New School Term Opens in San Antonio Schools
The new term began with about 15 000 students filling desks and standing during exercises as 5600 children enrolled in first grade. The district plans hundreds more desks and extra rooms to handle growth. Main Avenue High School opened with 900 plus students and seventh grades move to temporary Avenue E building to relieve crowding. The board meets Wednesday to address conditions.
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San Antonio Public
San Antonio
Main Avenue High School
H. D. Kampmann
Avenue E
Brackenridge School
Government Loses Shoe Machinery Case in Supreme Court
The Supreme Court ruled that officials of the United States Shoe Machinery Company did not violate the Sherman anti trust law by forming the company. The court did not rule on the leasing system that excludes independent machinery and adjourned until February 24.
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Washington
Supreme Court
United States Shoe Machinery Company
Inter-Mountain
Man Sentenced to Huntsville for Manslaughter
Waxahachie Tex Feb 3 Unattended by an officer William Shedd a 62 year old negro left this morning for Huntsville to serve two i on conviction of manslaughter The case of Shedd who was charged with killing a young negro was recently affirmed and while motion for rehearing was pending he decided to begin serving his sentence.
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Waxahachie
Tex
William Shedd
Huntsville
Shedd
Thankful He Was Hot A Woman
The lae Lawson Tait of England, famed for his care of women, said he thanked heaven he was not born a woman. The text praises Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound as a simple herbal remedy helping many women with female illnesses.
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Lae Lawson Tait
England
Lydia E. Pinkham
Local Remedy Claims Quick Relief for Appendicitis Pain
San Antonio residents report that a single dose of Adlerika containing buckthorn bark and glycerine relieves appendicitis pain. HL. Wagner, Druggist, Hicks Building.
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San Antonio
HL. Wagner
Wagner
Hicks Bldg
Taft to Name Five More Federal Judges Before He Quits
President Taft plans to send five additional nominations to the Senate, bringing his total to 114 federal judges named during his administration. He has already sent ten unrevealed nominations and named 58 percent of the 195 judges authorized by law, with notable emphasis on supreme court appointments.
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Washington, D. C
Taft
Senate
Supreme Bench
Roosevelt
McKinley
Mr. Cleveland
Mr. Harrison
Flood fears rise as Seine swells in Paris again
Paris faces renewed flood danger as the Seine climbs about two inches per hour. Water has inundated low areas especially in the southwest district of Bercy with Rue Watt near Tolbiac Bridge first flooded to several inches. Rain persists in up-country regions after a pause in the city.
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Paris
Seine
Bercy
Watt
Tolbie Bridge
Two Women Die In New York Theater Panic
A false fire alarm at a Houston Street moving picture theater sparked a panic among about 400 spectators. Rose Siegel witnessed the chaos as two women were trampled to death and around a dozen people injured when a boy cried fire after a film caught alight. The blaze caused minimal damage and was extinguished within seconds.
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New York
Houston Street
Moving Picture Theater
Rose Siegel
Pencaraes
Fenders Save Life On San Antonio Street Car
A man slipped in front of a street car at Houston and St Marys in San Antonio. The car’s fender saved him as he was dragged several feet before the vehicle stopped. Police tried to identify him, but he refused to give his name.
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San Antonio
Houston
St. Mary’s Street
Policeman Dulling
Wife learns husband alive after fifty years wait
Mrs. Alice Eddy, long believing her husband Newton S. Clothier dead, received a letter from Stafford Kansas stating Clothier was alive and would visit Wichita soon. Eddy had married Clothier in 1856 in North English Iowa and, eight years after his disappearance, wed George H. Eddy who died in Hutchinson Kansas. Eddy moved to Wichita two years ago.
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Wichita
Kan
Alice Eddy
Newton S. Clothier
Stafford
Clothier
Army reorganization creates four departments and three infantry divisions
President Taft directs a new army plan effective February 15 unifying the mobile force within the continental United States. Four geographic departments will host two infantry divisions and one cavalry division with coast artillery districts nationwide and a Hawaii brigade. Bliss, Barry, Carter, and others receive new commands as Pershing and Funston hold key posts.
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Washington, D. C
United States Army
Taft
War Stimson
Continental
United States
War College
General Staff
War Department
Governor's Island
Chicago
San Francisco
San Antonio
Thomas H Barry
Central Department
William H. Carter
Tasker H. Bliss
Department of the East
Arthur Murray
Philippines
J. Franklin Bell
Luzon
Clarence R. Edwards
Mindanao
John J. Pershing
Hawaiian
Frederick Funston
Thomas H. Barry
Marion F. Maus
Robert K. Evans
William H. Cart
Ramsay D. Potts
Frederick A. Smith
Ralph W. Hoyt
Walter S. Schuyler
Frank West
E. Z. Steever
Charles A. P. Hatfield
Thirteenth
Hawaii
Coast Artillery
North Atlantic
Delaware
Fort Totten
N. Y
South Atlantic
Baltimore
Galveston
Charleston
N. C
Pacific
Fort Miley
Cal
Montgomery M. Macomb
Hair Renewal Aids Patient’s Confidence and Discovery
A woman loses her hair and regains it after using Hall's Hair Renewer costing one dollar. She discussed the issue with her doctor first, gaining confidence to proceed with treatment, with no coloring involved.
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Hall
Army plan to form Southern Department at San Antonio
The general staff outlines creation of four grand continental departments with San Antonio as Southern Department headquarters. Cavalry regiments and artillery units move under the new structure while existing Texas boundaries shift to Arizona and away from Fort Logan H. Roots. Officers praise the efficiency and mobilization potential of the change.
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General Staff
United States Army
San Antonio
Fort Sam Houston
Cavalry
Department of Texas
Department
Special Border Service
Arizona
Apache
Huachuca
Fort Logan H. Roots
Oklahoma
Southern Department
Washington
Third Field Artillery
Fifth Field Artillery
Ninth Infantry
Twenty-second Infantry
Signal Corps
Cavalry Division
Tasker H. Bliss
Bliss
Charles G. Treat
W. 8. Scott
Desperate Texas Family Seeks Help Amid Hard Times
A two room Oak Street home houses a destitute family with a cancer-stricken father. His right arm was removed and his left is failing, leaving him helpless while the mother works to feed and clothe her two young children. Mrs Haley of Associated Charities provides temporary aid and seeks permanent employment for the mother as rail expansion and local trades appear in unrelated notes.
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Oak Street
Sadie Haley
Associated Charities
Legislature Faces Busy Week Amid Crowded Calendars
Austin reports both Senate and House enter fourth week of law making with calendars crowded and committees active. Governors messages planned on Alamo and education as consolidation bills like Katy and Santa Fe Cotton Belt Texas & New Orleans move toward final action. Married women property law near third reading, Senate likely to pass with possible modifications. An Alamo bill receives favorable review and Senate public buildings committee plans an open hearing Tuesday evening.
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Austin
Tex
Senate
House
Katy
Santa Fe
Cotton Belt
Texas & New Orleans
Senate Committee On Public Buildings and Grounds
Secret Inquiry Planned in Texas Legislature Poker Probe
A Texas House committee will hold closed door investigations into allegations that lawmakers played poker with lobbyists to reflect on official conduct. The Texas Senate and House debated measures on pool halls, labor agency licenses, and a 100 dollar license for employment agencies, with bills moving toward passage and gubernatorial action.
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Austin
Tex
House Committee
Henry
Commissioner of Labor
Starling
Senate
Townsend
Savage
House
Texas
Escaped Sufferer Credits Plant Juice Cure
H G Williams of 114 Blum Street describes ten years of indigestion constipation and kidney trouble ending with Plant Juice. He claims relief and urges readers to Fischer's Drug Store at the Houston and Alamo corner to learn more.
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H. G. Williams
Blum Street
Fischer’s
Houston
Alamo
Texas lawmakers weigh marketing reforms for farm products
The House committee on agriculture favors a bill creating a rural marketing commission to study Europe’s farming credit system. Governor Colquitt backs the plan as a panel including the governor and university presidents would hire two commissioners with a $5000 appropriation to report on rural credit and agricultural societies.
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Colquitt
Wortham, Webb
Agricultural Societies
Europe
Texas
Edwin Chamberlain
San Antonio
American Bankers’ Association
Universities of Texas
The
Agricultural and Mechanical College
Consideration of anti-frat bill to be heard this week
Representative Harris of El Paso moves the anti-frat bill through its committee as students and UT graduates seek a hearing. The UT faculty has yet to state its stance on abolishing fraternities. Also in Austin the Senate passes a mutual bail insurance bill for the second time and adopts a resolution to probe the Gatesville State Training School for Juveniles.
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Harris
el Paso
University of Texas
Austin
Tex
Senate
Gatesville
Senate bill moves Alamo custody to state superintendent
In Austin on February 3 the Senate introduced a bill by Hudspeth Watson Kaufman Nugent and Terrell to place Alamo mission property under the superintendent of public buildings and grounds with exclusive state control and restore it near its post massacre condition. The measure removes the Daughters of the Republic from involvement and appropriates 7500 dollars to carry out the provisions.
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Austin
Tex
Senate
Hudspeth, Watson
Kaufman
Harlandale Medicated Mud Baths Claim Cures Rheumatism
Ad announces the healing powers of Harlandale medicated mud baths for rheumatism sciatica neuritis gout eczema Brights disease high blood pressure and kidney liver complaints. Testimonials from numerous beneficiaries are promised and readers urged to take the South Flores street car to visit.
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Harlandale
Bright
South Flores
Hood's Sarsaparilla Restores System After Cold
Purported medical ad claims Hood's Sarsaparilla makes the blood pure and recovers the system after a cold more effectively than other medicines. Take Hood's.
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Hood
Parcel Post Charges May Be Reduced and Expanded
Postmaster General Hitchcock releases annual report noting tentative parcel post rate cuts and raising the weight limit beyond eleven pounds. He cites postal savings banks growth, a net saving of about 45 million dollars, and urges consolidation of third and fourth class mail for parcel post.
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Washington, D. C
Hitchcock
Presidential Post
Postal Savings System
Central Office
Postmaster General
Parcel Post
Justice Hughes
United States Supreme Court
Post Office Department
Congress
Fra
Department
Harbor City property praised by Aransas Pass agent
Mr. J. E. January of Aransas Pass reports selling about seventy five Harbor City lots with every buyer investing. He asserts locals trust Harbor City, Burton and Danforth, and Harbor Island, urging readers to invest based on their judgment. A. D. Powers signs.
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J. E. January
Aransas Pass
Harbor City
Burton
Danforth
Big Harbor
Harbor Island
A. D. Powers
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J. R. Cunningham
Moore Bldg
Old Phon
Collman
Agu
Alam
Collins
Beaumont
Port Arthur
Johnson
Hall County
Commissioners Court
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Astoria
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