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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 05, 1911
Page
16
An advertisement for S.S.S. blood purifier from The Swift Specific Co of Atlanta asserts the remedy cures Contagious Blood Poison by cleansing the circulation. It describes symptoms, contagion risk, and promises long-term remission and nourishment to the blood, inviting readers to write for a home treatment book and medical advice.
The New Orleans Progressive Union urges southern commercial and civic bodies and railroads to join a August conference in New Orleans to demand stopover privileges for the entire South. Only New Orleans currently enjoys the benefits, and organizers seek southern travel diversion and equal privileges for all southern states. The conference date will be announced soon.
An advertisement touts Hall’s Texas Wonder as a quick permanent relief for kidney bladder and rheumatic troubles. It claims nearly every bottle cures and urges readers to write for local testimonials from Dr E W Hall in St Louis Missouri with druggists selling the remedy.
An editorial urges Congress to form an army service corps to bring clerks, teamsters and artisans into a formal military structure. It argues current civilian status undermines discipline and readiness, cites pay and rights issues, and notes past mixed results elsewhere while advocating universal incorporation across supply, subsistence, and administration.
Editorial argues army service corps personnel including cooks bakers saddlers should be integrated with the army under army service corps officers. Proposes combining commissary and quartermaster duties, granting army privileges, pensions, and discipline to civilians to prevent waste and improve efficiency and morale.
Yorick Hamm laments a gloomy spring while Hamlet Fatt notes the sun may not always shine but asserts the spotlight cannot always be on him.
James Bennett, a Black convict, faces two additional assault to murder cases tied to an alleged attack on his wife on Live Oak Street and on her sons. District Attorney I Co Baker offered to drop those cases if he accepts a two year penitentiary sentence for the current conviction. If he refuses, the two cases will be tried.
Officials say two thirds of the onion crop has been moved to market and the movement’s end is in sight. The crop is on a fair average compared with last season, with reports from the Houston division noting movement from the potato belt and several hundred carloads likely to be shipped next month.
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