Contributions for Men on Border Aid Militia Volunteers
Donations pour in for border militiamen including two boxes of cigars and a soldier’s gift from Alamo Chapter Daughters of the Republic of Texas. A Ninth Infantry check from Hans C Jesperson funds baseball gear for San Antonio militia units at Donna, Texas. Chamber of Commerce to buy bats gloves balls and send outfits to San Antonio teams. Additional magazines and sporting goods requested to ease border life. John B Carrington urges other Texas chambers to mirror effort feeding funds and items to National Guard detachments.
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Chamber of Commerce
Light Office
Alamo
Daughters of the Republic of Texas
Hans C. Jesperson
Ninth Infantry
Laredo
San Antonio
Donna
Texas
John B. Carrington
Campaign to Continue Fund Drive for Boy Scouts
Business and professional men push to raise 8000 for San Antonio Boy Scout movement. By Friday noon $2419 reported with committees still to be heard from. Since many solicitors could not work in the period the time limit was extended for two or three more days.
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San Antonio
Boy Drowns Searching for Father in Moody Well
In Moody, near Waco, Texas, two year old Jack Hatter fell into a twenty foot well while looking for his father. The hole in the earthen curb, partly washed away by recent rains, caused the accident at his parents home.
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Waco
Tex
Less Hatter
Moody
Here
Jack Hatter
Family found dead in Chicago home with mother killed
Mrs Jennie Susanick 35 and her husband Frank 40 and four children aged 8 6 4 and 2 were found dead in their Chicago home with the mother crushed by a baseball bat. Police believe the husband killed her then fatally gasified himself and the children. Campbell at San Angelo. Thomas M Campbell candidate for the United States Senate will address San Angelo citizens this afternoon at the courthouse.
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Chicago
Jennie Susanick
Frank
John
Johnnie
Mary
Matthew
Campbell
San Angelo
Tex
Thomas M. Campbell
United States Senate
Ball Team to Meet at Leon's Poolroom Friday
The Steves Sash and Door Company baseball team will meet at 8:30 PM Friday night at Leon's poolroom.
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Steves Sash and Door Company
Leon
How Icebergs Form and their dangers
A vivid description of iceberg formation in southern seas, from a land nucleus to massive tabular bergs. It notes Wiles expedition walls, sizes from 150 to 210 feet high, and later decay with irregular faces and dangerous near-shore ice fragments that hull ships.
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St. Louis Globe-Democrat
Antarctic Circle
Cape Horn
United States
Wilkes
Boulton
Emperor Joseph I Signs Autograph With Pencil
An Austrian imperial audience recounts a Hungarian blacksmith gifting a pencil after asking for an autograph. Francis Joseph, lacking ink, signs a photograph with the pencil and quips about his lack of a writing implement. A subsequent humorous exchange follows before the smith leaves.
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Jenna
Ree
Danube
Francisoseph
Francis Joseph
Smith
Austria-Hungary
Washington Star
Republican Unity Pledges Protection and Neutrality Policy
Amid war in Europe, the Republican resolutions pledge unity for the union, equal rights for all citizens, a strong national defense, and continued Monroe Doctrine policy. They urge peace, a strict neutrality, and opposition to Democratic missteps in foreign affairs, trade, and Philippines policy.
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Europe
United States
Republican Party
Mexico
Latin America
McKinley
Congress
Roosevelt
Taft
Philippines
Russia
Democratic Party
Department of Labor
America
Brits Marry in France as War Lifts Ties
In Franco British fronts, couples pair as soldiers court during rest periods. Tommie Atkins teaches Miss France English while she teaches him French, with many British battalions staying in the same villages for months. The affections bloom amid shared labor, thrift, and looming danger as husbands vow to fight for France if they return.
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France
Associated Press
Tommie Atkins
Miss France
Ben Ficklen Club Fish Fry in San Angelo
The Ben Ficklen Club of San Angelo held its annual fish fry at Ben Ficklen lake five miles south of the city last night with more than 300 attendees. The club honors the memory of Ben Ficklen, once county seat of Tom Green county, washed away August 21, 1882, in a disaster that claimed nearly sixty lives. Separately, Fort Sam Houston invites sealed proposals until 11 am June 20 1916 for brick building work including plumbing electric lighting central heating dormitories surgical pavilion and laboratory.
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San Angelo
Tex
Ben Ficklen Club of
Ben Ficklen Lake
Ben Ficklen
Tom Green County
Office of Construction Quartermaster
Fort Sam Houston
Texas
Learning to Make Lace Seventy-Year-Old California Teacher Learns Lace
Mrs. M. J. Crocker of Rellts, eighty seven, famed as California’s oldest schoolteacher, began teaching in San Francisco in 1857 and later built fortunes in California and Mexico. Now she joins a lace making class, proving she stays busy and sharp enough to read large print without glasses.
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M. J. Crocker
Rell Ts
California
San Benito County
Lake County
Mexico
Inglewood
Pennsylvania
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