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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 26, 1911
Page
9
In Webster Groves, Bransford Clark’s yard party was disrupted by a mother owl attacking guests after a baby owl fell from a tree. Clark, his guests, and two neighbors fled under umbrellas as the birds pelted hats and hair. Marshal Knickman issued a permit for Mrs. Trant to shoot the owls.
A new inventor backed by large capital proposes to shoot walls into place with a rapid fire cement gun. Liquid cement is injected by compressed air through a long textile tube barrel, mixing cement and sand at the muzzle to form a fast built structure. The Cement Appliances company first joined the public effort.
The piece explains how Canadian asbestos lands may be acquired or occupied, notes major Canadian production, and traces processing steps from cobbing to spinning. It describes early mining gains, a 6000 investment yielding 24000 in a year, and the modern twist needed to produce a 100 yard thread weighing under an ounce.
Master William Henry Vanderbilt son of Mrs French Vanderbilt and Alfred G Vanderbilt has been voted the best boy driver in Newport. Thousands dying daily from kidney bladder and rheumatic trouble prompt Hall's Texas Wonder as a cure offered by Dr E W Hall St Louis with testimonials.
New York, May 26. Mrs. Pierre Noel, a wealthy society woman, awoke to find burglars had plundered her Franklin Place home. A broken clock and silken-wrapped silverware hint at two men, one short and dark, one tall and fair, who entered through an unlocked basement door. Despite rapid deductions, the items remain missing.
School vacation nears and the Texas Conservatory of Music invites enrollments with a double special inducement on violin mandolin or guitar. Investi gate at once 210 Mackay Building. Old phone.
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