Showers Light Fort Worth Area This Morning
Showers fell in Fort Worth Texas this morning and extended north toward Whitesboro. The brief shower activity impacted parts of the region.
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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1913
Page
1
Showers fell in Fort Worth Texas this morning and extended north toward Whitesboro. The brief shower activity impacted parts of the region.
City council discusses funding for municipal improvements with a $4 450 000 bond target and increases totaling 1 300 000 beyond the original. Proposals include changing frontage cost shares and extending sewer lines while adding police and fire facilities.
Mrs. ET Boerner of 130 Camargo Street endorses Plant Juice claiming rapid relief from indigestion and constipation. She says the remedy cured years of suffering and describes it as a grand family medicine made from plant extracts sold at Elschers drug store.
The council, moving to curb Chamber influence, approved a resolution on bond issues while Attorney Gillette noted postponement pending a conference at Austin. Denver residents requested replacing paving from macadam to concrete at their cost, and committees were formed to draft new council rules and arterial safety fixes. Public lighting delays persisted as merchants awaited action on Houston and Commerce streets.
Open forum in the Chamber of Commerce auditorium backed a $3.5 million general improvements bond issue for San Antonio. Professor Spurgeon Dell urged municipal weed and band issue topics, while Professor Bell argued the city must serve residents and property owners through better streets and sanitation. All speakers supported the bond if money is clearly spent, with tax impact shown as modest compared to other cities.
Report from Chamal describes bandit siege and a large. 250 federales remain in the city as Constitutionalists advance. Weapons found include 30-20 Manresa 44 and .45 calibers. forces may need thousands to recapture the town.
The Pittsburg arrives at San Diego from Bremerton to relieve the California on patrol duty off the Mexican coast near Guaymas. Captain W. Gilmer commands the Pittsburg. Admiral Cowles will shift his flag to the Pittsburg at Guaymas as the California proceeds to San Diego for target practice. War munitions and refugees also appear in related dispatches from Mexico and Vera Cruz.
In London June a demonstration outside St James Palace protested government peace aims. Women’s Freedom Teague urged action to protest foreign peace while domestic unrest persisted. speakers were pulled from a wagon and police arrested three. In Washington Gompers underwent urgent abscess surgery with officials reporting a speedy recovery ahead.
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