This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
This newspaper page contains 13 articles. Subscribers can read the full text of each article.
Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 04, 1911
Page
11
An old medical note emphasizes convalescence as a fragile recovery phase after illness. It warns of relapse risk and urges a highly nourishing easily assimilated liquid diet to support the patient through this critical period.
Edwin A. Brown of Denver famed as the millionaire tramp arrives in New York for his final excursion in overalls. He says municipal lodging houses are needed everywhere and will press cities to aid the worthy poor. Brown plans to sail to Europe next month to study the tramp problem.
San Antonio school board members debated abolishing high school fraternities citing class bias and planned to hear affected students before acting. They also proposed a new tentative teacher salary scale including 100 dollars a month for first grade and 65 dollars for first grade certificated teachers. Principals would be assigned by the superintendent and special department assistants replaced by general aides with changes extending to German and Spanish teachers. Attending officials included Dr. Frederick Terrell and John F. Fentiman among others.
Guild Hall Vermont May 4. First time since Mary Rogers a woman faces a capital offense trial in this state. Defendant Mrs Florence Dodge stands accused of killing William Heath. Dr B H Stone the state pathologist testified as the trial began.
Mrs. Dodge widow of J Marshal Dodge of Lunenburg Vermont stands trial at Guildhall Vermont for first degree murder in the death of William Heath a painter from Dalton New Jersey. Heath was found with a bullet wound in the heart inside the Dodge home on September 17 after helping about the house. The case rests on the events of that day and the subsequent investigation.
Witnesses have been summoned from every section of Northern Vermont and New Hampshire and some from distant points. The case promises to be one of the most notable in Vermont criminal annals.
Fort Worth & Denver commercial agent Hal Sperry visited the city Tuesday and mingled with local youths on the row, taking part in the social scene.
Four Garner sisters from Albemarle County West Virginia have become widows after their four railroad engineer husbands were killed in separate wrecks. The latest death was Engineer Thomas Pilcher of Huntington who perished near Thurmond on the Chesapeake and Ohio line last Tuesday. Each couple had married within the same railway family, with firemen also killed in each crash and no passengers hurt.
The Modern Woodmen of America of Texas chose Temple as the next meeting place at their session. Delegates to the head camp at Buffalo on July 20 were elected from cities including San Antonio Dallas Fort Worth Houston Wichita Falls and others.
After a tightly fought race in Baltimore the Democrat James H. Preston defeats Republican Be. Clay Timanus to win the mayoralty for four years.
Chicago May 4 The Grand Army of the Republic protests being used as the tail end of a horse show on Decoration Day Washington Post reports the GA R has addressed the issue and other posts may join in Resolutions condemn the permit to parade over G A R routes and threaten non participation calling the secular display a desecration and an insult to patriots.
L. R. Gardner traveling freight agent of the Queen and Crescent with Dallas headquarters spent a few hours in the city Tuesday.
LENOX Mass May 4 Frank A Palmer a Massachusetts legislator reports his flock of 100 chickens earned 5475 actual profit during the year ending May 1. He says the birds averaged 15 cents a day per hour and he seeks early adjournment to tend to his poultry settings.
We want people to find what they are looking for at NewspaperArchive. We are confident that we have the newspapers that will increase the value of your family history or other historical research. With our 7-day free trial, you can view the documents you find for free.
People find the most success using advanced search. Try plugging in keywords, names, dates, and locations, and get matched with results from the entire collection of newspapers at NewspaperArchive!
You can also successfully find newspapers by these browse options. Explore our archives on your own!
Browse by location and discover newspapers from all across the world.
Browse by date and find publications for a specific day or era.
Browse old newspaper publications to find specific newspapers.