Fig Orchard Boom Near San Antonio Promises Big Yields
Irrigated farms near San Antonio showcase Alameda Development Company fig orchards with 40 000 trees. Robert D Sellers oversees irrigation via a 1200 gallon per minute artesian well and 3500 foot water main. Expect first bearing in three years averaging twenty pounds per tree, rising to fifty pounds by year five.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Antonio
Alameda Development Company
Robert D. Sellers
Southland
Alameda Company
International & Great Northern
Fight for Bull Estate in Boston Court
In Boston on March 4 a petition seeks a special administrator for the $500 000 estate of Sarah Chapman Bull widow of Ole Bull. Mrs Clea Bull Vaughan daughter of Mrs Bull petitions amid claims of intermeddling with assets and calls to protect inheritance taxes and the daughter’s rights as sole natural heir.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Mass
Sarah Chapman Bull
Ole Bull
Clea Bull Vaughan
Piles Quickly Cured at Home Trial Package Promised
Many cases of piles cured by a home treatment called Pyramid Pile Cure offered with a trial package and a free coupon. The ad claims relief without further treatment and urges readers to buy at 50c a box from their druggist, warning of pain and bills from delaying care.
Grand Jury Condemns Bexar Jail and Poor Farm Conditions
The grand jury condemns the county jail as outdated and inadequate for a city of Bexar, while praising inmate care. It also characterizes the old poor farm as dilapidated but notes improvements with a new 100 acre site nine miles south being developed into a modern, self sustaining facility.
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Bexar
Grand Jury
Dwyer
Bexar County
Georgetown Notes highlights and local society and sports scores
Mrs Belle Chreitzberg returns to Chappel Hill after a visit The Annex basketball team travels to Austin and defeats the state university 14 to 13 The Epworth league of Swedish Methodist church meets with Mr and Mrs G E Monson Mrs R N Ballerstedt hosts St Cecelia club honoring Miss Frances Ballerstedt Several local names appear among attendees with a list of dames N M Wilcox and O L Carroll included
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R. H. Ballerstedt
Frances Ballerstedt
Mary Howard
Sadie Peaslee
Mary Breneke
Annie Purl
Cornie
Effie Miffleton
Lula Ayers
Camille Isbhy
Ruth Patrick
Erma Wilson
Abbie Masterson
Home Mission Society of the Methodist Church
T. B. Stone
W. C. Vaden
J. M. Daniel
D. T. Whitworth
R. M. Crockett
A.S. Peques
W. B. Overby
J. L. Welch
James Shaw
Mendel Booth
Taylor
J. W. Potts
Liberty
Georgetown
Tex
Belle Chreitzberg
Chappel Hill
Annex
Austin
State University
Epworth League
Swedish Methodist Church
G. E. Monson
R. N. Ballerstedt
St. Cecelia Club
N. M. Wilcox
O. L. Carroll
End of Humiliating Hair Removal Promises Public Claim
A personal testimonial claims a simple liquid remedy permanently removes facial and body hair without pain or electric needles. The writer, Caroline Osgood, appeals for a two cent stamp to share full details and a endorsing doctor’s backing, urging readers to write for private at home use.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Caroline Osgood
D. C
Osgood
Providence
Baker to Wage War on Loan Sharks in City
District Attorney I C Baker declares war on 10 percent a month loan sharks. He plans a Houston style strategy here, asking victims to come forward for free legal aid and injunctions to recover paid usurious interest. He notes many companies flee when sued and urges cooperation from borrowers to map the course.
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I. C. Baker
Houston
Baker
Mr. Baker
San Antonio
Pimples Off in S Days
A vintage ad promotes Stuart's Calcium Wafers as a fast skin and blood purifier claiming cures for pimples and boils in days. It asserts no poison, no mercury, or opiates, and offers a free sample to prove effectiveness followed by a 50 box purchase.
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Stuart
Beuart
Marshall
Men of Affairs Plan Road Talk to Enlist Co operation
City residents urged to attend a Monday Chamber of Commerce meeting to discuss building a railroad from San Antonio to Brownsville. Leaders include L G Denman J H Kirkpatrick Nat M Washer and others as planners seek a construction company of 500000 with 250000 pledged.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chamber of Commerce
San Antonio
Brownsville
L. G. Denman
J. H. Kirkpatrick
Nat M. Washer
L. J. Hart
B. J. Mauermann
William Cassin
Marshal Hicks
S. J. Brooks
George W. West
John J. Stevens
Alex H. Halff
Ernest Steves
Otto Koehler
Charles A. Zilker
Edwin Chamberlain
Henry L. Halff
George C. Vaughan
F. L. Hillyer
Rio Grande Valley
Houston
Galveston
St. Louis, Brownsville
Beeville
Shagay Antonio
Kills Seventeen Snakes Near Filatrack River Bank
William Parvis reports he killed seventeen snakes after noticing a hole in the river bank near St. Paul Indiana. The reptiles, mostly water snakes ten inches to two feet long, were allegedly drawn out by sunshine. Jesse Barlow will vouch for the claim.
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St. Paul
Ind
William Parvis
Filatrack River
Purvis
Jesse Barlow
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Southwest
Alameda Company Aids
Bull Estate
Pyramid. B Drug Company
Bidg
Marshall, Mich
Diname
Sherwin-Williams
East Commerce Street
City of
Mexico
St. Louis
Woodchopper
Fatic
Potter Drug & Chem. Corp
Kansas
M. Marucheau Grain CO
Main Ave
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