Governors Conference Opens With Uniform Divorce Talk
A working meeting in Spring Lake New Jersey gathers thirty state executives with Taft and Wilson in attendance. Topics include uniform divorce laws inheritance taxes state control of utilities and prison labor.
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Spring Lake
N. J
House of Costa
Govenors
Chicago
Roosevelt
Washington
Taft
House of Governors
Woodrow Wilson
Wilson
Hadley
Isouri
Hoke Smith
Geoff
Night Riders Move Against Negro Cotton Pickers
White cappers struck through Ellis and Johnson counties near Midlothian and Venus in Texas, driving many negro workers from fields. Several victims were beaten and deputies dispatched to investigate as farmers lose help gathering crops.
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Ellis
Johnson Counties
Associated Press
Waxahacie
Tex
Midlothian
Venus
Ellis and
South African Farm Women Form Auxiliary Union Link
South African farm women organize an auxiliary to the International Congress of Farm Women in Colorado Springs set to begin October 17 during the dry farming congress. A Pretoria message says the women’s faction will meet October 5 and 6 and seek affiliation with the international gathering.
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Associated Press
Colorado Springs
Colo
Union of South Africa
International Congress of Farm Women
Pretoria
Dry Farming Congress
Realty Exchange to Meet in Corpus Christi
Realty exchange formed in Corpus Christi will hold a meeting tonight to review progress and discuss changes. Sixteen leading local realty firms have already joined the Texas Realty Dealers' association branch.
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Realty Exchange
Corpus Christi
Tex
Texas Realty Dealers’ Association
Organizaon
No Open Season Warns on Pigeons by Texas Game Board
W G Sterett, Game Fish and Oyster Commissioner, warns the public there is no open season for killing wild pigeons in Texas. Deputy Stevens’s remark is challenged. all wild pigeons are protected by state game laws and killing them anytime is a violation. The department asks sportsmen and the public to help prevent slaughter and to ignore rumors of a pigeon season.
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Lavernia
Stevens
Bexar County
Texas
State of
W. G. Sterett
Game, Fish and Oyster
Yoakum Schools Open Bigger enrollment tests capacity
Yoakum Texas reports city schools opened with larger enrollment than ever before. Three buildings across the city struggle to accommodate the pupils as the new term begins.
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Yoakum
Tex
Teachers Register Tuition Rates and Contact Details
A notice urges teachers to register their names addresses and tuition rates, and to supply telephone numbers and the number of pupils they can add to their classes. It requests cooperation by phone letter or in person.
California Priest May Be Canonized
San Francisco reports that Father Magia Catala, who arrived in California in 1794 and served at Santa Clara, has cleared the initial canonization hurdle. A papal commission found no objections in his writings and will now review testimonies from sixty two witnesses about his life and miracles.
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Associated Press
San Francisco
Father Magia Catala
California
Santa Clara
Rome
Father Catala
AP Press Service Changes in New York
Charles E. Kloeber resigns as superintendent of the western division to join a Los Angeles newspaper. Arthur W. Copp from Denver is appointed to replace him, and C. D. Hagerty of Chicago becomes Denver correspondent.
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Associated Press
New York
Charles E. Kloeber
Los Angeles
Cal
Arthur W. Copp
Denver
Mr. Kloeber
C. D. Hagerty
Chicago
Officers Hunt Martinez After Kingsville Shooting
Pablo Martinez, a Mexican bootlegger, remains missing after a Saturday shooting of Constable B C Bald win in Kingsville. Sheriff Wright of Nueces County with State Ranger Captain Saunders and four rangers scour the area for Martinez. Two Mexican men and two women linked to Martinez were arrested and jailed, brought from Kingsville by Catlebery and Deputy Joe lift.
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Martinez
Corpus Christi
Tex
Pablo Martinez
B. C. Baldwin
Kingsville
Wright
Neuces County
Saunders
Ee Catlebery
Joe Lift
Grocer W F Aferbach Sells Business to Hochheim Firm
Yoakum Texas September 11 A deal closed with W F Aferbach selling his grocery to G Himelrich of Hochheim Arno Lindner formerly of Hochheim will manage the business starting October 1.
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Yoakum
Tex
W. F. Afflerbach
G. Himelrich
Hochheim
Arno Lindner
Mexican In Knife Fight Wounds Freeman in Gonzales
In Oak Forest a fight between Holman Freeman a Black man and a Mexican whose name is not known ended with Freeman receiving a serious facial knife wound. The Mexican assailant escaped.
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Gonzales
Tex
Oak Forest
Holman Freeman
Freeman
Laws Are Observed At San Antonio Sunday Fun
Publicity about beer gambling and cockfighting on Sunday in San Antonio led to a strict crackdown. At Electric Park the previous Sunday offered tickets good for all concessions but only soft drinks were available and prize winnings left with the winners. Cockfights were not scheduled and inquiries found no open battles yesterday.
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San Antonio
Electric Park
Mrs George Brown Victim In Fatal Home Shooting
Mrs George Brown died after being shot at her Brown County home, husband jailed in connection with the case awaiting coroner inquest set for Thursday. Police say robbery is the motive. Brown had been married three times with prior husbands deceased or missing.
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Brownwood
Tex
George Brown
Brown
Comanche
Paying Profession: Minister Earns From Weddings In New Orleans
In New Orleans on September 11 the Trinity Episcopal Church rector Rev. A Gordon Bakewell shows a 27 year career yielding $50,000 from 10,036 weddings with an average fee of $5. The statistics are kept carefully to illustrate the worldly profitability of the ministry.
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New Orleans
Trinity Episcopal Church
A. Gordon Bakewell
M. Bakewell
Married Pair From Nacogdoches Wed in City
Herbert Schmidt and Miss Maude Joyce Sloan, prominent Nacogdoches youths, married at Nacogdoches with the bride’s father Rev T J Sloan performing the ceremony. The couple visits Bay City with the bride’s uncle Rev John Sloan amid friends from their hometown.
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Nacogdoches
Bay City
Tex
Herbert Schmidt
Miss Maude Joyce Sloan
Ev. T. J. Sloan
John Sloan
Royal orchestra at Sara toga restaurant plays daily
A royal orchestra performs each day at the Sara toga restaurant, delivering live music to diners and attracting local patrons. The event highlights ongoing cultural offerings in the area.
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Royal Orchestra
Saratoga Restaurant
Bell Blessed by Father Prat at Our Lady of Guadalupe
A 500 pound thirty four inch bell gifted by thirteen San Antonio patrons was blessed at a ceremony for the Teresian Mothers of the School of Our Lady of Guadalupe. Father Ramon Prat blessed the bell on behalf of Bishop J W Shaw as Spanish speaking clergy spoke on faith and the mothers who came from Spain. The bell will be used on special occasions and the smaller bell will summon students. The event featured music by school children and visitors toured the building.
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School of Our Lady of Guadalupe
San Antonio
Ramon Prat
San Fernando Cathed
J. W. Shaw
Prat
Juan Maistegui
Domingo Romero
Spain
United States
St. Joseph's Orphanage
Carnival and Live Stock Show Promises Big Turnout
PLAN ATTRACTIVE FAIR LOCKHART Tex Sept 11 From present prospects the eighth annual Carnival and Live Stock Show next month promises to be one of the best held here as the result of a bumper crop with wonderful developments in town and county The officers have not decided the program but it will be announced soon The livestock department promises to be among the finest Poultry shows will draw many fanciers who have spent to secure fine stock and breed carefully The Carnival association runs the affair on a mutual basis with net proceeds going to the park fund and the cemetery fund.
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Lockhart
Tex
Carnival Association
Grove's Tasteless Malaria Medicine Ad
An old advertisement promotes Grove's Tasteless Malaria Medicine claiming to support nursing mothers and children while building up the system. It lists Dr. Sara F. Herdman at Gibbs Building with contact numbers.
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Sara F. Herdman
Gibbs
N. P
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