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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 10, 1912
Page
2
The notice lists shirt price reductions across several tiers from $1.50 to $2.00 and from $2.50 to $3.50. It indicates a simple, staged sale with uniform increases in price labels and no additional details about dates or quantities.
European backers push a through line to Mexico with Crowther and Tampico oil prospects, offering $500,000 to lure the railroad away from San Antonio. Cowper Thwaite notes San Antonio is only an incident to foreign investors who seek Mexican traffic and a deep water port at Rockport. city groups meet to decide today.
An old newspaper blurb touts a cure for colds using glycerine and concentrated pine in whiskey. Instructions advise two ounces glycerine and half an ounce pine compound mixed in a pint whiskey, with dosing after meals and at bedtime, adjusted for children, claiming the remedy is proven after six winters and widely available from druggists.
Howard Smith of San Antonio speaks at the Gunter hotel urging San Angelo to back the San Antonio Rockport and Mexican railroad. He notes local willingness to invest after funding the Orient railroad, and says residents will respond to promoters with concrete commitments.
Discussion centers on the Albany street site owned by Equitable Life as plans for a 62 story building worth 25 million dollars surface. State law allows real estate by life insurers only for business use, leaving approval to the insurance department and a decision may shift to selling the prime site.
The county sees a steady flow of poll tax receipts with eighteen days left to pay. County Collector Bitter reports 151 receipts filed this morning and expects a similar total this afternoon. A long list of residents from West Commerce to Austin addresses is recorded as having paid yesterday and today, signaling ongoing compliance with tax assessments.
A double shooting in the Book Building follows a dissolved Mexico Texas Land Co dispute. Wefing and Steinhardt had been enemies, then reconciled briefly before a pistol killed Steinhardt. Coroner's inquest set for nine thirty tomorrow. O H Wefing describes long fraught relations and a failed effort to settle the firm’s papers.
A long OCR list enumerates names and street addresses including Blum Dawson Crockett Cherry Starr Mesquite North Cherry Nolan Hackberry Mason Quitman Van Ness Spofford Hays Hays Goliad South Mason North Olives etc reflecting an exemptions notice or street directory. The fragment includes numerous individuals and addresses, some with middle initials and varied street names such as East Crockett South Flores West Woodlawn Canal and Pantey alleys. No specific event details are provided in readable text.
An important meeting of the Fiesta San Jacinto association is held in the Chamber of Commerce auditorium tonight to discuss and approve plans for the 1912 festival. Likely new spectacles will be proposed and approved, with talks on financing the event and raising funds soon to defray preparation costs.
Theophile Delcasse rejoined as minister of foreign affairs succeeding Justin de Selves after a dramatic senate committee clash over Morocco. Delcasse, 69, previously held the post 1898 1905 and is noted for improving Franco British and Franco Russian relations while starting as a newspaper writer.
Berlin reports the resignation of Foreign Minister de Selves over the Franco German agreement and Theophile Delcasse's nomination as his successor. German officials say they bear no grudge and expect possible friction among five powers over Moroccan talks, but maintain a consistent stance.
A Kansas City Journal item recalls a morning exchange where one person offers friendly advice to Wombat and defends personal autonomy after Wombat interrupted with guidance on affairs. The quotation underscores tension over advice and independence.
Hot Springs Arkansas touted as a world famed sanitarium offers Hot Springs Liver Buttons as the perfect laxative for constipation sluggish liver and stomach misery. The ad claims the remedy revives blood and health and urges a 25 cent box from any drug store today. Tens of thousands reportedly prefer them across the country.
Following the verdict the jury was not polled as requested. Chapa’s supporters extended sympathy as he prepared to discharge the obligation and return to San Antonio. Several defendants face six months in Webb county jail after pleas of guilty. Extradi tion and extradition proceedings loom for Herrera and other defendants.
The federal trial of Colonel Chapa and co defendants opened January 1 in Browns ville with Judge Walter Burns presiding. Witnesses linked Chapa to General Reyes and to El Imparcial newspaper publishing the Reyes manifestos. Twelve defendants pled guilty to conspiracy. the jury later reported a verdict after threats to move court to Galveston. Chapa, a prominent San Antonio businessman of Mexican parentage, owns drug stores and has been active in politics.
Eleven head of horses and mules perished in a fire that wiped out Henry C. Ripps’s carpet cleaning plant and feed barn at 617 South Mesquite Street. Estimated loss 2500 to 3000 dollars with no insurance. Firemen saved the storage house and residence on the same lot. Spontaneous combustion believed to start the blaze from damp hay stored in the barn. The wooden structure with a metal roof housed tools and machinery in the cleaning department, all destroyed.
Aunt Ruth advises married women to maintain courtship era grooming. She recommends dry sham pooing for hair, light powder, and massage with magatone in witch hazel to keep skin soft. Also promotes a general healing salve named Mothers Salve for cuts burns and aches.
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