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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 08, 1911
Page
3
This ad touts Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets as instantly relieving fullness and gas after overeating. It explains digestion support, breath improvement, and mood uplift, claiming one grain digests 8000 grains of food. A 50 cent price is listed with a free trial package available by mail from F A Stuart Co Marshall Michigan.
Associated Press reports that El Paso has been named the base for the insurgent cause in the United States with operations directed from the city. The move is interpreted as indicating Madero will limit current actions to Northern Chihuahua.
Seven hundred marines fully equipped will sail from Philadelphia Navy Yard on the transport Prairie followed by seven hundred sailors on the Dixie. Washington orders list Guantanamo as destination but a Texas port and overland transit to the Mexican border are also suspected possibilities.
About 1500 soldiers at Fort Sheridan are awaiting orders to move to the Mexican border. The unit includes the Twenty-seventh infantry, the first regiment in line for foreign service.
San Antonio will become the world news center as troops stay at Fort Sam Houston. War correspondents and photographers from AP US News Service Hearst and others descend, with Western Union telegraph operators and Postal Telegraph expanding service. The city anticipates free advertising turning into revenue for hotels, merchants, and vendors.
The Tenth infantry at Fort Benjamin Harrison delays departure for Fort Sam Houston due to rail transport shortages. Soldiers, under Col. H. A. Greene, received city leave to bid sweethearts goodbye. Ten days field rations, travel rations, ammunition, and equipment including 138 horses and mules, ambulances, escort wagons, and machine guns accompany the unit for foreign service.
New York City prepares for Mexican frontier maneuvers as 6000 troops mobilize for transit to Newport News then Galveston. Telegraph offices gear up with Western Union and Postal operators moving to San Antonio and Galveston.
In Hammond Indiana on March 8 Mrs. Michael Selese with her husband away, accepted an outing from Joseph Kowtowski who loaned 36 dollars. Kowtowski filed garnishment against Selese, who knew nothing of the outing. The judge took the case under advisement to decide if a husband can be liable when a wife borrows from another man and the man sues the husband after the debt remains unpaid.
Rev J H Collard former prohibition lecturer and mining promoter spoke in Eagle Pass on Mexico's condition He asserted Diaz alone could govern Mexicans and Spanish supporters shouted Viva Madero while a minority backed Diaz Collard left for interior Mexico after the talk praising the Mexican government.
Adjutant General Hutchins said there is little likelihood the Texas National Guard will be ordered or asked to join border maneuvers based on current information. He added that guardsmen are anxious and eager to go if needed.
An advertisement touts Orrine as a simple home remedy that destroys desire for whiskey and beer with no need for a sanitarium. It claims high success and money-back guarantees if no benefit, offering two forms No 1 powder and No 2 pills at $1 per box. The ad directs readers to order a free booklet from Orrine Co. and notes local availability at Fischer's Drug Store in Gibbs Building.
Gen. Julian S. Carr outlines praise for Maryland Virginia West Virginia North Carolina South Carolina Tennessee Alabama Mississippi Kentucky Missouri Louisiana Florida Texas Oklahoma and Georgia, lauding their history wealth and progress as the Southern Commercial Congress opens.
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