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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 20, 1911
Page
14
A discussion of the expanding educational effect of films contrasts their broadening reach with amusing production lapses. Noting overlooked details in makeup and script handling, the piece cites examples from Klondike scenes and a San Antonio graft story to show how errors slip into popular cinema.
Four year old Virginia Peterson, held for four days in a locked room smeared with acid fumes, was rescued by police in Washington. Her mother Mrs. Sarah E. Peterson, believed insane, had used acid in a suspected suicide. The child lies critically ill in a hospital as a janitor’s curiosity foiled further harm.
In Dallas the heat overwhelmed C F Daniels of Milwaukee who sells stoves for Detroit Stove Works. He cooled off with three baths in a day, each bath containing a chunk of ice. Daniels described the day as almost unbearable yet noted the cooling baths kept him going.
Two yeggmen blew open the Thomas & Sons store safe in Anniston Alabama last night and took 17 cents. The safe was shattered by dynamite or nitroglycerin. During their escape they were fired upon but were not reported hit.
The page lists multiple railroad train numbers and routes across regions, including departures and arrivals for northbound lines, coastal towns, Kerrville, Houston, Galveston, Laredo, Mexico, and El Paso. It notes local, express, and mixed schedules with times such as 6:45am, 6:30pm, 7:30am, 9:05am, and 10:20am, detailing services to and from Houston, New Orleans, Dallas, Fort Worth, Victoria, Cuero, Kerrville, and other connections.
A silent era note explains telegrams cut to ten words for 25 cents cause a tragic misread, while film tricks show scenes run backward to comic effect. It describes a husband reaching his wife after misinterpreted messages and the reversal of eating and walking actions for humorous impact.
H P Street president of the Texas State Realty association travels to Uvalde to address the Dry Farming congress. He seeks endorsement to send a comprehensive Texas exhibit to major land shows in New York Chicago and Pittsburg and to obtain funds and exhibit support from congress members. The effort aims to boost dry farming and Texas products.
Alt A Vista Hotel in Corpus Christi Texas offers one hundred bay front rooms with family rates and accommodations for women and children. A gallery nine hundred feet and pier seventeen hundred feet provide free bathing and access. Naval school cadets provide music boating and entertainment. No files or mosquitoes. Automobile meets trains.
Albert Sidney Johnston Camp No. 144 holds 8:80 p m meeting at Woodmen hall to finalize plans for an outing to Kerrville on Wednesday by rail. Veterans and wives will attend memorials and a Kerrville opera house performance with a barbecue on Confederate Day.
Ensign R. S. Young Jr. of Concord North Carolina who vanished from the destroyer Yerkins and was found in New York City has been judged mentally irresponsible by a naval medical board in Norfolk Virginia. He is ordered to the government hospital for the insane in Washington for observation and treatment.
Bay City Texas August 19. Following a bond issue election funds to create a drainage district at Blessing the Matagorda county commissioners ordered a preliminary survey and appointed A B Leckie to supervise the work for an area up to 50 000 acres.
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