Grocers Adopt Sunday Closing Proposals In City
The Retail Grocers Association passed a resolution to prosecute any grocer selling goods on Sunday and to campaign against violators after November 9. The mayor and police chief will cooperate, with over 200 of 400 grocers already signing a closing petition. A second resolution condemns the premium prize advertising practice. A next meeting is set for November 6 to push enforcement and sign more merchants.
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Retail Grocers’ Association
Adolph Grasso
City aims to curb early steam whistle noise
Austin mayor Wooldridge announces support for an ordinance regulating steam whistle blowing within city limits. Residents of the west side have long petitioned against disturbances from very early hour whistles.
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Austin
Tex
Wooldridge
West Side
City Refuse Rates Fixed On Tax Values In Ames
City officials press for a new hydrant contract with San Antonio water. public compensation would be set on taxable property values and a 20 percent rate cut to private consumers is demanded. Mayor Brown pushes for a fair contract while City Council weighs rental options and hydrant counts.
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San Antonio
Brown
Henry Semple Ames
St. Louis
Potter
Blood health claims for S. S. S. tonic promoted by Swift
An advertisement extols S. S. S. as a pure vegetable blood cleanser that purports to restore cellular nutrition and repair tissues. It contrasts it with Mercury and other older remedies and urges consultation with The Swift Specific Co. in Atlanta for a specialist.
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Swift
Swift Ride
Atlanta. Ga
Mrs Wilson Regains White House Relics Collection
Mrs Abbie G Baker in charge of the White House relics today placed in the cabinet of the administration of Presidents Tyler and Van Buren. The collection includes dishes and personal effects of White House occupants with pieces donated by Mrs William Ellis of Shawsville Virginia and Judge Gardiner Tyler of Sturgeon Point Virginia. Helen Singleton Green of Columbia furnished a Van Buren silver water pitcher once given by Benjamin J Butler to the president. The pitcher came to Green from her aunt, wife of Van Buren’s son, who served as mistress of the White House for two years. President Van Buren was a widower.
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Washington, D. C
Abbie G. Baker
White House
Tyler
van Buren
Wilson
William Ellis
Shawsville
Gardiner Tyler
Sturgeon Point
Richmond
Helen Singleton Green
Columbia
D. C
Benjamin J. Butler
Charters Issued in Texas and New York Firms
Charters granted to Loving & White Clothing Co Corpus Christi Sandahl Mercantile Co of Elgin City Electric Co of Waco Pine Grove Oil Co of Beaum outh West Texas Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church Austin The Texas Guayule Company Inc New York City principal office San Antonio Amendments filed for International Creosoting and Construction Co Galveston Stock Yards Horse and Mule Commission Co Ft Worth Philadelphia next president of China may be chosen from the Christian ranks says Dr Isaac Sharpless of Haverford College to the Pennsylvania Missionary Society at Overbrook Presbyterian Church he notes missionary growth in the Far East after denominational competition ceased.
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Austin
Tex
Loving & White Clothing Co
Corpus Christi
Capital Stock
L., R. Loving
J. H. White
W. A. Wakefield
Sandahl Mercantile Company of
Elgin
Capital
C. A. Carlson
Carl Carlson
Fred Bergman
City Electric Company, Inc
Waco
William Hodges
O. J. Hodges
J. E. Kuykendall
Pine Grove Oil Company
Beaumouth
M. A. McKnight
D. B. Quinn
Leslie Jarrette
West Texas
Philadelphia
China
Isaac Sharpless
Haverford College
Pennsylvania Missionary Society
Overbrook Presbyterian Church
Sharpless
Far East
May Abolish Grade Crossings in Houston
The city moves to abolish about one hundred grade crossings after a conference at City Hall with Mayor Campbell, railway executives, traction managers, and officials. City administration determined on pursuing the measure.
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Houston
Tex
Campbell
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Alkemeyer
East
Houston Street
Grocers
Retail Association
Ames
Pabst Blue Ribbon Its Beer of Qualit
Milwaukee Beer Co
el Paso
Texas
Mrs. Wilson
San Antonians
Amoskeag
Wm. Rogers & Son
Lonsdale Domestic
Lonsdale
Hudnut
Hind
Jergen
Marvelous
Daggett & Ramsdell
Armour
Luxor
Colgate
Sanital
Eleaya Cerate
Riker
Hanson & Jenks
Long
Arcadia
Eleaya
Bradley
Pond's
Ph. Fahrbach Jr
W. A
Mozart
Johann Strauss
Faust
Chopin
F. Smetana
W. Damrosch
Adam's Paradise
U. S
Darkey
Suwanee River
W. H. Middleton
W. H. Smith
Ruskin
J. G. Holland
Bayard Taylor
Copenhagen
Moline
Russia
Main Avenue
Ireland
Houston St. Soledad St
Ghe Wolff & Marx Co
Averamendi
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