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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 28, 1911
Page
6
The Citizens' Ticket pledges to submit waterworks contracts to public vote, cut water gas and electric rates, improve streetcar service, require consent before water meters, oppose compulsory meters, spend taxpayer money wisely, favor local public improvements, bid public contracts to lowest bidders, and wipe out a six hundred thousand dollar overdraft from the current city administration.
In Wichita Kansas a store window sign brings together sisters Mrs Susan Pearl Burton of 624 Texas Ave and Mrs Cora Schaefer wife of the Schaefer hotel proprietor after four years in the city without meeting. Burton, daughter of Francis Galvin by his first marriage, and Schaefer by his second, were separated since childhood. Burton learned of her sister through Raggety’s name on an implement house, locating him to confirm the family link and reunite.
In Owensville Indiana April 28 an old settler recalls burning logs in youth as log haulers arrive with timber. Mills face a tree famine as remaining logs fetch strong prices after decades of plentiful supply in the local pocket region.
The Blite Cafe advertises affordable meals with good service in San Antonio. It touts a daily and Sunday dining window from noon to midnight and invites customers to try its value offering.
Marshfield Missouri April 28 La Fayette Jason a farmer has spent thirty one years on his quarter section never leaving his land since the Marshfield cyclone. After nearly a fatal injury he vowed to marry and remain on his farm until death with wife and children managing farm duties while he shuns town and liquor for over three decades.
Mme Louisa Tetrazzini will perform grand opera at the Metropolitan Opera house in New York during the 1911-1912 season and in Chicago Boston and Philadelphia. She will receive the highest salary ever paid to a female singer and may become American. Contracts signed with Chicago Grand Opera and Metropolitan Opera Boston are reported. Director Casazza sails to finalize New York agreement amid pending Hamerman suit.
A man in a Birmingham depot held a crying baby as a joke with a waiting passenger. The passenger suggests the mother will return to claim the child, claiming the baby is theirs, while the man reveals the truth and humor grows.
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