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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 02, 1912
Page
5
George M. Cohan's Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford draws praise for its stagecraft and beguiling portrayal of a commercial buccaneer. The Grand Opera House presents the production tonight through Wednesday with a capable principal cast after hits in New York and Chicago.
The Girl From Tokio will be shown at the Grand opera house Thursday with matinee and night performances. A bright clean comedy farce, origin in German, enjoyed a 215 night run in Berlin. Leads include Julia Morton Edmond Forde Adelaide Matthews Lee Hobbs Martin May Holton Sherry Snyder Henry Travis John Raymond and others.
The German-French farce Alma Where Do You Live? proved a season favorite at Weber’s Theatre in New York City, with music cited as the key to its success. Joe Weber plans a re presentation featuring the same musical charm and performer lineup.
All day services were held at Prospect Hill Baptist Church starting 9 30 in the morning. The program included a Sunday school rally, a sermon on The Pillar of Truth, a church membership roll call of about 480, and an afternoon session on Financing the Kingdom followed by an installation service and talks by church leaders.
San Antonio Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks Lodge No 216 held a memorial at Travis Park Methodist Church honoring six members who died in the past year and forty nine on the roll. Officers and a large audience attended as Rev D E Hawk gave the benediction and music by the Pilgrim's Chorus and soloists accompanied by Gilbert E Schramm.
The Austin lodge of Elks held its annual memorial service at Hancock opera house with strong attendance despite bad weather. One lodge member died during the year, Walter Keeble of Elgin. Rev. Father J. M. Kirwin delivered the key address.
More than 1000 Elks members attended annual memorial service at Elks hall in Corpus Christi. Rev J W Sykes delivered the address with music by Celestial City quartet Mrs Walter W Newman and Carlos Boothroyd. Six Elks have died since the lodge formed six years ago.
Inclement weather kept attendance low at the Post D Travelers' Protective Association meeting. Several items were deferred to the next session on December 15, with R L Burnett to dispatch a congratulatory telegram on the wedding anniversary of National President and Mrs Michaux.
An ad extols Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets as a universal aid for indigestion and weak stomachs. It claims the tablets supply digestive elements like gastric juice, digest large amounts of food, and relieve sour and gassy stomachs after meals.
J L Walker Wharton Good Roads adviser tells D E Colp that precincts in Wharton will join a bond issue to extend the Alamo San Jacinto highway to the Jackson county line. He notes Wharton precinct No 1 voted 300000 for shell and permanent roads and could fund links to Fort Bend and Matagorda counties. Walker also becomes vice president of the Alamo San Jacinto Highway association after a Victoria meeting.
Medina county Devine precinct has sold a 40000 road bond issue and road construction will begin by January 15. Mayor J W Fullerton reports plans to hire a U S highway engineer to lay out and build the roads, with the San Antonio Laredo highway passing through the precinct to be improved permanently.
The army engineers proposed a 2.25 million dollar Texas river and harbor program for the year ending June 30, 1914. Funds cover Galveston harbor and channels, Houston ship channel, Inland Waterways, Brazos river works, Aransas Pass, Sabine Neches canal, Trinity river, and related jetties and bayous with totals and completion costs listed.
The report cites proposed river and harbor expenditures totaling 56.77 million dollars for the next fiscal year, up from last year’s allocations. It includes large sums for the Mississippi Ohio and Tennessee rivers, New York harbor, Chesapeake Bay, Savannah and other ports, plus fortification costs and overseas possessions funds.
Pape s Cold Compound advertisements promise rapid relief from head cold grippe with a 25 cent dose every two hours until three doses are taken. The copy claims it cures headaches fever nose congestion sneezing sore throat and rheumatic pains with no quinine and no substitutes.
Lieutenant General Uyehara resigned to the emperor after cabinet members refused his demand to add two army divisions. Premier Saionji remained optimistic about the cabinet’s future despite fears of collapse. Tony Jannus reached Memphis after night in Osceola and planned to hit Helena, Arkansas, as weather delayed his hydroplane journey. Absinthe poison component thyton found in wormwood fuels French consumption, with France importing over a million gallons in 1911 as European demand rises.
R E Mayfield escaped serious injury when his seven passenger Pierce Arrow was struck by a switch engine at the Wyoming street SP crossing at 8 20 this morning. The wrecked car was shoved 30 yards along the track before the engine could stop. Mayfield stayed with the car and helped the crew move it. He lives at 327 Wickes street and bought the vehicle two weeks ago for use as a delivery auto.
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