Spanish Swindlers Target San Antonio Victim Again
Local readers are warned about a Madrid initiated swindle sending fake letters promising large rewards for aiding a jailed holder of 330,000 dollars. John Dury of 431 Dwyer Avenue received the Madrid postmarked letter dated 4-9-1912, identical in handwriting to prior cases. The letter requests cable communications and promises a one third share of the fortune. In another note a geological estimate on U S water power is noted separately.
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New York City
San Antonio
Spain
Madrid
John Dury
Dwyer Avenue
Dury
America
Crowded San Antonio Schools Prompt Temporary Relief Plan
The San Antonio school board debated overcrowding with ten rooms exceeding capacity and average class sizes of 50 to 60. Temporary measures include portable classrooms, converting the janitor’s house, and possible new 12 room building on Beacon Hill, with February start tentative. Harvest Jubilee exhibit approved and early holidays granted for Children’s Day and San Antonio Day.
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San Antonio
Bonham School
Garden Street
Roberts Beacon Hill
Roberts Beacon Hill School
Lukin
Burnett School
Riverside Park School
Riverside Park
Eleanor Brackenridge
T. M. Dechman
Mothers’ Club
Dechman
Beacon Hill
Harvest Jubilee Association
Jubilee Association
Charles Lukin
Misses Susan Hall
Virginia Adams
Martha Kyler
Mae E. Wideman
Minnie Tiner
Rebecca Scheftelman
Minnie Jonas
Health Director Confined with Smallpox in Pittsburg
Dr. E B Walters director of public health at Pittsburgh Municipal Hospital is ill with smallpox contracted while fighting the disease in the foreign quarter. He passed a good night and recovery was expected. No new cases were reported and officials believe the spread is checked. One death occurred during the night.
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Pittsburg
EB. R. Walters
Kellogg's Sanitone Wafers Promised Nervous Energy
An advertisement touts Kellogg's Sanitone Wafers as a world leading nerve energizer for men and women. It claims cures for insomnia nervous breakdown and various ailments, offers a 50 cent free trial box and a 650 cent trial box, and lists F J Kellogg of Battle Creek Michigan as the distributor.
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Kellogg’s
Kellogg’s Sanstone
F. J. Kellogg
Hoffmaster Block
Battle Creek
Mich
F. J. Kellogg Co
Kellogg
Kellogg Sanitone Wafers On Sale In San Antonio
Regular 1.00 size Kellogg's Sanitone Wafers are advertised for sale in San Antonio by multiple dealers including A. M. Fischer 523 East Houston Street W. C. Kalteyer 410 East Houston Street Adolph Dreiss 119 North Alamo Street J. W. Talia ferro 120 East Houston Street and Schwab McElroy's 4 Drug Stores. No free boxes from druggists.
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Kellogg's
Freight Traffic Bureau计划在今夜召开筹备会
商会特别委员会为建立货运交通局而召集会议。斯特劳斯主席宣布今晚举行，目标是永久设立新机构。港口对外开启后，交通局被视为提升圣安东尼奥运输利益的关键，协会主席格雷布纳等人强调需密切关注运价政策。该局将建立完整关税档案，帮助厂商了解货物进入各地的成本。
Plan to Require Interlocking Plants in Four Rail Lines
The Texas railroad commission set for hearing in October a proposal to require interlocking plants at Denison on the Houston & Texas Central and Katy lines, at New Braunfels by the International & Great Northern and Katy, and at Midlothian by the Santa Fe and Houston & Texas Central. The move follows August reports of wrecks derailments and accidents on these lines.
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Austin
Tex
Mayfield
Railroad Commission
Denison
Houston & Texas Central
Katy
New Braunfels
International & Great Northern
Midlothian
Santa Fe
Southwest Texas Normal Opens Its Tenth Year
(Special to The Light) The tenth annual session of the Southwest Texas normal opened in San Marcos with a large student body as about 500 students enrolled.
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San Marcos
Tex
Southwest Texas Normal
Blanco hosts meeting on new good roads plan to Marble Falls
Delegates from Blanco, Bexar, Comal, Burnet and Llano counties gathered to Back the San Antonio Blanco and Granite Belt Good Roads association. They discussed a San Antonio to Marble Falls to Llano highway to boost tourism and rail access with pledges of active cooperation and a future October 3 Marble Falls session.
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San Antonio
Blanco City
Bexar
Blanco
Comal
Burne
Llano
Texas
Marble Falls
Liane
Johnson City
Twin Sisters
Vernon B. Goar
J. L. Strohm
Hall P. Street
R. E. Johnson
Charles E. Crist
A. M. Fischer
Fischer
Harvest Jubilee Association
Good Roads Association
Liano
Prof
N. J. Badu
Lee Jenigen
Will Collins
Rey. R. Pain
N. E. Faubion
R. B. Johnson
N. C. Galloway
Lewis Michel
W. P. Cochran
George Will
Conan Doyle Aims Real Detective Work For Slater Case
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle plans to use his analytic skills as a real detective to seek a reopening of the Oscar Slater case. Slater, a German jeweler, was arrested in New York three years ago and convicted in Edinburgh for the murder of Miss Marion Gilchrist, who owned 15000 dollars in gems. Slater is serving a life term at Peterhead prison and may be unaware of Doyle's move.
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Arthur Conan Doyle
Sherlock Holmes
Oscar Slater
Newark
Edinburgh
Scotland
Marion Gilchrist
Slater
Peterhead
Lampasas Eyes Co operative Highway Link to Marble Falls
The article notes Lampasas plans cooperation with a new good roads association and likely representation at the Marble Falls meeting. It describes a proposed fifty mile scenic highway from Marble Falls to Lampasas, connecting San Antonio and Dallas via a strengthened route.
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Worth Peterson
J. E. Crosby
Fred Meidman
Henry Bruemmer
Blanco County
William Grueger
Johnson City
J. F. Bomwell
E. D. Spaulding
R. Klappenbach
J. C. Coar
Vernon B. Gore
J. R. Johnson
John A. Brown
J. E. Wheat
George T.bryan
M. J. Peerig
San Antonio
D. E. Colp
Hall P. Street
J. M. Vance
J. L. Strohm
A. M. Fischer
A. H. Fraser
J. P. Morgan
Blanco
Percy T. Brigham
E. Comparet
T. P. Byler
J. J. Cage
John R. Reeve
R. L. Fischer
B. W. Palmer
Ed Linderman
Thad E. Cage
T. J. Anderson
Ed W. Roche
R. E. Stubbs
W. S. Morgan
P. M. Ross
Ed Byler
J. F. Yancy
Rev. B. J.edgar
Thomas Durham
P. M. Cox
Joe A. Spear
Lampasas
New Good Roads Association
Marble Falls
Dallas
San Atonio
Lumberman Archer Admits Forging Checks in St Louis
Walde mar 8. Archer, a lumberman well known in St Louis and New Orleans, is jailed and admits forging eight checks totaling 82 dollars after wasting his 40 thousand dollars savings on drink over five years. Six checks were drawn on Beaumont Texas First National Bank and two on Pensacola Florida First National Bank where he is known.
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ST. Louis
Waldemar
Archer
New Orleans
First National Bank
Beaumont
Tex
First National
Pensacola
Fla
Riebe Undertaking Co. Auto Ambulance Service
Riebe Undertaking Co. provides auto ambulance service from 221 E. Commerce. Phone 341.
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Riebe Undertaking Co
Auto Ambulance Service
Roosevelt to view old crib in Atlanta visit
The cradle that held Roosevelt’s mother as a baby will be shown to the candidate in Atlanta later this month. Found in Roswell near Atlanta, the bed bears “Made Denney Genetery for James Bulloch, March 15, 1835.” Mammy Grace, Mrs Roosevelt’s nurse, confirms the bed’s use by Mrs Roosevelt’s mother.
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Atlanta
Roosevelt
Roswell
James Bulloch
Co. W. McClure
Geo J
Major H P Jordan Visits Austin on Legislative Work
Major H P Jordan, to represent McLennan County in the Thirty third legislature, spent the day in Austin meeting with higher court officials. He said he has not yet committed to any speakership and will decide once the legislature convenes.
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Austin
Tex
H. P. Jordan
Mcc-Lennan County
Jordan
Scott Given Two Years for Bigamy in Vernon
Vernon Texas September 19 Frank Scott received a two year prison term for bigamy. The case was moved from Amarillo and District Attorney Har Bishop traveled with witnesses to Vernon for the proceedings. Bishop returned to Amarillo last night.
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Scott
Vernon
Tex
Frank Scott
Ama
Har Bishop
Amarillo
Optophone Demonstrated At South Kensington Exhibition
At the optical exhibition in the South Kensington Science Museum EB B Fournier d Albe of Birmingham University demonstrated his optophone. The device uses a light dependent resistance to produce a current varied by light intensity which, via a telephone and special contrivance, yields sound. The operator wears a phonic head-dress and points a housing box at light or dark surfaces to hear tones. A French invention also claims a weed and underwater growth remover for streams.
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South Kensington Science Museum
B. Fournier d'Albe
Birmingham University
Mr. d'Albe
London Times
New Corn Cure GETS-IT Promises Painless Quick Help
Claims a new corn remedy that removes corn in two seconds without injuring flesh. Sold as GETS-IT by Lawrence & Co Chicago or local druggists for 25 cents per bottle with guaranteed satisfaction or money back.
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Lawrence & Co
Chicago
Williams Kidney Pills Offer Relief for Kidney and Bladder Ailments
Overworked nerves and kidney strain described with symptoms of back and side pain. Williams' Kidney Pills promoted as a remedy by A. M. Fischer, available in local drugstores.
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A. AL. Fischer
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Central Trust Company
Pital
San Antonio, Texas
Sotero Lanuza
Realtad
John
Geological Survey
United States
Ill
France
PLANG
Fe Bookkeeper
Special
Chamber of Commerce Committee
Straus
Port Aransas
Charles Graebner
Chamber of Commerce
C.oniot
Carter
J Little
Stetson's
Guyer
Williams
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