Oldest Man in World Claim Stuns Reporters
New York June 30 149 year old Dr Cho Choy claims he was born in 1764 in Manchuria and is en route to Canada. He led eight Chinamen bound from Cuba. he says he spent about 50 years in China and close to a century in Cuba practicing medicine and amassing wealth.
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New York
Cho Choy
Canada
Shay Hai Kwan
Manchuria
China
Gulf of
Pechi Li
Cuba
Dr. Choy
Doctor's diet on Ellis Island scarce contentment
An account notes that on Ellis Island the doctor took no nourishment beyond a few tabloids of concentrated food and a little cold water, illustrating severe deprivation during the period.
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Ellis Island
Option Taken on Hill to Build Tourist Hotel
An option to purchase for $25,000 has been secured on Dignowity Hill property by Carlos Moser and eastern capitalists. They plan a six story tourist hotel costing about $200,000. Moser has left for Los Angeles and will return within thirty days to finalize the deal and begin operations. The site owned by H. L. Dignowity, the hill’s high point, fronts Olive Street 90 feet and Burnett Street 425 feet, extending to Pine Street.
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Dignowity Hill
Carlos Moser
Moser
Los Angeles
H. L. Dignowity
Olive Street
Burnett Street
Pine Street
Top of the Town at St Anthony Roof Garden
Visit the St Anthony Roof Garden tonight from 6 30 to 12 with delightful music by Signor Arturo Lugaro and Charles Cameron Bell. Enjoy good things to eat and drink in the coolest place in the city. Advertisements for Granitoid and Granacrete claim economical pavements.
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St. Anthony Roof Garden
Signor
Arturo Lugaro
Charles Cameron Bell
Labor Day Plan Focuses on Queen Parade and Carnival
Local labor unions in San Antonio plan a grand Labor Day event to run September 1 featuring a queen contest, a long parade, a picnic, and a carnival. A reorganized Labor Day Association formed with 26 delegates, elected officers including President Joseph J. Tucker, and formed five committees to choose grounds, engage speakers, manage queen candidates, arrange music, and handle grievances. A special committee will canvass unions to nominate queen candidates, with over thirty possible entrants anticipated.
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San Antonio
General Committee
Trades Council
Trades Council Hall
Labor Day Association
Joseph J. Tucker
John Stennett
The
Painters’ Union
H. M. Spangler
Barbers’ Union
John Sweeney
Typographical Union
Sid Murray
J. T. Cotter
Bricklayers’ Union
Tucker
Jeff D. Nordhaus
Charles Smith
Henry Zimmerman
William H. Smith
G. E. Hickox
Sam Goodman
Co. Kaiser
Bessie Collins
C. H. Franklin
J. R. Webb
Edward Mainz
T. Blake
Joseph Bilhartz
San Pedro, Park
Exposition Park
Fair Grounds
Madrasz Park
DANGER OF TYPHOID IN SUMMER RESORTS
Washington dispatch reports the Department of Agriculture warning vacationists about typhoid risk at country and water resort areas. The circular urges boiling water, careful food and water choices, and warns that guaranteed labels do not guarantee contents. It stresses using senses to judge safety and cautions buyers about食品 labels.
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Washington, D. C
Department of Agriculture
Corpus Beach iiazey Promises More Attractions At Coast
Corpus Beach iiazey offers superior attractions versus other seashore resorts with finest surf bathing boating and the European plan. Absolutely fireproof. Descriptive folder available by writing W A Roachman resident manager Corpus Christi Tex.
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Corpus Beach
W. A. Roachman
Corpus Christi
Tex
Granitord and Granocrete The Economical Pavements
Adv promotes Granitord and Granocrete as economical pavement options under The Economical Pavements and The Mode Pavements.
Engagement of Nancy G Steele and Devereaux Milburn
A romantic notice reveals the engagement of Nancy G Steele a society figure and Devereaux Milburn star back of the victorious American big four Milburn’s role in the Yankee success is said to have prompted the premature announcement of the nuptials.
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Nancy G. Steele
Devereaux Milburn
Milburn
Yankees
Catholic Bishop in Search of Teachers and Supplies
New York dispatch reports Monsignor Evaerts, a Franciscan bishop overseeing a 16 000 strong Catholic population in China's central diocese, traveling toward San Francisco to seek teachers and supplies for industrial schools. He warns of Tartars' ostracism post revolution and views schooling as a path to economic improvement.
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New York
Modist
Evaerts
China
San Francisco
Remarkable Blood Remedy SS S for Catarrh and Blood Ailments
Advertises S. S. S. as a cure for catarrh and blood disorders, claiming it purifies the blood, relieves mucous inflammation, and improves head clear passages. Notes price of $1.00 per bottle and lists conditions like eczema and lupus. Advises seeking special advice at a building address.
Veterans Join Ranks Around Gettysburg Camp Event
Twenty five thousand veterans in blue and gray gathered on the Gettysburg battlefield for a days event with mess tents and camp life extending to forty thousand by night. General Sickles arrived and declined hotel quarters for a tent while Confederate General Robertson joined the scenes in full field dress. Governors and notable officers from Iowa Vermont California and New Hampshire attended as Brig. Gen. Hunter Liggett assumed camp command.
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Gettysburg
Legar
Pennsylvania
Pickett
Buford
Wheeler
Lee
Chambersburg
Heath
General Reynolds
Meade
Longstreet
General Pickett
General Hill
J. M. Schoonmaker
Pennsylvania Commission
Hunter Ligett
General Ligett
Simon Bolivar Buckher Jr
Salome M. Stewart
Annie Irving
Newburg
N. Y
Helen Cole
Sheboygan Falls
Wis
Sickles
Daniel Sickles
Felix H. Robertson
Texas
Robertson
Fort Sumter
Pennsylvania College
A. J. West
Atlanta
Commission
Governor Clarke
Iowa
Tillotson
Heanan W. Allen
Vermont
E. M. Gibson
Oakland
Cal
EB. L. Hawk
Sacramento
F. W. Castleman
New Orleans
J. W. Patterson
New Hampshire
United States
Penrose
Philadelphia
Erie
Commodore Perry
Charles H. McConnell
Chicago
Pettigrew
North Carolina
Virginia Veterans Cheer At Rail Arrival
A train bringing Virginia Confederate veterans was warmly greeted at a railroad station. Crowds cheered as the veterans, in gray uniforms, waved from car windows and acknowledged the cheering. Governor Hanna of Fargo and Gen. A. D. Williams of Florida attended the event, with Williams noted as a distinguished Confederate officer. Colonel McConnell’s tent stood out as the only one in the camp not government furnished, among other arrivals in the day’s gathering.
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McConnell
Hanna
Fargo
N. D
Gen
A. D. Williams
Florida
Virginia
Country Churches Unable to Survive
Manhattan Kansas June 30 What is to become of the 1200 country churches in Kansas abandoned and described because of a lack of interest in church work Rural pastors educators and teachers will try to answer at a conference beginning here Prof E L Holton head of the rural and vocational education department at the state agricultural college issued the call for the conference says motor cars have brought another problem for the church Distance now is such a small item that the farmer with an automobile is tempted to leave the country church and attend a larger town church with a pipe organ choir and more comfortable pews
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Manhattan
Kan
Kansas
E. L. Holton
State Agricultural College
Local Auto Trade And Markets In San Antonio Area
Old time breakfast pork sausage offered in one pound boxes at 25 cents per pound. Union Meat Co promotes sale while Granitoid and Granocrete mobile units report rising sales of gas oline books. Clifton George of Ford Sales shows multiple local car deeds including a Ford roadster to C H Mueller and a Buick deal in Galveston. Wardells travel from Houston in a Packard 18, report a 36 hour hold up between Seguin and Gonzales. Temple Wheeler cites Texas prosperity as Maxwell sales rise. Frank Bradley notes fifty Buicks and 163 Fords sold in San Marcos. farmers pray for rain to avoid boll weevil. Henry Bell and wife buy a Cadillac in Alice.
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RDEA
Union Meat Company
B. D. Wardell
Houston
City
Seguin
Gonzales
Mill Creek
Frank Bradley
Buick
Ford
San Marcos
Buick Company
Mr. Bradley
San Antonio Auto Club Luncheon and Gas War Prices
The San Antonio Automobile Club will hold its weekly luncheon tomorrow at 12 30 in the Menger Hotel private dining room with Fritz Groos as toastmaster and a talk on For the Good of the Order. Secretary W H Furlong Jr asks attendees to notify him by 9 30 tomorrow morning. Gasoline prices were 17 cents at Staacke Bros garage and 18 cents at Birdsong Potchernick with expectations of further declines. Industry officials from refineries suggesting a local price-cutting war to stabilize the market amid the flurry.
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San Antonio Automobile Club
Menger
Fritz Groos
W. H. Furlong Jr
Staacke Bros
New Road Trip Reported From San Antonio With Plan to Improve Highways
They completed the over land journey in a new machine from San Antonio, noting heavy roads that took two days. A clear movement among counties they passed aims to improve highways. Notably, the sand hill between Mathis and Sandia in Nueces county will be clayed this week.
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San Antonio
Mathis
Sandia
Nueces County
Texas
Horsford’s Acid Endorsed for Restful Sleep
An advertisement claims Horsford’s Acid Phosphate taken with water at bedtime guarantees a restful sleep. The claim emphasizes nightly use as a sleep aid and promotes the product as an excellent nightcap.
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Horsford
Two Killed in Fort Worth Auto Wreck
Evelyn Abshear, the most seriously injured survivor from yesterday's fatal crash, remains alive with a possible recovery per physicians. The father of the two dead girls arrived early this morning as funeral arrangements for Mrs. J. J. Brookshire and Ethel Abshear are set. Investigators seek how the car lost control while climbing a grade and plunged over an embankment. A garage inspection found the steering gear intact.
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Fort Worth
Tex
Evelyn Abshear
J. J. Brookshire
Ethel Abshear
Corpus Beach Hotel Adverb Touts Vacation Pleasures
Whether your hobby is Boating, Bathing or Fishing you will be better pleased with a vacation spent at the Corpus Beach hotel than elsewhere. Write for descriptive folder. Adgress W. A. Roachman, resident manager, Corpus Christi, Tex.-(tAdv.)
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Corpus Beach
W. A. Roachman
Corpus Christi
Tex
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Central Trust Co
San Antonio, Texas
J. C. Terrell
Otto Koehler
Chas. Schrein
J. J. Stevens
B. G. Barnes
W. P. Rote
Ke T Wisonee
San Antonio Loan & Trust Co
Menger Hotel
Palm Court
Atate Bank & Trust CO
Alamo Transfer Company
Evan Shelby
A. P
Comal & Old Phone Crockett
Cotton Ginners
Maverick-Clark Litho Co
Office Man's Department Store
Carter-Mullaly Transfer CO
Clifton George
Ford Sales Company
C. H. Mueller
T. Schmidt
Household Furniture Company
B. R. Webb
Galveston
Temple Wheeler
South Texas
Maxwell Products
Henry Bell
Cadillac
Alice That
Wilson Bros
Fomby-Jones Company
East
Houston Street
Devoe
Moody & Hormann
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