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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1911
Page
5
An advertising claim urges using Duffy’s Pure Malt Whiskey as prescribed to strengthen nerve tissue heart brain and muscles while enriching the blood. It asserts improved digestion and nourishment by stimulating stomach glands and mucous surfaces for better assimilation.
Mrs Maggie Sievert finds her husband Herman Sievert, 23, dead from a right temple gunshot in their Furnish Avenue home. Police arrive after her screams. the body is taken to the morgue and burial plans await. Sievert, a longtime San Antonio resident, had worked as a chauffeur for G A C Halff. He is survived by his wife, father and two brothers.
A bipartisan sub committee of eight senators from both parties will investigate Senator Lorimer of Illinois. The panel, four Republicans and four Democrats, follows seven hours of debate and a 48 to 20 vote to assign the matter to a House style jury trial process.
The Democratic leader claimed the old guard Republicans allied with Democrats and placed the mantle of Aldrich on Martin. Bailey and Culberson voted in favor of the inquiry.
Thomas A. Edison at a National Electric Light association meeting in New York predicts trolley cars will be put out of business by storage battery development. He notes the timing is uncertain and credits young engineers with the progress.
Mayor Harrison appoints Dr. George B. Young from the United States Marine Hospital service as Chicago health commissioner after Chicago Medical Society failed to agree on a successor to Dr. William A. Evans. Young has led Chicago Marine Hospital for six years and spent twenty years in federal medical service. salary set at 8000 dollars annually.
Harrisburg report says a car driven by C. A. Sefton carriage maker careened off the Mulberry street viaduct last night, tumbling 60 feet to the road. The dead are C. A. Sefton, W. R. Harrar of Harrar and Chamberlain leather merchants, and Mrs. Robert W. Dunlop. Laura M. Neilson is fatally injured with little hope of recovery.
Francisco I. Madero will travel via Eagle Pass to Mexico City to discuss a new government with President de la Barra. He plans visits to Torreon, Zacatecas, and Aguas Calientes to pacify the region while vowing all Mexicans are brothers and peace will spread. A Parral looting with $50,000 stolen was reported en route.
Dr. Sarah F. Herdmafin osteopath lists new contact in Gibbs Building with phone 3055 blue and residential routing.
General Mills command ends Houston visit with a morning street parade led by bands. Wagons carry supplies toward South Houston for an encampment tonight. The brigade plans to reach League City Saturday and then conduct maneuvers before returning to Galveston via May May.
Jos N Beaman of Corpus Christi Texas who is jailed as a murder suspect married Blanche Tompkins of Iola Kansas in Springfield Missouri. Beaman claimed he was in Iola at the time of the Birdstown murder and the couple arranged the ceremony at the justice's court after his transfer from the county jail.
Judge A F Evans may hear a request to dissolve the Kansas City Fruit and Produce Exchange as a food trust. Henry Jost said the move follows testimony by S J Hurst that eggs are stored to keep prices high.
Fort Worth aims to handle at least 20000 delegates for the anti state wide prohibition rally on June 6. The Missouri Kansas & Texas railroad adds two special trains from La Grange and Denison. Excursion fares from multiple Texas cities listed. Indications say attendance may exceed the 1887 rally by several thousand.
Houston dispatch reports Harris county will send about 1000 supporters to a major anti state wide prohibition rally in Fort Worth on Monday. Bands from South Texas including Houston and El Campo military band are scheduled to perform with many towns in the region represented. The organizers expect it to be the largest Texas rally yet.
William Alexander Smith, longtime NYSE member and Civil War president, dies at his Nyack home. Born in 1820 in Pottstown, Pa., he moved to New York in 1844 and served as treasurer of the American Bible Society from 1848 to 1851. He marked sixty years on the stock exchange in December 1904.
Mrs Francisco Madero Sr mother of ex provisional president Francisco I Madero Jr and her daughters Angela Magdalena and son Gabriel Madero with L M Aguilar and son cousins of Francisco I Madero travel through Laredo Texas on their way to Mexico City greeted by a large cross border crowd and accorded courtesy.
Rear Admiral Joseph B. Murdock commander in chief of the US Asiatic Fleet hosted a dinner on the flagship Saratoga in Yokohama. The American squadron plans to sail from Yokohama on June 6 bound northward.
The San Antonio high school 911 class held graduation at Beethoven hall before about 2000 attendees. Salutorian Charlotte Crowell and valedictorian Estelle Beaumont delivered addresses praising parents and education. Diplomas were awarded by Don A. Bliss, with scholarships to Estelle Beaumont and William Lehr. The ceremony included a dramatization of The Princess directed by Iva Robertson Gilbert and music by Mrs Lulu Griesenbeck. A list of graduates follows, including Helen Baetz, Edna Beaumont, Geraldine Breen, Bill Camp, Mary Clark, John Classen, and others.
A teaspoonful in a glass of cold water makes a wholesome refreshing beverage. The ad promotes a nerve tonic acid phosphate product as simple health aid.
Lieutenant Lucca and passenger M. Hennequin were badly injured when their aeroplane wrecked during the Paris Rome Turin flight from Avignon to Nice. They were said to have lost their way in fog, landing in Marseille before resuming toward Nice a short time later.
The Edward Moyse & Co firm, a large cotton broker, was expelled from the New York Cotton Exchange after an all day managers meeting and months of investigation. The board cited alleged violation of a customer's order as the cause, while a firm member warned indictments for perjury and extortion could follow. M. M. Rothschild of the Patten syndicate led the charges.
Illinois tops the states sending letters to the Texas Commercial Secretaries and Business Men's association seeking relocation to Texas. In six months more than 600 inquiries came from across the nation, with the middle Atlantic states and Illinois most prominent. The surge reflects Texas population growth of about 78,266 per year, driven by commercial efforts inviting newcomers.
Actress Mary Mannering, already divorced from James K. Hackett, married Frederick E. Wadsworth of Grosse Pointe Farm Michigan at her New York home last night. Wadsworth said to be 43, Mannering 32, they planned a honeymoon at Wadsworth’s Michigan home.
About 150 soldiers and officers buried at Fort Ringgold will be disinterred and moved to the Alexandria National Cemetery in Pineville Louisiana. Contractor B E Hinkley of Brownsville expects to complete removals by June 30.
Seguin Texas June 2 Andreas Troell lost control of a mule team hauling a wood wagon. He was thrown under the wagon as the team ran, two wheels passed over him fracturing his right leg and bruising him. Amputation may be necessary.
Ceiba Honduras reports no evidence of a new uprising or martial law. The March 20 1924 proclamation by General Manuel Bonilla era remains in effect and no border insurrection rumors have reached the region.
Eva M Wyman daughter of a Foxboro clergyman married Dr Albert M Dunlap of Savoy Illinois in Cambridge last night They will move to Japan for their future home and work plans remain with the missionary field or academic circle in that region
A Michigan farm mother of thirteen credits Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with restoring her health after years of hardship. She praises the product for backache and bearing down pains and notes a daughter benefited from its use for irregular periods.
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