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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 21, 1911
Page
6
A reader writes to the paper seeking space to vent feelings not necessarily reflecting the publishers stance. The letter opens with a note that anonymous communications are slowed and the editor’s policy on publication is stated.
A San Antonio correspondent laments that Electric Park refused admittance to a man in uniform. The writer condemns the policy as insulting to service members and urges protection of those who wear uniforms, arguing discrimination should be punished.
School vacation ends and the Texas Conservatory invites enrollments with a double inducement on violin mandolin or guitar at 210 Mackay Building calling old phone for details.
Charles Taft brother of the president sails from New York aboard the Lapland with Mrs. Taft and their daughter to attend the coronation in England. He predicts a Republican president next year and hints the winner may be his brother. In Evansville, Indiana, women urge action to suppress opium trade in China at a Cumberland Presbyterian assembly meeting.
A terse pitch asks readers to send their name to Mission Finishing Co at 701 while Gibbs' Blog features the prompt. The notice presents a simple contact request without further details or context.
Claude Hudspeth of El Paso pressed congressmen and war department officials in Washington to enlarge Fort Bliss. Major General Ainsworth supported the idea, while Congressman Garner argued for concentrating troops at larger posts near cities and abandoning smaller ones. Fort Bliss might become an outpost on the border, but enlargement is doubtful.
Statistics from the Commonwealth show about 1.5 million cows milked daily in Australia. New South Wales and Victoria together exceed a million cows in milk, Queensland holds a quarter million, with South Australia, Tasmania and Western Australia following. Roughly half a million dry cows bring the total dairy herd to two million, up from 1,327,418 in 1901, a gain of over 700,000 in ten years. Dudley K. Lansing visits Abi line and Kansas Univ summer school.
James Edward Freeman born 1866 in New York City rose from railroad clerk to priest under Bishop Potter. He led St. Andrew's in South Yonkers elevating a small mission to a thriving parish of 3000 by 1910 and oversaw the granite church opened in 1895 and enlarged in 1900. He directed Hollywood Inn club aiding working men, founded by William Cochran, with a 1000 member secular fellowship and a 6000-volume library. He served as rector in Yonkers, Minneapolis, and led diocesan missions before retiring from St. Andrew's rectorate in 1910.
In New York City on April 16, 1890, Jolla, daughter of William Vigelius, is noted with three children. Her brother, the Rev Henry R Freeman, serves as clergyman and is pastor of St Johns church in Troy New York.
This afternoon at 3 o clock the Women's Christian Temperance Union holds a mass meeting at Travis Park Methodist church to discuss means to prevent intemperance. Dr S J Porter of First Baptist will speak with others including Rev Gallagher Groseclose Neal Irons and several women leaders. Tomorrow at 4 o clock women meet in Harmony hall to plan the coming prohibition campaign directed by the Bexar County Statewide Prohibition group.
Paris May 20 A banker named Rivier vanished after a bold banco scheme that promised daily one percent returns. He lived frugally on eggs and tea in a bare room, was seen only by two clerks, and fled with funds about half a million dollars, with no trace of the suspect.
At a Saturday meeting in St. Marys hall the Catholic Central union re elected Cc H Bertrand as president and A Navarro as vice president. John Casey was named secretary for the eighth term and William Dobrowolski treasurer. Committee chairs were set for grounds O Hara speakers Boyle Navarro Biasielli on sports. Fair grounds favored for the event site.
A forest fire swept Temiskaming destroying the Northern Ontario Railway company hospital and a public school. Several surrounding towns battled the blaze as flames raged through the day with intense efforts to contain the blaze.
The San Antonio delegation to the Texas Retail Merchants convention sails tonight aboard I and G N for Wichita Falls to attend May 23 to 25 meetings. Led by W M Morgan Adolph Grasso and Nic Peters the group includes Ben Varga W F Gohlke August Muegge W J Illg H F Wesnig George Lake and August Briam with Austin merchants joining in at the capital. The program features talks on Credit Ratings and reports from State Secretary W J Edgecombe plus social events including a smoker banquet band concert and ball over the four day gathering.
A German magistrate won a divorce by alleging his wife reduced weight by about thirty pounds to fit a hobble skirt. He claimed the dieting harmed her health and spoiled her temper, ignoring his remonstrances, and the court accepted this as valid grounds for dissolution of the marriage.
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