Is This Man Gifted With Strange Power
Prominent readers claim palmistry and life readings by Clay Burton Vance reveal your character and fate. A San Antonio Light note invites readers to send birth details and a verse to receive a free life reading, with a Paris address for submissions and a small postage fee.
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San Antonio
Clay Burton Vance
Mr. Vance
Vance
Dixon
Lanka Observatory
Societe Astronomique de France
Astronomische, Gesellschaft
Germany
The
Light
Palais Royal
Paris
France
San Antonio Humane Society reports September progress
The San Antonio Humane Society details September efforts including 37 people helped and 57 animals attended. Children were placed in homes, a custody suit was filed, and warnings issued to animal owners. In animal welfare 30 were warned, 10 were put out of misery, 12 horses were retired from work, and one veterinary call was made.
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San Antonio
San Antonio Humane Society
No More Gray Hair Simple Home Remedy Promises Darkening
An old note touts a home formula using bay rum glycerine and Barbo Compound to darken gray hair and beard. It claims the mix leaves no sticky residue and won’t color the scalp, advising readers to request Barbo Compound from their druggist if unavailable.
Heavy taxation in Germany hurts urban poor under landowner rule
Berlin reports describe how 65 million Germans face high duties on meat sugar and alcohol, with taxes aimed at revenue shifting burden to city populations while rural areas escape. The piece notes alarm over inheritance tax and calls for freer imports to ease prices amid deep economic distress. It warns reform may require revolutionary change.
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Berlin
German Empire
Germany
Junkers
District Interdenominational Sunday School Workers Meet in San Antonio
A Texas district convention of Interdenominational Sunday School workers opens Monday at Travis Park Methodist Church in San Antonio and runs to Wednesday. Noted speakers from Chicago and St Louis will discuss Sunday school work as part of a statewide effort to improve local programs.
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Travis Park Methodist Church
San Antonio
Chicago
St. Louis
Texas
Sunday
Marshall
San Angelo
Clean Money for Christmas at Philadelphia Mint
The Treasury announces a 25000 dollar stock of halves quarters dimes nickels and pennies to be washed and brightened by the Mint Bureau to meet Christmas demand. Most work will occur at the Philadelphia mint as banks seek fresh coin before the holidays.
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Washington
Mint Bureau
Treasury Department
Philadelphia
Mint
Roberts
Treasury
Miss Helen Gould Starts Work On A New Book
Miss Helen Gould now a writer of a forthcoming volume described as a possible memoir project. She revealed to reporters that she is engaged in composing a book and that her views will appear in her first literary work.
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Helen Gould
Miss Gould
West
Press Club Social to Install New Officers in San Antonio
Members of the San Antonio Press club and spouses gather at the Dungeon at 4:30 PM for a social talk and eatfest. The event includes luncheon music singing toasts and the installation of new officers led by Joseph Emerson Smith. A discussion on forming a new pleasure-focused organization follows. The Houston Post reports a quoted anecdote about Jinx's daughter humorist prospects.
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San Antonio Press Club
Joseph Emerson Smith
Stuart's Calcium Wafers Promise Clear Complexions
Advertises Stuart's Calcium Wafers as a quick remedy for pimples, rashes, eczema, boils and liver spots. Claims impurities are expelled through skin pores and lungs, leading to a youthful rosy complexion. Sold by druggists everywhere at 50 cents a box.
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Adays
Stuart
Chronology of the Week Highlights Across Regions
Local reports cover the Traveling Men's association annual meeting at the Gunter hotel with M. H. Mussett elected president. Press club of San Antonio selects officers, Joseph Jeap ghee Smith chosen president. Notable national items include a deadly pistol duel in Greenville and a fatal Dallas car crash involving six killed. Governor Wilson meets Bryan at Lincoln, and Ryan commits suicide in Philadelphia. Roosevelt credited with trust-first policies. Taft testifies on campaign funds and Du Bois cites Clark deficit payments.
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Traveling Men's Association
Gunter Hotel
M. H. Mussett
H. T. Matthews
Press Club of
San Antonio
Joseph Jeap Ghee Smith
James Wilson
Woodrow Wilson
Springfield
Ill
Theodore Roosevelt
Charles P. Taft
Clapp
Dubois
Clark
Speaker Clark
Circus Day Draws Thousands to San Antonio
The article notes a circus day drawing thousands to San Antonio while four district courts begin fall terms and the city council declines to pass an ordinance for women policemen. It also covers officials handing over offices, a Wilson speech supporting Roosevelt, and various political and legal actions across states and international events.
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San Antonio
R. W. Dowe
James A. Harvin
Charles Graebner Forms Chamber Plan Committee
Charles Graebner, president of the Chamber of Commerce, appoints a five man committee to prepare plans for a new building for the organization. Directors of the Young Men's Business League are elected.
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Charles Graebner
Chamber of Commerce
The
Young Men’s Business League
Miguel Quiroga Sr
Railways face injunctions amid Port Aransas dispute
The Aransas Harbor Terminal railway seeks an injunction against eight Texas railroads to stop alleged discrimination against Port Aransas. Wells Fargo reports thefts from its money wagons in the city. John Mitchell of the AFL visits Bee thoven hall. General Steever tours San Antonio. Boston beats New York 8 to 1 in the world series game four. Governor Brown mobilizes four militia companies in Augusta amid possible railroad union strikes. Mexican rebels threaten American railway workers in Mexico to operate trains after October 15. Turkey amasses army.
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Aransas Harbor
Texas
Port Aransas
Wells- Fargo Company
John Mitchell
American Federation of Labor
Beethoven Hall
E. Z. Steever
Department of the
San Anonio
Boston Red Sox
New York Giants
Brown
Georgia
Augusta
Mexico
Turkey
Red Sox Beat Giants 4 3 In World Series Opener
Boston defeats New York Giants 4 to 3 in the first game of the world championship series at the Polo Grounds. New York Governor Woodrow Wilson speaks at Norton Kansas asserting trusts control the labor market. Montenegro declares war on Turkey.
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Boston Red Sox
New York Giants
Polo Grounds
New York
Woodrow Wilson
Norton
Kan
San Antonio Bar Honors Late Chief Justice James
Members of the San Antonio and Southwest Texas Bar associations gather in Bexar County courthouses to pay tribute to the memory of the late Chief Justice John H. James of the Fourth Court of Civil Appeals. The World Series features Game 2 between the Boston Red Sox and the New York Giants at their home fields.
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San Antonio
Southwest Texas Bar Association
Bexar County
John H. James
Fourth Court of Civil Appeals
Boston Red Sox
New York Giants
Ready for Action in War With Balkan States
A concise dispatch notes readiness for hostilities as tensions rise between unnamed forces and the Balkan states. Diplomacy appears strained while military mobilization looms in regional headlines.
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Balkan States
Red Sox Win Fifth World Series Game 2–1
In New York the Boston Red Sox defeated the New York Giants 2 to 1 to clinch the series. Bald Jack Rose testifies in court claiming police lied in the Rosenthal case. Turkish and Montenegrin forces suffer heavy losses on the Montenegrin frontier. In Commons debate, officials allegedly profited from a Marconi contract.
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Tello
Jiminez
Boston Red Sox
New York Giants
Jack” Rose
New York
Herman Rosenthal
House of Commons
Marconi Wireless Company
Man Changes Name to Nightengale to End Pun Storm
Charles Arestad of 179 Sixth Avenue won permission from Supreme Court Justice Pendleton to change his name to Charles Nightengale. He said punning about his arrest had become intolerable, prompting years of social withdrawal.
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New York
Charles Arestad
Sixth Avenue
Charlie
Arestad
Supreme Court
Pendleton
Charles Nightengale
Mr. Arestad
250 Roast Turkey Dinner Sunday at Riverside Restaurant
The Riverside Restaurant offers a 250 roast turkey dinner this Sunday evening with a chicken supper option also available. Patrons are invited to join for a family style evening at the riverside venue.
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Riverside
Open House to Begin Season at Y M C A San Antonio
The Y M C A of San Antonio invites the public to an open house from 7 30 to 10 30 p m on Thursday October 17 inaugurating the 1912 1913 social season. Be Dilley and Hayden F Smith plan the program with performances by Mrs G E Guinn F P Daggett Miss M L Great house Mary Pan coast L D Daggett Sr L D Daggett Jr J Shields Miss Margaret Morrow Miss Louise Polk and an engaged orchestra. A Halloween joint party with the Y W C A will follow in the Y M C A building.
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Young Men’s Christian Association of
San Antonio
BE. WB. Dilley
Hayden F. Smith
G. E. Guinn
F. Pb. Daggett
Reading
M. L. Greathouse
Mary Pancoast
L. D. Daggett Sr
L. D. Daggett Jr
J. Shields
Margaret Morrow
Louise Polk
Hallowe'en
Iowa's big family grows with eighteenth Ewalt child
In Marshalltown a farmer near Albion, Captain D. K. Ewalt, age 73, and his wife 39 welcomed a daughter, the eighteenth child from Ewalt and his wife. The couple adds to their total of twenty five children across two marriages, the wife having seven children with her first husband.
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Marshallton
D. K. Ewailt
Albion
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Thomas J. Ryan
Pueblo
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Rice Institute
Houston
John D. Archbold
Cornelius Bliss
Standard Oil
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Iowa
James Hindelwood
Lancet
Dunn
Hicks Building
W. H. Dunn
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