UIT Against Narvesters Opens Monday
In Chicago on February 16 1912 the United States court case United States vs International Harvest Company opens Monday with Assistant District Attorney General Grosvenor to lead testimony. The suit seeks dissolution of the $140 million monopoly and appoints receivers to manage the company assets. Defendants listed include International Harvest Company its affiliates and several officials and directors such as H McCormick W J Ford Perkins G W Perkins and others.
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Chicago
Grosvenor
United States
Paul
Ist
New Jersey
Govment
Nfant
Theodore Roose- II
Gove
Anty
St. Paul
International Harvest Company of America
International Harvester Company
Ternational Harvester Company Oferica
International Flax Twinempany
Wisconsin Steel Company
Wisconsin Lumber Company
Inois Northern Railroad Company
Chicago West Pullman Anduthern Railroad Company
Cy- 8
H. McCormick
Charles Deer
John H. Glessner
William Jones
Harold F. McCormick
Chard F. Howe
Edgard E. Banoft
George F. Baker
William J. Uderback
Norman B. Ream
Ames Steele
John A. Chapman
Bert H. Gary
Thomas D. Jones
Hn P. Wilson
William L
George W. Perkins
Rates at meeting on wa ters and bonds for plant
The council plans to delay action on two ordinances affecting the San Antonio Water Supply. Boynton would cut rates by 20 percent. Richter seeks a 1,000,000 bond issue for replacing or expanding the plant. Mayor Jones urges a referendum on the contract.
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Boynton
San Antonio
Lucas
Blic Utilities Committee
Offlals
Alexander Potter
Public Utilities Committee
Lus
Jones
Council
Harvesters Trust Trial Opens in Chicago Monday
Prominent defendants Elbert H. Gary Cyrus McCormick and G Perkins face a government case charged with forming a trust. Assistant Attorney General Edmund P Grosvenor to prosecute as proceedings begin in Chicago on Monday.
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Elbert H. Gary
Cyrus McCormick
G . Perkins
Edmund P. Grosvenor
Chicago
Persian Ambassador Praises Texas and University Visit
Nizzli Ali Kuli Khan Persia’s ambassador to the United States, arrived in San Antonio with his wife and daughter to address UT students on Modern Persia. He lauds Texas as an empire in flux and suggests possible Persian colonies in the United States while praising the state’s fertility and resources. He also advocates a larger Texas university and notes progress reshaping Persia under Morgan Shuster. The visit includes sightseeing in San Antonio and a reception with local officials.
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Texas
Nizzli Ali Kuli Khan
United States
Persia
San Antonio
Austin
Washington
University of Texas
St. Anthony Hotel
Khan
California
Lone Star
Morgan Shuster
France
Monument to Wife of Dantzinger to Rise on Texas Mountain
Harry Dantzinger funds a Llano granite monument weighing 45000 pounds to honor his wife who died April 27, 1912, ten months after their marriage. The stone will crown a mountain near Boerne, with ashes of both spouses interred inside and inscriptions detailing their brief life together and her virtues. The larger memorial, the San Antonio project, reflects the couple’s famed wealth and Mrs. Dantzinger’s nurse club tribute from the Aimwell Club in New York.
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Harry Dantziger
Llano
Boerne
Tex
Alva
Dora
Emiler
Ray Clarence
Oie
Aimwell Club Nurses’ Settlement of
New York
Dantziger
San Antonio
San Antonio Advertisers Leader to Speak in Baltimore
J Frank Davis president of the San Antonio Advertisers Association has been invited to speak at the opening of the national convention of the Associated Advertising Clubs of America in Baltimore next June. Davis accepted the invitation while the Texas convention highlighted lay sermons in Dallas churches as a model for Baltimore. Davis is a Pilgrim Publicity Association of Houston member and general representative of S A Hopkins.
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Associated Advertising Clubs of America
San Antonio
Baltimore
Davis
Lub
Pilgrim Publicity Association of
Hoston
S. A. Hopkins
Discrimination by Railroads Found in Through Rates
Texas points face higher through rates to California via Texas by five dollars more than other routes. Publicity Division of the Chamber of Commerce investigates with plans to rectify. Advertising reaches thirty northern and eastern newspapers and Canada, promoting San Antonio to tourists and investors. The publication San Antonio Beautiful is distributed, with results noted. The Zoophilist reports a new painless slaughter instrument, while the Council of Justice to Animals calls it safe and humane. Dr. Percival Barton, aged ninety, continues practicing in St Paul. TM Kansas agricultural college gives lectures on auto building and operation.
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Chamber of Commerce
Texas
California
Conness
Canada
San Antonio
Publicity League
Zoophilist
National Anti-Vivisection Society of England
Mfe
Council of Justice To Animals
Islington Abattoirs
Palms to be sold at cost to Corpus Christi residents
The Commercial Club of Corpus Christi ordered a solid car of fan palms from Dr. M. E. Broadus to encourage yard planting. Palms will be uniform and offered at a very reasonable cost to homeowners. The club seeks railroad depot beautification with palms and flowers.
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Corpus Christi
Tex
M. E. Broadus
Corpus
Flake
Commercial Club
Goethals Urges Fortifications for Panama Canal Defense
Col George W Goethals urges a strong defense plan for the Panama Canal including 25 000 troops in peacetime training for war readiness and a reduced civilian population in the Canal Zone to cut administration and tax burden while maintaining coast guard torpedo craft and land batteries to deter an enemy landing.
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Washington, D. C
Panama Canal
George W. Goethals
Congress
United States
Goethals
Canal Zone
Canal
Cornel Goethals
Colonel Goethals
Panama taxes threaten Canal Zone revenue balance
The speaker argues that Panama taxes all production and that increases in Panamanian taxes trigger equal increases in the Canal Zone under their arrangement. He warns that failing to mirror Panama’s tax hikes would push people into the Canal Zone seeking cheaper taxation.
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Panama
Republic of Panama
Canal Zone
Sixth Ward Improvement Club Convening in Pine and Mason
A. B. Weakley and Sixth Ward residents plan an organization meeting Tuesday at the Methodist Church annex to form an improvement club. Women and men are urged to attend as sidewalks and civic upkeep become initial goals, inspired by Prospect Hill’s efforts.
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A. B. Weakley
Sixth Ward
Methodist Church Annex
Pine and
Mason Streets
Weakley
Prospect Hill
Fraternity Members Press Oppose Harris Bill in Texas
San Antonio Pan-Hellenic Association leaders condemn the Harris anti fraternity bill and pledge to oppose it. Sigma Alpha Epsilon members met at the Gunter Hotel to plan the March 8 banquet at the Menger Hotel and discuss continued fraternity support for the university amid ongoing San Antonio opposition.
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Texas
Harris
South
Pan- Hellenic Association
Menger Hotel
San Antonio
Sigma Alpha Epsilom
Wesley Peacock
University of Texas
Clint Brown
Frank Wash
Ford Groos
Charles M. Dickson
Bee side Restaurant Offers Texan Plates At Market Prices
A local diner in Bee side advertises quick meals and market pricing. It touts a popular Annie dish from Texas for 25 cents, promising fast service and short orders.
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Beeside Restaurant
Texas
Bankrupt sale of Extence Hardware stock in San Antonio
Walter Turner advertises a bankruptcy sale of the Extence Hardware Co stock at 1216 W Commerce St near Hay Market. The inventory includes paints, varnishes, wall paper, hardware, guns, wagons, and crocks with prices sharply cut to attract buyers and transfer from I N G N to view and purchase.
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Extence Hardware Co
West Commerce Street
Hay Market Square
San Antonio
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UIT
Narvesters
Econ 8
Buncil
Laurence Gomme
London
London Chronicle
Adam Bede
Foupttas
Flatbush
Nizzli Ali Kula Kahn
Michigan
Boston
James D. Walthall
J. Hart
J. F. Carter
Paria
Husband
SAN Antonian
J. Frank Davis
Publicity Bureau of Chamber of Commerce
Texas Points
Percival Barton
Kansas Agricultural College
Light
Rominger Bros
Riverside
Gol. Goethals
Debar
Madras
Mer
Ake
Charmeuse
Suits
O'coats
Suits & O’coats
O’coats
Dalkowitz Bros. Co
Harris Bill
Fan-Hellenic Association
Ces Cesserences
Reese
Glidden
Cence Neha
Coeree
Berry Bros. Woodsbury
Pratt & Lambert’s
Grossi
Ris Ae Ask Nee Feakan
Lipa
Lincoln
Benjamin Moore
van Ravenss
Cerio Ohens Seuchassbhixhaeents
Walter Turner
Ex'tence Hardware Company
W. Commerce Stree
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