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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 22, 1916
Page
2
An advertisement claims Vitalitas offers remarkable health benefits across many ills by detoxifying the body. It asserts three quarters of illnesses stem from self poisoning and promises relief where other medicines fail, selling the product through druggists.
Mr and Mrs W H White of 115 Washington Street and their young daughter suffered minor injuries when their car toppled after 2 am Wednesday at Alamo plaza and East Houston. Wet pavement was blamed as the cause.captured by the curb and flipped onto its side. They were driven home by Police Captain Brown.
Edmund Thornton Miller of the University of Texas has published A Financial History of Texas after six years of archival research. The work chronicles Texas financial history from the Spanish Mexican period to the present, interweaving political events with fiscal detail and noting gaps in official reports.
In Austin on November 22 the Court of Criminal Appeals reversed Cauley Gillespie’s murder conviction and exonerated George Patterson who was jailed six months for using a car without owner consent. Five cases were affirmed. three reversed and remanded. The session listed granted and refused applications and adjourned to next Wednesday.
The Court of Criminal Appeals issued decisions today affirming several defendants including Frank Lusport alias Cron Dallas Lug Macias from Fi Paso J F Cosby from Erath Emerson Carnwall from Red River and Eusebio Guerra from Starr Reversed and remanded J Looney Cherokee Cauley Gillespie Clay Geary Patterson Grayson Motion for rehearing overruled Mon roe Smith Angelina Columbus Smiley Tarrant Malcom Bankston Runns Submitted on brief and oral argument for both G B Page Taylor Thomas Walters Hemphill On brief for state Bill Davidaos Grey son Homer Pickett Grayson Will Hill Grayson Robert Emerson Necogdoches On brief for both Macarie Aree W C Ripple Galveston ebb On brief for appeal Hodge Marion death Fills On motion for rehearing Jay Wise Jay Alec Lang Montgomery Biluete Marshall Angeline Wiley H Norwood Jones J H House Wyatt Wichita Cases set down for submission December 6 D W Wells Burnett John Deissaa er Erath Frank Lyle Donley Cotton Cantroll Bell
The Fourth Court of Civil Appeals on a Wednesday session affirmed several cases from Bexar and Webb counties and reversed and remanded G H A Co versus H M Wurzbach from Guado upe. Motions to rehear were overruled in five listed disputes including John P Fhitnger versus Spreckles Fayette and others.
Two colored troovera in Chihuahua seek the chaplain to settle an argument about saints. They ask how many of the posties were niggers. The chaplain replies none of them were darky. The tale closes with a rooster crowing and St. Peter's race debated.
Mr Stubbins chides Meria for attempting to drive a nail with a flatiron and questions her judgment. The remark leads to Meria refusing to speak to him again, reflecting a strained household moment quoted from Puck.
The ad promotes Hamburger Brust Thee, a Hamburg Treast Tea, as a remedy for colds. Instructions: one tablespoon with boiling water, strained, drink a teacupful. Claims to open pores, relieve congestion, loosen bowels, and cure grip. notes it is inexpensive and entirely vegetarian.
A Houston man credits Tanlac with restoring his wife after two years of illness. She dropped to 97 pounds from stomach trouble and gas, then rose to 115 pounds in weeks, with improved appetite and sleep. The couple praises the medicine and notes local San Antonio sellers Meier and Wagner Drug Co. distribute Tanlac.
AP correspondence profiles August Thyssen in Hamborn on the Rhine as a pivotal industrial figure in Germany. The coal and steel magnate, now a field marshal of the industrial army, is noted for hands rigid work style, castle home at Kettwig, and avoidance of cars. He remains modest, shunning titles, and leads vast Ruhr coal and steel ventures with tens of thousands of workers.
A man overhears his six year old boy declare he wants to marry granny prompting a witty exchange about family marriages. The boy insists his father already married his mother, highlighting curious child logic and playful family dynamics.
A weekly ad offer states fifteen words at eleven slots per week for one dollar. Ads may be placed by phone using Cr. 1742 or New 176 as contact numbers.
Texas attorney general’s department ruled that a licensed insurer may issue a policy via a nonresident agent if a local agent signs or countersigns the policy and the transaction does not violate state insurance laws or a preceding AG opinion on brokered insurance business.
A note records a dispute over 1 Bath Parlors located in the Moore Building. The brief item summarizes a case between parties with limited details available in the readable text.
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