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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 31, 1911
Page
4
Chicago report says only one third of daily 500 million gallons pumped by water works reaches faucets. Escaping currents from surface and elevated railways corrode mains, risking fire safety as nails can be driven into corroded steel mains along most lines.
An old advertisement touts Winstlow's Soothe Thine Syrup as a sixty year cure for infant ailments. It claims to ease teething pain, soothe gums, relieve wind colic, and cure diarrhea, urging use for mother and child with Mrs. Soothing Syrup as a reference.
An artillery engineer in Versailles was hospitalized with cholera symptoms. Doctors doubt the illness is Asiatic type after initial exam. In Teheran, ex Shah Mohammed Ali Mieza has left Astrabad with a large force and marches toward Tehran amid fears of a throne restoration.
Chihuahua Mexico July 31 all officials gathered to mark the hundredth anniversary of Hidalgo's death. The Father of Independence was imprisoned in Chihuahua before his execution, making the city a focal point of commemoration.
Premier Asquith will meet King in London on Wednesday after his return Tuesday to brief on arrangements for driving through the veto bill. The king's schedule centers on the cabinet plan and parliamentary hurdles expected in the near term.
Texas advertising men seized the ship Commonwealth in New York and aboard the Fall River bound for East Boston began pushing Texas pride. The delegation aims to secure the 1912 national convention for Dallas, with St Paul as their main rival.
The Thirty-second Texas legislature designates Columbus Day as a legal holiday and San Antonio plans a mammoth Oct 12 event. An Italo American Young Men's club mass meeting at Giorda hall drew about two hundred Italian residents who pledged full support for a grand Columbus celebration with committees formed to organize the largest event of its kind in the South.
The hermit of Broadway known as Manuel Martinez a Spanish gentleman who lived in a hotel on Broadway for thirty years and never learned English died yesterday.
Incendiary fire in Dubuque Iowa caused $190000 damage to property in an evening blaze. In Memphis Tennessee a sports editor shot and killed a plumber in a rooming house the previous night.
The German cruiser Bremen docked at Newport News from Montreal on July 31 and immediately began loading coal and provisions. It is under rush orders to proceed to Haiti.
H L Robertson of San Antonio a Pullman conductor on a special troop train shot two porters nine miles from Atlanta. Lawrence J Logan died at a local hospital while L Jamison was wounded but not seriously. Robertson says the porters attacked him as he remanded them for not cleaning a car. He is held by police. Three troop trains carried artillery from Fort Sam Houston to Fort Myer under Major Summerall.
Paris July 31 The minister of public instruction has delegated Charles Diehl and Gustav Lanson as the first French lecturers under the new exchange scheme with American universities. They will open their courses at Harvard and Columbia in 1912. Professor Davis of Harvard, who exchanged with Diehl, will begin his course at the Sorbonne at the same time.
The judge advocate general of the navy decided against civil engineers promoted after Peary's retirement. They argued promotions should date from April 6, 1908, Peary's pole discovery and ascent to rear admiral, but the promotions were held effective March 3, 1911, when Peary retired.
A news agency close to a cabinet member reports Count Katsura tendered his resignation as premier on July 27 and recommended Marquis Saionji for the post. An August 25 announcement is anticipated but unconfirmed. Cabinet changes have been under consideration for three months with portfolios undecided.
ORGANIZE NEW PARTY MEXICO CITY July 31 Liberal party reorganized under Fernando Iglesias Calderon to field a candidate against Madero. Calderon lists several prominent Mexican figures as allies. Early August national convention to name Madero's opponent planned.
On Friday New Haven will entertain sixty five distinguished professors and military and social men from Germany. The guests will be hosted by Yale members of the Die Schlaraffia society during their visit.
Herbert Satterlee and J Pierpont Morgan’s son in law along with Charles F Brooker were indicted as wire trust members and delayed their pleas on the charges in the United States court in New York City. Other indicted members pleaded nolo contendere and were fined. The reason for the delay in these two pleas is not known.
A U S board of general appraisers ruled in favor of the United States over the Kansas City Smelting and Refining Company confirming duty on ore shipments. The protests claimed improper levy on lead and zinc contents under the tariff act. the protest was overruled.
Creston Iowa testimonial states Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound relieved long standing inflammation side pains nervousness and headaches. The ad claims thousands of unsolicited endorsements and invites letters to Mrs Pinkham at Lynn Massachusetts for confidential advice.
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