Plan for Auto Road 10 Coast Promoters Target Landowners
J E Franklin announces a plan for an improved auto road from San Antonio to the coast along the San Antonio Uvalde and Gulf railroad route. Landowners pledge right of way and support, with George West and Taft Neb lending efforts. Local officials and Mayors back construction to connect Pleasanton Campbellton and Aransas Pass area roads, seeking highway league aid.
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Railroad
San Spa
San Antonio
Uvalde & Gulf
J. E. Franklin
Comany
M. E. Leming
Pleasanton Uth
Aransas Pass
Corpus Christi
George West
Live Oak County
Taft Neb
Jourdan Campbell
Atascosa County
el Medina
Bexar County
Atascosaounty
Pleasanton
Campbellton
Todd
Postponed Good Roads Meeting For San Antonio Atascosa Gulf Route
The San Antonio Atascosa Gulf highway meeting in Pleasanton is delayed two weeks due to rain. A January 25 session will aim to spark a movement to build a highway from San Antonio to the coast via Atascosa county with speakers from the Texas Good Roads Association and the Chamber of Commerce, plus officials from the U S Department of Agriculture.
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San Antonio
The
Texas Good Roads Association
A. M. Fischer
D. E. Colp
Chamber of Commerce
J. M. Vance
George D. Marshall
Public Roads Office
United States Agricultural Department
Mrs Stillwell to Lecture in San Antonio on Why Boys Go Wrong
Mrs Stillwell of Chicago a Salvation Army officer will lecture at 4 p m today at the Young Men's Christian Association Building in San Antonio. The talk titled Why Boys Go Wrong will draw on her work with boys who have fallen and she will be accompanied by Miss Mabel Booth the soloist.
Oil road trials in Bexar County show oil-soaked soil paving
County road crews plan six inch soil loosening followed by oil impregnation and rolling to form a durable surface. Marshall D. George and J. S. McNeill report on Summit avenue and Frio City road experiments aiming to match macadam with sand and clay mix.
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Roy Barneburg
J. S. McNeill
Summit Avenue
San Pedro Avenue
Blanco Road
Bexar County
Marshall
George D. Marshall
Frio City
Bexar County Highway League
South Loop
Barneburg
Bexar
Fight on Street Car Leaves Conductor Injured
Conductor B N Sorsby was stabbed in the left arm and Joe Slavin cut on the head with a door key during a 9 45 p m fight on a San Pedro pay as you enter street car. Slavin was arrested for disturbing the peace as the argument arose over a seat. Slavin says the conductor attacked him first. Sorsby says Slavin armed with a knife struck first. J P Morgan told the Baroness von Suttner he had no interest in world peace.
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B. N. Sorsby
Joe Slavin
San Pedro
Slavin
Sorsby
J. P. Morgan
Baroness von Suttner
Rev J D Young Seeks Fund for Dallas University
The Rev J D Young SMU education commissioner and former Laurel Heights pastor arrived in San Antonio from Dallas to lead a campaign for a Dallas university endowment. Effort aims to raise 200000 before July 1 to secure a matching 200000 Rockefeller Foundation donation.
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J. D. Young
Southern Methodist University
Laurel Heights Methodist Church
San Antonio
Dallas
Rockefeller Foundation
Free Trip to Charlotte Auction Promises Rail Refunds
The article touts an auction sale of lots in the new town of Charlotte on Tuesday January 14. It highlights skepticism about growth without rail service and predicts rapid expansion once trains began operating in late November, noting 2300 bales of cotton last season and promising a near certainty in real estate. The writer extols Charlotte as the best town in the region with rail access seen as transformative.
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Charlotte
Aladdin
Lecture on One Spirit of Science by Edgar Lovett
President Edgar C. Lovett of the Rice Institute will deliver a lecture on one Spirit of Science for the Scientific Society of San Antonio at 8 o clock Tuesday evening January 14 in the Travis Club reception rooms. He holds Ph D degrees from Virginia and Leipsic and LL D from Drake and Tulane. former Princeton professor and dean, and was elected Rice Institute president last year. Public is invited.
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Edgar C. Lovett
Rice Institute
Wil
Scientific Society of San Antonio
Travis Club
Lovett
Virginia
Leipsic
Drake
Tulane
Princeton University
Houston
Bowen Island Plan Up To City Council
City council likely will not face major division Monday though an ordinance by Alderman Lipscomb, urged by D. J. Woodward and L. Ward, proposes a river channel across Bowen Island in exchange for land for street widening and reclaimed bed. Other items include a building ordinance final passage and a shingles use amendment.
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Alderman Lipscomb
D. J. Woodward
L. Ward
Bowen Island
Lipscomb
Dwyer Avenue
Nueva Street
San Antonio
Boynton
East Commerce Street
Sunset Tracks
Eczema Cure Libertyquote Parents Claim Hood’s Sarsaparilla Healed Baby
Mrs Inez Lewis of Baring Maine recalls severe eczema on her four month old and sixteen month old child that spread over the body requiring masks and restraints. She credits Hood s Sarsaparilla with complete recovery and urges readers to try the product in liquid or chocolate tablet form.
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Hood
Inez Lewis
Baring
Maine
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Laurel Heights Church
President Lovett
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