Water Company Acts in Meter Rent Cases
An injunction to restrain Ernest H. Powell J B Mosby and C S Green from pursuing further meter rent suits against the San Antonio Water Supply Company was filed in the Seventy third District Court. Judge R H Ward granted a temporary restraining order and scheduled a hearing for July 15 at 9 30 a m.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ernest H. Powell
J. B. Mosby
C. S.S. Green
San Antonio Water Supply Company
Seventy-third District Court
R. H. Ward
Justice Campbell
River Side Restaurant and Union Meat Company Ad Notice
A 418 year old style ad notes meals from River side Restaurant and urges customers to ask for sausage with a tin tag to ensure fresh wholesome goods. Display in lobby to Grand Opera House promotes Union Meat Company products.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grand Opera House
Union Meat Company
Health and Beauty Helps by Mrs. Mae Martyn
Health and Beauty Helps covers weight reduction with parnotis and hot water, hair care with pyroxin and canthrox, a canthrax scalp shampoo, crystal eye tonic for tired eyes, and spurmax lotion for smooth skin. Multiple named readers share remedies and cautions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mae Martyn
Kardene tonic recipe promises strength and skin improvements
Auntie shares a kardene tonic recipe using 1 ounce kardene in alcohol, sugar, and hot water to make a quart. A tablespoonful before meals is said to restore strength and appetite and help kidney and liver troubles while clearing skin dullness and pimples.
Quinzoin Hair Tonic Promises Rapid Scalp Cure
Jennie asserts quinzoin hair tonic cannot injure hair and claims it is the best remedy for all hair and scalp troubles. With simple directions, mix one ounce quinzain in a half pint alcohol and a half pint water to quickly stop irritation, banish dandruff, and promote long, silken hair growth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Minnie
Jennie
Greaseless cream-jelly wrinkle remover guidance
Annice prescribes a cheap DIY wrinkle remover using 2 teaspoonfuls glycerine in a half pint water plus 1 ounce al morpin, dissolve, apply thickly overnight, then massage until it vanishes. She claims it corrects faults in complexion and smooths hollows, and cites Mrs Martyn's Beauty book for $5.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Annice
Street Cars Refuse to Stop on Signal Across City Lines
Patrons protest lack of driver attention as motormen on shared tracks refuse to stop for signals. Highland Park Collins Garden car 71 skipped six passengers at South Presa and Lotus streets to avoid delays caused by a following Hot Wells car. Complainants, including three women clerks, voiced strong rebukes while a man headed to Sunset depot aimed to catch a different route. Similar incidents noted on other lines.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Traction Company
Highland Park
Collins’ Garden
Hot Wells
South Flores Street
Highland Park-Collins
South Presa
Lotus Streets
Alamo Plaza
Military Plaza
Sunset
Fourth of July Celebration Organizing Committee Formed
San Antonio groups reaffirmed leadership for next year’s Fourth of July observance. Officers E G LeStourgeon, president. A B Hillan, vice president. Emma C Norris, secretary. C B Treuter, treasurer were reelected. A permanent San Antonio Fourth of July Celebration Association was proposed. A Mexican dinner for central and general committees was set at La Palma Cafe.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Red Men's Hall
Soledad Street
E. G. LeStourgeon
A. B. Hillan
Emma C. Norris
C. B. Treuter
San Antonio
la Palma Cafe
Charles G. Treat
Charters Issued Across Texas for Multiple Firms
Austin reports charter grants for Commercial Securities and Title Company of Childress with 25000 capital stock and incorporators E R Biggs B M Carter J M Crews. Schow Brothers of Clifton 15000 capital stock with O E Schow P E Schow J A Olson. Nueces Oil Company of Corpus Christi 5000 capital stock with L C Doney J L Walch W L Dunn. Central Drug Company of Fowler-ton 3200 capital stock with J W Hale William Shannon C J Bain. Laurel Heights M E Church South of San Antonio no capital stock with L G Denman J Terrell C E Hammond and others. Sunset Presbyterian Church Sunset no capital stock with H W Ried W F Stanford D Swain. Social Service Federation of Houston no capital stock to aid the poor with Rufus Cage R L Whitehead John Charles Harris. Fort Stockton Commercial Club no capital stock with James Rooney J M Livingstone T L Odom and others. Riverside Oil Company of Randlett Oklahoma granted permit to do business in Texas with Texas HQ in Dallas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austin
Tex
Commercial Securities and Title Company of
Childress
Capital
E. R. Biggs
B. M. Carter
Schow Brothers
Clifton
Bosque County
O. E. Schow
P. E. Schow
J. A. Olson
Nueces Oil Company of
Corpus Christi
L. C. Doney
J. L. Walch
W. L. Dunn
Central Drug Company
Fowlerton
LaSalle County
J. W. Hale
William Shannon
C. J. Bain
Laurel Heights M. FE. Church
South
San Antonio
L. G. Denman
J. ©. Terrell
C. E. Hammond
Sunset Presbyterian Church
Sunset
H. W. Ried
W. F. Stanfield
D. Swain
Social Service Federation of
Houston
Rufus Cage
R. L. Whitehead
John Charles Harris
Fort Stockton Commercial Club
Fort
State to require pure food for public institutions
Austin Texas July 10 Hereafter contractors supplying state eleemosynary institutions with baking powder vinegar table oils and similar goods must deliver pure products. State Purchasing Agent Elliott with the pure food department will subject all such foods to rigid analysis.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austin
Tex
Mae
Elliott
Pure Food Department
To Help Nature Shed a Bad Complexion
The article promotes mercorized wax as a safe quick method to renew complexions by removing aged skin and improving circulation and nerve tone. It advises nightly use as a cold cream and suggests a saxolite hazel lotion for wrinkled skin, claiming rapid natural results.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lucy
San Antonio Automobile Club plans pavilion and tennis courts
At the monthly San Antonio Automobile Club meeting the dancing pavilion project was approved with work to start within 30 days. Architect H A Reuter offers services free, and Ganahl Walker will supply stone. Endurance run to Galveston is nearing shape, with a tarpon trophy promised by W W Searcy Jr. Mrs Cora Ogden Wilson of this city buys a National touring car to be delivered in Indianapolis.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Antonio Automobile Club
North Loop
H. A. Reuter
Reuter
Ganahl Walker
H. A. Kreuter
Galveston
W. W. Searcy Jr
R. M. Yantis
The
National Motor Cars
Cora Ogden Wilson
Indianapolis
Woodward Company Donates Trophy for Galveston Run
The Woodward Carriage Company gives a Conover nickle bumper as a trophy for the Automobile Club endurance run to Galveston. Prize disposition rests entirely with the committee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Woodward Carriage Company
Automobile Club
Galveston
Texas car dealers tour shows brisk northern trip activity
F E Scobey of San Antonio returns with Mrs Scobey from a 204 mile one day drive from Waco in his Cadillac touring car. W E Lowry of Citizens Auto Company heads to Kokomo Detroit and Lansing to visit Apperson Detroit electric Packard and Reo factories for several weeks. Emil Schleyer Cole dealer Gonzales and E C Box buy Coles 60 and 40 and plan another visit Monday. E H Labadie Maxwell agent with Temple Wheeler reports a 172 mile trip across three counties and three Maxwell sales to Blumberg Brothers and Julius Mehlitz with a long day start 10 am end 7:15 pm.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
F. E. Scobey
San Antonio
W. E. Lowry
Citizens’ Auto Company
Kokomo
Detroit
Lansing
Apperson
Detroit Electric
Packard
Reo
Lowry
Emil Schleyer
Gonzales
E. C. Box
J. F. Hagan
Schleyer
Mr. Box
E. H. Labadie
Labadie Automobile Company
Maxwell
Temple Wheeler
South Texas
Local car buyers from Bastrop Floresville and Beeville purchase vehicles in city
T. C. Erharg of Bastrop yesterday drove home in an Overland 69T just bought from Woodward Carriage Company. F. W. Moore of Floresville also bought this model. N. A. Barber of Beeville with Mrs Barber and children passed through en route to Austin in a Buick model 25. Mr and Mrs J Pounds of Comanche traveled yesterday in a Ford touring car with a long itinerary via San Angelo Kerrville and San Antonio before heading to Austin and Taylor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
T. C. Erharg
Bastrop
Woodward Carriage Company
F. W. Moore
Floresville
N. A. Barber
Beeville
Austin
Obey That Impulse to Try Foley Kidney Pills
An old advertisement urges readers to take Foley Kidney Pills for backache and rheumatic symptoms. It claims the pills cooperate with nature to help kidney and bladder disorders, aiding healing and strengthening. Fischer Drug Co. sponsors the ad.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nature
Fischer Drug Co
Adv
GETS-IT Advert gets corn removal claim
An advertisement promotes GETS-IT as a quick simple remedy to remove corn. It promises a painless two second application and claims the corn shrivels and vanishes.
New Corn Cure Promises Painless Relief With GETS IT
Ad touts GETS IT as a painless corn remedy that stops pain without skin injury. Claims no blistering by plasters or knives, and says it also works on warts callouses and bunions. Sold by E Lawrence & Co Chicago at 25 cents a bottle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E. Lawrence & Co
Chicago
Men claim dogs not to blame for mad dog scare
Dr. J C Talcott, a leading city veterinarian, argues the danger from hydrophobia is exaggerated as nine dogs were shot recently on precautionary grounds. He says heat and fear drive people to kill, not actual rabies, and explains the ancient link between dog days and Sirius. He urges owners to provide ample water and calm handling of dogs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. C. Talcott
North Flores Street
Rudolph Hensel Named Forest Assistant in U S Forestry
Washington dispatch reports Rudolph Hensel of San Antonio has been appointed forest assistant in the United States Department of Forestry. A graduate of the School of Forestry at Iowa State College this year, he is currently in training and will begin duties soon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Rudolph Hensel
San Antonio
United States Department of Forestry
Young Hensel
School of Forestry
Iowa State College
Itching skin case ends in cure with Cuticura products
Mrs J R Gregg of Navy 21, 1912 writes that a year of itching and eruptions on her baby yielded to Cuticura Soap and Ointment after prior medicines failed. The ad extols Cuticura for skin and scalp troubles and offers free samples and the 32 page Skin Book.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Glenns P. O
J. R Greggs
Navy
Cuticura
Dept. T. Boston
Death in Salisbury prompts coroner inquiry into Miss Wainwright
Miss Florence Wainwright a stenographer for Home Gas Company was found dead in the office with a box labeled quinine before her on the desk. Local residents protest the coroner's jury sessions as the investigation proceeds in secret over a week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Salisbury
Florence Wainwright
Wainwright
Home Gas Company
Texan Named Forest Service Appointee in Oregon
A Texan, A Collmann, receives a permanent honor in Oregon with the Forest Service. He will return to Texas for a month’s vacation in December before departing for California to begin duties of his new post. Both phones listed as plumbing services at $97.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Forest Service
Oregon
Hensel
Texas
California
Young Girl Tries to Improve Life Through Hard Work
A 16 year old girl in San Antonio endures 8 am to 6 pm work and 1 am practice for music. She earns 3.50 a week and pays board and rent while seeking a better future with help from a charitable music teacher who offers lessons free of charge.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Antonio
Goodrich Tires Promise Long Wear and Quality
Advertising copy extols Goodrich Tires highlighting Unit Molding for a single durable structure. It claims enhanced buoyancy, resilience, and wear resistance, with guaranteed life driven by tire construction, and urges readers to specify Goodrich for any car and request free folders.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Goodrich
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Kk. R. Russell
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St. Mary’s Free
St. Mary’s Parish
St. Mary’s Street
Sisters of Divine Providence
Oblate Fathers
J. H. Quinn
O. M
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Union Stock Yards
Antonio
Carter's
Mata
Leese
Fraser Auto Supply Company
Indiana Automobile Manufacturers
Colorado Springs
Indiana
Pike's Peak
Plains
Gager
Nichols
Marion
W. McK
White
Forest
Miss Florence Wainwright
A. Collmann
Madras
Fomby-Jones Company
East
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