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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1912
Page
16
Texas gins over four million bales of cotton this year and exports more than half to foreign markets. Three-fourths of Texas cotton area lies nearer Aransas harbor, making Harbor City the likely export rail hub as ports open for business.
A page lists upcoming dances at Muth's Garden and the Dixie Social Club at M. W. A. hall with Diaz Sisters music. It also notes the Grand prize mask ball by Brunhilde Sister Lodge and other community events and notices from Bexar County Humane Society and local businesses. Two boys, 11 and 12, arrested for vagrancy and suspected stolen tools found with them on East Commerce Street. A man named Augustin Soto jailed for vagrancy after attempting to steal an ice cream freezer. Fiesta San Jacinto directors to meet. Curley Brown on trial for burglary. Amoma class meets at Prospect Hill Baptist.
A Wednesday parish meeting covered routine business in the church parlors followed by a luncheon. The next meeting is scheduled for January. Galbraith and Deputy Newton were dispatched to Southton, eight miles south of San Antonio, after a report of a shooting involving a Mexican man and a local Black suspect. The Mexican is described as badly wounded. County Treasurer E W Tynan’s accounts were examined by Judge Davis and the county commissioners, with conclusions expected tomorrow.
Alf Garza, pharmacist at the county poor farm, was reap pointed this morning by the county commissioners. Mrs. C. Garza was appointed matron and M. Mulhearn was named as night watchman. The office to his successor Peter Hoefgen was expected on Saturday.
In a bold ad style notice, readers are urged to buy ham bacon lard and compound from Union Meat Company with a home made claim and right price. The message critiques meals sent from Chicago Kansas City or Omaha and promotes local produce. Furniture tips from Feltoid Castors and Ed Steves & Sons appear in the same segment along with carriage robe sales from Woodward Carriage Co and bonds approved in Austin. A plumbing and osteopathy snippet closes the brief notices.
8 F Green, a Confederate veteran, files suit in Fifty third District Court seeking an injunction restraining Captain R Lyles and the board of managers from ousting him again and demanding 5000 for alleged malicious persecution. Judge Calhoun grants a temporary writ and sets hearing for next Saturday. Also notes a big Riverside Restaurant war tonight between Turkey and the Guests and a state agriculture exhibit shipment from Dallas fair on display in Austin.
The ad touts Texas Wonder as a remedy for kidney and bladder issues in men and women including diabetes and rheumatism. It claims regulate bladder problems in children, offers mail order for $1, and says one bottle provides two months of treatment with rare failure. Dr. BE Hall based in St. Louis is cited.
G W Caldwell a Medina Valley Irrigation construction engineer sails from New York December 20 to Barcelona Spain to work on a major hydro electric project. He travels with Mrs Caldwell and their three children. Under Chief Engineer C H Kearney Caldwell helped build the Medina dam contributing to a world record. He has worked with Dr F S Pearson on projects in Mexico and Brazil. December 14 about twenty foremen and skilled workers sail from Galveston for Barcelona.
The governor has offered a $200 reward for the arrest and conviction of G. L. Finley a negro charged with murdering G. W. Tucker a constable at Omaha Morris county. The reward is given at the request of Morris county sheriff.
Second Lieut Armine W. Smith of the Third Field Artillery at Fort Myer Virginia was tried by a general court martial and discharged from the army for submitting another officer s problem solution. The action was announced in general orders No 47 from department headquarters. Smith had been a member of the garrison school at Fort Myer.
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