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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 20, 1911
Page
11
A visitor tour explains San Antonio Gas and Electric plant operations from coke furnaces to a purification filter of corn cobs and iron rust. Workers monitor a glass dial showing daily noon to evening kitchen demand as tanks rise and fall with gas pressure.
The Kerrville Fair begins Wednesday August 23 with the Business Men's Stake race for two year-olds. Among eighteen entries, the event is billed as the greatest race in Kerrville fair history and attracts spectators from afar.
A witty verse about Mrs Jinks's costly hat habit and her husband James Jinks. He jokes about buying an aeroplane and, later, a skypiece sailor hat to outshine her millinery spree. He reveals mortgage strain and jokes about homelessness to curb extravagance.
Henderson of San Antonio Texas was released in 2500 bail in New York on arraignment for shooting Rosa Malcheado a newswoman. He says the revolver discharged accidentally when it slipped while he was buying a newspaper at her stand.
B D Hatcher argues irrigation drives prosperity for San Antonio and Southwest Texas. He cites arching increases in per capita bank deposits and populations in irrigated districts from California to Idaho, Arizona, and Texas, urging expanded irrigation and development of irrigable lands to sustain growth.
A Kentucky resident from Fairview, Ivy Gray, endorses Peruna as the best cough and cold medicine. The piece asserts summer colds are common and harder to cure, but claims Peruna expels them quickly and strengthens the system.
The article notes the world’s deepest mines are in the Lake Superior copper belt. Tamarack No. 5 shaft reaches 5273.5 ft and No. 3 shaft about 5222 ft with crosscuts and slopes extending depths to 5368 ft. The Morro Velho gold mine in Brazil and Witwatersrand in Transvaal are cited as other great depths.
The No. 4 Calumet shaft of the Calumet & Hlcca Mining Co. is the world’s longest inclined shaft, now down to the 81st level about 8100 feet along a 38 degree slope. Mining authorities note that deep ore bodies require continual assurance of continuity, favorable temperatures, drainage, fuel, and massive capital and expertise, conditions rarer in precious metal mines.
Miss Bika Uranica an 18 year old Servian belle was ordered in a marriage court to disgorge rings and money she had accepted from suitors who courted her with false promises. Arriving from her homeland three weeks ago she attracted many suitors who bid against each other for her hand. She kept money from several and finally settled on a 19 year old lad whose marriage was blocked by older Servian men.
Mrs. Smith of Buffalo seeks 50000 from Dr. Pratt Institute New York City and W Augustus Pratt for permanent facial injuries and loss of sight after an alleged unskillful blemish removal. Justice Pooley reserved decision on the venue change motion in Supreme Court.
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