Colosseum at State Fair promises top music and vaudeville
Overs of music and vaudeville at the State Fair of Texas include the Patrick Conway Band praised as America’s finest. Soloists Ulric Gingras Eugene De Vaux and others headline, with Miss Josephine Dunfee and Sutcliffe troupe among acts. Racing opens October 12 and runs to October 23 with football games in final days.
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Texas
Southwest
Patrick Conway
America
Ulric Gingras
Eugene de Vaux
H. Benne Henton
John Dolan
Louis Sperander
Charles Randall
August Helleberg
Josephine Dunfee
Sutcliffe
Rex's
Delmar Poster Girls
Gus Macey
Raymond Macey
George Estabrooke
Denver
Colorado E
Wanderer
Country Jay
Charlie Dean
Ella Todd
Dean
George W. Savage
The
Jessie Direct
Nryeh
Dallas
George Castle
Chicago
Tommie Finch
May Dillon
Cheeney
H. L. Parker
Waterloo
Iowa
Bessie Bee
George W. Newton
Popular Railroad Rates for Dallas Fair
Railroad rates to Dallas for the Fair are the lowest in history with four classes. Class A covers Texas points on sale Oct 11–27 good for return Oct 28. Distances within 90 miles cost one and one third, 90–100 miles $3.60, over 100 miles one and one fifth. Classes B C D offer various two day, 150 mile, and long distance excursion fares with return limits and a typical basis of one half the one way rate plus $1 and a $3.60 minimum.
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Dallas
Texas
Directors of Y W C A Hear Annual Reports
The board of directors of the Young Women's Christian Association met to hear yearly department reports and plan the coming year. Mrs E D Love, former general secretary, was appointed special agent to aid in YWCA work during the winter. Amanda Hewitt reported that travelers aid aided men women and children of various nationalities and the blind during the year. New member enrollment reached eighty one in July and August.
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E. D. Love
Young Woman’s Christian Association
Young Woman's Christian Association
Fifth Street
Aspe
Young Woman's Christ Association
Wime
Traveler’s Aid
Amanda Hewitt
Eignighty
Religious Department Outlines Future Camp Plans
A report from the summer camp at Kerrville notes thirty eight attendees. The religious department spoke of future plans based on the Kerrville camp turnout.
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Religious Department
Kerrville
Building Permits Report With Repairs and Dwellings
The notice lists permits for repairs on North Flores street 225 and a porch on Ogden street. It notes several dwelling projects on Roosevelt avenue and Culebra avenue with costs ranging from 300 to 1080 dollars. Named contractors include Dr J A Steele O H air and Chaffin C O H air G C Medlin and M M Davis.
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Hensley
North Flores Street
J. A. Steele
Ogden Street
O'Hair
Chaffin
Roosevelt Avenue
M. M. Davis
Culebra Avenue
C. O’hair
G. C. Medlin
South Mesquite Street
Yaqui forces mobilize as rebel leader demands surrender
Douglas correspondent reports Antonio Rojas, the rebel leader, demanding surrender of Moctezuma south of Douglas. General Sanjines orders 250 Yaqui Indians to march from Agua Prieta yesterday to engage him.
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Douglas, Ariz
Antonio Rojas
Moctezuma
Sanjines
Agua Prieta
Rebels Near Torreon Reported Active After Bridges Burned
Passengers arriving from Torreon say rebels are again active in the area. Several bridges have been burned and destroyed and trains are not moving regularly.
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Torreon
Laredo
Tex
Want ads run ten days across weekend editions
Advertisers may place want ads starting Friday Saturday or Sunday to run ten days covering two Sundays. Cost is one half cent per word per insertion for ten or more days. Example: 15 words ten days costs 75 cents. 20 words ten days costs $1. Refunds provided for unused insertions. Ads accepted by phone with billed postage later.
Assemblyman Archbold testimony chronicles 1900s political gifts
The hearing reveals Archbold detailing letters and payments linked to early 1900s campaigns. It covers $10,000 and $5,000 certificates, alleged aims to influence Columbus legislation, and various figures supporting Hanna Grosvenor Sibley Quay and Taft campaigns.
Giants Beat the Red Sox in Third Game at Fenway Park
Boston loses 1 to 0 in a tense contest as Marquard and Fletcher key a tight pitching duel. O'Brien, Yerkes and Doyle contribute for New York. Stahl and Meyers provide Boston highlights amid rain-soaked grounds and talk of rest for pitchers Mathewson and Tesreau.
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O’brien
Stahl
Herzog
Fletcher
Carrigan
Marquard
New York
Bedient
Boston
Wagner
Devore
Yerkes
Doyle
Snodgrass
Lewis
Meyers
Murray
Merkle
Gardner
Engle
Hall
Hooper
Cady
Speaker
Henricksons
Henrickson
Fenway Park
Jerome Kelly
McGraw
Tesreau
Mathewson
Matty
Joe Wood
Collins
Merkie
C. Carrigan
C. Fletcher
O'Brien
P. Mar
Philadelphia
Freight Bureau Urged to Boost San Antonio Trade
Speakers at the Chamber of Commerce luncheon urged forming a freight bureau to help San Antonio compete with Dallas Fort Worth and Houston. They said it would secure better rates and transport facilities, attract new manufacturers, and foster local civic pride among merchants. John B. Carrington reported Harvest Jubilee preparations and promised attendees would get full value.
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San Antonio
Dallas
Fort Worth
Houston
Chamber of Commerce
Gunter
D. J. Straus
Jobbers’ and Manufacturers’ Division
Ben Lange
L. Cain
W. J. Morris
George F. Lupton
Sap
Morris
John B. Carrington
Harvest Jubilee Association
May Rain Forecast From Rockies Promises Cooler Weather
Weather forecaster predicts a low pressure system moving east from the Rocky Mountains bringing cooler temperatures and a likely rain. The storm covers most of the region west of the Mississippi with its center in the Rockies. Freezing weather persists in the extreme northwest.
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Rockies
Rocky Mountains
Mississippi
Salado builds artesian well to boost creek water
An artesian well near Salado creek north of the army grounds flows 2500 gallons per minute after boring began August 28 under contract to M. Wolff. The Salado Water Supply company, formed by landowners, sought better flow as low water killed trees and reduced stock watering.
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Salado Water Supply Company
Salado Creek
Army Maneuver Grounds
M. Wolff
Four Thousand Cartridges Confiscated in Brownsville
Deputy U S Marshal W J Linton seized four thousand pistol rounds 38 and 44 caliber from an old warehouse on the Rio Grande bank. No smuggling attempt or arrests reported. The marshal says he knows who placed the ammunition there.
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Brownsville
Tex
The
Rio Grande
United States
W. J. Linton
Anderson Fiere on First Official Visit
H F Anderson newly appointed general superintendent of the Katy lines in Texas made his first official visit to the city to review joint facilities accounts with Southern Pacific officials. He was accompanied by H B Mays and met Superintendent Taussig as record-keeping work began for the station and yards. Anderson will stay in San Antonio overnight and likely move to Dallas with his household for the Katy lines headquarters.
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H. F. Anderson
Katy
Texas
Schaff
Southern Pacific
Anderson
H. B. Mays
Hhi
Taussig
Air combat readiness grows as Balkan powers hire foreign aviators
Airmen from opposing armies may clash soon as Balkan states and Turkey field expert fliers. Turkey has acquired eight monoplanes in France, two in England and two in Germany, with more on order. Bulgaria owns one monoplane and three biplanes, while Greece operates six French biplanes and one hydro-aeroplane. Servian officers fly despite no national aircraft owned.
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Paris
Balkan States
Turkey
France
England
Germany
Bulgaria
War Department
Sofia
Greece
Atlantic Coast Line votes to increase common stock
Directors of the Atlantic Coast Line vote to increase their common stock by 6 million dollars pending stockholder approval. Proceeds would allow the company to subscribe to its share of a 12 million dollar stock increase for the Louisville & Nashville Railroad, in which it holds a controlling interest.
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New York
Atlantic Coast Line
Jeaue Hagenpany
Louisville & Nashville Railroad’ Company
Negro Boy Recaptured in Arizona
John Henry Taylor the negro boy wanted in San Antonio who escaped from the El Paso jail was recaptured today in Douglas Arizona taken from a freight train after a San Antonio officer arrived to pursue him.
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EL Paso
Tex
John Henry Taylor
San Antonio
Douglas
Arizona
Quiet in Nicaragua Ends Resistance
American Minister Weitzel informed the State Department that all organized resistance to the Nicaraguan government appears to have ended. The report was filed from Washington D C on October 10 with no further details on remaining factions or immediate consequences.
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Nicaragua
Washington, D. C
Weitzel
State Department
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Ovate Fair OF
Amusement Park
Fair Park
Herbert A. Kline
California
J. J. Eckford
W. H. Stratton
Rojas
Senatorial Investigation Committee
Oliver
Pomerene
Clapp
Poynter
Archbold
Foraker
M. A. Hanna
Columbus
Hanna
Grosvenor
C. H. Grosvenor
Ohio
Senator Hanna
State Committee
General Grosvenor
House of Representatives
Athens
Sibley
Mr. Archbold
Pennsylvania
New Jersey
A. J. Cassatt
Pennsylvania Railroad
Congress
Mr. Sibley
M. S. Quay
Standard Oil Company
Santa Fe
Charles P. Taft
Taft
White House
Roosevelt
Dan R. Hanna
Cleveland
Mr. Taft
Roosevelt National Committee
Walter F. Brown
Roosevelt Ohio
Champ Clark
Ned T. Dubois
Wilson
West Virginia
William R. Hearst
Clark
Baltimore
Dubois
Giants
HED Oy
vaetarAar
Growns As
New Orleans
Alphone Katz
Scord
Ford Sales Company
East Houston Street
Anderson Fiere
Nielsen-Maurer Optical CO
Avenue D
Gibbs Bldg
G. A. Maurer
L. P. Niedgen
Optician
New-Systen
Losoya
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