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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1916
Page
12
The Dallas Newspaper Club postponed its planned gridiron dinner due to the illness of William Poindexter's son. The event was to feature a fantasy about Judge Poindexter's bid for national committeeman, and was to be held in Dallas, Texas.
John L. Wroe of Houston private secretary to Governor Ferguson visited Washington and eyed a seat in the Texas Eighth district. He informed Representative Joe H Eagle of his ambition and is rumored to seek Congress in two years. Wroe accompanied Texans urging support for a Bi Centennial and Pan American Exposition project.
The season’s heat record was broken Sunday with a 100 degree reading amid strong winds over 35 mph. A Southwest storm system tracked into Oklahoma and the Rockies, bringing one to three inches of rain across Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Northern Texas as officials forecast cooler air soon.
Southern Pacific advertisement touts through sleeper service to Memphis with daily departures from Chicago. The terse note emphasizes convenient overnight trains and direct connections for travelers boarding in Chicago to Memphis destinations.
Corpus Christi Texas June 5 work will start today on three settling tanks for the 300 000 dollar waterworks system to help separate the rift peculiar to the Nueces river from the city water supply.
In Chicago for the Republican and Progressive conventions the old guard struggles for influence as no favorite son holds clear control. Delegates number about 631 with up to 1076 voting power and 700 alternates, while leaders plan behind the scenes to shape the ballot and possible coalitions.
Indiana Republicans sent two special trains carrying about 800 Fairbanks supporters to Chicago to back Charles W. Fairbanks for the presidential nomination. Fairbanks will stay at his Indianapolis home during the convention.
In Des Moines Iowa a medium size vote is forecast for the statewide primary. Rain could reduce turnout and the Republican gubernatorial race appears pivotal with a tight result likely favoring W L Harding against Joseph Allen and George Cosson. K E Meredith runs unopposed for the Democratic nomination and the suffrage amendment is expected to pass.
A luncheon of San Antonio business men discussed raising 8000 dollars for Boy Scout activity over the next two years. Otis M. Farnsworth hosted. Thomas H. Franklin presided as toast master. Campaign committee members present included J. H. Haile J. E. Foster Emil Frank A. K. Garrettson Frank W. Patton Percy Tyrrell. Special Agent Butler of the Boy Scout movement spoke. The fundraising campaign will run June 7 8 and 9.
Dallas promoter Charles H. Alexander submits plans to Mayor Brown for supplying San Antonio with 20 000 horsepower from the Marble Falls dam on the Colorado River. He aims to deliver power ninety miles via transmission at about one cent per kilowatt hour to boost local manufacturing. The dam, begun in 1908, may produce about 30 000 horsepower daily once completed, with completion hoped by October 1917.
Walter J. Pentland of Guadalajara and his family, staying at the Menger, commended the Mexico City to San Antonio train service for its 36 hour trip and smooth accommodations. He, general manager of Amajac Miner Company, noted optimism about Mexico’s future and foreign ownership of many industries, with silver prices sustaining mining operations and rolling stock shortages hampering shipping.
The I N G N announces June 7 schedule changes for arrivals and departures. No 6 to Waco Fort Worth and Houston departs 7:86 p m instead of 8:05 p m with a local sleeper to Waco and through sleeper to St Louis and service to Little Rock and Hot Springs. No 5 from St Louis arrives 7:45 a m, No 7 from Fort Worth Waco and Santa Fe points arrives 9:15 a m, and No 7 to Laredo leaves San Antonio 7:20 a m via Valley Junction for Fort Worth Waco and Houston. A diner runs from Encal to Austin. Light ads note.
Corpus Christi Texans report that four Indian families totaling twenty two members from Choctaw and Thickasha tribes will join the government allotment of 711 million dollars on July 1. Each member receives 3000 dollars.
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