City Council to Debating Paving and Street Extensions
City aldermen will discuss asphalt paving repairs on East Commerce Street and other streets, a $13 248 paving cost, and a $40 000 street grading program. The lighting contract with San Antonio Gas and Electric and the Houston Starr extension push city wide interest, with several ordinances and appropriations on the agenda.
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East Commerce Street
Alamo Street
Southern Pacific Railway
Soledad Street
Houston Street
Girarid Street
San Antonio Gas and Electric Company
Callaghan
Starr Street
Land near ready for Katy SAP terminals at Yoakum's Bend
Frank C. Davis told The Light that except for Mission Coal & Wood Co all tenants on Yoakum's Bend have moved. The land is ready for surveyors to lay out the joint Katy SAP terminals occupying the 23 acres. The Mission concern will move after securing another location.
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Frank C. Davis
San Antonio
Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway
Poultry Groups Name Membership Committee
Lone Star Poultry Association and American Poultry Association members meet at the Chamber of Commerce to create a state wide membership drive. Ed M. Steves chairs the committee with H. S. Affleck J. F. Rips and John Slane named. Exhibit judges were deferred to the next meeting with several attendees listed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lone Star Poultry Association
American Poultry Association
Chamber of Commerce
Ed M. Steves
H. S. Affleck
J. F. Rips
John Slane
Association
L. M. Samuels
George Loessberg
Charles J. Rossy
Fred C. Wantzloeben
C. C. Leel
Money Trust Probe Authorized by House Vote
Banking and Currency Committee to begin its inquiry into the money trust this week following the amended Pujo resolution passed 270 to 8. The panel will investigate Wall Street practices and review Henry resolution jurisdiction as well as related revenue and antitrust matters.
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Washington
Banking and Currency Commission
Money Trust
House
Lindbergh
Lenroot
Austin
Tennessee
Cannon
Illinois
Dalzell
Pennsylvania
Gillette
Massachusetts
Henry
Connecticut
Higgins
Thistlewood
Ohio
Tilson
Banking and Currency Committee
Wall Street
Democrats of the Ways and Means
Rivers and Harbors Committee
Mississippi
Ohio River
Missouri
Delaware
Columbia
Albemarle and Chesapeake Canal
Samuel Untermeyer
Senate Committee On Interstate Commerce
New York Central
New York
New Haven & Itford
Clapp
Underwood Steel
Woman’s Will Upheld After Undue Influence Claim
Penn Yan dispatch reports Mrs. Mary ?. Johnson of Bellona Yates county died leaving 100000 to the Presbyter ian board of home missions of New York and 50000 to Bellona Memorial church. Relatives charged undue influence but court upheld the will saying such influence must come from a human being.
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Penn Yan
Penn
Mary
Johnson
Bellona
Yates County
Presbyterian Board of Home Missions of New York
Bellona Memorial Church
Marmola Tablets Promoted as Safe Fat Reducers
An advertisement urges women to slim for the Directoire mode using Marmola Prescription Tablets sold by druggists or Marmola Co. in Detroit. It claims rapid weight loss, safety, and stomach-friendly effects, touting a large case for seventy five cents and potential daily pound reductions.
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Marmola Co
Bridg
Detroit
Mich
Southwestern alumni form San Antonio club for the university
A luncheon honoring Southwestern University president Dr. C. M Bishop sparked plans to establish a permanent San Antonio alumni club. A. K. Ragsdale, J. N. Groesbeck Jr., and Mrs. George Gillette were appointed to organize the group as ministers and patrons of the university attended.
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C. M.bishop
Southwestern University
St. Anthony
Southwestern Club
San Antonio
A. K. Ragsdale
J. N. Groesbeck Jr
George Gillette
Dr. Bishop
J. D. Young
George W. Barcus
W. A. Wurzbach
J. E. Mosely
W. C., Lott
H. Cc
Burgin
Chapa's Resignation Not Accepted by Governor
Col. F. A. Chapa of San Antonio traveled to Austin from Taylor and met Gov. Colquitt to pay respects. He had offered his resignation after being charged with violation of neutrality laws, but the governor did not accept it.
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Austin
Tex
Col
F. A. Chapa
San Antonio
Taylor
Colquitt
Chapa
Tried for murder with troops present
Willard Richardson was sentenced to death in the electric chair in Bardwell Kentucky after pleading guilty to murder. He boasted he would kill Pomel before going home and shot James Violet, a peaceful farmer, in Bardwell.
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Bardwell
James Violet
Willard Richardson
Sandidge
Richardson
Pomel
Violet
Hood's Sarsaparilla Praised For Rheumatism Cure
Henry J. Goldstein of Boston reports five years of rheumatism with stiff painful knees eased by Hood's Sarsaparilla. He says the medicine restored business activity and eased excruciating pain after trying many remedies without relief. He recommends Hood's. Get it in liquid form or Sarsatahs tablets.
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Henry J. Goldstein
Barton Street
Boston
Mass
Hood
Mr. Goldstein
Wireless Telegraph Station at Fort Sam Houston Nears Operation
Fort Sam Houston will put its new wireless telegraph station into operation after final tests. The project trains government employees in wireless work and will extend experiments, with daytime messages up to 700 miles and nightly reach to about 1500 miles. Captain E A Myer commands, Sergeant J C Stewart operates, and J C Jordan supervises setup using a Telefunken transmitter and two 200 foot towers.
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Fort Sam Houston
Galveston
Key West
Pensacola
Fla
New Orleans
Fort Leavenworth
Fort Sam
Houston Station
E. A. Myer
J. C. Stewart
Signal Corps
J. C. Jordan
Man Arrested for Nail Attack on Wife in Wilkes Barre
Stanley Vademas is jailed in Wilkes Barre charged with driving nails into his wife’s spine to cause her death and hide the crime to marry another. The wife lies in a city hospital, near death, as authorities allege he tried neglect first and later attacked her with a hatchet and nails while she slept.
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Stanley Vademas
Wilkes Barre
Vademas
Man Fails to Stop Wife as Nails Driven into Spine
A husband inflicted brutal violence on his wife driving three nails into her spine. She screamed during the first act and was left unconscious as the husband fled, believing she would die. Their son alerted neighbors, the woman was found near death and hospitalized, and the husband was later captured and jailed awaiting injury outcome.
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W. Commerce ST
San Antonio, Texas
Lucas
Hostetter
Yoakum’s
Bend Territory
R. C. Bogusch & Co
S. Alamo St
Bogusch
C. A. Gessler
ALUMI
Kentucky
Highland Parks
Highland Park
Highland Improvement Co
L. P. Peck
President
Chas. M. Roberts, Highland Fare
Navarro
San Antonio Advertisers’ Association
Navarro St
Army Post
Hicks
Capu Dine
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