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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1911
Page
5
An antique health ad promotes Wyeth Sage and Sulphur for gray hair, claiming it darkens hair and promotes growth. The text touts youth as superior in business matters and notes a money back guarantee if the product fails, sold by W. C. Kalffeyer at 408 E Houston St.
The Social Purity league will hold an 8 o clock meeting at the YMCA auditorium to discuss building a large reform home for delinquent San Antonio children. Chairman James Anderson says state or county funding may be sought and the facility could be located in the country with about 1000 acres. The group aims to unite charities ministers Humane societies and business leaders to curb disorderly houses near schools and to lobby for a suitable building through the next legislature.
Lawrence Kansas August 17 George Leonard a real estate dealer and Fred Van Gosen died when their motorboat swept over the Kaw river dam after the engine failed near the structure. Their bodies were not recovered.
An old advertisement touts TIZ as a universal foot cure that draws out poisonous exudations, prevents swelling odor and sweating, heals corns bunions and callouses, and offers immediate relief after first use with a three week treatment. Sold in drugstores or directly from Walter Luther Dodge & Co Chicago.
A romance of the Mexican Revolution ends in marriage at San Bernardino as Amelia Spencer of Paso Robles elopes with Lawrence Converse of Glendora. Converse, once jailed in Juarez after fighting with insurgents, was freed through the State Department.
Delegates at the International Typographical Union convention in San Francisco begin a business day to select a 1912 meeting site with Cleveland Houston Vancouver and Ottawa named. The session focuses on administration versus anti administration factions as plans loom for the May referendum on President Lynch.
Rome reports the pope has a normal temperature and shows improvement. For the first time since the illness worsened, doctors allow a liquid diet departure and order light rice with broth and stewed fruits.
Taylor Texas August 17. Builders seek carpenters as demand rises from new and planned projects. Fred I. Fisher secretary of the Taylor Board of Trade says he wired Austin and other places for skilled help. Building activity is growing.
Mexican Joe, touring a tent show with his family in Eastern Kentucky, was shot fatally during a Four Mile, Kentucky performance. Two of his daughters were wounded by stray bullets with injuries to the neck and thigh as three Hendrickson brothers opened fire, firing at least fifty shots.
The Smithville Water Light and Power company awarded a contract for two artesian wells to provide town water. Frequent Colorado river rises have caused muddy supply, and the wells are expected to eliminate consumer complaints.
Irven Hutchison of Three Rivers Michigan says a four year battle with recurring dry eczema ended after using Cuticura Soap Ointment and Pills. He notes initial doctor diagnosis and family heredity and mentions free samples and a 32 page skin book offered by Potter Drug & Chem Corp.
Freight tariffs filed with the Interstate Commerce Commission by southwestern lines to raise charges on fresh meats and packing house products from Texas Oklahoma and other southwest origins to other states were suspended from August 18 to December 16. The eight percent rate hike affects 500 to 600 railways and steamship firms. The commission continues a broader inquiry into livestock and packing product rates with an expected general adjustment by year end.
Fire of unknown origin destroyed a two story building at 817 Elm Street in Dallas housing the Harris Millinery company. The loss totals $100,000 with $30,000 insured on the building and about $50,000 on the millinery stock. owner A. A. Jackson insured.
Mrs Amanda Irwin a New York widow was admitted to Bellevue hospital suffering hydrophobia the disease’s symptoms had been unnoticed for five years Neighbors say she was bitten by a mad dog in 1906 Physicians said an inoculation given five years earlier had been slowly effective.
A woman in a severe crisis attacked a police officer and required an ambulance crew to use a straight jacket to restrain her before hospitalization. Medical staff deemed her case hopeless.
Citizens in New Mexico publicly back President Taft's veto as hundreds of messages arrive at the White House praising the president's action.
A telegram from New Mexico citizens urged delaying statehood rather than endorsing the recall of the Arizona judiciary. The president replied praising the public spirit and saying the delay heightens resolve to carry out an unpleasant duty.
Fire destroyed the cotton gin of Sladczyk and Primm at Primm. Two bales of cotton and a large quantity of seed burned. Local damage estimates are unavailable. No injuries were reported.
A New London Ohio reader praises the Neal Treatment at the Neal Institute in Dallas and Pease, Reuters style. The method uses a plant based remedy given with regular medical oversight to curb alcohol desire. It claims no injections and a few days to sobriety.
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