Chicago Commerce chief invites San Antonio businessmen to Chicago
H F Miller manager of the Chicago Association of Commerce arrived in San Antonio to invite local businessmen to visit Chicago next summer. He praised unselfish civic work by chambers and urged federation of local business groups into a unified Chamber of Commerce to drive city growth and improve conditions.
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H. F. Miller
Chicago Association of Commerce
San Antonio
Chicago
Mr. Miller
Miller
Chamber of Commerce
Cincinnati
Indianapolis
St. Paul
General Chamber of Commerce
Texas
Fire Damages Jerome Hotel in Mineral Wells
A basement fire at the Jerome hotel in Mineral Wells Texas before daylight caused extensive interior damage. Most guests lost belongings while two women escaped in night clothes and a sick guest was carried down a ladder. Insurance coverage is $6000. total damage unknown. Origin undetermined.
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Associated Press
Mineral Wells
Tex
Jerome Hotel
Mrs Laura Farnsworth Schenk sues Clem B Peters for jewels
In Wheeling West Virginia on February 9 Mrs Laura Farnsworth Schenk filed a court petition against Clem B Peters a businessman seeking the return of jewels valued at $2000 which she says were pledged with him for $700 after her arrest on charges of attempting to poison her husband John O Schenk over a year ago.
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Wheeling
W. Va
Laura Farnsworth Schenk
Clem B. Peters
John O. Schenk
McMullen Visits City For Saturday Grand Opera
F. R. McMullen division passenger agent of the Southern railway based in Houston is in the city. Bryan at 4 p m Saturday features a Grand Opera House event.
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F. R. McMullen
The
Southern Railway
Houston
Bryan
Grand Opera House
Wills Filed For $600000 Estates In 1911 Probate
The county court will probate the wills of Gustave C. Schmeltzer and William Negley both dated in 1911. Schmeltzer leaves his entire estate to children and grandchildren share and share alike with minor provisions for marriage changes. Executors named include Gustave C. Schmeltzer Herman R. Schmeltzer and William A. Wurzbach. Negley’s will, one of the period’s briefest for a large fortune, appoints Mrs. Negley and Richard Van Wyck Negley as executors without bond and provides annual sums to aunts and nephews with a surviving wife receiving the remainder subject to a future share for children if she remarries. Action to probate to occur before term end.
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G. Schmeltzer
William Negley
Negley
Schmeltzer
Gustave C. Schmeltzer
Herman R. Schmeltzer
William A. Wurzbach
Charles F. A. Hummel
L. P. Boettler
George C. Mangham
P. J. Sculley
Miss Rickenbaugh
Hagerstown
Charles Lazelle Negley
Susan M. Negley
Poet Scout Offers Services to Texas Field Command
Captain Jack Crawford known as the poet scout telegraphed General Duncan offering his services if American troops enter Mexico. The Irish born frontier scout, author of The Poet Scout, formerly served under Crook and in Apache campaigns, now at 45 Broadway New York, says he will write again.
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Jack Crawford
Joseph W. Duncan
Department of Texas
Mexico
Duncan
Chihuahua
Victoria
Jack
Ireland
United States
Crook
New Mexico
Broadway
New York
Lonnie Franks Transferred Toward Huntsville Prison
Lonnie Franks the life sentenced killer of G J Levytansky in Laredo and two other inmates left the Bexar county jail this morning with Transfer Agent J P Miller guiding them en route to Huntsville penitentiary. Also transferred were A Ford William Harper and J B Keepers from Bexar county and three prisoners from Wilson county. Keepers once soaped his body to pass a jail break tunnel.
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Lonnie Franks
G. J. Levytansky
Laredo
J. B. Compton
Bexar County
Huntsville
J. P. Miller
A. Ford
William Harper
J. B. Keepers
Wilson
Will Wright
Duft Discharged By Judge Dwyer In Bribery Case
A. Duft, charged on grand jury indictments with offering a bribe to Sheriff John W. Tobin and Chief Deputy Charles Stevens to permit a bunco horse racing game, was discharged from custody by Judge Edward Dwyer after habeas corpus proceedings. The court ruled the indictments faulty as the bribe related to a future offense, thus Duft had broken no illegal act. He surrendered on the indictments, bond was reduced from 1500 to 600, then he was discharged and re arrested for vagrancy with a 25 dollar fine.
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A. Duff
John W. Tobin
Charles Stevens
Edward Dwyer
Thirty-seventh District Court
Duff
Duft
Dwyer
B Duft
Ben Fisk
Application to set aside sale of Kauffman residence corner San Pedro and Park
Walter L. Hovel guardian of Jack Hovel estate filed yesterday in probate court to set aside the sale that made Louis Kauffman owner of the corner property at San Pedro avenue and Park Avenue. Kauffman erected a two story residence after members of the Hovel family preempted it and gained a writ of dispossession. Judge Phil Shook set February 16 for the hearing.
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Louis Kauffman
San Pedro Avenue
Park Avenue
Walter L. Hovel
Jack Hovel
Condition Unchanged For Hugh Del Vincent In New Orleans
The condition of Hugh Del Vincent, a New Orleans cotton broker, remains unchanged at the St. Anthony hotel after several days illness. His son Hugh E. Vincent, a Harvard student informed by telegraph, arrived in the city this morning.
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Hugh del Vincent
New Orleans
St. Anthony
Hugh E. Vincent
Harvard
Faithful Slave Aunt Ann Johnson Dies in San Antonio
Aunt Ann Johnson, described as the most faithful old slave, died this morning at age 90 at her Victoria street home. She spent 25 years in San Antonio after coming from Mississippi with Mrs. J R Jefferson and was reared by General Jefferson. After emancipation she refused to leave Mrs. Jefferson and accompanied the family to Texas.
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Ann” Johnson
J. D. Guinn
Ann
Victoria Street
San Antonio
J. R. Jefferson
Guinn
Mississippi
General Jefferson
Jefferson
Texas
Auto Race Film Night at Plaza Theater
Motion pictures of auto races shot in San Antonio will be shown tonight at the Plaza theater. The event is hosted by the Automobile club with Lloyd Spencer as manager and Brack as photographer.
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San Antonio
Plaza Theater
Automobile Club
Lloyd Spencer
Brack
San Antonio Death Rate Corrected to 1.65 per Thousand
San Antonio will show a lower death rate in future official records after a miscalculation was corrected. At a board of health meeting, officials noted the January rate should be 1.65 per thousand rather than 16.5, due to previous per ten thousand calculations. During last month 207 burial permits were issued, with the city population estimated at 198 000.
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San Antonio
Washington, D. C
Board of Health
Hunter Kills 475 Pound Bear Near Idabel Oklahoma
English baker and noted hunter killed a large bear weighing 475 pounds on Glover Mountain near Idabel Oklahoma. The meat sold for 35 cents a pound.
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Oklahoma
Cress Paris
Tex
Glover Mountain
Idabel
Okla
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Hones
White
Russia
Tan & Gunmetal
Boots Fifbut
Lisle
Knotair Hosiery Company, Mfrs
Philadelphia
Washer Bros. Co
Chicago Commercial Association
Ienores
Esie More Bros
Althe
Flexner’s
Schaefer Drug Co
Quality Pharmacy
SAN Antono Printing CO
I B. Clegg
Soledad
Mrs. Schenk
Balk
Miaureaux Booterie
Commerce Street
G. N. and
Stock Yards
Charles Fitzmaurice
Marquis of Lansdowne
Lord Shaftesbury
Medina
India
Colonial
Horlick
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