Museum tract chosen for San Antonio natural history site
Mayor Brown selected Brackenridge Park sites for a natural history museum and a fifteen acre zoological garden. The plan calls for initial monkey house aviary lion house and reptile cage with later museum construction funded by a $15 090 needs and a $6 000 annual maintenance budget.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Scientific Society of
San Antonio
Museum of Natural History
Brown
Brackenridge Park
Zoological Garden
River Avenue
William L. Hoefgen
City Council
R. Walker
Scientific Society
Harry Hertzberg
C. C. Higgins
E. W. Heusinger
Heusinger
Scintific Society
W. C. Learn
Texas
Zoological Garden Committee
Clarence Shaw
Victoria Street
Fire record shows 38,000 fire reports since December 1910
Austin Tex May 16 State Fire Marshal Wallace Inglish released a report citing 38 000 fire reports from December 10 1910 to today. Of these 17 431 involved dwellings and outbuildings with 70 5 percent preventable and 10 9 percent unpreventable along with 18 6 percent unknown causes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austin
Tex
Colorado Autoists to Visit San Antonio on Monday
A Colorado Springs chamber group of 86 motorists will reach San Antonio Monday afternoon en route to Austin for a return trip. The party travels nine autos along the Colorado to the Gulf highway to promote its development and a Texas reception is planned with dinner at the clubhouse Monday night.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
D. E. Coip
A. W. Henderson
Colorado Springs
Texas
Colorado
Gulf Highway
John W. Warren
Texas Good Roads Association
Automobile Licenses and Newton State Bank News
Auto licenses list numerous owners with makes and addresses including Hudson, Ford, Buick and Chalmers. In Austin, M May 16 G M Sells of Orange, banker, filed preliminary papers to organize a Newton State Bank with $10,000 capital. charter expected soon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Newton
State Bank
Austin
Tex
G. M. Sells
Orange
Department of Insurance and Banking
Newton County
Texas Fire Insurance Firms Report First Profit in Five Years
The Texas state insurance commission released figures showing 115 companies in Texas earned net profits of about 10 percent after expenses in 1913. Net premiums totaled 19.61 million dollars, losses paid 5.24 million, yielding a loss ratio of 0.498. Data drawn from company annual statements filed with the state department.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austin
Tex
State Insurance Commission
Texas
State Department of Insurance and Banking
Foot Comfort Ad Promises Pain Free Feet
An old style advertisement touts TIZ for immediate relief of sore burning and swollen feet. It claims rapid action shrinking foot pain and urges readers to buy a 25 cent box from druggists or department stores with a money back guarantee if not satisfied.
Progressive League Convention Opens in Kingsville
The Progressive League of Southwest Texas schedules a two day convention in Kingsville beginning Monday with hundreds of delegates. The event features talks by leaders from business and civic groups and will set the league’s future activities and leadership for Tuesday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Progressive League of
Southwest Texas
Kingsville
Texas
Ita
J. A. Arnold
Texas Business Men's and Commercial Secretaries’ Associations
W. C. Barrickman
Texas Industrial Congress
I. M. Ward
Sherman
Texas Commercial Executives
John B. Carrington
San Antonio Chamber of Commerce
Progressive League
Water rights filings show farmland irrigation plans
Certified water filings were filed with the state board by the A. H. Pierce estate of Wharton county for irrigation of 30 000 acres in Wharton. Applications for permits came from A C Vanderhider of San Saba for 220 acres and Mrs Fannie McKennan for 55 acres in San Saba county. Hearings on both applications were set for June 22.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austin
Tex
State Board of Water Engineers
A. H. Pierce
Wharton
Wharton County
A. C. Vanderhider
San Saba
Fannie McKennan
San Saba County
County Committee Fills Vacancies in Travis County
The Travis county Democratic executive committee met in Austin and filled several minor vacancies. James Berger chaired the session and preliminary plans were outlined for the Democratic primaries on July 26. Candidates for local offices attended the meeting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austin
Tex
Travis County Democratic Executive Committee
James Berger
Pers
San Antonio reassessment plan targets unseen property values
City Tax Assessor James F. Garland says Somers System will bring undeclared property onto rolls without nationwide value hikes. He notes houses built recently and fringe commercial land, plus acreage and franchise values, will be taxed fairly though overall increases may be modest and equitably distributed. Licenses to operate in Texas issued to Midland Casualty and other firms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James F. Garland
San Antonio
Wesleyan College Closes Year With Two Graduates
Texas Wesleyan College in Austin ends its third year with an enrollment of fifty and two graduates from the bookkeeping department. The graduates are John Linblad of Georgetown and Edward Siege of Brady. A Light want ad offers a dressmaker.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wesleyan
Austin
Tex
Texas Wesleyan College
John Linblad
Georgetown
Edward Siege
Brady
Miss Millar to Lead Ten Day Meetings in Melbourne
Miss Elinor Stafford Millar, renowned evangelist from Melbourne, arrives to lead a ten day series at the Young Women's Christian Association. She will conduct morning parlor meetings at homes, plus auditorium services, with a mass girls and women event on Sunday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elinor Stafford Millar
Melbourne
Australia
Austin
Young Woman's Christian Association
Miss Millar
Association
W. H. Hume
Hutchins Hotel
Garden Street
Hood's Sarsaparilla Promises Pure Blood Remedy
Hood's Sarsaparilla claims to purify and enrich the blood and support heart function. The ad asserts the product as the premier blood remedy and nerve builder, supported by thousands of testimonials.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hood
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Council Act Scientific Society
O’shaughnessy
U. S
Nelson O'Shaughnessy
Mexico City
Huerta
Washington
Bryan
Vera Cruz
O’shaughneely
Mexico
Automobile Club
San Marcos
Hudson
M. Burleson
Quincy
W. G. Thomson
Nm Egil
Ito
Ford
B. Scott
Atascosa
Albert, Seldeman
Buick
Herman Ullrich
Elm St
Chalmers
H. J. Achterberg
Dakota
Tiz
Milan
America
Alamo
Saul Wolfson Dro Goods Co
Senatt
Midland Casualty Company
Chicago
Maryland
Motor Car Insurance Company of
Wilmington
Del
Grand Court Order of Calanthe
Greenville
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