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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 14, 1913
Page
7
Safe Deposit Department will receive money on deposit and pay interest at 4 percent per annum, payable semi annually. It will make loans on approved collateral. It will furnish steel safe deposit boxes for securities and valuables at prices from 3 dollars per year, and store large valuables in burglar and fireproof storage vaults.
The Real Estate Loan Department advertises loaning on real estate and selling first mortgage notes. It offers guidance on investments and explains advantages of Real Estate Serial Notes.
The Foreign Exchange Department announces travelers' checks available in all parts of the world. These checks provide a secure payment method for international travel and business.
Valentine day at city hall fills police box with envelopes to officersCaptains plain clothes and mounted units receive notes some jokes sharp alleging corruption Chief Lancaster singled out Officials and fire department also mailed valentines Consul Johnson Ghent notes a separate matter about safety changes and crime statistics show robberies in a prior period
The San Antonio Light hosts a closing day for a free cooking school with a prize contest for women. Judges will award gifts including a Jewel gas range a Sellers kitchen cabinet and a Thermatic cooker as proceeds go to Associated Charities.
A fire damaged four automobiles owned by W. N. Hagg and a building contractor at Avenue and Wighth streets after a carburetor caused ignition. Firemen from Company No. 8 extinguished the blaze. Earlier, a kerosene stove explosion prompted a run to Bam Streets at 222 Woodliffe Avenue, with minor loss of blankets.
An advertisement extols Swift's Sure Specific 8 S. S. S. as a blood purifying remedy for catarrh and other blood disorders. It claims to cleanse mucous linings, relieve headaches, improve nasal passages, and eliminate mucous buildup within hours. Available at drug stores for $1 per bottle from The Swift Specific Co.
Eddie Foy presents Over the River at the Grand Opera House with a large musical company and the Berlin Madcaps. Walker Whiteside stars in The Typhoon with a German Berlin setting and a large, prominent supporting cast. Weber and Fields bring a top-rated company with Frank Daniels and Bessie Clayton February 21 to 23. Also featured are ventriloquist Lester at the Plaza and Harry Holman’s A Merchant Prince sketch. Madame Harriet Labadie returns with Galseworthy and Labadie repertoire. A school matinee is planned for tomorrow. Grove’s Tasteless Chill Tonic is advertised.
ELGIN Tex Feb 14 J O Smith editor of the Elgin Courier and Mrs J O Smith associate editor have been picked by the Texas Press Association to appear on the San Antonio program May 15 17 Mr Smith will discuss How I Raised My Advertising Rates and What It Did for Me and Mrs Smith is to read.
ZEMO advertised as a 25 cent antiseptic skin solution promising instant relief from scalp itching eczema and dandruff. It claims to cure all cases if directions are followed and lists multiple Texas and San Antonio druggists and outlets.
A scientific session of the Bexar County Medical Society met at the St. Anthony Hotel. Dr H T Wilson spoke on a case report, Dr J M Carhart discussed lime salts in cell life, with Dr E C Chatten as chairman. The State Medical Association convention was moved to May 6 7 and 8 in San Antonio due to Shriners in Dallas. The note adds that national alcohol consumption averages about 23 gallons per person annually, mostly beer.
Rain halted paving of Main avenue from Houston to Salinas street. Work resumed this morning with an expected completion by early next week if weather holds. Mayor Jones and City Engineer Pan coast praised the progress and urged even paving throughout the business district. The project is under the Alamo Paving Company, part of a larger contract including South Alamo street and South Flores street sections.
In Midland Texas on February 14 the jury in the Agnes Orner murder by poison of her 11 year old daughter Lillie failed to reach a verdict. At 10 o clock the jurors told the court of a division and there was apparently no hope for agreement. The judge refused to discharge them.
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