San Antonio City Collector Max Sutor Ends Life After Political Turmoil
San Antonio May 2. City Collector Max Sutor, 55, committed suicide at 7 am after a conflict over city finances. The calloused ex-officer from Munich faced an alleged $8400 discrepancy while a three expert commission reviewed the books. Sutor, who rose from street worker to city figure, left a wife.
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San Antonio
Texas
Max, Sater
Sutor
Callaghan
Hicks
N.v. Wiggins
Wiggins
Max Sutor
Munich
Bavaria
How to Get Rich The Relentless Path to Wealth
A harsh guide advises ruthless self focus and wealth accumulation. It condemns charity and social bonds, claiming riches arrive after years of stinginess and isolation, with death eroding what remains as heirs quarrel over the spoils.
Fragmentary Local Anecdotes From An Old Post Office Note
A garbled fragment describes a Clay area man who kept a year long paper subscription and a post office note marked refused. It mentions a colonial era figure with a neck scar and a grand mother’s grave, a thief of coppers and a dead man’s eyes, and a tale of five children given a nickel to go to bed.
American Forces Attack Near San Fernando Philippines
A May 4 cable from General Otis reports Lawton’s division crossing the Maas river and charging entrenched Filipino forces four miles south of San Fernando. Casualties include two wounded. officers Hale and Wheaton led charges, driving the enemy and scattering troops. MacArthur heads toward San Fernando, bridge delays advance.
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Washington
D. C
Otis
Manila
Oregon
Dakota
Utah
Lawton
Maas
Wheaton
Hale
MacArthur
Juno
San Fernando
Mount Arayat
San Isidro
An Epidemic of Whooping Cough
Last winter during an epidemic my children contracted the disease with severe coughing spells. We used Chamberlains Cough Remedy for croup and found it relieved the cough and effected a complete cure. Forwood House Norwood NC Proprietor Juxon EK Craig. This remedy is for sale by all druggists.
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Chamberlain
Gough
Juxon EK
Craig Forrd
Forwood House
Norwood
N. C
Penitentiary Agent Sisk Takes In Readout of Convicts
Monday H. 8. Sisk delivered a list of inmates including Rome Foley burglary two years Ira Foley burglary four years Bud Drearey horse theft two years Joan Zak burglary two years Jap Simms cattle theft two years Paul Brooks burglary two years Will Davis burglary years Jim Conley rape four years Randall Johnson assault with intent to murder four years. The Herald notes antiquated beliefs about rheumatism and promotes Chamberlain's Pain Balm as a relief remedy.
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Sisk
Rome Foley
Ira Foley
Bud Drearey
Joan Zak
Jap Simms
Paul Brooks
Will Davis
Jim. Conley
Randall Johnson
Halletsville Herald
Court votes janitor salary and road overseer appointments
The commissioners court met at the start of the week. They set the janitor salary at 30 a month and appointed several new road overseers. Plans for improving the court house yard and jail sewerage were discussed. contractor C. B. Tipcas was approved for his fourth estimate of 10,000 pounds.
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Vogtland Phigpen Far Wan
Dillard
Gieptner
Quota Far
Frank Kutach
S.te
Ranlus
Wim
Thatia
Chumber
Otter
C. B. Tipcas
Halletevelle
Herald
Unclear Scribble Report Highlights Dinner Missteps
Fragmentary notes describe a dinner event with garbled language. The text hints at changes to drinks and courses and mentions Democratic beverage references, but details are obscured and names or dates are not reliably recoverable.
Mountain guns ordered to front in Philippines campaign
Washington May 4 reports mountain guns sent to the front in the Philippines as preparations to pursue rebels into the mountains proceed.
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Washington
DD. C
Philippines
Buckeye Pile Ointment Promises Immediate Cure
Advertisement touts TABLER'S BUCKEYE PILE OINTMENT as a curative for piles fissures and rectal itching with immediate relief and infallible cure. Priced 50 cents per bottle and 75 cents per tube, sold by Aug Grave.
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Tabler
Capitalist Expected In May Visit To Promote Canning Plant
East Texas capitalist C. A. Yancey from Port Lavaca is due in Yoakum DeWitt County on Friday to evaluate and likely fund the proposed local canning factory. He is expected to subscribe generously if impressed. A neighboring reader endorses Chamberlains Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy for flux with a positive testimonial from J W Lynch of Dorr West Virginia.
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Yoakum, DeWitt Co
Texas
C. A. Yancey
East Texas
Port Lavaca
Mac Stewart May Soon Be Free
A garbled wartime style note from Chihuahua Mexico discusses Mac Stewart, claiming he will be freed sooner than expected and mentioning Captain Jas McGarvey of Galveston Texas. The text weaves in advertisements for Herbaline health products and a courthouse context with damaged wording throughout.
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Mac
Stewart
Chihuahua
Mexico
Jas. McGarvey
Galveston
Texas
Mac Stewart
Kean
Aguinaldo Defiant as Spanish Prisoners Remain
Fragmentary report notes Aguinaldo at official digs in Madrid Maye 4m and in the Philippines. General Rios and Spanish mission discuss sovereignty while Aguinaldo declines to surrender prisoners.
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Madrid
Rios
Philippines
Aguinaldo
Aqnericanas
Nelepasswou
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Graker
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Benwinont Jonynal
J. W. Lyncn
Dorr
W. Va
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Spain
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J. H. Huebner
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Irwina Machine Co
N. N Chen
Mem Sens
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McCall’s. Magazine
Ecribe
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Tesass
Lecal Blanks
Akatine
Graves
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Readler
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