Daily Texan to be first South college daily
University of Texas announces the Daily Texan will replace the semi weekly edition. The editor and staff plan a daily paper for 2300 students with full university and state college news. Alumni are urged to support the bold venture as crucial to the university’s growth.
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Daily Texan
South
Austin
Tex
University of Texas
Ralph B. Feagan
Livingston
Jerry S. Fowler
Denton
P. H. Underwood
Amarillo
Texan
Middle West
East
Daily
Texas
Post Office Seeks Bids for Twine to Tie Letters
Washington Sept 17 The Postmaster General issued a call for bids on 2 200 000 pounds of twine to tie up letters and for 179 000 pounds of book paper for the year ending June 30 1914. Bids must be filed by October 16 and 30. Inventors of substitute tying devices urged to enter the competition.
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Washington, D. C
Postoffice Department
Burleson
Postal Service
Texas tax roll estimate shows large revenue increase
Austin report from the comptroller's department uses tax rolls from 50 counties. Valuation across the state exceeds the preliminary estimate of 2.618 billion dollars by more than 90 million. The year’s increase over the preliminary figure is about 75 million dollars.
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Austin
Tex
Comptroller’s Department
Ringling Brothers Circus Brings Vast Animal Menagerie
The article notes more than 1000 animals at Ringling Brothers World’s Greatest Circus, soon to exhibit in the city. It claims the collection includes over half of America’s elephants, large camel herds, yaks, and diverse deer, bear, monkey, cat, and antelope species, among exotic entries like yak vaarks and hippopotami.
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Ringling Brothers
Far East
Polar
America
Dandeline Promises Lush Hair With Danderine Cleanse
A 25 cent bottle of Knowltons Dandeline is advertised to instantly beautify hair. A cloth dampened with Danderine cleanses dust and oil, makes hair wavy and lustrous, and dissolves dandruff while invigorating the scalp and promoting growth.
Finances of Empire State in Bad Shape Ahead of Trial
Albany dispatch notes potential difficulty reconvening the legislature to pass revenue and bond bills as the Sulzer impeachment trial looms. Gov. Sulzer’s wife, a principal defense witness, and senators face compensation questions. trial could span weeks to months with numerous witnesses.
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Empire State
Albany
N. Y
Glynn
Senate
Sulzer
Court of Appeals
Frawley
James J. Frawley
New York
Samuel J. Ramsperger
Buffalo
Felix J. Sanner
Brooklyn
Elon R. Brown
Watertown
Ety
High Court
54 Hour Law Applies to Private Exchange Operators
The 54 hour law limiting female work hours extends to women employed as operators in private exchanges in towns over 5000. The attorney general's department ruled the law applies when such workers are on duty as operators, even if they perform stenographic or clerical tasks at other times.
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Austin
Tex
Attorney General's Department
Robert McKinley
James J. Hill Celebrates 75th Birthday in Glacier Park
James J. Hill founder of the Great Northern railway marked his seventy fifth birthday in Glacier Park Montana with over three hundred Veterans Association members in attendance at the first annual session. The group requires twenty five years of service for membership and presented Hill with a large bouquet of roses.
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James J. Hill
Glacier Park
Mont
Great Northern Railway
Veterans' Association of the Great Northern
Mr. Hill
The
Fresh flowers worth 250000 imported to UK in first half
January to June imports of fresh flowers into the United Kingdom reached 250000 dollars, double the value of the same period last year. The Paris board of health bans sale of tetrachloride and carbon hair lotions as heart head and stomach hazards. A Missouri woman patents a harness for chickens to restrain wings and prevent escape.
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United Kingdom
Paris
Missouri
Mexicans Celebrate Independence Day in San Antonio
A Mexican Independence Day program at Beethoven hall in San Antonio featured addresses, singing, and music. Speakers including Dr. Charles A. R. Campbell and Jose Vasconcelos drew parallels to 1810 and American liberty, with a large American audience in attendance and Hidalgo and Washington portraits flanking the speakers.
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San Antonio
Beethoven Hall
Mexico
Charles A. R. Campbell
Jose Vasconcelos
Mexico City
Kerrville Schools Report Record Enrollment
Kerrville Texas schools show the largest attendance in history as enrollment rises since Monday. The high school expects over 100 students before the term ends with strong interest in manual training domestic science and agriculture departments.
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Kerrville
Tex
Walnut-Tint Hair Stain Promises Undetectable Color Change
An advertising notice explains Walnut-Tint Hair Stain as a safe, odorless hair dye from Mrs. Potter's Hygienic Supply Co. It claims no poisonous metals, no staining on clothing, and a natural look from root to tip. A trial package costs twenty five cents with a full size package available for one dollar.
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Mrs. Potter's Hygienic Supply Co
Groton Bldg
Cincinnati
Ohio
Attempt on Otis Life Sparks Bomb Probe in Los Angeles
General Otis and authorities investigate a dynamite parcel bomb sent to the Los Angeles Times owner. The device used 85 percent dynamite, similar to the 1910 Times building explosion, with the Japanese servant alerting Otis to danger. Authorities consider Mexican political tensions and Huerta policy as possible motives while Otis holds land interests in Lower California and Sonora.
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Los Angeles
Cal
Harrison Gray Otis
Los Angeles Times
James B. McNamara
Times
United States
General Otis
McNamara
Lower
California
Socialistic Commonwealth
Otis
E. B. Feltz
Police Department
Sebastian
Huerta
Mexico
Porfirio Diaz
California and Mexican Ranch & Cattle Company
Sonora
Yuma
Arizona
Insurrectos
California and
Mexico Ranch and Cattle Company
Investigation of Attempt on General Otis in Los Angeles
Postoffice inspectors conduct a rigid inquiry into the latest attempt on General Harrison Grey Otis in Los Angeles. No official report has yet reached the postoffice department but is expected from the Los Angeles office. Chief Inspector Johnson is personally handling the case.
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Washington, D. C
Harrison Grey Otis
Los Angeles
Postoffice
Postoffice Department
Johnson
UT registrar reports record registrations for fall term
Registrar E J Mathews says applications exceed previous highs as UT prepares for the September 24 opening. Registration runs four days with freshmen limited to first two days and the fourth day afternoon. Seniors may register anytime. other former students only on Friday and Saturday. Exams begin September 22 and run through September 24 with subject listings by day.
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Austin
Tex
University of Texas
E. J. Mathews
Opening of International Congress and Exposition of Refrigeration
More than two thousand delegates gather in Chicago for the opening night at the Union Stock Yards pavilion. About five hundred foreign government representatives attend as the event discusses conservation of the world food supply. The government builds the largest refrigerator in the world at the amphitheater with two dozen rooms and Agricultural Department experts to demonstrate proper refrigerating methods.
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Chicago
Union Stock Yards
Agricultural Department
Real Estate Exchange probes long term ground lease commissions
A San Antonio Real Estate Exchange committee investigates terms and compensation for long term ground leases. The group met at the exchange HQ and will report on typical fees in other cities, with a special committee chaired by Austin to begin work tomorrow. The film of literary lines and a note on mining ventilation appear as unrelated excerpts.
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Real Estate Exchange
San Antonio
Ray M. Mackay
Alexanders. Taylor
Cleveland
National Associa
Taylor
Real Eistate Exchange
Austin
B. F. Nicholson
Russell P. Hill
O. F. Heinen
T. H. Flannery
W.S. Coness
Croxone Promises Quick Relief for Backache and Bladder Woes
An advertisement touts Croxone as a cure all for sleep disturbance, bladder weakness, backache, and rheumatism. It claims the product reaches kidneys, dissolves uric acids, heals bladder membranes, cleanses toxins, and yields fast, lasting results in a few days with three doses daily.
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San Antonio, Tex
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Hart Schaffner & Marx
Earl & Wilson
Fomby-Jones Co
Houston Street
San Antonio, Texas
Robert Louis Stevenson
Croxone
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