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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1914
Page
3
A Cincinnati brewmaster unveils a concentrated beer formula that enables anyone to brew pure lager at home by adding water and sugar. The method aims to bypass Prohibition fears and deliver beer via parcel post. Mr A S. Shah offers full information and a free booklet to interested readers.
Postmasters in over 700 cities to be filled by July exams held in more than 200 Texas towns under a Wilson executive order. Tests start July 1 at centers including Center Colorado Cotulla Hondo Junction Kountze Liberty McAllen Seymour Shamrock. Male eligibles scarce. salaries range 840 to 900 dollars yearly. Full details from the U S Civil Service Commission Washington D C. Chicken dinner one dollar White Horse Tavern adv.
Alderman John W. Warren defeated Alderman Albert Steves Sr. to win the Weakley trophy a gallon stein in a San Antonio river motorboat contest watched by over 1000 spectators on multiple bridges. The 4 minutes 37 12 seconds race started near Josephine street and ended at Presa street with Warren credited by timekeeper A H Rische and referee Alderman Weakley.
Texas cities reported 3043.80 raised for the Texas Panama Pacific Exposition Commission from Tag Day events held last Saturday. San Antonio led with 1200 dollars, followed by Waco 800, and multiple towns including Brownsville, Port Arthur, Beeville, Brenham, and San Marcos contributing varied sums.
San Antonio business leaders, including Ernest L. Brown of the Alamo National Bank, push for lowering letter postage from two cents to one cent per ounce. They cite Post Office costs and seek support for the National One-Cent Letter Postage Association based in Cleveland to reduce first class rates to near cost.
Miss Cornelia Notz, librarian, announces new children’s books added to the Carnegie Library. Titles include The Lost City, In the Brave Days of Old, The Patriot Schoolmaster, In African Forest and Jungle, Corn Plants, All About Tlapan, Dooryard Folks, Among the Moths and Butterflies, Life and Her Children, My Kalulu, Among the Farmyard People, Each and All, Life on the Farm, The Admiral's Aid, Among the Night People.
In Austin Texas acting on an attorney general opinion the commissioner of Insurance and Banking approved Aetna Life Insurance Company forms with a rider allowing workers compensation on the mutual plan under the employers liability act. The move follows prior rejection and raises questions about possible assessments when funds are exhausted, marking the first stock company to adopt mutual plan insurance in Texas.
In Austin June 6 a request asks the attorney general for guidance on whether a congressional candidate who did not certify with the state executive committee chairman can still certify with county chairmen to appear on the official ballot. The inquiry also asks if a candidate’s name mailed before June 1 but received after the deadline may still certify.
Mayor C. E. Kelley and ex Secretary of State C. C. McDonald of El Paso traveled to Waco for the state Democratic executive committee meeting on Monday. They pressed a bid to secure the Democratic convention and conferred with the governor that afternoon.
A bargain alert shows women’s pink and blue vests and waists offered at 98 cents each, marked down from 1.50, in a half price sale likely targeting budget shoppers.
Texas farmers face widespread grasshopper damage to corn and cotton. The state agriculture department advises burning young nymph colonies on weeds and fences, cutting surrounding weeds at noon, and using a hopper-dozer to trap insects in alfalfa and grain fields. It also notes ditching or furrows to trap wingless hoppers and references a published bulletin on control methods.
Mrs C O Dannis of 1110 South Hackberry was knocked down by a South Heights streetcar at Hackberry and Victoria streets. Guards under the car saved her from serious injury. she was treated at a drug store and home, with bruises to head and body reported by a physician.
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