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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 10, 1912
Page
8
An unnamed piano dealer touts superior selling methods with a truth telling slogan Tell the Truth A Square Deal to Everybody One Price to All He promises original bills of lading to prove not shop worn goods and denies stencil pianos baiting sales or special sales He offers convenient terms and a broad range of pianos of high and medium grades and expresses enthusiasm to please customers.
A compromise at the Travis county executive committee meeting led to the election of James A. Belger as chairman. Belger supports Colquitt and Woodrow Wilson, with Ramsay elements favoring the award.
A brief ad spread displays various discount items with prices such as 35c 10c and 90c. The page promotes daily specials and bargain offers across multiple departments.
Judge Edward Dwyer of the Thirty seventh district court allowed alimony at eight dollars per week pending termination of the Maria Sanchez versus Donato Sanchez suit. Community notices mention dances, funerals, and civic events with dates centered around March 10 to 17.
Austin March 9 chartered H Goodman company of Big Mills Dimmit county with 5000 capital stock and incorporators H Goodman Asherton Henry L Halff and Jake Wolff San Antonio. Banks Farmers State Vernon capital from 30000 to 40000 First State Zephyr capital from 25000 to 10000 Barry Lumber and Tie Clarksville capital from 40000 to 27000. Proofs of final payment Modern Plumbing Electric Houston. Dissolutions filed P H Pennington Wichita Falls and Smithville Saw Mill Smithville.
The San Antonio Civic League promotes beautifying vacant city lots through gardening and the public library responds by compiling an accessible list of gardening books. The volumes cover landscape design to houseplants and include titles such as Landscape Gardening, The Rose, Garden Making, The School Garden Book, and Gardening for Profit.
Cone Johnson of Tyler, U S Senate candidate, spoke in Austin on the way home from Georgetown after attending Col J T Sneed's funeral. He met with Governor Colquitt and said any debate with Wolters would be possible if proposed, but he favors a personal campaign kickoff later in the month and has not chosen a location.
Delia Edwards, 58, died after slipping from a hospital roof at Fulton. While fleeing an area near a lightning rod she fell three stories to the sidewalk and died minutes later. She had been sent to the Fulton state hospital from Moberly.
At a city council meeting W H Carter C F Berg and R P Capbeen named the 1912 board of equalization Capbeen resigned from the council An election is ordered for the first Tuesday in April to elect a mayor a treasurer and three aldermen.
Advices received by the postal inspector's department say on April 1, thirteen additional postal savings banks will open in Texas bringing the state total to 369. The new banks will be at Alvin Athens Ballinger Clarksville Commerce Crockett Honey Grove Kingsville Lubbock Midland Mount Pleasant Pecos and Rockdale.
Robert Campbell aged 69 died yesterday afternoon while en route to the city hospital after weeks of illness. An Ireland native who arrived in 1867 with General McKenzie he worked for the U S government as a teamster. Funeral at 2 PM conducted by the Hackmen's union at Shelley Loring Undertaking. burial in cemetery No 3 Sand Antonio.
Temps dispatch from Canton reports agitation to invite Col. Theodore Roosevelt to act as adviser to China until domestic tranquillity is restored. The movement is said to be making considerable headway.
James G Kerr aged 84, oldest U S postal employee, resigns after 62 years of continuous service in the Chicago Post Office. A model clerk who started in 1853 after transfer from Cleveland, he never missed a day, never earned a reprimand, and will return to Painesville Ohio to be with his brother.
Boston Post reports William E. Shaw of General Electric in Lynn has designed an electrical device enabling an operator at a keyboard to flash 36 letters and figures to a distant receiver. Shaw, whose deaf mute wife uses it at home, has installed one and applied for a patent.
Official program for the thirty seventh annual convention of the State Firemen’s association to be held in Austin from May 14 to 17. It is expected that several hundred firemen will attend with social features included.
Washington March 9 plans for a 16 inch naval gun to hurl a 2000 pound shell and penetrate armor at 14 miles are complete in Rear Admiral N C Twining and the bureau of ordnance. The gun, the navy hopes, will allow battleships to rule the seas with great speed.
New York March 9 Edward H Harrimans estate is valued about 100 million with the wife Mary W Harriman as main beneficiary under inheritance tax law. State tax at 1 percent would total around 1 million and the widow has already paid 700 000 to 800 000 with rebates possible on final appraisal. Mr Harriman died September 6 1909 with wealth estimates ranging 50 000 000 to 300 000 000 and the widow cited a figure near 67 000 000.
Ard Milner charged as an accessory in the July killing of George Gosnell in Goliad county was moved from Goliad to Beeville and jailed as district court sits. Milner’s case will not be heard until the September term. a fragmented exchange about a servant call accompanies the report.
In San Antonio Dr Robert L Rhea runs a veterinary hospital on East Houston beside Carter Mullaly’s stables. The piece highlights the caring staff and pets, including Fox the rat terrier, a scarred dog from Beeville, a poisoned setter, a blind snakebitten dog, and cases of mange, all treated with compassion in the contagious and convalescing wards.
One of Pennsylvania's oldest women, Aunt Pollyerman, age 105 or 106, resides at the Good Shepherd home in Easton. Born near Arktown in Northampton County, she is blind in one eye but sharp in sight with her remaining eye and lives with distant relatives before joining the Bethlehem-era residents under Superintendent J. H. Bake.
A small goat adopted as a member of the court house staff created consternation by disrespecting the sanctity of the temple of justice. It climbed stairs to the grand jury room and chewed bench warrants bills and other court papers on the sand floor.
A buyer accuses the seller of hiding the horse's lame condition. The seller replies that the previous owner gave no information, insisting it was a secret. The exchange reflects tense handling of a disputed livestock sale.
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