Old Pe-ru-na or Ka-tar-no Better for Which Catarrh
A reader asks which is superior the old Pe-ru-na or the revised Pe-ru-na Ka-tar-no is a stronger remedy for some catarrh conditions while the revised form suits cases with constipation The revision aimed to address laxative needs and is preferred when constipation is present Both remedies have relieved chronic and acute catarrh successfully for years Ka-tar-no is sold by its Columbus Ohio company while the revised Pe-ru-na is available at drug stores
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S Hartman
Columbus
Ohio
Convict Wages Reform Highlighted by Democratic Nominee
Clyde Robbins pledges to end the ten cent daily wage for convicts and reform state insurance or repeal the act. He argues the $200 000 annual cost strains Texas penitentiary finances and plans changes in judicial procedures. Robbins returns to Austin as a clerk in the comptroller’s department. Terrill Medical Institute advertises specialists in chronic and private diseases at 215 Hicks building.
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Austin
Tex
Penitentiary Commission
Clyde Robbins
Smith
Henderson
Robbins
Comptroller’s Department
Terrill Medical Institute
Hicks
One fare round trip to Kendall County Fair Boerne
Riebe Undertaking Co offers ambulance service and transport to the Kendall County Fair in Boerne on September 6 and 7. Contact 221 E. Commerce or phone 341 for details.
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Kendall County Fair
Boerne
Riebe Undertaking Co
Iuto Ambulance Service
Ohio amendments mostly ratified in special election
In Columbus Ohio yesterday and today returns show all forty two amendments approved except equal suffrage and possibly good roads. Suffragists vow to press on with votes for women despite a setback and say initiative and referendum passed by a large margin will be used again to advance the cause.
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Columbus
Ohio
Fine Rain at Smithville
A hard rain fell yesterday afternoon in Smithville Texas, the best since June 1 and greatly needed for crops.
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Smithville
Tex
Coupe Refuses Return to New York as Threats Drive Departure
Thomas Coupe, former New York Elks Club night clerk and eye witness to the Ambler murder, refuses to travel to the United States. He will give deposition locally in Preston, claims no payment and cites threats and a nervous breakdown. Police observed the getaway car but did not intervene.
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Preston
England
Thomas Coupe
the Elks Clnub
New York
Ambler
Herman Roger
Whitman
United States
America
Coupe
Liam
Elks Club
Hayes Tells of System In Police Graft Inquiry
New York news reports District Attorney Whitman will seek an extra grand jury panel after conferring with Governor Dix about summons. Cornelius G Hayes, demoted police inspector, reportedly plans to reveal knowledge of the so called system. William J Flynn begins duties as special investigator for the aldermanic committee.
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New York
Albany
Dix
Whitman
Cornelius G. Hayes
Hayes
Waldo
Tenderloin
Staten Island
Police
William J. Flynn
Secret Service
Aldermanic Committee
Negro Hanged for Murder in Tennessee Prison
Sid Dunlop, a colored man, was hanged at the Tennessee state penitentiary for the March 12 murder of Miss Mary Ewell of LaGrange. Authorities say he confessed after midnight, citing robbery as the motive.
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Nashville
Tenn
Sid Dunlop
Penitentiary
Mary Ewell
LaGrange
Dunlop
New Pastor in Smithville
Rev. S. S. McGill of Beaumont has accepted a call to lead the First Christian church in Smithville Texas. He will move to Smithville at once.
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Smithville
Tex
S. S. McGill
Beaumont
First Christian Church
Digest it relief for indigestion claims new relief
The ad reports over 40 million Americans suffer indigestion and promotes Brown's Digest it as a quick permanent remedy. It promises risk free trial with money back if unsatisfied and claims instant relief, reduced food fermentation, and better nourishment, via Schwab McElroy's Four Drug Stores.
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United States
Schwab-McElroy
Plant Juice praised by Mrs Crone for kidney trouble
Mrs M J Crone of 335 Indiana Street credits Plant Juice with ending seventeen years of kidney and digestion problems. She reports the remedy cured long standing invalidity and urges others to try it, noting its plant juice formula and local Fischer's Drug Store as a source.
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M. J. Crone
Indiana Street
Fischer's
Ginners Battle Abbott Ruling On Cotton Seed Oil
Texas Pure Food Commissioner Abbott defends ruling that cotton seed oil is a human food under state pure food laws, amid protests from ginners. He notes some dairy cattle in Beaumont show tubercular germs in a 100 head inspection, with only three affected.
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Austin
Tex
Pure Food Department
Pure Food
Abbott
Texas Ginners’ Association
Beaumont
Two Held on Murder Charge In Dr Milton Smith Case
Offenders Bennie and Clancy Smith were awakened and arrested in Washington parish for the July murder of Dr Milton Smith. Deputies moved them to the nearest railway station and then to the parish prison for safekeeping amid fears of a jail assault by supporters. Both men deny the accusations.
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New Orleans
Washington Parish
Milton Smith
Bennie
Clancy
Smith
S. M. Simmons
Franklinton
Deeper Water Ways Meet In New London
Men from Atlantic states gather for the Deeper Water Ways association fourth annual convention in New London Connecticut. Taft will deliver an address Thursday with Governors Wilson Foss Nagel Pothier Tener Mann and other leaders on the program.
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New London
Conn
Atlantic Seaboard
Deeper Water Ways Association
Maine
Florida
Taft
Wilson
Nagel
Foss
Massachusetts
Pothier
Rhode Island
Tener
Pennsylvania
Mann
Virginia
Methodist Elders Meet in Dallas to Tour University Site
Fifty presiding elders from five Texas conferences gather in Dallas for a two day session. Rev. Jerome Duncan of Fort Worth district chairs. Attendees view the planned Southern Methodist University site and hear Yale archaeologist Professor Lull lecture. Bishop James Atkins of Waynesboro, NC, attends and helped locate the campus.
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Dallas
Tex
The
Methodist Church
Texas
Jerome Duncan
Fort Worth
Southern Methodist University
Lull
Yale University
James Atkins
Waynesboro
N. C
Teachers to Hold Institute in Taylor 1912
Taylor Texas September 4 Superintendent John F O Shea of the Taylor public schools announces assignments for the 1912 1913 session. School opens September 16 with the annual city teachers institute the first week and September 23 for pupils to assemble for the term.
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Taylor
Tex
John F. O'Shea
Taylor Public Schools
City Teachers’ Institute
Mrs Elmer Black Sails to London for Dorothys English School
Mrs Elmer Black, president of the Woman's Progressive Economic league, sails for London aboard the Lusitania with her daughter Dorothy to enroll her in an English school. Dorothy is Dorothy is sole heir to her mother's large fortune.
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Elmer Black
Woman's Progressive Economic League
London
Lusitania
Dorothy
Man claims shoulder trick leads to arrest in Chicago
William Reinhardt, described by police as able to dislocate his shoulders at will, was jailed on a charge of attempting a confidence game after being taken from a west side hospital cot. Officials say he once swindled a railroad of 1500 dollars by the same ruse and an attorney offered 1000 dollars for his injuries settlement.
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Chicago
William Reinhardt
Reinhardt
West Side
Tasteless Chili Tonic Claims Gentle, Durable Cure
Grove’s Tasteless Chili Tonic is marketed as a potent bitter tonic that doesn’t taste bitter because its ingredients don’t dissolve in the mouth. It supposedly dissolves in stomach acids and is suitable for both adults and children, claiming 30 years as the standard. Also notes old furniture refinishing and Carter-Mullaly Transfer Co.
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GROVE
Negro Held for Murder in Gonzales Case
Examinining trial for George Brown a negro charged with killing Constable Carl Brown and wounding Deputy Haschke was held in Gonzales Texas Justice Arch Johnson set bond at 500 dollars for assault to murder Haschke but refused bond on the murder charge for Constable Brown.
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Gonzales
Tex
George Brown
Carl Brown
Paul Haschke
Harwood
Arch Johnson
Bond
Haschke
Brown
School Bonds Approved in Texas Districts
The attorney general's department approved a $9000 Honey Grove public school bond issue at 5 percent interest with 40 year maturity and 20 year option. It also approved a $1000 Harbin independent school district bond issue at 5 percent with 20 year maturity and 10 year option.
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Austin, Tex
Attorney General’s Department
Honey Grove
Harbin Independent School District
Hair Health Ad Urges Youthful Look Against Father Time
An old time styled appeal argues grey hair marks aging and urges readers to counter Father Time with Hay's Hair Health. It promotes energy of youth over the "Has Been" label and encourages using the product to avoid scorn and criticism based on appearance.
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Father Time
Rector T B Lee Dies Suddenly in Austin at 73
Rev. T B Lee 73 longtime rector of St David s Episcopal Church in Austin died of heart failure at his home on September 4 He was born in England and once courted the Texas bishopric Survived by his widow He served as chaplain to the Second Texas Infantry from 1886 until the guard reorganization The notice also promotes the Xendéali county fair in Avenue on September 6 and 7 for a good time.
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Austin
Tex
T. B. Lee
St. David’s Episcopal Church
Corpus Christi
Lee
England
Texas
Dr. Lee
Second Texas Infantry
Texas National Guard
Man Believed Murdered on Prairie Line Train
John Smith of Chillicothe Mo was found dead in a toilet on a Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul passenger train near Kansas City Mo with a bullet in his heart. Police say he was killed by friends of a man Smith had helped prosecute after a Kansas City robbery days earlier. Smith had traveled from Chillicothe toward Kansas City when killed.
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Kansas City
John Smith
Chillicothe
Milwaukee & St. Paul
Smith
Voters face key gas franchise decision in Corpus Christi
In Corpus Christi on Friday residents will choose among gas franchises at three polling precincts. City leaders are divided with administration backers for the Tuttle plan while anti-Pease forces support Wallace. A heavy turnout is expected and results are uncertain.
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Corpus Christi
Tex
Corpus
Wallace Gas
Tuttle
Wallace
Elgin Postmaster Burke Receives Taft Appointment
John L. Burke has been named postmaster of Elgin by President Taft. Burke has served four years as Elgin postmaster and eight years as assistant postmaster, continuing a long service in the local postal office.
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Elgin
Tex
John L. Burke
Taft
Burke
Man Escapes Jail By Digging Through Walls
B P Wilson a white man from George county serving time for criminally assaulting his 14 year old daughter escaped from the Pascagoula jail by digging through the walls yesterday. He had been held in Pascagoula after arrest in Lucedale amid threats of violence for the assault.
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Pascagoula
Miss
B. P. Wilson
George County
Lucedale
Robbers Mistakenly Target Freight Train Near New Orleans
Three men in an automobile attempted to hold up freight train No. 1 on the Louisville & Nashville line near Michaud, twelve miles east of New Orleans. They used dynamite and nitroglycerine, mistaking the slower freight for the passenger train, and fled after realizing the passenger train was close behind.
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New Orleans
Cincinnati
Louisville & Nashville
Michaud
New Orleans & Northwestern
Hattiesburg
Flynn
Frisco Texas Extends Brownsville Road Ten Miles to Tivoli
Austin dispatch reports J S Pyeatt vice president Frisco system Texas announces completion of the Heyser to Tivoli extension a ten mile addition now in operation since September 1. He also notes a further extension beyond Tivoli toward Refugio on San Antonio bay bringing total length to sixteen miles but trains won’t run on that segment for several weeks.
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Austin
Tex
Railroad Commission
J. S.S. Pyeatt
Frisco System
Texas
Brownsville
Heyser
Calhoun County
Tivoli
Refugio County
Pyeatt
San Antonio Bay
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Carter- Mullaly Transfer Co
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