Women to Lead Exhibit at Harvest Jubilee in San Antonio
Plans call for a women’s building with a novel exhibit showing home life changes across eras. An auxiliary group will organize displays of jewelry, furniture, costumes, paintings, and domestic devices, with guard measures and multiple talks by prominent women planned during October Jubilee events.
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San Antonio
St. Anthony Hotel
Chamber of Commerce
Texas
Martha Washington
St. Anthony
Oldest Texan Juanita Rodriguez Hopes to Die on Guadalupe Day
At the Bexar county poor farm in San Antonio, Juanita Rodriguez, possibly the oldest resident in Texas, longs to live until Guadalupe Day December 12 to mark her 112th birthday. Born on Guadalupe Day in Oaxaca, she followed Hidalgo in 1810 and aided Maximilian’s soldiers before settling in San Antonio. Despite near blindness and aging, she prays daily, awaiting death on her patroness’s feast day.
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Juanita Rodriguez
Texas
Bexar County
Virgin of Guadalupe
Juanita
Joe Chadwick
Guadalupe
Oaxaca
Porfirio Diaz
Mexico
Padre Miguel Hidalgo Y Castillo
Maximilian
Diaz
San Antonio
Barbecue Picnic After Riverbank Gathering
Guests of D. E. Colp secretary of the Highway league division of the Chamber of Commerce and the office force plus families enjoyed a barbecue yesterday afternoon by the river near the fair grounds. They traveled by motor cars to a pecan grove where talks on good roads and civic improvement were given. A Buffalo Bill reel film was shown at the Star today.
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D. E. Colp
Highway League Division
Chamber of Commerce
Rich Widow Breaks Hearts Abroad
Paris society circles report American widow Mrs. Mary Walker French, widow of Seth Barton French who left about 2 million, as the sought after marriage partner. Presented at Italian Russian Servian Greek courts, she reportedly counts Duke de Richelieu and J J Van Aller among her suitors as she inspires social triumph and broken hearts.
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Paris
New York
Mary Walker French
Seth Barton French
J. Pierpont Morgan
Duke de Richelieu
Chateau Haut Brisson
J. J. van Aller
Newport
Vienna Doctor Lectures in San Antonio on Tropical Diseases
Dr. Ludovic Braun of Vienna visited San Antonio meeting peers and addressing the Bexar County Medical Society at the St. Anthony hotel. He discussed serum diagnosis and serum therapy with a focus on the Luatine diagnostic serum for lues and demonstrated lantern slides on tropical diseases. He has joined the United States Marine Hospital Service and plans to sail to Panama from the coast.
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Ludovic Braun
Vienna
Austria
San Antonio
Braun
United States Marine Hospital Service
Panama
City
Bexar County Medical Society
St. Anthony
Lues
Wasserman
Society Members Hear A Noteworthy Speech
A segment of the meeting drew strong attention from society members as talks were listened to with evident interest by nearly all attendees, highlighting the group's engagement and concern.
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Near
Meeting set for September 15 by new Democratic state committee
Walter Collins of Fort Worth, chair of the new committee formed at the August 15 state convention, indicates the first meeting will likely be around September 15. Robert Coons notes no vacancies and suggests a mid September gathering to tighten party unity for the fall campaign.
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Democratic
Walter Collins
Fort Worth
Robert Coons
Democratic year and prosperous says Weis
Sidney H. Weis, manager of the Grand opera house, returns from the east predicting a democratic year and prosperity with Woodrow Wilson as likely president and Roosevelt second. He notes strong national prosperity, good crops, and expected high quality theatre with Maude Adams visiting in October. Weis to head Greenwald circuit, signaling his advance toward taking over the circuit.
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Sidney H. Weis
Grand Opera House
New York
Woodrow Wilson
Mr. Weis
Roosevelt
Pennsylvania
Mr. Wets
San Antonio
Maude Adams
Weis
Greenwald
South
Grand
Jack Burke
International club adds national leaders to gallery display
The International club adds McKinley, Jones portraits to its walls alongside Diaz, Madero, Taft, Roosevelt, Bryan Callaghan, and Governor Col quitt. Secretary Mills says the collection aims to include all prominent leaders and will expand with more historic portraits elected to reveal national and international figures.
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International Club
United States
William McKinley
A. H. Jones
McKinley
Jones
San Antonio
Porfirio Diaz
Mexico
Francisco I. Madero
Republic
William H. Taft
Theodore Roosevelt
Bryan Callaghan
O. B. Colquitt
BE. C. Mills
Five Views of Kissing in Crowley Divorce Case
In St Louis on August 31 depositions of Miss Mayme Josephone McKay were filed in the divorce suit of Mrs Anna M Crowley against Herbert M Crowley. The photos show a man kissing a woman with the kisser unnamed though Miss McKay is identified by attorney C A Newton to cast doubt on her testimony. McKay says the photos were taken in fun and that Crowley was a model husband though he gambled, the winnings being spent on his wife’s dresses.
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ST. Louis
Mayme Josephone McKay
Berkeley
Cal
Anna M. Crowley
Herbert M. Crowley
C. A. Newton
Miss McKay
Crowley
Vowell Sues to Contest Bridgers Nomination
Former Grayson County district attorney C I Vowell filed a contest in the forty first district court alleging the Bridgers nomination was tainted by fraud. He claims dead voters and penitentiary convicts helped Bridgers win a 270 vote plurality and asks the court to review the nomination certificates and certify his own nomination.
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EL Paso
Tex
C. IL. Vowell
Grayson County
Forty-First District
W. W.bridgers
Bridgers
Vowell
Secretary of State
MARTINETTE AND LEWIS AT THE WIGWAM
Plaza singers Martinettee and Lewis move to the Wigwam starting Monday for matinee and night performances. They will be joined by three first run pictures and two musicians offering the best popular priced entertainment in the city. Admission remains 5e.
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Plaza
Lloyd Spencer
Local image of Insurance and Loan Promises in South Texas
Your Home Companies expect to continue to loan their funds in this community. Your pace will make it possible for us to increase the funds available which will be loaned for the development of this country to several millions annually. Any agent in South Texas can give you a policy in these companies. Insist on it. Help yourself by helping us. Rio Grande Fire Insurance Co. R. J. Ball, President J. G. Hornberger, Mer. Prudential Life Insurance Co. Dr. T. W. Robertson, President.
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South Texas
San Antonio
South
Texas
RIO Grande Fire Insurance CO
R. J. Ball
J. G. Hornberger
Mer
Affidavits Filed in Forgery and Passing Forged Instrument
Affidavits charging Frank Lewinstein alias New York Black with forgery and Ray Whittenberg with passing a forged instrument were filed in Justice Fisk's court. Lewinstein is jailed in the county, arrested by Detectives Krause and Haynes on telegraphic information from J W Renfro, Fort Worth city marshal. Whittenberg is jailed in Fort Worth. Lewinstein allegedly forged G W Whittenburg’s name at 219 Madison Street. the nephew Ray Whittenberg is said to have passed the forgery. Chief Deputy Galbraith left with a warrant to bring Ray Whittenberg to the city. One fare round trip to the Kendall county fair, Boerne, September 6 and 7.
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Frank Lewinstein
New York
Ray Whittenberg
Justice Fisk
Lewinstein
Krause and
Haynes
J. W. Renfro
Fort Worth
Whittenberg
G. W
Cloudburst Floods El Paso Neighborhoods
A cloud burst on the Mesa north of El Paso washed sand and rocks into north El Paso residences and halted the street car system for hours as streets ran with floodwater. The deluge sent streams pouring through the city and created widespread damage in the northern sections.
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EL Paso
Tex
Mesa
Creamery Dairy Co. Special Ad Urges Phone Orders
Local ad prompts customers to phone in orders for Creamery Dairy Co. today. Call 871 to place the order.
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Datry CO
Creamery Dairy CO
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