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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 17, 1912
Page
11
In a crowded station scene refugees from Mexico and beyond gather at the International and Great Northern depot. Men, women, and children from Torreon to Yucatan describe peril in Mexico and the long journey toward the United States.
Refugees from Torreon and surrounding areas stream toward the United States by train and coach, led by women and children. Many expect U S intervention while others favor Mexican self resolution. Foreigners fear violence as rebels and federals clash and Chinese evacuees seek safety and repatriation discussions.
Washington report notes ongoing political fighting blocks constructive action as House and Senate clash on tariff schedules. Tariff measures face likely Senate defeat or presidential veto amid prolonged hearings on metal chemical and sugar rates. Senate probes elections while sugar income tax measures spark bitter contest.
An advertising claim from Dr J B Pamnatey of Sedalia Missouri offers a guaranteed cure for eczema also called tetter and pruritus. He promises a free trial remedy after requesting a letter and asserts success within days, urging readers to forward the offer to others.
The article outlines partisan tactics shaping votes on free sugar imports and income taxes, with progressives split on the Philippines tariff and key bills blocked by political maneuvering. It notes three senate election investigations, two major pending measures Panama canal and workers compensation, and limited prospects for trust and monetary reforms amid partisan control. A Cassier’s Magazine note on infusion hardened iron shows a test incident.
In this country the great problem is to stop heat waste in factories. All heat from burning coal should be converted into mechanical work, but currently less than one-tenth is used for that purpose.
A New York Post writer notes Aloysius Henneberry’s rule to answer all correspondence. His early year business failure led a creditor to seek court examination, where he testified that diary entries show extensive post card canvassing on politics and public issues from January 1 to January 18, including views on Roosevelt, suffrage, and party nominations.
In Ulster County New York Frank Seaman seeks rare irises in Japan. He meets Osugi San Kioto an elderly priest who tends perhaps the world’s finest iris. Osugi refuses a bulb even at 1600 a bulb and declines a city pension to plant hundred bulbs in public gardens after forty years of devoted work.
P. Eilverton Bancroft aged eighty five claims to be America's oldest skater and recently opened an outdoor exhibition at his Woburn, Massachusetts home. For an hour he glided around the pond performing intricate evolutions. A former businessman of Woburn, he has skated every winter for seventeen years.
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