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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 11, 1911
Page
8
Contestants may refuse payment and sue on bond after Judge Seeligson assessed nearly ten thousand dollars in costs from the charter election contest. Attorney Clinton Brown obtained a partial cost list and will move to retax once full figures are ready, estimating total costs may fall well short of officials’ near ten thousand figure.
Local and long distance services list departures and arrivals across lines including the M K & T, H and G A, and Santa Fe divisions. Schedules include northbound and southbound expresses locally from Palestine Kerrville and Houston with times ranging from early morning to late night.
President Taft’s message discussing Pure Food and Drugs law amendments mentions prepared medicines but omits Foley's Honey and Tar Compound and Foley Kidney Pills. The piece defends Foley products as trusted remedies, noting Foley's Honey and Tar for coughs and respiratory illnesses and Foley Kidney Pills as equally effective and meritorious.
Travelers and ranchmen moved through the city with many staying at the Gunter and nearby hotels. Names include H. L. Fowler Jr of Crystal City, F McArdle of Yoakum, John Ruckman of Helena, Tex, G Johnson of Rockport, J S Bonner editor of Kalamity's Harpoon with his two sons, L C DeBona of Eagle Pass, B H Helm of Dallas, C E Thompson of Crystal City, and S S Thompson of a Fort Down ranch, all lodging at local hotels amid gulf coast fishing chatter. A Kidney remedy ad from Foley's appears, praising cure potential with a single bottle noted by Perry A Pitman.
The Texas department of insurance and banking issues a certificate of authority to Atlantic Horse Insurance of Providence Rhode Island. The firm capital stock is $100 000 fully paid up and will operate as a new Texas company specializing in live stock insurance.
An old advertisement touts Allen's Foot-Ease as the solution for blistered and calloused feet, swollen toes, and tender spots. It claims instant relief for tight or new shoes, helps break in footwear, and offers a free trial package by mail from Le Roy New York.
The piece criticizes the San Antonio maneuver division for failing to test army transportation under war conditions. It notes delays, inadequate rolling stock, and reliance on civilian rail services, arguing the War Department stalled a true mobility test and understates needs for functional wagon trains and supply lines.
Ener R. D. Parker of the railroad commission traveled through Austin en route to Fort Worth to examine the International and Great Northern railway. Within ten days the commission will decide on a $35,000,000 valuation of the railroad property from Fort Worth to Spring, Texas, covering 271 miles.
A certificate of authority to do business in Texas was granted yesterday afternoon to the Continental Assurance Company of Chicago Illinois. The company has capital stock of 100000 dollars and a paid up surplus of 48000 dollars.
The Texas Pipe Line company protests steamships being taxed as Oklahoma property. Attorney General West argues the entire property is a single inseparable business and the company will challenge tax payment.
Arch bishop James H Blenk of New Orleans and eight southern bishops arrived in Dallas to assist at the consecration tomorrow of Rev Father Joseph Patrick Lynch as bishop of the diocese. Prominent Catholics are expected to attend.
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