Campaign complaints on Bexar assessor Huth and reforms
The Citizens' League campaign piece argues assessment practices in Bexar County are overcharging taxpayers. It claims rising county valuations boosted state revenue, urges a roll revision, and endorses Henry Boerner to equalize assessments and reduce state overpayment.
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Bexar County
Huth
Bexar
Stewart
Meerscheidt & Stieren
Messrs
Meerscheidt & Stileren
Elk’s
8. B. Weller
Henry Boerner
Citizens’ League
Govae Han
Ae Seana
M. Huth
Citizen’s League
Postmaster General Acts to Curb Clandestine Flirtations
Stevens praises Hitchcock for issuing an order to require reasons in writing from general delivery customers who receive letters at the office. The policy aims to stop clandestine flirtations by young people against parental wishes, a trouble noted by Stevens and other postmasters.
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Hitchcock
Stevens
Taft Nominates Judges and Officials
President Taft sent several nominations to the senate including John M. Cheney for United States judge in the Southern District of Florida and Cascar O. Newberry for collector of customs in the District of Albemarle North Carolina. The article notes a vote for James R. Davis for county judge.
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Taft
Washington
Senate
John M. Cheney
United States
Southern District of Florida
Cascar O. Newberry
District of Albemarle
N. C
Senate Clears Dockets With Key Appropriations Bill
The sundry civil appropriation bill carrying 116 million and continuing the tariff board passed, along with the military academy appropriation over 1.06 million and the Alaskan civil government bill establishing a legislature and partial home rule. The Senate also directed a war department inquiry into Mexican injury redress claims.
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Tariff Board
Military Academy
Secretary of War
Citizens League to Hold San Antonio Primary July 29 1912
The Citizens League calls a city wide primary on July 29 1912 at 8 30 p m in all precincts to elect delegates for a convention at Beethoven Hall July 30 1912 to nominate a mayoral candidate for August 8 1912 and adopt a platform. Precinct meeting places and several signatories are listed. The group invites all voters opposed to the current administration to participate.
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Citizens’ League
San Antonio
Beethoven Hall
The
Citizens League
Alaskan Civil Government Bill Advances In Senate
The senate continued work on public measures including a revised Alaskan mining claim bill and a federal standard for apples in barrels. A bill for a memorial amphitheater at Arlington National Cemetery was discussed, along with sponge fishing regulation for the Gulf and Florida waters. The Alaskan assembly would be one house, sixteen members, meeting every two years with limited session lengths, legislators paid fifteen dollars daily, and with federal veto and land title constraints.
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Arlington National Cemetery
Washington
Gulf of Mexico
Florida
Senate
Tariff Board
Committee
House
Alaskan Assembly
Smith
Territory Committee
Congress
United States
Belt Line to Bring Factories as Katy Plans San Antonio Belt
Missouri Texas Kansas and Texas railway officials say a new belt line terminal in San Antonio will attract factories and distributing houses, with an estimated cost around 1.6 million dollars. Industrial commissioner T L Peeler notes the project will create a logical Southwest Texas distribution center and expects plans to be ready this fall with depots and tracks to be built.
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Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway Company
San Antonio
T. L. Peeler
Peeler
Katy
Texas
San’ Antonio
Yoakum Bend
W. A. Webb
Schaff
Gunter Hotel
Iowa Democrats Meet In Cedar Rapids For Platform And Court Nominees
Iowas Democrats convene in Cedar Rapids to adopt a brief progressive platform and nominate two candidates for the state supreme court. The event follows frequent conferences shaping party goals for the state.
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Iowa Democrats
Cedar Rapids
Iowa
State Supreme Court
Guards Protect Negroes in Texas Lumber Town
Paris Texas July 25 Twenty guards surround Bismarck near Broken Bow Oklahoma to shield negro laborers working in local lumber mills. Earlier in Broken Bow mobs forced them out and similar efforts met with protests from industrial plants.
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Paris
Tex
Bismarck
Broken Bow
Okla
Hair Growth Patent Cure Ad From Milwaukee
Mrs. C Borchardt of Milwaukee Wisconsin endorses PARIS TAN Sage a four bottle use hair grower and nourisher claiming thicker hair. The ad claims PARISIAN Sage lacks Sugar of Lead a dangerous poison and warns about other dyes and suggests dealers offer safe alternatives with a 50 cent large bottle at Schwaby Drug Stores.
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Schwaby
State Agencies Award Key Supply Contracts in Texas
The State Purchasing Agent J R Elliott announces awards for all institutions including McKean Eilers & Company Austin for damask plain swiss thimbles silk thread 12000 yards spool thread and other items. Perkins Brothers Greenville Sanger Brothers Dallas Harris Lipsitz Company and A B Frank Company San Antonio Hogan Allnoch Houston receive further contracts for sewing silk figure swiss table felt linen thread and related textiles.
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Austin
Tex
J. R. Elliott
Dallas
Harris Lipsitz Company
A. B. Frank Company
San Antonio
Hogan Allnoch
Houston
Will Fight Army Worm Aid Proposed in Senate Plan
Washington July 25 An immediate advance of twenty five thousand dollars to the department of agriculture to fight the army worm in the south was proposed in a joint resolution today by Senator Smith of South Carolina. Funds are not now available because of the delay in passing an agricultural bill.
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Washington
Department of Agriculture
South
Senator Smith
South Carolina
WANTS CHICAGO WIFE HVE HUNDRED APPLY
A San Antonio rancher seeks a Chicago wife ages 18 to 30. Letters flood his listed Chicago post office address, prompting confusion for local and Chicago officials. Local widows advocate for San Antonio women to be considered first while post office workers route misaddressed mail. Judge Ramsey returns to Cleburne tomorrow to end his gubernatorial campaign. Vote for James Davis for county office.
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Chicago
Windy City
West
Thurston Avenue
San Antonio
Texas
Record- Herald
Lake Michigan
Stevens
San Antonia
City Beautiful Plea Spurs Civic Improvement Plan
Walter Napier and J Emerson Smith urged San Antonio leaders to adopt a street first approach to civic improvement. They urged abutting property owners pay one third of street costs plus all sidewalk costs, noting homestead law blocks a city wide bond. The luncheon highlighted the need for a coordinated plan to enhance streets and the river area.
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Walter P. Napier
Civic Improvement Bureau
Chamber of Commerce
City
Napier
San Antonio
T. N. Smith
Joseph Emerson Smith
San Ant River
R. J. Potts
John B. Carrington
J. E
Forth
Southwestern Telegraph & Tephone Company
Antonio
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Highland Park
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Geyer’s
S. Alamo & North
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Mission Garden
Hee J. W. Sullivan
Main Market
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Engine
E. J. Altgelt
A. H. Jones
K.M.F. Studebaker
Katy Railroad
Citizens’ League Campaign Committee
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San Pedro Avenue
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Archambault Cleaning and Dyeing Works
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