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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 05, 1911
Page
7
Women suffering from any form of illness are invited to communicate with Mrs Pinkham at Lynn. Letters are read and answered by women and confidential. Her experience spans thousands of cases and aims to help each reader. Address Lydia E Pinkham Medicine Co Lynn Mass. A free 800 page Text Book is available by mail.
San Francisco police received word from Oakland that a major jewel robbery occurred in New Zealand weeks earlier. William and Marie Rogers, arrested in Sydney for bringing stolen jewels, will be held pending receipt of descriptions of the New Zealand robbers.
J Nicholson Elbert of San Francisco files in New Jersey Chancery Court to expose a 1874 scheme by promoters to fake capital for the Central Fire Insurance Company of Pennsylvania. The plan involved turning stock certificates into blocks of 100 to 500 shares to obscure ownership ahead of alleged fraud charges.
In Boston, John H. Weiner faces trial for inflicting unnecessary pain on a large green turtle shown in a store window last summer. Harvard Professor Yerkes testifies as expert, noting the turtle could live two weeks on its back but would suffer, citing its flippers legs and bluish eyes.
Seven days after agitation began activists reportedly urged forming a mob to imitate the Boston Tea Party and throw Canadian coal into the sea. The coal is owned by the Alaska Steamship Company which buys it from British Columbia mines and supplies fuel for ships between Seattle and Alaska.
Seguin Texas May 5 The German Methodist Bible conference opens May 8 at the German Methodist church Seguin with over forty preachers and delegates. Bishop John Nuelson presides. Bible study is scheduled during daily sessions with sermons from noted German Texas preachers and a large choir. A banquet Thursday and a lecture Friday night precede the May 14 closing.
Jamestown, May 5. Arthur Wheelhouse, 32, a Jamestown police officer, shot himself after a dispute with his wife Mrs. Arthur Wheelhouse over the back to nature movement. A note in his pocket blamed her for his life weariness and desire to join a farm plan he rejected.
Jesse Cox, a former Florida farmer, hired a swarm that had set up on an electric light pole in a central Atlanta corner. He climbed with a ladder and box, capturing the bees by hand as an approving crowd watched. Cox carried the box down the street with newsies following.
In Boston on May 5 the trial of Rev. Norman Plass former president of Redeemable Investment Co. is set for May 31 in U.S. District Court on charges of using the mails to defraud. The firm was closed by post office officials in October. Plass, then in British Columbia, returned voluntarily and pleaded not guilty. He had prior business ties in Providence and chaired a college in Kansas.
A Rock Island strike threatens about 2000 boilermakers apprentices and helpers in the east warned by Chicago contacts. A vote showed 89 percent favor walking out on May 8 if wage demands for the grievance committee chair are not met.
Bloom and his wife with two young children were arrested in Savannah at the Columbus Ga request while attempting to flee to Boston NH. Bloom admitted he was escaping creditors but said his debts totaled about $200. Mrs Bloom and the children were held by police pending advice from Columbus authorities.
Dialogue vignette features a quarrel over a woman and baseball sightlines. A boastful remark about a local beauty clashes with a complaint that she obstructs the speaker’s view of second base, reflecting small town humor and social friction.
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