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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 04, 1911
Page
9
New York May 4. Duncan J. McRae an architect abandoned social life fifty years ago to amass wealth. At 30 he renounced pleasures and through shrewd dealings and self denial accumulated a fortune before dying by his own hand after failing to marry the woman he loved.
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A man living on Mominick street was found dead in his modest room. A gas jet connected by a rubber tube indicates suicide, ending years of isolation despite his valued wealth.
Francis Weeks of Paris seeks removal of Rufus W. Nazon as executor of a will benefiting Mrs. Edwin Lord Weeks. Nazon, a former Boston lawyer, disappeared twelve years ago after his wife Martha H. Nazon died. Registry shows attempts to locate him failed and the estate remains tied up, denying Mrs. Weeks her income.
Ex governor James Henry Brady of Idaho told the New York state legislature that woman suffrage raises the standard of voters at the polls. He added that women are not better politicians than men but have a better brand of politics.
R. L. Hughes of St. Louis is elected president of the Eleventh Division of the Railway Mail association. Three delegates to the Syracuse national convention are Rhodes, McReynolds and Miller. Voting showed Hughes over Gibson. delegates Rhodes, McReynolds, Miller chosen. Martin named vice president. Cameron secretary-treasurer. Guests at dinner included W. L. Smith and A. P. Barrett.
A dense list of individuals and titles appears in the fragment. Names include Fuller, Terrell, Walter Cameron, Denison figures, Dallas, Houston, Little Rock, and numerous clerks and officials. The passage reads as a roster or attendees from a broader historical record without a clear event or outcome attached.
An autographed Poe letter from February 20 1848 sold for 1700 dollars at the Poe sale. In the letter Poe defends his health habits and says he only drinks when excited, asserting his private life contradicts the accusation of habitual drunkenness.
Mrs. O. B. Palmer of Little Rock Arkansas reports her son recovered from measles after using Foley's Honey and Tar Compound. She states the cough worsened before use and ceased after one bottle. The ad touts the product as effective for croup whooping cough and measles cough.
Jacob A Riis warns Yale News that sneering cynicism endangers young college men in journalism. He urges adherence to ideals, arguing editors profit from cash value over conviction and that moral integrity must trump material gain.
E S Bacon of Bath Maine warns railroad workers about kidney inflammation and praises Foley Kidney Pills for restoring strength. He credits the medicine with clearing inflammation and eliminating weakness and dizziness after taking it.
George W. Perkins former J P Morgan partner told a finance forum in New York that the supreme court should not be the last resort for business disputes. He called for a new court of proven business leaders to decide commercial issues with informed judgment.
In Mississippi, Tom Shack, a Black man convicted of killing Dr Maybrey in Coahoma county, asked Deputy Talbott for all the bananas he could eat before his June execution. The officer agreed to provide fruit, and Shack began consuming forty or fifty bananas. He pressed the point again, and the judge confirmed June as the execution month.
An advertisement touts Hall's Texas Wonder as giving quick permanent relief for kidney bladder and rheumatic troubles. It asserts that seldom one bottle fails to cure and urges readers to write for local testimonials. Dr. E W Hall of St. Louis is named with druggists as sellers.
Chicago public schools ban secret high school fraternities and societies. The board of education approved the resolution eleven to six. Pupils must resign from societies or be expelled. Dean Summer cited statistics showing members are poorer students with an example of 121 members averaging 74.6 percent.
A vintage advertisement claims Foley Kidney Pills offer the right help to neutralize poisons causing back ache nervousness and other kidney and bladder ailments in an old newspaper page.
In Green Island, New York, James Duffy died after a telegraph wire fell across a path for horses. Ten minutes later Merritt Corbitt handled the same wire and suffered burns, remarking that it burned his hands. The fatal current had barely scorched Corbitt.
Six carloads of raw silk and silk goods arrived in New York in sixteen days and sixteen hours from Yokohama setting a new world record for the voyage. The Empress of China carried the shipment leaving Yokohama April 16 and reaching New York in under a week for the Atlantic leg, after eleven days in the Pacific.
The Brooklyn lawyer George L. Fox leaves half a million dollars to Brooklyn hospitals and charitable organizations in his will dated May 4. The bequest directs support for medical services and related charities in the borough.
In police court Hattie Brooks testified that Walter Humphreys the butler pressed her on a hot stove amid a dispute at the home where they worked. The butler claimed she tried to knife him and he restrained her to escape danger. The butcher was fined by the recorder. Behles Boclhauwe architects listed.
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