Casino
San Antonio Country Club
Automobile Club
North Loop
St. Anthony
William Smith
Percy Tyrrell
Gunter Hotel
Gunter
Beethoven
Menger
Menger Hotel
Country Club
Dansant
Ola
San Antonio Automobile Club
Joe Walsh
Travis Club
Elks’ Club
Avenue E
New Year Celebrations Across City Clubs and Hotels
Residents plan dances and watch parties as 1914 begins. The International Club hosts a dance while Moose and Beaver Club members organize smokers. Hotels and clubs throughout the city schedule festivities to welcome the new year with a brilliant reception.
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Moose and Beaver
Mooney to Show Tandem Across North America
Milt Mooney will tour a reworked triplet electrical tandem with 1800 colored lights and 24 switches. The display, drawn by three prize horses, has delighted San Antonio crowds and will visit Canada in June before touring the United States.
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Milt Mooney
San Antonio
United States
Canada
Mooney
Mr. Mooney
Destitute Family Assisted by Associated Charities
Mrs. Sadie Haley visited a destitute family with a feeble grandmother, a sick daughter with two children, and a deserted wife with three young kids. A 7 week old baby weighing five pounds highlighted the dire need for support. The case was described as extremely helpless and worthy of assistance.
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Associated Charities
Sadie Haley
Plans to Promote Irrigation in Texas Bulletin
William L. Rockwell irrigation manager of experiment stations with the federal department of agriculture met with Commissioner Kone in Austin to discuss issuing a joint bulletin titled Irrigation in Texas. The Texas commissioner agreed to cooperate with Rockwell in the project.
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Austin
Tex
William L. Rockwell
Federal Department of Agriculture
San Antonio
Kone
Texas
Federal
Department of Agriculture
Rockwell
Destitute Family of Six Found in Damp West Commerce Barn
Sadie Haley of the Associated Charities found a family of six in a 30 by 40 foot room behind a West Commerce street saloon. An invalid mother and child, a jobless father, two girls ages 12 and 16, and a 10-year-old boy faced cold, damp conditions with no furniture. Haley provided groceries and sought long term solutions including school for the 12-year-old, a nursemaid position for the 16-year-old, and steady work for the father, with plans to move them to better quarters.
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Commerce Street
Sadie Haley
The
Associated Charities
Haley
Funeral Notice for Roland C Harrington
Roland C Harrington aged 37 years and six months died December 27 at 4 a m beloved son of Mrs BE Harrington and brother of Mrs OD Westman. Interment is private. Adv
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Roland C. Harrington
BE. C. Harrington
O. D. Westman
Best Offer Promised for Payee LARD Worn
Advertisement notes a claim for payee LARD worn by A. Collman a plumber with two phones. The amount listed is 97 dollars.
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A. Collman
County to audit year with bond funded road plan
County officials plan to start a $1,000,000 bond program in January to fund road improvements, concrete bridges, a hospital, a new poorhouse, and courthouse expansion. Engineer Terrell Bartlett leads bridge work while an auxiliary San Antonio business committee studies 800 miles of roads for prioritization.
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James R. Davis
Board of Commissioners
Davis
Terrell Bartlett
Bexar County
County Commissioners’ Court
San Antonio
William Cassin
J. H. Savage
George C. Saur
Alex Joske
Henry C. Halff
T. N. Smith
A. M. Fischer
Pigeons Stop Clock at Fort Sam Houston Tower
A pigeon nest inside the quadrangle clock at Fort Sam Houston disabled the weights and springs, causing the clock to strike ten oclock every half hour while undergoing overhaul by signal corpsmen. The repair aims to restore its regular halfhour chimes after years of service.
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Fort Sam Houston
Rent your dress suit from G W Rogers Tailoring Co
Dress suit rental ad for G W Rogers Tailoring Co at 311 Soledad Street offers suit rental. Includes two phone contacts.
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G. W. Rogers Tailoring Co
Soledad St
Ady
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Beli
Saul Wolfson Dry Goods Co
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