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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 04, 1913
Page
6
Expelled cadets return to San Antonio amid damning faculty actions and a protest petition. Parents and legislators pressure reinstatement as 22 top scholars face expulsion gating student governance. Community notes list returning students and a local seafood and pharmacy ad wrap the page.
E Colp secretary of the history division of the Chamber of Commerce George D. Marshall and Charles G. Norton left by car for Edna for the Alamo Victoria San Juan Highway League meeting set for Wednesday. The itinerary includes good roads meetings in Cuero and nearby towns with sessions in Cuero Sesuin Gomales.
The Ben Hur Shiner Fair in San Antonio runs February 12 to 13. The country store promises to be the fair’s main attraction occupying one hall end with thousands of items from a can opener to elaborate furniture and attire. Manager Nable F. Martin says sales will showcase a wide variety and the event looks unique and successful.
An old advertisement promotes Texas Wonder as a remedy for kidney and bladder troubles including gravel diabete and back pain. It claims cure for men women and children with a $1.00 price and an offer to mail a bottle and treatment details to E W Hall St Louis Missouri.
San Antonio shoppers await a mid spring event described as a red letter day with waists touted as the most beautiful varied and reasonably priced ever offered to the women of the city.
It describes a competition among waist makers who send designers to Europe to perfect lines then ship their best numbers to major stores at reduced prices. The sale offers the newest season styles at prices lower than future purchases, and invites attendance tomorrow.
A bid opening set for Wednesday afternoon at 2 oclock for the first dormitory of St John orphanage to be built on a tract owned by the Catholic Church opposite the Grand Opera House. The plan includes a two story brick fireproof building with modern conveniences to serve as the girls dormitory with administration facilities, as part of a $173000 project for later expansion.
In a local restaurant a 27 year old man was fined 30 dollars by Buckler in police court after arraignment on a charge of tampering with a fire alarm box. A reward of 25 dollars was offered for information leading to the capture of the offender as the department reports 13 false alarms in January.
United States Marshal Bert McDowell plans to move several prisoners to Leavenworth tonight. Chester Gregory, a young white man, is alleged to have stolen and rifled a mill pourk worth over $1000 and was arrested in San Antonio by Sheriff John W Tobin. Gregory pleaded guilty and was sentenced to two years. A list of prisoners to be taken to the federal prison was discussed at a Travis County meeting. The meeting note urged all members to attend.
Thieves broke into a saloon on Nolan Street last night stealing several whiskey bottles and ransacking a nearby grocery cash register. Police detained four men at around 1 am found prowling the streets with whiskey bottles and pennies in hand.
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