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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 16, 1913
Page
7
A jumble of business ads and public details moves into the city scene. addresses and phone numbers appear for dentists chiropractors taxicabs and a transfer to 315 Commerce Street. The news also notes an Army deserter jailed and humane society contacts along with court filings for divorces.
In the Thirty seventh District Court suits include E F de Terrazas vs R Terrazas Naomi Smith vs W H Smith Lucy Williams vs Arch Williams Fay L Matlock vs C J Matlock and George Da Laya vs Nelie De Laya. Murder cases are set for March with dates for Mauricio Diaz Felix Barrientos L Lewis Alvino Trevino Feliciano G Flores.
The prorogation of the Texas House to March 3 delays the charter commission’s work and the adoption of key provisions. The charter panel approved sections limiting contempt powers, authorizing sidewalk building, and requiring public service firms to reveal books to fix fair rates, with further actions postponed until the enabling act passes.
A grand ball hosted by the San Antonio degree team at Turner hall on February 22 featured music by Eugene Artzt. The event promoted a yard goods sale and included a contact at Slocum Place and Crockett 4 for supplies.
Dr. Sirkin of New York to deliver a lecture in Jewish on February 23 at 128 Sole dad street titled The Essence Aim of Life. Lectures under the auspices of the Jewish Work man’s Circle of New York City, which maintains branches in major cities and four branches in Texas.
At Woodmen on Saturday February 22 White Rose Circle hosts an ad mission night featuring good music and entertainment. Admission is 10 cents with dancing to close the program.
A jury in Forty-fifth District Court returned a verdict for San Antonio Traction Company in Henry T. Mills damages case seeking 40000 for alleged personal injuries. The trial ran over the last two days with engineer Alexander Walton providing irrigation and surveying testimony.
At a Corpus Christi Shriners Club meeting plans were made for all thirty members to attend the Shriners ceremonial in San Antonio later this month. The group will travel in special Pullman cars and spend several days in the Alamo City. The club organized last August with 26 members. L. C. Wells is president and W. A. Wakefield secretary.
Advertises hams bacon lard and compound with a phone number two nine two for attractive prices. Promotes home made quality and urges customers to call for pricing and purchase.
Union Meat Company urges readers to choose home cooking over meals sent from Chicago Kansas City or Omaha. The prompt pushes local eating options and highlights convenience and freshness of home meals.
State Education official T A Shelby outlines needs for Texas schools at the San Antonio Congress of Mothers gathering. Local superintendent Charles Lukin supports seventh grade consolidation to curb dropouts and provide a rounded early curriculum. Shelby calls for better rural supervision and curriculum adaptation with practical agriculture and domestic science.
The Bexar County Humane Society reports an urgent need for funds for distress relief. Secretary Mabel Massey Bates notes relief work has relied on a few donors, with solicitors to be sent citywide. The report lists aid to eight destitute family members and two women, dog pound inspections, and a canine with a wire bit causing mouth injury. In total 37 people and 68 animals were aided.
Two Black roustabouts brag about distance swimming and a steamboat man offers a five dollar prize. The Human Steamboat returns with a sheet iron stove and twelve dozen provisions strapped on his back for a mock voyage while the Alabama Whale watches in disbelief. A humorous taunt follows about travel to New York and London.
The War Department implemented the new army divisions required by recent legislation. Eastern, central, and western divisions are split into four departments with Major Generals Bar r, Carter, Bliss, and Burrey in command. Headquarters: Governor's Island New York Chicago Fort Sam Houston San Francisco. The new third division is largely cavalry.
Washington column notes C. W. de Lyon Nicholls, a New York author, named Kathleen Elliott of Racine Wisconsin and Mrs Hugh Roland French of California and Washington as the two most beautiful American women. Mrs French, daughter of former Consul General Robert J Wynne and wife of Capt Hugh Roland French, was called the most beautiful American by King Edward during London residence. Elliott, a blonde, visits as guest of Mrs Cooper wife of Wisconsin Representative Cooper and drew attention at a White House reception.
Publicist Frank Jarrel recalls Governor Hodges as a former state senator who, during a Leavenworth penitentiary inspection, addressed 700 to 800 inmates in the assembly hall. Hodges stumbled over formality, misaddressed the crowd, and then relaxed, greeting the prisoners with warmth.
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