First meeting of Albert Sidney Johnston Camp opens year
The Albert Sidney Johnston Camp No. 144 United Confederate Veterans held a pleasant afternoon meeting with songs recitations and instrumental selections. Manager Lloyd Spencer of the Plaza plans a benefit for the camp and Mrs. W. P. Braugh was made an honorary member of the Dick Dowling Camp in Houston for veterans’ home work. Varina Saunders of Belton performed dialect readings and a program of solos duets and recitations followed featuring Misses Bessie Stanfield Ida Smith and Violet Haynes among others.
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Albert Sidney Johnston
United Confederate Veterans
Peterson
Lloyd Spencer
Plaza
W. P. Braugh
Dick Dowling
Houston
Varina Saunders
Belton
M. D. Monserrate
Earl English
R. English
May Lose Speech After Attack in Lake Charles
Charles Isaacs, 25, was attacked Sunday night leaving him unable to speak as his tongue was slashed with a razor or sharp knife. An assailant escaped but police pursue him while the undertaker and auto ambulance service are listed at the scene.
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Lake Charles
Charles Isaacs
Isaacs
Legislature Eyes Probes and Border Crisis at Austin
Texas lawmakers resume work with 884 bills awaiting action. Irrigation and A and M probe loom, while border tensions prompt plans for militia debates. Notaries, college site votes, delinquent property sales, and franchise tax details crowd the session, as governors and committees map possible reforms.
McKamy Bill Creates Corporate Courts in Texas Cities
In Austin on February 17 a House bill by Representative McKamy of Dallas proposes forming corporation courts in Texas cities with 5000 or more residents. The courts would share concurrent jurisdiction with county and justice courts, with juries to be selected for these proceedings.
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Court of Criminal Appeals
Justice
Corporation Courts
Secretary of State
Texas
State Department
McKamy
Austin
Tex
Dallas
Moore
United States
San Antonio
Dyspepsia Creates Queer Sensations
An old newspaper ad extols Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets as a safe, natural remedy for indigestion and related ailments. The copy claims quick relief, improved appetite, and digestion, urging purchase from a local druggist for fifty cents. It presents the product as harmless to all ages and highlights its stomach-supporting effects.
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Stuart
Man Still Superior Says Professor Zucklin Address
New York suffragette leaders and orators struggle to absorb a recent address by Professor Charles Zucklin. He argued that male supremacy began as physical and symbolized by a club. Civilization brought science, while women became helpers and primary spenders.
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New York
Charles Zucklin
Panama Canal Tolls Amendment Rejected by Senate Committee
Washington February 17 Senator Root proposed amendment to repeal free passage for American coastwise shipping on the Panama Canal was rejected by the Senate committee on interoceanic canals. A motion to table carried 7 to 3 with Brandegee Page and Percy in support. No report will be made and no minority finding. Some senators voted to table believing toll issue too important for the brief current Congress debate.
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Washington, D. C
Root
Senate Committee On
Congress
Lord Resigns as New York Sun Managing Editor
Chester S. Lord resigns from the New York Sun after 41 years of service to the paper. He was appointed managing editor in 1880 and has held the position continuously, citing a wish to relinquish some duties.
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Lord
New York Sun
New York
Chester S. Lord
the Sun
Blood Bath Knocks Rheumatism
An advertisement extols 8. 8. S. as a pure vegetable blood remedy that soaks through the intestines to purify the blood and relieve rheumatic pains. It claims rapid action in arteries and capillaries, dissolving accumulations and neutralizing acids, with the Swift Laboratory backing and a price of $1.00 per week. It invites letters for expert advice.
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Great Swift Laboratory
Check Our Babies Idea Provokes Mothers at Church
In Evanston Illinois on February 17 mothers at Wheaton Methodist Episcopal Church objected to a proposed baby checking system during services. They preferred in room care without checks but agreed attendants would watch infants without issuing checks, after assurances no mistakes would occur. The Ladies Aid Society proposed the concession to spare the congregation annoyance from crying babies.
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Evanston
Ill
Wheaton Methodist Episcopal Church
Ladies’ Aid Society
Yamamoto Cabinet Pressured by Old Constitutionalists
In Tokyo events unfold as the new Yamamoto cabinet faces strong opposition from the old Constitutional party. They demand all cabinet members align with the party or withhold support. Premier Yamamoto may report to the emperor that business cannot proceed while the Diet sits. A Bavarian paper cites 2 million soldiers killed in historic wars including the Crimean war and the American Civil War.
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Tokio
Count Yamamoto
Constitutional Party
Taro Katsura
Yamamoto
Presbyterian Laymen to Open Convention in Memphis
The third general convention of the Laymen's Missionary Movement of the Presbyterian Church will convene in Memphis tomorrow afternoon. Delegates arrive from across the South as the three day gathering discusses missionary work and home mission subjects with national figures attending.
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Presbyterian
Memphis
Tenn
Laymen’s Missionary Movement
The
Presbyterian Church
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