Texas Guinan Reveals Weight Reduction Book Offer
Texas Guinan promotes a new weight loss method claiming 70 pounds shed without pills diets or exercise. She denies internal remedies or external devices and offers a free book detailing her simple safe rapid fat reduction method sent to readers nationwide.
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Texas Guinan
N. Y
Miss Guinan
Texas
Earth
la Petite Adelaide
Adelaide
Louise Brunell
Europe
America
Suite 840
Lance Bldg
Los Angeles
Cal
City water contract talks resume after attorney returns
City officials press for a contract that protects municipal interests while the San Antonio Water Supply Company seeks rate concessions. Aldermen push to remove charges such as stationary washstands, arguing a universal rate cut is needed if concessions are granted. The company offers a revised schedule with some 20 percent cuts, plus charges for services not in the old contract.
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Gillette
Missouri
Claude V. Birkhead
San Antonio Water Supply Company
Brown
Water Company
Heavy rains paralyze Cuero area farm work and cotton
Cuero Texas reports two days of heavy rainfall totaling 5.66 inches on Thursday and Thursday night. The downpour halts all farm activities and damages open cotton. European lumber prices rise due to war demand for ammunition boxes.
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Cuero
Tex
Europe
Obituary notices for Christiana Dammann and Nellie C. Houston
Mrs. Christiana Dammann 66 died yesterday at her Upson road home in San Antonio after 20 years in the city. Survived by husband August, daughter Bertha, brother Rudolph Kielman, sister Minnie Kielman. Funeral 2 pm at Riebe Chapel. burial in new Lutheran Cemetery. Nellie C. Houston, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Houston of Somerville, died in Houston yesterday at 1:30 pm. Body to Floresville for funeral. survived by parents, three sisters and one brother.
Woman Found Guilty of Murder in Fulton
Mrs Susan Ross was found guilty of second degree murder for killing her husband J H Ross in Fulton Missouri The jury set a ten year term The weapon was hidden under a rug The son Ernest testified that he had struck his mother and the trial highlighted family turmoil Including the son mistreating his mother without his father’s intervention The piece also notes timber wealth in British Columbia and a forestry branch created in 1912.
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Fulton
Susan Ross
J. H. Ross
Ross
Ernest
Liberia
Brazil
United States
British Columbia
Lands Department
High Court Decision Needed For San Antonio Bond Issue
Judge Bliss says only a Supreme Court ruling can validate the $300,000 San Antonio school bond issue and allow sale by November 1. He recommends a taxpayer sue in district court for an injunction to halt negotiations until the high court decides. Bond buyers will not bid until the state's top court rules the charter valid.
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Supreme Court
San Antonio
Don A. Bliss
J. T. Sluder
Bliss
Frederick Terrell
Arnold & Carl
Carl
Sluder
Fourth Court of Civil Appeals
WOUND NOT SERIOUS IN BUCKHOLTZ CASEDallas New Home Woe
Mrs Henry C Buckholtz of San Antonio sustained a head wound in Dallas after her husband Buckholtz registered with her at a hotel and vanished. Police traced the injured woman to a hospital where doctors said the wound was not serious. The husband has not been found and the mother Mrs H Murville was notified.
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Dallas
Tex
Henry C. Buckholtz
San Antonio
Buckholtz
Floods Close Rail Lines Across South Texas
Heavy rains in the past three days flood South Texas rivers and creeks, delaying passenger and freight service. A San Patricio county bridge north of Linton on the San Antonio and Aransas Pass collapsed, tying up traffic between Skidmore and Corpus Christi. The Nueces River is rising as Corpus Christi records more than six inches of rain in 48 hours. A disturbance off the Rio Grande is expected to reach the area by night, prompting shipping warnings.
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Corpus Christi
Tex
Texas
San Patricio County
Linton
San Antonio
Aransas Pass
Skidmore
Nueces
Farmers Fear Rio Grande Overflow in Texas
A 24 foot rise in the Rio Grande reported from Rio Grande City worries farmers above and below Brownsville. If the river rises another third, it will overflow banks here. Brownsville strengthens levees north of town as authorities monitor conditions. TF 3 A health census of St. Louis babies will be conducted under three society women.
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Brownsville
Tex
Rio Grande
Rio Grande City
St. Louis
Army officer granted twenty days leave at Fort Sam Houston
Lieutenant Kyle Rucker of the Fourteenth Cavalry, Fort Sam Houston, has been granted a 20 days leave. He assists the judge advocate. Officers' children at Fort Sam Houston will entertain with a hop in the infantry post gymnasium tonight, a major social event of the season for the younger set at the fort.
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Kyle ‘Rucker
Fourteenth Cavalry
Fort Sam Houston
Rucker
Infantry Post
Fort
SEEK RACE MEET FUNDS FOR NOVEMBER MEET
Committees of the Chamber of Commerce seek subscriptions from business men to create a guaranteed fund for an automobile racing meet planned for early November. A total of about 8000 dollars is needed, with half pledged by the Automobile Club and the rest by Chamber members. Interviewing this morning were W. B. Tuttle, W. C. Rigsby, Simon Frank and John B. Carrington. It is understood that
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Chamber of Commerce
The
Automobile Club
W. B. Tuttle
W. C. Rigsby
Simon Frank
John B. Carrington
Committeemen Report Pledges Reach About Two Thousand
Committeemen have met with success in their work and that to date about $2000 has been pledged. The update notes steady progress and encourages further contributions to support ongoing efforts.
Woman Convicted in Texas Killing Case
Mrs. Etta Miller was convicted of murdering her husband John Miller after a summer quarrel. The jury sentenced her to two years in prison but recommended suspension of the sentence. John Miller died two weeks after being shot.
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Ft, Worth
Tex
Etta Miller
John Miller
Miller
Felix Jones Granted Bail After Habeas Hearing in Battle Murder Case
Waco Texas Sept 26 Felix Jones after habeas corpus hearing at Gatesville was indicted by a special session of the grand jury for the August 20 murder of Frank Battle a Gatesville merchant. District Judge J H Arnold set bail at 7500 pending trial and Jones posted bond and was released for the January term.
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Waco
Tex
Felix Jones
Gatesville
Frank Battle
J. H. Arnold
Jones
J W Burke Dies In Austin Veteran Revenue Collector Dead
J W Burke aged 68 native of Pennsylvania died at his Austin home at 9 o clock. He served as United States revenue collector at Austin during the Harrison administration and was a former second lieutenant of the Twenty second Texas Rangers. A widow and several children survive.
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J. W. Burke
Austin
Tex
Pennsylvania
United States Revenue
Harrison
Texas Rangers
Wne
Breakfast origins and a fifteenth century proverb
A note traces breakfast as a modern invention from early times when people followed two meals a day. A fifteenth century proverb urged waking early to dine and sup early, with a humorous line about longevity. The Oxford dictionary cites 1463 as the first mention of the term breakfast, originally referring to the morning draught of ale.
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Houston Street
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