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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 07, 1908
Page
8
A curious anecdote unfolds in San Antonio as the narrator recalls a warm afternoon at Trenter's barber shop on Main Plaza with a talkative barber and a reminiscence of a swimming lesson by an eccentric wit. The tale shifts to a Houston Street shop where a man buys Havana cigars and considers a remark about substance over wrapping.
Mayor Bryan Callaghan of Ban Attonis Texas issues notice that the board of equalization will meet in the city assessor office room 83 to review all assessments for the fiscal year ending May 31 1908. Sessions run daily 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. excluding Sundays and holidays, with completion within 69 days. City council and assessment committees will not entertain further assessments after board adjourns.
Notice from city clerk attests recruitment details inviting able unmarried men aged 18 to 45 who are U S citizens of good character and temperate habits to apply. Applicants must be able to speak read and write English. Inquiries to the Recruiting Officer Moore Building Ava Dead Horse Street San Antonio Tax
Kenedy Texas grows into a thriving cotton and agricultural market. The town sits on the San Antonio and Aransas Pass railway, drawing traders from Karnes and adjacent counties. Local merchants promote cash markets, with grain hay fruits and livestock sales expanding, and factories like Alamo Lumber Co and Kenedy Compress boosting prosperity.
Offer purports a home treatment for piles using an absorption method. Claims relief and permanent cure with free trial samples. Invitation asks readers to write for more details at a Notre Dame post office address.
Special to The Light Sherman Texas November body of citizens signs contracts urging the government to establish an experimental station in the city and provide a demonstrator budget for the project.
Frederick Murphey of Cincinnati, noted for Real nom paten success and early on the ground in Texas, invites Taft to come down and bring his brand of leadership to San Antonio. He sent the invitation last Thursday as he presses for campaign support.
Judge T M Paschal will present at the International Club meeting a report on Mexican trade conditions with focus on freight rates. He has been completing the study after extensive correspondence with Mexican officials and rail traffic managers serving the neighboring republic.
The November number of Mexico Today, a National Lines of Mexico publication, was received by Menest Misenzen berger, general agent in this city. The issue features new Mexico scenes and articles on the country, with the magazine published in San Antonio focusing on its central topics.
Special to The Light Sherman, Tax Nov. 7 report a safe blown with nitroglycerine early morning at W. P. Lucas store. Robbers secured over 100 dollars including postoffice funds and caused 500 dollars in building damage. W. P. Waldrep, a Ponrales merchant, and his wife are staying at the Alamo hotel.
H M Moore, who has served seven years in the freight claim department of the San Antonio and Aransas Pass, is appointed freight claim agent for Southern Pacific lines at New Orleans, effective November 16. Moore, 29, began as an office boy in 1890 and rose through Katy and other lines before joining Sap in 1901 and leading the Sap claim office since 1903. His successor at Sap will be named in a few days. Moore will stay in San Antonio through next week and depart for New Orleans next Saturday.
The remains of Harold Le Greenwood arrive tonight with funeral set for tomorrow afternoon from 902 South Flores Street. Survived by his widow formerly Miss Blogsom Reynolds of this city, married June 24, Brownwood relatives will attend. He was a cotton buyer for HT Williams & Co of Fort Worth and a member of the Wilke at Brownsville. Also listed is Mrs Gusting Cook, 409 North Frio Street, a railroad man’s widow. The funeral for Mrs Gusting Cook will be held tomorrow at 4 o'clock.
A bizarre parcel dropped into a city mail box contained a bunch of quills that began to squall when opened. Postal workers halted the bag, removed the package to a step, and by morning the quail remains were gone, likely eaten by a dog.
District Attorney Baker completed criminal settings for the first week starting November 24 with 12 cases. Indictments include forgery theft burglary assault to murder and other charges. Grand jury will be impaneled next Monday by Judge Dwyer and excused to a later date.
W A Nix of this city sues General Accident Insurance Company of Philadelphia in the Seventh district court for 620.29 after claiming a policy promised 40 dollars monthly for accidental injury and 40 dollars monthly for seven months if a passenger on a street car was injured in a December 26, 1907 wreck in a big city.
Avista Tlements describes Al G Field a charming, well connected theatrical man and farm owner. Al HF Metz Wilson brings When New York Was Dutch to the Grand with Dutch dialect humor and elaborate stage settings. The Devil plays in San Antonio draw large crowds despite mixed reviews and extra matinees.
Washington November 7 Representative Payne of New York, chair of the Ways and Means Committee, conferred with President Roosevelt on tariff policy. Payne declared tariff revision will not start in the coming session of Congress, but an extra session will be called perhaps to begin March, with passage possible by mid year.
A Washington critic questions a play’s reception in the South comparing it to New York’s nightlife. The piece notes regional sensitivities may cause managers to alter content to suit audiences, while warning that the Empire production may lack a clear moral for all viewers.
The Big Tent Theater stages a final performance of The Slaves of 1908 tonight. Tomorrow offers a matinee and evening of the four act verse drama He Son's Inheritance at the same venue.
William Cornish of New York, second vice president of the Union Pactite Railroad and director in several firms, was found dead at the Auditorium Annex in Chicago. Death likely due to heart disease. Plus ad copy for paper bags and wrapping materials from RL LUDNETT CO.
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