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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 05, 1912
Page
7
Years of experience have made Fletcher's Castoria a practically perfect preparation with carefully selected ingredients and modern manufacturing. The investment in capital and machinery underpins safety and quality, guaranteeing absolute safety for babies. The wrapper bears Chas H. Fletcher's signature as the safeguard against imitations.
President Taft will nominate Dr. Rupert Blue of South Carolina for surgeon general of the public health and marine hospital service to succeed the late Walter Wyman. Blue has long served in the service and is credited with driving the plague out of San Francisco.
Members of the Christmas cheer committee in San Antonio will meet tomorrow morning at the St. Anthony hotel. The gathering, called by Mrs. A. W. Houston, will review the financial report from Mrs. L. B. Clegg and discuss plans for a permanent organization and next year's work.
A white marble bust of Vice President Sherman arrived at the Capitol yesterday and will be placed near the Senate entrance beside Theodore Roosevelt. The bust, about twice life size, depicts Sherman with his glasses, crafted by Mrs. Bessie Potter Vonnoh of New York.
Johnny Eichmann, four years into wireless study, tunes receivers at his 120 Elm street home waiting for Galveston New Orleans and Key West transmissions. He built a 70 foot antenna from a chicken house pole and broomstick coils, using bicycle rims for wireless phones.
An old advertisement touts a single dose formula “Bromo Quinine” as a universal cold cure for one day. It mentions the signature of E. W. Grove and promotes the product worldwide for 25 cents.
In London on January 6 the Morning Post failed to spark a public agitation against a U S proposal to grant preference to American shipping in the Panama Canal. Alfred Waldron Smithers of the Grand Trunk Railway warned English ship owners could still compete with the world as before, even with American preference.
An advertisement touts Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets as a quick fix for indigestion and bloating. It claims one tablet digests 2000 grains of food, promotes rest for the stomach, and urges trying a box with a 60 cent price. A free sample is offered by mail from Stuart Co. Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Austin Jan 6 Comptroller Lane says he will not approve a single lump sum deficiency warrant of 100000 for the A and M college mess hall reconstruction. The final amount will be allowed only in line with claims presented during the rebuilding process as determined by Attorney General Lightfoot.
Corpus Christi council plans a special election within sixty days to approve a $125,010 bond issue for paving principal streets. The push for street improvements comes from council members and local advocates.
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