Spokane narrowly lists in Vancouver Island voyage incident
The Spokane steamed to Seattle on October 6 after a distress call last Friday night near Vancouver Island. A wood piece jammed a discharge cock, causing a violent list while plugging the main condenser tubes. Lifeboats and rafts were used, all passengers kept aboard, and fires burned aboard during the night until the vessel steadied.
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Seattle
Wash
Camship
Spokane
Vancouver Land
Lupton Heads to Fort Worth and St Louis Conventions
George F. Lupton, general passenger agent of the San Antonio and Aransas Pass railroad, departed for Fort Worth to attend district passenger agents meetings. From there he will proceed to St Louis for a national convention of general passenger agents. He expects to return by month’s end.
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Lupton
Fort Worth
George F. Lupton
San Antonio
Aransas Pass
St. Louis
Mr. Lupton
Residents plan meeting on Porter Street drainage issues
George G. Pulsford calls a 8 pm meeting at the Christian Church on Porter Street to push the mayor and city council to improve Porter Street. He notes the street drains intersecting streets but lacks relief, flooding the avenue for two years after lowered streetcar tracks halted grading and left mud blocking cars.
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Porter Street
South Heights
Christian Church
George G. Pulsford
Pulsford
West Texas Bank and Trust Company
Brown
Apeuto Bond Money Soon To Be At Hand
Mayor Brown predicts bond funds will be available within thirty days to start the municipal improvement plan by year’s end. The plan includes paving and sewer extensions, a new city hospital, garbage incinerator, sidewalks, and other projects.
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Brown
Commerce Street
River Avenue
South Presa
Garden Street
Main Avenue
Attorney General's
Dillon, Thompson & Clay
New York
Continental and Commercial Trust and Savings Bank
Allen Frake
Fire Chief Details Pumps for City Basement Floods
Fire Chief Wright announced two additional pumping engines will tackle basement flooding in residential areas after finishing work in the business district. The department has logged fifteen help calls to remove storm water from cellars in Laurel Heights Tobin Hill East End and other San Antonio districts.
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Wright
Laurel Heights
Tobin Hill
East End
San Antonio
Baby’s terrible skin humor cured
Detroit readers report a yearlong baby skin eczema case cured by Resinol Ointment and Resinol Soap after four days. The testimonial from Mrs. Henry Mosher praises the medicine as a doctor endorsed treatment for eczema, ringworm, pimples and various skin conditions. Free trial is offered by the Resinol company.
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Detroit
Henry Mosher
Leverenz Ave
Dept
Resinol
Baltimore
Identity sought of woman killed by street car in Los Angeles
Chief of Police Lancaster is asked to identify a woman run down and killed by a street car in Los Angeles during late September. Unidentified, she may have a sister in San Antonio. Mrs. R. P. Miller of Los Angeles supplied details, stating the victim recently came to Los Angeles, looked at real estate, and had very white skin with black curly hair and dark brown eyes. No identifying clues were found at the scene. Frog legs and fresh oysters advertised at Riverside Restaurant.
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Lancaster
Los Angeles
Cal
San Antonio
R. PD. Miller
Everett Place
Miller
Buffalo Herd From 101 Ranch To Tour Local Area
The 101 Ranch Wild West herd from Bliss Oklahoma will appear Monday October 20. Miller Brothers claim the largest private buffalo herd in the country as they seek to preserve the species once common in prairie lands. The narrative notes buffalo significance to early Indians and legends of giants with unjointed legs among Ponca lore.
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101 Ranch Wild West
101 Ranch
Miller Brothers
101
Bliss
Okla
Suffragettes Clash as Annie Kenney Is Arrested
London report of October 6 describes militant suffragists attacking police to free leader Annie Kenney during the fall campaign. Seven women and two men arrested. hats and a cane seized from detectives later auctioned for five dollars each and twelve fifty respectively.
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London
Annie Kenney
Miss Kenney
Music
Marketing focus opens Mid- Coast Industrial Congress in Freeport
Marketing is the central topic at this year’s Mid- Coast Industrial Congress opening in Freeport Texas for a two day session. President Hardy booked notable speakers to discuss methods to improve regional marketing efficiency. Delegates will tour Brazos river jetties and harbor works on Tuesday and attend a smoker on Wednesday.
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Freeport
Tex
Mid- Coast Industrial Congress
Hardy
Freeport Commerce League
Brazos River
Haver family travels to Lansing for golden anniversary
Mrs. G. R. Haver and her son from 2816 Monterey street left for Lansing Kansas to attend the golden wedding anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Fidler. The fiftieth anniversary falls October 22. Mrs. Haver will stay in Lansing until December and Mr. and Mrs. Fidler will visit here later in the stay.
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G. R. Haver
Monterey Street
Lansing
Kan
J. S. Fidler
Suffragists Interrupt Westminster Abbey Service
A group of suffragettes disrupted the Westminster Abbey morning service in London by chanting a prayer for imprisoned women. They rose during the litany and refused to stop when asked, arguing clergy excluded women from prayers.
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London
Westminster Abbey
October Term of Courts Opens Today
The October term of the local District Courts began this morning and runs eight weeks with a busy schedule. Judge W Anderson presides over criminal matters as grand jury and several trials start, including a robbery case against William Hubbard. Multiple district courts convened plus civil appeals and the county court.
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W. Anderson
William Schertz
W. F. Miller
John F. Fentiman
William Herpel
William Koerps
Alex Halff
South Alamo Street
Fifty Seventh District Court
Minor
Seventy-third District
George Ackermann
Higgins Company Et Als
H. A. Speer
H. M. Hart Et Als
Sutherland Springs
Forty-fifth District Court
New Haven Ends Year With Large Deficit
The New York New Haven and Hartford rail road reported for the year ending June 30 1913 a deficit of 4 127 632 after dividends. Despite high early year earnings expenses rose to better condition of property and equipment and wages. Net income before interest and taxes stood at 25 074 326 with 11 787 030 in dividends and 22 394 337 in interest and rentals.
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New York
New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad
Howard Ellicott
Elliott
New Haven
New Haven Road
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Wessel
Vancouver
The
Gov't
Washington
Apeuto
Mayor Brown
Fire Department
Baby
Riverside
Chicago
St. Paris Exposition
France
M* An
Miller Bros
Oklahoma
Mid-Coast Industrial Congress
Saul Wolfson
Dan Lewis
Thirty-seventh District
Ory
Fletcher
R. V. Pierce
Invalids’ Hotel
Buffalo, N.Y
Dr. Pierce
Westerge
M.digens Medicine
West Texas Bark & Trust CO
Carter-Mullaly Transfer CO
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