City Council Shrinks Committees To Six Under New Plan
Mayor Jones unveils a six committee structure in place of nineteen. Fire and police, streets and public improvements, parks and public buildings, finance, public utilities, and assessment will govern council actions. advisory members will meet weekly but vote remains with standing committees.
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Jones
San Antonio
William JL. Richter
Albert Steves
Charles Fincham
Richter
Fire and Police
Fincham
Steves and
Wickeland
Jake Wolff
L. P. Peck
L. B. Clegg
Uhr
Menger
G. A. C. Halff
J. W. Warren
Martin Arnold
Boynton
Steves and Lambert
Paul Meerhog
Peter Hoebel
Mauermann
Kenney
Ike Pryor
Nat Washer
S. G. Tayloe
Lipscomb
Council
Public Utilities
Public Service Corporation
Fifteen Arrested in Move On Crusade Fined in Court
Fifteen persons arrested Saturday night during a move on crusade under Chief Lancaster were arraigned in corporation court and fined five dollars each for obstructing public sidewalks. Most arrests occurred on East Commerce Street with nearly a dozen black suspects taken into custody after warnings. Captain Stevens said arrests would continue where conditions warrant action.
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Lancaster
Buckley
Corporation Court
East Commerce Street
Stevens
Maine election day shapes state and national prospects
Voters in Portland Maine go to the polls to decide governor and four congressmen as well as county officers and a state legislature. The chosen legislature will select a U S senator next winter. Governor Frederick Plaisted leads the Democratic ticket and William T Haines the Republican candidate for governor.
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Maine
Portland
United States
Frederick ’. Plaisted
William T. Haines
Franklin Road's First Train Coming Tuesday
The San Antonio Uvalde Gulf railroad between San Antonio and Pleasanton will run its first official passenger train Tuesday morning. A Pleasanton delegation will ride to San Antonio for a jubilee event and for trade-relations celebration. The excursion could include a decorated coach and local entertainment in San Antonio.
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San Antonio, Uvalde & Gulf Railroad
San Antonio
Pleasanton
Pleasant
Texas
G. H. Winsor
Pleasantond Fowlerton
Autopsy Sought In Mrs Szabo's Greenwood Lake Death
New York district attorney to exhume the body of Rosa Szabo an Austrian woman who died at Greenwood Lake while boating with Burton W Gibson executor of her $10 000 estate. The autopsy will test for wounds and include chemical analysis of stomach contents to determine cause of death.
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New York
Rogers
Orange County
Rosa Szabo
Greenwood Lake
Burton W. Gibson
Change in Weather Brings Expected Temperature Drop
Rain or wind is not specified but a cooler spell is anticipated within 48 hours. After days of heat in Texas with many areas hitting 100 and San Antonio at 97, a storm system over the Rockies promises an agreeable change in the region’s weather.
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Texas
San Antonio
Rocky Mountains
Morning Temperatures Across Cities With Clear Skies
St Louis records 78 degrees with SE wind and fair warmth. Chicago 76 with SW wind and continued heat. Milwaukee 72 and south wind, hotter trend. St Paul 74 with rain and cooler weather. Kansas City 78 and south wind, cooler outlook. New York 70 with west wind and Tuesday fair. Boston 68 and south wind with Tuesday fair. Washington 66 with light southerly breeze.
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ST. Louis
Chicago
Milwaukee
ST. Paul
Kansas City
New York
Boston
Washington
San Antonio Light Clarifies AP Wire Carriage
A statement declares that no other newspaper carries the Associated Press wire into San Antonio in whole or part, asserting the claim is unfounded and without basis in fact.
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Associated Press
San Antonio
Aransas Pass Welcomes First Foreign Vessel Brinkburn
The steamship Brinkburn, flying British flags and captained by Robert Brown, became the first foreign vessel to enter Aransas Pass and dock at Harbor Island. Crowds welcomed the ship as pilots guided it to port while Governor Garner spoke of future harbor expansion and rail links to boost Texas trade.
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Aransas Pass
Tex
Aransas Harbor
Brinkburn
Robert Brown
Harbor Island
Galveston
Texas
St. Joseph's Island
Gulf
Pass
George Roberts
Brown
Oss
Light
Great Britain
Liverpool
West Indies
New Orleans
San Antonio
United States Shipping Company of
New York
Bremen
Havre
Swanley
Monshauven
Finchley
Aphrodite
Third Artillery
Fort Sam Houston
J. N. Garner
Garner
Rockport
Corpus Christi
Aransas
Speeches Laud Wheeler and Local Ports Advocates
The Commercial Secretaries Association of Texas is viewed as a railroad tool by critics. Ex Lieutenant Governor Thomas B. Wheeler receives high praise for his long fight for a deep water port. A D Powers and E O Burton of San Antonio are also lauded for their contributions.
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Commercial Secretaries’ Association of Texas
Thomas B. Wheeler
A. D. Powers
E. 0. Burton
San Antonio
San Antonio Day Train to Aransas Pass For Port Opening
Secretary J F Carter reports about half of 1860 reservations for a special San Antonio day train to Aransas Pass are taken with growing demand for accommodations. The San Antonio & Aransas Pass line arranged the trip leaving 11 pm Wednesday and returning Thursday night with a canal boat ride to Port Aransas. Congressman James L Slayden is expected to join the San Antonio delegation.
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J. F. Carter
Chamber of Commerce
Aransas Pass
San Antonio
Port Aransas
San
Young Texan Killed in Motocycle Rage
Eddie Hasha of Waco Texas a noted motorcycle racer crashed into a crowd at the Newark motordrome killing seven including himself. Injuries left six fatally hurt and thirteen others badly hurt with identified dead Hasha Johnny Ulbricht and William Bennete Edward Fischer. Two more boys aged 15 were among the likely dead or seriously injured.
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Newark
N. J
Eddie Hasha
Waco
Tex
Newark Motordrome
Hasha
Johnny Ulbricht
Denver
William Bennete
Edward Fischer
Edward Rolle
Frank J. Amberg
Bankers In Detroit To Attend Convention
In Detroit on Sept 9 committees of the American Bankers association and affiliated national groups worked through routine business to clear the deck for the national convention starting tomorrow and likely to end Friday. Sections on currency, executive council, savings banks, trust companies, clearing houses, federal legislation and amendments met, with only one group opening today. The National Association of Supervisors of States' Banks planned its first afternoon session.
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Detroit
Mich
American Bankers’ Association
Association
Currency Commission
Executive Council
Savings Bank, Trust Company
Clearing House
National Association of Supervisors of States’ Banks
Ladies Auxiliary Elects San Antonio Woman as State President
At a meeting of the Ladies Auxiliary of the Ancient Order of Hibernians Mrs. Lizzie Gillette of San Antonio was chosen to succeed Mrs. O Leary of Houston as state president. Mrs. Mary E. Mack of Fort Worth was re elected state secretary. Rev Father J H Quinn conferred the papal blessing. A crusade against Irish caricature and in favor of Irish history in parochial schools was launched. The group urged funds for port matrons to aid unattended women arriving from Europe. The officers in place were Emilia O Leary president Mary McNally vice president Mary E Mack secretary Margaret Swasey sergeant at arms Bell Shearer treasurer.
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San Antonio
O'Leary
Order of Hibernians
Lizzie Gillette
O’leary
Houston
Mary E. Mack
Fort Worth
J. H. Quinn
Bishop Carroll
Helena
Mont
Europe
Emilia O'Leary
Mary McNally
Dallas
Margaret Swasey
Bell Shearer
Galveston
Governor Colquitt Returns to Austin After Rest
Governor Colquitt arrived in Austin after a week at Mineral Wells and faced a steady line of pardon seekers through the morning. The crowd included elderly residents as well as younger individuals seeking clemency.
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Austin
Tex
Colquitt
Mineral Wells
Vedrines Starts Bennett Trophy Race in 102 MPH Pace
Jules Vedrines in a Deperdussin monoplane led off the James Gordon Bennett race in Chicago, covering 124.8 miles in 70 minutes 56.95 seconds at an average of 105.5 mph. The American defender was withdrawn, conceding the prize to France as Vega Prevost and Frey lead the French team with three 100 mph monoplanes.
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Chicago
Jules Vedrines
James Gordon Bennett
Vedrines
Vedrine
Thiopes
America
Charles T. Weymann
Isle of Sheppy
England
Delloyd Thompson
Thompson
Nieuport
Burgess
Charles Dickinson
France
Dickinson
Glenn H. Martin
Gordon Bennett
Frances Silver
Knox Reaches Tokio for Emperor Natsuhito Funeral
Secretary of State Philander C. Knox arrived in Tokio as the first American envoy for the late emperor’s funeral. He came with Mrs. Knox and a State Department suite led by Ransford Miller. The party, received cordially, was driven to the former Ito residence next to the American embassy.
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Tokio
Philander C. Knox
Natsuhito
Japan
Magnificent Railroad and Deep Waterway issue available
The Light offers additional copies of a beautifully illustrated issue for five cents, or ten cents in single wrappers postage prepaid. It claims wide distribution with over two hundred copies mailed abroad. once exhausted, the edition will not be reissued.
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Deep Waterway
South
City County discuss plan for shared hospital services
A meeting in the mayor office will discuss a $250 000 city and county hospital project and an arrangement to share acute and chronic patients between city and county facilities. Attendees include County Judge Shook and James R Davis, city and county health officials, and hospital committee members.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. E. Jones
Phil Shook
James R. Davis
Berrey
W. B. Russ
L. L. Shropshire
W. L. Richter
Ray Lambert
Joel A. Lipscomb
Debs to Visit City Tomorrow in Socialist Campaign
Eugene V. Debs, presidential candidate, will arrive by Sunset from El Paso tomorrow morning and speak at Beethoven hall at 8 pm after a reception at the Gunter hotel. A San Antonio socialist committee will meet him at the depot and arrange a city auto tour and nightly departure to Austin on September 11.
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Eugene V. Debs
United States
el Paso
Beethoven All
Debs
San Antonio
H. A.ee
AD. Bzueht
Tom Brown
Gunter Hotel
Dr. Fee
Beethoven Hall
Austin
Ursuline Nuns Ride Trolley to New Ursuline Home
In New Orleans on September 9 a century old convent was deserted as the Ursuline nuns moved to a new Uptown residence. The ride marked their first experience in trolley cars and ended the era of the old convent in the city cradle.
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New Orleans
Ursuline
Ursulines
Wife of Publisher Dies at Maine Home
Mrs. John R. McLean of Washington dies at her summer home in Bar Harbor Maine after a week of pneumonia. She lived eleven hours after Dr L D Barker from Johns Hopkins arrived by special train. Publisher husband was at the bedside with son Edward and wife, brother Truxton Beale, and sister Madame Bakmetieff, wife of the Russian ambassador.
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Bar Harbor
John R. McLean
Washington
Storm Warning Issued for West Coast Florida
Advisory storm warning from Washington issued for the west coast of Florida from Panama City to Tampa. Indications of disturbance over the northeast Gulf of Mexico. Signed Moore.
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Jacksonville
Fla
Washington
Florida
Panama City
Tampa
Gulf of Mexico
Washington weighs congress call on intervention in Mexican border crisis
Washington reports rising tension as Taft considers a special session to decide on intervention. Salazar denies crossing into the United States, while U S troops and cavalry gird the border and patrols tighten near Lang's ranch and Apache.
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Associated Press
Washington, D. C
Taft
Congress
Arizona
New Mexico
Salazar
United States
Rice
Steever
Boone
Johnson
Wagner
Lang
Culberson
Murray
Schuyler
Fort Huachuca
Ninth Cavalry
Fort D. A. Russell
Wyoming
Torreon
Nacuzari
War Department
Uyler
Nacozari
Mexico
Rebels Bottled Up Near Ojinaga Front
Federal reports from Ojinaga say Gen. Tracy Aubert with 1500 troops and Col. Landa with 800 have Pascual Orozco and about 1200 rebels blocked at Cuchillo Pardo, thirty miles south of Ojinaga near the Texas border.
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EL Paso
Tex
Ojinaga
Tracy Aubert
Landa
Pascual Orozre
Cuchillo Pardo
Texas
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Mayor Jones
Franklin Road
Vicinity
Congressman Garner
Ladies Auxiliary
Vedhines
Glenn H. Curtis
Claude Graham White
Charles Torres Weymann
Knox
Uhty-County Hospital
City
Ursuline Nuns
Moore
Border Patrol
Orozco
Aubert
Mexico City
Antonio Serna
Zapata
Serna
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