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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1913
Page
11
A. M. Fischer's drug store promotes Dodson's Liver Tone as a purely vegetable liquid that starts the liver, relieves biliousness, and replaces calomel. The firm guarantees satisfaction with a fifty cent bottle and warns buyers to ensure genuine product from their store.
Mayor Brown will not appoint a city engineer until after the July 18 bond election. The council confirmed all other appointments except the city sexton, where Alderman Steves led a 6 to 6 tie, broken by the mayor. Brown proposes a five member public works board to supervise improvements if bonds pass.
An advertisement touts Cuticura Soap and occasional use of Cuticura Ointment as effective in preventing pore clogging pimples blackheads rough hands dandruff itching scalps and falling hair. It notes global sales and offers a free sample by mail with a 32 page booklet from Cuticura Department 15F Boston.
Washington officials doubt a German firm can pay the customs duties on a 600 000 pound boring machine for the New York navy yard while underbidding American bidders. Engineers judge the German design inferior to American options, and an American firm is expected to win the award.
Granitord and Granocrete advertised as economical pavement options in Modern Pavements trade promotion. Emphasizes durability and cost efficiency for street surfacing projects.
Mayor Brown pledges support to sanitation drive led by the citizen’s auxiliary to the board of health. Women and men from civic groups, aldermen, and city officials praised progress, urged ordinances, and urged voters to approve bond measures for a cleaner safer San Antonio.
Greenville Texas reports Frederick Horton of the Greenville Banner recited how the so called sugar Joker would have undermined free sugar in the pending tariff bill. Horton said he sent a full sugar schedule from Washington to C. M. Portwood, Greenville Chamber of Commerce president, who alerted Senator Sheppard to investigate.
About a thousand crew members from the Imperator in Hoboken hold a mass meeting to denounce working conditions, call for better food and sleeping quarters, and a nine hour day. Delegates include stewards pantry cooks coal trimmers and firemen. Speakers say crews have endured sixteen hour shifts and poor sanitary facilities. They will present resolutions to the ship's commander.
Fragmentary OCR data mentions times and places such as Sutherland Springs and Victoria with vehicle or transit references. The text is garbled lacking coherent events, names, or dates to form a clear news item or record.
Readable fragments list multiple trains and destinations with times and origins such as E Paso and Houston. Schedule shows No 1 and No 2 services and varied arrival and departure windows. details are incomplete and partially garbled.
An OCR fragment shows scattered phrases about north and south designations, numbers, times, and page cues. The readable text references "From the north" and "From the south" with scattered odds and ends that resemble a table of contents or classified snippet.
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