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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1914
Page
2
The notice promotes Vitalitas a natural liquid tonic claimed to purify and vitalize the body. It targets dyspepsia rheumatic and nervous conditions and urges readers to visit Wagner's Drug Store at 407 E Houston for a booklet and to buy the product from druggists.
R J Newton secretary of the southwestern conference on tuberculosis travels to Washington for a House Interstate Commerce Committee hearing on a bill to establish federal hospitals for indigent consumptive strangers. The plan, pushed by a ninety nine member Texas Oklahoma and western states committee, aims to prevent tuberculosis through federal facilities.
The United States Commission on Industrial Relations began sessions in Philadelphia to study local conditions. Hearings will run through the week with witnesses examining general industrial relations.
Dr. Herman G. James of the University of Texas reports Texas has the most cities using the city manager plan with four: Terrell, Taylor, Denton, and Amarillo. He tours Brenham Bryan Beeville to discuss the system and has prepared a model city charter to aid adoption under the home rule act.
A police squad in Chicago today controlled five young lions and their mother after they killed keeper L Emerson Dietrich a Brooklyn native and fiancé of vaudeville performer Miss Adgie Castillo. Dietrich and assistant George McChord entered a freight-yard cage with six lions. Dietrich was fatally mauled and died as the animals turned from playful cubs to predators. Authorities weigh whether to destroy the lions after a tragedy under investigation. Trilby the mother lion and the confined cubs were born in captivity and previously deemed harmless.
Hon H M Brown a Texas state legislator and Wharton attorney touts Plant Juice as a non stimulant tonic that rebuilt his nerves and vitality. He claims it restores health for stomach kidney liver and blood ailments and notes it is sold at Fischer's Drug Store.
Readable fragments describe a person pushed away, a witness who quit, and watched others participate without joining the assault. The text preserves a non-graphic account of the event and the social dynamics around the incident.
Emerson D Dietrich Jr reportedly died after a lion attack while with an animal show in Chicago. He had written his Brooklyn parents to expect him home that night and had been with the show about six months. His father, a prominent Brooklyn architect, is described as wealthy and Dietrich was notable in Erasmus Hall athletics.
State Purchasing Agent Elliot and assistants began classifying bids from Texas firms to supply state institutions for the next fiscal year. Awards will be announced in a day or two with a preference for home firms when bids are equal.
Forty eight contestants began play in the central west tennis championship for women at the Ivanhoe Tennis Club in Kansas City Missouri on June 22.
W N Robinson, manager of Riverside Park Grocery, fought off a young man claiming Black Hand affiliation who demanded $100. The assailant fired about five shots, injuring Robinson in the right arm and thumb while he wounded the culprit but the attacker escaped. Sheriff’s deputies searched the area with no trace. the man is described as about 22, wearing a dirty blue serge suit and light crush hat.
Members of the National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution toured Philadelphia Germantown and Valley Forge as preliminary events before a journey to Cambridge Massachusetts tracing General Washington's 1775 expedition. A farewell banquet was held tonight to mark the departure.
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