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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 25, 1911
Page
10
A medical note explains that dyspepsia arises from a strenuous business life and hasty meals. Concentration on work disrupts digestion and assimilation, hindering the body’s ability to replenish nervous energy and tissue.
B F Moore is booked on nine forgery charges after a weeks long city chase. Affidavits allege forged instruments totaling checks from 3 50 to 7 50 drawn on City National Bank San Antonio and State Bank and Trust. Endorsers include J T Powell J M White Ike Roseman and others. Moore's home is listed as Indianapolis.
B 8 Dickinson of Austin, president of the Southwest Texas Baseball league, spent several hours in the city yesterday then departed for the coast to inspect clubs contending for pennant honors. He reported strong attendance, good harmony among clubs, and general prosperity in Southwest Texas play.
Mike Goggan denounces the board for not inviting more bids on the school fund depository while two bids were under consideration. The San Antonio National Bank was chosen though Goggan and Bliss protested, urging advertised competition to save money for taxpayers.
A. K. Ragsdale traveling passenger agent and Dr. J. E. Harrison returned from Corpus Christi where preparations were completed to open the assembly grounds and hotel to the public on June 1. B. H. Farrell will manage the hostelry. A tented city will rise on the beach with plans to handle large August encampment crowds.
F M Swearingen manager of the St Anthony hotel will depart for the east tonight with his wife and Mrs Byron Swearingen. He expects to be away about two months and will attend the national convention of hotel men in Boston beginning June 7.
Detroit was selected as the 1913 meeting place for the thirty third grand division of the Order of Railway Conductors. The conductors adjourned in Jacksonville after a fourteen day meeting.
Chicago detectives late last night began a citywide sweep of Chinese laundries after information that Leon Ling, the alleged murderer of Elsie Siegel in New York two years ago, was hiding in Chicago. Investigators checked Ling's reported West North avenue laundry with a Chinese interpreter, but no match was found, and more laundries are to be searched.
New York supreme court rules a mother cannot dispose of a child by will and awards custody to Leopold Meyer. The decision states a father's right to possession is equal to the mother's and becomes absolute on her death, overriding the child's welfare with grandparents.
Montezuma Ga May 25 Yesterday morning Mrs L Chastain recovered a half carat diamond she lost three weeks ago from a ring while feeding her chickens. After vain searches she suspected a bird and autopsies on a dozen chickens failed until the jewel was found in the gizzard of a dead fowl.
J C Kinney sold 31 foot frontage on Main avenue and 135 feet deep to J C Jinkins of Georgetown for 12500 or 400 per front foot. Property includes two potential one story warehouses facing Main and North Flores. A year earlier Kinney bought it for 9300, a record price for the block. Texas Conservatory ad promotes music lessons with double violin mandolin guitar inducement.
Henry Bacon former Globe Printing president in Louisville refused to answer questions about checks totaling about $3000 drawn to A. Rose from the railroad’s purchasing office. He acknowledged past printing for Louisville and Nashville railroad and declined to discuss an alleged profit sharing agreement, claiming potential self incrimination.
Not only pleasant to taste but cleansing to the system Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna is advised for ladies and children as a wholesome strengthening laxative. Safe at all times it helps with colds headaches and indigestion. Beware imitations and buy only from the California Fig Syrup Co front label. 50 cents per bottle.
Twenty public school girls who danced a highland fling for Andrew Carnegie will get a day trip up the Hudson at theIronmasters expense in the near future. A $100 bee from Mr Carnegie is held by the principal to be used as a treat for the girls who entertained him.
Plans for proposed joint maneuvers to be held in San Diego about the middle of July are engaging Brigadier General Bliss, Admiral Thomas, and other commanding officers of the army, navy and marine corps in preparatory talks.
The provisional brigade under General Bliss and two coast artillery companies at Fort Rosecrans form the defensive force to repel a landing party of sailors and Marines from the Pacific fleet. The torpedo fleet under Lieutenant Commander Richardson will assist in the fort's defense.
Munson Brothers sell the Denison Bonham and Northwestern line from Bonham Junction to Bonham to the Missouri Kansas and Texas railroad. The line has been operated by the MK&T since its construction, and Katy buys the railroad in Denison Texas.
A suit filed in the forty-fifth district court by J. K. Lamm and others against J. P. Nelson and others opens a new phase in Eureka Gold Mining company litigation. Plaintiffs seek a writ of injunction to bar defendants from acting as officers and curb pursuit of a pending suit, with a manda mus demanding withdrawal by May 27 and the surrender of books and documents for examination. They allege stockholders are owed a 4 percent net balance of 75 000 dollars and seek payment to the company or the court.
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