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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1911
Page
4
The fragment lists several individuals including J. O. Terrell Alexander Joske Chas Schreiner Otto Koehler R. R. Russell Albert Steves Sr and Dr Adolph Herff among other unreadable items indicating a historical roster or committee.
Hamburg launches the second turbine battleship Frederick the Great named by Princess Auguste Wilhelm. General Von Bergoltz delivers dedicatory address. Completion expected winter 1912 with 14 inch guns and 21 000 to 24 000 ton displacement.
The White Star Line agrees to pay Olympic crew $30 per month matching Mauretania and Lusitania rates. The move aims to avert trouble and allow the Olympic to sail to New York as planned on Wednesday. Meanwhile coal porters strike grows more serious as the port fills with liners.
Protests in Oklahoma over appointing William T. Vernon a negro as assistant superintendent of schools of the Five Civilized Tribes lead to a plan change. Vernon will oversee schools with both negro and Indian pupils and will not be permanently assigned to a single state.
Washington June 10. The House heard a declaration of single taxation by Representative Henry George Jr. of New York who praised land value taxation and favored the Underwood tariff bill. Only Democratic oratory supported the Underwood wool tariff. Payne said Republicans would reserve their fire until Monday.
An old advertisement touts Mrs Winslow’s Soothing Syrup used by millions of mothers for sixty years. It claims to soothe, soften gums, relieve pain, cure wind colic and diarrhea, and to be perfectly safe and pure for children. A price of twenty five cents is listed.
Captain Celwyn E. Hampton publishes History of the Twenty first Infantry From 1812 to 1863, a partial volume tracing the regiment from its 1812 organization through the Civil War with a nonpartisan, dispassionate view. He also releases A Falling Spark a small volume of love poems. The history critiques federal policy, notes political generals and militia limits, and praises the regiment's campaigns and leadership.
Local business men on East Commerce Street raised 480 for year round electric arches from South Alamo to Walnut. Fifteen arches with thirty five globes each lit the street nightly, a trend that started on Houston Street and spread to Commerce Street and the Southern Pacific station.
The St John association negroes hold their forty third encampment in Austin from July 18 to August 1 with over five hundred delegates and thousands of attendees. They plan to raise $10,000 for the Colored Orphans Home as prominent preachers teachers and farmers participate in programs and city leaders prepare welcoming arrangements. Several Texas congressmen face anti Bailey campaigns as the Bailey faction plans aggressive House battles against several members including Bob Henry Rufus Hardy and Randell with Burleson spared for now.
College Station Tex June 10 The Agricultural and Mechanical college reports its senior class this year exceeds one hundred the largest in school history Open air commencement to be held over three days starting Sunday as guests arrive
Washington reports the Atlantic and Pacific fleets sent to Guantanamo and San Diego in March due to the Mexican situation will be withdrawn June 18. The ships will head to Atlantic ports and later regroup near Cape Cod Bay for exercises around July 1. Vessels at San Diego will be reassigned to western coast ports.
United States district attorney Gen J B Cox and special counsel W B Miller were ordered by the Department of Justice to appeal US v forty barrels and twenty kegs of coca cola to the circuit court of appeals. The appeal rests on the department’s view that the pure food law applies to soft drinks.
In Hibbing Minnesota on June 10 authorities ended a week long hunt for Alice Graff who vanished from Bengal last Sunday and officials declared the case inactive with no new leads.
Wellesley Massachusetts June 10 trustees announced Ellen Fitz Pendleton dean and acting president has been chosen as president of Wellesley College at chaplain services today.
Pittsburg hosts the fourteenth annual North American Skat league congress with a large turnout of skilled players gathering for two more days of competition.
U S Representative Caleb Powers of Kentucky introduced a bill in Washington to replace hanging with electrocution for capital offenses in the District of Columbia. The measure seeks to set a new method of execution within the capital jurisdiction.
Mrs Fladelia Ruth Hamill aged 87 a Harrison county pioneer died in Marshall Texas yesterday morning following a brief illness relatives said. Funeral arrangements were pending today in Marshall.
The Texas Railroad Commission announced it will consider on July 11 a proposed readjustment of the method used to calculate extra service charges to be assessed by railroads in Texas. The proposal is described as important and affecting every railroad in the state.
The police magistrate refused to hold Thomas Latimer of Pittsburgh banker Henry De Ridder and John Phillips after their arrest as fugitives from justice. Latimer alleges the arrest aimed to harass him in a stated conspiracy.
Beck to resign Tuesday from the Weatherford Mineral Wells and Northwestern railroad where he serves as vice president and general superintendent. He will accept a position with a larger Texas railroad, though the new road has not been announced.
In Nashville Tennessee on June 10 three hundred sixty liquor stand owners were indicted under a law treating a federal license as prima facie evidence of selling liquor.
Burglars forced the safe at the French Creek post office near Elkins West Virginia. Fire after the blast swept twenty to thirty buildings. Robbers escaped with no reported casualties according to later details.
Melvin Vaniman left Liverpool for New York to supervise final assembly of the dirigible balloon he plans to cross the Atlantic with this fall, aiming for Akron, Ohio.
The ranch house and outbuildings at the W. L. Cartwright ranch near Gainesville Texas were destroyed by a fire today causing an estimated loss between six and eight thousand dollars.
The Carnegie library reports receipt of many new volumes including Fruit Recipes by Berry, Wine of the Puritans by Brooks, The Rossettis by Cary, A Journey in Southern Siberia by Curtin, Hints on Organ Accompaniment by Demarset, A Man's Faith by Grenfell, Contents of Children's Minds by Hall, History of Architecture by Hamlin, Some Silent Teachers by Harrison, Man and His Work by Herbertson, Concrete Floors and Sidewalks by Houghton, Imaginary Interviews by Howells, Handbook of Cost Data by Lees, Survival of Man by Lodge, Man and His Markets by Lyde, Historic Dress in America 1800 1870 by McClellan, Household Education by Martineau, Design and Equipment of Small Laboratories by Meade, Essays on Russian Novelists by Phelps, Patents as a Factor in Manufacture by Prindle, American Inland Waterways by Quick, Wireless Telephony by Ruhmer, School Hygiene by Shaw, Barbizon Days by Smith, The World Machine by Snyder, Our Homes and How to Make the Most of Them by Sparrow, Cambridge Modern History by Ward, Brazil and Her People of Today by Winter.
A new stomach remedy named Digestit is advertised for indigestion relief. It promises fast digestion after meals and offers a refund if unsatisfied. Consumers can obtain a 50 cent package via drug stores or a mail order with postal request.
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