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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 04, 1913
Page
9
In Swissville, a dry suburb near Pittsburg, authorities plan to install large mirror panels at the depot exit and in the borough lockup to shock intoxicated passersby into self reflection. Burgess Milligan cites local habits as evidence, recounting a past incident with a town boy and warning against extreme fasting remedies.
County commissioners authorize city to use county voting booths for the municipal election on May 13. City Clerk Fred es filed the application. Also notes political ads urging support for A B Tony Hillan for Seventh ward alderman with platform of fewer promises and more improvements.
West End lake area notes advertise Packard and Stearns Knight touring cars and taxicabs for hire with listed phone numbers Crockett 1-2-8 New 1-2-3 Taxicabs and touring cars Phones Crockett 2-3-4 New 2-8-4 Franklin Taxicabs any phone 4 Forty five alarms in April Fire Chief Wing and companies responded to the month and the greatest loss occurred in residential sections with few others noted.
A speaker argues that taking calculated risks differentiates working and business men. He cites Corpus Christi Bay and future ship traffic, Panama Canal impact, and Southwest Texas seaport growth. He invites readers to invest at 333 Alamo Plaza to share in anticipated prosperity.
Seventeen alarms sounded in the morning and forenoon with six fires between 2 and 5 am. False alarms came from boxes. Police report two robberies by Mexican and White women, one for $185 and another for $13. Chicken thefts and a missing Texas youth are noted, alongside bells annoying a resident and new complaint blanks for shippers.
Notice from Bexar County Texas commissioners court states it will convene as a board of equalization on the second Monday in May 1913, the 12th, to examine the assessor tax lists for correction and approval. County Clerk Frank R. Newton signs the notice in San Antonio. Ogcocephalus Radiatus bat fish exhibited in New York, a native of the Florida keys, with fins legs and wings and a need to stay at 80 degrees. it dies in cooler water. Also notes student singing protests at Columbia University fraternity houses on 13th Street and Chicago annual salaries averaging $1202.55 with mean daily wage $1.91.
The illness of the Duchess of Connaught delays Princess Pat's planned London welcome. The princess stays by her mother to nurse and read news to her, while American friends visit during her semi retirement in London.
London dispatch warns of national peril as Liberal cabinet strains with a divided Conservative opposition. It forecasts a looming maritime scandal and an official inquiry into a sea lord’s oil stock investments, while predicting leadership contests within the Unionist party and a rising chance of war with Germany.
One pound boxes of pork sausage offered by Union Meat Company at twenty five cents per pound. Orders placed through your butcher or grocer.
A lengthy list of property deeds and quitclaim transfers across San Antonio and surrounding counties, detailing buyers, sellers, parcel descriptions, dates from 1909 to 1923, and monetary considerations ranging from 1 to 6650 dollars, including numerous parcels in Los Angeles Heights and Palm Heights developments. Also notes a Riverside Restaurant chicken dinner and supper promotion and a line about Illinois labor bureau job figures.
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