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Newspaper
San Antonio Light And Gazette
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1910
Page
1
Eight progressives are named to run for Congress in Iowa, the state seen as home of insurgent ideas. The item frames a political moment amid a larger discussion of reform and party strategy.
Mayor Callaghan may travel to Austin June 21 as the chamber of commerce insurance committee, led by Jake Wolff, presents San Antonio's case to the state fire rating board. They argue the city’s new budget improves readiness and should bring a lower key rate for insuring cities and towns in Texas.
In City Hall the reporter waits for the surveyor and for the record. The desk desk clerk and bookkeeper name Giraud Morin and a stack of stamp pages are searched while records remain locked. The process consumes several hours with little progress.
The women of Texas protested plans to ride 500 mounted figures to greet Roosevelt returning to America, arguing it would demean their dignity. The Chamber of Commerce faced backlash after the Prosperity Club proposed the gala review, which was recalled when Texas women voiced strong opposition.
A narrator finds a lone record dated February 22 1910 claiming a survey order for Stierown Street but learns it is not a full surveyor's record. The clerk admits that only the date is on file and no street measurements exist. The moment yields disappointment and a failed attempt to document the street.
King Victor Emmanuel and Queen Helena toured Avellino amid ruins after a disastrous event. The town lay in ruins and about 8000 residents bivouacked in surrounding countryside as locals showed their affection with spontaneous demonstrations.
More than a hundred supporters of O. B. Colquitt gathered at the Oriental hotel in Dallas to map an active campaign for the Texas Democratic nomination. R. M. Johnston of Houston chairs the organizing committee that will draft an voters address.
In Paris on June 8 a fifth century wine was shown at a learned society meeting by Professor Julian. The ultra aged beverage, 1500 years in a bottle, came from the Gallo Roman cemetery of Saint Beurim near Bordeaux. Antiquity judged by bottle shape and discovery site. No tasting reported.
Local forecast notes a 24 hour period ending 8 am with a high of 90 and a low of 72. It provides comparative temperature data for the current year versus the previous year.
Feliciano N. Flores deputy constable was stabbed by Garland Walker in a street incident. Doctors report Flores recovering well with no abdominal surgery needed. Walker died after noon from pistol and knife wounds. two assault charges against Walker pending.
President Taft signed a proclamation adding sixty million feet of merchantable timber to the national forest in New Mexico and opening nearly one hundred thousand acres of land to settlement.
Great confusion marked the morning session of the Democratic state convention in Little Rock Arkansas on June 8. The dispute over the seventh district senatorial contest between Carllee and Smith led Judge Foster of Rison to demand a clear nominee. Foster left the platform after being howled down. A roll call sent the contest to a second primary, and Little Rock was chosen as the next convention site.
Paris reports a wireless time signal service from the Eiffel Tower for ships at sea. The tower will transmit precise time at midnight two minutes after, and four minutes past twelve, allowing sailors to determine exact longitude without a chronometer.
Francis Evans a Philadelphia dentist visiting Vienna hunting exhibitions heard a cry and aided a woman who fled two suspicious men. The doctor helped her to a car but later found his gold watch chain diamond scarf pin and a pocketbook with $300 missing.
Jacksonville reports that Governor Broward leads United States Senator Taliaferro by more than 1500 votes with only parts of four Broward counties yet to hear from the tally rising to over 2000 as results come in.
Des Moines reports indicate Carroll a Republican and Porter a Democrat will likely be the gubernatorial nominees. Early returns show eight progressives and three standpatters chosen for Congress. Prouty leads Hull 1100 to 0 in the Seventh district with decisive reversal from two years ago. Smith leads Byers in the Ninth by about 200. Announcement rests on 200 precincts of 2500 statewide.
Sioux Falls dispatch reports late returns showing Egan independent candidate for governor defeating Stessey the progressive candidate for renomination. Elrod the stalwart candidate trails. Supporters claim a plurality of three to five thousand votes.
In front of hundreds of southerners a monument to 206 Confederate officers and privates buried on Johnston's Island, Lake Erie, was dedicated. The piece was erected by the Robert Patton chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy of Cincinnati and unveiled by Mrs. Mary Hudson. The dedicatory address was given by General Geo Gordon, with remarks by General Bennett Young, Joseph Mangus, and Sir Moses Ezekiel the monument’s designer, a former soldier under General Lee.
In Ghely a mob tortures three peasants over a church robbery. A youth is flogged to confess implicating two others who are burned. The fugitives flee, one dies leaping a precipice, the other drowns but is saved. An old man guarding the keys is horsewhipped and burned. The two gold crosses remain missing.
Women on the Metropolitan railway reported fur thefts as dresses were cut and fox tails removed. Police caught Russian suspect Moise Chipkine at the Chatelet cutting a fox tail from a mantle.
Mirthful exchange hints at a family tale where a son’s earnings come from a voice used to call carriages. The remark suggests pride and humor over unconventional talent.
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