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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 08, 1911
Page
9
Joseph Estoff of Buffalo sues the Springfield estate executor for 813 in prayer fees. The bill includes 13 for dying prayers at the father's deathbed and 3800 for daily Kaddish repetitions for fifty weeks at six dollars per week.
New York City documents show 2000 fewer juvenile delinquents in the last year, dropping from 11 494 to 9 491. The report notes a fall across crime types with girls making up about two percent, and American born boys remaining the most troublesome group among nationalities listed, including 702 American born offenders, many with foreign parentage. Italian 654, Russians 647, Germans 37 follow.
A city campaign to raise subscriptions for stock of a construction company to build a San Antonio to Brownsville road began at the Chamber of Commerce. An executive committee of 100+ business leaders will solicit in three districts with three luncheons to press the $100 stock subscription by April 1. If the full amount is subscribed early, the final luncheon becomes a justification. Shares finance the project, not bonuses from local donors.
An advertisement extols S S S as a blood purifier that cures rheumatism by removing uric acid from the blood. It claims rheumatism stems from internal system troubles and urges immediate use, noting relief after cleansing blood and offering a free rheumatism book and medical advice. The Swift Specific Co. of Atlanta, GA, markets S S S in drugstores.
Business leaders including Geo W West Otto Koehler Edwin Chamberlain L J Hart and many others back plans for a new road with West boosting his pledge to 100000 and offering a 350000 bonus if the route crosses his land. The 100 member solicitation committee vows to raise the remaining funds as inquiries and subscriptions continue.
Washington reports that a bill will be introduced in the next Congress to require publication of receipts and expenditures of national and congressional political committees. Rep McCall of Massachusetts leads the measure at the National Publicity Law Association's request. Leaders in both houses express support for enacting such a law, with the association noting seven years of advocacy.
Advertisement for GROWE'S TASTE LESS CHILL TONIC claims to drive out malaria and build up the system for both adults and children. Sold in a 50 cent size.
Charles F. Merriam republican candidate for mayor and University of Chicago professor urged open Sunday saloons in a keynote address in Chicago. He criticized the current republican administration as twenty years behind the times and called for maximum personal liberty compatible with public order.
Atlanta March 8 President Taft Secretary of the Treasury Wilson Col Theodore Roosevelt Secretary of War Dickinson Woodrow Wilson Governor of New Jersey and southern governors attend the Southern Commercial congress opening. Fletcher Mississippi Money Florida render "The Obligation of the Panama Canal" and James Gordon Mississippi prepares "Yesterday to Today" while Dr Clarence J Owens speaks on "Today and Tomorrow" to inspire youth toward training and service.
Carrie Nation lies ill in a sanitarium in Fort Leavenworth Kansas unconscious most of the time doctors say she may live only a few days Colonel Roosevelt stressed southern contributions to the nation and Taft spoke of a Greater Nation Through a Greater South The three day program includes speakers Secretary Wilson Westinghouse and George W Perkins with evening addresses and afternoon sectional meetings
The article describes sectional meetings across halls in Atlanta with four or more specialists each, covering agriculture commerce education forests roads health immigration land reclamation and more. The closing night on March 10 features speeches by Dickinson McAdoo Houston Governor Woodrow Taft Hulley and others culminating in America.
An old advertisement promotes Bromide Quinine cold and grip relief with a call for the full name and signature of E. W. Grove. The short notice highlights headache relief and laxative components in the remedy.
In Baynesville Kansas rural delivery farmers along the lines pulled down mail boxes and refused to accept mail from the Black mail carrier recently appointed. Many farmers went to the post office declaring they would continue the boycott until a white man is made carrier.
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