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Newspaper

San Antonio Light

Location

San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Date

Oct 19, 1913

Page

5

Texans on program at Commercial Congress in Mobile

National figures including President Wilson Secretary Bryan Secretary Daniels Senator Vardaman and Rep Underwood will speak at the fifth annual Southern Commercial Congress in Mobile Alabama October 27 28 29 The event marks an open Panama Canal celebration and aims to boost inter American trade with ministers plenipotentiary from Panama Peru and Bolivia attending Women will host the auxiliary convention with speakers Miss Jane Addams the Countess of Aberdeen and Mrs Pennybacker among them

Woodrow Wilson Bryan Daniels Vardaman Mississippi Underwood Alabama Southern Commercial Congress Mobile Ala Congress Panama Canal Panama Peru Bolivia South Clarence J. Owens Texas Henry Exall Dallas Adolph Boldt Houston Edwin Chamberlain San Antonio Pan- American Union Woman's Auxiliary of the Jane Addams Countess of Aberdeen Percy V. Pennybacker

Effect of Steed Trains on Railroads Safety Logic

A letter from James O Fagan argues against all steel streetcars, urging caution before federal steel car legislation. He cites Interstate Commerce Commission findings on rails and roadbeds, urges preemptive safety opinions, and lists steel train accidents as context for weighing life-saving claims.

New York Times James O. Fagan the Times Interstate Commerce Commission Railroads Congress Pennsylvania Railroad Warrior Ridge Twentieth Century Limited Hyde Park N. Y Hudson Ohio Corn Fiel Creck Philadelphia Night Express Coatesville

County Officials Set Bond Election Rules And Precinct Judges

Four Bexar County commissioners unite on bond fund use if approved, pledging lowest bidder contracts and separate bids for roads. They name presiding officers and judges for the November 12 election, including many precinct posts, amid a push to clarify positions and avoid misinterpretation.

James R. Davis Bexar County Davis Commissioners’ Court Charles X. Gutzeit Jacob Klaub Henry Meyer Gutszeit Meyer J. K. Lamm Jacob Klaus Gutzeit M. Dreyfuss Frank R. Giraud Eugene Walthall Yzaguirre

Debater W J Fox and a Baker in Oldham

The piece recalls W J Fox a free trade ally of John Bright renowned for wit in debate. His Oldham heckler a local baker once fined for short weight bread interrupted him with a probing question about Foxs wife. Fox answered sharply that she had been "in the balance and found wanting."

W. J. Fox John Bright Fox Oldham

Sacrifice and Success in Horowts Rise to Wealth

The quotation profiles Louis J. Horowts, a skyscraper builder who advanced from earning $3 weekly to an income near $100,000 in 20 years. He discusses daily routines in New York, asserting work and sacrifice as the path to fame, contrasting two men with divergent choices.

Louis J. Horowts New York Mr. Vase

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