Monday Campaign Plans Ready for Charities Fund Drive
San Antonio launches a unified drive to raise 23000 for five charities the Humane Society Associated Charities Free Clinic Playgrounds and Free Kindergarten. Committees meet 9 30 am in Chamber of Commerce rooms to canvas money and consolidate fundraising.
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Chamber of Commerce
San Antonio Humane Society
Associated Charities
Free Clinic
Playgrounds Association
Free Kindergarten
Charities Fund Association
Do People Shun You Do People Shun You
An odd sales pitch claims a cure for catarrh by filling out a coupon and sending a name and address. The ad promises a free remedy with no charge and urges immediate action despite informal, panicky language.
Millionaire’s Wife Leads Donation to Titanic Memorial Fund
Rumor at committee headquarters claims Mrs Andrew Carnegie has donated the largest sum so far, $1000, to the Titanic memorial arch fund. Mrs John Hays Hammond initiated the drive to honor heroes who followed "women and children first" in the disaster.
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Andrew Carnegie
John Hays Hammond
Notable Houston charity committee lists invite broad notices
Committees were notified by mail yesterday with a long list of names including Dr. Charles Venable, Dr. G. W. Sims, Dr. J. W. Spring, Carlos Bee, John R. Boyle, Rev. Philip Cook, J. D. Guinn, Bert McLean, Lloyd Spencer, Winchester Kelso, W. H. Kennon, Thomas H. Franklin, and many others.
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Vate Charities
Charles 8. Venable
G. W. Sims
J. W. Spring
Carlos Bee
John R. Boyle
Philip Cook
J. D., Guinn
Bert McLean
Lloyd Spencer
Winchester
J. E. Cappleman
R. Vander Stratten
Belle Dilgarde
James Vanlandingham
George Worley
J. K. Sherrod
J. P. Ward
Wison M. Brown
A. W. S. Garden
Hugh McClennan
T. J. Hull
W. L. Rockwell
8. H. Spier
F. Paschal
George R. Gillette
T. W. Beck
L. K. Wells
T. M. Conover
Homer Eads
D. E. Hawk
San Antonio Postal Bank Reports Growth in Deposits
Director T L Weed reports San Antonio postal savings branch shows 1025 accounts with over 51000 in deposits as of June 30 1912. The bank opened with 754 accounts in October 1911 but 261 closed. 493 accounts remained by June 30. Miss Louise Colegate notes many depositors are foreigners.
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T. L. Weed
Postal Savings Department
San Antonio
Postal Savings Bank
Louise Colegate
Weed
Congress
Miss Colegate
United States
Bull Fight Travel Rates Go On Border Runs
The International & Great Northern and the Southern Pacific announce special rates for bull-fight travel to the border. The Southern Pacific operates a morning train at 8 a.m. to Piedras Negras and returns after the event at 7 p.m. The I and GN adds extra equipment to its Laredo service, anticipating high demand for the first bull fights on the northern border in two years.
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Mexico
International & Great Northern
Southern Pacific
Piedras Negras
C. P. Diaz
Laredo
Marion set to elect postmaster in Crittenden County
Hopkinsville Ky November 23 Marion county seat of Crittenden and home of Senator elect Ollie James plans the first local postmaster election James will endorse the candidate with the majority Democrats compete in a tight race The election is scheduled for Saturday January 18
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Hopkinsville
Marion
Crittenden County
Ollie James
James
Nordica Bispham Concert at Beethoven Hall December 3
Nordica to sing Danny Deever and may recite Poe s Raven with David Bispham in a Beethov en Hall program under the San Antonio Press Club auspices. Bispham s Poe set and Kipling linked Danny Deever rise noted. Seat sale at Goggan Brothers breaks records with many parties and school girl reservations. Nordica s shortened program includes varied selections plus Der Erlkonig.
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Mme. Nordica
David Bispham
Beethoven Hall
Press Club of
San Antonio
Press Club
Poe
Raven
Danny Deever
Rudyard Kipling
Walter Damrosch
Kipling
Bispham
Thomas Goggan & Brothers
A. B. Hillan
England
France
Germany
William Morse Rummel
Romayne Simmons
Mabel Rummel
Dittersdorf
Wagner
Mme
Nordica
Kreisler
Sarasate
Mr. Rummel
Erich Wolff
Jensen
Arensky
Rachmaninoff
Schubert
Get Rid of Piles at Home
Advertorial claim for Pyramid Pile Remedy offering a free trial package and a paid package for piles. Mentions rapid relief from pain and venous congestion and urges sending a coupon to receive the trial, with a later sale price of 50 cents. No medical endorsement.
Pyramid Drug Company Coupon Request for Pile Remedy
A consumer seeks a free trial treatment of Pyramid Pile Remedy by mail from Pyramid Drug Company Marshall Michigan. The request mentions a plain wrapper and asks for delivery to a named recipient with street and state. The fragmentary text shows an eager shopper wanting trial treatment sent at once.
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Gauss
Co. E. Gauss
Main Street
Marshall, Mich
Pyramid Drug Company
Pyramid
Gunter hotel to undergo major improvements
Construction begins on the Gun ter hotel with plans for a large ball room a dining room corridor with mirrors two grill rooms and a roof garden in the court above the lobby The rear space will house the ball room with a 100 by 40 foot dancing floor Work aims for completion by mid winter with a roof garden to be added next summer.
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Gunter
St. Mary’s Street
Bishop Garrett Resigns From College Board
Austin Texas November 23 The governor announced Bishop A C Garrett of Dallas has resigned as a member of the board of managers of the College of Industrial Arts at Denton The resignation cites pressure of official duties and no successor has yet been named to fill the post
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Garrett
Austin
Tex
A. C. Garrett
Dallas
The
College of Industrial Arts
Denton
Miss Mirriam Hubbard Admitted to University of Michigan
Miss Mirriam Hubbard daughter of Fra Elbertus Hubbard of East Aurora has entered the University of Michigan after passing entrance exams with high marks. A professor who examined her calls her physically perfect and she credits the outdoor life at her father’s East Aurora colony for her vigor.
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Mirriam Hubbard
Elbertus Hubbard
East Aurora
University of Michigan
Miss Hubbard
N. J
Yale selects Garden Military academy as Texas exam hub
William James, a 1912 Garden Military academy graduate, passed a perfect Yale exam and earned six extra credits. Yale faculty telegram announced San Antonio School to host entering examinations for Yale freshmen, highlighting renewed interest in shipbuilding with over 100 coastwise steamship orders this year, only one for transoceanic service.
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San Antonio
William James
Garden Military Academy
Yale University
Texas
A. W. Garden
Yale
James
United States
Blue Sky Laws Debated At Investment Bankers Meeting
New York November 23. Discussion at the Investment Bankers Association of America convention held at the Waldorf Astoria centered on alleged detriments from blue sky laws. Critics argued state authorities cannot timely review vast securities offerings, potentially hampering investment firms. A committee was directed to prepare a report on blue sky legislation.
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New York
Kansas
Investment Bankers’ Association of America
Waldorf-Astoria
U. K
Committee On Legislation
Judge Stedman Resigns Regents Post in Texas
Judge N A Stedman of Austin resigned from the University of Texas board of regents citing lack of time due to personal affairs. Governor appoints former Governor Joseph D Sayers of Austin to fill the vacancy. In a separate note India reveals the Nili Right Bank canal project in Bombay presidency cost 8500000 dollars.
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Sayers
Austin
Tex
N. A. Stedman
Board of Regents
University of Texas
Joseph D. Sayers
Stedman
India
Nili
Bombay Presidency
No Haven for Notorious Gunmen Settler in San Antonio
Police Chief Lancaster and detectives announce that Bald Jack Rose Bridgie Webber Harry Wallon and Sam Schepps will not be allowed to stay in San Antonio. They cite prevention of vagrancy and fit with community safety as reasons. The report notes a broader context of crime concerns and a coming international dry farming congress.
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Bald
Jack Rose
Lethbridge
Alberta
Tkey
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Lillian Nordica
Ontkeing
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Thos. Goggan & Bros
San Antonio School
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