Supreme Court Admits First All-Women Bench
Texas High Tribunal awards land to Woodmen of the World as three women serve as special chief justice and associates in a case where regular members disqualified themselves. The decision upholds a lower court ruling with land in El Paso at stake and marks the first world court composition of entirely women.
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Austin
Texas
Miriam A
Supreme Court
Galveston
Woodmen
Ward
W. T. Johnson
el Paso
Woodmen of the World
F. P. Jones
T. Johnson
Jones
Life is What You Make It Advertisemen
Mrs R Sankey offers health remedies praising Dr Pierce Golden Medical Discovery and Pleasant Pellets and Sage's Catarrh Remedy. The ad claims a long standing cough and catarrh improved after use. It notes local druggists carry the remedies and invites readers to contact Dr Pierce for advice or trial packages.
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Waxehackie
Texas
Dr. Pierce
B. E. Stukey
Ir. Pierce
Invalids’ Hotel
Buffalo
N.W
Pierce
Sousa Sues for $100,000 From Cigar Men
New York May 23 The bandmaster John Philip Sousa sues the P Lorillard company for 100000 claiming his name and likeness were used to advertise cigars at five for 15 cents. His attorney says Sousa has been made sport of by friends. Defendants acknowledged service of papers but offered no comment.
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Associated Press
New York
John Phillip Sousa
P. Lorillard Company
Girl freed after held prisoner by man on Fredericksburg road
A teenager describes being taken by a man in an old Ford with curtains up and held for more than 10 hours on the Fredericksburg road before escaping. Police seek two 20-year-old suspects nicknamed Apaches believed headed to California after an assault on two girls. The car tied to the pair has been found and identities are known.
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Police
Fredericksburg
California
New Graunfels
Myrtle Howell's Fight After Auto Injury Ends in Family Wait
The article follows Stella Howell and her motherly vigil beside Myrtle, the brown eyed red haired child critically injured after an auto accident. Relatives Robert Howell and others share hopes and heartbreak as Myrtle battles for life, her toys scattered at home, and a family awaiting a possible recovery or death.
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Wars
Robert Howell
Myrtle
Stella Howell
Mystery stabbing suspect admits part in fight
report says one man confessed taking part in a four man altercation over a stabbing. he claims he did no cutting and fled after being struck with a hammer. detectives search for the victim who was seen loaded into a car after a blood trail from the laredo street address.
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Laredo Street
Jury Deliberates in Case of Ex-Bank Cashier
The jury in the embezzlement case against Irhy J. Hud cashier of Pearsall People's State Bank retired to consider a verdict after hearings that questioned the jurors English reading ability. Prosecutors contended Hud embezzled bank books on November 8 last year, with his wife testifying he was bird hunting that morning.
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Irhy J. Hudcashier
Pearsall People's State Bank
W. W. McCrory
McCrory
Hudson
Pearsail
C. A. Wheeler
Jailed Youth Refuses Freedom Without Clothes
A city jail inmate was released after his mother arranged bail but the youth refused to leave without clothes. A Houston street merchant earlier claimed the youth’s clothing for pay he hadn’t received, leaving him in underwear until garments were sent from home.
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Houston
Hou
Éladl
Mystery Man's Denthprobe Subject Emerges in San Antonio
A police probe in San Antonio centers on the death of Jim Walker who died at Robert B. Green Hospital after four days unconsciousness. An old friend, W. Wingate, identified Walker and said he was once a bartender known to be well fixed with a hidden nest egg. Police suspect robbery as the motive for the blow that killed him.
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Jim Walker
San Antonio
Robert B. Green Hospital
Wingate
Montana Street
Waller
Walker
Mr. Walker
Globe Hotel
West
Commerce Street
You Too Can Use A Vast Sunday Ad In Big Sun
Advertisement explains using the Sunday Sun for buying selling and trading in San Antonio and Southwest Texas. It urges readers to place want ads by 30 Saturday night and to phone early to avoid risk.
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Big Sunday Light
Big Sunday
San Antonio
Texas
Rusk
Jury May Get Janner Case Tonight
United States District Attorney J D Hartman leads the prosecution of Carl I Janner in a federal murder trial at Fort Sam Houston Judge Fudge DiVal West presides. Defense argues self defense after Janer testifies that Copeland’s knife wound occurred during a fight over valuables in the recreation room following a night of drinking.
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United States
J. D. Hartman
Carl I. Janner
Fudge DiVal West
Copeland
Tanner
Janser
Jndictment
Olan Copeland
Company B
First Infantry
Fort “Sam Houston
Paul Bilday
Major Conner
Company
Janner
Janer
Coptland
Hospital releases two S A men hurt in Austin accident
In Austin on May 23 Privates J J Brady and KB Tyler of Camp Travis San Antonio were discharged from a local hospital after injuries from a car crash that killed one man and seriously injured two others John R K Jones of Austin was killed when a splintered heart pierced. Others were only slightly hurt.
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Austin
J. J. Brady
Gi‘ Tyler
Camp Travis
San Antonio
Jack Hornsby
George Parsons
John RK. Jones
Marion Montana Picked As Name For Wheeler Baby
The Wheeler family announces the name Marion Montana for their newborn in Great Falls Montana. Senator Wheeler noted the choice honors Robert Mazié and followed a flood of telegrams from residents of Moltena.
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Marion
Montana
Wheeler Baby
Universal Service
Washington
Great’ Falls
Wheeler
Makibz
Moltena
Mar Jon
Robert’ Mazié
la Folletté
Train Vote Sets Policy From Insurance Surplus
Train vote records show 35000 votes and 600 road context as trainmen at a triennial convention vote to utilize its 36 million insurance surplus to tease the policies of the mem and related actions.
Hold Valley Man After Doctor Slain
May 28. Dr W E Creath aged 50 was shot and killed near Weslaco during an altercation with J W Robertson 66 a farmer who is jailed in Edinburg on bond. A justice of the peace held an inquest and returned a verdict that Dr Creath died from gunshot wounds inflicted by J W Roberson.
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Weslaco
W.E. Creath
J. ‘W. Robertson
Farmer
Edinburg
Dub Bond
Kansas City
Taddenhead
Dr. Creath
Garshot
Three Slayers Sentenced to Die in Merchant Murder
In Bombay on May 23 three of nine men charged with the January murder of Abdul Bai Baul, a wealthy Mohammedan merchant and protecter of Mumtaz Begun, the dancer, were sentenced to death today.
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Associated Press
Bombay
Abdul Bai Baul
Mumtaz Bégun
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