Explosion at Du Pont Powder Works Kills Three
Three men died in a smokeless powder blast at the Du Pont Powder Works Carney's Point plant in New Jersey. Officials report no outside cause or arrests, with two tons of powder exploding and the blast damaging a ferry and nearby facilities as workers nearby escaped unharmed.
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Philadelphia
du Pont Powder Works
Carmey’s Point
N. J
Carney'’s Point
du Pont
Wilmington
Carney's Point
A Jad Salts Kidney Relief Promised in Simple Dose
A health notice touts Jad Salts as a remedy for sluggish kidneys. It claims backache, cloudy urine, and rheumatic pains ease after taking four ounces in water daily for a few days.
Development of banking in 1915 a record
A continued report discusses decentralizing the country’s money to balance capital distribution and curb speculative lending. It notes usury as a menace to depopulation and thrift, and remarks that most American bankers are honest and law-abiding. The federal reserve system is examined with claims that reserve withdrawals did not convulse the economy and that early transfer of reserves would not disturb national banks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Williams
Federal Reserve System
United States
Funeral in St. Louis for Charles W. Knapp former publisher
The funeral for Charles W. Knapp former publisher of the St. Louis Republic and since Jan 1 treasurer of the New York Times was held in St. Louis this afternoon. The service was conducted by Rev. B. T. Kemmerer of Christ Church Cathedral.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
ST. Louis
Charles W. Knapp
St. Louis Republic
New York Times
B. T. Kemmerer
Christ Church Cathedral
Itching Scalp Trouble Promises Cure With Cuticara Soap
Fred E Troll of the National Soldiers' Home Mountain Branch Tennessee describes a severe scalp eruption starting at the base of the skull, with pinhead to pea-sized lesions and intense itching. He attributes healing to Cuticara Soap and Ointment after trying the product.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fred E. Troll
National Soldiers’ Home
Mountain Branch
Tenn
Five New Haven Directors Face Possible Retrial in Monopoly Conspiracy
Five former directors of the New Haven Railroad, including William Rockefeller and Lewis Cass Ledyard, face potential retrial on charges of conspiring to monopolize New England rail traffic after a hung jury. Six others were acquitted after 51 hours of deliberation. The government indicated it would pursue a new trial in due time, with overall case costs estimated at about three quarters of a million dollars.
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New York
New York, New Haven
Hartford Railway
New England
William Rockefeller
Lewis Cass Ledyard
Charles M. Pratt
Brooklyn
Charles F. Booker
Ansonia
Conn
Edward Db. Robbins
New Haven
R. L. Batts
D. Newton Barney
Robert W. Taft
James S&s. Hemingway
Charles F. Brooker
Messrs
Ledyard
Pratt
Boston and
Maine
Latter Road
Boston and Maine
Edward D. Robbins
The
Road
Metropolitan Steamship
Harvard
Yale
Pacific Coast
British Losses and Gallipoli Evacuation Reported
The report notes successful evacuation of Gallipoli with only one British wounded and no French casualties. It credits Generals Birdwood and Davies, Admiral de Robeck, and the Royal Navy for the operation, and says seventeen worn guns were destroyed before leaving. It also records the sinking of the battleship King Edward VII by a mine with all crew saved.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gallipoli
Monro
Birdwood
Davies
de Robeck
Royal Navy
New Jersey
Nebraska
Natal
Two Texas Banks Merge to Form Stronger State Bank
A merger of the Alamo Trust Company and West Texas Bank & Trust Company creates a consolidated bank with over 3 million in resources. G H Albers becomes active VP. capital rises to 250000, deposits near 2500000, and loans near 2500000.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alamo Trust Company
West Texas Bank & Trust Company
G. H. Albers
Consolidated
Texas
W. M. Wolf
H. M. Baetz
H. A. Rhodius
F. P. Hertz
Max Goodman
W. W. McAllister
Herbert H. Reed
J. B. Bernheim
George D. Armistead
American Bank & Trust Company
N. §&. Graham
Aristocratic Fowls to Headline Lone Star Poultry Show
The Lone Star Poultry Association opens what is expected to be Texas largest show at 212 East Commerce Street. More than 700 aristocratic fowls entered with exhibitors from across Texas and beyond. The event runs through Sunday with poultry, quail, doves, pheasants, and high bred rabbits plus incubator hatching displays and substantial gold premiums. Judge H. B. Savage presides with Richard H. Friedrich and JL. M. Samuels assisting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Texas
East Commerce Street
Lone Star Poultry Association
George Gray
Boerne
Tex
H. B. Savage
Belton
Richard H. Friedrich
JL. M. Samuels
Senor Azcona to report from Europe and discuss Mexican government
Senor Juan Sanchez Ancona and his son Juan Sanchez Jr travel from San Antonio to Queretaro with Secretary Arguimbau to present documentary evidence of European recognition to a chiefs conference. First Chief Carranza plans a general assembly of Constitutionalist leaders to decide civil government. The military conquest of most of Mexico is said to be complete.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Senor
Juan Sanchez Ancona
Juan Sanchez Jr
Arguimbau
San Antonio
Queretaro
Senor Azcona
Europe
St. Anthony
Carranza
Constitutionalist Party
Mexico
Clear complexions with Zemo at drug stores
Advert shows Zemo obtainable at drug stores for 25 cents or a dollar for a large bottle. It claims to remove pimples blackheads eczema and ringworm without being watery sticky or greasy. The product is promoted as easily applied dependable and inexpensive. Zemo Cleveland.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Zemo
Cleveland
Persia Case a Mystery in Lusitania Talks
Washington reports a confidential Lusitania meeting between Count von Bernstorff and Secretary Lansing as hopeful progress toward a settlement including indemnities for 115 American lives lost. American consul Keblinger cites no new Persia facts, saying survivors saw no submarine and no warning.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
D. C
Count von Bernstorff
Lansing
Lusitania
Germany
United States
Berlin
Persia
Keblinger
Malta
State Department
Lord Montagu
Army Orders Report on Transfers and Discharges
Army orders list transfers to Hawaii and retirements including Quartermaster Bert Heart to report to Honolulu for duty. First Sergeant Daniel MSwift New York retirements at Camp Eagle Pass and home. Elliott Pugh to be discharged at Columbus Barracks. Captain Rogers leave extended for illness. Captain Edwin G Davis retires from militia duty and returns home. Mare Island inspections by the US Army Transport Service supervisor. visits limited to six for the year.
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Bert Heart
Quartermaster Corps
Fort MceDowell
Cal
Honolulu
Hawaiian Department
Daniel M'Sweeny
Seventeenth Infantry
Camp Eagle Pass
Elliott Pugh
Thirteenth Recruit Company
Columbus Barracks
Ohio
Thomas J. Rogers
Eleventh Infantry
War Department
Edwin G. Davis
United States Army
Organized Militia of
Idaho
Army Transport Service
San Francisco
Navy Yard
Mare Island
Colp Gains Thirty Third Good Roads Title
D E Colp receives a new appointment increasing his good roads titles to thirty three. He serves as secretary of the Bexar County Highway League and now holds thirty one other offices plus state counsellor for the International Pavedway. The transcontinental pavedway enters Texas at Texarkana and passes Paris Dallas Fort Worth linking with the Meridian road to Laredo via San Antonio.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
D. E. Colp
Colp
Bexar County Highway League
Texarkana
Paris
Dallas
Fort Worth
Laredo
San Antonio
United States
Install Officers of HRST Baptist Church in Sunday Ceremony
About 125 officers were installed at HRST First Baptist Church including pastor Samuel Judson Porter and E. F. Walker among deacons trustees ushers and Sunday School leaders. The event featured multiple auxiliary societies and a sermon urging leaders to shepherd the flock purchased with God’s blood.
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First Baptist Church
The
Missionary Society
Baptist Young People’s Union
Young Woman's Auxiliary
Samuel Judson Porter
E. F. Walker
Miss Willie Dixon
W. W. Boone
Fred H. All
Richard Johnson
Frank A. Winerich
William Holland
Freds. Hall
W. A. Petty
G. W. Hagg
R. O. Huff
W. N. Noonan
L. E. Cartwright
N. H. King
H. L. Kokernot
C. C. Gibbs
Lon D. Cartwright
T. A. Tirado
CC. (. Todd
J. E. Harper
Ed McClannahan
U. S. Pawkett
W. R. Parker
L. T. Shaw
A. R. Wood
R. A. Rowland
G. W. Sanders
Wallace Rogers
D.F. Davis
Roy Rowland
H. M. Booth
Arthur Bi
J. Porter
Church of God
READY TO BUY BONDS
Inquiries about the proposed San Antonio public school bond issue arrive daily at the school board office from bond companies nationwide. Interest in the election is growing city wide with community school meetings planned and talks by H. C. Carter J. H. Kirkpatrick Carlos Bee Nat M. Washer C. S. Fowler Judges S. J. Brooks Harry Hertzberg Guy Le Stourgeon Walton D. Hood and Superintendent Charles Meek listed as speakers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Antonio
School Board
H. C. Carter
J. H. Kirkpatrick
Carlos Bee
Nat M. Washer
C. S. Fowler
J. Brooks
Harry Hertzberg
Guy le Stourgeon
Walton D. Hood
Charles Meek
Obituary for Miss Octavia Holt of Bandera County
Miss Octavia Lee Holt age 19 died at 505 Salado street at 8 am Monday. Native of Bandera county she is survived by her parents J W Holt of Bandera and five brothers John Erleen Emmmett J B and Joe Holt of Bandera and three sisters Mrs Bessie Johnston of Modesto California and Meda and Tiny Holt of Bandera. Burial plans call for interment in Bandera by Shelley-Loring Undertaking.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Octavia Lee Holt
Salado Street
Bandera County
J. W. Holt
Bandera
John
Erleen
Emmmett
J. B
Joe Holt
Bessie Johnston
Modesto
Cal
Meda
Tiny Holt
Shelley-Loring Undertaking Company
Merchant William F Fest dies in San Antonio at 38
William F Fest a respected San Antonio merchant died at his home 207 West Cevallos Street at 3 35 Monday morning. He was born in the city and lived here all his life. He leaves a widow Mrs Josephine Fest six children Leona Evelyn Cecilia Simon William Jr and Frederick Fest all of San Antonio. The funeral from the home at 8 30 Tuesday will be conducted by Rev John Robbin at St Henrys Church at 9 30 Interment will be in St Marys Cemetery.
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William PF. Fest
William F. Fest
San Antonio
West Cevallos Street
Josephine Fest
Leona
Evelyn
Cecilia Fest
Simon
William Jr
Frederick Fest
John Robbin
St. Henry's Church
St. Mary’s Cemetery
Funeral rites for James W. Cornett in San Antonio
Funeral services for James William Cornett who died Saturday morning will be held at 5 p m Tuesday in the Sloan Haggard chapel. The body will be sent to Richmond Texas for interment in the family burial ground there Wednesday. Final arrangements await the arrival of Mrs C B Hanavan of Spokane Washington a daughter en route to San Antonio.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James W. Cornett
James William Cornett
Sloan & Hagg Undertaking Company
Richmond
Tex
Cornett
C. B. Hanavan
Spokane
Wash
San Antonio
Shelley-Loring Undertaking Co Automobile Equipment
Ad section note for Shelley-Loring Undertaking Co offering automobile equipment with two phone numbers 971 and another listing.
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Shelley-Loring Undertaking Co
Social Roundup of Hotel Guests and Visitors
A list of guests and arrivals includes J. W. Parker from Hearne at the Gunter, Carl G. Staats from Fort Worth at the Gunter, M. W. Bahan from Fort Worth at the St. Anthony, and others from St. Louis Dallas Houston and New York at the Menger Gunter St. Anthony. Also note a magnetic transmission vehicle invention without a mechanical connection between engine and driving shaft.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. W. Parker
Hearne, Teth
Gunter
E. D. Frock
Colorado Springs
Col
St. Anthony
W. B. Johns
St. Louis
Menger
Carl G. Staats
Fort Worth
Tex
M. W. Bahan
Nine Civil Appeals Decided by Fourth Court at Noon
The Fourth Court of Civil Appeals handed down nine decisions on Monday. It affirmed cases including W. H. Bennett et al. v Rio Grande Canal Co from Cameron and Gulf National Bank v H H Shelton et al. from Bexar, with opinions by Chief Justice Fly and Justices Mourland Carl. Others were reversed and remanded, all from Bexar Hidalgo and Uvalde. Motions to rehear were overruled in related railway and bank disputes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fourth Court of Civil Appeals
W. S. Fly
Supreme Court
Austin
Ww. H. Bennett
Rio Grande Canal Co
Cameron
Fly
Gulf National Bank
H. H. Shelton
Bexar
H. & S. A. Railway
Severo Perez
Next Friend
J. F. Carl
Fred Muhleman
Mourland
Marvin Evans
San Antonio Machine & Supply Company
Run Away From Home Two Boys Escape Juvenile Home
Two about sixteen year old youths connected with a January burglary spree fled from the Bexar County Juvenile Home Sunday evening during a guard’s temporary absence. They rode a horse and buggy taken from a store in Hot Wells, abandoned the rig near one boy’s home in San Antonio, and vanished. Probation officers Ross Boles and James Winslow led a search that ended with the buggy found near the boy’s residence shortly after 3 a.m. Monday.
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Bexar County
San Antonio
Ross Boles
Supreme Court Upholds Sherley Amendment on Misbranding
The Supreme Court today upheld the 1902 Sherley amendment to the federal pure food law declaring drugs misbranded if labels claim false curative effects. The decision reinforces penalties for false therapeutic claims on drug packaging.
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Washington, D. C
Sherley
Supreme Court
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Manhattan
gaPatte
Knapp
Cuticara
Dept. T
Besten
Mogid
West Texas Bank & Trust Co
Juan Sanchez Azcona
Constitutionalist
Bernstorff
Wilson
International Pavedway
Mackinaws
Hrst Baptist Church
County Juvenile Training School
State National Bank
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