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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 01, 1913
Page
3
A zealous advert claims Papes Diapepsin quickly cures indigestion and gas in five minutes. The copy promises a money back guarantee and notes the product as harmless, essential for home use for upset stomachs day or night.
Public Service Commission ordered all closed street cars in New York to have steps not higher than 15 inches from the ground effective January 1, 1914. The move follows protests by women's clubs over high steps linked to hobble skirts. A. Collman, plumber, per contact.
Mrs. Alphie McGill of Miller Street Jonesboro says a twenty year health breakdown ended after one bottle of Cardui. She describes past headaches backaches and long crying spells and claims Cardui restored her to full housework ability. She urges other women to try Cardui and asks readers to write for instructions and a 64 page home treatment book.
A writer with twelve years experience claims a guaranteed cure for eczema also called tetter and salt rheum. He offers a free trial by mail from 1097 Court Block, Sedalia Missouri, urging readers to write today for real comfort and a proof within days. References to the Third National Bank appear in Sedalia.
The House money trust committee filed a majority report detailing the existence of a money trust and calling for stringent federal regulation of national banks, clearing houses, and stock exchanges. It names J P Morgan Co and others as the inner group and cites George F Baker James Stillman Lee Higginson Kuhn Loeb and Kidder Peabody as allied powers shaping credit and policy.
A vintage advertisement promotes Royal Pills as a laxative and cathartic. It claims one pill nightly prevents sickness, with two or three for cleansing. After several weeks of use the trouble is said to be corrected. A 10 cent package is offered to try once.
A congressional committee details an extensive money trust centered in Chicago led by top banks such as First National and Illinois Trust and Savings Bank. It describes interlocking directorships and underwriters who control securities, with widespread links to smaller banks and national banks, urging reforms and stricter supervision of clearing houses and stock dealings.
A St. Louis pocketpicker sent a pocketbook containing a 3686.51 check and about 400 in notes back via parcel post to J. A. Mason of Jackson Tennessee after robbing him in St. Louis. Mason stopped payment on the check. The thief kept 35 dollars but returned the papers.
Mrs. Jonathan Bourne Jr. arrived in Portland from Washington amid discussions of possible divorce proceedings. The text notes no definite plan to file for divorce and states the possibility is under consideration.
Report notes that individuals taking horns from the Elks in Brackenridge Park, which are shedding, will face prose cuted charges under local law.
General Cipriano Castro expressed admiration for President elect Woodrow Wilson and said the continental future would be saved by Wilsons victory. He stressed equity and mutual respect and vowed unity and continental fraternity as his guiding motto. Castro plans to travel to Key West and Washington arriving March 3 and will likely sail soon after to join family in Tenerife. He requested hotel rooms in Washington for his party as diplomats debate his reception at the inauguration.
New York reports Dr. Friedmann, the German bacteriologist, will open offices on Fifth Avenue for a two week public clinic next week. The serum will be administered free to those unable to pay, with invited American physicians to assist in diagnosis and follow up. He claims benefits should appear within a week and notes over 5000 applications for treatment.
A drugstore advertisement guarantees refunds if PAZO OINTMENT fails to cure itchy, bleeding, or protruding piles within 6 to 14 days. It emphasizes rapid relief and a money back promise to users.
About 20 YY M C A Boy Scouts left at 8 20 this morning for a Salado creek hike carrying large lunches. Kingsbury Jr directs the outing as the first Y M C A activity of the year with more hikes planned and longer trips ahead.
Call on Dr. J Harvey Moore at 204 Gunter Office Building San Antonio to learn how to be cured. A Coleman plumber and Police Magistrate Thompson of Elgin IL preside over a dubious judicial ruling about a girl who styles her hair and wears a hobble skirt being too old to be spanked by her father.
Professor J G Carter Troop of the University of Chicago extension department gave a second lecture on the Dramatis of Today at Carnegie Hall. He analyzed Rostand’s life and works, calling him a romanticist with realism and praising his victory for verse drama. The next talk on Maeterlinck is set for Friday evening at 8 15. The Shakespeare lecture by Professor Kittridge was canceled due to an art exhibit on April 3.
Mail to the republic via New Orleans Havana and Vera Cruz will be discontinued as ordered by Assistant Postmaster Fuller from Washington this morning. Through railroad service to Mexico City via Laredo has not yet been re established but local National Lines trains will carry the mail after crossing the border.
The Senate passed the annual military academy appropriation of 1 125 000 and proposed restoring four cadets discharged in August 1911 for liquor regulation violations. Names listed include Ralph I. Sasse Elliott H. Freeland Yarnell DPD Simkins and James Christian awaiting House approval.
Galveston Texas reports the sudden death of Judge Marcelus E. Kleberg a leading Galveston and South Texas attorney at his home from heart failure while preparing for a bath. He had been in poor health but worked yesterday and had served as city attorney from 1904 to 1911.
W D Key a locomotive engineer was acquitted of murdering Will Mathews in a rooming house fight two months earlier. The case concluded this morning with an unimpeachable defense. A social note at the end touts Hood s Sarsaparilla as a remedy for blood disease.
The final rail segment of the Loetschberg railroad between Berne and Brice was laid, creating an international north south route via the Loetschberg and Simpson tunnels. Express service will begin next week, marking a shorter Calais to Milan journey of about 670 miles.
New York reports fraud schemes in parcel post stamps. Denominations from one cent to one dollar share a red color and similar design causing clerks to misread stamps. Criminals reportedly paste the word dollar over cent on stamps leading to mistaken charges.
SALT LAKE CITY March 1 The mothers' pension bill providing a minimum ten dollars a month for one dependent child and seven dollars for each additional child was approved by the senate. The measure has cleared the house and now goes to the governor.
Washington march 1. Secretary Wilson orders releasing 14910 square miles in the south from cattle movement quarantine after a year of eradicating the tick fever. Since 1906 more than 187900 square miles freed. remaining restrictions cover many southern states and parts of California Missouri and Virginia.
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