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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 25, 1914
Page
12
Advertises Q Ban hair darkening treatment claiming to restore original color and improve hair texture. Promises no stickiness or staining and includes overnight scalp application. Sold in 50 cent bottle by Summers Drug, San Antonio, Texas with mail order for out of town customers.
The Gulf Harrisburg and San Antonio railroad and fifteen other Texas lines asked in Corpus Christi that the trial with the Interstate Commerce Commission be moved to Houston for October 26. Judge Burns noted three federal judges are needed, unavailable this term. Plaintiffs seek an injunction against the commission’s order requiring a through bill of lading for cotton shipments via Port Aransas, Texas. The order currently forces all lines to publish and maintain the same rates and rules for cotton as for similar shipments to Galveston.
To Contractors. Bids are wanted on a brick bank building nine storehouses and remodeling for Capt. Charles Schreiner Kerrville Texas. Plans and specifications can be seen at our office. Bids opened at bank Kerrville at 3 p.m. Tuesday 26th May 1914 Alfred Giles Co architects.
Rev. Lewis R. Palmont temperance worker prepared to appear before the grand jury at Dame Illinois detailing his kidnaping on March 21. Detectives from the Ministerial Association and others, plus three from Detroit First Church of Christ, pursue the owner of a large red touring car alleged involved, and Palmont was found at a lonely Columbia Illinois farm.
Advertisement claims four ounces of ordinary liquid argon dissolves dandruff by applying at night. Says morning results remove most signs, with three or four more applications destroying all traces. Promotes líquid arvon as inexpensive, available at drug stores, to prevent hair damage and improve appearance.
San Antonio credit men join statewide effort to influence legislation. A Houston meeting drew delegates from El Paso Dallas Fort Worth and San Antonio with Jake Wolff and Henry Hirschberg to report at a Gunter hotel luncheon Wednesday. Additional talks covered bulk sales reform and rooting out fake fire insurance firms to protect creditors and legitimate companies.
The San Antonio Liederkranz Frohsinn and Beethoven Mannerchoir plan a luncheon and smoker at Beethoven Hall at 8 pm on Tuesday May 26 to celebrate San Antonio securing the 1916 state Saengerfest. A program of vocal and instrumental performances and a discussion of festival plans will occur with James Wahrenberger as chairman and several choir members assisting. A later, more extensive entertainment is planned after Beethoven Hall completes renovations.
John Gibson a 28 year old Indian national was fined $200 the maximum under law when arraigned in the police court Monday morning. Witnesses testified he had worked little since arriving from Oklahoma, his wife and children were destitute, and the family had received charity aid with a son’s recent death noted.
John N. English of Hunt County former tax collector and current auditor in the comptroller's department said he was considering running for state comptroller. He received a telegram signed by 22 Hunt County officials and deputies urging him to enter.
A motion to modify the Hillsboro union depot decree was filed in the Twenty-sixth District Court by Katy Railway Cotton Belt and Trinity and Brazos Valley Railway lawyers. If denied the case will be appealed to the Third Court of Civil Appeals. It is described as a loss of valuable assets.
Adele Elizabeth Menger 38 died at 4 10 Monday morning at her home at the corner of New Braunfels avenue and Elizabeth Place in Alamo Heights. She was a San Antonio native and survived by husband Rudolph and five sons Erich Eugene Alien Hubert and Karl, two brothers Charles A and George Dihl, and sister Lydia Menger. Funeral 3 30 Tuesday from residence with interment in Alamo Masonic cemetery. Rev Arthur Jones to officiate. Pallbearers listed. Also Riley 39 died at local sanitarium. Wife and one child survive. Funeral 2 30 Monday burial in City Cemetery No 3.
Local ad notes Shelley Loring Undertaking Co offering automobile equipment and two phone numbers. Also promotes gold dollars and a dressmaker service via Light want ad.
Directors and officers of the Progressive League of Southwest Texas will meet at the Nueces Hotel on Tuesday to outline the year’s activities. Officers include Albn Heywood of San Benito as president F Z Bishop of Bishop as vice president and J H Briggs of Alice as general secretary. Joe Hirsch of Corpus Christi serves as treasurer and directors include J G Bowyer San Benito H B Bishel Robstown and Jesse A Chase Beeville. Heywood will speak at the local Commercial Club Tuesday evening.
In San Patricio County District 1 the Taft Gregory Portland area voted 226 to 2 in a Saturday election to issue bonds totaling 50000 dollars for permanent highway improvements. The plan includes an approach to the causeway joining Nueces and San Patricio counties.
Tumlinson of Taft Bourland of Portland and Hodges of Gregory elected as commissioners Nueces county previously authorized bonds totaling 165000 for the causeway construction.
The twelfth annual Texas Optical Association convention began in Waco with President A F Thompson of Dallas presiding. Morning sessions covered routine matters as the resolutions committee named C B Pittman Ennis J H Hales Brownwood and W Chamberlain Houston. The event runs two days.
The piece argues suffrage will grant women rights and health as a birthright and urges women to rely on Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for relief from pains backache headaches irritability and nervousness to restore health.
Sunday law violations by keeping moving picture theaters open are set for trial in Justice Campbell's court, likely postponed to Thursday or Friday as lawyers handle related cases. Prosecution guidance from the Law Enforcement League remains cautious pending outcomes, with detectives ready to file complaints if convictions seem likely. A resident alligator found at the station, about twelve inches long, is being cared for by rescuers after being discovered near a coal pile and water basin during station cleanup.
Firefighters at Station No. 7 on South Alamo Street welcome a young alligator as their new mascot. The crew has treated the reptile as a friendly addition since it joined the station, with the men noting its presence boosts morale.
A fragmentary report notes an unidentified individual, described as Tor, moving into the city through a large sewer main and traversing the passages.
The Supreme Court today affirmed the Ennis Texas city ordinance invalidating the Waterworks Company franchise. The ruling preserves the city measure against the challenged grant.
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