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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 05, 1911
Page
11
Texas & Pacific railroad officials announce the completion of a large reservoir near their Marshall shops. It has a capacity of 20,000,000 gallons and cost about 25000 dollars.
Wolfe Vocational School defeated St Louis College Junior 5 to 5 in five innings yesterday afternoon. Schmidt homered for the Juniors and Jungmichael fanned eight. Batteries: Wolfe Jungmichael Huntress St Louis Dreiss Schmidt. The University of Arkansas lost to the Pittsburg Pirates 12 to 2 at Little Rock yesterday.
Washington April 6 Justice McKenna of the Supreme Court aided Frederic D. McKenny in a courtroom exchange when a railroad term stumped him. The justice asked if the phrase Oh cheese it matched a bygone slang line and the bench shared a light moment.
The April 5 mobile downpour, deepest since 1900, submerged low areas forcing residents to remain indoors for hours. Backwater filled one of the city’s largest public schools to depths of three to four feet, crippling operations.
Yesterdays storm caused limited property damage in the New Orleans area. Telegraph communication to the north and east was partly paralyzed. Estimates put Louisiana coast and Lake Pontchartrain damage at twenty thousand dollars.
The Real Estate exchange launches weekly luncheons at the St Anthony hotel with a private dining room gathering tomorrow at 12 o'clock. Twenty five to fifty members expected. talks will follow, speakers to address later, with C A Trimble of Manufacturers' Record as a guest.
Special to The Light Austin April 5 the supreme court today refused applications including Union National Bank vs O R Menefee and Bankers Reserve Life Co vs Ellison among others Motions for rehearing overruled advanced or submitted and causes submitted list spans several counties with cases from Dallas Harris Bexar and Pecos
Special to the Light reports on today’s Court of Criminal Appeals actions. Affirmed rulings include Waltemayer Dixon Vela Whitaker Willling Vaughn Bazzano Mosher. reversed and remanded Pyles Green Morgan Highes. dismissed appeals Carrie Tucker Craig Hoyle. rehearing overruled Liles Patton. Cases and briefs listed for April 19 include Harris Carney Moore Drake McCullough etc.
The Real Estate Exchange holds its first San Antonio auction Thursday at 2 30 PM in the Exchange Building 229 East Houston Street. Committee members W A McDuffee S T Howard William Dobrowolski R G Callahan and A D Powers arrange five properties and sale rules with A D Powers leading the team. The event tests whether auctions stimulate local real estate business.
President Samuel Gompers of the AFL is due in Chicago Friday to help settle jurisdictional disputes harming organized labor. Internal warfare has tied up more than 10 million dollars in building projects, with contractors fearing a spring and summer standstill unless officials act.
An advertisement touts Solace cigarettes as comfort and solace for disappointment. It lists box prices from $2.25 to $5.50 and points readers to Sam Rosen thals at 514% and 400 East Houston for purchase. The copy ends with a generic guarantee about work from New York Star Dye Works.
Two prisoners in Stratford Texas jail last night attacked Sheriff Gamble of Sherman county, pinioned his arms and took his pistol. They locked him in a cell and escaped. Sheriff McCanness of Dallam county pursued the fugitives. names not released.
In Cleveland Ohio on April 5 coroner reports shock and grief over the discovery that 17 year old Anna Neumeister was the half sister of her sweetheart John Ott. Ott, a new boarder at the Neumeister home, died on the street after the revelation and the discovery of Miss Neumeister’s body in Lake Erie days earlier.
Lieut. H E Honeywell delayed in a world balloon trip uses time to buy 320 acres in La Salle county near Artesia Wells 98 miles south of San Antonio. He pays 7680 dollars to J H Lieber and George Surkey in a sale handled by Nicholson Furnish and Smith. An option on the adjacent 320 acres is also taken. The land lies in the artesian belt with soil suited to onions and oranges.
Negotiations for the merger of the Southern Iron and Steel Company and the Alabama Consolidated Coal and Iron Company proceed in New York with foreign interests, including British capitalists, prominent in the preliminaries. The Southern Iron and Steel Company operates properties in Georgia, Alabama and Tennessee. The Alabama Consolidated Coal and Iron Company owns and operates coal and iron lands in Alabama.
Sixty six infants from the New York foundling capital were sent by Special car to needy homes in Kansas the middle west Arkansas Oklahoma Louisiana and Texas. Some will reach childless households in the west and southwest as cradles remain vacant awaiting placement.
In the Pittsburg orphan's court Judge Miller ruled Karl F. Miller cannot claim more than half of Anna M. Gunning's estate valued over 100000. Gunning's will barred Miller from receiving funds unless he divorced his wife Jane Wilson, whom he lived with since 1899 with a brief separation 1901–02.
Nashville Tenn April 5 The lower house passed a bill to elect Secretary of State State Treasurer and Comptroller by the people instead of the legislature A companion bill also passed to extend the governor's term to four years from two
Col. W. W. Reichardt announced that Secretary of War J. M. Dickinson accepted an Arkansas Alumni Association invite to be guest of honor at a banquet during the forthcoming Confederate reunion in Little Rock Arkansas.
Rev. Jesse B. Hasson, 57, pastor of East Side Christian church Denver, died after typhoid pneumonia. Former UT faculty member, he preached in Galveston during the flood era.
Mrs J M Talbott died suddenly at her Cotulla home at 11 p m after an illness earlier in the evening. She was 60, an active Baptist church member and highly regarded in the community.
Charles Dewey Hilles of Dobbs Ferry New York was sworn in as secretary to the president for two years. The ceremony was administered by Col. W H Creek with President Taft and Andrew Carnegie among attendees.
A petition circulated in Christine Texas calls for an election to decide on a 20 cent per $100 tax levy for school purposes. The move seeks to authorize new funding for local education.
At a school board meeting the decision on compulsory vaccination for public school entry was left to the city physician. The city health officer may override in emergencies or if a child has blood poison or infirmities. Miss Emilie Fowler's resignation from Starr Street school was accepted. An official ballot will be used next Tuesday to elect four school trustees. Antiseptic Laundry. Dr. W S Hamilton, Specialist, skin disease, 627 Moore building.
C. J. Chabot files permit for an addition on the west side of Madison Street costing 250 dollars. Mia J. Henry seeks a five room house on the north side of Starr Street for 1000 dollars. Antonio Hernandez applies for a permit on the N east side of ee street for 200 dollars. Alf Reed requests an addition on the east side of Roosevelt Avenue for 50 dollars. L Mandry applies for an addition on the south side Wes Ce Vallos Street for 50 dollars.
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