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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 21, 1911
Page
7
County Judge Shook announces three oil cars for district two to demonstrate oiling roads. He says oiling has passed experiments and will spread county wide as finances allow, aiming to reduce dust and improve water run off on West Texas earth roads.
C W Woodman longtime AFL organizer and editor refutes Dallas News quotes on the liquor traffic. He notes the federation’s 1910 Galveston constitutional draft has no liquor clause and recalls Galveston 1905 debates over universal high license. He says the federation avoids taking a stance amid strong antis.
Two storms struck New York early today with lightning hitting several buildings and several small fires quenched without serious damage. A second storm at seven this morning plunged the city into near darkness.
Miss Constance Warren daughter of Mr and Mrs George Henry Warren broke her three mile swimming record by thirty minutes. The New York girl swam from Bailey’s Beach to the Fort Steps in one hour fifty five minutes at Newport. Her master and a beach boatman followed in a boat as crowds watched from the cliff walk.
Tyler pro leader Cone Johnson urged San Antonio crowds to back prohibition as the path to save boys and girls. He tied liquor interests to local politics and warned that change hinges on closing 200 city saloons, criticizing Governor Colquitt and likening saloon power to a choking grip on commerce and morals.
Reports from Valverde Belton Brownwood Vernon Hillsboro Texarkana and Bowie districts show both sides claiming victory or strong support. Pros push campaigning while antis tout limited speeches and disputed margins amid heated pre election activity.
The piece reports a prohibition rally at the AIRDOME and cites census figures comparing dry and wet states and counties. It urges voting for prohibition to benefit taxes and population growth, and comments on political messaging aimed at Black voters.
A Prohibition era letter to the editor mocks anti movement rhetoric while defending Lincoln and Bryan. It cites a 1909 Model License League resolution on local option and urges consistency amid local option debates.
Speech attributed to Abraham Lincoln denounces intemperance and links temperance to political freedom. The excerpt argues a ban on intoxicants would reduce misery, oppression, and disease, praising the temperance movement as allied to liberty.
An Augusta Georgia full page ad claimed Protestant ministers opposed statewide prohibition. The Ministers' Association secretary replied from Atlanta that the claim was false. Dr DuBose stood with legislators in opposition to repeal of Near Beer Le. Short signed the denial as secretary, urging voters to support liquor prohibition for truth and public interest.
A political advertisement asserts eight years of prohibition in Bandera County with no murders during that period and only sixteen days of court activity. It notes a prior heavy docket and recalls a man killed in a saloon just before closures.
A 1911 letter from Governor W. R. Stubbs to E. B. Pate is cited asserting prohibition is a success in Kansas. The document includes a sworn statement from the Kansas Secretary of State and a governor’s speech with verified statistics.
The body found four miles south of the city near the International and Great Northern tracks was identified as George Hilbert, an inmate of the poor farm. Superintendent Joe Chadwick confirmed the identity. Hilbert, from New York, had entered the poor house March 19 after arriving from Eagle Pass. He suffered tuberculosis and reportedly wandered into brush and died in a weakened state. The county buried the body.
A San Antonio Country Club golf team will travel to Austin to spend Saturday and Sunday as guests of the Austin Country Club. Friendly matches are planned for both days. The San Antonio lineup includes E. C. Tarrant Dr. R. E. Moss Thomas Goggan R. R. Russell Dr. A. R. Burleson Robert Kampmann FE S Fomby and Frank Lewis. They return Monday.
Four new Texas National Guard companies have been assigned to units. Groveton joins the Third Infantry as Co. F, Gainesville to the Fourth Infantry as Co. M, Carthage to the Third Infantry as Co. M, and Decatur to the Third Infantry as Co. G. An order requires incoming troops to travel in tourist sleepers per army regulations.
Adolfo Stackman a 28 year old man appeared in police court charged with intoxication. Patrolman Daniels testified stackman refused to speak unless in Mexican, officers said his English was clear. The court allowed no statement from the defendant and fined him ten dollars.
A terse dispatch reports that Taft refused to take blame for Ballinger while insisting he kept his hands off Lorimer. The note frames a political dispute with no admissions of fault, reflecting tensions over presidential authority and reform.
Commander Benton C. Decker sped the scout cruiser Chester to Cape Haitien after orders. The ship sailed from Bradford Rhode Island at 3 am and should arrive Monday night. The U S plans a protest to President Simon over rebel actions and may ring Cape Haitien with armed ships to protect American lives and property.
Port au Prince reports 1000 troops arrived by night from the south aboard a German steamer to guard the capital. President Simon directs palace defense while towns form revolutionary committees led by Firmin followers. The American gunboat Petrel arrived as foreign residents fly their national colors.
Mrs. John Cable of Windsor chases a bear into a tree near her camp and, after retrieving her husband’s gun, shoots the animal from below. The bear had raided the butter, crackers, and other provisions as Miss H Snyder and Mrs. Cable read nearby.
Archbishop Glennon allowed Grace Koppman and Harry L. Reyburn Jr to wed without public notice, keeping the secret until last week when they revealed it to Grace’s mother, who opposed the match due to the groom’s youth. He is 20 years old.
In Sharon Pennsylvania a judge settled a dispute over ownership of a hen by placing the bird at a midpoint between two houses. The hen chose a path through a hole in a fence belonging to one contestant, ending the contest. The judge assigned costs to a third claimant.
David E. Lewis Jr. of Newcastle Pa. traveled to Sedgwick County Missouri to claim Miss Mary Spight for his bride after finding her name and address written on an egg and starting a correspondence that led to romance and plans to wed.
The couple faced a parental warning about age before taking a Hillsboro Missouri trip for a marriage license on May 6. The ceremony occurred May 8 with Rev. Father M. EB at Holy Name church. Rayburn, 19, works for the Frisco and the couple have lived apart since.
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