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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 04, 1914
Page
7
San Antonio plans a ten minute city wide campaign to swat flies to curb typhoid threats. Mayor Brown will issue a proclamation calling all residents to pause work for ten minutes to swat flies and halt commerce. Dr. W A King says eliminating flies targets disease transmission from food.
Ironton Ohio woman writes of regained health after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for twelve years of illness and nervous trouble. She reports improved strength and ability to work, and even helps her daughter who suffered sleep disturbances. She urges others to consider the remedy and offers to publish the letter.
Samuel P. Cochran of Dallas and sovereign inspector general of Scottish Rite Masonry in Texas arrives to present jewels to five San Antonio Masons and attend the inaugural meeting at the Convent and St Mary's site. a Bexar Lodge vacancy election will be held.
At a Travis Club luncheon the San Antonio real estate group urged outside investors to see the city’s high prospects. I. M. Putnam and others touted San Antonio as the nation’s best investment, demanding a persistent boosting campaign to attract capital and spur ongoing development. About forty brokers attended as leaders urged active promotion and optimism for a 250000 population metropolis.
Judge Munroe dissolved a restraining order that blocked voiding G W Stough's natural gas franchise for Waco. The city then voided Stough's grant, citing noncompliance, and awarded a franchise to R H Baker from Houston. A heated postmeeting altercation involved Mayor Riggins and Commissioner Foster over auto jurisdiction.
County commissioners order opening of a second class forty foot road to link Campbellton and Pleasanton roads. A jury of view including L. B. Campbell J. T. Bailey W. B. Shields A. J. Saunders and G. W. Brown will survey and report next week. Contracts for gravel from C. O. Wilson pit set at $100 total.
An old advertisement touts TIZ as a magical remedy for tired feet. It claims the product removes aches corns and blisters and lets wearers keep smaller shoes with long lasting comfort for 25 cents.
In the San Antonio Country Club women’s tournament first round concluded with decisive wins by Ruth Muir Vida McKellar Mace Stewart and others. Stewart posted a nine hole 60 as the best medal score to date with rounds pending Friday semi finals set after second round pairings.
District Judge W. S. Anderson and District Attorney W. C. Linden dismissed an article in The Voice claiming Dimmit county ammunition runners were jailed with manacles and treated like dogs. They called the statements fabrications and threatened legal action against the visiting lawyer for malicious assertions.
Paris reports the French colonial office has announced the annexation of the Wallis Islands in the Southern Pacific. The group covers about 40 square miles and hosts 4500 inhabitants, having been a French protectorate since 1887.
Louis Ycaza 31 died Wednesday afternoon at a local hospital. A native of Mexico he recently moved to San Antonio from Yorktown and had lived there four months. He is survived by his mother in Mexico City. The Zizik Undertaking Company holds the body awaiting his mother’s instructions.
Sector trans continental highways of the National Highways Association will leave Monday for a six day automobile tour from San Antonio to Amarillo. They will travel through Boerne Waring Fredericksburg Mason Brady Paint Rock San Angelo Sterling City Big Springs Lubbock and Plainview. After Amarillo Mr Sterling will continue into New Mexico before returning to San Antonio via the eastern Colorado to the gulf route.
Alice Young, daughter of Elmer Young, was bitten Thursday around 11 near Princeton and Brazos streets by a dog suspected of madness. The same dog later bit a horse owned by Lloyd Pipes and chased several other dogs as it wandered through yards. police could not locate the animal.
John C. Allen and Marie Perry Gustav R. Stetlhagen and Mrs Lou Jahn Harry Ashton and Pearl Reby Fred Hoth and Belle Sechubarry marriage licenses appear in the local public notices section.
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