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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 01, 1916
Page
2
About 80 boys and men attended the Y M C A Hallowe'en outing held Tuesday night in a Grove at Riverside Park. A secret camp location was revealed by friendly ghosts. Events included games, pie and cracker contests, and ghost stories.
The Boston Transcript praises San Antonio as a winter resort noting mild climate and golf advantages in a column titled In Sunny Santone. It includes a six month building activity review and credits George J. Roark of the Chamber of Commerce publicity division for data.
A customer complains the soles are thick. The shoemaker answers to wear the shoes more and the objection will gradually wear away as they break in.
A 1916 political ad cites tax certificates claiming Judge Davis and commissioners reduced railroad valuations by about half a million while boosting overall property value by nearly eleven million in Bexar County. The letter from Tax Collector J A Bitter and deputy F J Ball presents assessed values 1912–1916 and urges readers to verify figures.
WACO Tex Nov 1 T R Watson president of Farmers Merchants State Bank Teague pleads not guilty in Fifty fourth District Court to indictment for killing John Patterson state banking and insurance commissioner. Jury chosen. bank closed notice posted. McKinnon witness described shooting scene and bank condition insolvent since May. trial expected to continue.
Henry Harrison Fife of Vandalia Missouri, visiting Kansas City, was approached by a young man selling overalls as a walking tailor. After measurements, the overalls fit, and Fife paid 42 dollars and 50 cents before reporting the incident to police.
Daniel D. Moore of the New Orleans Times-Picayune hears a New York letter say Pittsburg’s dispatches note a traveler’s tale about New Orleans being a wide open town. The traveler jokes saloons are crowded and hard to reach the mahogany.
Texas appellate reports review a spate of cases including a manslaughter conviction in a San Antonio saloon, a jurisdictional dismissal of appeal, Kilpatrick remanded for testimony issues, delinquency dismissal for a minor, and multiple affirmations and reversals by the Fourth Court of Civil Appeals in Bee, Bexar, Dallas, and other counties.
The Texas Supreme Court met in Austin but announced no decisions or orders. It adjourned to meet next Friday and, while not yet ruling on the Gilmore injunction, is understood to be close to a decision on the Democratic executive committee’s authority to certify a nominee for railroad commissioner.
The court affirmed and reversed various cases from multiple counties including Am elina Clay Dallas Grayson Tarrant Wichita and others. Notices include appeals dismissed rehearing overruled and briefs submitted for state and both sides with cases set for submission November 15.
The Department of Agriculture notes prize yields for wheat oats and white potatoes with Washington Idaho Colorado and California figures. The best wheat yields reach 117 bushels per acre on 18 acres in Washington and 108 on 12 acres in Idaho while oats go to 184 in Washington and 166 in Colorado. The white potato high is 790 bushels per acre in California and 743 in Washington. averages span 17 to 96 bushels.
The Bowie school Mothers' Club and principal Miss Sarah King announced prize winners from a Friday flower show. Over 100 patients were displayed, with two age groups competing for first prizes of 50 cents.
As sea conditions worsened a torpedoed vessel remained unnamed. The American State Department may press further inquiries to establish the Marina’s status. Reports list six American drownings including Brown Thomas Middleton and Robertson among others.
Fifteen Americans from the Marina reached Cork under the American consul after the ship was torpedoed. Rob ert Preston testified two submarines were visible as the vessel sank after a list and a second explosion. Captain Browne died trying to launch a boat. three boats escaped while others were lost. Survivors endured a bitter sea and cold as they were rescued at dawn.
Fayetteville N C November 1 George F Sedberry aged 30 a well known proofreader on North Carolina newspapers died today in Fayetteville after an illness He was employed by several papers in the state and was respected for his punctuality and accuracy in copy editing
The British steamer Rowanmore traveling from Baltimore to Liverpool was sunk last week by a submarine. Affidavits from crew members, obtained by the American consul at Liverpool, state the ship tried to flee after the attack but the submarine kept shelling it even after the vessel halted.
The city lacked a chief executive Wednesday morning with Mayor Brown and Commissioner Lambert away on hunts. Brown left Tuesday for the Gallagher ranch with Chief Lancaster and others, while Lambert went to a spot near Wetmore with local nimrods. Brown planned to return Wednesday afternoon to sign October payroll vouchers approved Monday by the council.
British assault near Courcelette last night collapsed under German fire and efforts to advance from the Guede court line also failed. Russians tried five charges to retake positions on the Narayavka river in Galicia southeast of Lemberg but were repulsed with heavy losses. In Romania, Austro German troops penetrated near the Predeal road, capturing ten cannon and seventeen machine guns.
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