Port O Connor Road Boosters Plan Big Good Roads Convention
Some 50 San Antonians will travel by booster coach to Port O Connor for a four day good roads convention. Delegates will sail the gulf and oyster roast the event with a banquet at LaSalle hotel. The route passes Wilson Gonzales Dent Victoria Calhoun counties as bond funds support an eight inch gravel bed with four inch shell cover.
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San Antonio
Port O'Connor
Canada
Texas
Bexar County Highway League
Bexar County Farmers’ Institute
San Antonio Automobile Club
Port O
Southern Pacific
Gulf
LaSalle Hotel
Wilson
Gonzales
Dent
Victoria
Calhoun
Calhoun County
Fenner urges San Antonio Corpus Christi road survey
Bee county engineer John S. Fenner reports to the Bexar County Highway league that Bee county will survey unimproved miles and draft reconstruction plans at no cost to the county. He seeks member review and approval or suggested changes as highway projects, including Port O’Connor to San Antonio, are seen advancing to Corpus Christi.
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Corpus Christi
John S. Fenner
Bee County
Bexar County Highway League
San Antonio
Good Roads
Commissioners’ Court
Aem
Port O’connor
D. E. Coly
Highway League
The Flirting Princess at the Grand
A tuneful entertaining musical comedy with Harry Bulger as Sport Bangs and Gretchen Hartman and Dale Fuller in key roles. Miss Helen Darling leads as the flirting princess of khedivial descent with a strong chorus, fine costumes, and many encores.
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Harry Bulger
Sport Bangs
Dale Fuller
Miss Hartman
Drusilla Peck
Miss Fuller
Araminta Bangs
Helen Darling
Highway upgrade promises reach DeWitt County
Victoria county line to the coast. The highway segment through DeWitt county via Cuero is in excellent shape and the county pledges to improve it further to an even higher standard.
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Victoria County
DeWitt County
Cuero
Why She Left: Minerva’s Departure Hint
A compact aphorism notes Minerva’s birth from Jove and the strange reason for her leaving. The line playfully suggests divine attribution and the idea that her departure explains her absence.
His Theory About Rosamonde’s Future Child
In a Harper's Bazar excerpt a baby named Rosamonde plays with a rattle on the floor while her cousin Roger sits in an arm chair nearby. He muses that it might turn out to be a boy, after a long thoughtful pause.
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Rosamonde
Roger
Harper’s Bazar
Three Arrests Sought in Brandt Case Start
Police move to arraign Detective Lieutenant Joseph Wooldridge and John Taylor on charges tied to a false criminal record that sent Foulke E Brandt to prison for thirty years. Brandt to be released on bail after habeas corpus ruling.
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Foulke Brandt
Mortimer L. Schiff
New York
W. A. McCabe
Superintendent of Prisons
State of
Brandt
New York City
Waldo
Foulke E Brandt
Joseph D. Wooldridge
John Taylor
Gerard
Mirabeau L. Towns
Whitman
Carmody
Ruling on Democratic Executive Committee Precincts
Hildebrand receives AG Mead ruling that the 1910 84 precinct delegates will form the upcoming executive committee for the pre primary meeting. The next committee to be elected from the 92 precincts at July primaries. Hildebrand plans a near term meeting and sought authoritative guidance on eight new precinct seats.
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H. K. Hildebrand
Bexar County
Democratic Executive Committee
Mead
Hildebrand
Executive Committee
Attorney General's Department
Brown Loses Out? Clinton G Brown Enters DA Race
Clinton G Brown announced his candidacy for the Democratic nomination as district attorney. Born in Brenham Texas July 28 1882 he moved to San Antonio at age seven and has practiced law there since 1906. He supports commission government and served as counsel for the citizens ticket in the commission contest suit.
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Clinton G. Brown
Mr. Brown
Brenham
Tex
San Antonio
University of Texas At Austin
Brown
Commission Government
Citizens’ Ticket
Commission
Homespuns For Business Men Pattern Catalog Hopeful
A trade note highlights home decor fabrics marketed to business men. It promotes tailored personality oriented patterns and suggests these seasonal designs will appeal to male shoppers seeking stylish combinations.
His Surmise Harper's Bazar Style Quotation
A literary snippet notes a woman asserting she is married to art and that Judson should consider how art will continually laud its first husband in a Harper's Bazaar tone.
Fate of John Beal Sneed Jury to Study Special Issues
Fort Worth Texas February 24 Jurors retired after lengthy closing arguments in the murder trial of John Beal Sneed Amarillo banker and cattleman. Judge charged on first and second degree murder manslaughter self-defense and remarks about female relatives with more than twenty special instructions. Verdict possible Monday or Tuesday as jurors consider the case.
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Fort Worth
Tex
W. P. McLean Jr
John Beal Sneed
Captain Boyce
McLean
Sneed
W. A. Hanger
Amarillo
Immune. Billa: The Luckiest Girl Alive
Dialogue excerpt features Bella noting that Ella’s friend Billa remains slim regardless of food. Ella questions what makes her lucky, and the exchange highlights the irony of appetite and body image in a Harper’s Bates context.
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Billa
Bella
Ella
Harper's Bates
Marriage Licenses and District Court Ruling Noted
The piece lists marriage licenses for Jacobo Perales Librada Besa Arthur Merritt Anna Isabelle Schutze Eduardo Gonzales Paula Martinez Harry Maltz Anna Lichtenstein and Adolph Fenster Fannie Palleck. It also reports the Thifty-seventh district court ruling upholding county actions creating school district No 39 and denying an injunction to restore district No 21 with no appeal filed.
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Jacobo Perales
Librada Besa
Arthur Merritt
Anna Isabelle Schutze
Eduardo Gonzales
Paula Martinez
Harry H. Maltz
Anna Lichenstein
Adolph Fenster
Fannie Palleck
Thifty-seventh District
Arthur W. Seeligson
L. H. Camp
Shook
P. J. Stewart
Seeligson
Piles Cured at Home With Pyramid Remedy Trial Mailer
A home remedy promise offers painless relief for piles via a free trial package mailed in a plain wrapper. The ad urges writing Pyramid Drug Co for a trial at 434 Pyramid Building Marshall Michigan and notes a full box costs 50 cents at druggists.
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Pyramid Drug Co
Pyramid Building
Marshall, Mich
Hill and Miss Symonds Wed in Brownsville
C. F. Hill and Miss Elida Symonds, notable San Benito youths, were married in Brownsville yesterday, marking a festive union reported from the border city.
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San Benito
Tex
C. F. Hill
Elida Symonds
Brownsville
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