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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1911
Page
12
Dr Moore arrives in San Antonio offering cures for eye diseases including granulared sore eyes and cataracts using the Oscillator treatment for weak sight. He operates from the Gunter Building corner of Houston and St Marys streets and offers free consultations for a limited period.
In Austin the Knights of Columbus organize the first Columbus Day celebration with a large parade of floats narrating Columbus life. San Antonio council may join with a float. Austin council invites state councils to participate, urging all citizens to honor the discoverer of America.
Mrs William Hodett died after a buggy driven by her husband plunged from a Skeleton creek bridge near Enid Oklahoma The horse balked on the bridge the buggy fell fifteen feet to rocks Mrs Hodett was thrown clear while Mr Hodett escaped injury in the same accident Specials note from Enid Oklahoma dated June 17
Old Texas State Humane Society branch at 211 Mackay Building with Dr. B F Kingsley as president and Mrs R I McCalla as secretary. E M Collins serves as mounted officer. Night calls reach 3196. daytime line listed as 2409.
A temperance meeting will be held this afternoon at Travis Park church. The event features addresses by Rev. Hugh McLellan of Central Christian and Rev. Frederick Bowen of Madison Square Presbyterian, with a children's choir from local Sunday Schools and a program of special interest. The public is urged to attend.
Geographic note listing the Humane Officer Geo I McCauley with office address 324 Hicks Building and old phone numbers for night and Sunday service.
Mrs. H B Boswell files suit against Mrs. Mattie M Bennett alleging failure to complete sale of lot 10 on Dallas Street. Damages set at 615 with claim for specific performance. Contends coin value at 2000 dollars and losses arise from nonperf ormance of the sale agreement.
Osteopathic physician Dr Chas K Garring operates from the 204 Gunter building with the old telephone number 3439 listed for contact.
Judge Camp granted divorces yesterday in the Forty-fifth District court. Celia Duncan from Gaylord Duncan and Rosa Roberts from George W. Roberts were awarded divorces. Lena Farris filed suit for divorce in the Fifty-seventh District court against W. T. Farris.
Garden Stables provides hacks cabs and high class livery with phone contact at 2132 for bookings and inquiries.
A soldier in Company A Eleventh Infantry was arrested by Deputy J W Galbraith for burglary. Finnerty is alleged to be one of two soldiers seen tapping a saloon cash register shortly after midnight at 2222 North New Braunfels Avenue. They fled through a window after the proprietor fired, leaving blood on the glass.
Adams at 120 Losoya offers signs or cards and a new phone 848 for contact.
The Dixie Social Club hosts a shirtwaist dance on Wednesday June 21 at Fest Hall featuring Artzt music.
The June 3 Main plaza altercation ending in multiple knife slashes was heard by Judge Buckley in police court yesterday but postponed to next Wednesday. G. W. Sexton Gus Klockenkemper and four others are charged with affray and a jury trial was demanded by their counsel.
A. A. G. N. M. S. announces a ceremonial session at Ben Hur Temple in Austin Texas on Friday June 23. A special I G N R train departs at 1 00 p m Friday. novices urged to attend. Arrangement Committee contact number 10387.
The Carnegie library will stay open until 9 30 each evening as in the past.
A young white man who claimed to be Frank Papas from Fort Worth was fined 25 dollars in the police court for vagrancy. He was charged with attempting to appropriate a coat at the Southern Pacific passenger depot without the owner’s consent.
Gerlach Bros at 1117 West Houston Street announces fresh spring stock arriving daily. Local shoppers are urged to visit and browse the new lines.
Hans to the Hondo and Barnard Kennedy of Sabinal Texas completed the Marshall Training school course at Epworth. They earned diplomas Friday, June 16 after finishing a year’s work in German and Spanish in four weeks.
Dr C E Tinkham is listed as a practicing dentist in suites 422 423 of the Moore Building. The record provides a professional address for patient referrals and correspondence.
A Studio advertisement offers a free photo this week featuring a portrait of all white babies at Barr's Studio.
About twenty five boys attend the Outing Summer school of Marshall Training school. The group enjoys fishing, bathing, rowing, baseball and other sports while also doing fine work in their classes.
A terse street-side note locates Dr. Saunders at the Swearingen-McCraw Ridge building near the corner of Houston Street and Alamo Plaza.
Juan Aguilara is jailed on murder charge after a knife stabbed Benjamin Amayo to death in a rear saloon room on South Santa Rosa Avenue. A second Mexican man was cut on the cheek. A blood stained pocket knife was found on Aguilara. Amayo lived at 514 Monterey Street. Aguilara at 531 Broad Avenue.
Cincinnati dispatch reports Mrs. Jeanette Ford, linked to the Warriner case, expressing joy at Edgar Street Cooke of Chicago being acquitted of stealing $24,000 from the Big Four railroad. She says the affair is over, wishes him to reconcile with his wife, and plans to live quietly in the country while Cooke returns to Chicago to restart his business.
In Omaha Nebraska on June 17 Miss Carlotta Conklin a Topeka Kansas 20 year old girl wed Ringich Oda a Japanese curio shop owner. After attempts in Kansas City St Joseph and Council Bluffs the Omaha license and County Judge Leslie made the marriage official.
A San Antonio rally at Beethoven hall planned for 3 pm to form a branch of the Anti Prohibition Trades Union League. William L. Hoefgen, president of the State Federation of Labor, criticizes prohibition as a fantasy and urges labor to oppose the movement.
G F Searle of Cambridge University England says the Memorial hall statue of John Harvard is a faked likeness. He notes Harvard was a Emanuel College graduate and explains the artist used a lean consumptive image from a chapel window project to shape the statue.
Plapao Laboratories in St Louis Missouri offers a free trial of STUARTS PLASTA-PADS for rupture treatment. The self adhesive pads require no straps buckles or springs and are promoted for private home use. Write for details and trial enrollment.
The English Lutheran church will hold its annual Sunday school picnic on Tuesday at Madaraz park. Children meet at the church at 8 30 and depart together for the picnic grounds. all congregation members are invited.
Cactus specialist David Griffiths from the agricultural department in Washington spent a brief San Antonio visit staying mainly at the U S Experiment Farm with Superintendent S H Hastings. He works on developing thornless cacti to produce cheap nutritious stock feed.
Jose Macmanus and family arrived from Mexico City and are staying at the Menger hotel. Antonio B. Monteverde of Los Angeles is a guest at the Menger hotel. Dr. Edward M. Boatner of San Luis Potosi is registered at the Maverick.
A vintage ad touts Mrs Winslow’s Soothing Syrup used for sixty years by millions of mothers. It claims to ease teething pain, soothe stomach cramps, cure wind colic, and diarrhoea with no harm. The note urges asking for the product by name and warns against other remedies, selling at twenty five cents a bottle.
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