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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1911
Page
4
A freshman English class theme from Southwestern University in Texas blends quiet humor with notable details on campus activities. The piece, published as part of a student showcase, highlights customs, clubs, and everyday student life at the university.
Cornelia Hightower surveys Southwestern University at Georgetown noting its three story limestone campus, library, auditorium, and active student life. She highlights football and baseball teams, new grandstand, a band, four literary societies, the Megaphone and Sou’western publications, and strong music from the Glee club and quartettes. She ends with concerns over preservation of historic documents, including the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, under Secretary Knox’s watch.
An advertisement promises a 60 day treatment in a one dollar bottle of Hall's Texas Wonder for kidney bladder and rheumatic trouble. It claims almost every bottle cures and invites readers to send for testimonials from Dr. E W Hall of St. Louis Missouri. Sold by druggists.
President hopeful Francisco I. Madero plans an extensive tour through Guerrero and Morelos after public announcements that Francisco de la Barra and General Reyes will join his potential cabinet. Ambrosio Figueroa leads southern inspection tours, with Reyes urging support for Madero before the October election.
Passengers and crew of the White Star liner Arabic saw a rare moonlight rainbow hang over the sea for about a quarter hour six hundred miles from the Atlantic coast. The phenomenon appeared Friday night and then faded, described as one of the rarest marine spectacles by those aboard.
Four billion gallons of water were added to New York City reservoirs by rainstorms in the last 48 hours. Water bureau officials, long worried by depletion, say the gain could sustain the city for about ten days.
The item promotes Morsford’s Acid Phosphate as a nerve tonic for insomnia fatigue and general vigor, claiming relief of disturbed nerve force and tiredness and energizing the whole system.
Chicago June 12 Coroner Hoffman announced he would personally lead the inquiry into the Hawthorne fatality at the death curve ending the auto races He vows to assign blame for the banked track to prevent further deaths Basle died Saturday and another rider was killed weeks earlier at nearly the same spot Hoffman urges greater safety precautions.
Peter J. Schardt, new National Railway Mail Clerks president, says the top goal is a service promotion tied to length of service and work, leading to the maximum salary. He also seeks higher travel allowances and congressional funding, and notes no hostility to organized labor but doubts affiliation with the American Federation of Labor at this time.
The first bale of the 1911 cotton crop, grown on rented land by Ernest Matz near San Benito, Cameron county, weighed 493 pounds and classed strict middling. It sold for a world record price of $1015 to Jesse H. Jones after spirited bidding, at $205.84 per pound, with Jones undecided on use for the purchase.
About fifty to sixty people who ate supper at the First Baptist church in Bridgeport on Thursday night were stricken by ptomaine poisoning. Mrs. Lillian Hoyt is in serious condition, and Rev. H. A. Davenport cannot preach for some time. The illness is linked to a salad served at the gathering.
Californians honor Joaquin Miller in Washington D C with exercises at his old Washington newspaper cabin. The cabin will be moved to Rock Creek Park to serve as a Miller memorial.
Bebles and Boelhauwe architects promote Sailors Mazda Electric Lamps claiming a 50 to 60 percent reduction in lighting costs. The company invites calls and demonstrations at 228 West Commerce Street, with phone number 2672.
Professor James M. Taylor urged direct senatorial elections and a broad income tax in a sermon to Vassar college graduates. He warned a rising wave could erode state powers and warned for a central government that could become tyranny, recalling judges by referendum. Kodak film development offered at 10 cents a roll by Mission Finishing Co.
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