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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 05, 1917
Page
6
Funeral services for H P Drought a 58 year old prominent San Antonio businessman who died Wednesday morning of acute dilation of the heart will be held at 3 o clock Sunday afternoon from the residence.
Services by Rev. Father Quinn will follow at 8 30 o clock at St. Mary s Church and interment will be in St. Mary s Cemetery.
Mrs Gertrude Bowen 38 died at home on Francisco Street in San Fernando Addition at 10 15 p m Wednesday night She was a Gonzales County native and lived in San Antonio eight years Survived by husband C F Bowen six children Etta Gueldner Florence Patteson Ruth Mary Joyce and Charles Bowen of San Antonio two sisters Mrs M B Avant Nixon Texas and Mrs Callie Odom Grovetown Texas The body will be sent to for burial.
Nixon is listed with the Ludwig Undertaking Company and the Shelley-Loring Undertaking Co along with Automobile Equipment. Two phone numbers are given as 971 and Adv.
London reports friction over a six dollar twenty five cents weekly minimum for farm laborers. Disputes center on who is an able bodied worker and how to value wages in produce, rent, and allowances. The Agricultural Labourers Union warns against owners setting their own cottage rents and artificial prices.
The laborer lives in a house owned by a powerful local figure who also dominates the village administration. This person controls who serves in offices and directs local decisions. The arrangement shapes the community’s governance and daily life.
The Reserve area near Hiawatha Kansas is home to the county’s largest family, numbering roughly one thousand members. Within six miles of Reserve only about ten families are unrelated by blood or marriage, most of the newcomers being strangers who recently moved in.
Chief Evans will tour district recruiting drives as San Antonio firms host Navy stations during Naval Recruiting Week April 9 to 14. The Navy seeks 38 500 sailors by April 20 1917 and appeals to postmasters newspapers and citizens to aid.
A farmer near Quincy Illinois killed a ground hog twenty inches long and twelve pounds. It is the first such animal killed in Adams county in years.
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