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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 14, 1913
Page
4
Syracuse sample of a cure claim praising Duffy's Pure Malt Whiskey for bronchitis. Mrs. D. vans credits the remedy after unsuccessful medical treatment and asserts a prompt cure.
Duffy's Pure Malt Whiskey is endorsed by clergy doctors educators nurses lawyers and business people as a great medicine and tonic stimulant. Available from druggists and dealers for $1.00 a large bottle from The Duffy Malt Whiskey Co Rochester NY.
A long list of Dallas residents and other Texans arrive in San Antonio and register at local hotels including the Gunter Menger St Anthony and Bowie. Names include Co C Barton John Moehlke A H Wells Crammer Feineman Cook Bowman Rodgers Crammer Foster Hoover Simmons Ballard Souser DeWolff Williams Picker Cowden Williams Grinon Bradley Nixon O Reilly Huggins Smallwood Grison Felix Mills Griswold Price Morris Felix Vance Sievers and Mrs Fussell plus Mr and Mrs D D Fainsaid journeying from Kerrville Kerrville and Kerrville are noted as guests in several hotels with travel details.
To Mr and Mrs Alfreda Sanchez a girl born February 6 at 408 Saltillo Street To Mr and Mrs A Rivera a girl born February 6 at 714 South Salado Street To Mr and Mrs M Oliveras a boy born February 6 at 805 North San Jacinto Street
No 3250 Max Karotkin 318 West Commerce Street and No 3251 C W Rhodes 1305 West Commerce Street listed as new automobile licenses.
Bankers from Texas and major northern and eastern centers arrive in San Antonio for the Texas Bankers Association district meeting. They travel by special Pullmans from Houston and will depart tonight for Corpus Christi with an informal dinner planned at Mrs. Carr's Cafe. The group includes H R Eldridge and numerous bankers from cities such as New York Chicago St Louis and Dallas.
President Taft must decide by midnight whether to sign or veto the Burnett Dillingham immigration bill as immigration societies urge veto while the AFL and other groups press for approval. The measure would impose a strict literacy test on all newcomers.
An injunction blocks the Southwestern Insane Asylum board from paying $11,296.45 in outstanding bills for the hospital annex project while plaintiffs Ed Steves & Sons and J H Holmgreen seek proper payment rights. The suit in Seventy third District Court before Judge R H Ward cites a December 1911 contract and September 1912 arrangements under which sureties took over, with $8,565 remaining and $2,104.66 to Steves & Sons and $2,198.89 to Alamo Iron Works.
Advertises Hood's Sarsaparilla as purifying blood and revitalizing the system. Promotes liquid form or chocolate coated tablets named Sarsatabs for daily use.
On Christmas 1874 a Paris dinner featured Con stance Cheret and M Firmin Didot tasting ham from Algeria. India lauds Fatimah as daughter of the Prophet in Nawab Sultan Jahan Begum's memoir. Hong Kong uses about one hundred gas stoves as cooks favor charcoal and wood fires.
Officers and members of the Southern Wholesale Grocers Association met in Atlanta in executive session to adopt resolutions proclaiming the association’s innocence and vowing to vigorously defend the criminal contempt proceedings brought by the federal government in Birmingham for alleged anti trust decree violations. The Birmingham suit marks the first government action against a so called trust for dis obedience of a court mandate under the Sherman law.
A sequence of 1913 real estate transfers lists contracts and deeds for numerous parcels. Notable entries include S. S. Beakley and C. S. Stephens to J. P. Withers for 1581% acres, Thomas Tedstone to G. A. Cobb for several lots in South Heights, and Lakeview Townsite Company to Southwestern Land Corporation for 112 lots in Lakeview. Various transfers note prices from $580 to $18,988.07 and reflect multiple blocks, additions, and outlets in district 3, range 6, with dates in February through May 1913.
A sequence of 1912 1913 deeds records transfers of lots and blocks in San Antonio and surrounding districts including West Locust Avenue Kendall Street Palm Heights Highland Park and South Heights among various individuals and developers with prices from 100 to 6000 dollars and a redemption certificate from the Texas comptroller.
George Miller wed Pauline Hall Minoi Wilkes tied to Jennie Juresske Joseph Frank James and Annette Reynolds Larry Hardy joined Erskine Paul Ezsell and Georgia Reynolds none specified dates or places provided for these licenses in the notice.
The Retail Merchants' Association met to form a formal statement of proceedings for the city charter committee. New members were elected and a $50 donation was approved for St John's Orphanage, with letters from state and local legislators signaling support for the big check bill.
Burial permits issued for Edward B. Ricbe 20 of 517 Lakeview Avenue died January 12. Florence Louise Westmeyer 17 died February 13 at 718 North Priest. Mamie Wallis 27 died January 12 of 506 Leigh Street. Warren Hallis 16 died February 11 at City Hospital.
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