Jitney regulation changes and city finances approved
The Houston commission amended the jitney ordinance setting September 18 as the transition day and allowing limited downtown entries for Camp Wilson jitneys. City appropriations totaled 682 30158 to retire sixteen notes, with extra sums for an audit and health department expenses.
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Houston and
Commerce Strets
City Commission
Lowther
Fourth Court of Civil Appeals
Camp Wilson
Houston Street
Avenue C
San Antonio
Audit and Bond Company of America
Fred Fries
Health Department
United States
Quartermasters Department
Fort Sam Houston
Fire Department
Lowther T. V. Weir
F. C. Trevino
F. Herrera
E. A. Kloerner
Jim Mitchell
Green Moore
San Pedro Park
Foster Fort Worth business leader dies at 39
Rh. H. Foster, prominent Fort Worth business man, died at his desk this morning of heart disease. He was 39 years old.
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R. H. Foster
Fort Worth
Tex
Rh. H. Foster
Modern Method Of Decorating Walls Book Free
Attractive illustrated booklet offered by Peaslee-Gaulbert Co provides art home color harmony guidance. Includes PEE-GEE FLATBOATT paint details, economy and sanitation benefits, and cleaning ease with a sponge. Contact Louisville and San Antonio addresses for the 48 page book and color cards.
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Pee-Gee
Desire
J. C. Dielman
East Commerce Street
San Antonio
Texas
American Tars Sweep After U Boats
American destroyers sweep the seas off British waters for submersibles and rescue crews from torpedoed merchant ships. Crews receive uncensored mail. ships carry five 4 inch guns and 60 pound shells with voice tubes to distant gunners. The article notes good officer and crew relations and describes a rescue of British sailors praising American bravery.
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Associated Press
OX Atte
America
United States
Tanlac credited for wife's recovery, says lineman
H C Jones of 410 Picosa Ave reports his wife endured three years of indigestion general debility kidney trouble and nervous strain. After Tanlac she improved her back and head pains eased appetite returned and she sleeps well. Tanlac sold in San Antonio by Wagner Drug Co and ER J H Meier under a Tanlac representative.
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Tanlac
H. C. Jones
Picosa Ave
Mr. Jones
Taniac
San Antonio
Wagner Drug Co
ER. J. H. Meier
American destroyers open clubhouse in British waters
June 22 in a coastal village two American pool tables arrived as part of the United States Naval Men's Club. The former public bathhouse now houses a club for 75 sailors with plans for a moving picture machine, vaudeville, songs, dances, recitations, wrestling, and a minstrel show from sailors of the destroyer fleet. The clubhouse seats nearly a thousand.
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Associated Press
United States Naval Men’s Club
London
New York
Destroyers
Nebraska
Forty Are Arrested in Texas Draft Conspiracy Case
Federal officials report forty of fifty five men charged in a seditious conspiracy case over draft enforcement have been arrested in Texas. Among those named are Z L Risely Leaders W T Webb Cisco John Burnett J B Harris Weinert Coy Henderson Robert Lee George Matthews Frank Karo and Frank Black Thurber. Several indicted men have fled the state and more developments are expected.
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Dallas
Tex
Z.L. Risely
Farmers’ and Laborers’ Protective Association of America
Leaders
W. T. Webb
Socialist Party
Texas
Cisco
John Burnett
J. B. Harris
Weinert
Coy Henderson
Robert Lee
George Matthews
Frank Karo
Frank Black
Thurber
Ambulance Corps Organized at University of Texas
Lieut. R. K. Stacy and R. C. Long organize an ambulance corps in Austin for service in France. They secured proper authorization at Fort Sam Houston and opened a recruiting station in the university's engineering building to enlist volunteers.
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Austin
Tex
R. K. Stacy
United States Ambulance Corps
R. C. Long
University
France
Fort Sam Houston
Ogdensburg Woman Credits Vegetable Compound Cure
Mrs. Etta Dorion of Ogdensburg Wisconsin describes severe female troubles with sharp back and side pains. She credits Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with relief after six bottles, urging other women with similar symptoms to try it and seek advice from the Lydia E Pinkham Medicine Co. in Lynn Massachusetts.
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Ogdensburg
Wis
Lydia &E. Pinkham
Lydia E. Pinkham
Etta Dorion
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