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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 07, 1911
Page
16
At a San Antonio high school, 200 students descend to a basement dining area where two model rooms offer warm lunches for ten cents or less. Mrs. Cartmill oversees a rotating menu with regular hot dishes and short orders like coffee, milk, and hamburgers.
A starving Tlaxcala Indian from Mexico, Jesus Jose de la Mora, 25, astonishes Col. Chapa in San Antonio with a tenor voice he claims could rival Enrico Caruso. De la Mora, who walked from Mexico City to seek music training, plans another voyage to Italy after a stop in Galveston as he pursues fame.
Terrell is poised to become Texas’s first town to receive state aid under the rural high school act. Superintendent Marrs discusses the June effective appropriation for domestic science, with aid allotted to independent districts on a fixed scale. Damrosch coupons may be exchanged for reserved seats starting Monday the fifteenth at 9 o'clock. THOS. GOGGAN MUSIC STORE.
In Dalhart Texas Judge D B Hill approves Receiver Hendricks's plan to sell Enid Ochiltree Western railroad assets to satisfy creditors Panhandle Construction Southern Iron and Equipment Railway Audit and Inspection and F R Dennis lead the principal claims Hendricks aims to find buyers able to complete the line meant to run from Dalhart eastward to Enid Oklahoma linking with major systems. The road has graded sections and some track in Texas and Oklahoma with 1200 deemed too low a value amid rising attendance and growing interest in the A and M college surroundings.
College Station report says Secretary A. B. Wilcox of the A and M College of Texas expects about 1500 students for the next session based on inquiries, contrasting the general estimate of about 1200 from college officers.
A Monday only deal offers six two dollar shirts made by Johnson shirt maker for individual orders at nine dollars total. The shirts are available at 216 East Commerce Street.
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