Women Card Sharps Caught by a Priest in Brooklyn
Six women identified as card sharps tied to prize winnings in bridge and euchre were caught operating in Brooklyn by three priests. The suspects reportedly carried away cash and prizes totaling thousands after two years of pro gambling at church society events. A priest overheard a streetcar conversation and set a trap to intercept them before a fair at the Forty seventh Regiment armory.
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Associated Press
New York
Bridge
Euchre
Brook
Reed
Forty-seventh Regiment
Brooklyn
The Lax Fos Way Promises Health Booster
An advertisement touts Lax-Fos as a liver stomach kidney and bowel strength tonic with systemic power. It offers a money back plan to try the first bottle and urges readers to ask their druggists for the second bottle, citing A Collman, plumber, 416 Main Ave.
International Fair Showcases Working Exhibits Across Buildings
Exhibits will feature live demonstrations of manufacturing processes from silk shawls to drawn work and pastry baking. A Chicago flower factory, aTaft ranch irrigation display, milking machines, cream separators, and auto mobiles powered by steam or electricity will run daily for visitors.
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Mexico
Chicago
One Land Company
Great Taft Ranch
Two Air Navigators to Make Ascensions for Fair
The International Fair association will launch two aerial attractions in San Antonio before the fair opens on November 3. A tiny, famed aviator from Cincinnati will ascend from the fair office roof carrying two free admission tickets to hand to the first person he meets after his flight. A second attraction features a balloon ascent from the Light building roof followed by a parachute leap above Alamo plaza with another ticket prize for the first helper.
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International Fair Association
San Antonio
Cincinnati
The
Fair Association
Alamo Plaza
Laredo to Send Cars to San Antonio Good Roads Day
W H Conway secretary of the Laredo Board of Trade Sam Mackin president and Frank E Scovill in San Antonio on business estimate at least fifteen cars will go to Good Roads day in San Antonio with a possible thirty. Conway says locals expect a strong delegation and want highway links from Laredo to San Antonio and Corpus Christi.
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Laredo
San Antonio
W. H. Conway
Mr. Conway
Colimax Plumber Theo Artzt's Orchestra
Colimax plumber is noted alongside Theo Artzt's Orchestra in a brief entry listing two entities with contact phones. The item pairs a trade professional with a musical group in a local notice style.
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Theo Artzt
Postage Shortfalls Plague Vital Records in Texas
Austin Texas October 13 Registrar of Vital Statistics Babcock complains that city and county registrars send birth and death certificates with insufficient postage. About a third of packages lack full postage and some are sent by collect on delivery. He notes no sanitary code requires state payment and warns certificates will be refused until charges are paid. Wrapping quality also criticized to avoid delays.
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Austin
Tex
Registrar of Vital Statistics
Babcock
State Health Department
Knights of Columbus Hold Stormy Columbus Day Parade
Austin Texas reports the Knights of Columbus carried out their Columbus Day program despite heavy rain. The procession started at 5 pm with ceremonies at the state house delayed to 8 pm and a full musical program. Most attendees stayed over to today, and organizers aim to hold future celebrations in Dallas or San Antonio.
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Austin
Tex
Knights of Columbus
State House
Knights of Columbus of Texas
Dallas
San Antonio
Colquitt Heads to Dallas for State Fair Openings
Governor Colquitt will depart Austin this evening for Dallas to preside at the Dallas State fair opening ceremonies. He plans to stay in Dallas a couple of days, return to Austin, then proceed to El Paso via San Antonio on the 17th for the Statehood jubilee. Accompanying him to El Paso are Adjutant General Henry Hutchings, Assistant Adjutant General Edward R. York, and several staff members.
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THE
LIGHT
Austin
Tex
Colquitt
Dallas
el Paso
San Antonio
Henry Hutchings
Edward R. York
Dyspepsia Tablets Offer Quick Digestion Relief
A Victorian era advisory promotes Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets as not medicine but digestives that aid digestion when the stomach fails. It claims high physician endorsement and a free pack offer while warning that delayed treatment could lead to cancer.
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Stuart
United States
Canada
Neckwear and Jewelry Catalog Selection Reads
About 10 dozen new neckwear pieces including Jabots and cascade effects with lace embroidery and sailor collars. Also 50c jewelry items such as brooches beauty pins hat pins and hat pins in gold plate with assorted heads and small sizes. After Supper priced at 10c each.
After Supper Jewelry Sale Ledger
Local sale listing offers belt pins brooches cuff buttons and hat pins including gold filled and beauty pins with values up to 1.00. Jewelry pieces priced at 25 cents after supper, featuring belt pins brooches cuff buttons and chains.
After Supper Shoe Sale Highlights Youth and Ladies Footwear
A Saturday After Supper Sale advertises footwear for youths and boys in vici kid and box calf with double soles and new toes, priced from 1.50 to 2.00. Children's and misses shoes feature dongola kid, patent tips, and various sole types at 1.50. Ladies’ shoes include vier kid and patent leather options with Cuban heels, advertised as snappy footwear, priced at 2.35.
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Uneeda Biscuit
Uneeda
National Biscuit Company
Dax-Fos Way
A. Collman
Main Ave
Border City
A. Colimax
Hall
E. W. Hall
Olive St. St. Louis
T&e
Copenhagen
Dover
Sea Island
Northern City
Japan
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