UT Austin Commencement Opens with Laureate Sermon
The thirty-third annual University of Texas commencement begins tomorrow with the baccalaureate sermon by Rev. Burris A. Jenkins of Kansas City Missouri. Graduates, guests, and visiting alumni will attend at the university auditorium. Monday features class day and a business meeting of the ex-Students Association led by Lamar Bethea. The Law Association meets Monday afternoon, and an elaborate visitor program is planned for the events. On Tuesday the graduating exercises return to the university auditorium.
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Austin
Tex
University of Texas
Burris A. Jenkins
Linwood Boulevard Christian Church
Kansas City
ex-Students Association
Lamar Bethea
University of Texas Law Association
Retail Merchants Convention To Meet In San Antonio
The sixteenth annual Retail Merchants' Association of Texas meets Tuesday in the Gun ter Hotel ball room with over 400 delegates. State President W. A. Achilles will preside, with W. J. Edgecombe taking minutes. A Mexico banquet, motor trips, and a Don-Ton park visit cap the week along with a Corpus Christi departure. Secretaries open sessions Monday.
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Retail Merchants’ Association of Texas
Gunter Hotel
W. A. Achilles
Austin
W. J. Edgecombe
San Antonio
Retail Merchants’ Secretaries’ Association
Fred I. Fisher
Taylor
C. C. Lewis
Waco
J. W. Thomas
Wichita Falls
L. Shields
Anson
L. F. Weige
Bellville
O. H. Johnson
Corpus Christi
Wallace Ford
Brownwood
R. L. Bewley
C. W. Smith
Cleburne
Merchants’ Association
Tex
Paul F. Hein
San Antonio Association
Nic Peters
Clinton Brown
A. B. Weakley
Chamber of Commerce
T. M. Cullum
Dallas
W A. Achilles
D. A McAskill
George Burmeister
Pleasanton
W. B. Yeary
Farmersville
E. F. Rehman
Houston
Jake Wolff
H. A. Hirschberg
F. M. Lucore
George Mendel Jr
Sam Solinsky
Beaumont
E. C. Koerth
Yoakum
Country Credit
Joseph Netzer
Laredo
W. Kahlden
Kingsville
Adolph Grasso
Phil
Myers
Palestine
J. F. Temple
J. Frank Davis
H. A. Eiband
Galveston
Camp of
National Guard
Citizens’ Training Camp
Miss Stinson
Don- Ton Park
Texas
Manufacturers to Exhibit at San Antonio Show
Readied by 10 Monday for a major home industrial show at 305 West Commerce Street. The Manufacturers Club sponsors displays from about 30 firms including Alamo Iron Works and Gebhardt Chill Powder. Innovations include river water spray by Alamo Iron Works and oxy acetylene welding by Southern Welding. A daily bulletin will publish show details. Tickets to 1,000 retail merchants and women’s clubs coordinated by city officials. Children admitted mornings only with parents. Booth space available. notify committee soon.
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San Antonio
West
Commerce Street
Manufacturers’ Club
Alamo
Southern Welding and Machinery Company
Passing Show Printing Company
Lcon
Texas
Alamo Iron Works
American Overall, Company
Delaware Punch Company of Texas
Dixie Oil & Refining Company
Duerler Manufacturing Company
Vinck Cigar Factory
L. Frank Saddlery Company
Gebhardt Chill Powder Company
Guenther Milling Company
Hoffman-Haymen Coffee Company
R. M. Hughes & Co
Jenner Manufacturing Company
Ed C. Jungkind Chlorolin
Lange Soap Company
Maverick-Clarke Litho Company
Pioneer Flour Mills
San Antonio Art Glass Company
Representative
H. Lange
Gus Menger
FE. A. Holmgreen
J. A. Patterson
Charles Graebner
D. J. Straus
Gus Giesecke
A. L. Dietzel
Ed Jenner
Ed C. Jungkind
I. M. McItlhinney
J. A. Jones
G. M. Ewen
Paul Dreiss
Charles Baumberger Jr
C. C. Leel
Adolph Grasso
De Miracle depilatory touts limb hair removal claims
An advertisement for De Miracle depilatory promotes removing hair from limbs and face with a chemical paste and claims it penetrates under the skin to retard growth. It offers a money back guarantee, lists 50c, 1.00 and 2.00 bottle prices, and warns against fake magazine endorsements.
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Axcie
Uy de Miracle
de Miracle Chemical Co
Dept. A-2
Park Ave
129Th &T
New York
Two More Hearings Planned On Insurance Rate Increase
Austin news reports the state fire insurance commission will hold two additional adjourned sessions to consider a 33 1 8 percent rate rise on mercantile risks. The June 19 hearing may last a week, with another adjournment for transcription before further arguments.
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Austin
Tex
State Fire Insurance Commission
Fayetteville complaint against Katy for unsafe depot clearance
Citizens of Fayetteville file with the railroad commission in Austin alleging hazards at the Katy station. They claim insufficient clearance between the depot and the main track endangering passengers and seek required changes. Hearing set for July 11. note mentions two through sleepers to Memphis and Chicago on the Southern Pacific.
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Austin, Tex
Railroad Commission
Fayetteville
Katy
Governor signs contract for Texas Blind Institute
Governor Ferguson has signed the building contract for Texas new State Institution for the Blind with Walsh and Burney of San Antonio. The project totals 222,694 dollars and work begins soon on the site northwest of the State Insane Asylum. The rail road commission set July 11 for Transit Privileges Hearing on broom corn shipments, seeking extensions to Amarillo and Grand Prairie on multiple lines.
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Austin
Tex
Ferguson
State Institution For the Blind
Walsh and Burney
San Antonio
State Insane Asylum
Railroad Commission Today
Amarillo
Mexico
Chicago, Rock Island & Gulf Railway
Grand Prairie
Texas
Amends Cotton Seed Rate Order by Texas Railroad Board
The Texas railroad commission issued an amendment to its cotton seed and cotton products tariff. It expands cotton seed cake rates to shipments of cotton burr ashes, cotton seed ashes, cotton stalk ashes, Kaffir corn stalk ashes and other vegetable ashes in straight or mixed carloads with a minimum 30,000 pounds. Stopping in transit rules for cotton seed cake now apply to these items. Effective August 10, 1916.
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Austin
Tex
Railroad Commission
Baker Urges Bill to Enlarge Fort Sam Houston Post
Secretary of War Baker urges passage of bills to enlarge Fort Sam Houston claiming current garrison needs more drill space and improved depots. He notes the army has grown beyond the 25 000 men for which the post was built and supports a $1 050 000 appropriation in the Sheppard Slayden bills. He also discusses waste disposal issues at mills and the cost and risks of burners and pits, with the Forest Service seeking solutions.
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Washington, D. C
Baker
Representative Hay
House
Fort Sam Houston
Fort Sam H Houston
Funston
Wood Waste From Saw Mills New Insight On Volume And Disposal
The article estimates 36 million cords of wood waste annually with over 48,000 U.S. saw mills producing 86 million cords of waste yearly. This yields 4.5 billion cubic feet of waste, enough to form a quarter mile cube. Half is useful fuel, leaving about 18 million cords as nuisance and cost. disposal relies mainly on open fire pits or enclosed burners with conveyors, costing about 12,000 dollars for a mill handling 100,000 feet daily.
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Washington, D. C
United States
Press Club to Open in San Antonio
The San Antonio Press Club will hold an informal opening of its new Losoya street quarters at 1 pm this afternoon. President M. M. Harris and Secretary Otto Vinke will welcome members. A formal opening with a beefsteak dinner is planned later after renovations are complete.
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San Antonio Press Club
Losoya Street
M. M. Harris
Otto Vinke
Harris
Board of Governors
Hillsburg Depot Case Advances in Twenty sixth District Court
In Austin on June 10 the Twenty sixth district court heard arguments on a motion for continuance in the Hillsburg Depot case. Assistant Attorney General Luther Nickels urged the state oppose the delay while railroad counsel requested the case be continued. The judge took the motion under advisement.
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Austin
Tex
Twenty-sixth District
City employment bureau aids workers in finding jobs
The San Antonio free employment bureau, run by the City and led by C B Kirkpatrick of the Board of Health, reports summer layoffs increasing need. It maintains a register of worthy job seekers and places yardmen cooks dishwashers yard cleaners and odd-job workers at no charge.
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City of
San Antonio
C. B. Kirkpatrick
Board of Health
Wells Fargo Expands Pension Plan To Benefit All Six Month Workers
Wells Fargo Express Company launches a broad pension enhancement. Any salaried employee with six months service may receive pay during illness or disability, with a generous time-allowance table. on fifteen years’ service a life pension begins. If an employee is killed in duty, salary continues to beneficiaries for one month at full pay plus half-pay thereafter.
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Wells-Fargo Express Company
Wells Fargo
Hfe
Gum vending machines ruled lottery devices in Texas
The attorney general's department ruled that chewing gum vending machines offering merchandise as prizes constitute a lottery or raffle and violate state law. Machines operate statewide, with readers noting an $84.15 New York and return fare via New Orleans steamer South Pacific as an unrelated ad.
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Austin
Tex
Attorney General's Department
New York
New Orleans
Souther Pacific
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