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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 14, 1911
Page
4
Mrs. Ida Darling, famed American actress, after eighteen years of marriage, discusses love and divorce with the St. Louis Republic. She argues beauty attracts brief passion but not lasting happiness and suggests plain women have more strategic dating opportunities.
Prominent New York physician Dr Ida C Nahm argues that women should stop making men their life aim. She notes beauty often hides loneliness and cynicism in marriage while plain women win devotion through enduring qualities. She advises placing men in a simple human role to reduce rivalries among women.
A Mexican railway convention in Mexico City aims to end foreign language use on trains amid English driven orders. Rail workers praise a stalled streetcar strike ending with a 3 cent per hour raise, and police avoided serious injuries during clashes. Nearby mills and a vast animal shipment for a Hamburg menagerie are noted, including antelopes zebras giraffes and rhinoceroses.
Des Moines dispatches report W C Brown president of the New York Central may run for the United States Senate. He plans to enter the Iowa primaries next year and will resign the New York Central presidency before entering the political race.
John V. Johnson stunned two highwaymen at a dark Seattle corner by reciting and misquoting poetry. The robbers surrendered after Johnson urged them to spare his country and fade away, leaving his watch and roll intact.
In Freeport New York a theft from Edward Miller Jr. residence on Rose Street has led to a reward for recovery of silver vessels used in the communion service of the Episcopal Church of the Transfiguration. Anita Miller had the items to clean them when thieves broke in. stolen also were cut glass linen and other articles. The Rev A W Carrington presided at last Sunday’s communion using the vessels.
Thornwall Fay vice president and general manager of the Southern Pacific, with Houston as headquarters, spent Thursday afternoon in the city on a general inspection tour of the Sunset lines. He plans to be away about a month and will be joined at El Paso by Pacific system officials en route to San Francisco.
Mrs Myrtle Bishop on a farm east of the city fired on three men trying to enter through a dining room window while guests Ad Petty and his wife slept inside. A burglar was wounded by the rifle fire and helped by a companion as the trio fled the scene.
Dallas resident F E Chase joins guests at the Menger hotel while Hall of Sherman visits the city and stays at the Bexar. Houston’s W F Lemken arrives at the Menger and Beaumont’s F J McNellie registers at the Crockett. J O Tilden from Dallas stops for breakfast at the Menger, and W F Rameey of Austin remains at the Gunter. Paul Schuetze and his aunt Mrs J S Ownes depart for St Louis to spend the summer with relatives before Paul enters a preparatory college.
A Cleveland Plain Dealer quote recalls a man who fell ill in hot weather and suspects heat effects. He describes light meals, buttermilk, lemon ade, and ice cream, denying alcohol or overeating. He plans to see a doctor to determine the illness cause.
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