Rail unions seek Adamson law footing pending Supreme Court ruling
New York dispatch reports the national conference committee of railroad managers and four railroad brotherhoods resumed talks on how to apply the Adamson law if the high court upholds its constitutionality. Officials say they will not seek repeal of the measure despite the anticipated court decision.
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New York
Raiload
Four Brotherhoods of Railroad
United States Supreme Court
Croup Kit Relief Cited By Eckert Reader
Billie Mayberry of Eckert, Go reports two children recovered from croup after using Foley's Honey and Tar. She gave a nightly dose before bed and by morning the cough and croup signs had vanished. The remedy is described as a standard low priced cold and cough treatment.
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Billie Mayberry
Eckert
Foley
A. M. Fischer
Railroad Attorneys Agree on Adamson Law Tactics
Attorney General Gregory and railroad lawyers report the Adamson act suspended pending a test suit. Railroads will not withdraw suit or halt court decisions nor ally with unions against President Wilson’s compulsory labor dispute investigation. A joint board may be appointed to interpret the act if constitutional.
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Gregory
Wilson
Florist Credits Tanlac for Dramatic Health Turnaround
P D Houser a former San Antonio florist now retired at 284 East Commerce Street reports Tanlac restored his digestion back to normal improved his strength and sleep. He walked five miles and says the medicine rebuilt his energy and cured gastric distress, back and kidney troubles. Dr W K Bell endorses Tanlac as a tonic for overworked organs.
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P. D. Houser
East Commerce Street
Houser
San Antonio
Taniac
W. K. Bell
Wagner
Tani
Frien
Tanlac
Nlac
Wakeecea SO
E. J. J. Meier
Railway labor leaders named for group meeting
Liam G. Lee president of the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen Warren S. Stone grand chief of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers William B. Carter president of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen Edward L. Sheppard acting president of the Order of Railway Conductors listed as attendees.
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Liam G. Lee
The
Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen
Warrens. Stone
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
William 8. Carter
Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen
Edward L. Sheppard
Order of Railway Conductors
Manufacturers Seek Car Cost Data From Members
The Manufacturers' Club asks members with salesmen using or planning to use cars to provide cost figures. Secretary C C Leel sends inquiry to larger firms covering gasoline, depreciation, car ownership, and usage. Answers will help managers estimate yearly costs when hiring or signing new sales agreements.
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Manufacturers’ Club
C. C. Leel
Leel
History in secondary schools for foreign service urged
Dr Glenn L Swiggett told the American Historical Association in Cincinnati that history teaching should prepare students for foreign service and support the new diplomacy sparked by expanding foreign trade. He linked Webb bill passage, farm loan bank wealth, and postwar foreign investment to growth in development and commerce. He called for trained experts in agriculture engineering industry and banking to meet demand.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cincinnati
Ohio
American Historical Association
Glenn L. Swiggett
Swiggett
Bureau of Education
Washington
Pan-American Scientific Congress
Church Unity Proposal Ready
A Baltimore meeting of the joint commission on unifying the Methodist Episcopal Church and the Methodist Episcopal Church South convened with Bishop E E Hoss announcing the southern branch has nearly agreed on a basis for presentation to the joint body.
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Baltimore
Joint Commission On the
The
Methodist Episcopal Church
Methodist Episcopal Church South
E. E. Hoss
Morgan of Japan Quits Bank
E Shibusawa of Tokio known as the Morgan of Japan retires from the presidency of the First Bank of Japan to promote better friendly feelings between America and Japan. The declaration was made public in Los Angeles by John Mitchell president of the Chamber of Commerce.
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Morgan of
Japan
Quits Bank
Los Angeles
Cal
First Bank of Japan
America
E. Shibusawa
Tokio
John &. Mitchell
Chamber of Commerce
Prayers Lost in a Mellow Moment
A Scottish station master Sandy Rogers returned home after a Barnes Society dinner and, in a drunken stupor, struggled to recall his prayers. His incoherent mutterings woke his wife, who asked if he was ill. He replied that he felt fine but could not mind a damned word of his prayers.
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Sandy Rogers
Scotland
Sandy
Barnes Society
Boston Transcript
Home made Pinex cough syrup promises fast relief
An old home remedy touts making a pint of cough syrup from 212 ounces of Pinex and sugar syrup claiming 24 hour relief for coughs throat and chest colds. It promotes cost savings over store bought cures and warns to ask for 212 ounces of Pinex with full directions from a druggist, with a money back guarantee from The Pinex Co. in Ft Wayne Indiana.
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The
Pinex Co
Ft. Wayne
Ind
Army Yearlong Training Plan Aims 500000 Under Arms
Washington reports officers expect a universal service bill modeled on Argentina. It would train about 400000 to 600000 youths yearly while keeping 500000 under arms and 2500000 trained reservists available. The plan would follow a continental army layout with nineteen infantry and six cavalry divisions and reserve service for two years.
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Washington, D. C
Argentina
Army General Staff
Secretary of War
House Military Committee
Baker
United States
House Committee
Hugh L. Scott
General Staff
General Staff Committee
Boerne Dancing Club plans Xmas New Year dance
Boerne Texas December 28 The Boerne Dancing Club will host its annual Christmas New Year dance at the Boerne hall on Saturday December 30. Miss Frankie Johnson secretary and chair of the arranging committee says new dances and a huge Xmas tree will be featured. Each member will receive a Christmas stocking handed out by a Santa Claus. Many San Antonians are invited and Boerne residents will host house parties.
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Boerne
Tex
Boerne Dancing Club
Boerne Hall
Frankie Johnson
Community Meeting Planned at Prospect Hill Church
The first in a series of meetings will be held Thursday night at Prospect Hill Methodist church to make the church the community social center. Amusement for all ages, stere opticon pictures titled The Home of Santa Claus will be shown, Rev. H. M. Rat cliff will speak, a musical program offered, and refreshments served.
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Prospect Hill Methodist Church
Santa Claus
H. M. Ratcliff
Pape's Cold Compound Promises Quick Relief
A vintage ad promotes Pape's Cold Compound as an instant remedy for grippe and severe colds. A dosing pattern suggests taking every two hours up to three doses to relieve head and chest congestion, runny nose, feverishness, sore throat, and other cold symptoms. The ad touts quick relief, pleasant taste, and 25 cent price while urging buyers to obtain the genuine product.
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Grippe
Pape
Texas Congressional Vote Totals by Districts
The Texas state election canvassing board released district by district results from the last general election. Democrats led in all sixteen districts with varying Republican and Socialist tallies. Major figures include Blanton in the sixteenth with 80,050 votes and Slayden in the fourteenth with 22,435.
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Austin
Tex
Eugene Black
David H. Morris
J. C. Thompson
Martin Dies
A. E. Sweatland
J. B. Truitt
James Young
J. L. Scroggin
Sam Rayburn
G. J. Barlow
W. J. Lennon
Hatton W. Summers
B. F. Crews
W. G. Brewer
Rufus Hardy
J. W. Clark
W. H. Wilson
A. W. Gregg
Thomas F. Heigel
T. E. Fos
W. C. Kendall
J. H. Eagle
Ira P. Jones
John W. Connor
J. J. Mansfield
C. W. Hughes
B. F. Wright
J. P. Buchanan
Robert A. Brooks
Tom Connally
John L. Vaughan
T. M. Deloach
James C. Wilson
Henry Zweifel
Leeland G. Baker
Marvin Jones
J. L. van Matta
Dr. J. A. Pressly
James L. Slayden
D. J. Johnson
John N. Garner
Harry M. Wurgbach
J. E. Greer
Thomas J. Blanton
G. O., Harris
T. B. Holiday
Hayes to Leave City After Founding San Antonio Rotary
Herbert J. Hayes founder of the San Antonio Rotary Club will move to Houston next week and be honored with a farewell luncheon at the St. Anthony Hotel. The club, organized five years ago by Hayes and others, grew from about a dozen to 190 members and is a key city force. Hayes will become president of the Price Booker Manufacturing Company in Houston.
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Herbert J. Hayes
San Antonio
Hayes
Price- Booker Manufacturing Company
Houston
Last Week for Deer Season in Texas 1916
The deer season ends this week in Texas as hunting parties take advantage of good weather. Hunters believe more deer are being killed this year due to persistent cold from November through January. Other game seasons stay open with quail ducks dove and wild turkey seasons extending into February and March.
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Texas
Primer on Ferris homestead bill for President Wilson
A public primer explains the Ferris homestead bill awaiting the president's approval. It notes entry of 460 acres of semiarid grazing land by qualified entrants, applies to stock raising and grazing areas, and that Interior will designate qualifying areas after signature.
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Washington
Ferris Homestead
Wilson
House Public Lands Committee
Interior Department
Detective on Stand in Neutrality Conspiracy Trial
In San Francisco on December 28 the private detective C. C. Crowley testified at the resumed trial of Franz Bopp German consul general and six assistants. Crowley is alleged to have acted as the go between for a 1916 plot to violate American neutrality.
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San Francisco
Cal
C. C. Crowley
Franz Bopp
Ambrose Miller Plans House of Glass Visit in San Antonio
The San Antonio stop features Ambrose Miller promoting The House of Glass at the Grand Opera House on January 6 and 7. Miller, inspired by Ambrose Peel of It Pays to Advertise, is linked to Fred Peel and Walter Hackett, with the tale shaping both plays through Authorship by Hackett and Magrue.
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Cohan & Harris
Ambrose Peel
San Antonio
House of Glass
Grand Opera House
Ambrose Miller
Fred Peel
Miller
Peel
Walter Hackett
Hackett
Rot Cooper Magrue
McLemore Marries Galveston Bride Fannie May Clark
Congressman-at-Large Jeff McLemore wed in Galveston to Miss Fannie May Clark, daughter of Mrs. Emily L. Clark widow of Joseph Clark. The couple left for Mobile and Pensacola for their honeymoon and will return to Washington.
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Galveston
Tex
Jeff McLemore
Fannie May Clark
Emily L. Clark
Joseph Clark
Mobile
Pensacola
Washington
Congressman McLemore
Resolution Authoring Pass Age Warning to Citizens
The query refers to the author of the resolution before Congress debating if the president should warn Americans against sailing on belligerent nation vessels. The figure sought is the sponsor of that resolution.
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Congress
Private Thompson Dies in New Mexico Camp
Private Rowland Thompson of the First Arkansas Medical Corps died at Camp Deming on Wednesday from pneumonia. His home was listed as Delark, Arkansas.
Four Candidates for Governor in 1918
Austin December 28. Four men appear ready to seek Texas governor in 1918 to succeed James E. Ferguson. The names are B. F. Looney attorney general Henry B. Terrell comptroller Earle B. Mayfield railroad commissioner and R E Warren former state senator. Looney signaled willingness if public demand exists Mayfield said he is busy but may decide soon to run. Terrell and Warren are named as possible contenders. Mayfield appears inclined to enter the race.
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Austin
Tex
Texas
James E. Ferguson
B. F. Looney
Henry B. Terrell
Earle B. Mayfield
R. E. Warren
Terrell
Looney
Mayfield
British Gov Sets Cargo Space Quotas For Steamships
Lieutenant Connor Guthrie of the British admiralty told freight managers that starting January 1 the government will require 85 percent of cargo space on their ships. Forty seven point nine tenths percent is reserved for war munitions and thirty seven point one tenths for wheat, up from 60 percent reserved earlier this year.
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New York
Connor Guthrie
Brown bread likely as flour scarcity hits Holland
In Holland, Washington, a wheat flour shortage may cause a return to compulsory brown bread and no white bread after last spring. Reports to the bureau of foreign and domestic commerce say universities bread cards may be used and that consumption will be restricted.
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Washington, D. C
Holland
Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce
Hull proposes trade congress option in peacemaking
Representative Hall of Tennessee urged neutral nations to press for a provision in any peace treaty that would create an international trade agreement congress. He said he would introduce a House resolution to embody the idea.
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Congress
Washington, D. C
Representative Hall
Tennessee
Hull
House
City Physicians Explain Why They Prescribe Nuxated Iron
New York physicians explain heavy use of Nuxated Iron, arguing organic iron boosts strength and vitality. They warn ordinary iron forms are ineffective and urge a two week trial of five grain tablets three times daily after meals to measure gains.
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New York
N. Y
King
New York City
Sauer
Boston
Lar
Tom
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Wallace Brosco
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Florist
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Yessir
M’lemore
Emily J. Clark
Thompson
Deming Camp
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Schuyler C. Jacques
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