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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 26, 1913
Page
8
Warrant signed by Mayor Brown transfers 221000 dollars from the city sinking fund to the Commerce Street widening fund, enabling work to start. The move follows an ordinance authorizing bonds purchased by Improvement District No. 4 property owners.
Soldier Cut C F Wallace of Troop G Third Cavalry was slashed across the head in an argument near Lombrano and Brazos streets at 10 last night. Police know the assailant, and charges likely in corporation court today. Humane Society officers Fred Davison and E A Treil are listed at 324 Hicks building with night and Sunday phone numbers.
A negro woman captured by police after allegedly pocketing $23 from a stranger is identified as the same suspect who slashed Pearl Lee with a razor, leaving four teen stitches. Lee was attacked on Hey Market square. police had been seeking the assailant. A theft charge and an affidavit for assault with intent to kill are expected in justice court.
No successor to W. W. Collier as vice president of the State Bank and Trust Company will be named now by the board. Collier travels to San Antonio to finalize bank affairs and likely take oath as state commissioner of banking and insurance on Monday. He notes several duties must be completed before qualifying and beginning his new role.
A blaze at 1:20 this morning destroyed four South Flores street establishments including Mission City laundry and a carriage dealer's stock, with an estimated value around 42 000 dollars. Most properties had little insurance. two Binz horses were killed and downtown firemen faced a severe battle to contain the flames.
A 25 foot channel to Corpus Christi is urged by Harbor City supporters and the Inter-Coastal Canal may halt at Corpus Christi with plans to extend toward the Rio Grande Valley later. Harbor City Twenty-Five Foot Club seeks Rivers and Harbors Commission backing and local investors are offered Harbor City stock for involvement. A. D. Powers promotes the cause from 333 Alamo Plaza, San Antonio.
Attorney General McReynolds advances testing of the Sherman anti trust law in the Portland civil suit against the Pacific coast telephone monopoly. Discussion centers on three possible Wilson administration policies including enforced competition, federal regulation, or government ownership of the telephone system.
In Philadelphia on July 26 a disinfecting fluid’s fumes proved fatal to 25 year old Andrew Schemmel who had reentered a locked room in Mount Sinai Hospital’s servants’ quarters. His companion Andrew Bielos also entered the fume filled room and was found unconscious. doctors fear he may not survive.
C H Carter shipped the season s champion watermelons from Elgin Texas weighing about 36 pounds each and totaling 120 dollars for the lot. Daily shipments continue as melons prove fine in size and quality.
Christopher Christopherson, former foreign minister in the Norwegian cabinet under Prime Minister Knudsen, died today in Christiana. He will be accorded a state funeral in Norway.
Dr. Paul S. Reinsch professor of political economy at the University of Wisconsin is appointed minister to China. Born in 1869, he studied in Berlin Paris and Rome and has been in college work since 1899.
A general rain is falling over the San Angelo area today July 26 aiding growing cotton and late feed crops in the region.
Texas births for June totaled 3529 and deaths 2066 as the state registrar notes. The leading death causes were diarrhoea and enteritis in infants under two, followed by tuberculosis and pneumonia. extremes include a 110 year old Bastrop County negro woman and a 107 year old white woman in Bexar County. Thirty three twin sets were recorded and race counts show 1674 white male births and 1400 white female births.
In Frankfort on Main Germany yesterday an aeroplane carrying Aviator Schaefer and mechanic Stengel fell. Stengel died shortly after. Schaefer was not mortally wounded. A sausage ad urges customers to choose tins with tags for freshness. Display seen in Grand Opera House lobby.
Chicago authorities have not learned any heirs for William Henry Lane head of a publishing house who died here leaving an estate of 200000. The public administrator has advertised the property for sale with a 20 year heir search or the state of Illinois will inherit. A drug ad promotes Foley Honey and Tar Compound for hay fever and asthma relief from Fischer Drug Co.
Judge T B Cochran aged 54 distinguished jurist and former grand master of the Masons of Texas died in Austin at 8 o clock after a year long illness Funeral services will be held at 5 30 this afternoon at his residence with the Masons in charge
A combined display showcasing events and offerings at the Grand Opera House and Union Meat Company appears in the display advertisement. The notice highlights theatre listings and meat market promotions with period-appropriate wording.
Feature film presented with three reels and a day only showing. Aviators and automobile drivers headline the cast in a dramatic production described as nearly impossible and rare for public viewing. The Royal also screens The Miracle, a four reel epic lauded by European crowned heads.
The St Anthony Roof Garden is praised as a premier dining and listening venue with vocal and instrumental music. Tonight featured soloist Signor Arturo Lugaro, noted bari tone, as advertised.
The copy contrasts the two by saying the Summer Girl enjoys a good time while the Summer Woman is worn out with back and limb pain. It claims kidney trouble, not female trouble, causes misery and pitches Foley Kidney Puls as a direct aid. Fischer Drug Co. adv.
Mayor Brown and Dr. W A King, new city health officer, led a conference on street dust control. Dr Ixing urged modernizing street cleaning gear, with King tasked to study new apparatus and propose purchases. Brown may seek council authorization for needed equipment.
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