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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 03, 1913
Page
16
The Farmers' Union expects a large San Antonio cotton warehouse to store local growers' bales. It would provide advances on stored crops, charging $1 plus 10 cents monthly per bale for insurance and costs, as the union aims to shield members from speculators and low prices.
The Farmers' Union and district unions plan to push closer links with consumers, aiming to cut out middlemen and secure better prices for cotton and other farm products. An estimated 3000 to 4000 farmers will attend the convention, with Southern Hotel as official HQ. District meetings precede the main event, held at Market Hall with sessions in several county court rooms.
J. W. Smith known as Buffalo Smith found ten acres of old walnut trees in a canyon near Medicine Lodge Kansas. The grove is unique in the area and attracted a walnut mill timber hunter who offered to buy. Smith may fetch around ten thousand dollars and is negotiating for a higher price.
Municipal Judge Fry fined Mrs. R. W. Hood of 4444 Christiana avenue ten dollars plus costs for speeding on July 9. He cited equality under woman suffrage saying she must be treated as men, though she claimed not to be in sympathy with suffrage.
A long list of individuals from Texas and other states arrive in San Antonio and register at or stay in local hotels including Pandora’s N B Ware Jr at the Savoy Dallas’s H B Millard at the Gunter Tyler’s A R Willett at the St Anthony St Louis’s H H Lewis at the Bexar Akron’s C Ryan at the Menger Weir’s L D Hall Aus tin’s Mr and Mrs Summers Beeville’s Morris Thurston and many others visiting and staying at the Savoy Gunter St Anthony Menger Bowie Crockett and Bexar hotels.
Thousands seek relief as physicians send patients to Harlandale for hot sulphur water treatments. Ambulatory and hospitalized individuals arrive by ambulance, cane, or crutch, reporting relief after a few baths. Attendants provide scientific methods and pleasant care, with a booklet detailing ailments that respond to the remedies. Hairdressing and manicure are offered. take the South Flores street car.
The county removed all graves from the poor farm burial grounds to City Cemetery No. 7 after a contract with Zizik Undertaking. Each body lies in a separate shaft with a distinct headstone. Land sale of 18 acres at about 1000 per acre aims to fund a new modern poor house nine miles from San Antonio.
Porterville reports that attorney George Critten woke from a two month convalescence to find he had lost eight inches of height. Medical experts note the body typically lengthens during rest, making this sudden shrinking an unusual anomaly during recovery.
A Washington column traces lobbying as an old practice across eras detailing Delilah as a lobbyist for the Philistines, Oliver le Diable in France, and Rizzio in Scotland. It notes powerful lobbies at Washington, including the McGarraghan case, and explains the term’s American origin from lawmakers’ lobbies in Congress.
A newspaper notice offers a penny free trial of ethine double strength from H. L. Wagner to remove freckles. It guarantees a money back promise if the treatment fails and notes that rarely more than one ounce is needed for the worst case.
J. G. Childress of Temple arrived in the city yesterday driving a Thomas touring car. The vehicle is currently being overhauled at Citizens' Auto Company garage.
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