State Insurance Board Pushes Fire Marshal Ordinances in Texas
The Texas State Insurance Board plans a vigorous campaign to require every incorporated city to adopt a fire marshal ordinance. Only about 40 of roughly 300 cities have such rules. The move aims to cut rates by pairing the marshal with sanitary work to improve city cleanliness and trash removal. Fort Worth Dallas and Houston consider similar measures, while San Antonio already has an ordinance but with limited powers.
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Tex
State Insurance Board
Texas
Inglish
Fort Worth
Dallas
Houston
San Antonio
Inglisn
Corpus Christi
Foley Kidney Pills Adby King and Pattison Drug Co
An advertisement promising Foley Kidney Pills as quick and permanent relief for kidney and bladder ailments and urinary irregularities. It claims tonic and strengthening effects and urges trying Foley Kidney Pills from King & Pattison Drug Co.
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King & Pattison Drug Co
Equitable Surety Granted Texas Certificate of Authority
The Department of Insurance and Banking in Austin Texas grants Equitable Surety Company of St. Louis a certificate to do business in Texas. The firm with $1,000,000 capital stock must deposit $50,000 in securities with the state treasury. It will operate in fidelity and general surety business.
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Austin
Tex
Department of Insurance and Banking
Texas
Equitable Surety Company of
St. Louis
Treasury Department
Fidelity and General
Growing National Guard as New Companies Form
Austin reports ongoing muster of National Guard companies by the adjutant general. In the past two months over six new units have joined, most recently a Decatur company with 66 men commanded by Captain Kenneth W. Reid and first lieutenant Hugh M. Foster with Claude Co. Lewis as second lieutenant.
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Austin
Tex
National Guard
Adjutant General’s Department
Decatur
Kenneth W. Reid
Hugh M. Foster
Claude Co. Lewis
Austin butchers in trouble with law
State Pure Food Commissioner Abbott targets Austin butchers over meat sold with preservatives. Assistant chemist E. H. Golaz tested four providers and found three sold meat containing preservatives, violative of the law as crusade against impure water expands to many cities in the state.
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Austin
Tex
Pure Food
Abbott
E. H. Golaz
Pure Food Department
Orga
Admiral Truppa Doubts Universal Peace In Interview
A Colorado Springs paper prints an extended interview with Admiral Truppa, commander of the German Baltic fleet, who says universal peace is not possible. He asserts nations will build stronger dreadnoughts to surpass prior naval power and warns civilization must prepare with future navies.
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Associated Press
Colorado Springs
Colo
Truppa
Foley Kidney Pills Marketed For Kidney Support
Foley Kidney Pills are described as specially selected ingredients for correcting healing and stimulating kidney and urinary tract activity. The product is labeled as antiseptic, anticrystal and uric acid solvent offered by King Pattison Drug Co.
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Foley
King & Pattison Drug Co
Law on fleeing accident scene ruled unconstitutional
New York appellate division holds a state law criminalizing leaving the scene of an accident without identity disclosure unconstitutional as it compels a person to witness against himself. The decision sustains Edward Z. Rosenheimer's demurrer to an indictment after a fatal crash involving a girl and injuries to two others.
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SD Presa
NEW York
Appellate Division
Supreme Court
Edward Z. Rosenheimer
Rosenheimer
Waukegan Girl Receives Honor for Perfect Attendance
Miss Ethel Mary Hicks of Waukegan township high school is singled out by local educational authorities as possibly the most regular pupil in the United States. In twelve years of schooling she has never been absent or tardy, maintaining high grades and participation in athletics, sometimes pursuing classes on crutches after gymnasium or field injuries.
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Waukegan
Associated Press
Chicago
United States
Honers
Ethel Mary Hicks
Township High School
Miss Hicks
San Antonio Charter Recount Ends With 64 Vote Lead Loss
Judge Seeligson announces the recount shows the charter proposal defeated by 64 votes after 209 illegal ballots are struck from the totals. The contest ends with exceptions to the illegal list to be filed and an appeal planned by counsel for both sides.
Foley Kidney Pills touted as quick relief tonic
An advertisement claims Foley Kidney Pills provide prompt relief for backache kidney and bladder trouble rheumatism and urinary irregularities. It targets middle aged and elderly people and women with KING PATTISON DRUG OQ as the supplier.
Blind Tom Hayden Victim of Pneumonia
Thomas T. Hayden known as blind Tom Hayden, died at his Brooklyn home after pneumonia. He had been sightless for thirteen years and had acted in prominent clubs in New York and Brooklyn. His famed role was Armand in Camille, and he once attracted Frohman’s interest in New York.
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Associated, Press
New York
Thomas T. Hayden
Tom” Hayden
Brooklyn
Edith Kingdon
George J. Gould
Hayden
Armand
Camille
Charles Frohman
Local Charter Vote Recount Concludes After Night Counting
Sheriff Tobin hosted a postcount picnic as voting resumed and ended at 11 pm. Four crippled voters counted, two for the charter and two against. retired soldiers had eleven for and thirteen against. Several possibly illegal votes were examined, eight for the charter while the ninth could not be found. The outcome now seems fixed regardless of potential appellate reversal. Dr Sara F Herdman osteopath listed with Gibbs Building address N P 3055 blue.
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San Antonio
Seeligson
Fifty-seventh District Court
Tobin
Last Survivor of San Jacinto Dead in Texas
Alonzo Steele, 94, veteran of the San Jacinto battle that secured Texas independence, was found dead in bed at his grandson Alva Steele’s home near Rosse. Burial will be in Mexia cemetery. He is survived by three sons, two daughters, and more than 140 grandchildren and great grandchildren.
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Associated Press
Rosse
Tex
Alonzo Steele
San Jacinto
Sam Houston
Texas
Mexico
Alva Steele
Mexia
Steele
Messrs
Hampton
Leonard
Lonzo Steele
Mary Bennett
Alice Eubanks
Fayette county mass meeting forms state prohibition committee
A mass meeting at the Fayette County courthouse elected an executive committee to promote state wide prohibition. J F E Faires was named chairman with James Marburger James Gray A B Campbell Co W Moore J S Hart Walter Morrow W P Ivy and W H Kerr serving as members and H A Ivy delivering remarks. In Dodge Texas constable R R Wilson fatally shot Alex Owens a Black man resisting arrest on a wife beating charge.
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Faye
Flatonia
Tex
Court House
Fayette County
Negrosis
SeSsociate Press
Dodge
R. R. Wilson
Alex Owens
Negro
Education Board Named
Karnes City Tex July 8 The commissioners have appointed a county board of education under the recent law. Appointees include J A Martin J W Moczygamia D Hy Fairy Max Schorfe and J Tiptca.
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Education Board
Karnes City
Tex
County Board of Education
J. A. Martin
J. W.moczygamia
D. Hy Fairy
Max Schorfe
J. Tiptca
Regular Army Brings Brigade to Texas Guard Encampment
Negotiations between Texas and the war department seek a regular army brigade from Fort Sam Houston to join the Texas National Guard encampment at Camp Mabry August 7 to 16. About 2500 guardsmen exist, and a federal detachment will attend if a full brigade isn’t possible. The event is budgeted near 50 000 dollars, largely funded by federal money.
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War Department
Hutchings
Camp Mabry
Texas
Bonner predicts big anti prohibition victory in Texas
Col. B. F. Bonner of Kirby Lumber in Austin on state house business meets Governor Colquitt as a member of the governor's military staff. Bonner forecasts a large anti prohibition victory in the July 22 election. He cites favorable public sentiment and strong organization. Bonner references the Jefferson at 442 Soledad Street for a venue.
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Austin
Tex
B. F. Bonner
Kirby Lumber Company
Houston
State House
Colquitt
Bonner
Hallettsville Woman Agnes Willrich Dies at 62
Agnes H. Willrich 62 died at her daughter's Hallettsville home. A Pennsylvania native, she moved to Texas about thirty years ago and lived there until five years ago. The body was shipped to Schulenberg for interment.
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Hallettsville
Tex
Agnes H. Willrich
E. L. McKinnon
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