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Newspaper

San Antonio Light

Location

San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Date

Aug 11, 1912

Page

12

Five Bexar Delegates Named for National Irrigation Congress

County Judge Phil Shook selects C. A. Goeth William A. Wurzbach Nat M. Washer John I. Kirkpatrick and G. A. Haiff to represent Bexar county at the Salt Lake City session September 30 to October 3. The aim is to gather and return irrigation insights including prospects for the Medina dam to aid Texas irrigation policy and statewide prosperity.

Bexar County Phil Shook Bexar’ County National Irrigation Congress Salt Lake City Utah Shook C. A. Goeth William A. Wurzbach Nat M. Washer John I. Kirkpatrick G. A. Haiff Arthur Hooker Judge Shook Béxar County Medina Texas Great West Felix Martinez el Paso Avery Turner Amarillo Richard Burgess

Decline in U S Medical Licensure Examinations

The New York Evening Mail notes that about 6960 physicians were examined for licenses last year, with nearly 20 percent failing. In five states where non graduates may sit the exam 320 applicants were tested and over 38 percent failed, reflecting ongoing access and qualification debates in medicine.

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Mr White Ducks Narrative Ends In River Ducking Tale

A lively river outing ends with a ducking of Mr White Duck Trousers amid a crowd of Married Ladies and gossiping couples. The fracas escalates as towels, mud soaked trousers and playful rebukes mingle with accusations and a lighthearted finish. The party departs at dusk, choir songs fading.

Isaac Walton

Picnic Party at Camp 33 Ends in Mischief

The annual San Antonio Press Club outing unfolds along the river to Camp 33 with a merry group of Girl Friends and Wives. A misdirected trip leads the party astray but they recover, while a reporter in white duck trousers incurs a prank culminating in a concealed nest scene high in a shady oak tree and vowed revenge.

San Antonio Press Club San Antonio Camp 338

Burleson Away on Vacation. Beck to Lead Practice

Dr. J. H. Burleson is out of the city on vacation until September 15. Lewis K. Beck will have charge of his practice during the absence. Office located at 401 407 Hicks Building.

J. H. Burleson Lewis K. Beck Hicks Building

Creamery Dairy Co Emphasizes Sanitization Rules

Sanitation rules are carefully followed in the preparation of every Creamery Dairy Co product. Phone number 871 appears in the notice.

Creamery Dairy CO

A Bachelor’s Blunder

Ada Patterson portrays a serious man inept at courtship who vows a sensible marriage yet pursues a woman with a guarded, pragmatic stance. She avoids him, yet he presses, insisting he will marry only after “knowing how he stood” and preferring a partner with “no spring chicken” folly.

He Asked Too Much of Her A Tale of Love and Madness

A man pressurizes a woman with a plan to marry, insisting on a rational match. She warns him and ends the pursuit, arguing that a cold calculated marriage lacks genuine motive. The story cautions that admiring a woman’s mind should not lead to urging marriage.

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John D. Rockefeller Moves to Enclose Private Residence Area

New York reports John D. Rockefeller is actively restricting commercial encroachment toward his city home on Fifty fourth Street. His agents have bid aggressively on parcels beyond earlier purchases, adding a four story brown stone mansion to his block this week. The effort aims to extend the protective ring around Rockefeller and his son’s houses, with brokers spending about twenty thousand dollars monthly to secure targets.

New York John D. Rockefeller Fifty-fourth Street Rockefeller

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Congress OF Irrigators Mr. White Press Club Camp 33 Woodward Frank A. Winerich Cne St. Mary's Street Alamo Automobile Company Ada Patterson John D C. H. Mueller C.H. Mueller
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