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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1908
Page
7
The draft excerpt notes the field stacking up for the Republican nomination with the popular candidate gaining ground daily. It suggests a Taft landslide at the convention while other contenders intensify efforts and anticipate further shifts before the gathering.
In Flovenville Texas on June 13 anti prohibitionists won a small majority in the Pandora precinct at the anal option election. Other items report auto accident injuries recovering, assaults on a Mexican woman, a self-inflicted gun wound, a fatal horse accident, expected attendance at Epworth League, Sunday post office lines, sale of the Kicker newspaper, and typhoid fever cases in Yoakum with one death.
San Antonio faces heavy rail travel this summer with ticket agents busy from dawn till night. People head to both coasts and the Great Lakes, with many seeking Mexican destinations and Colorado. Local lines report large weekend trips to Kerrville, Boerne, Comfort, and Rockport asSouthern Pacific and Katy routes run excursions and daily services.
Fred Mesch a San Antonio youth, twice state oratorical winner, arrives from Ovieiloosa to visit parents, aims for Columbus Ohio nationals after winning Iowa state and interstate contests. He, a dairyman’s son from route No. 6 east of the city, will preach at San Antonio churches during his stay and is regarded as a gifted orator anticipated to provide an intellectual treat.
Lotte Franklin was arrested at night by Policemen Dorlehard Or ie for using shears on Lula Denison. Denison appeared in court with a deep elbow wound and bandaged arm. Franklin faced affray and assault charges, with a jail stay following a quarrel in the jail’s women’s department.
Claude V. Birkhead and Frank T. Booth lawyers advertise with Alamo Bank Bidx. The notice promotes phones and free piano coupons at McArdiu's.
The ninth annual Sacred Heart academy program on Prospect Hill features a full music and literary program. Students perform marches, quartets, instrumental trios, vocal solos, recitations, and a tableau finale with a commencement address by Rev. A Hellehmer, followed by other commencements at St Joseph and Ursuline academies.
Noted English dramatist and literary figure Mrs. Ehemptrey Ward returns to England from a visit to Canada and the United States. During her stay she was feted by society and literary circles.
A brief notice advertises free Plan coupons at McArny's. The fragment mentions location 1320 W Com sf and 1267 ald with unclear abbreviations. No clear event dates or organizations beyond McArny's.
The San Antonio Auto Club held a successful excursion to New Braunfels with over two dozen cars on a clear day. A lunch under trees near a spring at Landa was followed by hill climbing contests at a gradient of about oper ada, with HB Cook winning the incline and speed events. The journey fostered good will with local farmers at Selma and among club members, who included Dr. Frederick J. Fielding and many others in a variety of cars.
Dustneys opens at 118 Mast Houston Street featuring Mudel Tailoring Co offerings in a compact, local shopfront move. The event marks a community retail push with Tailoring Co services highlighted for residents.
A. Biesenbach seeks the district clerk post in the Democratic primary. Blekenbach, a long-time San Antonio resident of 80 years, ran a store where the Josky building stands and later headed the sales department of Wile Endorf & Co. He served briefly as city clerk by appointment of Mayor Callaghan.
Manuel Sacas and Iacorda Heran were caught stealing three bottles of liquor from A Limburger's show window in the early morning. A blue suited man observed the scene and Hernandez and Ricorda were later held for theft under fat.
In the Thirty seventh district court Judge Dwyer opens the docket due to witness absence with no cases tried. The jury is sworn for the week and excused to tomorrow morning, with many names listed among jurors. In Forty fifth district court James Routledge vs city of Ban Antonia on tax dispute postponed to tomorrow morning. Large portion of regular jurors absent. sheriff to bring others tomorrow. No business in Fifty seventh district court. weekly jury sworn with a fresh panel. Local clerks and jurors named amid sparse proceedings.
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