Gould System Reorganization Aims Gulf Port Access
Missouri Pacific and Iron Mountain officials led by B. F. Bush toured the I and G N to assess post reorganization plans. A Texas Gulf port entry hinges on a Texas Railroad Commission approval with potential link to Galveston via International and Great Northern.
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Missouri Pacific
Iron Mountain
Missouri Pacifico
B. F. Bush
Mr. Bush
Gould
Bush
Gould System
Texas & Pacific
International & Great Northern
Western Pacific
New York Central
New York
Finley J. Shepard
As Railroad Commission
Texas
Overnor Colquitt
Gulf
Bueh
New Orleans
Galveston
International
At Northern
Express Company to cut rates for parcels post
Chattanooga Tennessee December 28. The Southern Express Company plans sweeping rate reductions effective July 1 to compete with parcels post. Company officials declined to discuss details.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chattanooga
Tenn
Southern Express Company
President To Let Mexican Affair Drop
A survivor recounts a 1910s border clash tale. Rebels held up a train, burned coaches, and forced a march to a station. Aid arrived for the wounded as workers secured help, with reflections on food and a moment of forced allegiance to the rebel cause.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mr. Familiar
Gallego
Mr. Shell
New York Tailors Threaten City Wide Strike
Fifteen thousand men in the men's clothing trades including tailors cutters and helpers are called to strike next Monday morning seeking higher wages and improved conditions. They demand abolition of tenement house labor elimination of subcontracting end of foot power in running machines double pay for holidays time and a half for overtime a 48 hour week and a $3 weekly wage increase from current levels of 17 dollars for cutters and 22 dollars for master cutters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Uncle Sam After Goats Turns Mosquito Fighters
The War Department plans to release twenty goats at Fort Washington to eat vegetation that mosquitoes breed on. If successful, goats will be used in other locations to starve and expose breeding grounds.
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Washington, D. C
Sam
War Department
Fort Washington
Potomac River
Department
Advocates of Good Roads 10 Hold Session
A Pleasanton meeting to form the San Antonio Atascosa and Gulf Highway Convention aims to push a main road from San Antonio to the Gulf. County leaders from Live Oak Bee McMullen Nueces Atascosa plan to attend. program includes talks by road advocates and a route via Leming Pleasanton Coughran McCoy Campbellton and Beeville.
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San Antonio
Corpus Christi
Port Aransas
Atascosa Valley
Leming
Pleasanton
Coughran
McCoy
Campbellton
Live Oak
Beeville
Franklin Railroad
Bexar County Highway League
Texas Highway Association
Automobile Owners’ Organizations
Right of Way Obtained for Frio Road Highway Project
County Judge J R Davis reports a 60 foot right of way for a mile long sand clay highway on the Frio road near the Atascosa county line has been secured. Landowner Krueger will move his house and fence at county cost to permit the project which George D Marshall will oversee as construction begins and is expected to take about three weeks.
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J. R. Davis
Bexar County
Frio
Atascosa County
George D. Marshall
Feneral
Krueger
Davis
Marshall
San Antonio Group Plans Johnson City Highway Meeting
The San Antonio Blanco and Granite Belt Good Roads Association schedules its next meeting in Johnson City on Friday afternoon January 10. The rally aims to boost a highway system extending north of San Antonio with Lamppasas leading a large delegation and participation from other cities. Attendees include D. E. Colp secretary of the highway division, A. M. Fischer division president and San Ant Roads Association vice president, and George D. Marshall federal highway engineer.
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San Antonio, Blanco & Granite Belt Good Roads Association
Johnson City
San Antonio
Lampasas
San Antonians
D. E. Colp
The
Chamber of Commerce
A. M. Fischer
George D. Marshall
Medina County Seeks Road Advisory from George Marshall
Medina County commissioners request the services of George D. Marshall, government highway engineer, from the U S Department of Public Roads for aid in road construction and maintenance. Devine precinct recently approved 40000 in bonds for road work and Marshall is to advise on spending. Other precincts plan bond issues.
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Medina County
George D. Marshall
Commissioners’ Court
Office of
United States Agricultural Department
Marshall
Devine
Are You Rheumatic Ad Promotes Elmers Amends Remedy
Advertisement claims Elmer's and Amend's 2851 relieves rheumatic pain and recommends buying from reliable druggists. The short promo uses a direct appeal to readers seeking relief via a medicinal product.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elmer's & Amend’s
Postmen Get Many Christmas Presents in San Antonio
San Antonio postmen and rural route carriers were thanked with gifts on Christmas day by 64 postal workers and nine rural carriers. Residents offered fruit cake, cigars, gloves, cash, and various items while merchants allowed selections from stock. Superintendent R. B. Hedges noted higher gifts this year and planned to add extra carriers soon.
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San Antoniang
R. 8. Hedges
San Antonio
Residents Request Extended Streetcar Service to Knob Hill
A petition from 263 Knob Hill and East End residents asks the San Antonio Traction Co to run large East Commerce Street cars around the Knob Hill loop and to switch the loop schedule from 15 minutes to a 7 12 minute interval. The motion cites inadequate service for about 5000 residents and aims to ease commuting to work without transfers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Knob Hill
East End
San Antonio Traction Company
San Antonio
East Commerce Street
Visitors from New York Find Winter Appeal in San Antonio
Mrs. C. D. Edenburg and daughter EB Edenburg of New York, staying at the Gunter, plan to spend the winter in San Antonio. They toured the country and abroad, were unsure at first due to damp cold, but now praise the climate and say they have seen much of the United States.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. D. Edenburg
New York
Gunter Hotel
San Antonio
EB. EB. Edenburg
American Maize Company of
Australia
New Zealand
Collinan Plumber Adurges Car Tax Payment
A. Collinan, a plumber, places a notice at 416 Main Avenue urging payment of poll tax while referencing Woodward Carriage Company in a compact public notice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. Collinan
Main
Treasure Hunt Says Mexican Document Guides Digging
Two Mexicans claim a Mexico City archive document shows a four by six foot box of gold silver and jewels buried after Santa Anna's defeat near San Antonio. They work on Ed Roos land in Summit Place seeking the hidden trove beside a giant live oak tree amid hauntings and noises reported by locals.
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National Archives of Mexico
Santa Anna
San Jacinto
Ed Roos
Summit Place
Meixco
San Antonio
Mexico
Mexicans Seek Treasure Digging on Roos Property
Mexicans from Mexico City have long sought permission to dig for treasure on Roos property but were refused. Recent attempts to excavate at night have led to forceful fears among laborers who refused to camp on the grounds. A rough draft document allegedly held by two men accompanies a pursuit led by a deputy sheriff guarding the site.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
City of
Mexico
Turkey Faces Choice in Ikans Peace Talks at St James
London dispatch reports Turkey may accept humiliating terms or face a prolonged war. Balkan envoys rejected all Turkish counter offers, risking a rupture as diplomats fear renewed hostilities without decisive power intervention. Allies suspect Turkey seeks secret deals with nations to sway broader agreement.
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London
Turkey
St. James Palace
Governor offers $200 reward for Leonard Simms murder arrest
The Governor announced a $200 reward for the arrest and conviction of Leonard Simms for the December 20 1912 Bowie county murder of Henry Nelson. The offer came at the request of Bowie county sheriff and officials. PAY YOUR POLL TAX.
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Austin
Tex
Leonard Simms
Henry Nelson
Bowie County
Crowded City Faces Poll Tax Rush Ahead of May Vote
County collector John Bitter reports a slow turnout for citizenship filings as only 917 payments were made yesterday. Overall this year’s poll tax total stands at 2148, far below last year’s 2907, with 760 fewer payments to date. To vote in May, residents must pay both county and city poll taxes, $1.50 and $1 respectively, at the courthouse and city hall.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Bitter
Bitter
Mexican consul general injures thumb lighting cigarette
Francisco Espinosa assistant consul general here for Mexico burned a patch of skin two inches long and an inch wide on his left thumb while lighting a cigarette in a barber chair. A steaming facial towel covered his face except the nose and mouth as he struck matches at random and the entire box ignited. Riebe Undertaking Co. offered ambulance service from 221 East Commerce Street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Francisco Espinosa
Mexico
Mr. Espinosa
Rural high school law shows clear gains in Texas
A public letter from W H Snow Lamar county superintendent cited by state official F M Bralley highlights strong improvements in rural high school programs and course of study. Bralley notes progress across Lamar and about seventy five other counties and urges civil service reform and tax adjustments for public schools.
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Austin
Tex
Texas
F. M. Bralley
W. H. Snow
Lamar County
Snow
Bralley
Lamar
Brasley
Commissioners Courts
County Board of Education
Local Alamo Street Retailers Listed Alphabetically
A long list of downtown San Antonio shops appears with names such as Alamonette Chocolates, Ganbien Street Drug Store, Catalina Bros, Nichols Grocery, Schaffer Drug Co, Rischh, Apmann & Serger, Julius Horn, Paul Kurts, William Appmann, Bond Delicatessen, H A Nester, J L Stinson, Urban Grocery, Laurel Cash Grocery, Bergman & Hassbauer, and many others along Austin Tenth Streets, McCullough Ave, and San Pedro Ave plus the Post Exchange and Army Post Drug Store. The compilation includes drug stores, grocers, confectioners, and a few addresses, likely a directory from a early 20th century street map.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
F. Aster
Ganbien
Catalina Bros. Nichols Grocery Company
Schafper Drug Company
Charles A
Fuos-Taylor Grocery Co
J. C. Carl & Son
Ben Overton
G. Livingston
Post Exchange
New
L. F. Webb
San Pedro Ave
Louis Spahn
EE. Commerce
Army Post
Hood's
Austin
Commerce
P. Michael
Drugigst
Prank Talerico
South Alamo
Frank Sae
South Alam Nielsen Grocery CO
San Pedro Avenue
RE. A. Chapman
Romana
SAN Pedro Grocery CO
R. Krueger & Bro
Hood Bt
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Alamo Plaza
Gould System OF Railroads
Gulf Port
Texas Commission
Hisghter
Alexander Robdent
Maryland
Robertson
A. M. Green
Mr.Bush
N. Y
Uncle Sam
Advocates OF Good Roads
Bee
McMullen
Nueces Counties
Gulf Coast
Colp
Highway League Division
George D Marshall
William Corcoran Pustis
Washington
Elect Wilson
Woodward Carriage Company
National
Riebe Undertaking Co
Nott Ave
Detroit
Mich
Meyer&Co
Baltimore
HGH School
Alamonette Chocolates
Five-Point Drug
N. Flores Street
T. A. Black
Fredericksburg Road
Woodlawn
North Flores Street
Monarch Grocery Co., Inc
Flores and Mistletoe
T. E. Blundell
MC Peters
Oreverthe
Leona
Zavala Street
BE. J
Ey. M. Hertzfeld
San Marcos and
Perez Sts
BE. Greeven
Colo
Tadeo Avenue
J. Spellesey
Giasmeeee
William O. Rieden
Houston Street
Milburn Bros
Palace Candy Company
W. Enant
E Cupples' Drug Company
G. A. Duerler Manufacturing CO
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