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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 21, 1915
Page
11
Mayor Brown names James F. Garland as his candidate for taxation and finance commissioner at an annual salary of 4000 dollars. The political advertising note emphasizes efficiency and Brown's administrative goals.
Johan Andreas Ackerman 39 native of Bexar County died Tuesday morning at his home on W. W. White Road near Shlade Creek. Funeral from the home Thursday afternoon. Interment in family burial ground. Survived by widow two daughters Mrs Hannah Coker and Alma Ackerman and four sons Christian Adolph Julian Ackerman of San Antonio and Emil Ackerman of Gray HII Duckels Henrietta EB Duckels 7h years old body found remains not fully readable.
A fragmented OCR list shows multiple automobile licenses and entries with mangled names and addresses such as C. Simon at Alazan street and W. F. Thornes Nolan arest. The garbled text includes makes like Buick and Yale motorcycle, plus vendor references for blinds and screens by Ed Broves & Sons.
Mrs. Duckels is survived by one daughter Miss Wetlis Duckels of Santa Monica California and one son Neal Duckels of Santa Monica. Funeral arrangements listed with Pearce-Habinson Undertaking Company and Ghelley-Loring Undertaking Co. Automobie equipment and ambulance service advertised. Cash Plan offers moderate priced funerals and rapid city ambulance.
Advert describes piping hot biscuits with Velva syrup praised for quality flavor and nutrition. Appeals to home cooks and emphasizes Velva as the key topping enhancing the meal.
State Comptroller Terrell urged curbing breweries and wholesalers to curb liquor retail in Texas, proposing licenses be forfeited for violations and a law to reduce saloon numbers in major cities. He claimed 300 gathered in San Antonio as leaders pressed for stricter regulation and potential monopolies.
An 1825 edition review by Dr Tinherts Bartholow debunks a claimed salve mix from Boliramy Laboratory Philadelphia. It critiques alleged cures for consumption and bronchial ailments, warns about unverified claims, and notes limited published evidence. The piece references Eckman’s Aitceratius and advises caution for the average consumer.
The Texas comptroller criticizes permissive permit practices and urges state regulation to curb saloon monopolies especially in residential districts. He cites San Antonio as a example where officials allegedly tolerate Sunday violations while enforcing minor offenses, and calls for rewards for convictions to deter violations. The convention opened with committee appointments as part of the discussion.
Marriage licenses listed include C Teneruga with Benita Zepeda and Chrletophee Joseph with Marian, plus other couples such as Connon and Hugh Wetter with Harriet Ash, and Metlwake with Pnesfeld Davis. Also named are Frank Panale and Winifred Gatinato, Methnedel Ty Perk and Lee Thames, and Ed Steves Sons offering Glass Blinds Screens and accessories. Contact numbers C-167 and 208.
Associated Press report from London portrays Palestine as under German influence with Dr Edith Pasternak noting 4000 Prussian officers and doctors in the Turkish army. Djemal Pasha’s rule seen as driving anti Jewish measures and expulsion actions in Jaffa. Also mentions typhoid threat and a state health board meeting in Galveston focusing on contagion controls and port border health funding.
In Chapel Hill on April 1 Br. Edward Kidder Graham was inaugurated president of the University of North Carolina, the oldest state supported university in the United States.
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