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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 07, 1911
Page
7
A catalog-like list shows various cigarette brands and box quantities with prices such as Imperiales, Perfectos, and Rothchilds in boxes ranging from 25 to 100. The entries include multiple price points from $1.75 to $4.90 and note brands like Club House and Vittorias amid miscellaneous markings.
General Hoyt is the favored pick to command the reinforced brigade after the Ninth division disbands at Fort Sam Houston. Railroads move troops slowly due to limited rolling stock and single tracking. Brigadier General Carter awaits final recommendations and the last units depart tomorrow morning.
General Carter will remain in command of the troops in Texas and close up the division maneuvers. Neither General Grant nor General Murray will go to Texas as planned. War department officials say the withdrawal of the brigade at San Antonio and troops along the border would encourage revolutions, so they will remain.
George Ade’s father, Louis F. Smith’s farm hosts the Indiana Society of Chicago annual celebration. John Ade confirms writing a 800-page history of Newton County with no fables, claiming it recites near truths about a well known man and his era.
Dr Orville Ward Owen reports a new finding at Chepstow Castle in Wales a thirteen foot high triangular stone structure buried under eight feet of clay and water. He says the site matches his cipher details and may be the Baconian cache sought with support from Duke of Belfort’s agent.
A discussion of proposed legal changes in New York aimed at equalizing guardianship and property rights between spouses. Proposals include joint guardianship of children, equal shares in a spouse’s estate, revocation of wills after remarriage, and women’s rights to pursue business with shared profits and compensation for work inside or outside the home.
A married woman pursues recovery of services rendered in actions or special proceedings, asserting the property is hers separate from the husband’s. The court currently holds the assets as belonging to the husband.
Mrs. Martha Butler, 75, mother of twenty three, rejoices as Rosa her final daughter marries William H Avery of Arverne yesterday at Corona Union Church. The Charleston-born widow, with English and Cherokee ancestry, settled in Corona after her husband’s 1891 death and remains vigorous enough to manage housework.
James M Brett a fireman from engine company 16 is dismissed by Fire Commissioner Joseph Johnson Jr for going absent five days without leave. He claimed tablets for a cold caused an uncontrollable urge to wander to Yonkers. Commissioner Waldo previously granted him a second chance.
Mrs. Augusta Seib of St. Louis lived fourteen years in male clothes under the alias Gus Seib. The judge sentenced her to two months in the workhouse, and she reportedly refused to resume female dress when last heard.
An American tourist William Beat was robbed and left unconscious after three men guided him into a lonely Bois de Boulogne spot. He later received restoratives and returned to his hotel. Another victim, Moscow’s M. Sergius Ivanoff, was robbed and stabbed by two women and three Apaches in the Bois, found unconscious at dawn and taken to his Champs Elysees hotel.
James Monroe Taylor former Vassar president argues that college women marry at similar rates to prior generations and have children. He cites class of 1901 marrying five eighths and notes alumnae report marriages and births. He opposes making homemaking part of college courses and says motherhood is not a college mission.
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