Legislature Adopts Prohibition Resolution and 32 New Bills
The Texas legislature acts with a prohibition push by adopting a resolution urging the U S Senate to pass the Sheppard bill barring liquor shipments into prohibition territory. Thirty two bills are introduced including election protection, early closing of saloons, full train crew definitions, scholastic age 7 to 21, home rule implementation, Confederate pension tax, and congressional redistricting.
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Austin
Tex
Thuse
United States Senate
Roger P. Byrne
Tastrop County
Fuller
San Jacinto County
Kennedy
Kerr County
Committee On
Colquitt
Savage
Butler
Haney
Mangum
Committee On Education
House
Texas Legislature Sets Early Busy Tone with Rules Stand
In Austin the Thirty-third Legislature shows a brisk start as both houses refuse to curb presiding officers power to name committees. Speaker Terrell plans rapid committee appointments and a five from each member request while Rep Burges pushes a sweeping waters bill creating a state irrigation board and four water divisions.
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Austin Tex
House
Senate
Terrell
Kennedy
Humphrey
Bagby
Nabours
Joseph the McGuire
Austin
McGuire
State Department
Mayes
Aston
Burges
el Paso
Board of Water Control
Weather Forecast For San Antonio Area Tonight
For San Antonio and vicinity tonight and Saturday expect cloudy skies with colder conditions on Saturday.
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San Antonio
Home Weather For Tourists Read At 8 A M
Observations at 8 am show St Louis 56 degrees and cloudy with a 16 mile south wind and a 66 degree low in the last 24 hours. Chicago 24 degrees and cloudy with an 18 mile southwest wind and a 50 degree low. Milwaukee 40 degrees and cloudy with a 20 mile southwest wind and a 38 degree low. St Paul 8 degrees and clear with a 20 mile west wind and a forecast colder tonight and Saturday. low not specified. Kansas City 40 degrees and clear with a north wind and a 40 degree low. New York 60 degrees and cloudy with a 20 mile southwest wind, rain and warmer. low 44. Boston 44 degrees and rain with a 12 mile southeast wind. rain Saturday. low not specified. Washington 54 degrees and cloudy with an 8 mile south wind and probable rain Saturday. low 48.
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ST. Louis
Chicago
Milwaukee
ST. Paul
Kansas City
New York
Boston
Washington
Divorced 75YearOld Edna Sibert Restores Maiden Name
Mrs Edna Sibert aged 75 was granted a divorce from Henry Sibert 75 on a plea of non support and a claim she did not want his name on her tombstone Ednas maiden name Edna Wiley was restored The Liberts had been separated 28 years
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Chillicothe
Edna Sibert
Henry Sibert
Edna Wiley
Liberts
Brady witness describes Texas Collins Wireless stock sale
W J Miller testified in a federal fraud case that Texas Collins Wireless stock was offered as part of a wireless scheme. He said Dickinson denied ties to Continental Wireless and warned Connelly against false parent company claims while detailing stock sales and demonstrations in Brady and San Antonio.
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W. J. Miller
Texas Collins Wireless
Brady
Texas
J. B. Dickinson
Texas Fiscal Agency
Tex
Continental Wireless Company
Texas Collins Wireless Telegraph and Telephone Company
Dickinson
H. Beauchamp
William A. Bomar
C. W. Connelly
Texas Fiscal Company
Texas Collins Wireless Company
Massie, Clark and Pacific Wireless Companies
Connelly
Witness
United States
Engelking
Continental
Henderson
San Antonio
Wireless
Ballinger
C. H. Beauchamp
Carlos Bee
Co. W. Connelly
Beauchamp
Collins Wireless
Newark
N. J
First Aid to Your Pocketbook in The Light
An urging to rely on The Light advertisements to avoid adulterated foods and unreliable goods. It praises conscientious manufacturers and distinctive brands as protection, claiming daily ads guide buyers to honest prices and trustworthy products.
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J. P. Fallon
Inaugural Ball to Be Dispensed With
Washington dispatch reports William C. Eustis saying there will be no inaugural ball after Wilson asks committee to consider omitting it. Wilson himself declined to state preferred substitutes, deferring official action. A suggested replacement included a popular reception at the capitol.
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Washington
Sp. C
William ¢. Eustis
Wilson
Eustis
Woodrow Wilson
Trenton
N. J
Capitol
Drastic Blow Aimed at Powder Trust
Washington Jan 17. A fortification bill bars government powder spending except small arms powder under 53 cents per pound. Dupont Powder Co faces monopoly allegations from Haynes Safety Powder Co, with testimony of a private yacht and price manipulation cited as evidence of a nationwide powder trust and district-price suppression tactics.
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Washington, D. C
Powder Trust
Dupont Powder Company
Washington
Army and Navy
Picatiny Arsenal
Indian Head
Wilmington
Del
Robert S. Waddell
Haynes Safety Powder Company
Cleveland
Dupont Trust Company
Potomac River
T. C. Dupont
The
Waddell
United States
Dupont Trust
Famous explorers honored together in Philadelphia reception
In Philadelphia on January 16 the polar legends Captain Roald Amundsen Admiral Robert E Peary and Lieutenant Sir Ernest Shackleton were honored at a reception by the Arts Club Amos Bonsall of Philadelphia the last survivor of the Elisha Kent Kane Arctic expedition also attended honoring historic Arctic figures and their 1856 Franklin search legacy.
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Philadelphia
Rapld Amundsen
South Pole
Robert E. Peary
North Pole
Ernest Shackelton
Arts’ Club
Amos Bonsall
Elisha Kent Kane
Sir John Franklin
105 year old bride seeks license in Los Angeles
Mrs Marie Lina Elisalda aged 105 and Pleasantine Leon aged 80 obtained a marriage license in Los Angeles California. Leon plans to challenge a court order naming Claudia Lugo the elderly woman's guardian. Lugo will contest the action.
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Los Angeles
Cal
Marie Lina Elisalda
Weathy
Pleasantine Leon
Leon
Claudia Lugo
Lugo
Baby Found In Box During Brooklyn Football Game
In Brooklyn a dozen boys playing with a pasteboard box in a vacant lot uncovered a four days old naked baby boy. The infant appeared dead but a passing policeman rushed it to a hospital where it began crying again, and doctors expected recovery.
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New York
Brooklyn
Evansville Flood Raises Fear of Typhoid Epidemic
In Evansville Indiana a steady rain and high Ohio River flood level of 46.4 feet worsen efforts to shelter the homeless. Sewers flooded raise fear of a typhoid epidemic. Many manufacturing plants submerged, hundreds of workers left unemployed.
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Evansville
Ind
Weather Outlook Displays Uncertain Conditions Across Nation
The Weather Bureau reports the weather man is undecided with unsettled conditions nationwide. Irregular air pressure distribution favors cloudy, misty weather in the southwest, with a temperature drop expected tomorrow once the developing conditions fully form.
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Weather Bureau
Get Acquainted With Light Want Ads
Classified bar gains. Light want ads invite reading as dividend payers. Start a ten day run tomorrow or Sunday to cover two Sundays for a half cent per four words. Ads accepted by phone with a bill mailed later. Old phone Crockett 1742, new phone 176.
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Crockett
President testifies on Atlantic coast trade control by shipping combine
A. H. Bull, head of the A. H. Bull Steamship Co., told the House Shipping Trust Committee the Atlantic coast trade is practically run by a combine including the Atlantic Gulf and East India Steamship Co and others. He described railroads withholding pro rate support and port terminal control that blocks independents, recalls selling his stake in 1900 to avoid Porto Rican trade under bond, and notes discount rates offered to lure ships into the Porto Rican route.
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Washington, D. C
Atlantic Gulf & East India Steamship Company
New York and Porto Rico Steamship Company
Clyde Line
Mallory Line
Eastern Line
Insular Line
A. H. Bull
A. H. Bull Steamship Company
House Shipping Trust Committee
New York
Bull
New York & Porto Rican Steamship Company
Atlantic, Gulf & West Indian Steamship Company
Stockton Springs
Porto Rico
Ship trade talks with the department of justice
Representative Humphrey urged taking the dispute between ship owners and the combine to the department of justice. Herbert Barber of the Barber Company testified that a New York to La Plata line had agreed to maintain rates at several points in the trade.
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Tween
Combine
Department of Justice
Humphrey
Herbert Barber
Barber Company
New York
la Plata
Cruiser Denver Heads for Acapulco to Protect Americans
The cruiser Denver, ordered to Acapulco Mexico to protect Americans endangered by the rebel Padilla and his band, will sail from San Diego today for about four days at sea. Consul Edwards reports no change in Acapulco and the British warship Shearwater will remain until conditions normalize or the Denver arrives. The Mexico City embassy notes an attempted revolutionary outbreak in Tlaxcala, with federal troops dispatched.
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Washington, D. C
Denver
Acapulco
Mexico
Padilla
San Diego
Cal
Edwards
State Department
Shearwater
Mexico City
Tlaxcala
Recruits Sought for Rural Mexican Army Force
In El Paso on January 17, officials report the federal government has begun recruiting in the border states. Mexican recruiting officers in Durango and Coahuila offer two pesos per day to men willing to enlist. The aim is to raise a 5000 strong rurales force, replacing earlier jail-impressment practices.
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EL Paso
Tex
Durango
Coahuila
Torreon
Missing southbound train trapped by Mexican rebels
El Paso report says the missing southbound passenger train from Wednesday and two troop trains were trapped by rebels burning bridges on the Mexican Central railway below Juarez, a definite update shows.
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EL Paso
Tex
Juarez
Orozco Rejoins Chihuahua Campaign With 2000 Armed Men
General Pascual Orozco Jr. has joined Caraveo near Montezuma along the Mexican Central Railroad with about 2000 armed men and supplies. He resumes command of rebel forces in Chihuahua after two months out of sight.
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Orozco
EL Paso
Tex
Pascual Orozco Jr
Caraveo
Monctezuma
Chihuahua
Poincare Elected President Amid Duel Threat and Quarrels
Premier Poincare wins the French presidency in a National Assembly vote with 483 to 2965 and 69 for Vaillant. A dispute with ex Premier Clemenceau sparked a plan for a duel, resolved after Clemenceau offered a satisfactory explanation.
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Versailles
France
Premier Poincare
National Assembly
Poincare
Jules Paris
Marie Edouard Vaillant
Georges Clemenceau
National Congress
Aristide Briand
Justice
L. L. Klotz
Finance
Clemenceau
M. Briand
M. Klotz
de Monzie
Paul Gonscour
M. Monzie
M. Boncour
Fallieres
Paris
Raymond Poincare
Republic
Fernand David
Commerce
Agriculture
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M. Raymond Poincare
M. Fallieres
Georges Clemenceu
M. Poincare
Mecesessece
Pu Messeersee
Mev Ceceeves
Missouri
Tombstone
Dupont Company
Amundsen, Peary and Shackelton
California
Great Britain
Ey Wei Fat, Ue
Wil “i Ai
Bert
Baby IN
Funny Box
Independent Line
Shipping Trust Committee
U. S
Phloideni IF
Frange
Sadi Garnet
Felix Faure
Louis XIV
Congress
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