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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 27, 1909
Page
4
For sale mixed list of items including stylish carriage bors, lots near Hot Wells car line and Highland Park One, with terms take or sell. Address Hicks building. Also notices for furnished rooms for rent on Camargo street and help wanted for amateur performers. Advertising lists include post oak wood sales by Frank Basala at phones 1107.
General weather report covers the south west and extends to the Rocky Mountains with fair to rain conditions. Indicates snow and storm activity in the British northwest and warmer temperatures in Corpus Christi versus near zero in Whiniberg Manitoba. Forecast calls for fall like temperatures tonight and Thursday with moderate warmth in the southwest. Local forecaster Allen Beis of the Weather Bureau provides temperatures at key U S points ending at Clack Ulis.
Notice of sale February 2 1909 at 10 am in the Recorder's Court Room City Hall to bidders for cash. Items include bicycles pistols knives purses old jewelry and other miscellaneous articles remaining in the Police Department for over six months with inspection at Police Headquarters. Also recruitment notice for U S Army fits in classified section.
In a ruling by Associate Justice Fly, the Fourth Court of Civil Appeals upholds the lower court’s finding that purchases including a piano were necessaries bought with funds borrowed by Ida Desmond in El Paso County. The decision affirms the county court and district court in setting aside a will due to mental incapacity at the time, while listing several other appeals and motions from various counties and companies decided or remanded.
New York on January 27 Rockefeller Andrew Carnegie Jacob H Schiff and other financiers are backing the bureau of municipal research formed to investigate the citys lives and allow graft. They and Mrs Russel Sagewind others are said to have donated 20000 each to carry on the work.
Notices list Mitchell Adelmayn aged 22 who died January 25 of nephritis at ally hospital with interment in New York City. Also MH Davidson aged 57 died at Tannery on January 25 from pneumonia with interment at Cemetery No 1. Grover C Ridgeway aged 20 died January 25 from blood poisoning at Santa Rosa hospital with interment at Cemetery No 6. Also stray nursery tale excerpts and a child misbehavior anecdote appear in the classifieds.
Milwanks Mayor Hose urges open saloon stance in a speech, defending a policy as a curb on crime and intoxication amid a German-leaning community. He cites a Roosevelt remark about crime and drunkenness, arguing the open policy reduces deliberate wrongdoing when opportunities arise. Real estate ads and classifieds follow in the page.
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