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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1913
Page
5
Reports from Scott Shreiner of Kerrville and companions describe pushing a Hudson Six from a steep ditch near Kerrville after trailing a slower traction engine. Nearby drivers note good road conditions despite dust. others announce new agency deals and purchases in San Antonio.
E. H. Labadie reports a shipment of new Maxwell cars received by Labadie Automobile Company. The allotment includes a seven passenger touring car with 50 horsepower and six cylinders.
J H Hagin of Guarantee Motor Car Company made a fast one hour and twenty minute return trip to Floresville in a frit touring car. Harry E Hyde of Packard Auto Livery telegraphs from Laredo that a Monterey run was completed in record time after bonding with customs. Yeager Hill H V Harris of Smithville and W T Jones of Fort Davis are recent Buick buyers.
A warning advertises Foley's Honey and Tar Compound for coughs and colds for children and adults. It urges against substitutes, notes the product is prompt and effective, and mentions a yellow package with a beehive image, no opiates, and Fischer Drug Co as the seller.
Union Meat Company offers pork sausage in one-pound boxes at twenty-five cents per pound. Includes notes on Granitoid and Grandcrete products and culinary guidance. Riverside plumbing ad with A. Collman contact details and phone numbers 397.
Washington reports say President Wilson remains undisturbed by Sen Townsend's accusation of insidious lobbying. The Senate lobby committee resumes next week with more testimony from witnesses tied to special interests. Senator Cummins demands Wilson provide factual basis for his claims. R. D. Bowen of Paris Texas adds to the witness list with letters urging cotton farmers to push for higher duties on cotton cloth.
The YMCA under George Wheeler marks a summer program with B junior gym sessions at 9 AM on Tue Thu Sat, A junior at 9 AM on Mon Wed Fri, intermediates at 2 PM on Tue Thu Sat, business class at 7 PM on Mon Thu Sat, and volleyball for business and professional men continuing if interest remains. Private swimming lessons, tennis court ready for initial games, and a tennis tournament to start soon with handball semi finals and finals next week.
The novena at St Marys Catholic Church ends Friday June 13 with the feast on Sunday June 15 and masses daily at 6 30 7 and 8 15 plus a night sermon. On June 13 graduates of St Marys Parochial School grammar dept will receive diplomas at the 8 15 mass and the commencement sermon will follow. Meanwhile Dallas waiters strike disrupts lunchtime service as 200 union waiters walk out demanding a six day work week.
A Fort Worth fire this morning destroyed the Bewley mill elevator by spontaneous combustion. The blast blew off the roof and caused about 125000 dollars in losses. Fifty thousand bushels of wheat and other grain were destroyed at 2 30 o clock. Granitoid and Grandcrete are mentioned in connection with the blaze.
A. D. Powers advocates forming Harbor City Terminal Corporation with 5000 investors each contributing 100 dollars to avoid Wall Street. He claims no watered or preferred stock, equal ownership, and early buyers get preferred lots in Ingleside and Harbor City, inviting readers to request more information.
The New Royal presents a two reel Shakespearian photoplay The Tempest from the Eclair Company, plus Barney Oldfield's Race for Life and other features, while the Grand features Florence Talbot and a country store night with prizes. Baby Dolores performs next week with classic dances as new pictures arrive. The Riverside Restaurant is noted nearby. Congress man Timothy D. Sullivan sails for Hamburg for health treatment and a possible political return in the fall.
The United States government uses large scale moving pictures in western reclamation camps to keep workers and families contented and isolated. Halls and clubs are set up with YMCA supervision, books, papers, lecturers, and entertainers. Movies are a principal entertainment alongside dances and other activities.
A 16 year old factory worker from New Orleans writes of illness and recovery after taking Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. A Pennsylvania girl also reports relief from suppressed periods and headaches after using the remedy and urges others to seek guidance from Lydia E Pinkham Medicine Co. Lynn Massachusetts.
F T Connerly says the Supreme Court mandate in the A B Conley et al vs Daughters of the Republic case has not been issued. The governor plans to resume Alamo restoration, taking a personal hand, after official notice. Costs were assessed against the Daughters of the Republic.
Mrs A W Houston hosts an afternoon tea at the Menger for Miss Lilly Cahill. Miss Estelle Walling stages an evening miscellaneous party for Miss Lucie Lankford. Edmund T Miller and Miss Emily Maverick wed at 8 30 p m at the bride's parents home. Mrs Henry C Feldman honors Miss Lucie Lankford with an afternoon shower. Mrs Albert T Smith hosts a 500 party for her daughter Miss Storrow Devine Smith. Mounted service officers hold an 8 30 p m hop at the Third Cavalry mess hall. Mrs Benno Kayton entertains Bonham School Mothers Club and teachers in the afternoon.
A long roster of visitors checked in at major San Antonio hotels including George R. Mitchell Albany New York at the Savoy C Rodgers Fort Worth at the Gunter and Henry Semple Ames St. Louis a San Antonio Water Works shareholder at the St. Anthony. Others include J H Smith Dallas at the Crockett Sidney R Loeb New York at the Menger and many more from Houston Dallas Beaumont Shreveport and beyond.
The U S engineering department plans to deepen Aransas Pass from 22 to 25 feet over about a one mile by two hundred foot stretch. The Galveston dredge is in New Orleans awaiting dry dock and should begin by July 15.
Mrs Helen L Dalton of Draper says Cardui the women’s tonic relieved years of left side pains and near suffocation after medicines failed. She urges others to try Cardui and notes it has helped more than a million women in 50 years. Send for the 64 page Home Treatment for Women and write to Chattanooga Medicine Co. advisory dept. in Chattanooga Tenn.
General orders from Alfred F. Beers announce the forty-seventh G A R national encampment set for September 15 to 20 in Chattanooga Tennessee. Veterans are urged to attend to visit Missionary Ridge Lookout Mountain Chickamauga and the Chattanooga to Atlanta battlefield region. The Gettysburg reunion will mark veterans day on July 1 under G A R and U C V leadership.
Promoters tout Harlandale Hot Sulphur Baths as superior for rheumatism sciatica gout stomach liver kidneys eczema and skin diseases. Wide galleries overlook well kept lawns. White attendants expert in courteous service. Beauty parlor and South Flores streetcar access. H J Benson president.
Miss Lottie Sennette received a diploma for efficiency in music from the Lady of the Lake Academy instructors and gave a recital with eight numbers. Maude Manley of D Hanis sang a vocal solo as part of the program. The audience thoroughly enjoyed the evening.
The Pittsburg board of public education discharged S L Heeter, superintendent of public schools, after weeks of investigation finding him guilty of immorality for improper advances and unwarranted liberties with women. Only Miss Beulah Kennard opposed the vote. Heeter was not present, being on vacation.
An advisory fragment urges readers to contact offices by phone for vacation related matters. It mentions calling or visiting offices for information. The text is incomplete but implies a reach to official channels for assistance.
Thirty one girls aged 17 to 26 from Ireland and Germany will arrive in New Orleans and then travel to San Antonio to join the Academy of the Incarnate Word. Mothers Alexis and Mary Jane will meet them in New Orleans and escort them to Texas. Most are skilled workers such as seamstresses and will spend vacations there. This year marks the first group brought over, part of annual exchanges by nuns.
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