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Newspaper

San Antonio Light

Location

San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Date

Apr 10, 1914

Page

11

Sands Aims to Regain Court Tennis Title in New York

Charles E. Sands of the New York Racquet and Tennis Club seeks to reclaim the national amateur court tennis championship from Jay Gould after defeating Charles T. Russe in the final. Sands, age 49, has shown strong form, beating younger rivals and displaying sharp attack and defense.

New York Charles E. Sands Tuxedo Park N. Y George F. Covey Jay Gould Jack White New York Tennis and Racquet Club Covey White

High Defeats Preps In Fast Baseball Duel

The San Antonio High School team defeated the Southwestern University Prep baseball squad 4 to 2 on Thursday afternoon. After a 2-2 tie through seven, the High School offense produced two runs in the eighth to take a lead the Preps could not answer. Both teams had errors, but the game remained competitive from the first pitch to the final out.

San Antonio High School Southwestern University Prep Southwesterns Ump High School S. A Gray Griesenbeck Hutchins Eckman Lawson Blalack Cappalletti

National Bowling Assn Congress Opens in Atlantic City

Nearly 1800 bowlers will compete in the seventh annual congress of the National Bowling Association in Atlantic City New Jersey. The event runs from Friday night to April 29 with participants from Eastern cities Western centers and Canada.

Atlantic City N. J National Bowling Association Canada

Onion Growers Meet in Laredo to Set Prices and Cars

A cooperative committee of onion growers will meet in Laredo on Saturday April 11 to discuss sales conditions markets distribution and price and to estimate car counts for big markets. Esales agents will join the meeting to plan cooperation and regulate supply to sustain reasonable demand. A large attendance is anticipated.

Co-Operative Committee of Onion Growers Laredo Esales

Weather Memo Shows Pressure and Temp Patterns

Explanatory notes at 8 a.m. describe air pressure, isotherms, and weather symbols. Reports indicate possible partly cloudy to cloudy conditions with rain or snow. Yesterday's precipitation was none, with a daily deficit of .08 inch and total Jan 1 deficit of 1.48 inches.

Steady Prices Amid Sparse Run at Union Stock Yards

April 10 at Union Stock Yards reports a light arrival of cattle and calves totaling 110 cattle 9 calves 14 horses 10 hogs 35 sheep and 2 goats. Prices held steady with best cows at 5.50 and calves 6 to 7.50. Hogs capped at 7.50. sheep and goats not yet weighed. Other markets show a strong hog and sheep undertone.

Union Stock Yards

Fort Worth Livestock Market Report Brisk With Mixed Demand

Fort Worth Texas notes cattle receipts around 2500 with calves 300 hogs 1800 and sheep 1300. Market steady to brisk on a strong basis. steers 6.25 to 7.50, cows 5.00 to 5.40, heifers 5.50 to 7.50, bulls 4.26 to 5.50, calves 5.50 to 8.50. Hogs slow but steady with top at 8.60 and bulk 8.25 to 8.50. sheep yards mostly goats in first hands all forenoon.

Fort Worth Tex

Livestock Prices Reported at St Louis Market

Hogs receipts 7600 with 7 and lights priced 7.00 to 8.90, good heavy 8.80 to 8.86. Cattle receipts 100 with native beef steers 7,509.25, cows and heifers 4.25 to 8.75, stockers 6.00 to 8.00, Texas and Indian steers 5.75 to 8.00, cows and calves 4.50 to 6.60, native calves 6.00. Sheep and lambs receipts 2000 with native muttons 5.75 to 6.50, lambs 7.00 to 8.35, sheared lambs 6.75 to 7.36.

ST. Louis Texas

Kansas City Market Report for Cattle Hogs and Sheep

Kansas City April 10 Receipts hogs 3500 strong bulk sales 8.55 to 8.70 lights 8.45 to 8.60 pigs 7.75 to 8.10 Cattle receipts 500 including 200 southerns strong prime fed steers 8.60 to 8.25 dressed beef steers 7.50 to 8.50 southern steers 6.60 to 8.10 cows 4.50 to 7.76 heifers 7.00 to 8.00 Sheep receipts 2000 10c higher lambs 7.50 to 8.15 yearlings 6.25 to 7.15 wethers 5.60 to 6.75 ewes 5.25 to 6.50

Kansas City

Market Report Chicago Livestock Prices and Receipts

Chicago livestock market report shows hogs with 15 000 receipts and sales mostly 8.80 to 8.85 for heavier lots while light hogs sold around 8.70 to 8.90. Cattle receipts around 1500 with ranges from 7.10 to 9.60 for beeves and 7.30 to 8.35 for Texas steers. Sheep receipts about 12 000 with natives at 5.40 to 7.00 and yearlings 5.80 to 7.50 and lambs native 6.30 to 8.15.

Chicago Texas

Market Report Butter Cheese and Poultry Prices In Chicago

Chicago April 10 Butter unchanged Eges lower receipts 24589 cases at mark cases included 16 117c ordinary firsts 16 liec firsts 1742 Cheese unchanged Potatoes higher Michigan Minnesota Wisconsin red 62 67c white 65 70c Poultry alive higher Springs 18c fowls 18c

Chicago Ills Michigan Minnesota Wisconsin

Easter Anticipation Boosts Local Egg Market

Easter proximity spurs demand for eggs as merchants report steady prices and plentiful country receipts. Retailers pay 16 cents per dozen. consumers buy at 18 to 20 cents. Sugar remains tight with low stock levels while tariffs influence cautious buying. Meat, corn, and Argentine import news note steady packers lists and Galveston reports.

San Antonio

US Steel unfilled tonnage falls to 4.65 million

New York April 10. The unfilled tonnage of the United States Steel Corporation as of April 1 totals 4,653,825 tons, down 372,615 tons from the previous month in this monthly industrial report.

New York United States Steel Corporation

Mercantile Markets Reported Rates in New York

Mercantile paper and sterling exchange firm with 60 day and demand quotes. Rates shown include 3 percent and 4 percent for paper, 486 percent for 60 day, 456.65 percent for demand, 484 percent for commercial bills, 58 1/2 cents for bar silver, and 45 1/2 cents for Mexican dollars.

New York Mercantile Paper Sterling Exchange Firm

Marine Intelligence Galveston April 10

Marine notices from Galveston report arrivals of the Colorado and El Occidente from New York Pearl Upp from Italy Tampa and Preston with an arrival at Bocas and Inkum from Britain Liverpool via éu.

Galveston Colorado el Occidente New York Pearl- Upp Ital Tampa Preston Bocas Inkum Liverpool

Automobile Licenses Listed with Owners and Addresses

No. 4924 Maxwell Alfred Vander Stucken 425 E Guenther street. No. 4925 Excelsior motorcycle F 5 Nichols 440 E Commerce street. No. 4926 Stearns Knight J H Thompson St Anthony hotel. No. 4927 Rev W H Drew 20 Travis street. No. 4928 Buick H L Scott 405 E Laurel street. No. 4929 Excelsior motorcycle J R Oerter 1434 Avenue D. No. 4980 Ford S W Applewhite 225 Fest street.

Maxwell Alfred Vander Stucken E. Guenther Street Excelsior Nichols E. Commerce Stret Stearns-Knight J. H. Thompson St. Anthony Hotel Rev W. H. Drew Travis Street Buick H. L. Scott E. Laurel Street J. R. Oerter Avenue D Ford W. Applewhite Fest Street

Local Marriage Licenses Reported

Jesus Enriquez and Genoveva Navarro apply for a marriage license. Piper and Clara Imann also seek licenses. Mark Tanker and Ethel Mary La Combe listed. Louis A. Boubhel and Sadie Dolle Kile, Rufus Walter Peckham and Georgia Casey noted.

Jesus Enriquez Genoveva Navarro Julius Piper Clara Imann Mark Tanker Ethel Mary la Combe Louis A. Boubhel Sadie Dolle Kile Rufus Walter Peckham Georgia Casey

Georgetown Postmaster Named

Washington April 10 The president nominated F. T. today for postmaster at Georgetown Texas.

Georgetown Washington, D. C F. T Tex

Holiday in Markets Observed Across Exchanges

On Good Friday all major stock and commodity exchanges in the United States and Europe are closed. In the United States the New York and several other exchanges will reopen tomorrow while the New York cotton and coffee exchanges resume Monday. European markets including London Paris Berlin Liverpool Havre and Hamburg also observe the holiday.

New York Europe New York Stock Exchange Consolidated Stock Exchange Curb Produce Exchange Boston Stock Exchange Chicago Board of Trade New York Cotton Exchange New York Coffee Exchange London Stock Exchange Paris Berlin Liverpool Cotton Exchange Havre Hamburg

Pastor Felger Leaves San Antonio for Baltimore Parish

Rev. J. C. Felger of Grace English Lutheran Church will move to St. Peter's in Baltimore, Md. He departs San Antonio after June 1 once a replacement is found, leaving a congregation that grew from under 70 to 270 communicants and helped establish Grace Lutheran Tuberculosis Sanitarium. A Good Friday service and congregational meeting will call a new pastor. Felger will speak on The Savior in the Sealed Sepulchre.

J. C. Felger Grace English Lutheran Church St. Peter's Baltimore Felger San Antonio Grace Church St. Peter's Church

Messenger Boys Strike at Western Union

About 45 messenger boys walked out from the local office at 7 this morning demanding higher wages and lenient rules. By 7 30 they returned to work with no further trouble.

Messenger Boys Western Union

Obituary notices for Nell Semlinger White and others

Nell Semlinger White of Eagle Pass died at 9 o'clock Thursday night at her mother's home. She leaves husband Alfred White, daughter Winifred, her mother, and four sisters. Funeral Saturday at 3:30 from her mother's home with Rev. Arthur Jones officiating. burial in Anchor Masonic cemetery. pallbearers listed. Also: W. G. Anderson, 59, died at 4:30 Friday at 111 Kipp Street. widow survivor. funeral Friday 5 p.m. from residence. burial in City cemetery No. 3. Etta Keating, 25, died at home in Somerset. body to San Antonio and burial to China, Texas.

White Nell Semlinger White Eagle Pass Winifred Semlinger North Street San Antonio Alfred White Winifred Semlinger Kate Schench B. H. Zuber John Bollows S. Fleischmann Charlotte Tex Arthur Jones First Presbyterian Church Anchor Masonic Cemetery Ben King R. J. Murray Frank Deutz William C. Everett Allen Nichols Brewer McNeil

New Haven Road Inquiry Continues In Senate Hearing

Testimony from A. S. May, New Haven treasurer, states the road owned all stock of the New England Navigation Company while denying securities for it. He cites limited obligations connected to Billard and questions about a $2,742,500 note. Witnesses refuse to answer key questions as proceedings proceed.

Folk Billard Company New Haven Road New Haven Cummings Congress McChord Railroad A. S. May The New England Navigation Company John L. Billard Mr. May

Garage Fire Traps Driver As He Sleeps

A garage blaze trapped a sleeping driver inside a garage as flames and fumes filled the space. Firefighters battled the fire, preventing spread to nearby structures. No injuries reported, and cause under investigation.

Mrs Hill and Daughter Die in Moriadale Fire Tragedy

Mrs Tennessee Hill 73 and her daughter Miss Mary J Hill 25 died Thursday night at their Moriadale home from burns suffered while tending a kitchen fire. Both women were fatally burned after their gowns caught fire. neighbors smothered flames. Their husband Lee Hill died March 4 of a stroke. A double funeral for Mrs Hill and Mary Hill is set for 9:30 Saturday at their home, burial alongside Lee Hill at Mission Burial Park.

Tennessee Hl Mary J. Hill Moriadale

Senate canals committee postpones hearings on Panama tolls repeal

Hearings before the Senate canals committee on the Panama tolls exemption repeal are postponed until Monday. Senators proposing substitutes for the Sims bill will urge plans, with EK T Chamberlain and Judge Thomas Burke possibly appearing. Pacific coast commercial representatives delaying arguments prompted the delay.

Washington, D. C Senate Canals Committee Panama EK. T. Chamberlain Navigation Thomas Burke Seattle Chamber of Commerce

Injunction Denied in Chicago Federal Case over Killifer

Judge Clarence W. Sessions denied the Chicago Federal League club's bid to bar catcher William Killifer Jr. from playing with the Philadelphia National League club. The ruling finds the 1918 reserve clause contract invalid and notes the 1914 agreements valid, while the 1918 contract is uncertain, lacking salary terms and mutuality, leaving breach remedies limited.

Grand Rapids Mich Clarence W. Sessions United States District Court Chicago Federal League Baseball Club William Killifer Jr Kilifer Chicago Auiladelphia Killifer Philadelphia Club

Constitutionalists Capture San Pedro and Iguala in Mexico

The Mexican government confirms for the first time that Torreon and Iguala have fallen to Constitutionalists. With Chilpancingo captured, Guerro’s capital moved to Iguala while Acapulco remains the only Federal seaport still held in the region.

Mexican Herald Torreon Iguala Guerrero Chilpancingo Acapulco

Johnson and Herrmann Hold Executive AL Meeting

President Ban B Johnson of the American League and August Herrmann chair of the commission met in Cincinnati in an impromptu executive session after Earl Hamilton jumped to the Kansas City Federals. Critics expect news after the meeting though few details were released.

Johnson Hermann Cincinnati Ohio Ban B. Johnson American League Regional Baseball Commission August Herrmann Earl Hamilton St. Louis Kansas City Federals Herrmann

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