Labor Day Parade in San Antonio Breaks Records
More than 3000 workers joined a long organized labor parade in San Antonio marking Labor Day. speakers Carlos Bee and Harry Hertzberg praised unions while city and bank closures underscored the observance on Alamo Plaza.
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Abor
San Antonio
Alamo Plaza
Carlos Bee
Harry Hertzberg
City Hall
County Court House
J. D. Nordhaus
New Braunfels
W. L. Hoefgen
Joseph J. Tucker Jr
Charles B. Smith
J. G. Mason
Smith
International Brotherhood of Teamsters
W. Hill
Ed Fuller
Ed Treadwell
W. N. Schaub
Typographical Union
Union
Police Department
Jefferson D. Nordhaus
G. E. Hickox
J. T. Horner
San Antonio Trades Council
Labor Day Committee
Wiliam L. Hoefgen
Clinton G. Brown
James R. Davis
American Charlton in lengthy pretrial interrogation at Como
Porter Charlton the young American accused of murdering his wife at Lake Como in 1910 faced a long preliminary interrogation. Judge Rognoni and Signor Mellini led the inquiry with a clerk and interpreter. Prison officials report no mental deficiency yet. trial expected in November.
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Porter Charlton
Como
Italy
Lake Como
United States
Rognoni
Signor Mellini
Charlton
German Ambassador Arrives in Berlin for Talks With Leaders
Count von Bernstorff and Countess arrive in Berlin and will stay about a week. The ambassador plans discussions with the emperor and the chancellor, including a lunch with the emperor on September 3. Possible topics include the Panama Pacific Exposition in San Francisco and German dissatisfaction over the decision not to participate.
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Berlin
United States
Count von Bernstorff
von Bernstorff
San Francisco
Kerr County Teachers Institute to Convene at Tivy High
Kerrville Texas September 1 annual session of the Kerr County Teachers Institute will convene at Tivy High School September 8 at 9 p m A varied program on school affairs is planned A large attendance of teachers and patrons is expected September 12 trustees day speakers from the state department the Conference for Education and University of Texas will be present E E Scholl state entomologist will address the teachers
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Kerrville
Tex
Kerr County Teachers’ Institute
Tivy High School
State Department
Conference For Education
University of Texas
E. E. Scholl
Women Hurt in Auto Crash Near Canton
Mrs Stuyvesant Leroy and Mrs Amos Tuck French of New York and Newport were injured in an automobile accident near Canton last night and were resting comfortably at their Boston hotel today.
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Boston
Stuyvesant Leroy
Amos Tuck French
New York
Newport
Canton
In the Know through Daily Light Advertisements
The article urges readers to read The Light's advertisements daily to gain inside information. Being in the know saves money, simplifies shopping, and avoids wasteful purchases, while ignoring ads leads to outdated, extravagant choices.
Fake Sunday Telegram fooling New Yorkers with Thaw riot report
Thousands bought a Philadelphia printed fake newspaper falsely claiming Harry Thaw was shot and killed during an escape. The hoax, titled Sun day Telegram volume 1 number 1 printed in Philadelphia, sold about 100000 copies from Philadelphia to New York and yielded about $2000 profit before police confiscation.
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New York
Brooklyn Bridge
Harry Thaw
Sunday Telegram
Philadelphia
Royal Wedding Set for King Manuel of Portugal
Berlin reports ex King Manuel of Portugal will wed Princess Augusta Victoria of Hohenzollern next Thursday at Sigmaringen. Eighty royals expected, senior royals sending representatives, with Roman Catholic rites at the castle chapel and civil ceremony led by Count August Bulinberg.
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Manuel
Portugal
Augusta Victoria
Hohenzollern
William of
Sigmaringen
Peg
England
Nee of Wales
George of
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George
Queen Mary
Mary
Alexandra
King
Mystery clears on Jamison deaths in Radner
Philadelphia Sept 1 The deaths of Miss Jane Jamison 60 and her brother George 62 in Radner were linked to a suicide pact after police recovered a letter in which Jane said George planned to kill himself and she would join him. Jane died. George is recovering. motive cited as fear of poverty after financial loss.
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Philadelphia
Jane Jamison
George Jamison
Radner
Here
Miss Jamison
Jamisons
Fire engineers hold forty first annual convention in New York
Fire chiefs from Egypt and Australia join over 1000 delegates at the International Association of Fire Engineers convention in New York. The gathering runs through Wednesday with $30,000 raised for entertainment and focuses on the two platoon system and fire insurance against incendiarism. The week concludes with the dedication of a firemen's monument on Riverside Drive Friday afternoon.
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New York
Egypt
Australia
International Association of Fire Engineers
Angq
Riverside Drive
Kerrville Schools To Open With Record Attendance
Kerrville public schools will open on September 15 in first classcondition buildings and grounds. The scholastic census shows a population of 648 students with 100 transfers and the largest attendance in the history of the district is expected.
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Kerrville
Tex
Premier opens invention of noted jurists
Premier Borden opens the American Bar Association meeting in Montreal with an address greeting a distinguished assembly including jurists from the United States Canada England and France. Viscount Haldane delivers the afternoon address as McGill confers honorary degrees on leading legal figures amid a busy schedule.
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Quebec
Borden
American Bar Association
Canada
United States
England
France
Bar Association
Frank B. Kellogg
St. Paul
Haldane
Viscount Haldane
Great Britain
McGill University
Edward Douglas White
Robert L. Porden
Marie F. Labor
Batonnier
L’ordre Dés Avocats A la Cour de Paris
William H. Taft
Charles J. Doherty
Justice
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Servinbenear
Brita We Elihu
Lord Haldane
Asquith
Lorg Haldane
Taft
Yale University
Lord Strathcona
Dreselis
Tasitenia
Thcona
Elihu Root
British Empire
Cardinal Wolsey
Calais
Parochial Schools Open Tuesday With Masses
St Mary's Parochial School on St Marys street begins fall session Tuesday after an 8 15 a m high mass at St Marys Church. Other Catholic day schools in the city open tomorrow. Our Lady of the Lake Academy and St Marys College delay openings with Sept 8 for the college and Sept 9 for Our Lady of the Lake Academy due to improvements.
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St. Mary's Street
St. Mary's Church
Our Lady of the Lake Academy
St. Mary's College
Teamster Killed in Cement Wagon Accident at Waco
Jim Horton, about 32, a teamster, died when thrown from a wagon loader carrying 7000 pounds of cement. The front wheels passed over him this morning in Waco Texas. Little information about the deceased is available locally.
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Waco
Tex
Jim Horton
Last Big Land Lottery Opens Registration in Montana
Registration began today for the Fort Peck Indian reservation land drawing in Northwestern Montana involving 345 000 acres. This will mark the last big land lottery in the United States. The drawing starts September 23.
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Glasgow
Mont
Fort Peck
Montana
United States
Nanking Falls to Chinese Government Troops
Shanghai dispatch reports Nan king city captured by government forces today. Rebel troops fled south through the southern gate as authorities tightened control in the area.
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Nan - Shanghai
China
Nanking
One Edition Due to Holiday Light Sports Section
The Light announces a single edition today due to the holiday. The regular sporting section will not be issued this evening.
Trades Congress Opens in England
Manchester opens the forty sixth Trades Union Congress with 563 delegates representing 2,250,000 workers. W J Davis, chair of the parliamentary committee, stresses reforms, Ireland home rule hopes, international peace, opposition to compulsory arbitration, and support for national life insurance and an eight hour standard.
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England
Trades Union Congress
Co. L. Baine
Boston
Louis Kelper
Cincinnati
American Federation of Labor
Trades Union
W. J. Davis
Trades Unionists
Ireland
Labor Movement
Davis
Caravels From Columbus Sail Toward Panama Exposition
The Santa Maria Nina and the Pinta towed by a modern tugboat depart Chicago for the Panama-Pacific Exposition of 1915. This is their second long voyage after first sailing from Spain in 1892 and displaying at the 1893 Columbian Exposition in Chicago.
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Chicago
Ill
America
Spain
Jackson Park
Monument unveiled in Vesuvian village to victims of 1906 eruption
At San Guiseppe in Naples a monument to eruption victims was unveiled funded by U S aid collections. Speakers highlighted friendship between Italy and the United States as they marked the ceremony in the Vesuvian village once nearly destroyed in 1906.
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Naples
San Guiseppe
United States
Hoover completes cross country walk to San Francisco
Herbert H. Hoover arrived in New York after a 322 day journey on foot, carrying letters from police chiefs. He claimed a $1000 wager and said the trek improved his health. he weighed 104 pounds at the start and 140 pounds now, at age 21.
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New York
Herbert H. Hoover
Hoover
Police
San Francisco
Pegoud Performs Loop The Loop In Air Show
French aviator Pegoud today looped the loop at 1500 feet, landing safely. He had announced plans to perform a somersault and then repeated the feat after plunging 1200 feet, guiding the aircraft into a gentle ground landing.
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Juvisy
France
Pegoud
Shareholders to Get Script From Standard Gas and Electric
Two per cent quarterly dividends on the preferred stock of the Standard Gas and Electric Company will not be paid in cash on Septem ber 15. Instead, interest-bearing script maturing in 1923 will be issued to shareholders, per a circular received by local stockholders last night.
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Louisville
Standard Gas and Electric Company
Leased Wire Day Report From Associated Press
The San Antonio Light presents the Leased Wire Day AP report as its premier general news service from the world’s largest news organization. It summarizes top events and dispatches for local readers with reliable external reporting.
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San Antonio
Associated Press
Ghtea
Trainmen Die Likely After Cotton Belt Derailment
A Cotton Belt No. 102 derailment near Coppell Carrollton injured passengers and fatally wounded engineer Bill Mason of Commerce and fireman Harry Sterling of Mount Pleasant. Other injured include James Hawthorn Dallas Tom Mitchell Fort Worth and T J Stringfellow Coppell. Passenger aid came from women led by Mrs Miller Carrollton. Traffic halted about 24 hours.
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Dallas
Tex
Cotton Belt
Coppell
Carrollton
Bill Mason
Commerce
Harry Sterling
Mount Pleasant
Sterling
Mason
James Hawthorn
Tom Mitchell
Fort Worth
T. J. Stringfellow
Miller
Choctaw Indian’s death after oil land sale ruling
William Chisholm a full blood Choctaw Indian from Tishomingo Oklahoma killed himself after learning a land tract he once sold had changed hands for 3 000 000 following an oil discovery. He was a Haskell graduate and former football player.
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Indiana
Puebla
Colo
William Chisholm
Tishomingo
Okla
Chisholm
Haskell
King Albert Hosts Carnegie Dinners in Brussels
Andrew Carnegie arrived from The Hague where the Palace of Peace opened. King Albert plans a dinner in his honor with several days of further dinners and lunches arranged by the Belgian cabinet and peace societies.
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Albert
Carnegie
Brussels
Andrew Carnegie
Secretary Garrison Visits Fort Harrison in Indianapolis
Secretary of War Garrison arrived in Indianapolis to inspect Fort Henjamin Harrison. A Chamber of Commerce group urged converting the post into a brigade headquarters before he departs for Washington later today.
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Indianapolis
Ind
Garrison
Sugar Plant in Danger If Not Guarded
A Vera Cruz sugar company warns Secretary Bryan that its $1,500,000 plant and $500,000 crop could be at risk if authorities abandon Mexico. Lind remains in Vera Cruz. officials say negotiations with the United States continue amid neutralty concerns.
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Flood
House Foreign Affairs Committee
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Vera Crug
Wilson
Mexico
State de
Mexico City
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Vera Cruz
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Labor Day
War and Navy Departments
Mexican
United States
Mexico City to Host September 16 Military Parade
A patriotic surge across states prompts Provisional President Huerta to plan a large independence day display in Mexico City with about 20 000 marching. War department to supply instructors for many posts as citizens volunteer for drill and service. A Morelos farmers delegation offers 3 000 000 pesos. Denials issued over army HQ shifts to coasts.
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Mexico
Huerta
War Department
Morelos
Gamboa and
Urrutia
Fores Affairs
Interfor
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