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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1913
Page
14
An advertisement touts Vitalitas as powered by radio activity that revitalizes the whole body. It promises reanimation of tissues and normalizing of bodily functions, aiding digestion, liver and kidney health, rheumatism, nervous debility, and skin conditions. The ad directs readers to Wagner Drug Store at 407 East Houston Street.
Three civil service examinations are announced for July 16 for a telephone operator chemist and nautical expert. The telephone operator requires spelling arithmetic letter writing penmanship and copying with switchboard positions in the Washington departmental service and one year operating experience. Chemists will be placed in the Government Printing Office Washington D C and the nautical expert in the hydrographic office bureau of navigation. Eligible persons are urged to apply.
Houston health authorities pursued a citywide campaign with restaurant kitchen inspections and sanitation orders. They also completed renovations at the city market including elevated offering stands and comprehensive screening.
North Texas Medical Association holds its sixty seventh semi annual session in Denison with the largest attendance in six years. An advertisement promotes Corpus Beach hotel vacations with a descriptive folder available from W A Roachman resident manager Corpus Christi Texas.
A long list details numerous travelers staying at San Antonio hotels including W H Craven of Memphis at the Menger and Chicago visitors Mrs R Hennessey Miss Florence Hennsey and Mrs D Ross at the Crockett. Others include J G Childers Cotulla at St Anthony and E Shipp Dallas at Gunter.
The Polish-Bohemian Club of San Antonio was chartered in Austin on June 18. The organization has no capital stock and aims to provide a meeting place for its members. Incorporators include I Liesenberg Ferd Maly and Frank D Black among others.
George W. Guthrie ambassador to Japan is in Washington to receive final instructions before leaving for Tokio. Secretary Bryan will host a dinner in his honor tonight and Viscount Chinda the Japanese ambassador will entertain him Friday evening.
A hardware ad lists Lawn Sprinklers and various items from 7 Sam Speir Hardware Co. including Crockett 121 phone line and address 219 ere a.
In Houston on June 18 the Baptist Laymen of the coast country held their annual meeting with about 1000 visitors attending this morning. Notable divines and attendees from many states are present.
The Union Meat Company advertises breakfast pork sausage in one pound boxes at 25 cents per pound. Customers are urged to place orders with their butcher or grocer.
Governor Colquitt and a state team toured the Alamo ruins in San Antonio to study restoration ideas. He says plans are sketches, not complete, and aims to restore the site to its battle era, focusing on the long L shaped Hugo Schmeltzer building and surrounding courtyard where the fighting occurred.
In Austin on June 18 the acting official follows the attorney general's opinion and presents a plan to reallocate the entire unexpended balance of the appropriation for the Alamo project.
An affidavit by A B Conley superintendent of public building and grounds and governor approval led the comptroller to issue a 4523 dollar warrant the full unexpended balance for the Alamo repair appropriation. Funds are now at Conleys disposal for the San Antonio project beginning today under gubernatorial direction.
Testimony details Grover Essary and Ben White in a railroad holdup. Witnesses describe Garroting the incident at Nolan and Hackberry, gunfire that killed Frederick Ammann, and Essary's fear of arrest after newspapers labeled the robbers as a tall man and a short man.
The health dinner at the St. Anthony Hotel by the board of health and citizen's auxiliary was postponed to Monday night due to rain. The event aims to boost interest in city beautification sanitation and improvement with hundreds of reservations already made.
The vanguard of the American committee on agricultural organizations cooperation and rural credits, about 40 members, arrived in Berlin after touring Munich Stuttgart Baden-Baden Frankfort-on-the-Main and Leipzig. They will attend a Prussian house of lords reception as the program begins. In Texas, W M Waddell of Fort Worth urged funds for the Live Stock Sanitary Commission to extend the quarantine line and fund eradication work for tick and sheep scab.
An advertisement promotes Granitord and Granocrete as economical pavement options with the slogan The Economical Pavements The Modern Pavements. The offer lists $2450 with easy terms and mentions a purchase for 413 Schley.
The Fourth Court of Civil Appeals ruled that a first mortgage lien is superior to all other liens including a mechanic’s lien in Houston Ice and Brewing Co. vs. W. B. Clint from Cameron county. The decision reversed a district court holding that $3600 in repairs funded by a receiver created a superior lien.
Court entries list reversals and dismissals across multiple counties including Upshur Denton Tarrant McLennan Dallas and Travis. Attorneys Frank Willis Jim Hartwell B. R. Rust F. H. Day Throckmorton and others appeared on briefs or motions for rehearing.
Testimony described Magnolia Petroleum Company hiring patterns from Pierce-Fordyce and Waters-Pierce as it built its North and South Texas sales divisions. Officials disputed numbers of former Pierce-Fordyce employees and denied plans to absorb most of that outfit.
Insurance Commissioner McCabe revokes the licenses of Home Fire Insurance, Merch antile Fire & Marine Insurance, and American Insurance, all chartered in Delaware, charging fraudulent practices. The action bans their business nationwide. McCabe notes the firms held substantial business in the Southern and Western regions. Riebe Undertaking Co. 211 E Commerce, Phone 341.
With the Cotton Belt excluded, the Texas state tax board finished hearings on protests to intangible asset valuations. Thirty leading railroads filed strong protests, signaling disagreement with the preliminary estimates.
One firefighter was killed and six others seriously injured when a blaze consumed the North High School building in Minneapolis. The fire caused about 325000 dollars in damages.
The ad promotes Poslam for eczema acne tetter barbers itch and other skin troubles claiming no mercury or poison. It promises immediate relief and overnight results for minor conditions and states Poslam Soap keeps skin infection free and improves appearance. Free samples available from Emergency Laboratories New York City.
An Illinois Central Diamond Special robbery attempt near Springfield ends with six dynamite charges failing to open a safe carrying about $25,000. The masked robbers fight off a posse, disarm two officers, and flee after securing only $500.
Illinois Central officials report robbers held up a Glenarm NL train and took 500 from a small express-car safe while failing to seize several thousand in a larger safe. A $1000 reward was offered for the suspects' capture.
Hutchings reports the National Guard Association convention will be held in Chicago from October 6 to 8. The adjutant generals convention follows October 9 at the same city. He plans to attend both events.
The Corpus Beach Hotel now shares management with the St. Anthony of San Antonio and invites guests to spend vacations on Corpus Christi Bay. Address W A Roach resident manager Corpus Christi Tex Adv
Mr W R Carroll of the New Northland Hotel praises Seattle’s rapid growth and modern government machinery. He notes Seattle’s 287000 population, a 42 story building, and compares streets favorably to San Antonio while recounting recalls of the mayor and police commissioner after a prior scandal. He mentions Seattle’s rainy season and expresses approval of local administration.
The theater committee has forbidden further performances of Gerhart Hauptmann's centenary festival play in Breslau. Burgomaster and councilmen are members amid protests by veterans and others that the work glorifies Napoleon and neglects Prussia's liberators.
Rube Schauer of the Superior Club in the Northern League was sold to the New York Nationals for 10000 dollars with delivery due August 15. He has pitched three one hit games this season and was denied a no hitter by a scratch with two out in the ninth.
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