Plan Playgrounds In Old Rock Quarry
Otto A Pfeiffer head of the science department and longtime High's football coach was named committee chair to push a petition to the city council granting use of the quarry north of San Pedro Park as an athletic ground. He said facilities are waiting and plans include tennis and basketball courts, running track, pits for jumping, and outdoor gym equipment with a potential 600 to 700 participants enjoying outdoor exercise.
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Otto A. Pfeiffer
San Pedro Park
Mr. Pfeiffer
Decline in San Antonio Dog License Payments
City records show dog license receipts fell from 1258 in 1911 12 to 774 in 1912 13 and just 285 in the current year. Deputy notes fewer dogs and scarce ropers, with licenses unused protection and fines not improving compliance.
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Willemain
San Antonio
Sausage Ad Promotes Freshness with Tin Tag label
A brief notice urges buyers to ask for sausage with a tin tag to ensure freshness. It mentions a display in the Grand Opera House lobby and credits Union Meat Company.
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Grand Opera House
Union Meat Company
County Budgets Under Review For Bexar Tax Rate
County Auditor John V. Huntress is compiling estimates for each county fund as Bexar County prepares to set a tax rate by month end. Last year’s 35 cent rate may drop with higher valuations of about 6 million dollars, but depends on proposed general revenues and road fund spending. The rate is likely to be fixed next week after state rate decisions, following a county practice of awaiting the state assessment.
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Bexar County
John V. Huntress
State Tax Board
Guggenheim Divorce Tainted by Fraud and Conspiracy
Chicago reports that William Guggenheim's 1901 divorce from Grace Brown Guggenheim-Wahl was tainted by fraud collusion and criminal conspiracy. Circuit judges Windes Heard and Baldwin ordered the State Attorney Hoyne to pursue criminal action against alleged parties to the fraud while noting Illinois residents cannot be prosecuted due to the statute of limitations. Mrs Guggenheim-Wahl seeks to invalidate the divorce arguing residence and wrongful obtainment affected the case.
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Chicago
William Guggenheim
Grace Brown Guggenheim-Wahl
Windes
Heard
Baldwin
Hoyne
Illinois
Guggenheim-Wahl
Heatwave presses Kansas and Missouri with 113 degree peak
Excessive heat persisted across Kansas and Western Missouri with readings around 95 to 113 degrees. Only Concordia reported any rain in 48 hours as no significant relief was seen. The heat continued to dominate the day with no forecast of precipitation.
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Kansas City
Kansas Point
Missouri
Concordia
Dallas Attorney Appointed Commissioner in Katy Merger Suit
The attorney general's department announced the appointment of Thurmond Barrett of Dallas as commissioner to take testimony in the Katy merger suit. He will gather evidence on the antitrust aspects and on the dissolution of the merger.
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Dallas
Austin
Tex
Attorney General's Department
Nickels
Thurmond Barrett
Katy
Harbor City Terminal Corporation stock promise
In publicizing the Harbor City Terminal Corporation a plan rejects Wall Street endorsements. It offers equal shares with no preferred or donation stock, each share is bought and paid for, and every holder receives two lots in Ingleside and Harbor City.
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Wall
Harbor City Terminal Corporation
Wall Street
Ingleside
Harbor City
Odd Fellows Convention Reorganizes Program for Three Day Session
The Independent Order of Odd Fellows opens its Texas convention on Crockett street with delegates from many lodges. Due to leaders leaving town, a complete program change is announced with receptions tonight and sessions rescheduled, including a 9 am school of instruction tomorrow and encampment degrees Friday night.
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C. A. Keller
Marcus W. Davis
Order of Odd Fellows
Clinton G. Brown
A. P. Barrett
L. E. Rock
W. O. Staver
C. E. Freeman
Marcus Davis
Association
C. H. Stowers
Laredo
R. L. Peel
San Marcos
Gertrude Snow
Odd Fellows’ Hall
S. H.C. Burgin
Miriam Rebekah
G. E. Melliff
T. W. Dustin
W. C. Slaver
W. H. Crouch
W. F. Neeley
E. M. Hawk
H. Schmidt
Joe Murray
W. O. Langworthy
F. F. Parker
Bexar
Odd Fellows
Paroled Juvenile in Court as Parents Promised Discipline
Probation Officer Ross Boles paroled one of fourteen white juveniles charged with peculation after the mother vowed to whip him. Nine youths, including seven Negroes, remain for hearings this afternoon and tomorrow, with some expected to be sent to the reformatory for incorrigibility.
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Ross Boles
Boles
Obituary Notices of Taylor Vermillion and Mazzetti
George Taylor 72 died suddenly in his Herman street apartment while en route from Beeville to Pittsburgh to visit his son. Survived by two daughters and two sons, body held at Riebe Undertaking for funeral plans. Wilson Vermillion, Civil War veteran, died at a local hospital. body held for relatives in Guthrie. Eugenia Mazzetti, 58, wife of Guiseppi Mazzetti, died at her San Antonio home. funeral at 5 PM from residence, burial in San Fernando cemetery with pallbearers named.
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W. A. Taylor
Pittsburg
Riebe Undertaking Company
Vermillion
Wilson Vermillion
Virginia
Engineers’ Regiment of the West
Missouri Engineers
Guthrie
Oklo
Mazzetti
Eugenia Mazzetti
Guiseppi Mazzetti
Salinas
Laredo
San Antonio
San Fernando
P. Gianotti
C. Forestello
C. Feaci
Menger Sr
P. Broggi
G. Pasganucci
Young Man Dies In Waco From Local Job Search
T E Kirk aged 23 from Yoakum died in Waco after arriving Friday night seeking work. The report notes his home is listed as Yoakum and the death occurred here last night.
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Waco
Tex
T. E.kirk
Yoakum
Colquitt calls election for Twenty second district
Governor Colquitt issued a proclamation calling a special election in the Twenty second Senatorial district for August 5 to elect a state senator to fill the vacancy from W O Murray of Floresville. Murray resigned to seek appointment as general manager of the prison system under a pending law.
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Colquitt
Austin
Tex
W. O. Murray
Floresville
Murray
Detention sought for Fred Lump in Crawford murder case
Officials in Atlanta request detaining Fred Lump a New York barber who is alleged to be an access ory to the murder of Joseph B. Crawford. A telegram to New York police seeks Lump’s apprehension and transfer to Atlanta. Crawford’s widow Mary Belle Crawford is under arrest for the same murder with a $250000 estate at stake.
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Atlanta
Fred Lump
New York
Joseph BP
Crawford
New York City
Lump
Mary Belle Crawford
Pearl fisheries decline near Marichehuk kaddi in Sri Lanka
The pearl fisheries of Ceylon sit in the Gulf of Mannar near the island’s western edge with banks once famed for decades. Since 1907 the banks have remained unproductive and quiet.
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Ceylon
Gulf of Mannar
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