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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 30, 1912
Page
2
Demonstrations led by Colonel Frank A. Dillingham's agents at Fischer's drug store in Gibbs Building continue daily from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. Plant Juice is advertised as a powerful tonic for nervous debility stomach troubles liver and kidney issues with a money back guarantee.
Northern markets show meat prices up to five years peak while Chicago records rise. A San Antonio butcher undercuts northern packers as 60 percent of US meat is prepped northward, prompting questions about pricing and competition.
Fifty tents of the Texas National Guard were shipped to Quanah to aid families left homeless by Saturday's storm. Governor directed the adjutant general from West to dispatch the tents as reports indicate many people are without shelter.
Sidna Allen, one of the Hills outlaws, was seen yesterday afternoon in the mountains near Fancy by Dr. Thomas R. Ashby ofMt Airy. A posse of detectives is on the trail.
In Washington on April 30 J Bruce Ismay faced Senate probing panel denying reinsuring Titanic after sinking. Senator Smith pressed Dunn for the mysterious message about White Star knowledge of the fate hours before public release. Ismay testified on dinner parties and speed, and J W Andrews described hull damage and loss of life boats while Captain Smith gave warning of rapid sinking.
Andrews reports Boxhall will be recalled to tell about the incident. The note hints at a forthcoming testimony or clarification regarding events surrounding the case.
Halifax crews remove 190 Titanic victims from the Mackay Bennett after 806 bodies were found at sea. Captain Roberts confirms Astor's identity. Widener's fate remains uncertain. 116 bodies were buried at sea, with 18 women among the recovered.
Mrs Helen Allen wife of RE D Allen died at her Frio road home near the city limits at 10 30 last night She leaves her husband and extended family including Detroit relatives Funeral services will be held at 3 o clock this afternoon from Sloan Hagg parlors and interment will be in Mission burial ground E B Stevens aged 35 died at 10 30 this morning at 608 Navarro Street He had worked in real estate here for years and came from Illinois He is a native of Ohio son of James Stevens of Virginia A brother E J Stevens survives The Sloan Hagg company will transport the body tonight to Chillicothe Ohio for burial.
Jack Curley, manager of Jim Flynn, reports Tommy Ryan will supervise Flynn’s seven week training in Las Vegas starting soon. Ryan, working with Jim Corbett and Tommy Burns if available, plans to reach Las Vegas by next Sunday. Flynn and Curley left Hot Springs for Chicago to fulfill a Wichita engagement before heading to Nevada.
Mrs Helen Hathaway Britton principal owner of the St Louis National league team and her husband along with secretary W G Scheffield testified in the suit brought by Mrs Sarah Robison against E A Steininger president and estate executor. Robison seeks to restrain Steininger from voting her 248 3 4 shares and to have the stock registered in her name.
Athletes from Baylor University left Waco for a triangular track meet at College Station starting today and continuing tomorrow. The Baylor Baptists field a strong squad expected to contend against Texas A&M and Sherman teams.
Officers and enlisted men at Fort Sam Houston switch from olive drab to khaki as San Antonio faces a hot summer. The change went into effect April 25.
A policeman seized arms leaving a location claiming orders to take them to the station. He refused to concede rights and moved the arms to the station. Ambassador Wilson alerted the governor of the Federal District and the arms were returned without explanation. The incident is linked to recent leadership changes and police orders.
Refugee Takasaki claims a Magdalena bay mission unrelated to any government base. Dr Salton McGibbon notes US sentiment improves, stating fewer than fifty Americans remain in Mazatlan and face no danger. The Juarez passenger reports refuting U S government aims in the region.
The Associated Press reports a clash between federals and Zapatistas near Tres Marias twenty five miles north of Cuernavaca. An artillery detachment could not join the fight as rebels attacked a train and stopped unloads. Telegrams from Tepic say Santiago Ixcuintla has been recovered by government forces as rebels split into bands and fled to the hills.
A Nogales dispatch reports a leading representative of a large American farming colony in Sonora Mexico has returned from Washington and urges his people especially women and children to leave Mexico. He declines to reveal his name for stated reasons.
Felipe Lares known as Tutti led a bandit band near Agua de Robelas. Federal troops engaged the group. Lares was slain. Four of his men died, ten were wounded, and twenty prisoners, including the wounded, were captured.
The chamber of deputies authorized a $10,000,000 gold flotation to fund raising Mexico’s standing army to 60,000 and to arm and pay troops for the current campaign. Evolutionists refuse to recognize the flotation and bankers accept treasury notes at their own risk, per a telegram from General Pascual Orozeco.
EL PASO Texas April 80 The withdrawal of federal forces from Bermejillo is traced to unsanitary camp conditions and a breakout of black small pox. Deaths reached about ten daily for several days as troops were recalled to Mapima and Torreon.
The United States will not be the only government to send a vessel to Mexican waters. Information from Mexico City confirms that a British war ship will be ordered to Mexico and a French cruiser is rumored to visit a gulf port in Mexico soon.
London April 80. Winston Churchill opened the second reading of the home rule bill this afternoon. The six day debate features daily speakers from government and opposition led by Andrew Bonar Law and Premier Asquith with final remarks on May 9 before the vote.
Hallet T. Ellsworth has been appointed United States vice consul at a Mexican post. He left with his family to assume duties, and is the son of H. B. Ellsworth of the Water Works company.
A petition seeks dissolution of the Harvesters Trust alleging a 1902 merger among McCormick Harvesting, Deering, Plano, Warder Bushnell & Glessner, and Milwaukee Harvester. The five firms allegedly controlled over 85 percent of output and 65 percent of sales, with details of huge underwriter fees and a strategy to mask interstate activity through a related selling company.
The attorney general moves to transfer the anti trust suit against International Harvester from Minnesota district court to the Eighth circuit court of appeals. The expedited path aims for an early Supreme Court ruling with a likely issue date around August 5. Negotiations failed and Taft declined a settlement, favoring court action.
The House hesitated to pursue a formal investigation into the trust until Attorney General Wickersham promised to sue if talks toward a settlement collapsed. The stand-off centers on whether legal action will precede or follow congressional inquiry.
Cyrus McCormick issued a statement on the Harvester trust suit claiming the organization aims to cut costs in farming implement manufacture and sales. He says profits are under 7 percent, machine prices unchanged since 1902 despite higher material and wage costs, and asserts misconduct charges are unfounded. He notes no practical reorganization was deemed feasible in talks with officials. A Rembrandt print “Jan Sylvius” dated 1646 recently sold for 1625.
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