Pumpkins and Potatoes Reign on the Market
Market notes show pumpkins and potatoes leading the supply with a large assortment from Belec. Genuine pumpkin yams arrive in barge quantities while okra and beans remain steady. Early cabbage begins, tomatoes due soon from Brownsville county, apples from New Mexico, sugar cane abundant, grapes at 15 cents each or two for 29 cents, oysters and fish available, turkey scarce with rising prices.
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Belec
Brownsville
New Mexico
Headaches and Neuralgia From Colds Remedy Ad
An old time medicine ad offers VAXATIVE BROMO Quinine as a world wide cold and grip remedy. It mentions a full name and signature "BW. GROVE, 25" as reference. The wording suggests a personal agent or salesman claim.
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Grove
Manila Earthquake Shakes City On October Day
Manila residents felt tremors today as aftershocks continued through the day. Officials reported minor damage but no serious injuries and began assessing affected areas.
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Manila
Oet
Tiree
Milkweed Touted As Cure For Poison In City
A local farmer reportedly cured his son using milkweed tea applied to affected areas. Harry Adams, gardener at Sunset station, confirms the method, learned at a fair, and cites a successful outcome for the boy.
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Harry Adams
Sunset
Fire destroys elevator in Denver warehouse blaze
Firebugs started a blaze at the Hungarian Milling company's elevator in Denver on Get. 21. The fire destroyed the elevator and caused about 450000 dollars in losses, with 400000 bushels of wheat inside consumed. Several ignition points were reported within the structure.
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Denver
Colo
Get
Hungarian Milly Company
Iron Work Begins on Sunset Viaduct at SP Crossing
Iron gang has arrived to start erecting the iron for the viaduct at the Southern Pacific crossing on New Braunfels avenue. Work will proceed under the supervision of Major Hank Small, head of the building and bridge department.
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Southern Pacific Crossing
New Braunfels Avenue
UN Uder
Hank Small
Thet Wililding and Bridge Department
Union Serene as Republicans Grow Uneasy Over Proclamation Flaw
Republican leaders fear a governor proclamation omitting a senatorial election in district twenty four could invite a contest in the senate. A demoralized scramble to consult law books ensues with Cecil Lyon and Eugene Nolte seeking guidance. Democrats see little impact, arguing governor’s omission is directory and a supplementary proclamation could cure it.
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Campbell
Cecil Lyon
State Committee
Ehct
Eugene Nolte
G. GO. P
Senate
John F. Onion
Kerrville
Green
Ty Nyver
Attorney General's Department
Tain
Creston
Charles C. Cresson
Rush to New Mexico gold fields sparks El Paso surge
Special to The Light El Paso Texas October 21 1890 reports a gold rush near Sylvanite New Mexico likened to the California stampede of 1849. Town of 700 grows rapidly as residents pack for telegraph orders bedding tents and provisions. Gold veins found near surface 309 miles away prompt El Pasoans to joke about the governor and a possible special election outcome in the Real campaign.
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el Paso
Tex
New Mexico
California
Sylvanite
Paso
el Pasonlans
Mad dog scare on Hart Commerce Street
A foaming dog on Hart Commerce Street near Sycamore was shot dead by Police Officer Yapadache after alarming residents this morning at about 9 30 o'clock. The attack prompted a swift, fatal response as bystanders watched the animal fall.
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Commerce Street
Hart Commerce Street
Sycamore Street
Yapadache
Mmstantty
Buffalo Bill Wild West Show Arrives in San Antonio
Buffalo Bill Cody returns after four years abroad with a grand Wild West tour at the T and GN depot grounds on November 7. The program features historic open air melodramas with Rough Riders, Russian Cossacks, Japanese horsemen, Tuslish Dragoons, Lancers, Bettovin Arabs, and Carman Cuirassiers. Central spectacle will be The Battle of Sumit Springs and The Great Train Holdup, with The Holiday at The Ranch offering plainsman revelry in contrast. Cody emphasizes historic, truthful, and educational portrayals.
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Cody
Guichy
Bettovin
San Antonio
Sumit Springs
Last Bull
Colorado
Nebraska
Wyoming
TR. Ranch
Wa West
Col. Cody
Legislature murder shocks Dadeville Alabama feud ends life
In Dadeville a farmer Jack Hander son of Tallapoosa County was shot on the public square by Metcher Turner a local legislator from the county. The feud between the men is viewed as the motive. Hander born October 7 was connected to the Alam Film Exchanges and worked in the Canrpy building theaters.
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Alabama
Jack Handerson
Tallapooea County
Dadeville
Ala
Jack Mendelson
Talkinoosa County
Af Metcher Turner
Jesialatura
Wednselay
Find
A. Wallace
Wii Jacob
New Mexico City to St Louis Rail Service Planned
Horace W Clarke general superintendent of the 1 & GN rail road returned from Mexico City after talks with passenger officials of Missouri Pacific and the National Lines of Mexico on a new train service between Mexico City and St Louis. The schedule will be announced in a few days. Accompanying him were G L Stone of Missouri Pacific and J W Igeins and F Ey Young of National Lines of Mexico.
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Horace W. Clarke
Mexico City
Missouri Pacific
Natonal
Mexico
St. Louis
Mr. Clarke
G. L. Stone
Mistouri Pacific
J. W. Igeins
Mistouri Patttic
Aid
F. Ey Young
National Linea
Mesiog
Marshal Kills Liveryman in Front of Station
John C. Taytor city marshal shot and killed James Cain while in a confrontation aboard a ferry at the station. The incident occurred after a dispute with Cain and an unnamed party, with the marshal reportedly acting in the line of duty.
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McGrory
James Cain
Mveryman
Hia
John C. Taytor
Lodge Meetings Tonight Across City Halls
Local fraternal groups including Meare Lodge No 424 0.0.0 Fy and Anchor Lodge No 424 A F and AM meet tonight. Also Son Abtonis Aerie No 70 Eagles halls Milam Lodge No 2 Woodmen hall and others hold sessions in city venues this afternoon and tomorrow afternoon with several Pythian and Red Man property notices.
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Odd Fellows
Masonic Temple
Eagles
Milam
Waedmen
Schaupp
Hermann Sons
Vineta
Pythian Hall
Alamo Jodge
H. Pythian
Schisicher Lodge
H. Red Men's Hall
Grove's Tasteless Chloroquine Formulation Stated
An old advertisement promotes Grove's Tasteless Chloroquine Tonton? a medicine claimed to aid fever and pain relief. The copy stresses the formula is quinine in a tasteless form and touts its ease of use for adults and children alike.
Wedding Bells For Graves Sunitchen on T and G Ny Tour
Marries Bertha Ackermann at home on 225 Wondlich Street in a ceremony led by Rev. O Hartmann. The couple plans a two week trip to the north on the T and G Ny railroad, following the wedding of the daughter of a San Antonio machinist and a local detective.
Teddy Jr Cast First Vote For Taft At Oyster Bay
Roosevelt Jr comes of age and celebrates his twenty first birthday at the president's Oyster Bay home as he prepares to cast his first vote for Taft.
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Teddy, Jr
Taft
Theatore Roosevelt, Jr
Oyster Bay
Return of Tat Kneeland Yields San Antonio Welcome
Tat Kneeland, who left San Antonio after selling his interests two months ago and moved to Seattle, has returned. He finds new opportunities in the West but says San Antonio, where he spent 85 years, is good enough for him. Eddie Gallagher, an Ohio native who later moved to Kentucky, has also returned and says San Antonio feels better to him than any place he has seen. He will stay here.
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Seattle
Wash
San Antonio
Eddie Gallagher
Ohio
Kentucky
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