Battle over Puget Sound to Gulf highway routing grows
San Antonio and Corpus Christi supporters clash as cities along the proposed route vie to host the Puget Sound to Gulf highway. Bexar County leaders push for Corpus Christi citing road improvements and regional backing. Austin meetings intensify efforts to secure the route through Texas.
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Texas
Washington
Corpus Christi
Galveston
San Antonio
Bexar County Highway League
Texas Good Roads Association
Puget Sound
William Cassin
John B. Carrrington
Chambe of Commerce
George Roark
Austin
Driskill Hotel
Puget Sound Highway
E. J. Hernan
National Highways’ Association
Hernan
Colp
Mr. Hernan
Great Plains
Dalhart
Money chief need: Mexico stabilizing under Carranza
Lazaro Basch of the Commercial Museum in Mexico City, visiting San Antonio, says conditions in Mexico are improving and that Carranza will restore order and prosperity. He cites money as essential to restart business, notes bandits do not reflect citizens' will, mentions railroad control changes and paper shortages as reasons for his visit to buy paper.
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Mexico
Lazaro Basch
Commercial Museum of
Mexico City
San Antonio
Carranza
Republic
Mr. Busch
United States
Villa
Busch
Vera Cruz
County approves lunacy trial costs amid constitutional challenge
County commissioners approved the cost bill in four lunacy trials under the Lunacy Commission act and authorized continuing trials until the Supreme Court rules on constitutionality. The four bills total over 200 dollars, about 75 dollars would have been under the old jury system. Commissioner J K Lamm opposed continuing the commission trials, favoring the old jury method.
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Supreme Court
el Paso
J. K. Lamm
War’s shadow on Canadian cities noted by travelers
Mrs. R. B. Cherry reports pervasive sadness in Canada where women knit for soldiers and Montreal sent many more troops. The group toured Quebec and Montreal and described tranquil sights like the Perpetual Adoration altar, then journeyed from San Antonio to Chicago Detroit Buffalo the Thousand Islands New York and back via Galveston. Weather varied from hot Thousand Islands to heavy New York overcoats.
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Canada
R. B. Cherry
R. H. Cherry
North
Montreal
Quebec
San Antonio
Chicago
Detroit
Buffalo
Thousand Islands
Bankers’ Life Insurance Company of
Des Moines
St. Lawrence
Toronto
New York
Galveston
Gunter
Texas
Large batch of 108 San Antonio Belt & Terminal deeds filed
One hundred eight warranty deeds were filed Wednesday afternoon with County Clerk Frank R Newton by the San Antonio Belt and Terminal Company. The tracts mainly cover Highland Park and north of that addition as part of the Terminal Company operations. Attorney Frank Davis filed the deeds, the largest single batch ever recorded in Newton's office. Deed amounts range from 100 to 4000 dollars.
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Frank R. Newton
San Antonio
Auto fire at Kenney sanitarium sparks incendiary probe
Nurses at the Kenney sanitarium halted a Thursday morning blaze threatening Dr. John Kenney's automobile. Detectives Green and Harris investigated as oil was poured on the car and ignited, with damage limited to wiring radiator hood and front seat.
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Kenney Sanitarium
John Kenney
Kenney
Green and Harris
Cowwoman or Cowgirl Term Debate in Press
A West Sussex Gazette ad asking for a cowman or cowlady sparks debate. The London Observer rejects cowwoman and defends cowgirl as an acceptable, youthful conveyance of the occupation without implying age.
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West Sussex Gazette
London Observer
Harmony There Papa Whipping Benchmarked in Admonition
A stern parent scene shows a father and mother telling a defiant boy he will be whipped as punishment. The exchange captures tension and bitter humor in a family disciplinary moment.
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Papa
Mamma
Christian Advocate
Montanan broncho buster seeks naval ride as recruit
Luther Stroud from Butte Montana visits the San Antonio recruiting office to apply for a stint aboard a warship. He wears a buckskin jacket and Stetson, passes the physical, and heads to the Navy Training School in San Francisco. A Detroit Free Press quote calls him a philosopher who bears others troubles with a smile.
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Luther Stroud
Plains of
Montana
Navy
San Antonio
Federal
Evans
Army
Stroud
Butte
Navy Training School
San Francisco
Detroit Free Press
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Blanche Sweet
New Pathe Weekly
Rrme
The
Paramount Co
Royal Emily Whalen
Princess
Orrin Johnson
Sovereign V.L.S.E
Bessie Eyton
Wheeler Oakman
Edith Storey
Strand Theater
Wm. Russell
Billie Burke
Gloria
Anna Nilsson
Tom Moore
Taocoon
George Howell
Comn
Red Fox
Montgomery & Perry
Dainty Marie
Grand Opera House
Emma
E8s Bunting and Company
Jerry
Money Chief
Burns’ Drug Store
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Navarro Sts
Kenny
Cowboy
Sia
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Boston
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Keene
Ged. Keene
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