Good Roads Day Urges Action Ahead of International Fair
Twenty thousand letters go out from D E Colp urging San Antonio and Bexar county residents to participate in the November 10 good roads day at the International fair. The effort seeks broad attendance, cross-community action, and sharing road-condition information while offering prizes for county car mileage, car counts, and best decorated vehicle. Colonel Roosevelt sends encouragement for boy scouts encampment. Princess Victoria, 21 inches tall, arrives. General Duncan commits to parade participation and troop display.
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D. E. Colp
Bexar Coun
Ty Highway League
Colp
San Antonio
Anyay
Boxer
T. R
J. M. Vance
Theodore Roosevelt
International Fair Association
United States
Roosevelt
International Repu
Tation
Princess Victoria
Australia
Vance
Oklahoma
The
Fair Association
Colquitt
War Department
Duncan
Varnes P. Brown
International Aule
Negress Escapes Jail by Jumping Forty Feet Then Recaptured
Mary Jane Lawson, indicted on arson and theft counts, escaped Sunday night from a county jail building without bars by dropping from a window forty feet to the ground. Recaptured at Sunset depot this morning after telling officers she waited for money to flee town. Deputy Warden Talbot Trainer had anticipated the escape and watched the depot.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary Jane Lawson
Sunset Depot
Jack Fraser
Talbot Trainer
Fear Frost in Panhandle Farmers Rush Harvest
Panhandle farmers race frost by Oct 10 cutting corn kaffir and sorghum. Livestock on the range is fat, signaling good fall business for cattlemen.
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Panhandle
Associated Press
Dalhart, Tex
Best for Biscuits Heatsrise on Cottolene in Mississippi School
A Mississippi Domestic Science teacher reports excellent results using Cottolene for biscuits producing light flaky texture with no disagreeable odor. She notes it as an ideal frying medium for croquettes and doughnuts giving a clean brown crust. Other experts like Mrs. Rorer and Marion Harland praised Cottolene for better, healthier, economical outcomes.
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Mississippi
Rorer
Marion Harland
Manager Wills to Leave to Head Hotel del Coronado
H. W. Mills, manager of the Menger hotel since last February, resigns to take over as manager of the Hotel del Coronado near Los Angeles. The Coronado, Spreckels owned and the largest year round resort, houses 1200 guests. Wills began his hotel career nineteen years ago in New York City and previously led the Claypool hotel in Indianapolis.
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H. W. Mills
Menger
Hotel del Coronado
Los Angeles
Spreckels
Wills
New York City
San Antonio
Claypool
Indianapolis
Indiana
Rockport businessman Charlies G. Johnson stops at the Crockett
Charlies G. Johnson, a local Rockport business man, is stopping at the Crockett during his travels.
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Charlies G. Johnson
Rockport
the Crockett
Disbarment Sparks Ruckus in Local Bar
Witnesses prepare to testify before the grand jury on alleged attorney misconduct in Bexar County. Claims include illegal signing of bonds, probate misdeeds, and other schemes by several lawyers. Some fear broad repercussions for the bar.
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Grand Jury
Shook
R. Newton
Bexar County
Bexarco
Renew Old Feud Ching Breaks Enemy in Gambling Game
Ham Ching and Sam Wah Hop, long enemies from a Canton romance, renewed their feud in Oklahoma City. Ching won $3500 in one night and reported Wah Hop to authorities. Dr Andrew W A Grayson agreed to interpreter at the trial. L Oppenheim of New York was at Hot Wells hotel en route to Mexico.
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Ching
Associated Press
Oklahoma City
Okla
Ham Ching
Sam Wah Hop
Canton
America
Fort Worth
Texas
China
Wah Hop
Andrew W. A. Grayson
L. Oppenheim
New York City
Hot Wells Hotel
Mexico
Mr. Oppenheim
Hot Wells
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A. H. Halff
W. L. Schlesinder
Pres
S. A. Jobbers & Mtg. Leaauc
Urges Lange A Tendange
Rohrer
the Artesia Cream CO
Waco, Texas
Frank Bros
Alamo Plaza
Americe
Wenger Hotel
JEWEL
Jardinieres
Fowlerton
United States Postoffice Department
Frost
Compon D. G
Fowler Bros
Rand Co
Frost Building
San Antonio, Tex
G. D. Hatcher
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