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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1912
Page
4
Five convicts escaped from Camp yesterday with shackled confinement. One was recaptured in the city. Sheriff Tobin leads a search to locate the remaining four escapees.
Prominent people claim Mr. Clay Burton Vance can read lives from handwriting and birth dates. He offers free test readings to San Antonio Light readers who apply, sharing a letter from Prof Dixon praising the life reading and detailing how to request a delineation by sending birth details and a verse.
Sheriff Tobin and deputies search the county after five inmates fled the convict camp. One man was recaptured in front of the Royal theater on Houston street wearing broken anklets. four others remain at large. Superintendent Antonio Herrera was removed. A Vidal to replace him.
The Gimbel Delicatessen advertises lunches after matinee or shopping trips located on Crockett street opposite the Grand Opera House with service for ladies and gentlemen.
A telegram to D. E. Colp announces changes in the auto tour of John T. Nicholson and party along the Meridian road through Texas. Nicholson, secretary of the Meridian Road association, will be joined by three others from Blue Book of the American Automobile Association and St. Louis and Kansas City papers. The itinerary includes Fort Worth to Waco to Austin to San Antonio on December 9 10 11, with a San Antonio Automobile Club welcome and election. The group will proceed to Laredo the following days, with Dr. E. Colp and possibly John W. Warren accompanying.
M Carnals applies for a two room dwelling on South Monclova street costing 125 dollars. Morrie Block plans a grand stand on South Presa street with an estimated 6000 dollars. A Thanksgiving turkey dinner and chicken supper are offered today at Riverside Restaurant with special extra supper tonight. We are better prepared than ever and will be glad to see you all.
Former county Judge Phil Shook summarized six years of administration noting $724,591 spent on permanent improvements including a new jail poor farm and roadbuilding. The report covers cash basis finances, annual budgeting, auditing reforms and debt management showing net bonded debt drop and growing county resources.
A child of Archduke Charles Francis Joseph and Archduchess Vitar is born at Reichman near Vienna, making the prospective heir to Austria's imperial and royal thrones. The article notes a historic marriage date and a resignation of succession by Archduke Ferdinand from a morganatic line.
The Tel-Electric Piano Player joins telegraph telephone wireless and electric cars as a commonplace marvel. It attaches to any piano in hours with no damage or foot pedals and can be moved between rooms. Demonstrations by Thomas Moore Cornell of the Tel-Electric Company travel to Mike Goggan music house at 225 East Houston Street for appointments. Hood's Sarsaparilla advertised as a digestive tonic.
More than a thousand delegates from national and regional groups prepare to gather in Washington for the National Rivers and Harbors congress meetings on December 4 to 6. The body backs expanding inland waterways with broad policy support for canal projects and deeper rivers and harbors. Presidents and ministers, including Taft and Peru's envoy, are slated speakers with governors and mayors attending. George P. Blow of La Salle, Illinois, is set to speak after opening remarks.
The National Rivers and Harbors congress urges a 50 million dollar bond issue to widen and deepen waterways. Delegates aim to influence Congress and state bond actions. The Women’s National Rivers and Harbors congress meets December 4 5 6 at the New Willard hotel to push similar aims.
L Cooper and M M Harding will present illustrated lectures on dredging harbor deepening and ocean river terminals. Ss Sparks and Fitzgerald will discuss waterway bills and Cape Cod canal value, with Henry Stimson commenting on the Panama Canal project and inland waterways.
Miss Cecelia Farley, known for the shooting of Alvin E. Zollinger of Columbus, Ohio, spent several hours in San Antonio on Saturday with her mother. They arrived about 6 39 PM from Columbus, dined at a local hotel, and left at 8 30 PM for California. Farley had been acquitted about ten days earlier on the shooting charge.
Brownsville Texas November 30 District court hearings into the city election continue with 50 of 60 summoned witnesses testifying. The contest covers the mayor and several minor offices as irregularities and delays in voting are alleged while the second week ended and at least two more weeks are expected. Riverside Restaurant per tonight.
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