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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 18, 1911
Page
3
District Attorney Baker backs the suspended sentence law now in effect and set for first court review in October. It applies to first offenses on lesser felonies like theft over fifty dollars, excluding murder and arson, offering probation and potential full release if the defendant shows reform.
In the Labor Day queen contest at the Trades Council hall Miss Georgia Satterwhite of the Hack drivers union leads with an 840 vote margin over rival Miss Lena States of the Telephone Operatives. Other candidates include Maggie Recenthin, Otto Bruch, Dora Hermann, Myrtle Broderick, Katherine Plattner, and J. J. Tucker. Funds from the drive will aid a San Antonio labor temple. ballots cost one cent each. The Civil War note counts 186 017 negro soldiers in the northern army.
Mrs. A. Ealand and her niece Susie Farley aged 13 were thrown from a buggy when a shaft broke near Newell avenue causing the horse to run out of control. Both were injured with bruises and Farley suffering a compound fracture of the left leg. Dr. Jacobs treated them at home. the buggy crashed into a pole blocks north on River avenue.
The Matagorda commissioners court in session will establish a Citrus Grove polling place and create a Prairie Center precinct at the No. 12 schoolhouse. This expands Mata gorda to fourteen voting precincts from twelve.
Jeff T. Connolly of Tilmon was knocked unconscious and bruised after falling from the platform of a passenger coach in Lockhart Texas He was searching for laborers to gather his cotton crop and slipped on gravel as the train departed the station
Yoakum Texas August 18 reports high demand for cotton pickers in and around Yoakum with wages up to one dollar per hundred. Farmers face abundant open cotton and shortage of labor to harvest it.
Yoakum Mayor Dan T. Price says the city will be cleaned of filth and trash. Sidewalk construction continues and is expected to enable efficient mail delivery once completed.
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