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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 12, 1911
Page
7
The text discusses full weight and full measure, emphasizes cost per year of wear over price per gallon, and promotes a booklet titled Attractive Homes and How to Make They to assist in painting projects.
Standard Barn Paint is ready for use in gray yellow bright red and bronze green. It is specially adapted for barns roofs fences and outbuildings and is recommended as the best barn paint on the market today.
Dayton Ready made colors are machine made and superior to hand mixed lead and oil paints. Forty good colors are available with immediate results, reducing paint usage and cost while lasting years. Used for nearly forty years with great success, they offer color combinations to choose before buying paint.
Carriage Gloss Paint designed for repainting carriages buggies wagons and farm equipment. One coat application dries hard with a rich gloss. Comes in eight colors blue yellow wine color green CP green meteor red vermillion in small cans. Also offered in black blue yellow red and green for farm wagons and implements at low cost.
Love Brothers offer finishes that brighten and refresh rooms with a surface as hard and smooth as varnish. The product is washable and easy to keep clean, designed for interior decoration of woodwork, walls, and furniture. Available in white, black, and fourteen colors for homes, offices, hospitals, clubs, and public buildings.
Interior Enamel Colors offers a sanitary, economical alternative to carpets. It dries overnight and comes in ten colors for indoor and outdoor use. Request color cards before spring cleaning.
The twenty first annual Southern Hardware Jobbers association meeting will be held in San Antonio with headquarters at the St Anthony hotel from April 22 to 28. John Donnan of Richmond Virginia arrives early to coordinate preparations and local entertainment. Delegates from the southern states and as far as Pittsburg will attend, with joint sessions alongside the American Hardware Manufacturers association. Officials include W L Sanford Sherman Tex president C H Ireland Greensburg NC first vice president J A Summers Johnson City Tenn second vice president and John Donnan secretary treasurer.
M. F. Butler a negro about 16 years old was sent to the rock pile for twenty five days after a police court arraignment for following and frightening Maria Regaldo a 10 year old girl on Camaron street. The girl identified him. Butler claimed he was going to work and ran when chased.
The Texas Department of Insurance and Banking certifies that Germania Fire Insurance Company of New York has fully complied with Texas laws and is issued a certificate of authority to do business in the state for the year ending February 29, 1912. Commissioner B L Gill signs, with F J Scudder & Co as agents.
Capt. George Williams of the Pinkerton detective service touring San Antonio speaks on reform sweeping the nation. He notes race tracks and gambling resorts closed, old crooks jailed or dead, and little new criminal field left for growth. He recalls past days and predicts limited active work ahead.
San Antonio gains a substantial economic boost from the maneuver division stationed locally. Capt. Joseph Cusack notes $115,000 spent on commissary supplies last month, with a upcoming replenishment around April 25 and another large contract likely, boosting local jobbers and merchants during the troops’ stay through June 1.
In a police court hearing David Brown and rival East Commerce street candy and ice cream sellers testified over a brawl that left William Schrovina with a black blue mark. Brown admitted striking with a broom and paid a $5 fine.
The Rathskellar in San Antonio operates from noon to midnight offering good service, a choice delicatessen, and quick short orders at Elite Cafe.
Hilvey Roselle from Marinette Wis says Hood's Sarsaparilla served as a spring tonic and blood purifier after a period of fatigue and poor sleep. He credits finishing a bottle with a renewed sense of health and notes the household keeps Hood's medicines on hand. He promotes the liquid or Sarsataks tablets.
United States secret service men scour Sullivan county near the border with Dewar counties for a counterfeit plant producing a rush of spurious quarters dimes and five-cent pieces officials suspect hidden in the woods amid a months long flood of fake coin circulating locally.
Jews worldwide mark Pesach eight day festival recalling Exodus deliverance. At Temple Beth El tonight ceremonies start 6 15 with choir solos and festival hymns led by Rabbi Marks amid touring car ads and cut rate listings.
Five hundred miles of carpet weighing 1,500,000 pounds and valued at $1,000,000 were shipped from New York to San Francisco on a 60 car freight train. The production used 8,000 workers for eight days, equating to 64,000 worker days. The length would stretch from New York to Buffalo and beyond into Canada.
In Forty-fifth district court Miss May Center seeks damages from Artesian Belt Railway claiming a coach trip to Macdona left her with poor light heat and men drinking. Attorneys clash over the phrase a gentleman as they question the train crew and protections offered.
Local dining spot promotes 50 cent dinners with touted good service and meals. Ad invites patrons to try daily or Sunday hours from noon to midnight at Elite Cafe in San Antonio.
A vintage medical claim explains plasma as a healing element of blood and asserts that impurities destroy its healing power. It promotes S S S as the great blood purifier that penetrates the blood, cleanses the system, and aids tissue rebuilding to close old sores. Book on sores and ulcers and free advice offered by The Swift Space Company.
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