Ciagus People Have Best Day In San Antonio Parade
The Barnum and Bailey Greatest Show on Earth comes to San Antonio for a grand street parade and performances. Crowds fill grounds on Sunday with a three mile parade from Vitra to Presa streets and back, featuring the flying squadron, elephants, camels, Cleopatra, and the baby giraffe. Performances set for 2 and 8 oclock with early access for parade viewing.
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Barnum & Bailey
San Antonio
Vesa Street
Waco
Sarmum «& Bailey Circus
Vitra Street
Garden Street
Alamo Street
Houston Street
Santa Rosa Street
Commerce Street
Trevino Street
Presa
Cleopatra
Barnum Bailey circus promises three hour diverse spectacle Cleopatra
Barnum and Bailey plan a three hour tournament of great diversity headlined by Cleopatra with more than a thousand performers and a grand ballet chorus. May Wirth, 16 year old Australian, and Mikado jiujitsu champions join the bill along with an elephant baseball game. Ottokar Bartik and Falis Effendi contribute ballet and music. Tickets available tomorrow at Fischer's drug store Gibbs building.
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Barnum & R Bailey
May Wirth
Barnum & Bailey Circus
New York
Ottokar Bartik
Metropolitan Opera House
Falis Effendi
Khedive of
Egypt
Fischer's Drug Store
Gibbs Building
Obituary for Tom Hill 54 in San Antonio
Tom Hill aged 54 died at 10 yesterday morning in a local hospital. A native of Tenaha he moved to San Antonio about a year ago for medical treatment. Shelley-Loring Undertaking prepared the body and sent it to Tenaha for burial under the auspices of the Tenaha Masonic Lodge, of which he was a member.
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Hill
Tom Hill
Tenaha
San Antonio
Shelley-Loring Undertaking Company
Republican county and state campaign picks announced
Republican State Chairman C. K. McDowell announced Julius M. Oppenheimer as possible committee at large and W. L. Turner of Brownwood as committeeman on the state campaign committee. McDowell, en route to Houston, said selections so far may be revised and full personnel for the Fourteenth district would be clarified by Monday or Tuesday.
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Julius M. Oppenheimer
W. L. Turner
Brownwood
Brown County
C. K. McDowell
del Rio
San Antonio
Houston
H. F. MacGregor
Taft
Texas
Judge McDowell
Closing in on Rojas in Sonora border clash
Federal forces from Northern Sonora converge on Antonio Rojas after his retreat from sixteen kilometers north of Ares. Rebels split into three bands near the Ajps mountains as Colonel Giron leads 250 federals from the south, 300 from Canadea advance west, and 100 from Fronteras attack east. Federal leaders anticipate a decisive engagement.
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EL Paso
Tex
Sonora
Antonio Rojas
Ares
Nogales Ranch
Ysabel
Ajps Mountains
Giron
Canadea
Officers as Clerks Fitting Army Shoes Nationwide
Washington reports an armywide order requiring company commanders to personally fit soldiers for shoes to improve marching ability. Officers will measure bare feet and ensure proper leather fit, following complaints of foot pain and bunions after long marches.
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Washington
D. C
War Department
Beauty and the Beast at the Circus on South Presa Street
Barnum & Bailey Greatest Show on Earth arrives with Cleopatra a wordless opening, a 1200 cast, Otto Bar tik trained ballet, and a baby giraffe. May Wirth performs a forward somersault on a galloping horse as elephant players, Japanese jiu jitsu experts, and more entertain crowds. The show, arriving from Waco, sets up today for a Sunday rest.
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Ottoker Bartik
Metropolitan Opera House
Eugenie Silbon
Nile
Camille Fortune
Antony
May Wirth
Equestrienne
Waco
Presa Street
Water Committee to Meet Wednesday in San Antonio
Chairman Charles Graebner announces a Wednesday 3 PM meeting of the citizens water committee. Alexander Potter will explain his report after arriving in the city with Graebner and others. The mayor will attend. The panel will not yet pursue a contract with the waterworks company.
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Charles Graebner
Citizens’ Water Committee
Alexander Potter
Potter
Mr. Graebner
Graebner
San Antonio
The Rosary Returns to San Antonio in Mixed Reception
Review notes a warm audience reaction to The Rosary at AT THE GRAND with strong sentimental and religious themes. Critics praise its wholesome core while criticizing acting and apparent lack of team work, citing Father Kelly and Bruce Wilton as central figures in the plot about a rosary’s power to drive away evil.
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San Antonio
Father Kelly
Bruce Wilton
Wilton
Kennard Wright
Vera Wilton
Frank C. Tresor
Nction
The Rosary Show Offers Moral Lesson On Forgiveness
The author notes the play as worth seeing for its moral exemplification, though the lead is feebly supported. The work illustrates the message that to know all is to forgive all.
Bank plot ends in tragedy as Kinsey takes own life
F L Kinsey, night watchman at Mechanics American National Bank, in a Locust street rooming house plot, confesses his involvement with a gang and a woman who lured him. He leaps from a Wichita hotel window to escape the plan, fearing violence if he betrayed the robbers and later recounts his role.
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ST. Louis
Mechanics-American National Bank
Locust Street
F. L. Kinsey
Kinsey
Wichita
Kaw
Railroads Using More Steel Passenger Cars
A national rail bulletin shows it will cost $825.25 million for railroads to replace wooden passenger cars with steel ones under proposed federal laws. Six bills in Congress address steel purchases. Data from railroads on 219,089 miles show 6347 steel cars in 1912 versus 629 in 1909, a 750 percent rise.
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Chicago
United States
Congress
International Crop Bulletin reports 1912 world yields
The September issue of the Bulletin of Agricultural Statistics summarizes 1912 crop production by country. Wheat totals across 22 countries reach 870,650,584 quintals, with notable gains for France Romania and Russia. other grains such as rye barley oats maize and cocoons are also detailed with 1911 comparisons and regional notes. The report covers France Romania Russia Europe and Asia, plus Algeria Tunisia and the southern hemisphere sowings.
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Bulletin of Agricultural Statistics
International Institute of Agriculture
Prussia
Belgium
Bulgaria
Denmark
Spain
Frances
England and Wales
Kingdom of Hungary
Italy
Luxemburg
Norway
Netherlands
Roumania
Russia
Europe
Switzerland
Canada
United States
India
Japan
Asia
Egypt
Tunis
France
Algeria
Murphey declines Republican county attorney bid
Frederick Murphey, former campaign manager for Julius Rea in the state senate race, declines to run for county attorney on the Republican ticket. He cites shifted voter dynamics, party dissension, opposition to liquor regulation, and lack of time, asking to withdraw his name.
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Murphey
John Bigin
Odlum
Frederick Murphey
Morse Without Vote in D C as Civil Rights Remain Barred
Washington report notes Charles W. Morse must remain without citizenship despite freedom. He forfeited citizenship when he entered Atlanta prison and Taft shows no will to restore it. Morse was released January 18 under commutation after doctors said he was near death, undermining any claim to civil rights restoration.
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Washington, D. C
Charles W. Morse
Atlanta
Taft
Morse
Soya beans touted as perfect food by European and American researchers
Chinese articles note soya bean as a premier food source with high nutrient factors. France experiments produce a range of products from soya beans including milk cheese casein oil jellies flour bread biscuits cakes and sauces for broader diets.
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China
Manchuria
Europe
America
France
Christian Science Monitor
Baseball magnates consider adding comedians on sidelines
The article asks why a ball club should have comedians on the sidelines and suggests magnates may imitate theatrical managers by catering to the tired business man. It envisions a future with entertainment like a pony ballet at games.
Ten Cats No Fleas in Washington Dispute
Mrs. John C. Haley denies neighbors’ claim of twenty five cats and nuisance. She insists she has ten cats including two Persian blues and two Maltese, noting fur combing daily to remove fleas. The chief inspector’s wife faces police attention over alleged feline nuisance.
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Washington
John C. Haley
District Health Department
Mrs. Haley
Blind Men's Club Formed in MaconGeorgia
A new organization for fully blind men was organized in Macon with nineteen charter members and plans to grow. Led by Professor Cheatham and Judge Bennett, the club aims to campaign against street beggars and discuss issues of interest to the blind, marking the first such club in the South.
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Macon
Cheatham
Judge Bennett
South
Peru emulates Incas conserve guano deposits
Four centuries ago the Inca rulers protected guano in Peru. Since then eleven million tons have been removed and some deposits exhausted. Peru now adopts measures to conserve and perpetuate this valuable fertilizing material.
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Peru
Single center cab control chosen for New Haven shunter
A new shunting locomotive for the New York New Haven Hartford line uses a single operating controller mounted in the center of the cab with the master controller suspended from the roof. Designers test center cab control versus dual end control to determine the superior arrangement for shunting service.
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New York, New Haven & Hartford
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