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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 16, 1912
Page
12
In criminal court this morning Judge Dwyer released on probation Willie Mearder and Norris Holt both indicted on felony charges. They are juveniles. Also noted: Dan Lewis pleaded guilty to embezzlement over fifty dollars and received two years in the penitentiary.
Case is dismissed as evidence deemed insufficient to convict. Humane Officer George L. Mc Cauley operates from 324 Hicks Bridge with night and Sundays calls via old phone 4726. Other items include dental services, dance events at Muth's and Turner Hall, and various local notices from January 1912.
Mills and Dr. E W Depew depart for Mexico City to confer with President Francisco I Madero about the March United States to Mexico excursion. A B Spencer will join them to press participation from commercial and industrial concerns across the US and Canada. Special trains may be added to handle the trip.
Mrs Susie Tem Pleton of Hooper Nebraska credits Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with curing five years of female troubles. After seven bottles her health returned and she could work again, even managing eighteen boarders for three weeks. She urges others to try the medicine.
Declarants listed include Hector Billa Jose Sevedra Felix Madrid Joseph Kunkler and Eugen Peter naturalization petitions filed by Gabriel Sabanovich. Westminster Presbyterian church club organized electing S L Davis W A Snavely Edwin Seymour. Dr M C Wilcox spoke on China. Sheriff Tobin travels to Laredo for testimony in Franks and Compton cases. Athenaeums meet plan banquet Jan 26. Knights Templars elect officers. Auto struck by Sunset freight train injuring C S Young. Clothes line robbed by Mexican. Three fire alarms report grass fire a flue fire and a vent fire.
A suspect was arrested for allegedly stealing five bottles of whisky and five boxes of cigars from a saloon at West Houston and Laredo Streets early Sunday morning. The individual is in custody as the investigation continues.
Detectives pursue leads in burglary cases and expect an affidavit to be filed in Justice Umscheid's court this afternoon. The police court docket focuses on vagrancy with raids around pool halls and fines from five to twenty five dollars.
A manifested health notice promotes a laxative remedy for aging, urging regular cleansing of the system with a desert spoonful of 7 in Seal Seeand tru nelicia of Figs and Elixir of Senna. It claims to be the only family laxative approved by eminent physicians, safe for all ages, and emphasizes buying the genuine California Fig Syrup Co. product with the company name on the front of every package.
Dr J R Cunningham osteopath lists office at 449 Moore Street and offers osteopathic treatment with old phone 984ng noted in the contact details.
Four representatives to the Legislature will be elected from Bexar County this year. If these representatives are opposed to Commission government, all possibility of getting a commission charter will be delayed until 1915, but if they favor Commission government, San Antonio will get a Commission charter before the next mayor and aldermen election in May 1913. The Commission Government League seeks supporters pledged to obtain the charter, but poll tax receipts are required by February 1, 1912. Pay your county and city poll taxes and help the cause.
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