Supreme Court sustains Interstate Commerce Commission Shreveport rates decision
The Supreme Court upheld the Interstate Commerce Commission orders in the Shreveport rate case. Justice Hughes said Congress controls interstate commerce channels and warned against conflicting state legislation. The decision sets a precedent affecting border trade and Texas Louisiana rate disputes, with potential liability for railroads under state and federal laws.
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Supreme Court
Interstate Commerce Commission
Shreveport
Commission
Hughes
Congress
Minnesota
Texas
Louisiana Railroad Commission
Louisiana- Texas
Louisiana Commission
Dallas
Houston
Houston, East & West Texas Railway Company
Texas & Pacific Railway Company
Texas Railroad Commission
Commerce Court
Piva
State Railroad Commission
Interstate Commerce Committee
Texas State Railroad Commission
Federal Commission
Texas Commission
Louisiana
Weather temperatures and forecast for cities
San Antonio and vicinity expect fair Monday night and Tuesday. Other cities report varying winds and temps with 24 hour lows in the mid to upper seventies, including St Louis 78 clear and Chicago 78 with rain Tuesday.
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ST. Louis
Chicago
Milwaukee
Kansas City
New York
Washington
Belgian Scandal 10 Be Aired in Court
Trial opens in Brussels for Nestor Wilmart and six associates charged with swindling about 3.4 million dollars through over issued Ghent Terneuzen Railway stock. They allegedly printed bogus bonds, ruined investors, and cost state banks eighty thousand. Hearings projected to last six weeks.
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Brussels
Belgium
Nestor Wilmart
Ghent-Terneuzen
Wilmart
Rheims
France
Labor Leaders Open Texas Federation of Labor Congress
In El Paso the seventeenth annual Texas Federation of Labor convened with over 300 delegates in attendance for the five day session. Morning work included an address of welcome while President Edward Cunningham was to deliver the annual address later. Tomorrow’s attendance is expected to reach 500 as railroad washouts delayed travelers.
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EL Paso
Tex
Texas Federation of Labor
Edward Cunningham
Wilson Nominates Two Law Officers for Kansas and Texas
President Wilson named Otho T. Wood of Liberal Kansas as United States marshal for Kansas and Clarence Merritt of McKinney Texas as U S district attorney for the Eastern District of Texas.
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U- 8
Washington, D. C
Wilson
Otho T. Wood
Liberal
Kan
United States
Kansas
Clarence Merritt
McKinney
Tex
U. S
Eastern District of
Texas
Advertising to draw customers to your store
The Light promotes drawing shoppers by exposing them to nationally advertised articles. It argues that letting people know you have the item will bring new customers, and good service and fair prices turn first time buyers into lifetime patrons. A pleased customer may return for many articles.
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Pape
Taft Contrasts New Harmony Socialism with Private Property
In Owen Day at New Harmony Indiana former President William H Taft extolled Robert Owen while condemning socialist experiments as doomed without private property and market incentives. Taft traced the Rappite and Owenite ventures, Fourierists, and Icaria to show how religious zeal or theoretical schemes failed to sustain communities without economic motivation and human nature reforms.
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New Harmony
Ind
Robert Owen
Taft
George Rapp
Rappittes of
Icaria
Texas
Ilinois
Iowa
Alabama Lumber Mill Fire At Three Mile Creek Losses
A gaso line towboat a barge and 500000 feet of lumber were destroyed at the A J Ap near Lumber Company mill on Three Mile Creek Mobile Alabama. Damage estimated at 90000 with 20000 insured. Fire origin unknown and discovered yesterday evening.
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Mobile
Ala
A. J. Ap Near Lumber Company
Three Mile Creek
Public anger flares as suffragette meetings attacked
Public anger in Great Britain grows as suffragette meetings yesterday were broken up and two women faced threats of violence. In Ilford east of London, speakers were pelted with tomatoes and missiles. a crowd attempted to upset the wagon, and later pelted the militant society residence with stones, breaking every window.
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London
Great Britain
Ilford
Militant Society
Duquoin Doctor Dies From Wounds After Shooting
Dr. D Winton Dunn a former Duquoin mayor died in a St. Louis hospital from bullet wounds. Jesse Joplin charged with the shooting has been moved to Pinckneyville amid fears of mob violence. Joplin says Dunn refused to treat his ill child over an old bill and the shooting occurred after an argument at Dunns office Saturday night.
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Duqoin
Winton Dunn
St. Louis
Jesse Joplin
Pinckneyville
Joplin
Dunn
Divorce Trial Attracts Extra Bailiffs In Chicago
In Chicago, June 8, the divorce case of Mme Schumann Heink against William Rapp Jr. drew an extra bailiff force to maintain order as letters from Rapp to Mrs. Catherine E Dean of New York were read and more letters were expected to be introduced.
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Schumann- Heink-Rapp
Chicago
Mme. Schumann-Heink
William Rapp Jr
Rapp
Catherine E. Dean
New York
Dean
Liner Tests Big Locks at Gatun in Panama
The ocean liner Alliance of 4000 tons passed through Gatun locks in a test of electric towing locomotives. The operation took about ninety minutes each way and drew a large crowd as witnesses watched the new handling method for a large vessel.
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Panama
Gatun Locks
Panama Railroad Steamship Alliance
Leased Day AP Summary Serves San Antonio With News
The San Antonio papers rely on the Associated Press Leased Day report as a premier general news service, delivering about 20 000 words daily. The Light adds its own extensive special news coverage.
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San Antonio
Associated Press
Light
Republicans 10 Hold Convention at Waco
The Texas Republican state committee chose Waco as the summer convention site over Dallas and San Antonio. The final vote was 11 to 10 for Waco. The afternoon session will draft a party slate to oppose Democratic primaries. some offices will have no contest while governor could see multiple candidates including Atwell Watkins Wilmont Diggs Averill Hunt.
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Dallas
Tex
Waco
San Antonio
Will H. Atwell
Charles A. Watkin
Houston
E. P. Wilmont
Austin
E. E. Diggs
Childress
F. M. Etheridge
Nat Washer
Supreme Court awards fees in broom corn shipment case
Washington June 8 The Supreme Court upheld S O Harris for $4 lost broom corn in a shipment and $10 attorney fees from Missouri Kansas & Texas Railway Company of Texas The railroad challenged the fee as unconstitutional on interstate shipments This was a rare appeal from a Hopkins County justice of the peace ruling
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Washington, D.C
Justice of the Peace
Hopkins County
Texas
Supreme Court
S. O. Harris
Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway Company
Justice of the Peace Court
Mail from Tampico must bear Mexican stamps, naval dispatches
Under an agreement between American and Constitutionalist authorities all mail ed dispatches from this port by United States naval destroyers must bear Mexican stamps, cancelled at the post office here. United States stamps will also be required as in the past.
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Tampico
Mex
Galveston
Tex
United States Naval
United States
Storm wrecks forty schooners off Quebec coast
A violent storm along the Northern New Brunswick coast wrecked forty schooners and claimed twenty or more fishermen’s lives. Most boats were driven ashore at distant points with slow news. several hulls were found washed up and bodies were recovered.
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Quebec
New Brunswick
Water near top of Medina River reservoir spillway
Heavy rains threaten the Medina river watershed as the reservoir rises toward the 152 foot dam, with the water level a little over three feet from the spillway. Springs reviving after months of precipitation add to the ongoing rise in the valley.
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Medina
LIEUTENANT F H HOUSTON KILLS DRUNKEN MEXICAN
Second Lieutenant F H Houston of the Twenty eights Infantry at Vera Cruz shot and killed a drunken Mexican who menaced Mexican police and stabbed two officers. When Houston tried to arrest him the man cut him with a knife and the lieutenant fired in self defense. General Funston called the act meritorious and justifiable.
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Washington, D. C
F. H. Houston
Twenty-eighth Infantry
Vera Cruz
Houston
Warner Lanker
Funston
Weather forecast and conditions across regions
Weather over the country shows a mix of high and low pressure systems. A storm area reaches from Central Canada into the Rocky Mountain region with possible storms, while the Pacific slope remains under high pressure. Texas had little rain except Snyder with 2.04 inches. Fair weather expected for San Antonio Monday night and Tuesday.
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Mississippi
Canada
United States
Rocky Mountains
Pacific
Texas
Snyder
San Antonio
Thaw Seeks Release on Bail In Extradition Case
A Supreme Court filing by Harry K. Thaw's counsel seeks bail pending extradition to New York. The petition argues Thaw must travel to Pittsburgh for Orphans Court hearings on his father's estate and requests untrammeled freedom from a guardian. A decision is expected Monday.
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Washington, D. C
Supreme Court
Harry K. Thaw
New York
New Hampshire
Thaw
Pittsburg
Orphans’ Court
Huerta Retains Tampico Blockade Decision
Huerta decides not to blockade Tampico and avoid forcing U.S. hand amid mediation at Niagara Falls. Spanish ambassador Riano notified Secretary Bryan of the move to prevent a war cargo seizure by Huerta’s gunboats bound for the Antilla. Administration aims to block actions by an unrecognized government under international law.
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Washington, D. C
Huerta
Tampico
Unite States
Niagara Falls
Riano
Bryan
Antilla
United States
Washington
Mexico City
Wilson
Zaragoza
Daniels
Badger
America
Puerto Mexico
Horse Artillery 10 Departs for Border Post
The Sixth Horse Artillery battery at Fort Sam Houston moves to the border likely Wednesday, relieving the Third Field Artillery at Eagle Pass. The Third Field Artillery will march back to Fort Sam Houston as the horses arrive, a process that could take two weeks. The Third Field Artillery battery returning from Laredo was sent to El Paso amid the Mexican crisis.
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Sixth Horse Artillery
Fort Sam Houston
Eagle Pass
Third Field Artillery
Laredo
Department
San Antonio
el Paso
Farmer Hauls Autos From Leon Creek Near Leon Springs
County official recounts Sunday scene as a farmer pulled nineteen cars from Leon Creek on Fredericksburg road. The operator earned over 25 dollars after an hour of work while the Scenic Loop remains largely impassable. The farmer has positioned himself nearby with a strong team to aid in future recoveries.
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Leon Creek
Fredericksburg
Leon Springs
Charles X. Gutzeit
Gutzeit
Women Delegates Arrive in Chicago for Federation Convention
Special trains bearing delegates to the Federation of Woman's Clubs biennial convention began arriving in Chicago. The convention opens tomorrow and Miss Margaret Wilson will deliver the address What Woman's Clubs Can Do for Young Women.
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Chicago
Federation of Woman's Clubs
Woman's Clubs
Margaret Wilson
Huerta Drops Blockade as Mediation Shifts Pressure
The Mexican crisis eases briefly as General Huerta suspends the Tampico blockade and sends word to Secretary Bryan. Washington analyzes mediation influence from Niagara Falls while gunboats near Tampico await orders. Officials stress Huerta acted to not jeopardize settlement and to keep mediation on track.
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Huerta
Pro
Niagara Falls
Mexico City
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