Purchase agent ordinance moves through city council
City council debates creating a city purchasing agent to handle supplies, with a $5,000 bond and charter feasibility to study. Budget items include street work stone purchases, pauper burial contracts, park deer and elk bids, water connections, animal sales, and street bridge work while mayor and engineers defend current practices.
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Aldern Boynton
Jones
Ryan
Ordinee
Finance Comitee
Anton
Shelley-Loring Andering Company
City Aper
W. B. Russ
City Physick
Pynton
Impetitv
Brackene Park
Boynton
Esc
Brackenridge Park
H. A. Burnside
D. D. Harrigan
J. H. Peacock
Board of City Prisooners
Pancoast
City Engineer
River Avenue
Lambert
Fincham
Priest to Celebrate Jubilee in Burlington Texas
The Rev. C. J. G. Lowrey, rector of St. Michael’s church Burlington, will celebrate his golden jubilee next Tuesday. Bishop N. A. Gallagher of Galveston will attend with many Central Texas priests. Lowrey was ordained in 1862 at Dubuque Iowa. The article notes a side item on Cuba’s sponging industry dwindling as fishermen harvest early.
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Waco
Tex
Burlington
C. J. G. Lowrey
St. Michael's Church
N. A. Gallagher
Galveston
Texas
Lowrey
Dubuque
Courts Pay Tribute To Charles Bertrand
San Antonio courts adjourned in respect to Charles H Bertrand a prominent local lawyer who died after a three month illness at his home. Funeral services were held at St Marys Catholic Church and he is survived by a widow three children and several siblings. He was active in politics served as alderman and was attorney for the school board for a decade. He held Catholic and Knights of Columbus honors and was director of Southwestern Insane asylum.
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Jones
Fincham
Lipscomb
San Antonio
Navarro Street
Grand Avenue
Twelfth Street
Viva Voce
Pierce D. Christian
Kenney
Mauerman
Boynton
Buena Vista Street
South Alamo Street
Uhr
Charles Schoenfeld
Lucas
Wickeland
Charles H. Bertrand
Mistletoe
Howard Streets
Bertrand
St. Mary's Catholic Church
St. Mary's Cemetery
Terrabonne Parish
Texas
University of Texas
Martin F. Arnold
J. F. Carl
Eighth Ward
Campbell
Southwestern Insane Asylum
Colquitt
Decedent
Annie Oge Bertrand
Louis
Loraine
Charles H. Jr
Walter Bertrand
Dallas
Gustav Bertrand
Schriever
Louise Lepine
LaFourche
Mary Lepine
Raceland
Belle Edwards
Natchez
Bertha
Lillian Bertrand
Mary John Berchmans
Mount Carmel
Rayne
Catholic Central Union
Columbus
San Antonio Council
Knights of Columbus
John Boyle
J. R. Davis
Nelson Lytle
T. L. Conroy
T. F. Hart
Edward W. Tynan
George B. Taliaferro
Claude F. Birkhead
Walter Napier
Fred W. Cook
Charles Baumberger
Mike Goggin
A. W. Seeligson
A. N. Moursand
W. 8S. Fly
H. E. Hildebrand
T. T. Vanderhoeven
H. C. Carter
A A U Rules Revised and Olympic Federation Fueled
New York Nov 19 The Amateur Athletic Union adopts resolutions proposing an international federation to govern Olympic games with a five member committee to meet in 1913. Boxing rounds are extended to three minutes with a possible extra two minute round. President Gustavus T Kirby touts athletic supremacy and world peace claims. Officers named include President Kirby and vice presidents Hill Pawling Bland Fitzpatrick and Sullivan. Georgetown Farmers Institute opens with talks by John R Allen J Faubion and T A McGalliard as Williamson county corn show planned.
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New York
International Athletic Federation
Congress For
Amateur Athletic Union
Kirby
United States
Hague
Gustavus T. Kirby
A. J. Hill Jr
Boston
G. F. Pawling
Philadelphia
Theodore R. Bland
St Louis
H. W. Fitzpatrick
New Orleans
James E. Sullivan
Farmers’ Citizens’ Institute of County
John R. Allen
Southwestern University
Georgetown
J. Faubion
Leander
Pre
the Soil For Corn
T. A. McGalliard
Williamson County
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RE. W. Rose Medicine Co
Santonio
Wm. Appman
Burns & Bexar Drug Co
A. Dreiss
H. Wagner
King
Travis Street
Schoenfeld
Eleanor Wilson
Jessie Wilson
Wilson
Governor Wilson
Margaret Wlson
Cuba
Charles Bertrand
Bar
Farmers Institute
Georgetown, Tex
Castor
Bears
Castoria the Centaur Company
Gil
Ana
Joske’s
Victor Talking Machine Co
Camden, N. J
East
Houston Street
John
Thos. Goggan& Bros
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