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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 24, 1912
Page
8
San Antonio voters are invited to a July 29 1912 primary to elect delegates for a convention at Beethoven Hall July 30 to nominate a mayoral candidate for the August 8 election and adopt a platform. Precinct meeting places are listed with chaired organizers and signatories from the Citizens League.
Washington reports that federal funding for department of agriculture officers and employees to give farm lectures to farmers, university students, summer schools, and boys camps will end. Comptroller Tracewell cites a new congressional act restricting travel dues, while Secretary Wilson argues the department’s mission to disseminate agricultural information remains authorized. The ruling also blocks paid travel for Interior Department field agents to attend local land matter conferences.
Austin July 24. Because Mexican revolutionists have shown no further activity near El Paso the ranger force is dispersed to their home bases. Capt J R Hughes and company return to Ysleta mile from El Paso. Capt J Monroe Fox returns to Brownsville. Capt J J Sanders and men resume station at Del Rio.
Joseph Fettrech a New York lawyer and his clerk Norman Bergh were shot in Fettrech's Park Row office by Conway a former client following a dispute over a case Conway was arrested and Fettrech was mortally wounded. In Frio County Thurmond Bros take first bale on L F Price farm near Disley as a new Holloway gin nears completion. Mississippi reports cotton worm appears in several counties including Lowendes Noxubee Okittibbee and Monroe raising alarm for the state crop.
The attorney general's department approved a 12 000 dollar issue of independent school district bonds bearing 5 percent interest and maturing in 40 years with a 10 year option. Bonds were registered in the comptroller's department.
Seasonable guidance warns mothers not to overfeed children in hot weather and to offer lighter easily digested foods. Keep milk cool and fruit ripe. Digestive upsets and summer diarrhoea may occur. a mild bedtime laxative helps clear waste, while harsh purgatives are discouraged. Dr Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin is touted as gentle and effective. A larger bottle is available. free trial offers are claimed.
A Colquitt campaign spokesman disputed reports that religious services were eliminated at the State Orphans Home. An affidavit from superintendent W. L. Bringhurst states Sunday school and church services continue, with religion and mortality said to have risen under current administration. The statement labeled Ramsey supporters' charges as false.
A New York inquiry into the whereabouts of Doricas Snodgrass, a Mount Vernon nurse missing for over a week, yields no results. Detectives scoured hospitals and morgues while relatives keep hope she remains alive. a Mount Vernon maid says she saw the nurse on Twenty third Street last Monday but did not speak.
Ad promotes Perspino a deodorant powder for underarm use claiming to keep armpits dry and natural. It targets women with scenes of social events and theaters, noting sale at druggists for 25 cents a box and distribution by Perspo Co Chicago with San Antonio agents listed.
Joe E. Grego, owner of a grocery barber shop and confectionery store, fired a six shooter after 3 pm when a group of youths including Genared Byrd Francis Hudspeth James Rowe Walter Craig Vachral Lawson and Charles Napier threatened him and his driver. He said he fired into the ground to scare them not to kill. He was fined 15 dollars in police court.
Roy Howard an escaped black man convicted in this county in May 1911 was recaptured by Sheriff John W. Tobin with Deputy James N. Galbraith near a Santos Street residence after an overnight stakeout. He had fled from Whamsey farm at Otey on July 7 and headed to San Antonio before being seized at 4 a.m. today. Louisville Nashville agent W C Dillard was in town handling shipments.
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