Beams trade funds Alamo wall repairs during restoration
State inspectors and the Daughters of the Republic resolved a dangerous Alamo wall crisis by trading convict made beams for contractor labor. The unsafe exterior adobe walls were partially removed as rain and time threatened the structure, with a restoration dispute over funding temporarily settled.
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Alamo Fort
Alamo Chapel
Daughters of the Republic
J. B. Nitschke
A. B. Conley
San Antonio
Nitschke
J.E. Webb
Pinex and Sugar Syrup Cough Remedy Ad
An advertisement touts Pinex and sugar syrup as an inexpensive home cough remedy. It claims relief within 24 hours for coughs and spasms, notes use for croup bronchitis and asthma, and offers a money back guarantee. The text urges readers to buy Pinex through The Pinex Co. Ft Ind.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pinex Co
Ft. Ind
Fire alarm scare ends with small fine for trash fire
R. W. Cook paid a $10 fine in Police Court after causing an alarm of fire by burning a trash pile behind 305 Tenth Street. Neighbors reported a house fire as a flame rose about 20 feet, triggering early dispatches to the Travis street and Avenue C intersection before the true blaze on Tenth Street was reported.
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R. W. Cook
Tenth Street
Cook
Wright
Travis Street
Avenue C
Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonic Ad Banter
An old advertisement touts Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonic as a strengthening liver tonic that battles malaria, boosts the system, and aids digestion. It also notes a separate report that Chinese bought one million Bibles in the first six months of the year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grove
Ward Ordered To Widen River Channel Before Deeds
Lafayette Ward faces requirement to widen the river channel through Bowen's Island before deed signing. City also demands widening of Nueva street and Dwyer avenue approaches, plus sidewalk builds and two new streets through Ward property. Dispute centers on channel width versus embankment top measurements and flood damage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bowen's Island
Lafayette Ward
Nueva Street
Astonish San Antonio Over Adler-ika Quick Results
Citizens in San Antonio express amazement at Adler-ika, a simple buckthorn bark and glycerine remedy claimed to cure appendicitis. One dose is said to relieve constipation sour stomach and gas rapidly, with observers noting the immediate effect and rapid drainage of foul matter.
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San Antonio
Adler-ika
H. Ll. Wagner
Hicks Building
San Antonio Considers Vanderbilt Cup Course Plan
A county committee met with Judge James R. Davis to discuss using county roads for the Vanderbilt cup race. They eyed a Culebra and Bandera loop, about ten miles, with a five mile option using the Corpus Christi road. Business leaders pledged funds to guarantee expenses and a public meeting was set to decide on action.
Autoists Discuss Vanderbilt Cup Race In San Antonio
About a hundred motorists gathered for the San Antonio Automobile Club monthly meeting to debate staging the Vanderbilt cup and grand prize race here. No action was taken as a committee from the Chamber of Commerce and the club reviews the plan, but members favored accepting Vanderbilt's offer and raising 30000 dollars to fund road use and race preparations. Dr. Fielding reported a new dancing pavilion at the club house will be ready next week with an opening dance around the 15th or 20th. County Judge Davis said north loop roads repairs would start at once, and an informal dance followed the meeting.
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Marshall Training School
W. B. Tuttle
The
Traction Company
W. C. Rigsby
Wolff & Marx Company
Chamber of Commerce
Tuttle
Davis
San Antonio
San Antonio Automobile Club
North Loop
Automobile Club
Vanderbilt
Frederick J. Fielding
Bexar County
River Avenue
J. R. Davis
Inglewood Resident Promotes Foley Honey and Tar Compound
Will G Richmond of Inglewood California answers inquiries about Foley's Honey and Tar Compound. He says it benefited him for bronchial trouble and cough, calling it more like a food than a medicine. Do not accept a substitute Fischer's Drug Store. Compulsory insurance for sickness accidents disablement and old age has been introduced in Romania.
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Will G. Richmond
Inglewood
Cal
Foley
Fischer's Drug Store
Rumania
Fischer’s Drug Store
Kellogg’s Sanitone Wafers Free Trial Offer
An advertisement claims Kellogg’s Sanitone Wafers cure nerve weakness and various ailments. It promises a free fifty-cent box by mail if readers send name and address, asserting improved vitality, blood, digestion, and overall health through nerve nourishment.
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F. J. Kelloge CO
Hoffmaster Block
Battle Creek
Mich
Kelloge
Sunday School Convention Opens at St Mark's
Delegates from districts gather in San Antonio as Sunday school leaders address the convention at St. Mark's Episcopal Church. Leaders include Rev. C Morris Ferguson and W N Wiggins with sessions on elementary secondary and adult divisions. Transportation and housing arranged on Harvard plan with meals elsewhere.
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San Antonio
William Moore White
Ray M. Mackey
E. E B. Dilley
St. Mark's Episcopal Church
Jefferson and
Pecan Streets
Hundred Mile
Ares
St. Mark's
John Ridout
C. Morris Ferguson
Philadelphia
Ferguson
International & Great Northern
William Nehemiah Wiggins
Wiggins
Texas Interdenominational
W. N. Wiggins
John M. Adams
S. W. Hutton
Bible School
Harvard
Mildred Dixon
Hutton
Kellogg Sanstone Wafers for Sale in San Antonio
Regular one dollar size Kellogg s Sanstone Wafers available at A M Fischer 6283 East Houston St W C Kalteyer 410 East Houston Street Adolph Dreiss 119 North Alamo and J W Taliaferro 120 East Houston Street No free boxes from druggists.
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Kellogg's
University of Kansas inaugurates child welfare department
In Lawrence, a new department of child welfare was opened at the University of Kansas, led by Prof. William A. McKeever. The unit will train in child welfare, organize vacation work for city schoolboys, form parents clubs and parent teacher associations, and promote playgrounds and social centers across Kansas.
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Lawrence
Kan
United States
University of Kansas
William A. McKeever
Geta-IT Corn Remedy Boasts Quick, Painless Relief
An advertisement touts GETS-IT as a miracle for corns offering two second application and immediate relief. It claims to stop pain, shrink the corn, and vanish it with no harm to healthy skin, also curing warts callouses and bunions. Available at drug stores for 25 cents or by mail from EB Lawrence & Co.
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Eb, Lawrence & Co
City evaluates downtown realty relative values system
A business conference in the city council chamber advanced the Somers system of realty assessment. A unit equals one foot frontage by 100 feet depth. blocks on Houston street south side and Alamo plaza west side were set at 100 percent as baselines. Relative values for avenues and streets between Travis and Pecan were fixed at 25 percent Avenue C, 15 percent Jefferson, 20 percent Navarro, 12 to 12 percent St Marys, and 30 percent Main Avenue, with Avenue D between Houston and ...
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City Council Chamber
Houston Street
Alamo Plaza
Losoya Street
Houston and Crockett Streets
Avenue C
Travis
Pecan
Jefferson Street
Navarro Street
St. Mary's Street
Soledad Street
Main Avenue
Avenue D
Houston
Mail to Be Weighed at Fort Worth Conference
Chief Clerk Edwin Arnold returns from Fort Worth where he attended a conference of eleventh division chief clerks. They began preparations for a quadrennial weighing of all U S mail to start February 1 for 105 days. Weighing will set four year compensation for railway mail handling.
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Edwin Arnold
Fort Worth
United States
S. M. Gaines
Hungerford
Obituary items from San Antonio notice list
Obituaries reportWilliam Sheppard Thaston 60 ranchman farmer of Ohio died at Sutherland Springs then to be buried in Hecla South Dakota Theresa Rinkus 40 native of Texas died at a local sanitarium to be buried in Knippa George Kiefer 24 pickle manufacturer of Austin died at a local sanitarium funeral tomorrow from Shelley-Loring chapel with services at St Josephs burial in St Josephs cemetery J N Dickerson Muskat ee Okla shot by patrolman Howerton to Woodville Okla buried after preparation and shipment details Twenty other names appear in the column with funeral arrangements and transfers by Shelley-Loring and Riebe undertakers.
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Thaston
William Sheppard Thaston
Ohio
Sutherland Springs
Texas
San Antonio
Hecla
South Dakota
Shelley-Loring Undertaking Company
Rinkus
Theresa Rinkus
Knippa
Tex
Kiefer
George Kiefer
Austin
Missouri
St. Joseph’s Church
St. Joseph's Cemetery
Dickerson
Riebe Undertaking Company
J. O. Watterson
Dallas
J. N. Dickerson
Muskatee
Okla
Woodville
E. E. Howerton
Santa Rosa Avenue
Miller Construction Company
Pleasanton
Pleasanton Lodge
Woodmen of the World
Patrick Murphy 73 dies in San Antonio
The funeral for Patrick Murphy age 73 who died Thursday night at St Francis Home was held yesterday afternoon with burial in San Fernando cemetery. A native of Ireland he had lived in San Antonio for 17 years.
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Murphy
Patrick Murphy
St. Francis Home
San Fernando
Ireland
San Antonio
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Nueces Valley
Central Trust Company
San Antonio, Texas
la Salle County
Cotulla
Gardendale
Miller
Woodward
San Antonio, Uvalde & Gulf Railroad
Messrs
Terrell, Walthall & Terrell
Piesa Ren
Bond Department
Central Trust Building
Commerce Street
Beams Act
Alamo
Ward
Bowen’s Island
R. T. Pruitt
John B. Carrington
W. H. Furlong Jr
James R. Davis
Dan Lewis
Commissioners’ Court
Culebra
Bandera
West End
Corpus Christi
Culebra-Bandera
ST. Mark’s
Riverside
Department of Child Welfare
America
Fomby-Jones Co
East
Arnold
Eleer Oider
Remington Arms
Union Metallic Cartridge Co
Broadway 1
New York
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