City Considers South Alamo Paving and Sprinkler Upgrades
At a city council meeting an ordinance to complete asphalt paving on South Alamo to the Aransas Pass depot is likely. City Engineer Pancoast will present cost figures while bids from several paving firms are invited. Streets are being systematically sprinkled to reduce dust, with new sprinklers hoped for before winter rains.
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South Alamo Street
Aransas Pass
Pancoast
Gus Jones
South Alamo
Martinez
Sap
Jones
Missouri
Louis Rubiola
Houston Street
San Pedro Avenue
Garden Street
Rubiola
Fishing accident ends with leg injury on Yuba River
Harry Michener a former racing chauffeur turned gold quartz miner slipped on rocks while landing a large trout on the upper Middle Yuba near Milton. He dislocated his right knee and, after a failed self reset, fired distress signals with his revolver. Mike D. Cogley arrived to assist and both men slid into a canyon before reaching shore. Michener was carried to the Garlin mine in a rough ascent.
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Allegheny, Cal
Harry Michener
Allegheny
Yuba
Milton
Michener
Mike D. Cogley
Garlian Mine
Negro women hold up and rob Benton Zerenta grocer
Two known female highwaywomen robbed grocer Benton Zerenta on South San Saba Street near Washington Park. Zerenta fought them, was stabbed in the arm, one suspect surrendered as officers pursued the other for nearly two blocks. Police say the pair, seasoned thieves, will face assault and robbery charges.
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Benton Zerenta
Jerome
Angel Barloco
San Saba Street
Washington Park
Zerenta
Rigoletto Quartet Stuns Ellery Band Concert
A large crowd gathered at Electric Park for the Ellery band concert presenting a cosmopolitan program. Standout numbers included The Poet and Peasant Overture, Sanson et Delilah trumpet solo, a Rigoletto act four scene with a famed quartet, Southern Roses, and the Second Hungarian Rhapsody. The Rigoletto number featured D Amico Muscente Croce and Giulii in a celebrated quartet. The Ellery band plans more music for Harvest Jubilee engagements.
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Electric Park
Ellery Band
Sanson Et Delilah
Gennaro D’amico
Messrs. D'Amico
Muscente
Croce
Giulii
Ellery
International Chamber Congress Opens in Boston Soon
In Boston 23 foreign countries have already gathered for the fifth international congress of Chamber of Commerce and Industrial associations to be held September 24 to 26. Delegates from Austria, Hungary, Argentina, Belgium, Brazil, Great Britain, Chile, China, Colombia, Ecuador, France, Germany, Mexico, Greece, Holland, Honduras, Italy, Norway, Portugal, Peru, Switzerland and Turkey are among early attendees as Boston businessmen expect one of the largest conventions in the history of international trade.
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Boston
Mass
Austria
Hungary
Argentine Republic
Belgium
Brazil
Great Britain
Chile
China
Columbia
Ecuador
France
Germany
Mexico
Greece
Holland
Honduras
Italy
Norway
Portugal
Peru
Switzerland
Turkey
Association
Jane Addams Backs Roosevelt In Roosevelt Taft Wilson Fight
Jane Addams renowned for aiding Chicago slum poor will actively support Colonel Roosevelt. She plans to call on friends and admirers to back Roosevelt in the presidential campaign against Taft and Wilson.
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Jane Addams
Chicago
Roosevelt
Taft
Wilson
James Routledge Named Delegate to International Congress
President Charles Graebner of the Chamber of Commerce appoints James Routledge as delegate to the International Congress of Chambers of Commerce in Boston. Routledge is currently in Rockport Massachusetts and will travel to Boston for the event.
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James Routledge
Charles Graebner
Chamber of Commerce
International Congress of Chambers of Commerce
Boston
Routledge
Rockport
Mass
Ad Men Meet Tuesday at San Antonio Advertisers Luncheon
The San Antonio Advertisers association holds a bi monthly luncheon Tuesday at the St Anthony hotel. J R Sprague will report on the Elbert Hubbard lecture to be given October 25 at Beethoven hall under club auspices. Sprague just returned from the east after meeting Hubbard's business manager. The club also discusses a winter lecture series of ten illustrated talks on advertising topics prepared by the national educational committee. The silk production of Japan has nearly doubled in the last ten years.
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San Antonio
National Association
Sings Girl to Freedom in Ossining Court
Ossining lawyer Stuart Baker sang Grace Williams free after she was arraigned before Police Justice William J. Chadeayne on a disorderly conduct charge. Squire Bradley testified she passed his house singing Everybody's Doin It and dancing the turkey trot. Baker requested a jury trial and six men acquitted her after the song.
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Ossining
N. Y
Stuart Baker
Grace Williams
Newcastle
William J. Chadeayne
Millwood
Miss Williams
Squire Bradley
Baker
Taft the Great Traveler Keeps World-Topping Record
President Taft has traveled about 100000 miles since taking office and 335000 miles since 1900, largely at government expense. He has spent many nights in sleeping cars and on steamships, with trips to Philadelphia Cuba Panama and around the world. He stands out among presidents for laboring on long speaking tours and maintaining fitness with a strict diet. He has a $25000 travel allowance and has addressed over two thousand speeches nationwide including in tank towns and public forums.
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Washington, D. C
William Howard Taft
United States
White House
Philadelphia
Cuba
Panama
Roosevelt
McKinley
Taft
Washington
Pennsylvania Railroad
Pacific Ocean
Europe
el Paso
Texas
Howdy
Porfirio Diaz
Mexico
Bathtub Theft Case in Washington Court
Magistrate Mullowney sentences Buddy Johnson to six months after he admits stealing a bathtub to sell for gin. Amanda Jackson, landlady, reported the incident in the local police court.
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Washington
Mullowney
Buddy Johnson
Amanda Jackson
Buddy
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