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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1911
Page
3
An old fashioned cathartic is set aside for Cascarets a mild modern laxative that acts naturally. Cascarets are candy tablet form pleasant to take and ten cent box fits a purse. Take one when you suspect need to avoid delaying until night or home.
Chicago reports show shrinking purchasing power of a dollar in produce. Potatoes fetch 6.40 a barrel on South Water Street, with wholesalers blaming near total crop failure in the Southwest. Daily needs are 40 cars but only three arrived yesterday, and average receipts have dwindled to about twenty seven cars.
Captain Geo A Schreiner critiques General Order No 67 detailing 9 cent scrubbing brushes and 31 cent corn brooms, noting certification and verification requirements drive waste. He cites Fort D A Russell and a Montana post as examples of pork and misplaced spending, urging public scrutiny.
John H. Thirny age 90 dies at his Long Island City home. He originated the public school savings bank system begun in 1885, now widely adopted with an estimated $2,000,000 on deposit in school banks.
The University of Texas announces a co educational program with open enrollment for September 27 1911. It lists Arts Arts Doctor of Philosophy Education Engineering Law and Summers School offerings. It also mentions extension divisions including correspondence information and public discussion lectures.
Mr John Windlinger grand secretary 105 Willita street will receive bids until 8 o clock p m July 10 for erection of new building. Each bid must be accompanied by certified check for 500 payable to order of San Antonio Hermann Sons Home association. Plans and specifications can be seen at office of Arthur J Herrmann architect 524 Moore building.
The Baptist World Alliance debated evangelism methods in Philadelphia with speakers from Britain and Canada. Envoys Conwell and Moyer will seek czar approval for a Baptist university in St Petersburg, else Berlin hosts the project and the 1916 meeting.
Capt. J. A. Jarvis, vice president of Booth Fisheries and former Guggenheim head in Washington and Alaska, shot and killed himself at the Arctic club in Seattle on June 24.
Ten petitions circulated to recall Montgomery five commissioners. Proponents cite failure of the commission form and urge voters to name the commissioners rather than the governor, arguing for direct voter selection in Montgomery.
The $65,000 oil painting imported for Harold F. McCormick was shipped directly to his Lake Forest summer residence. It arrived under guard with secrecy and high security, hermetically sealed in tin with a canvas covering. The creator and source remain unknown.
Robert Davis, the so called boy broker, awaiting trial after a South American arrest, has been studying prison life in the county jail. He has prepared suggestions for the legislative committee on prisons. His plan calls for systematic yard exercise.
Government directives outline weekly minimum hours for inmates awaiting trial and mandate changes to facilities and meals. Bath tubs renamed to showers and cereal drink alternated with cocoa shell coffee. Boiled peas on Saturdays replaced by kidney beans. Mail to detainees delivered unread. Denim blue uniforms replace blue and white striped suits.
The note advertises Elite Cafe inviting patrons for a trial period from noon to midnight daily and Sundays. It highlights good service and meals as the ideal combination for customers seeking a refined dining experience.
Fragmentary street and business listings show the Jefferson area at 442 Scotedad street with Bebles and Boelhauwe architects at 2283 West Commerce street and A Collman promoter listed at 416 Main Ave.
Washington June 24 The navy plans to counter enemy air power by sending fifty eight box kites to simulate aeroplanes during summer target practice on the southern drill grounds. The exercises will involve the Atlantic fleet using small arms to attack the kites as proxies for enemy machines.
By the will filed for probate here yesterday Miss Alice Gertrude Gordon is named sole heir to her father James J. Gordon’s estate valued at $2,000,000. She is 19 and was a debutante last season. her father once worked with C. P. Huntington in railroad building.
Mrs. Ida Hardy died at midnight of heart trouble believed caused by joy at seeing her husband Sergeant Bardy, who had returned from the Mexican frontier after four months with the coast artillery. The couple were on the front porch when she collapsed shortly after his return.
Mary Appel and her daughter Anna lie in critical condition at Harlem hospital after a man claiming to be a gas meter inspector attacked them last night. They were found gagged and unconscious with an odorless drug bottle nearby. Police say robbery drove the crime, but only letters addressed to Miss Appel were stolen.
The Rathskeller in San Antonio operates daily from 12 to 12 offering good service a wide delicatessen selection and quick short orders. Elite Cafe and Theo Artzt's orchestra are mentioned with both phones listed.
Riley Newton, a Stockman of Rotan Texas, was fatally wounded when shot on the sidewalk yesterday afternoon. J W McCaskill, sitting beside him, was struck but unharmed by a stray bullet, and J A Adams was lightly wounded in the wrist. J J Montgomery, 55, was arrested on charges of the shooting. Newton and Montgomery had prior trouble that had subsided.
Panic gripped Washington as a blaze at the navy department explosives magazine at Giesboro Point forced hundreds to flee to Congress Heights. The fire, likely started by a melted wax stopper, damaged dunnite rockets and primers though the explosive material burned without causing a catastrophe. Police cleared the area and declared the danger passed after about six hours.
In New Orleans on petition by S. P. Williams and other Indianapolis stockholders the civil district court named the Bank of Orleans receiver for United Wireless Telegraph. The company, now in receivership in New York, owns two wireless stations in Louisiana.
Police in Manhattan search for two germ laden monkeys that escaped from Willard Parker hospital within 18 hours. The creatures carry scarlet fever germs from inoculation for observation. Authorities fear they may have been adopted as pets by well meaning persons. A. Collman, plumber. Both phones.
An old fashioned grandmothers remedy, sage tea, is praised for dark glossy hair. Wyeth’s Sage and Sulphur Hall Remedy is now sold in drug stores for fifty cents with a guarantee it will perform as claimed.
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