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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 06, 1911
Page
1
New York July 6 The Ladies' Tailors association style committee bans hobble skirts. Fall skirts will be 2 to 2 1 4 yards around bottom and clear ground 3 inches. Coats will be longer and ravenswing blue with Egyptian gold trim.
The United States Weather Bureau forecasts unsettled weather and thunderstorms for San Antonio and surrounding areas within the next 24 hours. Showers are expected tonight or tomorrow, with rainfall expected to exceed merely laying the dust and improve the region’s parched conditions.
For San Antonio and vicinity the forecast indicates unsettled conditions tonight and Friday with showers and possible thunderstorms. Rain chances vary by area as a frontal boundary moves through the region. Localized thunderstorms could bring brief downpours and lightning.
Readings at 8 a m show St Louis 78 clear SW eight mph wind and cooler tonight with showers and storms. Chicago 80 cloudy south wind four mph and cooler with storms. Milwaukee 68 cloudy north wind twenty mph cooler with showers. St Paul 62 clear north wind ten mph fair and cooler. Kansas City 380 clear west wind four mph showers and storms and cooler. New York 78 clear west wind twelve mph warm then cooler Friday. Boston 86 clear west wind twelve mph warm then cooler Friday. Washington 80 clear south wind eight mph warm tonight and cooler Friday.
Charles M. Roberts, president of the Advertisers' association, urged more advertising to stimulate home industry and draw enterprise to San Antonio while maintaining the city as a winter and tourist resort. He called for truthful ads and unity among residents to improve the city and keep tourists from leaving. Local leaders R. H. Wester E. R. Croziea R. P. Ingram and J. B. Carrington spoke on real estate ethics state leadership and civic cooperation.
Texas comptroller notes county tax assessors are unsure how to fixed the annual rate as the automatic tax board cannot meet July 15 without a general appropriation bill. Officials must wait for the legislature to pass the appropriation to set tax needs for the next two fiscal years. Governor’s status noted.
S. G. Langston, Katy land and immigration agent, praises San Antonio as the United States’ leading summer and winter resort. He cites Chicago heat and Lake Michigan crowds, predicts a fall rush of homeseekers to Texas due to crop failures, and says he will make San Antonio his home, arguing it is cooler than other regions.
The Associated Press reports New Orleans July 6 cotton market prices for the most active new crop deliveries dropped about a quarter of a cent due to rain in Texas and Oklahoma. October led declines as long and short positions traded heavily and private weather reports fueled selling.
State Entomologist School reports in Austin refute the so called ball moss pestilence and say tree deaths around San Antonio stem mainly from dry weather. Only a few trees show the moss growth, with drought cited as the primary cause of decay in pecan and shade groves.
French aviators who had landed on the English coast last Monday flew from Dover at daybreak and landed in France a half hour later completing the eighth leg of the international circuit between Paris and London. The next leg will go from Calais to Paris with a stop at Amiens.
Pope Pha lo expresses support for US peace efforts in a letter to Dio medes, Apostolic Delegate to the United States, praising aims to prevent war and promote international peace. A copy was sent to the White House, with expectations the President will reply to the pontiff's cordial sentiments.
President Taft faces a delicate choice as Alabama Republican factionalism over state chairman tests loyalties. Postmaster General Hitchcock backs Barker while Secretary Hilles leans to Thompson, with Booker T. Washington reportedly backing Thompson. Taft seeks to avoid signaling a split with Hitchcock or Hilles.
J J Henry former warden of the Mississippi penitentiary used the butt of a pistol to assault state senator Theodore Bilbo in a Starkville railroad coach. Henry boarded the train demanding an apology for remarks Bilbo allegedly made about him. Bilbo's face was badly bruised.
New York reporters chronicle a heat wave with subway stoppages causing fainting and hospital arrivals. By July 6 a heat‑related death toll rose as four days of extreme temperatures strained hospitals. A man attempted suicide by railroad, and relief was forecast with a cooler front and storms expected tonight.
Pittsburg July 6 The oppressive heat continues with 9 am reading at 87 degrees, up eight degrees in an hour. No sign the hot spell begun last Friday will break today.
Pittsburg reports three more deaths in the forenoon including a woman and two babies, with eight additional prostrations. The town faces rising health concerns as the outbreak continues to affect residents.
The July heat in Boston reaches 94 at 10 a.m. on the fifth day of the heat wave. Up to today ten deaths in New England are attributed to the heat and forty seven drownings have occurred while escaping the heat.
Chicago's five day heat wave claimed 201 lives and 273 prostrations with 125 infant deaths. A rain break after 1 a m cooled temperatures, wind shifting to the north, and 7 am readings near 80. Forecasters expect cooler unsettled weather with possible storms.
Kansas City reports cooler readings at 7 am with 5 to 10 degrees drop from yesterday and forecasts show relief from four days of extreme heat. Fort Worth sees light rain. Niobara records an inch of rain overnight. Nebraska towns report sharp temp falls and Kansas City notes nine deaths and twenty prostrations in 24 hours as heat waned.
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