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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 27, 1913
Page
5
Secretary's letter from J E Harrison notes this bond issue is a first mortgage on all college property, totals assets $125000, insured $35000, and guaranteed by Harrison. Bonds sold with $5000 offered due February 10 1917 at par interest yield 6 percent.
Central Trust Company located at 201 West Commerce Street in San Antonio Texas appears in a brief notice. The listing identifies the firm’s street address and city indicating a contact or filing reference in the local record.
The San Antonio number of the Texas Magazine features articles on the city life and beauty spots with photographs. Staff writers prepared the issue including Dr. H. F. Van Trump’s piece San Antonio the Metropolis of Texas and Sidelights on the Alamo City detailing irrigation ditches missions parks trees and other city features.
When buying sausage ask for TIN TAG for freshness. See display in lobby of Grand Opera House. Union Meat Company. The ancient city of Smyrna is to have an electric street railway.
Governor Colquitt issued a denial refuting Wolters claims that he suggested hotel politicians could not win support for governor. He said conversations with Bowzee Rowze and others were friendly and no insults were intended. Colquitt added he is not committed to any candidate for 1914 and supports vigorous campaigning.
Mme Curie, Nobel laureate in Chemistry and co discoverer of radium, will halve her time for science to act as school mistress to her 12 year old daughter Irene. She esteems Irene as occupying a place in her heart larger than her calling and world renown.
A long notice lists new corporations chartered in Texas towns such as Jourdanton Temple Beaumont Madisonville and Austin with varied capital stock from no stock to 60 000 and names of incorporators. Also notes amendments permits and a separate report on John E Higdon attending a national insurance commissioners convention in Burlington Vermont.
Sergeant Fairfax W Burnside of Troop A Ninth Cavalry credited a rabbit's foot for his come from behind win at Leon Springs. He had carried a horseshoe for luck but lost it on the last day and borrowed a rabbit's foot to finish first. The hedge hog derailed a Sandbach engine tender delaying services for half an hour after it wedged between rails.
An energetic pitch urges investors to buy land in Harbor City before railroad development. It argues fortunes come from looking ahead, not after, citing cattlemen and urban leaders who profited by acting early and holding through delays. Investors are told to discount the future to secure profit.
Tierney guards the wrecked Excelsior vaults after a billion dollar treasure and the Zophar diamond. Sir Richard Calverly plots theft with Spanish Lizzie while Adrian Vanderpoel closes in. Cora Peyton holds the bazaar of secrets as Montague Jeffray and a violet widow scheme unfold.
Sir Richard outlines a scheme to lure and kidnap a woman living on Fifth Avenue as bait in a taxicab caper. Kelley learns Cockney Tim must pose in the hotel trade to seize the skirt and deliver the bait, while the mastermind plans the trap and its breaking.
In a packed Metropolitan Opera House Adrian Vanderpoel and Cora witness Caruso deliver a powerful Ce leste Aida as Toscanini conducts. The Golden Horse Shoe boxes glow with ornate fashion while Italian fans erupt in applause and a Metropolitan Opera Club attendant interrupts with news of an introduction to three acquaintances.
Adrian Vanderpoel learns his father is suddenly ill after a phone tip. In a tense dash via taxi to a Madison Avenue drug store, a mysterious Dr. Davis arranges care while a white bearded stranger steers the rear car. Cora, in the box, watches unseen as events unfold. The scene ends with a whispered plan to move Mr. Vanderpoel to his hotel.
Seventy Texas National Guard shooters competed for fifteen spots and the selected team includes Second Lieutenant Nor Blount and officers from Houston Austin Waco Amarillo Hillsboro Decatur Galveston and San Antonio. Adjutant General Hutchings leads as captain with General O C Guessar named coach and Lt S B Blount as spotter.
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