Exports of Manufactures Reach Record High in 1911
The Bureau of Statistics notes a historic rise in U S exports of manufactures ready for consumption and for manufacturing use. Machinery led growth with 1911 totals rising to 105 million and autos and parts adding 4.5 million, while leather and other goods also show strong gains.
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United States
Bureau of Statistics Department of Commerce and Labor
Bureau of Statistics
Iron and Steel Manufactures
Europe
Russia
Canada
Argentina
Australia
New Zealand
Africa
France
Germany
Netherlands
United Kingdom
San Antonio’s First Artesian Well A Pioneer Water Find
The city’s artesian water story centers on Dan Cable and his 1890s drilling near the ice plant at Avenue B and Highth Street. After initial deep wells failed to reach artesian strata, a steam drill eventually tapped the 1500-foot depth, delivering a strong flow and transforming local water supply and irrigation.
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San Antonio
San Pedro
Dan Cable
Rock Island Railroad
Avenue B
Highth Street
F. F. Collins
Decimal time system proposed for mines with cemeter watch
A French invention introduces decimal time and the cemeter watch to divide the day into 100 parts called ces. Each ce equals 14.4 minutes and decices and millices divide further. The system aims to replace a m p m with a continuous day count, improving mining timekeeping and machinery efficiency in plants operating 24 hours.
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Europe
Latin America
United States
The National Game and a Pitcher’s Lament
A playful verse set frames Maude Muller and Tim Hurst in a 1911 sports mood. It blends baseball names Phillies Giants Cubs Cards Pirates with a courtroom aside and a humorous ice water bucket refrain recalling John B. Gough and temperance themes.
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Phillies
Giants
Cubs
Cards
Pirates
Maude Muller
Maude
John B. Gough
Ice Cream Trade in San Antonio Surges on Small Purchases
The article notes San Antonio’s ice cream business totals about 280 000 annually with vanilla the top flavor and strawberry close behind. Daily consumption reaches 600 gallons of ice cream and 12 000 ice cream sodas, supporting about 800 dollars in daily sales and 2000 gallons of vanilla used yearly.
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San Antonio
Iron Staple Revealed as Cause of Boy’s Illness
Ernest Heeren, a Corona teen once thought doomed by consumption, recovered after doctors found and removed a swallowed iron staple during three operations at St Mary’s Hospital. An X ray revealed the foreign body in his lung, identified when a nurse saw it on his mouth during coughing. The staple, three quarters of an inch long, was likely swallowed over eight years earlier.
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Ernest Heeren
George H. Heeren
Oak Street
Corona
L. I
St. Mary’s Hospital
Manhattan
New York American
Matthews
Wrinkleless Skin Now Easy to Have
A Family Physician feature promotes a DIY skin remedy using saxo lite and witch hazel. The wash lotion tightens skin and reduces wrinkles, claiming improvement for lines, cheek and neck sagging, and under-eye laxness. Ingredients are readily found at a drugstore and the mix is simple to prepare.
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Kid
JA Bum
Bexar Abstract Co
Bexar County
Itle Guaranty
Homer Jones
W. Commerce St
William F. Kirk
National News Association
National League
Tim Hurst
Hurst
Bartholdi
Barney McTeegs
O’shay
Tim
Finneran
Magee
Wildwood
and Ige Grean
Boy
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