Committee to Meet Over New Industries in San Antonio
The industrial committee of the Chamber of Commerce will meet at 4 30 Monday afternoon to consider proposals for new industries in San Antonio. Members include B R Webb chairman and Harry L Miller W B Tuttle R O McCormack C H Kearny A S Pawkett Ernest Groos and A R Ponder. A silk hose factory may come to the city after a manufacturer with two eastern plants toured the area and praised labor supply and conditions.
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Industrial Committee of the
Chamber of Commerce
San Antonio
B. R. Webb
Harry L. Miller
W. B. Tuttle
R. O. McCormack
C. H. Kearny
A. S. Pawkett
Ernest Groos
A. R. Ponder
Lincoln Memorial University Starts Million Dollar Endowment Drive
On Lincoln’s birthday observances at Lincoln Memorial University Cumberland Gap Tennessee Dr John Wesley Hill announced a plan to endow the institution with one million dollars to support industrial agricultural commercial and scientific education for mountain boys and girls across Tennessee Virginia and Kentucky. National figures support the effort and a five million dollar goal is hoped. The ceremony closed a three day celebration with S S McClure warning that the European war outcome hinges on Allied strategy and Russian adherence to the allies.
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Lincoln Memorial
Cumberland Gap
Tenn
Abraham Lincoln
Lincoln Memorial University
John Wesley Hill
New York
Washington
Tennessee
Virginia
Kentucky
University
S.S. McClure
Russia
Actoids Inc Adv Promotes Laxative Purge Aid
An advertisement for Actoids inc promotes Act Actively Act Pleasantly with a laxative or purge claim. The short copy markets a product labeled Actoids for digestive relief and related effects.
Coldest weather in years worsens Detroit coal shortage
Detroit reports its coldest weather in years with twelve degrees below zero in the city and 12 to 22 degrees lower in surrounding areas. The severe cold compounds a winter coal shortage affecting the region.
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Detroit
Mich
New York Sees Coldest Winter Morning Yet
The temperature fell to three degrees above zero at 7 30 am in New York marking the coldest spell of the season. Officials forecast warmer conditions later today.
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New York
Record Warmth Defeated by Deep Freeze Across New England
Boston Feb 12 The coldest weather of the winter was reported at several New England points with minimum temperatures ranging from 24 degrees below zero to six above last night. The blast slowed activity and prompted warnings as residents prepared for continued freezing conditions.
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Boston
Mass
New England
Cleveland Hits Ten Below With Gas Pressure Freezing Coal Shortage
In Cleveland Ohio this forenoon the thermometer fell to ten degrees below zero. The day marked the coldest since 1883 and brought record low gas pressure along with a coal shortage, intensifying the winter weather crisis.
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Cleveland
Forty Below Zero Hits Saratoga Skies Morning
In Saratoga New York February 12 a widespread record cold snap sent temperatures to forty degrees below zero in many areas marking the coldest spell of the winter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Saratoga
N. Y
Weather to Moderate After Norther Passes
The northerday cold spell has ended and, per the forecast, temperatures will rise Monday night into Tuesday. The low was 36 degrees with an upward trend and fair conditions expected. Major Allen Buell notes the region is entering an early spring phase with unsettled, uncertain weather and fewer cold threats.
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Mississippi Valley
New Mexico
Columia
Allen Buell
New Tar Chem fuel to replace coal tested in Chicago
Chicago reports a substitute fuel formed by a tar and chemical mix packed in two and a half inch blocks. Tests in apartment houses during zero weather proved satisfactory and plans consider large scale manufacture as coal shortages persist and heat costs drop.
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Chicago
Ill
Germany
Was Aqueduct Damaged Investigation Ordered
New York reports an investigation into alleged yesterday bombing attempts on the Catskill aqueduct, which supplies city water, ordered by Major General John F. O'Ryan. In Texas, Waco hosts a private session of the General Passenger Agents Association of Texas with 15 attendees and J. E. Hannegan presiding.
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New York
Catskill Aqueduct
John F. O’ryan
State National Guard
General Passenger Agents
Waco
Tex
General Passenger Agents’ Association of Texas
J. E. Hannegan
St. Louis
Mrs Innes On Trial In Atlanta For Larceny After Trust
Mrs Victor E Innes faces larceny after trust charges in Atlanta Ga as her husband had been convicted for the Nelms sisters case. The Inneses had earlier been acquitted in San Antonio of killing Beatrice Nelms and Eloise Nelms Dennis. Victor Innes received seven years imprisonment and the verdict was upheld by the state supreme court. Mrs Innes is described as ill with tuberculosis at the trial outset.
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Atlanta
Victor E. Innes
State Supreme Court
British thanks to Gerard for aid to prisoners of war
London Feb 12 The gratitude of the nation has been conveyed to James W. Gerard former American ambassador at Berlin for his efforts on behalf of British civilians and prisoners of war in Germany Foreign Secretary Balfour announced in the House of Commons that the text of the message would be published
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London
James W. Gerard
Berlin
Germany
Balfour
House of Commons
Free Cooking School Opened by Mrs Vaughn
Mrs Vaughn opens a free cooking school with a special yearly message for the elderly, praising receptive pupils and promising no disappointment. The Light warns Beethoven hall seats are limited to about a thousand, advising early attendance each day.
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Vaughn
Beethoven Hall
Germany asks about her interned seamen
Foreign Secretary Zimmerman said he asked Switzerland to query Washington on the status of crews of interned German ships in American ports. Meanwhile 72 Americans aboard the raider Yarrowdale are held in Germany. Two classes of ships exist in U S ports war vessels are interned under international law. merchant ships in harbor are not.
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Berlin
Sayville
Associated Press
Zimmerman
Washington
Yarrowdale
Germany
Washington, D. C
Prinz Eitel Friedrich
Kron Prinz Wilhelm
Cormorant
Guam
Geir
Honolulu
Sips
United States
Cermaty
Ben
Mrs Vaughn Reveals Home Recipes For Cakes And Desserts
Mrs Vaughn shares several recipes for housewives including California Cake Dixie Biscuit Snow Pudding and Cream Icing with detailed steps and substitutions using Royal baking powder Snowdrift Carnation milk and Dromedary cocoanut. The notes describe preparation, mixing, baking times and serving ideas.
Gerard praised for wartime ambassadorship in Berlin
Gerard assumed the Berlin ambassadorship in September 1913. He faced wartime turmoil eleven months later and earned praise from public figures across entente nations and even Germany for his diplomatic handling. Nominated by President Wilson in 1913, he served from the Supreme Court bench before taking the post.
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Gerard
Berlin
Supreme Court
France
Great Britain
Japan
Russia
Italy
Germany
Wilson
German navy threats cited in Stresemann address
In London Feb 12 at Wildeshausen Stresemann warned that German bluejackets will block German steamers in American ports to deter use by others. He added submarine actions would bolster the spring campaign, notes Rotterdam dispatch to Evening News.
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London
Wildelshaven
Germany
United States
Gustav Stresemann
Reichstag
Rotterdam
Evening News
Stresemann
Y W C A Meeting Postponed for Cassidy Arrival
The Y W C A announces postponement of the Wednesday meeting to Thursday at 3 30 as financial manager H A Cassidy arrives to discuss the $50 000 debt on the building. The board’s regular meeting remains scheduled for 10 30 Tuesday at the association building.
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H. A. Cassidy
Young Woman's Christian Association
Cassidy
Association
Italians Taken Prisoner on Gorizia Front
An Austro Hungarian army bulletin dated February 11 reports 370 additional Italians were captured in the fighting on the Gorizia front during the previous Saturday.
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Berlin
Tuckerton
N. J
Gorizia
Gerard Led Berlin Relief Effort For Stranded Citizens
Envoy Mr. Gerard organized aid for thousands of American, British, French, and Russian nationals stranded in Germany as war broke out. Praise came from Sir Edward Goschen and the British foreign office. Born 1867 in Geneseo New York, he rose through law and politics, served in the Spanish American War, and later on the Supreme Court bench.
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Gerard
Germany
Berlin
Sir Edward Goshen
Foreign Office
State Department
Washington
Mr. Gerard
Geneseo
N. Y
James Watson Gerard
Board of Education
New York City
Columbia University
New York Law School
Bowers & Sands
Tammany Hall
Supreme Court
United States
New York National Guard
McCoskry Butt
Mary Daly
Marcus Daly
Butte
Mont
Advocates of Peace Arrive in Washington for Referendum Push
A special train of the Emergency Peace Federation arrived from New York and other eastern cities to seek congressional support for measures to trigger a popular referendum before declaring war. Peace advocates held demonstrations and meetings with speakers to press their case. Also, Austrian Baron Ladislaus Majphense of Budapest sought U S naturalization in New York amid a wave of about five thousand residents renouncing allegiance to home countries.
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Washington, D. C
Peace Federation
New York
Philadelphia
Congress
Baron Ladislaus Majphense
Budapest
United States District Court
Committees to Meet on School Military Training
A joint meeting of Chamber of Commerce and Rotary Club committees is called for Tuesday noon at the Travis Club. They will discuss recommending to the school board the introduction of military training in higher grades of the city schools. Both groups endorse universal training.
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Chamber of Commerce and
Rotary Club
Travis Club
School Board
Rotary
Duck Billing Gaffe Sparks Private Laughs
In a humorous exchange, a butcher apologizes to Mrs Newlywed for forgetting the bill on a duck, prompting her quip that the bill itself was visible on the duck. The lighthearted moment illustrates small-town shop talk.
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Butcher
Mrs. Newlywed
Texas Industrial Traffic League Meets on Shreveport Rate Case
The Texas Industrial Traffic League gathered in San Antonio at the Gunter Hotel with thirty attendees to discuss the Shreveport rate case and other pressing Texas commercial issues. President G S Maxwell presided as officials from Fort Worth Dallas Beaumont Galveston Waco Texarkana and San Antonio participated.
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Texas Industrial Traffic League
San Antonio
Shreveport
Texas
Gunter Hotel
G. S. Maxwell
League
Sam H. Cowan
Fort Worth
H., H. Haines
Galveston
Galveston Chamber of Commerce
E. P. Byars
Villa troops seize Twin Wind mill near border
Villa forces occupy Twin Wind mill 26 miles south of the border line according to Carranza customs officials. A Villa drive toward the border was reported from western Chihuahua by other sources.
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Columbus
N. M
Villa
Twin Windmill
Carranza
Chihuahua
Cholly Struggles to Gather Thoughts Revealed
A Boston Transcript excerpt notes Cholly saying he cannot collect his thoughts and quips perhaps none are coming to him, reflecting a moment of confusion and comic self awareness.
Why do you fire me IT work the sixty
A brief exchange in the Louisville Courier Journal centers on a supervisor asking why an employee is dismissed while the worker insists on his age and capability. The caption frames the struggle between age and performance.
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Louisville Courier-Journal
Poor Judgment, A Lawyer Heir and Late Night Paradox
A fragmentary joke exchange notes a man returning home to find his wife awake and the old lady naming him as both heir and lawyer. The line hints at a legal twist and a punchline about responsibility.
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