Rotary plans for visiting San Antonio group in Austin
Final plans were completed at the Austin Rotary meeting for entertaining San Antonio Rotarians on March 2. Committees reported readiness and visitors will be kept busy during their stay, with a Lake Austin trip suggested as a feature. May return anti trust indictments in Travis County. Assistant Attorney General C A Sweeton appeared before the county grand jury renewing talk of anti trust law violations.
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Austin
Tex
Austin Rotarians
San Antonio
Travis County
Grand Jury
C. A. Sweeton
Anemic to stout plans and home remedies
A reader asks how to gain weight and strength. Dr. Lewis Baker offers three-grain hypo-nuciane tablets with meals, plus other tonics and prescriptions for rheumatic pain, kidney trouble, constipation, nervous fatigue, dandruff, cough, and weight reduction.
Asquith Maintains War Resolve In Commons Speech
Prime Minister Asquith faced calls for peace negotiations in the House of Commons and reaffirmed Britain’s pledge to fight to a decisive victory. He echoed the Guildhall pledge of 1914 while dismissing Snowden’s peace urge as a misreading of the war’s military situation. The debate saw mixed reactions with few pro peace cheers and one solitary applause from the stranger’s gallery.
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London
Asquith
House of Commons
London Guildhall
Philip Snowden
Independent Labor Party
Snowden
Consolidated Fund
Mr. Snowden
Germany
Reichstag
Cascarets offer gentle liver and bowel cleansing cure
A vintage advertisement promises Cascarets will liven the liver and clean the bowels without griping. It claims users wake with clear heads, rosy complexions, and renewed energy and suggests mothers may give a whole Cascaret to children for fussiness or constipation.
Just One Application and the Hairs Vanish
A harmless yet effective treatment for quick removal of hairy growths using delatone paste. Apply, wait 2 3 minutes, then remove to wash away hairs. Usually one application suffices, but buy delatone in original packaging to ensure results.
Federal Control Urged For Tuberculosis Study
The National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis urges federal involvement through the United States Public Health Service. It calls for a congressionally authorized division led by experts to study and standardize tuberculosis treatment and prevention nationwide, with support from a federal hospital subsidy for non resident consumptives.
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United States Public Health Service
National Association For the
National Association
Congress
Kent
California
House
Norris
Nebraska
Senate
Charles J. Hatfield
National Association For the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis
United States
Peace terms in 1914 pledge from British premier
The premier condemns German policy after Belgium and Serbia and reiterates a 1914 peace demand. He states Britain will not seek peace until Belgium and Serbia recover, France is secured, small nations are protected, and Prussian military dominance is ended. The address draws applause in the House.
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Germany
Belgium
Serbia
Asquith
France
Europe
Prussia
Revival in Puebla Mexico Agriculture Shows Strong Growth
Puebla reports a wide agricultural revival in 1916 with arable land fully cultivated, especially in the Sierra region. Silk worm colonies, new rubber and chicle trees, and expanding bee culture under Governor Cervantes highlight rising yields and farm activity across Puebla.
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Puebla
Sierra Region
Zuatla
San Juan de Los Llanos
Mexico
Luis G. Cervantes
Teachers' Examination at Corpus Christi
Corpus Christi Tex Feb 24 The county superintendent of public instruction announces special examinations to be held here on April 6 and 7. All grades of teachers' certificates will be issued to successful applicants.
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Corpus
Corpus Christi
Tex
County Superintendent of Public Instruction
Pure Milk Campaign Under Way in Galveston
The pure food department received sixty two milk samples from Galveston inspectors for analysis. The move is part of a statewide campaign addressing the milk situation.
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Galveston
Austin
Tex
Pure Food Department
Department
Nee
Model boys and girls schools planned in Queretaro
Queretaro plans two model schools a boys and a girls school to memorialize Carranza stay in the city now serving as temporary capital. The schools will be under the Directorate of Popular Instruction with maintenance funded by the Department of Public Instruction and Belle Arts.
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Mexico
Carranza
Queretaro
Mex
Directorate of Popular Instruction of
Queretatro
Department of Public Instruction and Belle Arts
Seizure of Adulterated Aspirin Tablets in Nacogdoches
State pure food commissioner R H Hoffman Jr announced that an inspector seized and destroyed 5000 adulterated aspirin tablets and three pounds of adulterated aspirin powder in Nacogdoches following a reported sale of tainted tablets.
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Austin
Tex
R. H. Hoffman Jr
Nacogdoches
Danderine Promises Thick Lustrous Hair Free of Dandruff
An advertisement extols Knowlton's Danderine as a quick easy and inexpensive cure for dandruff and falling hair. It claims the product makes hair soft glossy and abundant in ten minutes with two weeks showing new hair growth and promises dramatic results for those who try it.
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Knowlton
Farewell for Colonel Hodges at Camp Eagle Pass
Colonel H C Hodges of Camp Eagle Pass and the Seventeenth Infantry bid farewell before departing for Honolulu to command the First Infantry. A parade concert and dancing marked the send off with cheers from enlisted men on boxcars as Hodges saluted goodbye. Colonel Charles R Noyes will assume command around July 1. A post fire alarm caused minor damage during the farewell.
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Eagle Pass
Tes
H. C. Hodges
Seventeenth Infantry
Hodges
Honolulu
Sixth Field Artillery
Colonel Hodges
Major Armstrong
Camp Eagle Pass
Charles R. Noyes
New York
New Trans Ocean Fleet Planned by Gaston Williams & Wigmore
New York Feb 23 A 18 steamers will form the Gaston Williams and Wigmore Steamship Corporation fleet with six bought vessels six chartered and four to be built. Pacific service will run San Francisco to China Japan and Russia with Vladivostok as port of call. Atlantic routes include New York to Archangel with possible passenger service and shipments to British and continental ports.
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New York
Wighteen
Gaston, Williams and Wigmore Steamship Corporation
Atlantic
Pacific
Great Lakes
San Francisco
China
Japan
Russia
Vladivostok
Archangel
H. J. Rogenthal
Gaston, Williams and Wigmore
Shakespeare tercentenary adds Manly to Texas program
Dr. R. H. Griffith announces that Professor John M. Manly of the University of Chicago will replace Professor Schelling of the University of Pennsylvania on the Shakespeare tercentenary program at the University of Texas April 24 to 27. Manly, a world renowned Shakespeare authority, is recuperating at Pass Christian and accepted the invitation by wire.
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Austin
Tex
R. H. Griffith
University of Texas
John M. Manly
University of Chicago
Schelling
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
Manly
Griffith
Bryan to Speak at University of Texas March 16
A telegram to Dr. Battle acting president confirms William J. Bryan will address UT students on March 16. The invitation followed rumors of his Texas visit and the topic will be The News War and Its Lessons.
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