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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 29, 1913
Page
5
J J Stevens serves as vice president B G Barnes holds vice president duties and W P Roth is secretary in the listed officers. The snippet names three individuals with officer titles.
Will receive your money on deposit and pay interest thereon. Will make loans on approved collateral. Interest will be allowed at the rate of 4 percent per annum, payable semi annually.
The safe deposit department will furnish steel safe deposit boxes for securities and valuables at prices from $3 per year and up. It will store large valuables in burglar and fireproof storage vaults.
The Real Estate Loan Department states it will loan money on real estate notes and advise on investments. It highlights advantages of Real Estate Serial Notes and discusses related investment approaches.
Foreign Exchange Department announces availability of Travelers' Checks for use worldwide. The program emphasizes widespread acceptance and convenient access for travelers across regions and destinations.
London dispatch reports Stojan Novakovic delivers allied peace note to Rechad Pasha amid Turkish unrest on the Tchataldja lines. European powers concentrate naval forces at the Dardanelles, with Austria-Hungary poised to join. Bulgarian delegates depart, noting ongoing Eastern issues.
The Constantinople chapter of the American Red Cross cabled Washington with a pressing appeal for aid. The message requests relief assistance for civilians amid ongoing crises in the region.
Blood humors commonly cause pimples boils hives eczema or salt rheum, or other eruptions. Sometimes they linger in the system without visible breakouts, indicated by weakness languor loss of appetite or general debility. They are expelled and the system renovated strengthened and toned by proper remedies.
The notice promotes Sarsa in liquid form and in chocolated tablet form available today. It highlights product forms and urges immediate purchase.
An advertisement promotes Warner’s Safe Pills for constipation and biliousness as a purely vegetable sugar coated remedy. It urges regular daily bowel action and warns of disease and time loss from constipation.
A thawed appeal by United States figures urges European and American donations to relieve refugees, mostly women and children, stranded as winter approaches. It notes mass displacement from Macedonia and Thrace and the Ottoman government's inability to fund relief.
Germany asserts that all Turkish possessions in Asia should be treated as off limits. Ambassador Baron Hans Von Wangenheim says Asia Minor holds German interests tied to Turkey and promises strong support for Turkey’s future development. Turkey expected to respond to the European powers’ joint note, via Austro-Hungarian ambassador Margarave Johann de Pallavicino, as dean of the diplomatic corps.
Prof. M. F. Knox founder of the Mental Science College of Bryn Mawr Wash addressed a large Moose hall audience on woman suffrage yesterday. He urged study of law and government before voting and praised women as evolutionary leaders. His next Moose hall lecture tonight at 8 will cover the Law of Mental Healing.
G. E. and G. B. Valiant sell the Texarkanian with J. L. Wadley taking over as editor from A. G. Whidden. The new owners plan to pursue a prohibition oriented policy for the paper.
A new syndicate plans to buy the San Antonio fair grounds for 70 000 dollars to pay debts and stage a fair this fall. They seek 60 000 dollars from the public, with 30 000 from a new association and 30 000 more from supporters, aiming to present a November fair. J. M. Vance and C. A. Davies back the project, hoping to gain Judge Ward’s approval of a prior 51 000 sale or restart the process.
Services opened Tuesday night at the San Antonio City Mission on Santa Rosa avenue and Dolorosa street. L. B. Haines presided as enthusiasm grew among attendees. Short talks were given by pastors from South Side Baptist Travis Park Methodist Prospect Hill Baptist Government Hill Methodist Nazarene Englewood Methodist and German Methodist churches along with Evangelist Sid Williams Dr. Carhart and Miss Ella Bow.
A. D. Powers describes a plan to sell Ingleside and Harbor City lots at two for one hundred dollars, citing a customer dispute over adjoining parcels and promising rapid development. The office at 333 Alamo Plaza invites buyers to inspect property and join the program.
State and county taxes for 1912 on real estate personal property and poll taxes must be paid to J A Bitter tax collector by January 31 1913 to avoid 10 percent penalty and costs of levying on personal property J R Davis County Judge plus medical notices from Dr J Harvey Moore Dr Miller and Dr J R Cunningham and a Riverside Restaurant chicken supper and barbecued pig dinner with meals 25 cents
Preliminary arrangements at the Menger Hotel for the Texas Funeral Directors and Embalmers convention set for April 15 and 16 in San Antonio. At least 150 delegates expected. A Texas group led by Williamson and Smith visited. Thornton Barnes of New York to lecture on embalming. Embalming Board will review qualifications of 30 plus applicants after adjournment.
The Fourteenth Precinct Civic Club met at Mrs. Jack Duke's home to discuss tree planting and ward improvements. A February 11 meeting is set at Mrs. E. B. Thompson's home and members will push cooperation with the Prospect Hill Improvement Club. Mrs. Starr will handle a street lighting petition. bylaws were drafted for next meeting. Guards proposed for canal defenses were outlined in a Panama Canal security report submitted to General Wood.
The Fiesta San Jacinto Association plans new member recruitment to raise 6000 more for this spring’s budget. The executive committee led by T. L. Conroy approved building a permanent home with a 100 by 150 foot den and a 20 by 80 foot wardrobe and dressing area, plus thirteen float wagons at 21.50 each.
Burgess Dickinson 28-year-old music student was found dead at the bottom of an air shaft in his Washington Square apartment building. His brother, Howard Carter Dickinson, an assistant district attorney, suspects a temporary insanity after the young composer fell short of his artistic ideals. The Yale Scientific School graduate is described as in personal crisis.
Harvard professor Alfred M Tozer says ancient Central American and Mexican peoples had calendars and evolved from picture writing to phonetic scripts. He notes manuscripts are scarce due to Spanish destruction of native texts, and Smithsonian press release marks publication in the 1911 annual report.
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