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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 25, 1908
Page
1
A congressman urges broad amendments to the interstate commerce and antitrust laws. Proposals include allowing railroad state agreements with ICC approval, appointing receivers with stockholder interests, and creating swift actions against restraints. Emphasis on balancing corporate power with worker, farmer, and labor unions, plus promoting conciliation over strikes.
A historical statement urges legal recognition of peaceful labor combinations and collective bargaining for workers and employers alike. It calls for postal savings banks, tariff revision, and a permanent waterways commission, emphasizing conservation, water power, and federal action to support wage earners and small means.
The Supreme Court will decide a dispute over rail contracts under the anti pass law. The case concerns Boschi Cable and Tha Ly Auntio Marely gi-An, testing the autipage provisions for contracts made before the law. The court favored the cashway company in pending litigation.
Hold Normal June 17 the date of the San Antonio normal school has been set for June 17. The school will continue for five weeks under the direction of GA Arnold principal of Milan School in San Antonio. The faculty includes Lakin principal of the high school San Antonio Marshall Johnston head of the commercial department and Beeville superintendent W R Mails dera superintendent Caldwell schools.
Freeman says freight office in this city will be reestablished when business improves while several agencies will be discontinued in April. He notes Houston and Palestine offices to continue, Mexico City and other agencies to be cut back, and pledges to maintain railroad operation and improve rolling stock during retrenchment. He outlines plans to inspect the San Antonio division and return to San Antonio within two weeks for a full company-wide review.
An extensive notice promotes Hood's Sarsaparilla as the best spring medicine used by thousands of households. It claims to cleanse the system, cure tiredness, restore appetite, improve complexion, and increase strength. The advertisement cites over forty thousand testimonials in two years and offers liquid or tablet forms.
The Court of Appeals set aside the lower tribunal's $20,000 award in a suit arising from an arrest for embezzlement by an employee, ruling against the garnishee Beuitable Life Assurance Co and directing judgment for the plaintiff. The decision reversed and remanded several other cases, with three affirmed. Additionally, several motions and a sensational line from a newspaper feature are noted.
A promotional notice from Paris Melee Company offering Grove's new nostril and throat treatment for catarrh with a patent device to apply the remedy. It promises a money back guarantee after trial and urges readers to send name and address to receive an outfit by mail, with a later $1.00 payment upon satisfaction.
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