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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 19, 1912
Page
7
An advertiser urges older adults to take Cascarets to keep bowels active, arguing aging weakens muscles and elimination. The ad touts Cascarets as a gentle natural tonic that works while you sleep and costs 10 cents per box at the drug store.
City plan committee led by Savage reports Kessler, famed Kansas City planner, busy with duties in San Antonio and unsure if he can accept the Kansas City commission. The group plans to meet next at the Chamber of Commerce auditorium to discuss a landscape designer nomination.
In Havana a plot by anarchists to assassinate Spanish Premier Canalejas during Cortes sessions is reported. Leonardo Pardinas drew the design but resisted, choosing to surrender. others followed, leading to the premier’s assassination by self-inflicted death to avoid capture.
The ad cites a five year history of intense itching and sleepless nights ending after using Cuticura Soap and Ointment. The testimonial from Wilton, Va describes relief after trying various remedies and applying a 50 cent Cuticura Ointment and Soap. Free samples offered and world-wide sale noted.
District judges from Bexar County at the Texas state meeting in Austin on December 12 plan to push measures to speed up court procedures and cut taxpayer costs. Judge Claude V. Birkhead proposes abolishing the general denial in favor of specific denials, reducing irrelevant testimony and delays.
W. E. Fitch, district passenger agent for the International & Great Northern, says lines under his supervision show satisfactory conditions. He forecasts the heaviest tourist business yet for the southwest and notes a new through sleeper between Chicago and San Antonio with Chicago connection at St. Louis. The service saves about five hours compared to rival routes and begins two weeks ago, with a 2 p.m. departure and 7 a.m. arrival in Chicago.
A reader question hints at reasons to use home insurers and notes a prize contest advertisement in Wednesday's Light aimed at high school or academy students.
A community dinner is planned at Riverside Restaurant tonight featuring a large chicken supper. Proceeds support local charity drives and volunteers encourage attendance by families and residents.
Rebels attacked a passenger train near Parres on the edge of the Federal District. passengers were robbed and equipment burned. A federal troop train arrived from the south, the Zapatistas retreated, fifteen rebels were killed while only a few federal soldiers were wounded. The report mentions other corporate incorporations and permit notices but their relevance is not explained.
Charters issued in Austin on November 19 for Ala-Cola company of Houston with 60000 capital stock, incorporators J N Kincaid F H Scott O O Ballard J P Devine. Record Publishing company of Palestine with 6000 stock, incorporators J W Ozment A M Cohen Leo Davidson. Rucker Oil company of Houston with 500 stock, incorporators B L Vineyard W H Telschow C T Rucker. Anatomical Society of El Paso with no capital stock, incorporators E B Rogers H H Stark and W L Brown. City Drug Store of Cross Plains Callahan county with capital stock listed.
A 1920s style beauty column offers home remedies for clear skin and long lashes. It recommends a mayatone and witch hazel solution, pyroxin for lash and brow growth, Mothers Salve for cold and catarrh, and a dry shampoo using orms root. It also notes delatone as a hair remover with simple application steps.
Carmi Thompson, secretary to President Taft, is to be appointed treasurer of the United States within days to replace Lee McClung who resigned last week. It was expected Thompson would take the oath today, but Charles D. Hilles will soon resume duties as secretary to President Taft after a brief vacation.
J M Henderson of Daingerfield announces candidacy for United States district attorney for the eastern district of Texas. He is an attorney who led Wilson forces in Morris County during the primary campaign and served as a delegate to the Houston convention.
The United States battleships Kansas Michigan Minnesota and South Carolina arrived off Palm Beach last night on a visit to southern ports. They then proceeded to Key West and Pensacola and will go to New Orleans.
New York November 19. Joseph Pulitzer late owner of the New York World left a gross estate taxable in New York state of 18 200 000 dollars. E Halsey Malone representing the estate will publish public copies of the appraisal under state inheritance tax laws on Wednesday.
Houston November 19 governor Colquitt is among expected participants at Freeport opening. Special trains will run from Houston to handle crowds as Eastern capitalists develop the site at the Brazos river mouth.
The Southwestern Ice Manufacturers association representing factories in Texas Oklahoma Arkansas and Louisiana opens a three day session in Houston with focus on trade problems and industry issues.
The United States won top honors in the opening international contest at Madison Square Garden. Chiswell ridden by Capt. Guy V. Henry earned the Plaza cap of $200, with Harmony receiving $75 for Col. P. A. Kenna of England and Experiment $35 for Capt. J. R. Lindsey. All mounts were heavy broken chargers carrying 210 pounds.
An ad promotes a home cough syrup using Pinex and granulated sugar to treat coughs, sore lungs, and throat troubles. It claims rapid relief, appetite boost, and mild laxative effect, with a money back guarantee and availability through pharmacists or The Pinex Co. in Fort Wayne Indiana.
Train No 1 left San Antonio for Carrizo Springs at 9 00 am for a 158 mile run and Train No 2 departed Carrizo Springs for San Antonio at 6 30 am with an 3 54 pm arrival predicted though delays possible while track is ballasted. Passengers eat at Charlotte as provisions are arranged by J F Edwards. William Cassin paid his $100 000 chamber subscription early in confidence the road will finish to Campbellton. A special train will run Friday for San Antonians to the Jourdanton jubilee with a special rate.
The Journal of Commerce and Commercial Bulletin challenge postal act sections requiring circulation records access stockholder and bondholder names and labeling paid political articles as ads. They argue these provisions violate constitutional liberty of about 25,000 U S newspapers magazines and periodicals. The case is set for argument December 2 before the U S Supreme Court.
The text asserts that government holds a right to regulate business, limited only by concerns for public morals or public welfare. It frames regulatory power as subject to these constitutional safeguards and aims to balance control with societal interests.
In Charleston West Virginia on November 19 the plan to call four more National Guard companies was reduced to one company. About a hundred armed men head toward Paint Creek Junction with intent to shoot at Montgomery military HQ but not attack. The aim is to attend the first court session for J. H. Raines a strike leader arrested days ago. Jubilee attendance at Jourdanton November 20 to 23 offered with excursion rates.
125 interior millers from Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, and Texas formed the Southwestern Millers' League in Kansas City to appeal to railroads for changes in wheat shipment rates. They complain a 1950s Interstate Commerce Commission ruling blocks re shipping to interior mills and favors terminal point operators at St. Louis Minneapolis and Ohio River points.
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