Cuero Plans Grand Turkey Trot Harvest Celebration
Cuero Texas boosters unveil a two and a half day turkey trot and harvest home festival for November 25 to 27 with prizes for poultry and livestock, a turkey barbecue for dignitaries including Taft and Colquitt, band concerts and a big parade. Officials aim to draw northern visitors and boost Southwest Texas tourism.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cuero
Tex
Lee Joseph
Cuero Commercial Club
J. C. Howerton
Emil Leonardt
L. A. Carter
G. H. Harris
Edgar Joseph
W. J. Grunder
Taft
Colquitt
Esplanade
O. B. Colquitt
de Witt County
Turner Hall
Turkey
Texas
Rebate Fine Stands Against Savannah Firm
Judge Emory Speer of the U S court upholds a circuit court mandate forcing Merchants' and Miners' Transportation Co of Savannah to pay a $20,000 fine plus 6 percent interest from March 25, 1911, for rebating after an appeal of the original conviction.
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Macon
Emery Speer
United States Court, Southern District of Georgia
Circuit Court of Appeals
Merchants’ and Miners’ Transportation Company of
Savannah
Steamship Company
Hallettsville Firemen Celebrate Triumphs
In Hallettsville Texas July 10 about 2500 people attended the firemen celebration. Excursion trains from the west brought in at least 800 visitors. Eagle Lake won the hose-laying contest and Yorktown took two prizes. In baseball the Range team beat ing and Range 7 to 5.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hallettsville
Sville
Tex
Eagle Lake
Yorktown
Ing
Range
Perspino Deodorant Promises Odor Free Arm Pits
Ad touts Perspino powder for underarm moisture and odor control. Claims include protection in hot rooms and fabrics, with a pad included in each box. Sold at 25 cents per box via Perspo Co of Chicago and at San Antonio outlets Bexar Drug Co W C Burns & Co A M Fischer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Perspo Co
Lincoln Ave
Chicago
San Antonio
Bexar Drug Co
W. C. Burns & Co
A. M. Fischer
Pat McKenna Finances White House Lunch With Barnes Koenig
Washington report details Pat McKenna, gatekeeper to Taft and Hilles, arranging luncheon for William Barnes Jr and S. S. Koenig after discovering Hilles broke. Hilles supplies funds, handing over a large bill, while McKenna organizes the meal amid amused onlookers.
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Washington, D. C
Pat” McKenna
Taft
Hilles
William Barnes Jr
S. Koenig
New York County Committee
McKenna
Republican National Committee
Barnes
Mr. Koenig
Mr. Hilles
Long Island
White House
Pat
Good Roads Meeting Postponed To July Seventeenth
San Antonio Corpus Christi good roads boosters postpone Beeville gathering to July 17. Secretary Blake of the Commercial club plans twenty autos with local business men to attend. The party will tour towns between Corpus Christi and Kenedy over two days.
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Corpus Christi
Tex
Good Roads Boosters
San Antonio
Corpus
Beeville
Texas
Blake
Commercial Club
Here
Kenedy
Dilley Ships Watermelons
Dilley Texas July 10 watermelons are sent out of the town by carloads daily. The fruit is of fine quality with good size and commands a good price in the market.
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Dilley
Tex
A Woman's Wisdom and The Common Sense Medical Adviser
A worried mother considers The Common Sense Medical Adviser by V Pierce M D to diagnose her child's cough. The ad touts the 1000 page medical guide and the Favorite Prescription remedy for women, citing Mrs Margaret Zuerbert of Baltimore praising its effects.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
V. Pierce
M.D
Pierce
Mra Argaret Zuebert
S. Bentalon Street
Baltimore
Storch
Ian
Houston votes for improvement bonds to expand city
Voters approved 2.5 million dollars in bonds for drainage, sanitary sewer, high school, street paving, public parks, and bridge projects plus a 150 thousand for a city hall annex. An annex failed by a small margin. Mayor Rice and the city commission pledged swift action to implement the plan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Houston
Tex
City Hall Annex
Houston F
Rice
City Commission
Silent Strike Urged by Socialist Leaders in New Orleans
In Lafayette Square a mass meeting urged a silent strike to pressure Louisiana lumber mill owners to recognize unions. Speakers accused lumber camps of harsh conditions following a labor riot at Galloway's mill in Grabow, with calls for saboteur actions against lumber shipments. John Galloway, Grabow mill owner, held on murder charges connected to the same incident. conditions at Grabow reported normal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Orleans
Mass Meeting
Louisiana
la Fayette Square
Galloway
Grabow
Covington Halil
J. N. Breen
J. T. O'Hara
Hall
France
Kamaichita
Chicago
Seattle
England
South America
Emerson
Lake Charles
John Galloway
Decatur Hall
Talk Cotton Rates Houston Meeting Seeks Interstate Accord
Freight chiefs from Texas cotton handling roads conferred in Houston to align rates and handling practices with Interstate Commerce Commission regulations. The second such meeting this week followed a Galveston session, with debate over demurrage and the Chicago July 19 hearing, and questions about using through bills of lading.
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Houston
Tex
Texas
Interstate Commerce Commission
Galveston
Chicago
Col W C Connelly Jr dies longtime AP Washington reporter
Col W C Connelly Jr aged 99 died after a yearlong illness in Pittsburg He served 34 years as Associated Press correspondent in Washington PA West Virginia and eastern Ohio He followed Charles W Fairbanks after starting as a telegraph operator and reported from Johnstown flood regions He is survived by a widow and three sons and a daughter.
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Pittsburg
W. C. Connelly Jr
Associated Press
Washington
Pennsylvania
West Virginia
Ohio
Connelly
Turtle Creek
Charles W. Fairbanks
United States
Johnstown
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Harvest Home
Steamship Company of
Filles
New Republican Committee
Auto Trades Excursion
ZupEnt
Texas Railroads Center
Col
W. C. Connelly
Sam Ll. Hain
Port of
Bureau of Commerce and Labor
McDaniel
Southern Dejet
Kaufman
G. W
South Flores
Highland Park
Letitin
Milan
AUF Man
Wien’s Shoes
John Mitchell
Orner South Flores
Clorosa
Sts
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