Cars In Collision At Army Post Delays Traffic
An Army Post street car and a Texas Transportation Company motor car derailed after colliding at Austin street and Grand avenue shortly after 6 pm Tuesday. The street car, city bound, carried passengers but none were injured, though its front vestibule was badly shattered. The motor car was pulling three brewery refrigerator cars from Southern Pacific yards, locking two tracks at Grand avenue and delaying traffic about 30 minutes.
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Army Post
Texas Transportation Company
Austin Street
Grand Avenue
Vexas Transportation
Southern Pacific Railway Company
Onderdonk's Lady Godiva nude painting tour in San Antonio
San Antonio artist William Onderdonk brings his first and only nude work to a touring show, after Dallas fair exposure. The Lady Godiva painting was created over three years inspired by Tennyson and features four models for accuracy, with a display planned at the Gunter Hotel dining room for several days starting Friday.
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William Jenkins
San Antonio
Lady Godiva
Tennyson
Coventry
America
Percy Tyrrell
Gunter Hotel
Perry Sargent
Dallas
United States
Sargent
Onderdonk
Mr. Onderdonk
Godiva
Plan Trade Commission Fights Natchez Merchants’ Invasion
Natchez wholesale merchants plan to enter the San Antonio trade area and undercut local merchants aided by the Shreveport freight rates. The San Antonio Traffic Bureau led by A Pawkett will seek a hearing before the Interstate Commerce Commission to block the move. Pawkett notes Mississippi goods arrive by water with freight nearly half the railroad rate San Antonio pays, despite Natchez being 600 miles farther away from South Texas.
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Natchez
Miss
San Antonio
Shreveport
South Texas
Wrong Quarry Hat Chase Ends With Hen Confusion
A bystander loses his hat to wind and chases it into a yard. After repeatedly catching and losing the hat behind a fence, a sharp voice from a nearby woman reveals the hat has become her family’s chicken, a black hen she calls theirs.
Silver coin replaces paper in Mexican business says Burns
J F Burns, San Antonio contractor, reports silver currency replacing paper in Mexico. He arrived to coordinate expanded Saltillo project and oil reservoir work near Tampico. Burns notes silver circulation aids recovery and stable pay for soldiers, adding Villa activity causes no local alarm.
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Mexico
J. F. Burns
San Antonio
Saltillo
Mr. Burns
Burns Construction Company
Saltillo & Orient
Calomel Promoted as Harmful vs Dodson's Liver Tone
An old advertisement warns that calomel causes salivation and sickness and promotes Dodson's Liver Tone as a safe vegetable substitute. It claims calomel dulls the liver and can cause cramps, nausea, and bilious symptoms while the Liver Tone improves energy and mood without side effects.
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Dodson
California Syrup of Figs Ad Warns Against Counterfeits
A vintage health ad touts California Syrup of Figs as the ideal laxative for children and adults. It urges mothers to use a teaspoonful for gentle cleansing, notes common symptoms of illness, and warns to buy the genuine product made by the California Fig Syrup Company to avoid fakes.
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California
California Fig Syrup Company
San Antonio Welcomes Film Producer to Spur Local Studios
Otto B. Thayer of Denver arrived in San Antonio to assess a moving picture studio and local film production. He spoke at the Gunter hotel about plans to manufacture feature films and toured the city with Chamber of Commerce officials, praising San Antonio's scenic potential and cost advantages.
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San Antonio
Otto B. Thayer
Denver
Colo
Chamber of Commerce
Thayer
Gunter Hotel
Texas
John B. Carrington
Toop Roads
Moving Pictures Inspire San Antonio Vision Of Settings
The article notes Mr. Thayer praising San Antonio’s scenery for film use and cites the Traction Company’s plan to add thirty all steel street cars, possibly delayed to New Year due to electric motor shortages affecting manufacturers in the North and East. The St Louis Car Company reports motors half a year behind.
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The
Traction Company
San Antonio
St. Louis Car Company
Tuttle
Traction
Simple Laxative Earns Family Trust in Monticello Ad
Four year old Max Pendergrast benefited from Dr Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin after constipation since infancy. His mother Mrs Carl W Pendergrast of Red Key Indiana praises its quick, gentle relief and keeps a bottle at home. The preparation blends laxative herbs with pepsin and carries no opiate, with a request to avoid imitations and a free trial offer by writing Dr W B Caldwell, Washington St Monticello Texas.
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Max Pendergrast
Carl W. Pendergrast
Red Key
Ind
Dr. Caldwell
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