City plans fire station and equipment upgrades on South Side
Vice Chief Bishop outlines a $43,873 plan to add a South Side fire station, replace Company No. 7 with a modern house, and buy two motor tractors to replace horse-drawn steamers. If approved, fire insurance rates could drop from 17 to about 14 cents, with shingles ban possibly cutting to 13 cents.
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Alamo
Martinez
Bishop
McNeel
R. B. Godley Jr
Texas
Fire Insurance Commission
Austin
San Antonio
Beanville
Palm Heights
Stock Yards
Tion
Get Drilling Place Battalion Plans Regular Drills
The pre service drill battalion will drill on Bowens Island Tuesdays and Thursdays with L Ward permitting use and San Antonio Gas and Electric providing lighting. Members meet 830 Sunday morning at Lambert Beach near Brackenridge Park. Marked interest at Markethouse armory Thursday night. recruitment will be boosted by dividing the battalion into two companies.
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Bowen's Island
L. Ward
San Antonio
Upson Board Steves Sash and Door Co Adv Modern Built In Furniture
The ad promotes modern built in furniture from Upson Board Steves Sash and Door Co. The brief notes an annual crop loss from insects in the United States estimated at 1200 dollars, indicating economic impact on agriculture.
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Upson Board
Steves Sash & Door CO
Adv
Modern
Miss Kingsbury Wins Second YWCA Swimming Contest
Miss Lottie Kingsbury took first place in the YWCA swimming and diving contest with Miss Marjorie Mangum second and Miss Jean Holland and Miss Elizabeth Armour tied for third. The event drew about 100 spectators, with demonstrations in treading water and resuscitation.
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Lottie Kingsbury
Young Woman's Christian Association
Marjorie Mangum
Jean Holland
Elizabeth Armour
Miss Mangum
Miss Kingsbury
Edith Jimison
Schaeffer
Wife of Foreigner Loses U S Citizenship on Marriage Case
A New Jersey native, Mrs Amos Lust, arrives at New York from Cuba but cannot land because she married a German subject in Cuba. The Citizenship Act of March 2 1907 says American women who wed foreigners take the husband’s nationality and may resume U S citizenship after divorce or by registering with a consul within a year.
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States
Supreme Court of the
United States
Mackenzie
Hare
Gordon Mackenzie
California
San Francisco
Supreme Court
Congress
Justice McKenna
New York Sun
Amos Lust
New Jersey
New York
Cuba
Ellis Island
John Lust
United
Darken Your Gray Hair With La Creole Hair Dressing
Advertises La Creole Hair Dressing promising to darken gray hair overnight without dye or harm. Claims gray hair turns a dark shade and delivered with a money back guarantee. Priced at $1 for a large bottle. sold by drug stores or mailed from Van Vieet Drug Co Memphis Tenn.
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van Vieet Drug Company
Memphis
Tenn
Confusion at Kindergarten Causes Laughful Exchange
A kindergarten instructor mixed up two names Karl and Robert during class. She apologized, wondering why she kept calling Karl Robert, and Karl suggested he understood the mix. The moment highlights classroom misnaming and student patience.
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Karl
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Brooklyn Eagle
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Havana
Lewis Cigar Mfg. Co
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Menger
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