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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 13, 1913
Page
12
County commissioners granted J D Horn permission to install a telephone line to his property at Fest and Basse roads under the supervision of the road superintendent. Water bill for jail and poor house approved for payment totaling 193.45. Regular accounts approved. jail inspection conducted. numerous notices and adv items listed.
A fire at Morrison Coffee Company, 214 South Comal, San Antonio, destroyed about 3000 dollars worth of coffee and tea products, with 300 dollars in building damage. Fire Chief Wright pins the blaze on a lit cigar stump in a sawdust-filled cuspidor. Stock valued at 8000 dollars was saved, insured for 8000, while the ironclad building was 1200 dollars and insured for 800. Separate blazes at Brackenridge Park damaged a small frame building and threatened the pump house, with about 200 dollars in damage. Firefighting efforts used a single hose line. no injuries reported. An unrelated incident involved a misfired tar pot at 8009 South Presa Street causing a brief run, no damage. A report lists an alleged slayer arrested in Kansas City. Rock Hill Country Club incorporation articles filed in Austin for San Antonio-based venture with 600,000 dollars capital.
In Lexington Missouri a mob of several hundred searches for Goldie Winksfield a young Black man accused of murdering 13 year old Estelle Potter whose nude body was found on her father's farm. A local organizer called for hanging or burning him as vigilante action flares.
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