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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 27, 1912
Page
9
Storage for furniture pianos buggies with separate stalls at $1.50 a month. Moving packing shipping. L W Culver at 120 Fannin, phones 2180. Also SEHPARAT Stalls at Street's Transfer with large moving van packing shipping and storing. Phones 2596.
Multiple parcels for sale across Webb, Laredo, Zuehl, and San Benito include 2560 acres in Webb County with a house and fences and terms. 171 acres near Laredo with irrigation, team and pump, 5000 cash. 250 acres near Zuehl with 70 in field at 60 per acre. 71 acres near San Benito on main canal, cotton and cabbage profits, price 225 per acre. agents: H Dean, T A Bunn, Zuehl Bros, Paul Stevenson.
Corpus Christi firm lists 14 000 acres of artesian belt land at $3 per acre and an 80 acre farm 17 miles east with 55 cultivated acres priced at $45 per acre. Whitaker contact via old phone 6121.
Corpus Christi school board to open bids for three ward schools at wards one three and five costing 12000 each. Buildings will be two stories with six classrooms and an auditorium. City investment in school property passes 200000 with Central school cost 75000 noted as a fine Southwest Texas building.
Rose Pitonof, 16, of Boston plans a Channel swim from England to France. She says she will try despite dangerous currents and would rather die than be rescued if she fails, aiming to become the first woman to cross the English Channel.
In Oyster Bay New York Colonel Roosevelt outlines his confessed doctrines ahead of a Chicago address on August 5. He predicts critics will label his program socialistic or anarchistic yet argues the measures are remedies to socialism and antidotes to anarchy. He supports legally fixed minimum wages for women and legal guarantees for eight hour shifts and a day of rest each week in continuous industries.
Rev. E V Huffner said he was not embarrassed by a dispatch claiming Miss Helen Gould of New York denied writing him about her views on old maids He admitted he had mailed the letter to his brother a pastor in Chester West Virginia to obtain a reply The brother will preach on Love Courtship and Marriage on Sunday.
The Department of Insurance and Banking in Austin Texas has issued a certificate of authority to the Ladies' Catholic Benevolent Association a fraternal organization from Erie Pennsylvania allowing it to do business in Texas for the current year.
The Louisiana State Life Insurance Company of Shreveport has been licensed to operate in Texas for the current year by the state department of insurance and banking. It is a new Texas insurer with capital stock of 250000 dollars and a surplus of 108631 dollars.
Miss Mary Edna Gearing of the University of Texas lectured at the University Y M A auditorium on the value of domestic economy in schools. She emphasized training for young women who are to be home makers and the role of domestic science in education.
Judge M. A. Spoonts of Fort Worth dies at Johns Hopkins hospital Baltimore. He served many years as general attorney for the Fort Worth and Denver City Railway. The body is being sent to Fort Worth for burial.
Gonzales Tex July 27 The case of J R Hall charged with killing his wife in December went to the jury this week but could not reach a verdict and has been discharged. District court adjourned until after the election.
President Taft nominates sixteen postmasters including Robert Hopkins at Albuquerque Ignacio Pee at Las Vegas and Arthur H Hockafellow at Roswell with senate submission announced in Washington D C on July 27.
A dense list of passenger train numbers and routes from various lines including Santa Fe I G N Depot and Kerrville, with arrival and departure times for trains from Mexico from the north to the coast and local services. Includes numerous numbers, origins such as Houston Laredo Kerrville and Dallas Fort Worth, and times ranging from early morning to past midnight.
In Jacksonville on July 27 the White and Black Roosevelt factions held separate conventions and each selected half the delegates to the Chicago national convention. The white caucus backed a state ticket including several Democrats. Farmers anticipate a bumper cotton crop with over 10,000 bales in the county as the first bale nears ginning.
Corpus Christi merchants raise a $75 cash prize for the first bale produced by a farmer in the local section. The award aims to encourage early harvests and support regional agriculture.
William D. Miles former Armour Packing general manager and government witness sues Armour Packing J Ogden Armour Charles W Armour and the Armour Packing company for 169848.74 alleging defrauded in an account. Harold Smasal has accepted a banking post in Dallas.
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