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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 10, 1913
Page
3
The Waterworks Company assets are listed at 3 806 575 43 dollars as of January 1 1912. The Potter report shows the pipe in the ground and asks what price Mr Ryan would pay for this asset base described as a pile of old junk.
City council selects judges and clerks for the upcoming election with a three column ballot. Presiding judges are named for 49 precincts with several vacancies and contingency fill provisions.
Stella M Bowman reports her mother, bedridden nine weeks, regained ability to work after three bottles of Cardus the women’s tonic. Letter urges others to try Cardus for womanly troubles and lists benefits as strengthening and restorative. Chattanooga Medicine Co invites inquiries and offers a home treatment guide.
Sir Cecil Spring-Rice ambassador to the United States from Great Britain has joined the Washington Cricket Club in Rock Creek Park. He conveyed the intent by letter to Captain J. T. Rose. The ambassador, famed in England and India, may play as the season opens this afternoon and tomorrow.
Multiple new Texas businesses are chartered including United States Coffee and Tea Company of Dallas with 25000 capital. State Realty and Loan Company of Fort Worth at 10000. International Automobile School of San Antonio at 4000. Chambers County Agricultural Company of Mont Belvieu at 6000. Foster Hardware Company of Sherman County at 15000. People’s Gin Company of Burkburnett in Wichita County at 10000. Hillsboro Petroleum Oil and Gas Company of Hillsboro at 20000.
A Bismarck cafe beside the Grand Opera House advertises music sessions from 4 30 to 6 and 7 to 11 pm. It urges patrons to demand value and to try Piel bottled beer.
The 1911 mine accident report lists 3202 fatalities among 1 005 281 workers in US quarries coal mines and metal mines. Quarries saw 188 deaths of 110 954 employed. coal mines 2719 deaths of 178 248. metal mines 695 deaths of 165 979.
A family doctor notes many women seek help for female trouble but improve after kidney and bladder treatment. Foley Kidney Pills are promoted as the best and safest medicine for such times, with quick, tense action and swift results. Fischer Drug Co.
The St Marys College Alumni Association will elect officers at 8 15 tonight in a meeting at St Marys College with a smoker and luncheon. A. J. Castanea president calls the gathering and new rules from the executive committee will be proposed for approval. Invitations went to about 400 San Antonio members and many others are urged to attend. Rev Father Ei and faculty members are also invited.
Miss Alice Mills a kindergarten teacher and cousin of Richard C. Ellsworth publisher and part owner of the Brooklyn Times was found unconscious in the East River. She regained consciousness at a hospital the next morning and could not explain how she fell in the water.
Two bombs linked to militant suffragists were found at Lime Street Station in Liverpool and in a post office sorting room at a railway station. One device lighted but fizzled. the other in a box contained gunpowder and iron nuts with a ticking fuse. Police traced a parcel addressed to aReading official on vacation. Churches nationwide closed to protect visitors as attacks feared.
Vice President Marshall and several U S senators are hosted by Vincent Astor. The group, mostly Senate military affairs committee members, toured the Hudson aboard the yacht Naoma to West Point for the annual post inspection, then dined at Rhinebeck and planned a Albany visit to Governor Sulzer.
About 150 Central Christian Church Sunday school members left at 9 a.m. for their annual picnic in Sutherland Springs. They return on a special excursion train at 6 p.m. The event, led by Rev. Hugh McLellan and Ira D. Kercheville, marks the fourth annual outing with races games and dips at the white sulphur springs.
A boiler explosion beside Myron T. Herrick’s Paris residence killed one worker and hurt three others. The ambassador and family are in Rome for an international conference. the house fence caught fire but suffered little damage. The boiler powered a pile-driving engine for a new house.
The Supreme Court yesterday suspended arguments and adjourned until Monday. It will recess until May 26 and then likely resume on June 9.
The Democratic congressional committee agreed to postpone permanent organization to allow conferences on boosting Senate representation. Retiring leaders Lloyd and Page to serve temporarily, with Wilson and party figures to be consulted. A May 16 sub committee meeting was announced. no date set for full reorganization. The article ends with a local plug for a Best Yet Prize Contest at Pancoast-Morgan's, 306-8 East Houston Street.
After talks between police and juvenile court officials Portland will inaugurate a boy police force the coming Wednesday. Aged 12 to 18 will serve as officers with designated wards and badges reading Portland Juvenile Police. They will report offenders to supervisors who will trigger regular officers for arrests.
Dedication of a monument to Carl Schurz in New York features remarks from the president by letter and eulogies from prominent men, with Civil and military attendees. The statue overlooks Morningside Park near Columbia University, depicting Schurz activities for Indians, African Americans, and human progress. Lookout for Riverside Restaurant chicken meals tonight and tomorrow.
John J Black aged 69 a US government employee at Fort Sam Houston for 48 years died at his home in San Antonio. He was born in Sydney Australia served as saddler and harnessmaker in Civil War then moved with the army to Fort Sam Houston. Survived by four daughters and two sons, funeral at St Marys Catholic Church with burial in St Marys cemetery.
The Rev. Henry Allen Tupper of New York City travels through San Antonio en route to Mexico as a peace envoy for the International Peace Forum. This marks his third Mexico visit in a year to foster peace and prosperity. The Forum promotes global welfare with notable American and European members and branches in China and Japan.
May 10 proceedings list applications granted in multiple cases including Phil Gresham vs Kirby Lumber Co Jefferson and Lamb vs R Hardy Wheeler. refusals for Lehmann vs Motack Fayette and others. rehearing granted for Gresham. motions for rehearing denied in several dockets. causes submitted include State of Texas vs Texas Brewing Company and mandamus petition for F. M. Smith et al vs J. L. Wortham.
The Texas Company says it will immediately rebuild its large oil containing plant that was destroyed by fires at Amesville Louisiana. The company estimates losses at fifty thousand to sixty thousand dollars.
In Canton Massachusetts doctors report an outbreak of tonsillitis that has resulted in nine deaths. Local physicians are baffled by the unusual severity and rapid spread of the illness across the community.
Within the last two weeks four hundred of the 3000 inhabitants are ill and business is nearly suspended. The state board of health investigated and denied that milk carried the germs or caused the disease.
An Auburn New York man named J A Farmer reports a permanent cure after using Foley Kidney Pills for kidney and bladder trouble. The ad promotes Old Time Breakfast Sausage in 0 pound boxes and urges buying from local butchers or grocers at 25 cents per pound via Union Meat Company. Fischer Drug is mentioned.
Nelson H. Loomis general solicitor for the Union Pacific Railroad travels to New York to discuss details of dissolving the Union Pacific Southern Pacific merger with Attorney General McReynolds. The segregation plan is being prepared for submission to the United States Circuit Court.
A dated note from A. D. Powers argues against rapid foreclosure profits in Harbor City and promotes patient property purchases with slower, steady development. The piece compares Harbor City to Rome and highlights a $100 lot financed at $10 per month as a safer path to rising valuations.
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