Free Hospital Postpone Solicitations In San Antonio
The Free Clinic and Hospital Association delays further fund solicitation to the latter part of next month due to absent or ill workers. Donations toward building maintenance and endowment exceed thousands with many five and ten dollar gifts plus smaller contributions from local individuals and groups. A full subscriptions list and total will be published soon.
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San Antonio
Free Clinic and Hospital Association
Weltdn
L. Hoey
W. W. Condurant
W. C. Price
Gulf Coast News and Hotel Company
D. R. Eee
C. D Wolfe
A. Steeien
le Bros
J. Z Wheat
Alamo Hive
le M
M. Armounts
David Bell
Zoller
Goliad to Hold Election On Incorporation
GOLIAD TEX July 13 An election is set for August 8 to decide if the town of Goliad should incorporate. The vote will determine the town's incorporation status.
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Goliad
Tex
Memorial Song of the Titanic
A newly published memorial song honors the Titanic disaster with subdued music for mixed voices. The chorus echoes Nearer My God to Thee with lines about the band playing as the ship sank. The edition, credited to Jos Morris, features ornate gold and purple embellishment and four key arrangements for quartets and sextets.
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Jos. Morris
Plans for Mission Style Entrance at City Cemetery
City council plans a mission style main entrance at the cemetery with an office for the superintendent and public receiving area. Designer B Hadbecker submitted the plan and the building, likely of blue limestone, would be about 120 feet wide and 80 feet deep. cost is not yet estimated. The grounds near completion and soon to be opened to the public.
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Wickeland
B. Hadbecker
State Banks Prosper in Texas Between April and June 1912
The Texas state department of insurance and banking reports capital and surplus totals rose to 32,498,788.43 with a 35,815.51 increase in surplus and 168,929.84 in undivided profits. Loans and discounts grew by 3,108,798.78 while individual deposits fell 2,882,077.08 and overdrafts dropped 78,188.44. Demand deposit reserves stand at 41 percent.
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Austin
Tex
State Department of Insurance and Banking
State Bank and Trust Companies
Laysan Island Declared Bird Refuge After Plume Slaughter
The U S government converted Laysan Island into a bird refuge after plume hunters killed hundreds of thousands of birds. A revenue cutter harbored 23 captives and seized wings from about 259000 birds. The island now hosts diverse species and a census shows over a million birds, illustrating a push to protect rookeries across the Pacific.
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South Pacific
Washington
Laysan Island
Andubon
Cure
Pearls
Hermes
Brothers
Necker
Bird
Hawaii
Japan
United States
Seven Seas
South Atlantic
Thetis
Honolulu
Marcus Island
Laysan
Laygan Island
Government of
Fowlerton Cotton Crop Promises Record Yield
Special to Thy Light reports from Fowlerton Texas July 18 that the cotton crop in Fowlerton Country shows promise of a beautiful yield. The stand is exceptionally clean and the yield is expected to exceed a bale per acre.
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Fowlerton
Pox
Atton
Tax proposal to fund Salado Creek improvement district
The Salado Water Supply Company seeks a state charter for an improvement district and a tax to finance turning artesian water into Salado Creek. directors report broad small landholder support but say large landowners lag in donations. project aims to drill wells to keep the stream healthy and supply stock and irrigation water.
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Salado
jJerge
Salado Water Supply Company
William Icke
Balado Any Company
Ferdinand Theis
Balado
Improvements Accelerate on Jourdanton Projects
Material for the Atascosa county courthouse and the $20,000 high school building is arriving daily as work on both structures accelerates. The Edwards survey road between Jourdanton and Charlotte nears completion and is slated to be one of the county’s finest roadways when finished.
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Jourdanton
Tex
Atascosa County
Charlotte
Part of Famous Hoxie San Gabriel Ranch Sold
Taylor Texas July 13 Hoxie Allie Welch owners sold 106 acre farm out of the ranch to Andrew Pitcher for 312000 dollars or 120 dollars an acre. Report notes the price is not the highest achieved for the land in question and hints at higher values elsewhere.
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Flere
Kaufman
Milan
Famous Ranch
Taylor
Tex
Hoxie, Allie & Welch
Hoxie San Gabriel Ranch
Andrew Pitcher
Texans to Attend National Irrigation Congress in Salt Lake City
Texas will send a large delegation to the National Irrigation Congress in Salt Lake City from September 30 to October 8. The state has spent over 8 million dollars to irrigate about 200000 acres. Mexico also plans to attend, with President Madero to name a delegation.
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State
Darge Diemoe
Salt Lake City
Utah
Texas
National Irrigation Congress
Arthur Hooker
Republic of Mexico
Salt Lake
McQueen Gray
Congress
Madero
National Irrigation Con
Gress
Fowlerton to Vote on Bond for New School House
County commissioners plan a vote within weeks on a $15 000 school house bond issue at Fowlerton. Current age-eligible pupil count nears 300, up from eight months ago when there were none.
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Fowlerton
Tex
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Mission Burying Ground
Chicago
East
Houston Street
Matthews Home
Avenas
Wes Hind
OM Phee
Caysan Island
Kauffman
G. N
S. Flores
Highland Park
Express
Batiste
7&C
AUF Man
Southern Hotel
Ftores and Dolorosa Sts
John Mitchell
Packard
Panama
Salado Creek
Franklin Road
Franklin
Frio
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