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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 19, 1915
Page
12
A Houston street drugstore faced a Thursday safe robbery. Plainclothes officers recovered $19 000 within 99 minutes, after discovering $100 in cash missing from two bags in the safe. The missing money turned up later among basement debris, ending the mystery and restoring funds to the owner.
Development has started in San Antonio area with the S and S Oil Company formed by Dr P Strinfeld and Charles A Sacher of Chicago. Leases cover about 1060 acres near the Hampton Swain holdings with a large drilling rig capable of 4000 feet. The project aims to prospect and develop extensive gas production and possibly oil beneath the gas zone, with operations run day and night and offices opened in the Bedell building.
Towns along the San Antonio and Avanaas Pass railway plan to send representatives to a November 30 conference in San Antonio discussing the centennial 1918 fair. 105 stations receive circulars. counties Boerne Luling and Kenedy plan delegates as agents push for concrete action before November 28.
The report lists numerous visitors and their origins registered at local hotels. Names include El Wuilt of Ware Texas at the Guater, HG Abell of New York at the St Anthony, W. AL Chanmesth of Birmingham, and G Hamilton of Fort Worth among others. The Menger and Gunter hotels host guests from Chicago Philadelphia Boston and Dallas, with several entries incomplete or garbled.
The new headquarters at 200 West Commerce Street opened with an informal suffrage gathering Thursday afternoon from 2 to 6 o’clock. Mrs. James M. Young presided as visitors, including several named society members, entered to talk suffrage and view a made in San Antonio exhibit by the Manufacturers' Club. Souvenirs with women rates were handed out. In Corpus Christi, Adam Thompson of Fort Worth, central superintendent of the Texas Biluthic Company, arrived to inspect. his firm works on a large paving project there.
Mrs Odell of Lockport New York reports she was weak and tired and gained seven pounds after using VitaVinal. The ad claims VitaVinal, a blend of tonics and iron peptonates, builds strength and offers a money back guarantee in San Antonio with several local druggists listed as sellers.
The Medina Oil Company well in Alta Vista is producing about 260 barrels daily under pump, with initial plans showing higher rates earlier. Operators expect continued pumping near 200 barrels per day indefinitely as other wells in the San Antonio Oil Reclamation group bring the field under pump and new wells are prepared in the near future.
Greene, a noted journalist and author, departed Corpus Christi for his Chicago home after several weeks as a guest of publisher David H. Clarkson in Chicago and Gulf Coast firmer of position grass fame.
An archaic advertisement touts a savings scheme urging hundreds of men to enroll in Savings Certificates of 60 and 100 dollars sold on a weekly instalment plan. The copy warns of potential job loss and financial ruin if the plan ends suddenly, urging readers to investigate.
A Carnegie Library lecture by Professor Otto Ponpeil drew a large crowd as he argued modern civilization accelerates beyond ancient times and myths may be distorted retellings of historical fact. The free series continues December 2 with a talk by Prof. Frank L. Reed on music compared with literature.
Six months in the county jail was the penalty imposed by the County Criminal Court for tampering with an auto device. Wagner, a young white man, was convicted on the testimony of a police officer and others who testified they saw him operate the device. County Attorney Dan Lewis praised the conviction as a step to curb auto tampering. T Wilson, tried on careless operation, was fined 20 dollars and costs after a jury verdict. Wie Soi, tried earlier in corporation court, was fined 50 dollars and later found guilty on appeal, with a bank suit for 21 thousand dollars attached.
A damages suit targets the City of San Antonio and the Gas and Electric Company over injuries alleged from a crash on South Flores Street. The city contends the driver operated his vehicle negligently at the time of the incident.
The district supreme court dismissed a lawsuit by L. M. Johnston of Louisiana and others against the U.S. government seeking more than 68 million dollars they allege was owed to descendants of enslaved people for cotton-related wartime policy. The action was brought against Secretary McAdoo. The page also contains disjointed, non-sequitur text snippets and unrelated lines.
Pinol arrangements for the fourth MLC A members banquet at 7 PM next Wednesday, with James Whitmore of the Federal Council of Churches as guest and principal speaker. A turkey dinner, various musical numbers, readings by Virginia Beraud, and a gala program precede a group singing of America.
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