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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 15, 1907
Page
11
An old advertisement touts S. S. S. as a safe blood purifier made from roots herbs and barks. It claims to avoid mercury or potash and to be safe for children. The copy highlights benefits for rheumatism catarrh sores malaria scrofula skin diseases and other blood conditions and offers a free book on the blood from The Swift Specific Co Atlanta GA.
The San Antonio Day at the fair drew thousands, weather ideal and attractions strong. Mexican officials attended the morning auditorium ceremony honoring Mexico and San Antonio Day, with a later banquet hosted by the Fall Association directors.
Evening crowds packed the Grand opera house for Hilly Kernanda’s company and Korsandy’s minstrels with strong singing and dancing, while Allen Curtis and his company performed The Jolly Widow at the Empire. Sunday matinee featured The New York Girl and Taplinsky sketches, and Lig Pens theater hosted A Man of Mystery to a large audience.
J L Burnett Co 815 427 Most Com mores Street Manulactirera of all kinds of paper boxes runs one of the Souths largest manufacturing plants. Burnett president and manager has thirty years experience in box making. The firm serves Texas Louisiana and Mexia and also handles wrapping paper twine and related goods.
A varied program at the Big Tent theater features a tenested thriller with a Sherlock Holmes like detective averting a gang's robbery of a distracted old scientist. Also on the bill is The Girl from the Golden West with Sunday matinees announced and Zionist movement news mingling with Ads and local notices.
Two large locomotives including No 25 and No 620 will run from opposite track ends at the fair grounds next Sunday. The engines will reach full steam, collide, and crash creating a spectacular display that ends with wreckage. The event emphasizes the dangerous, dramatic spectacle associated with early railroading.
Thousands enjoyed a Vesuvius eruption enactment at the fairgrounds last night. The display, framed as a miniature Naples, depicted the 1906 eruption with flames and lava, followed by fireworks including presidential portraits and national flags.
The death of J H Houghton nephew of Judge Arthur W Singleton occurred on a Sunset Train while en route from Tucson to this city. He suffered lung trouble and had gone to Tucson for relief. doctors said hopeless and he left for San Antonio. Mrs Muette Mellandsworth died last night at 401 Copper Street after illness. she and her husband resided there for three months and she was aged older than forty. Her body was sent to Corinth, Mississippi for burial.
New York November 16 Chertos FH Drew former member of Prank Tainters Bergeant Urne company died at home from heart disease He was 44 years old born in Massillon Ohio Also a misspelled military recruitment notice appears in the text seeking unmarried men aged 27 to 28 for the United States Army with vague location references in San Antonio Texas and unclear contact details
Paris reports on negotiations by J Pierpont Morgan & Co with the Bank of France to raise 20 to 40 million dollars in gold for shipment to New York. The talks, underway since last week, were broken off yesterday amid sensational agency speculation that the United States government seeks gold for a war chest against Japan. One agency accuses the U S of fabricating a hoard to trigger a war treasury.
A garbled note reports Montgomery J. Conley being transferred to Bay City and Brownsville. It warns that whiskey may prevail if one does not act wisely and notes possible postal duties or remarks tied to the transfer.
Henry Schneider a well known waiter of San Antonio is now in charge of the Coffee Club Restaurant at 368 West Commerce Street where he will serve all his old friends and customers.
A conference was held between Beaumont attorneys Greer and Minor representing Security Oil company and the Texas attorney general on modifying a restraining order in the anti trust suit. They believe the company could resume business within days if the order is modified, with no action yet by the state.
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