Brown outlines San Antonio ideas after city visit
Clinton G. Brown the mayor elect returns from Fort Worth Dallas and Kansas City with suggestions for San Antonio. He supports frontage assessments for paving and a two district crematory plan for garbage disposal. He expects a bond issue after inauguration and a city population around 200 000.
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Clinton G. Brown
San Antonio
Brown
Mr. Brown
Texas
Fort Worth
Dallas
Kansas City
Local Forecast San Antonio and Vicinity
For San Antonio and vicinity: Fair to night and Tuesday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Antonio
Vicinity
Weather notes and growth forecast for Texas regions
Morning weather reports from St Louis to Washington show mild rain and cool temperatures. The piece then argues the great packing industries and expansion around Dallas and San Antonio will drive substantial growth over the next decade, urging San Antonio to position itself to benefit from this expansion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dallas
San Antonio
Alamo Street Widening Plan Requires 85000
An estimated 85000 will fund widening of Alamo street from the old Coney Island bar to Commerce street. One third funded by the city, the rest subscribed by interested parties. Plans to start soon after the Commerce street project, around June 1, with a loop for car lines and expanded traffic space.
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Alamo Street
Coney Island Bar
Commerce Street
Alamo Plaza
Commerce and
Houston Streets
South Alamo
Roosevelt Arrives With Witnesses for Libel Trial
Col Theodore Roosevelt arrived at Marquette with a large group of witnesses and journalists for a libel trial against George A Newett publisher of the Ishpeming Iron Ore. The $10000 damages suit is set to begin with jury selection at 3 o clock. The entourage includes Robert Bacon Truman H Newberry Gifford Pinchot James R Garfield Regis H Post and others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marquette
Mich
Theodore Roosevelt
George A. Newett
Ishpeming
Roosevelt
Robert Bacon
Truman H. Newberry
Navy
Gifford Pinchot
James R. Garfield
Regis H. Post
Porto Rico
Alexander Lambert
Jacob A. Riis
Dr. Rixer
the Navy
Lawrence Abbott
W. Emlen Roosevelt
Phillip
William Loeb Jr
Gilson Gardner
L. A. Curtis
O. K. Davis
Frank Tyree
John Callan O’laughlin
James Sloan
Sloan
Tyree
Emperor Yoshihito Improves as Empress Sadako Falls Ill
TOKIO May 26 Emperor Yoshihito shows improvement while Empress Sadako contracts a cold and is confined to her apartments though not in critical condition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Empress II
Tokio
Yoshihito
Sadako
Jubilant Opening Mass At San Antonio Cathedral
More than a thousand schoolchildren attended the three day jubilee honoring Bishop J W Shaw in San Antonio with a morning mass at San Fernando Cathedral. Archbishops Blenk and Lynch arrived, with other prelates expected. Governor Colquitt planned to attend.
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J. W. Shaw
San Fernando Cathedral
Shaw
Agnes Porter
John Golden
Diocese of
San Antonio
Archbishop Blenk
James H. Blenk
New Orleans
South
Southern Pacific
Fathers Mulvaney
Schutten
Robling
Haas
Academy of the Incarnate Word
J. P. Lynch
Dallas
N. A. Gallagher
Galveston
T. Meerschaert
Oklahoma
E. P. Allen
Mobile
C. van de Ven
Alexandria
J. B. Morris
Little Rock
J. E. Gunn
Natchez
O. B. Colquitt
Austin
Daniel Sullivan
Avenue C
Fourth Street
Sullivan
Blenk
Father D. Savage
Montgomery
Ala
Bishop Shaw
Rome
Father Savage
St. Peter’s
Texas Health Officer: statewide health at all-time high
State Health Officer Ralph Steiner reports Texans are in better health than ever with less disease overall. Typhoid fever remains a local concern with several cases in cities and across the state. The state lab is manufacturing anti typhoid vaccine and distributing it at cost to applicants.
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Austin
Tex
State of
Texas
Ralph Steiner
Leased Wire Report Highlight From AP Features
The San Antonio Light notes it carries the Associated Press leased wire day report as its primary general news service, supplemented by its own large special news service. The AP report provides broad coverage around the world in about 20,000 words daily.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Antonio
Associated Press
Light
Grasshoppers Alarm Panhandle Northward Spread
In May 26 report Amarillo Texas describes millions of grasshoppers invading Eastern New Mexico from Elida to Texico. The central swarm five miles wide and eighteen miles long denudes grass and crops, threatening northwest Texas and possibly Oklahoma. Officials plan eradication using poisons with food. Irrigation districts fear arrival of the hungry insects.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amarillo
Tex
New Mexico
Elida
Texico
Texas
Oklahoma
GOLE LINKS DESERTED FOR CHURCH SERVICES
Wyoming suburb of Cincinnati Ohio saw every resident attend church after a house to house canvas by the Wyoming Welfare Association moral uplift committee. Rich residents walked and even chauffeurs and cooks joined services as golf links and street cars stood unused. Four churches held extra services to accommodate worshipers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cincinnati
Ohio
Wyoming
Wyoming Welfare Association
No Beri-Beri Here At Southwestern Insane Asylum
Dr. F S White, superintendent of the Southwestern, reports no beri-beri cases at his institution despite about 50 cases in Austin. He studied the matter since the onset there and says San Antonio’s facility is entirely free. He notes mortality near two percent and explains possible causes while denying widespread outbreak at the asylum.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Insane Asylum
Austin
F. S. White
Southwestern
San Antonio
White
Southwestern Asylum
Boston society leader to ride elephant in charity pageant
Mrs. Jack Gardner, Boston society leader and owner of a Fenway palace, will appear tomorrow in a pageant on the Lars Anderson estate to benefit the children hospital. Dressed as an oriental princess she will ride in a Howdah on an elephant with 250 amateurs involved. Hamilton Fish Jr will join as an oriental bodyguard on a second elephant and society women will ride in Persian costumes on camels.
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Boston
Mass
Jack Gardner
Boston Society
Fenway
Larse Anderson
Children Hospital
Howdah
Hamilton Fish Jr
Cavalry Brigade to Train at Gettysburg and Shenandoah
Washington May 26 A complete cavalry brigade will spend July at Gettysburg Pennsylvania or in the Shenandoah valley testing proposed changes in organization and training under a special board of officers The force includes the Tenth Cavalry Fort Ethan Allen Vermont the Eleventh Cavalry Fort Oglethorpe Georgia and the First and Third Squadrons of the Fifteenth Cavalry from Fort Meyer and Fort Sheridan A Sixth Artillery battery Fort Riley Kansas and machine gun platoons may join the program
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Washington, D. C
Gettysberg
Shenandoah Valley
Europe
Tenth Cavalry
Fort Ethan Allen
Vermont
Eleventh Cavalry
Fort Oglethorpe
Fifteenth Cavalry
Ft. Meyer
Ft. Sheridan
Sixth Artillery
Fort Riley
Kan
Land Forfeiture Planned As Relief Act Opens
Austin Tex May 26 Land Commissioner Robinson announces school land forfeiture will occur for nonpayment of interest after June 1 the relief act effective date Interest has been due since November 1 191
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austin
Tex
Robinson
Lobbyists in Washington Target Tariff Bill, Says President
President Wilson told White House correspondents that a powerful lobbying effort opposes tariff changes, with paid advertisements aimed at misleading the public. He warned money is spent to sway opinion and urged scientific methods to sustain sugar and wool industries in Louisiana.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington, D. C
Wilson
White House
Louisiana
Washington
Exemption Sought on Insurance Tariff Provisions
Darwin H Kingsley president of New York Life testified before the Senate finance sub committee on the Underwood tariff income tax sections. He urged exemption of all insurance written for protection and mutual benefit not profit. Kingsley defended mutual nature of policyholder interests and cited Hughes investigation exchanges with Senator Williams.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington, D. C
Darwin H. Kingsley
New York Life Insurance Company
Senate
Kingsley
Senator Williams
Hughes
Williams
Mr. Kingsley
Supreme Court Upholds Liquor Ban in Indian Territory
The Supreme Court today held federal laws prohibiting the introduction of liquor into Indian country forbid bringing liquor from neighboring states into Oklahoma counties held by Indians. The decision, in the Bob Wright case, upholds the indictment for introducing liquor into Muskogee County, reversing the lower court.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington, D. C
Supreme Court
Oklahoma
Bob Wright
Muskogee County
Oklo
Baby girl Ursula Mayotte killed in Detroit after near misses
In Detroit a two year old, Ursula Mayotte, survived three dangers in one afternoon only to be killed when a motorcycle toppled onto her while left at the curb. She had already pulled a pan of hot water and triggered gas stove fumes, but was rescued each time until the fatal accident.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Detroit
Mich
Ursula Mayotte
Jury to Probe Tragedy at Long Beach Pier Collapse
In Long Beach California witnesses prepare for the coroner jury inquest into 36 deaths from the pier collapse. James Twombley of the public works board is a key witness as inspectors’ duties and responsibility are questioned. Relief drives are launched by Empire Day groups amid hundreds injured and dozens fighting for aid.
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Long Beach
Cal
James Twombley
Long Beach Board of Public Works
Hatch
Daughters of the Empire and Sons of St. George
Snake hauls longest rattler in Snyder region
O Bus by near Snyder captured a seven foot rattlesnake with sixteen rattles yesterday. Twelve rattlers have been killed in the area in the past two weeks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Snyder
Tex
O. Busby
Town
Dowe Supports Free Meat Imports in Tariff Debate
R W Dowe former Eagle Pass customs official and cattle magnate argues that U S cattle shortages are exaggerated and foreign meats would not harm demand if tariffs fall He notes limited impact from Northern Mexico supplies and highlights current duties and potential tariff reductions He plans a San Antonio visit before returning to Eagle Pass.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
R. W. Dowe
Eagle Pass
Dowe
Mexico
South
Central America
House of Representatives
Custom Department
San Antonio
Menger
Alabama Florida monuments shine at Chickamauga battlefield
At the Chattanooga reunion of the United Confederate Veterans Alabama and Florida will unveil monuments at Chickamauga. The event, part of the twenty third annual gathering, draws veterans and thousands of visitors with parades and ceremonies in Tennessee.
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Chattanooga
Tenn
Camp Stewart
Humber
Bennett H. Young
Louisville
United Confederate Veterans
Careul
Young
Ree Union
Assignment Committee
Union Week
Confederate States Memorial Association
Women of the Confederacy
M. T. Armstrong
General Young
Alexander B. White
Daughters of the Confederacy
Sons of Confederate Veterans
J. P. Norfleet
Memphis
Mee
Chickamauga
Sherman
Missionary Bees
Andrews
Ringgold Gap
United States
Chickamauga Tlefield
Alabama
Florida
Connecticut
Georgia
Illinois
Indiana
Iowa
Kansas
Kentucky
Maryland
Massachusetts
Minnesota
Missouri
New Jersey
New York
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Ternessee
South Carolina
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