City seeks to buy asphalt plant. Army Boulevard bids opened
Standard Paving offers 5100 dollars to purchase the city asphalt plant and to pave Army Boulevard from River Avenue to the Base Hospital Fort Sam Houston. Bids on Army Boulevard include Colglazier Chapin Construction and Western Paving among others. International & Great Northern railway switch track across Comal Street gets first reading. Public works requests include fifteen new targets for municipal range and Brackenridge Park land purchase study.
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Standard Paving Company
Army Boulevard
River Avenue
Fort Sam Houston
Callaghan
Jones
Kearny
Colglazier- Chapin Construction Company
Uvalde Rock Asphalt Company
Western Paving Company
Carson Construction Company
International & Great Northern Railway
Comal Street
Lake View Avenue
Travis Street
Commis
Bryan Opens Wisconsin Prohibition Campaign
William J. Bryan spoke to a mass meeting in Madison as part of a statewide prohibition drive. The Assembly adopted a resolution summoning University of Wisconsin President Charles R. Van Hise to justify why Socialist Max Eastman was barred from speaking in a university building while Bryan spoke in a campus pavilion. The measure moves to the Senate with the phrase dry propagandist removed.
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Madison
Wis
William J. Bryan
Charles R. Vanchise
University of Wisconsin
Max Eastman
Bryan
Senate
Old Folks Need Cascarets For Gentle Bowel Help
An advertisement extols Cascarets as a natural laxative for the elderly to prevent constipation. It compares aging to slower movement and less elastic muscles, urging regular use of the 10 cent box to keep bowels active without harsh laxatives. It claims the product works while you sleep and is available at drug stores.
Reservations for coastal camps to mobilize troops urged
New York January 23 The National Civic Federation heard a report by Dr Thomas Darlington former New York health commissioner urging large government land reservations along coasts and borders for troop mobilization and training in peacetime. The plan calls for 20 000 to 50 000 acre reserves with rail sidings waterworks and depots to support equipment and supplies.
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New York
Thomas Darlington
National Civic Federation
Darlington
Samuel Gompers
Food costs in Canada not higher than U S says Cal der
A B Calder of the Canadian Pacific Railway visiting San Antonio from Montreal states Canadian city food prices match U S levels. He blames war time U S price spikes on speculation and notes Montreal eggs cost 40 to 50 cents per dozen versus 60 to 65 cents in New York and Chicago. Calder predicts more U S tourists will vacation in Canada this summer.
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England
United States
A. B. Calder
Canadian Pacific Railway
San Antonio
Montreal
Calder
Mr. Calder
Canada
New York
Chicago
Texas
Austin Urges Bills to Amend State Banking Law
Austin, Texas, January 23. Commissioner of Insurance and Banking Austin seeks passage of two Senate bills by Senator Gibson to amend the state banking law. One proposal would guarantee all time deposits in state banks under the current law.
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Department of Insurance and Banking
Secretary of State’s Department
Austin
Tex
Commissioner of Insurance and Banking
Senate
Gibson
Dodson's Liver Tone Promises Gentle Liver Boost
A nostalgic ad extols Dodson's Liver Tone as a safe, non salivating liver aid. It contrasts harsh calomel with the product claiming quick relief from bilious symptoms and says it won’t upset stomachs or require abstaining after use. It touts suitability for adults and children alike.
Belgium Faces Hunger and Disease After Occupation
Dr William Palmer Lucas reports in the Journal of the American Medical Association that after more than two and a half years of German occupation about 5 million Belgians in industry and minor trades face severe shortages. Tuberculosis and rickets rise, milk disappears for children, birth rates fall, and workers lose weight, threatening disaster if relief ends. He notes the well to do escape hardships and that health could rebound quickly if conditions improve.
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Chicago
Belgium
William Palmer Lucas
Children’s Department
University of California Medical School
Journal of the American Medical Association
Grove's Tasteless Tonic Proclaimed as General Tonic
An old advertisement touts Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonic as a valuable General Tonic noting it contains iron and quinine. The copy emphasizes tonic properties and price at 50 cents.
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Grove
Merchants push pure advertising bill in Texas Legislature
W J Edgecombe of the Retail Merchants Association reports merchants are urging lawmakers in Austin to pass a pure advertising bill to curb fake advertising and protect consumers. They back an anti trading stamp bill and seek amendments to fire insurance and cotton marketing laws to empower state regulators.
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Merchants of
Texas
Austin
Retail Merchants’ Association
W. J. Edgecombe
Mr. Edgecombe
Edgecombe
Marketing Commission
Alabama Guardsman Dies of Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis
Ernest Stubblefield of the Fourth Alabama died Saturday night in Nogales Ariz marking the first CS meningitis death among Alabama national guardsmen. Two others Private Brightenill of the Twentieth Michigan Infantry and Thomas Holden of Columbia signal corps are recovering.
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Nogales
Ariz
Alabama National
Terauchi Relies Japan-Great Power Ties Grow Cordial
In a House of Peers address Count Terauchi says relations with treaty powers beyond wartime participants are increasingly cordial. He notes Germany’s peace proposal was rejected for lacking sincere peace intent.
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Okio
House of Peers
Count Terauchi
Japan
Germany
Berlin dinner hails central powers victory leaders
London dispatch to Reuters reports a Berlin dinner for presidents of Teutonic powers parliaments. Chancellor Von Bethmann Hollweg and several ministers attended as speakers expressed confidence in a central powers victory.
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London
Berlin
Teutonic Powers
Reuter
Amsterdam
von Bethmann-Hollweg
President and Mrs Wilson Attend Gregory Dinner
President and Mrs Wilson were guests of Attorney General Gregory at a dinner in Washington. The docket includes Texas charters filed for multiple companies across counties such as Ellis, Kosse, Blooming Grove, Fort Worth, Victoria and Houston, with varied capital stocks and listed incorporators. Uruguay joins nations recognizing twenty four hour time.
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Washington, D. C
Wilson
Gregory
Austin
Tex
Italy
Ellis County
Capital Stock
Whit George
Rs K. McCullough
Roy Wimberey
Kosse Light and Power Company
Kosse
Limestone County
L. T. Gibbs
W. D. Allen
W. E. Allen
The
Farmers’ Lumber Company
Bloom
Uruguay
Foley Advertising Offer for Cough Remedies and Pills
Cut out this slip and send five cents to Foley & Co. in Chicago to receive a trial package of Foley's Honey and Tar Compound for bronchial coughs colds and croup Foley Kidney Pills for pain in sides and back rheumatism back ache kidney and bladder ailments and Foley Cathartic Tablets a safe cleansing laxative.
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Foley & Co
Sheffield Ave
Chicago
Lll
Foley
A. M. Fischer
Anti-pass Law Passed by Tennessee Legislature
Nashville Tenn Jan 23 The Seite reports the senate reconsidered and approved by 30 to 2 an anti pass bill prohibiting free transport by common carriers except for employees their families and pension board members. The act takes effect December 31 1917.
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Tennessee
Nashville, Tenn
Seite
State Pension Board
Ely's Cream Balm for catarrh quick relief
A nostril opening advertisement claims Ely's Cream Balm clears nasal passages in one minute. The fragranted antiseptic cream soothes inflamed membranes and eases congestion with a small bottle from the druggist. Relief is described as instant and lasting for colds and catarrh.
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Ely
Uncle Sam Oil Company stock pitch promises huge gains
A promotional oil stock offers 10 to 50 percent advance to investors before an oil boom. It touts 11 years in business, three refineries, pipelines, wells, leases across Kansas and Oklahoma, with $80,000 monthly receipts and plans for 14 new wells. The offer targets small investors with remittance incentives and a chance at promotion gains.
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Kansas
Oklahoma
Cara
Pawnee County
Bartlesville
Uncle Sam Oil Company
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K. P. Lipscomb
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Brown
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T. G. Wilson
C. C. Conoly
Bud Carstangen
Ed Hi. Guerrero
W. D. Louthian
Paul L. Badezar
the Menger
Bailey Merienda
Edwin H. Lee
Menger
Rotel
St. Anthony and
Best Hotel
Theater
Dansant
T. B. Baker
Gunter Hotel
Cabarey Dansant
Telephone Crockett
Hot Wells
Arthur G. Jury
Table d'Hote
Crockett Travelers
Bryan IN
Wisconsin
NOA Spears CO
Losoya St
Hensley Smith Transfer CO
Houston & Navarro Sts
Crockett
Wuest
U. S
Dodson
Alabama
Ernest Stubblefield
Wolfson’s
Silks
Saul Wolfson
J. H. Coffman Lumber Company
Bon Wier
Newton County
Capital
Rogan- Pyle Drug Company
Dallas
Rockdale Water and Light Company
Rockdale
the _ Interstates Sales Company
Galveston
Fed
North Cushing
Cherryvale
Uncle Sam Ol Company
Ranie
Sam Uilco
H. H. Tucker JR
Kansas City, Kansas
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