Pioneer Sam Bellis visits old San Antonio after long absence
Sam C. Bellis, a San Antonio pioneer who left in 1895 for California, returned after eighteen years to see changes in the city. He helped start the first Houston Street business building in 1879 and noted Fort Sam Houston’s growth. His son Amos G. Bellis, now in Manila, accompanied him. The Bellises planned to return home after their visit.
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San Antonio
Sam C. Bellis
Mr. Bellis
California
Menger
Bellis
Houston Street
Avenue C
Amos G. Bellis
Manila
P. I
Fort Sam Houston
Progress ix
Sam Bellis
Philippine Islands
Food famine felt here in San Antonio market
The city’s Mexican quarter faces hardship as imports from the republic decline due to revolutionary disturbances. Prices surge for chili pepper and staples like aguacates mangos beans and rice while roving bandits impede shipments and suppliers struggle to secure supplies.
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San Antonio
Republic
Five Beautiful Aides Join South Confederate Veterans Leader
Chattanooga Tennessee May 24 five very beautiful young women will figure prominently at the twenty third annual reunion of the United Confederate Veterans. Miss Kate Daffan of Austin Texas is sponsor for the South with aides Miss Anne Henry Miss Amelia Russell Mrs Z C Patton Jr and Miss Zella Armstrong attached to Gen Bennett H Young's staff.
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Chattanooga
Tenn
United Confederate Veterans
Kate Daffan
Austin
Tex
South
Bennett H. Young
The
Daffan
Anne Henry
Brandon
Amelia Russell
Memphis
Z. C. Patton Jr
Zella Armstrong
General Young
Texas
Patrick Henry
Mississippi
Gen
Gustavus A. Henry
Tennessee
Senate
Confederacy
Missionary Ridge
Lookout Mountain
Z. C. Patten Jr
Playground Mothers Meet On Benefit Show Plans
A joint meeting of the Playground Mothers' Club and Playground Association is set for 8 o clock Monday night in the Gunter Hotel committee room to finalize plans for The Three Bears operetta to be performed Friday May 380 for the association. Rehearsals continue and tickets will be distributed at the meeting. The operetta draws on the nursery tale with a fairy queen and woodland sprites as added characters.
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Playground Mothers’ Club
Playground Association
Gunter Hotel
County 10 to be put on honor system for convicts
Bexar county officials approve trial of an honor system to replace manacles and guards for convicts starting June 1. If successful for a month, the plan may become permanent with rewards for good behavior and supervised by Judge James R. Davis.
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Bexar County
Robert B. Green
James R. Davis
Charles X
Robert EB. Green
Board of Commissioners
Davis
Trial hinges on the men’s conduct for leniency
The article notes the trial depends entirely on the men and that commissioners expect no convict will abuse the leniency. If the honor system fails, all convicts face return to chains and handcuffs.
Telephone men to meet in San Antonio
The Southwestern Telegraph and Telephone Company district commercial managers for Southwest Texas will hold a conference May 27 in San Antonio with Division Commercial Superintendent W W Vaughan Pp K Baker general commercial superintendent C H Abbott special agent in charge of publicity and G H Yetman superintendent of directors all of Dallas. They will discuss commercial administration for offices in the region as the first in a series of meetings to educate managers in local commercial administration.
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Southwestern Telegraph and Telephone Company
Southwest Texas
San Antonio
W. W. Vaughan
Pp. K. Baker
C. H. Abbott
G. H. Yetman
Dallas
Eight Year Old Robber Confesses Housebreaking
An eight year old boy told Judge Davis he robbed a house and church envelopes for Sunday School money. San Antonio Humane Society agent Fred Davidson led the child to court and a judge. The boy admitted two first class robberies on Burnett street and was placed in St. John's Orphanage with his family named.
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Judge Davis
Fred Davidson
The
San Antonio Humane Society
Dr. Davisson
Davidson
Business Men Social by First Baptist Church League
BusinessMen League of the First Baptist Church hosts a get together social in the church parlors on Thursday evening May 29. The program includes an informal reception, multiple vocal and violin solos, talks on Baraca Philathéa and the Business Men's League, an address by A S Pawkett, Rev S J Porter and organ and reading performances by local artists. Fresh meats will be served upstairs.
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Business Men's League of the First Baptist Church
Leonora Smith
Elise Maurer
Dawn Loving
Business Men’s League
Pawkett
S. J. Porter
W. S. Clarke
Lonfion
Suffrage Delegates to Budapest World Congress Heads to Europe
A large delegation of suffragettes sails from New York to Antwerp for a World Congress in Budapest June 15 to 21. Twenty six countries represented by twelve delegates each, with Anna Howard Shaw and Jane Addams among American members. Events will be multilingual with French German English and first time Chinese Persian and Indian participants.
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New York
Red Star
Finland
Antwerp
Budapest
Women Suffrage Alliance
Woman's Journal
Hague
Amsterdam
Berlin
Dresden
Vienna
Venice
Florence
Pisa
Rome
Naples
America
National American Woman's Suffrage Association
Anna Howard Shaw
Pennsylvania
Jane Addams
J. T. Brown
Illinois
Stanley McCormick
Massachusetts
Henry Villard
H. P. Belmont
Runtz Rees
Connecticut
Crystal Eastman Benedict
Wisconsin
Emma B. Sweet
William Tod Helmuth
Frederick Nathan
Anna Maxwell Jones
Texas
Boston
Mass
Anna Ross Wicks
Minnie Rutherford
Magazine
Ark
Eleanor Shaw Smith
Swarthmore
Lucy Anthony
Moylan
Europe
National American Woman Suffrage Association
Frances W. Munds
Nelson
Ariz
Elizabeth Barnes
Portland
Ore
W. D. Wright
Coeur d’Alene
Idaho
B. F. Perkins
Sheridan
Wyo
Laura Grover Smith
California
Carrie Chapman Catt
The
Alliance
O. H. P. Belmont
Shaw
London
International Alliance
Australia
Austria
Belgium
Bohemia
France
Great Britain
Iceland
Norway
Portugal
Italy
Netherlands
Russia
Sweden
Switzerland
Servia
South Africa
Hungary
United States
City Council
Board of Trade
Board of Agriculture
Postal
Austria-Hungary
Women’s Freedom League
National Union of Woman Suffrage Societies
Charlotte Despard
Freedom League
National Union
Millicent Fawcett
Bling
England
International Men's League For Woman Suffrage
Men’s League
John Cockburn
John
Emilia de Pardo Basan
Board of Education
Herman Bahr
Marchesa Lucifera
Selma Lagerlof
Ellen Key
Charles Lees
Oldham
Catherine van Rennes
New Netherlands
Flora Anna Steele
Lawrence Housman
Kein Hardie
Riverside Restaurant Ad Highlights Seafood and Chicken
An old advertisement promotes the Riverside Restaurant at 101 East Hon Street offering deep sea fish such as Spanish mackerel pompano and red snapper plank steak and famous 25 cent chicken meals served day and night.
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K. C
Riverside
East Hon Street
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Toledo, CO
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Los Angeles
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Pittsburg
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Susan W. Janney
Philadelphia
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