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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1912
Page
15
A chamber of commerce petition requesting a $5000 city appropriation for a sewer survey was pulled with mayoral sanction amid conflicting reasons. The council had referred the matter to the finance committee as city engineer work overlaps with a current topographical map project.
In Brownsville Texas the district court hears the mayoral election contest. The plaintiff recount across three of four precincts shows Cole two votes ahead of Cobolini though the trial focuses on the legality of many votes rather than a recount.
Lisbon reports at least eighty two fishermen died during a coastal storm this week. Survivors endured three days without food or water as heavy winds battered Portugal.
Two thousand children with US flags and school pennants marched in Denison Texas to advocate a $100000 high school bond issue on the ballot. Minnesotans in 1911 paid 8802669.80 in premiums to old line life insurance companies.
Washington officials study English plan to inoculate house flies with a fatal parasitic fungus empusa muscae to curb typhoid spread. The idea, while unproven, aligns with ongoing government work on disease carriers and past sacrifices of researchers in pursuit of public health advances.
We plan to discount bills to raise funds and pay outstanding debts. The seller promises some of the best bargains yet seen in San Antonio, with items such as carving sets,银ware and kitchen ware including chafing dishes, knives, tea pots, coffee machines, brass stands, enameled ware, and chinaware to be announced in coming columns.
A catalog of sporting goods and gun items including footballs striking bags golf sticks canvas loggins boxing gloves athletic shoes and gun components such as single and double barrel shotguns standard automatic 30-30s gun cases cartridge belts and related implements.
Prisoners in the Jonesboro jail refuse to work on public highways and other tasks. Mayor Burress has asked the circuit court judge to compel labor, seeking a legal remedy to force compliance.
The San Francisco Panama World's fair commissioners will ride a special car named Texas through Texas tonight on the Southern Pacific toward New York and Washington. R L McKibben, Sunset Central lines traveling passenger agent, accompanies the party through Texas.
William M. Droemer of San Antonio arrives in Austin to undergo Pasteur Institute therapy after a dog bite on the hand that is believed to be hydrophobia.
John R. Rogers a white man was arrested early this morning on a highway robbery charge. He allegedly held up five Mexicans in the Hill district at gunpoint, masked. One victim escaped and notified officers who arrested Rogers at his home.
D. EK Colp, secretary of the highway division of the Chamber of Commerce, has completed the Austin to San Antonio route for John C. Nicholson’s Meridian highway trip from Winnipeg to the Gulf. He plans to meet the party in Austin on December 12 and accompany them to San Antonio, with a rest day and a continuation to Laredo. The schedule lists stops at Buda Kyle San Marcos Hunter Guene New Braunfels Selma Fratt en route to San Antonio, with precise arrival and departure times.
The Young Women's Christian Association votes a Christmas membership campaign to recruit new members and renew existing ones. A Thanksgiving drive yielded 110 memberships. organizers aim to double that through the holiday effort and ask members to renew before the January annual meeting.
New York reports Commodore F G Bourne of the New York Yacht Club has had a 46 foot Venetian gondola built for his daughter at Thousand Islands. It uses an electric motor with storage batteries achieving nine mph and features Indian teak and African mahogany with carved exterior and leather paneling.
Corlett Lolo Horton Corlett 41 died after a long illness in Dallas. Former San Antonio resident survive son Frank Corlett and mother Mrs Emma Ton of Dallas. Frederick William Rinarz two died at home 120 West Theo last night aged two. Family had resided in city two weeks from Co Tex. Bodies prepared for burial and sent to Groesbee and Comfort respectively.
Mrs Minnie LaDuque was acquitted of murdering her husband W A LaDuque, shot last summer over his infidelity. The defense argued unwritten law, a plea also aiding Arthur Turner who was freed yesterday for killing an man who insulted his wife.
Wytheville Va December 6 The commonwealth closed its evidence at Sidna Allen trial leader of the Hillsville gunmen charged with murdering Attorney William Foster at Carroll county courthouse shooting The defense will begin late today Detroitt Free Press quote about a June bride and a Baltimoreans plea for Cleveland plan dance halls.
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