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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 24, 1913
Page
5
The Light announces a week long floor clearance for pianos at Houston and Navarro Streets during remodel. Bargains include uprights, grands and players at 80 to 125 dollars with six month trial and full credit on returns. Don’t wait as stock is moving fast and guarantees apply.
Joe Mangold a 45 year old bridge carpenter was killed last night at 8 35 in the Yoakum Bend area of the San Antonio and Aransas Pass yards when a switch engine ran over him as he lay on the track. Percy Fink a switchman on the engine did not see him until it was too late. Mangold long employed by the railroad leaves a mother in Castroville and a sister in this city. An inquest by Justice Campbell is planned for this afternoon.
Vermont lawmakers approved a constitutional amendment to switch state elections from September to November and to convene the Legislature in January. The measure will be put to voters at the next election.
Corpus Christi residents are invited to a mass meeting at the Commercial Club to hear the railroad committee report on raising a $100,000 Franklin railroad bonus for the San Antonio to Corpus route. The plan allocates $60,000 for builders and the rest for terminal grounds. property owners face a 2 percent assessment. Only $55,000 has been raised due to weather and delays, with aims to secure the remaining $45,000 by February 1.
In Washington on January 24 Mrs Claude A Swanson wife of Virginia senator withdrew as a candidate for president of the Congressional Club in the interests of friendship and harmony. The field now remains open for Mrs Duncan A Fletcher wife of the Florida senator who was nominated yesterday alongside Swanson.
Six additional car loads of barley seized by federal officials at Hawthorne suburb alleged adulterated with screenings and weed seeds. Barley linked to Minneapolis shipments destined for Newport News Virginia for export under pure food law violation.
At the Lone Star Poultry Association convention in San Antonio delegates push for a bill to classify chicken theft as a felony with penalties. H B Savage notes a prior bill failed and vows lobbying next year. Officers Savage and Steves were installed as leaders amid banquet remarks on poultry progress in Texas.
A large crowd filled the San Antonio poultry show at 117 Main Avenue marking the event as the biggest attendance since the exhibit opened. Judges McCord and Savage awarded top prizes including $100 in gold to Oak Grove Poultry Farm for best pen and to B. C. Walsh of San Antonio for best cock, cockerel, hen and pullet, with $60 for the second best pen awarded to R. L. Thompson of Blanket Texas.
Mrs. Howard Wagner of Milton Pennsylvania writes she suffered two months with a cold and persistent cough. After using Vinci cod liver and iron she reports no coughing within a week, five more bottles taken, appetite improved and twelve pounds gained. She endorses the medicine and praises its curative effects while the druggist guarantees satisfaction.
The article lists numerous prize winners for White Rock, Buff Rocks, White Wyandottes, Partridge Wyandottes, White Orpingtons, and Buff Orpingtons at the Oak Grove Poultry Farm show in San Antonio and notes the show is open to the public Friday through Sunday with exhibition halls staying open until 10 PM. It names exhibitors and prizes across multiple breeds and awards.
Jakubik and Taylor claim the second pen. Otto J. Barta places fourth pen. Black Orpingtons led by R L Thompson with top positions across cock and pullet categories. U L Means from Belton shows in multiple hens and pens. R B Baldwin of Cleveland earns high placings in cock erels and pullets.
New York January 24 Cuban champion Jose Capablanca defeated Norman T Whitaker former UPenn champion to take the lead in the American Masters Tournament with three straight victories. The adjourned game between Harry Kline of Boston and S Tenenwurzel of this city ended in a 47 move draw. The fourth round was scheduled for today.
Nearly a thousand waiters and hotel workers gathered after last night’s strikes at the Hotel Rector Cadillac and Follies Berger’s restaurant. They held a mass meeting to organize a citywide general strike and distributed pickets in the hotel district.
J M Higgins of the New York Athletic Club the present national amateur champion led the field in the two hundred target contest as part of the sixth annual mid winter handicap tournament in Pinehurst North Carolina with 191 breaks Henry Powers of Atlantic City scored 190 while S W Putnam of Fitchburg and F G Euler of Mukwonago tied for third with 188
Rumors of potential disturbances surface in Santa Clara province with partial elections due tomorrow at Arisa. Government readies emergency force with regulars rurales and a high-mistant column on a practice march nearby.
Consul Edwards at Acapulco reported conditions were quiet after the cruiser Denver arrived to reassure Americans. The Denver has reached port and the British warship Sherwater prepared to depart, signaling a tense pause in the area.
Rain postponed the all America Field Trials Club amateur derby stake at Rogers Springs Tennessee. The event, delayed yesterday, will resume or start today with the same participants and a renewed effort to complete the stake.
Timothy George, an Indian rancher near Husum Washington, champions the Shaker sect now active among Yakima and Klickitat Indians. The movement, founded in Olympia 17 years ago, bans swearing drinking and smoking and centers on mutual aid as healing with members greeting the sick.
Robert L. Henry, TI district chairman of the rules committee, urged preserving the Sherman act against the rule of reason in a keynote to the South Carolina Bar Association. He criticized judicial interpretations in Standard Oil and tobacco cases and proposed legislative fixes including imprisonment for violators.
A vivid, old time health ad urges readers to take Cascarets a ten cent box to cleanse bile and waste. It promises renewed cheer and energy, claiming a morning wake up and improved disposition for months.
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