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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1914
Page
8
A call to consumers to refuse substitutes and insist on manufacturer or trademark brands. Do not accept unknown or orphan brands. When shopping for any item from soap to toothpaste, demand named brands and tell merchants why they lost your patronage.
St Mark's Boy Scout troop met to finalize an annual camp at Seele ranch near Leon Springs. From Monday to June 18 the 18 mile hike will lead to training in swimming, camp cooking, signaling, fire safety, and craft. Each scout receives army haversack and two days’ rations. Winters of Camp Mabry will supervise cooking.
A string of arrivals and guests are listed at the city’s hotels. Names include H W Adame Dallas at the Menger. Mrs A C Kaiser Corpus Christi at Gun ter. Ray E Kurtz Seguin at Bexar. Ben H Powell Huntsville at St Anthony. F E Huck Victoria at Bexar. H L Peterson Houston at Menger. H D Gupton Oklahoma City at Gunter. J M Abbott Seguin at St Anthony. T B Fussell Gonzales at Bexar. Julius Holz New Braunfels at Menger. Fred A Wagner New York at Gunter. L D Crane Houston at St Anthony. C H Dodge Victoria at Bexar. R W Tipton Fort Worth at stop. J B Bennett Dallas at Gunter. Charles H Tomlinson Fairfield Ohio at St Anthony. Thomas Welder Beeville at Bexar. W H Mehrle Chicago on arrival. T T and E H East Kingsville in city at Menger. W L Hutt Fort Worth at Gunter. E F Wagner Laredo at Gunter. G Perry Waco at Bexar. M Hunt Dallas on arrival. Dr W Robbie Genito Urinary and Rectal disease moved to 411 Gibbs Building. nurse needed via Light ad.
Vienna reports that Austro-Hungarian military estimates for the coming year nearly double the seven year ago expenditure with 186 million for war, 115 million for the army, 36 million for the navy and 35 million for militia. Critics urge restraint, accuse a manufacturers ring, and note shipbuilding costs and profit spikes.
June 6 to August, Tomsics perches in Hoeflany village church steeple with a repeating rifle and 600 cartridges after killing a farmer and wife and wounding their daughter. Police fire on him, two officers killed and fourteen wounded. A narrow stairway blocks ascent as Tomsics vows to shoot. he destroys church altar and pictures and threatens self harm when out of ammunition.
More than 500 delegates registered by noon for the Baraca Philathea convention opening at First Baptist Church in Waco Texas. National president Marshall A Hudson of Syracuse expects record attendance. Fort Worth and Dallas delegations are en route. The First Presbyterian Church protests Sunday trains to the event. Prominent delegates will occupy local pulpits tomorrow.
Revenue Agent to wed James J. Terrell, deputy collector of internal revenue income tax division, plans to leave San Antonio June 20 for Maysville Kentucky to marry Miss Anne Page Goggin of Austin who is visiting there. Goggin is sister to Judge J. M. Goggin of El Paso and Dr O E Hicks. Old phone 1170. Main text lists local notices and advertisements about dances, tombstone consecration, Luna Park events, humane society officers, dental services, school course planning, Electric Park dances, and church picnics with dates in early June.
A colorful ad page notes pearl displays by Ala mo Jewelry Mfg Co at College and Navarro. Duliing Printing Co offers printing at 131 Losoya St. Baudisch proposes a brick plant near San Antonio with local investors. Archer teaches dancing. quick money loans advertised by OConnell Loan Co. Daisy Social Club hosts Luna Park dance. Wigwam No 1 features The Master Mind with Edward Breeze. Chamber of Commerce plans a Civic Widening article with photos of Commerce Street. Duck dinner at White Horse Tavern.
A Board Camp Arkansas woman, Mrs Virgie Bain, shares that at fifteen she suffered monthly cramps and a constant dead feeling until taking Cardui the woman's tonic. She later improved after three bottles and urges others to try Cardui. All druggists sell Cardui.
Heavy rains bring unusually large figs to San Antonio yards. Growers send samples to the Real Estate Exchange and The Light, with figures from Mrs. P Jaenig, Mrs A Reidner, Mrs M Beaumont, and Fred Mayer highlighting fruits weighing seven ounces to eight inches around and ten inches long.
The conciliation board appointed by Secretary Wilson of labor begins travel to West Virginia to mediate the Kanawha coal strike. Representing the miners are Charles W. Mills and Patrick Gilday of Pennsylvania and C. A. Faulkner of the labor department. About ten thousand workers are affected.
TOKIO June 6 Arthur Bailley Blanchard until recently secretary at the U S embassy sailed from Yokohama aboard the Empress of India for Vancouver en route to Haiti where he will serve as American minister.
Waco, Texas June 6 Announcement of Rev. B. A. Copass of San Marcos as assistant secretary of the board of education of the Baptist General Convention of Texas with offices in Waco was made this morning.
Advertisement urges skipping cosmetics in summer and promotes mercorized wax for night application washing off in the morning to remove a bad complexion. Claims it makes skin white and satiny without usual cosmetic drawbacks. Also touts a saxolite based skin-tightener as a no-trace face bath with hazel, sold by druggists.
The board of health endorsed a ten minute swatting day to fight disease spread by insects set for next Wednesday at 11 am. It also adopted a comprehensive health ordinance on sanitation for food handling, hotels, and restaurants with inspector powers to condemn unsafe food and fines up to 200 dollars. The ordinance requires clean premises, wrapped bakery items, and fruit vegetable wagon protections with screens. The board left bat killing as not criminal, while supporting bat exclusion due to malaria and yellow fever concerns.
In Grimes County Texas Will Robertson a negro was taken from officers Hannibal Boone and Thad Holsby and lynched near the old Blackshear place two miles north of Navasota after he killed Jesse Johnson a white planter on Whitehall plantation the body riddled with bullets following surrender to Dr McCalpin and Holsby awaiting an examining trial.
Five graduates of St Marys Catholic Seminary at LaPorte were ordained priests by Bishop Nicholas A Gallagher in St Marys Cathedral Galveston. It was the diocese s largest single ordination. New priests include James W Cotter to St Patricks Galveston George Berberich to Mentz Colorado County J W Eveton to Wallis George Duda to Beaumont and Daniel P O Connell to St Marys Cathedral Galveston asst pastor.
The Hebrew Institute of San Antonio holds its closing exercises Sunday June 7 at 8 pm at Temple Beth El. The program, mostly in Hebrew, features songs recitations and prayers with prize and souvenir distribution ending with America. Also announced are exams in reading translation writing spelling grammar Bible history and related topics.
The Texas antitrust suit against Clark & Courts of Galveston and eight other leading book manufacturers and stationers in Texas was settled after a conference. An agreed judgment will be entered this afternoon in the Twenty sixth District Court. Defendants pay 35000 in penalties and are forever enjoined from forming any trust agreement to regulate prices, with all litigation costs borne by the defendants.
A terse local note urges readers to act quickly through the Light want ad service for a dressmaker and a gown. It emphasizes immediate access to clothing and tailoring options via the newspaper’s classified listings.
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