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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 16, 1911
Page
2
Rioting at the Mersey port disrupts docks while Glasgow docks refuse fruit cargo. Leaders from this city direct the looming nationwide railway strike, threatening to cut off food supplies. Government, Sydney Buxton, seeks conciliation and partial service plans.
The advertisement urges specialization for success and promotes Kilmer's Swamp Root as a kidney liver and bladder remedy. It claims extensive physician endorsement and offers free sample bottles by mail from Dr Kilmer & Co with regular sizes priced at fifty cents and one dollar.
A Liverpool cotton buyer, A R Beck, visiting San Antonio, warns England’s strike will spread to industrial centers, bringing economic turmoil and lower cotton values. He blames labor party advances and wage demands by trimmers, predicting widespread upheaval and effects reaching Texas and the southern cotton trade.
The Senate asked for a further conference with the House on the farmers free list bill after Senator LaFollette presented the conference disagreement. The same conferees as before were named to resume talks in Washington.
Chicago Aug 16 members of the Southern Lumber Operators association hold an executive session with reps from Missouri Kansas Texas Mississippi and Tennessee. They are said to be considering plans to declare war on labor unions.
At the Chicago international aviation meet William E. Badger of Pittsburg and St Croix Johnstone of Chicago died in air crashes. Badger crashed while attempting volplane with engine running. Johnstone fell 500 feet and drowned after his monoplane exploded due to excessive gas tank pressure.
William R. Badger, 25, an aircraft enthusiast with independent means, was killed in Chicago. He lived much of his life in Pittsburg where he hoped to perform an aerial ascent before summer’s end. He had recently earned his aviator license after practicing at Mineola and had no wife.
Washington Aug. 16 A difference of from 3806 to 557 per cent between express and freight rates on articles shipped from eastern cities to Memphis Tennessee is the basis of a complaint filed today with the interstate commerce commission by the Memphis freight bureau.
Range finding at a glance is among the latest additions shown to infantry and cavalry officers at Fort Sam Houston. The instrument, an English invention, offers speeds of a few seconds with distances closely matching actual survey data in most tests. Lieutenant Colonel Brown has demonstrated it to the Third cavalry and other regiments, generating strong enthusiasm for its simplicity and accuracy. The Tasmanian British officer who suggested it noted its Boer War performance as highly efficient. The Monterey School of Musketry is testing it, with potential US Army adoption soon. Capt. T. W. Hollyday and Capt. Frank Halstead received extended leaves of absence.
Assistant Attorney General Robertson ruled the Dallas city charter does not allow the board of education to provide free textbooks to pupils. The board had planned distributing books to the first four grades despite the ruling.
Amalia Josephina Hernandez seven days old died Tuesday night at her parents residence 716 Cameron street. Funeral services were held this afternoon at Zizik Undertaking parlors at 3 o clock with interment in San Fernando cemetery.
In Austin on August 16, Governor Colquitt sent a new message urging a pure food law amendment to place the College Station bureau under the state food, dairy and drugs commissioner. He recommends broader inspection powers and abolishing redundant offices in the department. The senate debated Terrell’s antis counsel proposal amid heated exchanges as the investigation committee and house session adjourned for the day.
Charles Pyron, a grand jury bailiff visiting a friend on a ranch, fired at a coyote stealing pullets. He looked into a well for the captive and a yellow streak shot from the well, escaping into the brush, leaving the pullet as the only solid evidence of the theft.
James Cullen Henderson, 16, of San Antonio Texas was charged with homicide after a gun discharged while he tried to take change from his pocket and struck a newswoman at the Brooklyn Bridge entrance. The weapon went off as it fell to the sidewalk. The woman, Mrs Rose Mulhheode, died minutes later. Henderson was held in jail on 2500 bail awaiting inquest. He sent his mother a telegram claiming the act was unintentional.
The trial recounts letters and talks from defendant Mc Williams as proof of guilt chatter with Bob Richards and Nelson is cited as showing a guilty conscience. Prosecution highlights his visit to the Casaway residence the evening before discovery. Defense argues an inhouse guest could be responsible and notes muddy tracks but no entry evidence.
City authorities study a plan to convert collected street rubbish into combustible briquets for heating boilers aimed at waste reduction and energy use in Amsterdam.
Dr. Moore 2 arrives in San Antonio offering treatments for eye diseases. many patients in the city and surrounding state testify to his methods. He advertises cure for granulated eyes and cross eyes, and aOscillator method for weak eyes and headaches. Free consultation offered at Suite 204 Gunter Building Houston and St. Marys Streets San Antonio.
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