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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1911
Page
1
The Light promotes Webster's New Illustrated Dictionary at $4 retail, offered free to subscribers with six paper coupons plus 98 cents shipping. Bound in limp leather with full Bible-paper, the volume includes 600 illustrations in color, an encyclopedia section, grammar guidance, and a complete pronunciation key.
Members of the Dormitory club of the Young Men s Christian Association will host a New Year s reception at the Y building from 9 till 10 oclock. A basketball game at 8 15 and a musical program will follow with refreshments. Performers include Ernest Scrivener Frank Welter Miss Greathouse Mr Underwood a mixed quartet and soloists Mary Pancoast Prof Edward McKenzie.
A Constantinople dispatch reports the Turkish cabinet has resigned due to obstructive tactics by the opposition. The move comes amid political tension in the capital as reconciliation efforts fall short.
Col Henry Watterson, at a Charlotte banquet, warned that if Roosevelt returns to the presidency he would "Diarify" the office and Mexicanize the republic though he doubted a Roosevelt bid would win a single state in the nation. Watterson plans to deliver a peace lecture here tonight.
Secretary Wait says Theodore Roosevelt will stay on presidential nomination ballots unless John Do. Yeiser of Omaha withdraws his petition. Roosevelt cannot cancel the petition himself, and the name will remain on primary ballots.
Wolff & Marx Co plans a larger downtown building in 1912 to handle growing business. W. C. Rigsby says three sites on West Houston East Houston and Alamo plaza were offered but no firm deals exist. Current Alamo plaza lease runs to 1915 with possibility of renewal.
Deputies seek the owner of a two seated buggy believed driven from Blas Perez's home on December 21. The body was found on Simon Street the next morning and a Mexican drove the buggy to the Perez home and then away at speed. Investigators think the owner or a known man may light the mystery of Perez's death.
The publication touts its wide appeal with original articles, comic section, best pictures, unrivaled news service, and growing circulation in San Antonio. It urges readers to join a weekly audience that grows each Sunday.
Snow at Dalhart and a cold front sweep across Texas as a four degree temperature reading and light snow near Amarillo marked a system moving eastward. Rail service along the Denver and Fort Worth line faced three days of disruption as the cold wave advances.
A light snow fell in Dalhart Texas this morning with the temperature ten above and indications of continued snow. A Rock Island train delayed three days reached the town last night while no Denver trains have arrived from the north for three days.
Temperatures plunged to as low as fourteen degrees below zero across eastern and southern Colorado with La Junta reporting twelve inches of snow and cattle and other livestock suffering as water froze. Rabbits quail deer wolves and coyotes move toward ranch houses in search of food amid the deep freeze. The cold wave moves toward the Mississippi Valley as snow covers the central west from the Texan Panhandle to the Dakotas and Kansas City reports 15 to 20 degree drops since yesterday.
Train No. 3 the Oregonian on the Great Northern derailed near Sharon in Steel county Dakota. Five killed and many injured as a fire consumed the dining car. Temperatures dipped to 12 below zero hindering aid.
Cold wave hits San Antonio and vicinity tonight with rain possible. Temperatures range from 24 to 30 degrees. Fair but colder weather promised for Sunday.
Sun Yat Sen, provisional president of China, plans to depart for Nanking on New Year’s morning as the historic capital prepares for an inaugural ceremony marking its restoration as China's capital. In the past week, crowds in Nanking have endured wholesale queue shearing by soldiers with good humor.
For San Antonio and vicinity to night rain and colder with a cold wave and low 24 to 30 degrees. Sunday fair and colder.
Observations at 8 a m show varying temps and conditions across cities. ST LOUIS 36 with rain and 10 mph SE wind, tonight snow and colder. CHICAGO 34 with snow and 8 mph SE wind, tonight snow and colder, low 32. MILWAUKEE 28 cloudy, 4 mph N, snow and much colder, low 24. ST PAUL 16 cloudy, 6 mph N, snow and colder, low 14. KANSAS CITY 16 cloudy, 14 mph NW, snow tonight and Sunday, 16 hours. NEW YORK 26 cloudy, 8 mph N, snow Sunday, low 26. BOSTON 22 clear, 18 mph W, likely snow by Sunday night, low 20. WASHINGTON 34 cloudy, 4 mph S, rain or snow by Sunday night, low 34.
Statement declares that no other newspaper beyond the San Antonio Light carries the Associated Press leased wire, asserting no basis for such claim and cautioning against untoward assertions.
King George and Queen Mary returned to Calcutta after a royal tour of India. The king completed a big game shooting expedition in Nepal, reportedly counting thirty tigers and thirteen rhinoceros. The queen-empress conducted an extensive provincial tour.
Enthusiastic crowds flood Calcutta streets as the king emperor promotes the city as India’s premier. Their majesties stay until January 8 then sail to Bombay and on to England amid tight security for the Bengal agitation era.
Col Chapa on Gov Colquitt's staff leaves for Houston with attorney C M Chambers to gather testimony for his defense in the neutrality law case. They plan to reach Brownsville tomorrow night as federal court opens January 1 1912 with nearly forty witnesses summoned from San Antonio and connected routes.
The Cotton Spinners Federation ordered half time across most spinning mills in Lancashire. Unemployed workers rise to 250,000 as spinners and weavers join a continuing dispute over non union workers at the Helene mill in Accrington. Trade unions expect funds to last three to four weeks.
Jake Wolff president of the Chamber of Commerce said he would likely convene a committee meeting of city executives next Tuesday afternoon to discuss the San Antonio Rockport and Mexico Railway project and its expected San Antonio support. He plans a preliminary leaders meeting January 2 to review the proposition with chamber, real estate, young men’s business, jobbers and manufacturers leagues and retail merchants.
The exchange over a citizens peace banquet with President Taft reveals Franklin D Roosevelt objects to unamended arbitration treaties. Millard J. Bloomer asserts the event supports a broad peace movement as 1200 attendees are expected tonight.
Fluctuations in grain prices capped the year on the Chicago board of trade. A two cent drop in one cereal bulge and a near four cent rise in another were recorded as trades closed for 1911’s last business day.
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