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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 02, 1913
Page
10
A lecture contrasts being good with doing good. It argues goodness alone is insufficient without active service. The speaker urges constant struggle in helping others, defining true goodness as sacrifice and action in the battle of life rather than self centered virtue.
Drunkenness is described as a curable disease with ORRINE treatment that can be used at home without sanatorium costs and without taking time off work. It promises secrecy and a money back guarantee if no benefit is seen. two forms are offered at $1 per box.
Dupree barber Archie G Hughes, while shaving a customer, was approached by a stranger who claimed to be his father. The man revealed their kinship after Hughes denied recognition, recounting that he ran away from Textola Oklahoma about 15 or 16 years ago.
The Southwest District Baptist Woman’s meeting re elected Mrs. E. M. Nichols as president and filled other offices. The gathering included devotions, addresses on city missions and Texas progress, plus a tour to the new Southwest Baptist hospital site. A new insurance reciprocal, the Western Reciprocal Insurance Association of Waco, received state authorization to operate in Texas.
At a meeting of the state banking board on November 1 the Farmers' and Merchants' State Bank of Burleson was granted a certificate of authority to do business in Texas. Located in Johnson county the bank has capital stock of 10000 dollars with J. F. Dunn as president and M. B. Chrisenhall as cashier.
Thomas Mott Osborne, who served a self inflicted term to study prisons, announced he would sail for Europe in two weeks to compare European penal institutions with American prison conditions.
German farmer George Pretz rose from poverty by buying two Percheron mares for 75 and 55 dollars and breeding a line that produced 7000 dollars in colt sales. From 26 acres of debt to 5600 acres of land, he funded expansion with horse labor and cost sales, now worth over 100 dollars per acre. The article also notes century old bronze thimbles with needle indentations.
A well known physician described a home recipe to stop hair loss and promote growth. The mixture uses Barbo Compound, bay rum, and glycerine mixed in seven ounces of water and applied to the scalp two to three times weekly. He claims it tones the scalp, darkens gray hair, and leaves hair soft and glossy.
The San Antonio health department closed the open air chile stands last week, ending a half century of colorful plazas and Chile Queens. Amid sanitation reforms and rising costs, the last of these quaint vendors disappear as indoor serve and higher standards take their place.
All Saints Day falls on a Saturday this year making All Souls Day Sunday. Catholic churches postpone services to Monday as a “black” Mass cannot be held on Sunday. St Mary’s lists masses at 5:30, 6, 7 am children’s 8:15 am and solemn high mass at 9 am with no obligation.
The eighth International Dry Farming Congress and Soils Products exposition ended in Tulsa with 50,000 attendees despite two snow storms and bad weather. Officials called the event a big success as the exposition closed.
A five dollar wage civil suit in Kane County Aurora heard by a female jury finds waitress Gertrude Alderman won against restaurant proprietor Harry Curzon. The jury ruled tips do not constitute wages and the plaintiff’s work for tips alone does not count as grafting.
Chicago based educator A. E. Munier, famed as the popcorn professor, resigned from Lake Forest College last August to run a popcorn and peanut wagon. He also lost his fiancée and social standing, though he plans a confectionery store in Wilmette to supply the North Shore with a new popcorn treat. He seeks cooperation from his lost social circle to offset his losses. The piece notes attention to kenafene cultivation in eastern Salvador with export potential, citing 1912 exports of 68 tons to the United States versus six tons the prior year.
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