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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 18, 1911
Page
3
Confederate veterans from many states joined in their twenty first annual parade in Little Rock, with bands, banners, and a Confederate ball to follow. Many visitors left after the parade, while others stayed due to crowded trains or the auditorium event, and the famed rebel yell faded into a muted war cry reflecting a closing era.
The item stresses kidney disease risk and urges use of Doan's Kidney Pills saying they helped Mrs. B. Swain of San Antonio. It cites repeated family benefits since 1908 and notes price and availability through Foster Milburn Co. Buffalo as US agents. Remember the name Dean's.
The 1911 reunion of Confederate veterans closes with a mood of unity as parade and convention conclude. General George W. Gordon is re elected commander in chief and Macon Georgia is set to host the 1912 gathering after several cities vied for the event. Adjutant General Mickle announced Taft's telegram in a formal note from the convention committee.
Justice Whelan continues probe into the Robstown blaze that killed three Southwestern Telephone linemen. Arthur Coleman owner of the City hotel says he awoke to fire at 3 AM and escaped, losing valuables including a gold watch, cash, a deed, and other personal effects. the house and new occupants were insured.
President Taft sent the tariff board’s full report on the pulp and newsprint industry to the Senate. The study finds Canadian newsprint costs per ton at 27.53 dollars versus 32.88 dollars in the United States. Current tariff duty is 3.75 dollars per ton. The report includes extensive tables and comparisons and is described as the most complete of its kind.
A blaze in Scotts Michigan, 12 miles from Kalamazoo, damaged a store the only hotel and two other businesses. The Grand Trunk depot burned as Battle Creek firefighters arrived. Damage is estimated at about 75000 dollars.
In Jacksonville on May 18 1200 delegates opened the Southern Baptists convention with Dr E C Dargan elected president over Joshua Levering. Texas will press to host next meeting with Fort Worth or Dallas likely as the assembly uses a pulpit gavel from Augusta first church.
The Starr Heights Improvement club met at 619 Starr street and re elected Joseph Schofield as president N Sadovsky as vice president W W Herring as secretary and William Zizelmann as treasurer A special meeting is set for Sunday at 2 pm at Mr Sadovskys office to discuss opening Starr street to Houston street and plans for a cooperative market house sidewalks and street improvements.
Dave Hunter known as Black Shirt, a Black man, was sentenced to six months in the Bexar County jail by a Thirty-seventh District Court jury for aggravated assault and battery. He was initially charged with assault with intent to murder Sallie Lee on the night of April 21.
An Evansville resident writes that after five months of pulmonary trouble and hemorrhages Vinci saved his life. He urges locals with chronic colds and coughs to try Vinci at A. M. Fischer Drug Store in San Antonio Texas with a money back guarantee if it fails to reach the seat of trouble or halt the cough.
Washington May 18 Two Metropolitan club board members and the secretary quit after President Taft denounced small headed men who blackball prominent candidates. Generals Edwards and Potts and Lt. Col. McCawley left the board or as secretary while Associate Justice Hughes faced threats of blackballing for opposing New York race tracks.
Albert H. Walker told New York listeners that Chief Justice White’s remark about unreasonableness in the Standard Oil decision is an obiter dictum. He argued the court’s actual ruling came in the Trans Missouri case, not from the White opinion.
Police seek a second thief after a man steals a bag containing $100 from a widow kneeling in prayer at St Patrick's cathedral. The money was saved for funeral expenses for her only child, and the incident occurred in New York on May 18.
One small bottle of Hall's Texas Wonder cures kidney and bladder troubles gravel diabetes neuralgia rheumatism weak and lame backs in all ages. Write to Dr. BE Hall 2926 Olive Street St. Louis for testimonials sold by druggists.
Paris May 18 The Journal publishes Dr Jacques Bertillon chief statistician of Paris warning that 1910 France saw record low births at 774 358 while marriages reached 309 289 and deaths 703 777 The excess births over deaths was only 70 581 far below Germany’s 884 061 Bertillon argues no physiological or economic reason justifies France resigning itself to a shrinking population.
Theodore Priour, an electrician, slipped from scaffolding above the Lyric theater second floor and broke his foot. He was taken to Spahn sanitarium, later moved home on Antelope Street. Surgeons fear the foot may have to be amputated due to broken bones.
John Kane a Black tailor wounded four people and killed two on a Ninth Avenue elevated train and in the street before being shot in the lung by a bicycle officer. Victims include Saxson Surrell and Gustave Linblem with fatal injuries. Chauncey Graff and John Hall among the wounded. Eight year old Mary Donohue was shot in the knee.
Announcement today reports the sale of 32 000 acres of farm lands in Bolivar and Washington counties Mississippi for 3 200 000 dollars in cash. British capitalists members of the Fine Cotton Spinners and Doublers association of Manchester England will finance the two companies formed to take over the properties.
John Wiggins a black hack driver was shot while seated on his carriage near the Austin and Fourth streets corner in Waco Texas. One bullet pierced his heart and killed him almost instantly. A. M. Clark a white man fired claiming the negro insulted his wife. Clark's bond was set at 1500 for a preliminary hearing this afternoon.
Hicks Capudine presents a liquid headache remedy that targets causes from heat to nervousness. It promises fast relief for colds and grippe with feverishness and nervousness fading. Available in 10, 25, and 50 cent sizes at drug stores.
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