Nicknames of Boyhood Days Draw Smiles in San Antonio
San Antonio residents recall nicknames from youth at swimming holes and school days. Tales include Brick and Ratty from Judge Birkhead and Sheriff Tobin, Blondy from County Judge Shook, Doc from H L Wagner, and many others reflecting looks, feats, and antics that stuck into adulthood.
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Freck
Shorty
Victoria
Prince of Wales
King Edward
Bertie
Edward
Baden-Powell
Yale
San Antonio
Waco
Claude V. Birkhead
Sheriff Tobin
Shook
Doc
Texas
H. L. Wagner
Adrian
Mich
Hafner
A. H. Miller
Medina
Perry l L. C. King
San Antonio Gas & Electric Company
Sam Cook
St. Mary's College
Gonis
Books and Magazines Preview What’s New in 1910s Fiction
A survey of autumn releases features Mrs Frances Hodgson Burnetts The Secret Garden and Robert Hichens The Fruitful Vine from Stokes, with mentions of Edna Ferbers Dawn O Hara and Edith Whartons new Scribners serial. It notes James Cram’s Gothic architecture influence and Baker & Taylor Co publishing long running reference works and guides.
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Frances Hodgson Burnett
Stokes
Robert Hichens
Mr. Hichens
New York
Rome
Edna Ferber
Dawn O'Hara
Miss. Ferber
Dawn
Edna F Per
Ralph Adams Cram
St. John the Divine
Baker & Taylor Co
Elson
U. S
Ohio
Indiana
Fishers
United States
Tide
Real Wrinkle Remover From Home Remedy
A fashion reporter describes a simple home mix using saxolite and witch hazel as a daily lotion to reduce wrinkles and improve facial firmness. The article notes quick, noticeable results after the first use and promotes cost savings versus commercial products.
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Fashion Reporter
New Kind of Sea Serpent Reported in Massachusetts Bays
Massachusetts fishermen report a 200 foot sea serpent with a humpback and alligatorlike head seen near Boone Island light and Nantasket. It is described as fast moving, scooping fish as it travels and deterring boats from fishing grounds.
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Massachusetts
New York World
Boone Island
Nantasket
A Skin of Beauty Is Forever
Fragmented text notes a sale or property matter and mentions Spain, Prop 87, and addresses. The readable fragments suggest a legal or real estate context with unclear details and names partially obscured.
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United
Spains
Mayor's Sunday Church Penalty for Drunkards in Cordele
Cordele Georgia dispatch reports Mayor Davis will replace fines for drunkenness with a church attendance sentence. He orders offenders to meet him Sundays at 10 in his office for long term penance or face jail. One case has yet to begin this reform as his cronies arrived sober to see him off.
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Davis
Cordele
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Wagner
Marshall Dibrell
Border Service
The
Prairies
Taoule-Henibe
Graham
American Bank and Trust Company
John F. Fentiman
Jack
Toronto
Canada
Woodward
D. J. Woodward
Palestine
Dave Woodward
San
Dave
Little Dave
Big Dave
Ed Pratt
Frisco
Frank Holt
Frank
Turkey Eye
Patty
H. J. Benson
Harlandale
Spois
Fatty
Mr. Benson
Kemble Bert
City Scales
Pruitt Commision Co
Bert
Nimble’ Smith
Independence
T. N. Smith
Roy Campbell
Mr. Campbell
Mr. Smith
Niagara Falls
A. W. Hartman
International Club
Niagara Rapids
Hartman
Sy Figen
ore _ C. Preston
Agen
Olive Lehreiner
Africa
America
Victor L. Whitechurch
Robert Burns
Canon Smith
Edith Wharton
Scribner’s Magazine
New England
Mrs. Arton
General Funston
Scribner's
Philippines
Aston
Olos
John H. Walsh
Puget Sound
A. G C. Benson
University of Cambridge
Benson
Silent Isle
Royal Ft Ecudate of
John Ruskin
Ced
Sunieen
Putnams
Wire Trust
Equitable Life Insurance Co
San Antonio, Texas
Frederick J. Combe
Bedell
Herbert D. Satterlee
J. Pierpont Morgan
Roosevelt
Odson Ay
Hopkins County
Rar. T
Felix Goureud
Oriente
Cream Or Magica
Beaeutifier
Georgia
Emmet Bank
Iwicommene
Thos. L. Conroy
BE. J. McCormick
J. Frank Gallagher
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