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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 05, 1916
Page
7
After a meeting between Mayor Brown and County Commissioner Gutzeit, Blanco road may be improved from its junction with Fredericksburg road to the city limits. The plan calls for scarifying and resurfacing with asphaltic macadam or tarvia with cost sharing between city and county, typically one third by the city.
A teacher explains that stan means place of with examples like Afghanistan and Hindustan. A student quips umbrella stand as a playful addition, illustrating language roots in a classroom chat.
The school board plans to issue only enough bonds to raise funds needed to start work on its 800000 bond issue, selling more as construction progresses to gain accumulative interest. President Walton Hood said bond sales should be easy given demand for San Antonio school bonds, with profits used to lower future tax rates. Ed Rivas was named to take the 1916 school census and Fiesta Association president Ayres requests allowing children to march in the fiesta parade.
Police and detectives say they have in custody two professional yeggs following arrests of two white men at a local hotel. A large leather suitcase with nitroglycerin gear and robbery paraphernalia was seized. Bertillon measurements and photographs are being taken as detectives seek the men’s identities and plans.
City discovers that Beauregard street paving from South Alamo to the river was completed without a city approval assessment ordinance. The Uvalde Rock Asphalt Company laid the pavement, and a regulation assessment ordinance will be passed after rescinding the acceptance resolution.
A rooming house fire on 433 North Flores Street near noon Wednesday was minor and caused by a defective flue. An alarm transmission error sent several companies to 400 North Pine Street instead.
A local ad from Alamo Jewelry Co at 316 Alamo Plaza offers to buy or take in trade old gold silver diamonds and coins. The notice also includes a Sunday cocktail item with Salsa Diablo Devil Sauce offered before meals.
Walter B. Walthall district passenger agent for the M E T Ry says a delegation of boosters from the Committee of One Hundred received a royal welcome in Kansas City. He reports Midwestern newspapers are giving substantial space to the proposed fair.
Advertisement notes a five passenger car available for hire at $1.50 per hour. Contact Travis at number 881 for details and booking.
Pr Louis Hirschfeld, specialist in genito urinary diseases, has relocated to 417 Gibbs Building. Advance notice indicates the move for patient appointments and consultations.
The San Antonio Equal Franchise Society plans a suffrage day during the international fair conference January 25 to 27 with executive meetings, a luncheon, and a large evening meeting. Texas women are invited, especially Fifth District members, plus rural speakers urged by Mrs. V. McCoy. A Houston organizing meeting for the Congressional Union for Woman's Suffrage is set for January 20.
The annual meeting of the board and subscribers of the Associated Charities will be held Friday at 6 PM in the Hicks building offices. E. B. Chandler acts as president and will call the meeting. An election of directors is planned and the number of directors may be increased. New officers and an executive secretary will be appointed, with a full report on last year’s work.
Brief utterance shows a court-ordered restitution while the wife doubts the husband will speak. The quote appears in the Buffalo Express. It reflects a legal proceeding and domestic context reported by the paper.
A historical health notice recommends diet and hygienic living to combat tuberculosis and suggests Eckmans Alterative as a non toxic adjunct. It promotes open air living and pure food, with medical guidance and sale through A M Fischer and Eckman Laboratory in Philadelphia.
New rates listed for service at 342. The hourly charges are $1.50, $2.00, and $2.50. An ad copy promotes Salsa Diablo "Devil Sauce" as daily table fare.
Sheriff Will Adams of Comal County traveled to San Antonio Wednesday to retrieve a man wanted on a wife desertion charge. He brought the fugitive back and returned home in the afternoon.
Benefit event for a local school held at Hermann Sons Hall on Saturday January 8 featuring late dancing and good music. Admission is 25 cents with proceeds supporting the school.
Dulling Printing Co at 131 Losoya promotes its printing services with a concise local advertisement.
Ancient Order of Hibernians members are asked by Matt Cody to attend a Wednesday 8:15 p m meeting to discuss plans for a larger St Patrick’s Day celebration. Several new member applications will be acted on and ten initiations expected.
Santa Fe railroad displays publicizing San Antonio in forty leading papers across the North and Middle West. The winter campaign features captions about Texas as a winter resort with images of Galveston surf and the Alamo, praising San Antonio's climate, hotels, and old Spanish atmosphere.
Deadlock in the Maryland House speakership threatens to delay Emerson C. Harrington’s inauguration. The biennial session opened amid factions unable to agree on a speaker, holding up the constitutional canvass for governor and leaving Republican Governor Goldsborough in office.
A shopper bought Christmas gifts for her husband as a dealer sent a box for 409 cents. A bystander teased that the husband would cause trouble, but another spectator dismissed it, noting the wife would divorce if she paid five dollars per box.
An oil stock pitch touts the Uncle Sam Oil Company as expanding with five deep wells in Pawnee County Oklahoma and four more on the Cushing field. It claims 127 producing wells, refineries, 600 towns served, 165 mile pipeline, and poised for rapid capital raise to drill dozens more wells.
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