San Antonio Hosts New Year Eve Hotels Plan Festivities
San Antonio prepares a citywide New Year’s Eve celebration with 130 hotels offering balls watch parties and banquets. The St Anthony Gunter Menger and other hotels reserve dining rooms hall spaces with special music menus and late hours to welcome 1913.
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San Antonio
St. Anthony
Gater
Gunter Hotel
St. Anthony Hotel
Harmony Club
Tae
New Ve
Menger Hotel
Travis” Cay
Casino Chub
Turner Hall
Hermann’s Sons Hall
New Year Observance at Y M C A Sets Day Long
New Year’s Day events at the Y M C A begin at 10:30 A M with drills games punch ball and basketball for junior classes. A noonday indoor baseball game and blindfold boxing precede a 1 o’clock turkey dinner with songs and recitations. Evening features a joint reception of the Y M C A and Y W C A along with a program in the assembly hall and plans for ward improvements via a new association.
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Young Men’s Christian Association
Young Woman's Christian Association
Post Toasties
St Johns Orphanage Plans Detailed As Fire Refuge
Architect F B Gaensten rushes working plans for St Johns orphanage to replace fire homeless orphans. Bishop Shaw urges early start with construction likely from late January. The two story brick fireproof building will include dormitories for boys and girls, an administration block and a chapel, with basement and modern conveniences.
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F. B. Gaensten
St. John’s Orphanage
Bishop Shaw
San Fernando
Late year’s end streetcars run past 1 A.M. New Year
T C Brown announced that traction cars will operate on all lines until past 1 o clock Tuesday night December 31. The last trips leave the Traction Company office at 1 A.M and final cars depart ends toward town at about 1 30 or 1 45 A.M New Year’s morning.
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T. C. Brown
Traction Company
Seventh Ward Improvement Club Formed in Nevada Nevada Area
Residents of the Seventh Ward organize to form the Seventh Ward Improvement Club. A meeting will be held next Thursday at Moeglin's hall Nevada and Peach streets to perfect the organization and plan civic improvements for the ward. Paul Steffler former County Commissioner for Precinct 4 supports the effort.
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Seventh Ward
South Heights
Goliad
Victoria
Moeglin’s Hall
Nevada
Peach Streets
Seventh Ward Improvement Club
Paul Steffler
Stowers 10 Open In New Store Monday
Stowers Furniture Company moves from 205 207 West Commerce to the Clower building corner of West Houston street and Main avenue in San Antonio. The ten story addition cost about 200000, stock will exceed 150000, with floors assigned to apartments, rooms, carpets, office furniture and dining room goods.
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Clower Installment Company
Clower
West Houston Street
Main Avenue
Stowers Furniture Company
San Antonio
West Commerce Street
Stowers Company
Stowers Furniture Comany
Clower and Stowers
Houston Street
Pujo Committee Powers Limited on Bank Disclosure
Special Attorney Wrisley Brown’s brief, accepted by Attorney General Wickersham, says the Pujo committee lacks authority to compel banks to reveal details of their business. The brief argues neither House nor Senate can force attendance or testimony unless explicitly delegated by federal constitution. The opinion is extensive and analyzes the legal limits of congressional inquiry into the money trust.
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Washington
Pujo
Money Trust
Wrisley Brown
Department of Justice
Wickersham
Samuel Untermyer
House
Senate
Brown
Stevens Rearing May End Wednesday Fire Probe Outcome
The fire and police committee investigation into the dismissal of Charles F. Stevens from the police force by Mayor Jones likely won’t finish before Wednesday. Stevens may testify, with other witnesses subpoenaed. if he does, Mayor Jones’ side may call rebuttals. A closing report by Monday could yield a majority and minority view and push toward confirming P. D. Christian as Stevens’s successor.
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Council
Charles. F. Stevens
Jones
Stevens
P. D. Christian
Charles F. Stevens
Christian
Police and Fire
Hearing resumes in city council chamber tomorrow at 9 30
A majority of the committee will rule and the hearing will be resumed in the council chamber at city hall tomorrow morning at 9 30.
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Stevens
Man 30 Dies After Long Illness In Macon Street Apt
Joseph F. Piears died from carbolic acid poisoning in his 516 West Macon Street apartment after a seven year illness. He left a note citing ill-health as the reason for his suicide. He had moved from Stigler Oklahoma with his wife three months ago and is survived by his wife and half sister Mrs Ida Suthard of Oklahoma. The body was turned over to Riebe Undertaking Company and held pending relatives' instructions.
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Joseph F. Piears
Macon Street
Picars
Stigler
Oklo
Riebe Undertaking Company
Piears
Ida Suthard
Oklahoma
Boys Play With Powder In Sheriff Office
Thirty pounds of blasting powder found in an open powder can in Sheriff Tobin s office. Deputy Antonio Diaz had discovered boys playing with it on a vacant lot and they had used up much of the powder before Diaz took the remainder. Police awaited identification by Peden Iron and Steel Company officials.
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Tobin
Antonio Diaz
Diaz
Peden Iron and Steel Company
Peden Company
Mexican Charged With Murder in Corpus Christi
Domingo Saza, a Mexican resident of Corpus Christi, was bound over on a $2000 bond after an examining trial before Justice Whelan. He is accused of killing Leon Trevino on Christmas Eve as Trevino and his wife walked to a dance.
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Corpus Christi
Tex
Domingo Saza
Justice of the Peace Whelan
Sara
Leon Trevino
Merchant Killed in New Orleans Street Fight
Louis Villon, a local merchant and member of a chasing posse, was killed and three other men wounded when a burglar was engaged by a posse in a street fight in New Orleans on December 28.
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Burelar
New Orleans
Louis Villon
Villon
Auto Upsets Buggy in Roosevelt Avenue Collision
BP. C. Roberts was arrested about 11 PM on a charge of discharging firearms within city limits after a buggy carrying Mrs. Emil Roberts and 9 year old Celeste Roberts was struck by an automobile on Roosevelt Avenue. The accident bruised the occupants and broke the buggy. A Lee Fussell witness reported hearing a shot near Roosevelt and Fair Play avenues. Mrs. Elizabeth Ann Mitchell died at 10 PM at 619 Crosby Street aged 60. funeral Monday at 3 PM with interment in city cemetery.
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BP. C. Roberts
Roosevelt Avenue
Christian and
Pipes
Emil Roberts
Little Celeste Roberts
Roose
E. A. Mitchell
Elizabeth Ann Mitchell
Crosby Street
Southern Pacific Railroad
Leonora Mitc
City Cemetery
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New Saint John's Orphanage
P. B. Grensle San Ar
Mas
Y. M. C. A. Orchestra
Wilson
Staunton
Mary Baldwin Seminary
Mann
Virginia
Stowers
Commerce Street
Angelus
Apollo
Goggan
Thos. Goggan & Bros
Houston and Navarro Sts
Galveston
Houston
Dallas
Temple
Waco
KK. C. Roberts
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