Vitalitas Promises from Four Houston Residents on Tonic Use
A selection of four Houston residents share their experiences with Vitalitas. Claims include rapid jaundice recovery, improved digestion, kidney support, and boosted appetite with richer blood color. The ads note Vitalitas as a spring tonic sold by all druggists.
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Houston
M. A. Lyon
Prince Theater Building
E. V. Wooding
Texas Avenue
W. H. Sharer
Congress Avenue
Bandaging Done Beautifully in Bicycle Accident
A woman who had completed a first aid course tended an injured cyclist after a street crash. She used a passerby’s broken walking stick for splints, improvised bandages from her underskirt, and called a cab to take the patient to the hospital. The surgeon praised the work but noted a minor error in bandaging the wrong leg.
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Baltimore Sun
Richmond Woman Walks 6024 Miles For Education
Miss Myrtie Page of Richmond Missouri has walked a total of 6024 miles over six years to pursue education. She has not been absent or tardy in that period, showcasing remarkable dedication and punctuality to her studies.
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Myrtie Page
Richmond
Walkend
Texas Insurance Merger Creates One Large Company
Kempner interests of Galveston financed a merger combining Prudential Life Insurance Company of Texas and First Texas State Insurance Company. I H Kempner will lead the new firm with offices in San Antonio and Galveston, assets exceed a quarter million dollars, life in force over five million, about forty thousand Texas policyholders. Six hundred officers, employees, and agents stay in place.
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Austin
Tex
Department of Insurance
Kempner Interests
Galveston
B. J. Cunningham
Prudential Life Insurance Company of Texas
San Antonio
First
Texas State Insurance Company
I. H. Kempner
Prudential Life Considers Mercer Merger Approval
E M Tighe secretary of Prudential Life Insurance confirms Austin dispatch. He expects the mercer merger to pass this week by the department of insurance and banking in Austin. No local effects anticipated. clerical staff kept. He says consolidation will likely add over 7 million dollars in insurance. Sam Speir Hardware Co. ad follows.
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E. M. Tighe
Prudential Life Insurance Company
Austin Dispatch
Mercer
Department of Insurance and Banking
Austin
Tighe
Court Holds Militia in Federal Service
Boston Oct 18 The U S Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that state militia members remain in federal service for defense purposes despite not signing a national defense act oath. The decision reverses a lower court order freeing two cavalrymen and directs their return to military authorities. It affects about 40,000 National Guard on the border and up to 50,000 state troops in federal service.
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Boston
United States Circuit Court of Appeals
Federal District Court
Alexander M. Emerson
Alfred P. Lowell
Congress
National Guard
Washington, D. C
United States Court of Appeals
Massachusetts
Army
Greeks Appeal to United States Pressures on Entente Powers
In Athens a Greek protest against entente actions led a few thousand to march to the American legation. A six member delegation delivered resolutions seeking U S protection from entente encroachments. Spokesman cited Henry Clay and Daniel Webster on Greece's liberty. American minister Garrett Croppers pledged to forward the petition to Washington.
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Athens
London
Daniel Webster
Greece
Garrett Croppers
Washington
Little boy on train child answers where he got on
A family trip to grand father's includes Tom his mother an older sister and baby brother. On a long train ride a portly gentleman sits by Tom and asks where he boarded. Tom replies with a shy witty line explaining he boarded just a little way behind the engine.
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Tom
Chriatian Herald
Senator Sheppard Heads San Antonio Visit And Banquet
Senator Sheppard arrives in San Antonio for a three day stay meeting with river committee and civic groups to discuss navigable surveys flood control and port improvements. Major Johnston may attend the conference. the banquet will feature Sheppard with Kirkpatrick as toastmaster highlighting his river flood control work and Fort Sam and Fort Bliss related projects.
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Senator Sheppard
Chamber of Commerce
C. N. Johnston
United States Engineers
Galveston
Major Johnston
War Department
San Antonio
Perry J. Lewis
J. H. Kirkpatrick
Kirkpatrick
Senator Morris Sheppard to Speak at Woodmen Hall
Four Woodmen of the World camps will host Senator Sheppard at Woodman hall 82 East Houston Friday evening. As sovereign banker and national officer he guards a $29,000,000 Woodman reserve. About 3000 local Woodmen and some 200,000 Texas members are invited to hear his talk on Woodcraft and Fraternalism, followed by an informal reception.
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Woodmen of the World
Morris Sheppard
Woodman Hall
East Houston Street
Senator Sheppard
National Organization
Woodman Order
San Antonio
Texas
Sheppard
Wind reaches 110 miles yet Mobile remains safe
The wind rose toward the southeast to about 72 miles per hour by 8 o clock. No shipping damage reported as large vessels brace for heavy ground tackle and anchorage while riverfront properties and mariners take precautions against wind and high water.
West Indian hurricane nears U.S. coast aims for Gulf states
The storm, gathering strength in the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico, is expected to land between New Orleans and Apalachicola. The Weather Bureau issued hurricane warnings from the Gulf coast to Norfolk and Savannah, with advisories for strong gales across Georgia, Florida, Alabama, and Mississippi.
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Washington, D. C
Caribbean Sea
Gulf of Mexico
American
New Orleans
Apalachicola
Fla
Weather Bureau
Gulf
Georgia
Florida
Alabama
Mississippi
East Gulf
Atlantic States
New England
Atlantic
Norfolk
Savannah
Mobile
Weather notes from Texas as tropical disturbance moves away
Galveston reports clear cool weather with rising barometer and light NW wind while a mobile bay storm center moves toward Pensacola. Mobile warns of 90 to 100 mph winds with gusts up to 98 to 61 mph. Three Rivers records another rain with a norther. land moistens and farmers hopeful for next year. Corpus Christi feels only a cold north wind and light rain from the hurricane offshore.
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Galveston
Tex
Fort Morgan
Mobile Bay
Three Rivers
Live Oak County
Corpus Christi
Gulf Coast
Here
Pensacola in Path Wind Hits 41 MPH
A Pensacola message to the Journal at 9 10 a m reports wind reaching 41 miles per hour before a lull. The brief teletyped bulletin notes the gusts and calm that followed as the storm message moved inland toward Montgomery Alabama.
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Montgomery
Ala
Pensacola
the Journal
Forests and mortgages weigh on the land economy
A Yonkers Statesman quip notes that about one fourth of the United States remains forested while another fourth is claimed by mortgages. The remark reflects land use and debt burdens in a concise civic-satirical line.
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Secon
United States
Eabert
Yonkers Statesman
Ahead of Him and Odd Exchanges in the News
A rugged figure named Dauber paints by a roadside as an elderly rustic questions his vigor and health. Dauber replies he is well and insists he is not lame or past misfortune. A joking sentiment follows about a convict who claims he is an aviator in a warden’s chat.
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Dauber
Wey
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