Southwest Texas Baptist Workers Convention at Sutherland Springs
The annual Southwest Texas Baptist Workers Convention will be held at Sutherland Springs from July 4 to 14. Preparations are under way on the grounds with morning and evening sessions featuring prominent speakers and afternoons for recreation and boating. Also noted is the marriage of A. R. Anderson and Miss L. E. Specht at the groom's mother's home, with residence at 214 Sycamore Street.
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The
Southwest Texas Baptist Workers
Sutherland Springs
A. R. Anderson
L. EB. Specht
Sycamore Street
Social Calendar Draws Local Guests and Musical Club
Miss Edward Webster hosts a house party on West Magnolia Avenue this evening. Little Miss Anne Clem entertains at her parents' home this afternoon. San Antonio Musical Club gathers at the Woman's Club rooms at 4 30 this afternoon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward Webster
West Magnolia Avenue
Anne Clem
San Antonio’ Musical Club
Woman’s Club
City Mission notes and social events in San Antonio
Mrs J D Young reports a letter from Miss Ella Bowden saying she cannot arrive until September due to a family illness. A Belle Digarde playground entertainment was enjoyed with City Federation help and local talent. House party guests at Grace McClanahan's Goliad street home include Adelaide Campbell Charlotte Newton Bert i Zilker Greta Wilder and Ollie Berkil. Calvary Baptist Ladies Aid and Mission Societies plan a church meeting to pack a Buckner Orphans Home box in Dallas and invite donations.
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J. D. Young
City Mission Board
Ella Bowden
San Antonio
Belle Dilgarde Playground
City Federation of Women’s Clubs
Adelaide Campbell
Charlotte Newton
Berti Zilker
Greta Wilder
Ollie Berkil
Grace McClanahan
Goliad Street
Banco
Miss McClanahan
Ladies’ Aid and Mission Societies of
Calvary Baptist Church
Buckner Orphans
Dallas
Box Party At First Presbyterian Church Nets Funds
Christian Endeavor members hosted a church box party last evening with a large turnout. Lunch boxes prepared by young women were auctioned by Ernest Howe to raise church funds. Miss Marion Smith has returned to Georgia with Miss Dorothy Smith planning a Georgia summer visit.
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Christian Endeavor Society
First Presbyterian Church
Ernest Howe
Marion Smith
Georgia
Dorothy Smith
Givens Visit in Owensboro
Mr and Mrs Thomas K Givens of Owensboro Kentucky are visiting Mr and Mrs Thomas N Givens on Carson Street confirming family ties during a local stay in the city.
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Thomas K. Givens
Owensboro, Ky
Mrs
Thomas N. Givens
Carson Street
Taylor Railroad Shops Close In Taylor For July Idle Period
Taylor Texas June 24. The various departments of the International and Great Northern railroad shops in Taylor were closed yesterday and will stay idle until July. The move affects between forty and fifty men, with an unusual slump in business cited as the cause.
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Taylor
Tex
International & Great Northern Railroad
Picnic Party Struck By Ptomaine Poisoning
Picnickers in Gonzales Texas fall ill after eating ice cream or salad. Many suffer vomiting and cramps. Lewis Harris was in critical condition for hours but is now out of danger.
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Gonzales
Tex
Lewis Harris
Hitchcock and Slayden Discuss Army Divisional Order
Senator Hitchcock of Nebraska and Congressman Slayden of Texas visited the war department to debate the new divisional order for the U.S. army. The two men, long acquainted from the House, spent hours in discussion with Hitchcock often challenged by Slayden. Hitchcock left noting Slayden had secured favorable arrangements for Texas, saying he might not bring him next time.
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Washington, D. GC
Hitchcock
Nebraska
Army of the United States
Slayden
San Antonio
War Department
Texas
Department
Department of Texas
Eight Thousand Men Parade with Bibles at Sun Day School Meet
A parade of 8000 men carrying Bibles opened the international Sunday school convention in San Francisco. Rev Edgar Blake warned evangelical churches face existential risk amid modest 1910 gains across six leading denominations. Elizabeth Kilpatrick urged women's influence and progress in science and business as essential to society.
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San Francisco
International Sunday School Convention
Edgar Blake
Chicago
Board of Sunday Schools
Bans Methodist Epispocal Church
Evangelical Churches of America
Elizabeth Kilpatrick
Corinth
Sunday School Board
The
Methodist Episcopal Church, South
Protest Over Scurry County School Lands Sale
A mass meeting is called for July 3 in Snyder Texas to protest the Scurry County school lands sale at six and two thirds dollars per acre. Petitioners claim the price is too low and that lands were sold without proper advertisement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Snyder
Tex
Scurry County
Nicaragua approves American plan for loan refinancing
New Orleans June 24 information from President Diaz states that on June 15 the national assembly of Nicaragua approved the American plan for a loan of about 12 million dollars to refund the national debt. Bonds are to be sold at not less than 92 and 5 percent interest. No single banking syndicate has been chosen to finance the loan.
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Associated Press
New Orleans
National Assembly of
Nicaragua
Diaz
Greatest Naval Display Off Spithead Dazzles Crowds
King and queen attend a world naval review at Spithead near Portsmouth with 170 British ships and visitors from seventeen nations. The fleet spans about eighteen square miles in the roadstead, led by the American battleship Delaware and including Dreadnoughts and Invincible class cruisers from multiple nations.
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Portsmouth
England
Spithead
London
Prince of Wales
Princess Mary
Isle of Wight
Delaware
von der Tann
Fulgia
Turkey
Hamidich
China
Hai Chi
Denmark
Olfert Fischer
Netherlands
Jacob Vanheemskerck
Norway
Eidsvoldt
Greece
Georgios Averoff
Japan
Italy
Chile
Keen Interest in the Lorimer Case
Washington June 24 Keen interest grew as Clarence S Funk general manager of the International Harvester company agreed to testify in the Lorimer investigation He had previously said Howard Hines of Chicago asked him to contribute 10000 toward a 100000 fund Senator Luke Lea attended the inquiry for the first time though weak from blood loss after saving his wife’s life
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Washington
Lorimer
Clarence S. Funk
International Harvester Company
Illinois
Howard Hines
Chicago
Luke Lea
Skeleton of a 15 year old found by children in Winslow
Police in Winslow Maine seek a solution after children digging in sand unearthed a human skeleton believed to be about 15 years old. The shallow grave raises questions about whether burial was recent or long ago and prompts investigation.
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Associated Press
Winslow
Maine
Citizens ticket suits to be carried to completion
A post noon meeting in Judge R H Ward's office decided that contest suits by Citizens' ticket candidates will not be dropped but pursued to completion despite the Church Gallagher case. Pending suits involve Lamm Meerscheidt Jones for aldermen at large and Jake Rubiola for city assessor with about twenty in attendance.
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R. H. Ward
Citizens
Church-Gallagher
Messrs. Lamm, Meerscheidt and Jones
Jake Rubiola
Dunne Hosts Press Club With Silver Cup Toast
William L. Dunne entertained the San Antonio Press club at the Gunter hotel after his release from a Mexican prison. He presented a two foot silver loving cup, with speeches by Bert J. McLean and others, and a proposal to make June 23 an annual toast to Dunne.
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William L. Dunne
San Antonio Press Club
Monterey
Gen. Madero
Dunne
Gunter Hotel
Billie Dunne
Mills
Longfellow
Wayside Inn
Lloyd Spencer
W. B. Tuttle
R. E. Sherman
J. BE. Normoyle
No Liquors on the Trains in Illinois
Beginning July 1 railroad conductors on Illinois trains will act as sheriffs or policemen. Railroads will display placards announcing a ban on intoxicants in passenger cars including smoking and parlor cars, day coaches, interurban cars, and cabooses. Conductors must arrest violators or face fines.
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Chicago
Illinois
Will Transfer Boys From McLennan County Burglary Convicts
Two boys Charles Bell aged 13 and Fred Singleton aged 15 were mistakenly sent to the penitentiary from McLennan county after burglary convictions. They were sentenced to two years. Governor Colquitt issued a proclamation ordering their immediate transfer to the state reformatory at Gatesville.
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Associated Press
Austin
Tex
Chas. Bell
Fred Singleton
McLennan County
Gatesville
Colquitt
Reformatory
Jury Awards Two Taylor Yard Victims Damages
In Georgetown district court juries awarded Charles Kinnerly eight thousand dollars for injuries to his foot in Taylor yards of the International and Great Northern railroad last year. Last week Henry Schubert received fifteen thousand dollars after losing a limb in a similar Taylor yards accident.
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Taylor, Tex
Georgetown
Charles Kinnerly
Taylor Yards
International & Great Northern Railroad
Kinnerly
Henry Schubert
Schubert
Hold Extra Session of Normal in Corpus Christi
The summer normal faculty in Corpus Christi Texas announces a second six weeks session starting June 26 to accommodate teachers from Southwest Texas unable to attend the first session. The extra term will run for six weeks to meet their needs.
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Corpus Christi
Tex
Summer Normal
Texas
Train Schedule Fragments for Houston Galveston Kerrville and Dallas
A garbled timetable lists multiple trains serving Houston Galveston New Orleans Dallas Fort Worth Waco Kerrville and coast towns with arrival and departure times in scattered order. It references No. 1 No. 2 No. 6 No. 8 No. 10 No. 44 No. 146 and various lines, including east north coast and Sunday exceptions.
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Houston
New Orleans
Galveston
Dallas
Fort Worth
North
Dallas, Fort Worth
Waco
Combe
Kerrville
Coast
Garrville
Agricultural Train Planned Through Sixteen Southern States
June 24 report from Washington states plans for an agricultural train traveling through the sixteen states in the Southern Commercial Congress area. Dr. Clarence J. Owens announces cooperation between southern railroads and the U S Department of Agriculture to interpret regional resources and promote the section’s preeminence.
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Washington
Southern Commercial Congress
Clarence J. Owens
Bureau of Agriculture of the
Congress
South
United States Department of Agriculture
South studies growth hours rainfall soils and immigration
The article discusses comparing growing hours, average yearly rainfall, and soil types. It outlines efforts to link education with southern agricultural life and to define southern attitudes toward immigration.
Prospecting for a June bride in old state tale
A newspaper note mentions a young man of many sterling qualities and another young man with an automobile both pursuing the same June bride in an old state setting. The piece hints at social frictions and matchmaking custom.
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Ole Bia State
Rats Menace Spurs Global Crusade Against Rodents
A worldwide drive targets rat destruction due to property damage and disease risk. Promoters tout Electric Rat and Paste as reliable extermination methods sold everywhere with a money back guarantee.
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Katherine M. Joseph
Sta
St. Anthony Hotel
She Gunter
Bath
Gunter Hotel Company
Bexar
Alfred Sanner
Prop
Para
Hot Wells Hotel
Service A la Carte
the Menger
H W. Wills, Mgr
Union Ainless
W. Commerce
Commissioners’ Action
Albert
St. & University Place
Broadway
Wanamaker
New York City
Chelsea Docks
Pésan
Grand Central Sta
McAdoo Tunnel
New York
Fleet
Bay of
Clarence
Funk
Senate
Carlsbad OF America
Marlin, Texas
Marlin
Carlsbad
Germany
American Bank&Trust Co
Citizens’ Party
Dungeon
St. Louis
Kansas City
Boston
Denver
Mexico City
East Houston St
J. O. Bell-C
M. Price
Assis
B. M. Bynum, P
T. A
Atlantic City
Rochester
Houston Street
Moore Building
Santa Fe
Grand Canyon
Fred Harvey
E. H. Dallas, D. P. A
W. Commerce St
Palestine
Mexico
Ilbor Mexico
Laredo
Mix
M. x
Mats
East
el Paso
Wore
el Peso
West
BS. A
Victoria
Cuero
S. A. and
A. P. Ry
Ayaclay
Sam A. P. Depo
P. m
Rockport
Eave Corpus Christi
H. &. Wagner
City Ticket Agt
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