Stenographers Class Organized by YWCA Auxiliary
An efficiency course for stenographers, as an auxiliary of the Business Woman's Club of the Young Women's Christian Association, will start with a 6 30 pm meeting at the association building. Plans for a group study course with the University of Texas and thrift and efficiency training are being explored. The YWCA Tennis Club officers meet Thursday at noon to draft club rules. Mrs. T A Coleman has lent Glen Marie for tennis courts near the Fifth Street bridge, boosting tennis prospects.
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Business Woman’s Club
Young Woman's Christian Association
Association
Teom
University of Texas
Takit
Young Woman’s Christian Association Tennis Club
T. A. Coleman
Glen Marie
Fifth Street Bridge
Ponder Inspects Road and New Rolling Stock Additions
PONDER special train chief of the San Antonio Uvalde Gulf railway leaves San Antonio to inspect the Mathis division and the Mathis to Nueces river section. He recently returned from Chicago and New York with four locomotives eight passenger coaches and four mail and baggage cars bought for the line. Two heavy freight engines of seventy five tons will be used for freight service. Two passenger engines of seventy tons will be used for fast trips when Mathis Corpus line opens. Engines to be shipped from American Locomotive Works New York with delivery in seventy five days. Coaches are 65 feet long with seating for 75 passengers.
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A. R. Ponder
San Antonio, Uvalde & Gulf Railway
Mathis
Nueces River
Ponder
Chicago
New York
Feright
Corpus
American Locomotive Works
Dallas Southwestern Traction Company Charter Filed
The Dallas Southwestern Traction Company charts an interurban line from Dallas to Glen Rose with a branch to Eagle Ford and Irving. Capital stock is $500,000, and the principal office will be in Dallas. Incorporators include E. P. Turner Cullen F. Thomas Sam P. Cochran BE Strickland Sam P. Morgan and B. M. Sansom of Alvarado.
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B. M. Sansom
Alvarado
First Woman Assistant Named by Pure Food Board
In Austin Texas on September 17 Dr J S Abbott announced the appointment of Mrs Elizabeth Darwin of Gainesville as the first woman assistant to the Pure Food and Drug Commission.
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Austin
Tex
Pure Food and Drug Commission
J. S. Abbott
Pure Food and Drug Commissioner
Elizabeth Darwin
Gainesville
Electric reading lamp combats glare for eye protection
The new electric reading lamp reduces glare and shields the eyes, offering a steadier light for reading. It emphasizes comfort and clarity, aiming to ease eye strain during long reading sessions.
England braces for historic strike tied to Dublin dispute
London reports a looming general strike as Dublin workers’ lockout sparks sympathy actions in Liverpool and Birmingham. Dock laborers, rail workers, and omnibus drivers push Britain toward crippling disruptions affecting the Manchester Ship Canal and midland trunk services.
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London
England
Dublin
Liverpool
Birmingham
Midland
Manchester Ship Canal
Third Ward Bond Benefit Club Forms Enrollment Drive
A call goes out to all residents interested in sharing the city bond issue benefits to enroll as members of the club and assist in looking after the ward's welfare.
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Third Ward
Obituary of Mrs A E Coates Texas educator and E S member
Mrs. A E Coates native of Columbus Georgia died at a Texas hospital after 35 years in the state. She taught public school in Pearsall for 20 years and was active in the Eastern Star. Funeral services will be at the Baptist church with burial in Pearsall. Survived by son A H Coates deputy county clerk and daughter Mrs BEP Maney of Plant City Florida.
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Coates
A. E. Coates
Columbus
Texas
Georgia
Frio Town
Pearsall
Order of Eastern Star
Sloan & Hagg
Baptist Church
Hell in business in Farrell described by Pittsburgh paper
The Damm family of Sharon, famed worldwide, risks losing renown after a Farrell unveiling. Signs for Hell ice cream attract locals with cheeky slogans as the family markets a theme linked to their name. The item ends noting Argentine bonds for oil development and Paris steel corset innovations.
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Sharon
Damm
Hell
Farrell
United States Steel Corporation
Conrad Hell
Main ‘Street
Improvement Club Seeks New Members in Third Ward
The Third Ward Improvement Club expands beyond Ruiz street to cover the ward by sending circulars inviting residents to join. A meeting is set for 8:15 p m Thursday at Bowie school house on Delgado street. Secretary John A G Rabe notes sidewalks laid and efforts to have railways build storefront sidewalks with more work ahead.
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Third Ward
Railroad Official Denies Favoritism Over San Antonio Fares
A. R. Atkinson, division freight and passenger agent for the G H and A railroad, says tariffs from California to Texas are set on a blanket basis, with tickets to San Antonio valid via intermediate points. He argues no discrimination exists against San Antonio, Dallas, or Fort Worth, noting similar cross state rates as examples.
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A. R. Atkinson
G. H. & A. Railroad
San Antonio
Southern Pacific
California
B. B. Harlan
San Diego
Cal
Houston
Atkinson
Texas
Mr. Atkinson
Mineola
Tex
Dallas
Fort Worth
United States
Los Angeles
San Francisco
Adamless Eden sparks Denver debate on women's college
Mrs. Kate T. Wolsey of New York offers 500000 to found a college of women described as an Adamless Eden. State Senator Helen King Robinson says she will visit the colony to write about it but not stay, noting she could bear fewer men yet enjoy dinner with them now and then.
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Denver
Kate T. Wolsey
New York
Helen King Robinson
Fragmentary remark on spinster souls and social life
A speaker doubts the appeal of the place as a home. He notes some women possess spinster souls and can live without men, but admits he does not have such a soul himself.
Chinese Dreads Milk Like Oysters Shocked by Ice Cream
A Chinese dignitary visiting the United States at an uptown hotel dinner nervously eyed ice cream. After tasting a mouthful he smiled, then spat it out when another Chinese man whispered a single word. The remark, I said milk, explained the reaction.
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Pittsburg Dispatch
An Up
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Alamo Auto Sales Co
Bedell Ride
San Antonio, Texas
Stenographers Glass
Business Woman's Club of
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Ee Sant
Thomas Hungerford
S. A
U. & G. Railway
Hamous
Trafic
Comodoro Rivadavia
Paris
Aoe
Berlin
Improvement Club
Third Ward Organization
Ayer
J.C. Ayer Co
Lowell, Mage
Bailey
THE
SAN Antonio Loan & Trust CO
W. Commerce Street
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