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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 14, 1913
Page
3
Nearly 1000 Ford county farmers gathered at dawn with 100 pounds of poisoned bran to combat grasshoppers blamed for crop damage over three weeks. County commissioners authorized township trustees to distribute the poison, an organized effort to begin the pest battle. A. Collmann, plumber, advertises.
D E Colp of the San Antonio Automobile Club plans to attempt the E C Patterson gold medal 200 mile non stop run within his state in ten hours with no stops except for observer. Hudson signs hint at 1914 Six production. Mrs Chittim heads Colorado trip. Cole 60 Y tour prepared. Maxwell 63 cars left. hot weather troubles for heavy cars noted.
H. E. Johnson of Pearsall spent the morning at Staacke Brothers' garage driving a Cadillac touring car and left for home this afternoon.
James Kendall Hosmer recounts Harvard professor Louis Agassiz strolling home from fields or marshes and keeping odd company in his pockets. Students feared what he might reveal as he mingled with turtles tadpoles and snakes, yet he wished to educate not shock his class.
A classified style pitch touts S. S. S. as a skin tonic that improves cellular activity, dries eruptions, and yields healthy tissue. It cites no medical proof and promotes obtaining the product from Swift Specific Co., Atlanta, with a request for their illustrated book on skin diseases.
President Wilson and railroad representatives meet at the White House to discuss Erdman act amendments. The Newlands bill gains support from labor and civic groups, while Clayton’s proposal adding the labor secretary as mediator faces objections. A strike may be avoided if the Newlands measure passes.
Labor leaders and railroad chiefs meet President Wilson as the National Civic Federation and unions seek a fix to wage demands by 100,000 on eastern lines. Erdman act reform and six arbitrators are seen as possible compromise. Strike authorization remains in effect with Lee and Garretson empowered to set a walkout time if needed.
A seven foot golden eagle was electrocuted on 66 000 volt transmission lines near White Bluffs Washington. Lineman H J Allard found a dead rabbit beneath the grounded wires and the eagle on the line indicating the bird captured the rabbit in the desert before dying in the deadly arc. The report notes related observations on radium emanations affecting woody plants.
Washington report from the census bureau notes that full blooded Indians decline while half breeds multiply. Utah New Mexico Arizona Nevada show the highest full blood populations, Oklahoma hosts the largest mixed population due to white influx and intermarriage with the five civilized tribes. Over ten years 1890s figures fall for all groups, but twenty-year terms project about a seven percent overall rise driven by half-breed growth.
Michael Arnold, long time gun maker in Philadelphia, died after a long career spanning over sixty years with a storied craft and service in the trade. His death marks the end of an era for a key Philadelphia arms workshop and its skilled staff.
An elderly employee of the United States government died at his home yesterday. He was among the oldest workers for the government and was noted for his long service. The report also states he was five years old.
The St Anthony Reof Garden is praised as a premier dining and music venue. Tonight features soloists Signor Arturo Lugaro, noted bass voice, and Charles Cameron Bell, tenor, performing vocal and instrumental pieces.
Fifty players begin the Missouri Valley tennis championship at the Kansas City Athletic Club courts. Prominent entrants include Oklahoma champion Chas. Speke, Jack Cannon last year's KCAC finalist, Ray Conger of Oklahoma City, and W. I. Badger of Boston.
A notice directs customers to request sausage with the Tiny Tag by Union Meat Company and to view the display in the Grand Opera House lobby for fresh wholesome quality.
Cows owned by Leon J. Myers of Carthage New York reportedly ate ten g ticks of lyna mite left in a nearby highway work pasture by workers. The cows apparently enjoyed the meal and left only a pile of crumbs, with the herd remaining intact.
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