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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1911
Page
5
An advertisement extols Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a proven remedy for female ailments. It cites testimonials and claims from the Pinkham Laboratory in Lynn Massachusetts asserting numerous cures and avoidance of surgery.
London report says at the Olympia international horse show Judge Moore's Robin Hood won the blue ribbon in the class for ponies shown in 1 2 hands.
Alfred Lellanc Seupont and Chevalier will compose a French team for the Jordan Bennett aviation contest. The event follows last year’s win by Claude Grahame-White at Belmont Park in New York.
A Rome dispatch received by our bureau reports cholera discovered in Naples, Salerno, Palermo, and Venice, indicating a widening outbreak across major Italian cities.
In Mexico City reports a small group of men believed to be from Zapata's command fired on a train carrying troops loyal to Figueroa near Cuernavaca. Authorities pursue the assailants as the attack raises tensions in the region.
A message received yesterday afternoon provides limited, unclear details with no identifiable names or locations. Further context is needed to determine the event, parties involved, or significance.
Sanitary authorities along the coast order precautions after telegraphic advisories indicate cholera infections in Naples Venice and Palermo. Measures are put in place at frontier checkpoints to prevent spread.
A group of twelve telegraphers at Colonia station walk out in a protest against management for refusing to discharge the chief of the office. The strike action looms as the National railways face possible disruption in Mexico City.
Miss Kate Colding and Agnes Cotton plan a vacation to New York while San Antonio public schools set a September 14 opening. Several travelers, including J B Crow, J J Heathcock, Rev J C Groth, B Sorelle, John Dobie, W A Mangum, F A Mangum, Thomas F West, and John C Ray are staying at major hotels and handling business or personal matters. Rain in northern Texas prompts travel weather chatter as visitors mingle at the St Anthony, Crockett and Bexar hotels.
Mrs Minnie Anderson Hale a Alabama law graduate appeared before Judge John T Pendleton in Atlanta to seek bar admission He interpreted a Georgia code section stating any male citizen may practice law and ruled that no woman could practice in Georgia despite her qualifications
San Antonio school board discussed paying the back taxes collector and approved contracts for printing and concrete work. Changes in textbooks include new editions for art education and rhetoric, while several teacher resignations and new hires are noted for upcoming vacancies.
Paris reports the engagement of Miss Helen Demarest daughter of Mrs Warren G Demarest New York to John Leishman son of the American ambassador to Italy.
Mrs. Violet Cole of Philadelphia reports widespread eczema relief after using Cuticura Soap Ointment and Resolvent for herself and her five children. She describes night symptoms hair loss and severe itching then credits the remedies with curing ringworm as well. Sold worldwide by Potter Drug and Chem. Free samples via mail offer.
By Capt. Geo A Schreiner, the article argues General Wood's six month post graduate army plan is flawed. It says college graduates lack discipline for rapid obedience and warns such schemes distract from real reforms in the regular army.
A blaze in Homer Louisiana destroyed the brick depot warehouse repair shops storage rooms and three locomotives belonging to the Louisiana Navigation and Railroad company last night.
The veneering plant of the Virginia Manufacturing Company in Suffolk was totally destroyed by fire last night. Loss estimated at 100,000 dollars, with part of the damage covered by insurance.
Edward Valentine Lee 26 of Russellville Kentucky a former paymaster's clerk is arrested in Buffalo for allegedly taking 46000 aboard the battleship Georgia during a February 11 incident in Havana.
Postmaster General Hitchcock designated fifty postal savings depositories today. The new offices set to receive deposits on July 22 include Camden Arkansas Mangum Oklahoma and Cleburne Denison and Ennis Texas.
Washington June 22 Mrs Luke Lea wife of Senator Luke Lea Tennessee is slowly gaining strength after a transfusion of her husband’s blood Sunday.
Government service operations require at least 400 million envelopes over the next four years to handle official correspondence, signaling large scale administrative activity and material planning.
The Kentucky court of appeals overruled the petition for a rehearing by Jos. Wendling who was convicted and sentenced to life in prison for the 1909 murder of 8-year-old Alma Kellner in Louisville.
Bud Cleveland and Chas. Dennis were killed and several other trainmen and passengers seriously injured in a head on crash on the Tennessee Central line at Mill Creek just after 4 PM yesterday.
Six separate divorce courts sat in session simultaneously in Boston, setting a national record. The June docket opened with 152 cases as Chief Justice Aiken plans to assign an additional judge, potentially creating eight courts in total.
E P Dickey aged 81 failed to heed a stop signal at a crossing in Essex Connecticut and was fatally injured when his car was struck by a freight engine. Mrs Dickey suffered a broken left arm in two places and her sister Miss Dickerman was seriously injured. the chauffeur escaped unharmed. Also reported from Taylor Texas is Knights of Pythias Alamop lodge No. 53 election of officers led by C E K King and Coleman McKay with several incumbents retained.
A vacant frame dwelling at 810 Morales Street suffered about $1000 damage when a fire broke out shortly before 11 PM. Owned by James Vanlandingham, the building was being moved from the front to the rear of the lot. The origin remains undetermined as flames started from an unknown source.
Fire caused cedar logs to ignite and contact the building. Estimated damage to the logs around 100 dollars. The building valued about 1400 dollars with insurance covering 1000 dollars. Good board like mothers at the Jefferson, 442 Soledad street.
Thirty prominent Aransas Pass businessmen met to form the State-Wide Prohibition association. Officers chosen are O. C. McLeod president, A. E. West vice president, C. H. Gile secretary, and N. M. Cole treasurer.
Gonzales Texas June 22 W A Scott a rural route mail carrier was thrown from his buggy when his horse shied. He suffered a broken shoulder blade and other bruises expected to keep him confined to bed for several weeks.
STOCKDALE Tex June 22 That the heat from the sun will hatch eggs as quickly as a hen can was demonstrated here when M Toscana a merchant exhibited three healthy chicks hatched in his store in this manner.
An old practice using sage for hair color is revived in Wyeth's Sage and Sulphur Hair Remedy. The product, advertised as restoring color and gloss, is sold by druggists at fifty cents a bottle with a money back guarantee if it fails to perform as claimed.
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