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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 30, 1911
Page
2
Advert suggests TIZ cleans out foot pores to relieve tired aching swollen feet and corns callouses and bunions. Testimonial from A P Creutzer touts rapid relief and universal use with price 25 cents per box from Walter Luther Dodge & Co Chicago IL.
City hall quiet aside from police and fire alarm departments. Police court sits ten minutes with several vagrancy arrests fined. River and ditch department head Frank Huntress Sr. reports force reduced from eight to two due to salaries and cold weather. R A Hall and daughter Maude Hall of San Angelo visit the Gunter. Hall is a San Angelo businessman.
The ad details gastric catarrh symptoms pointing to stomach trouble and promotes MI O NA stomach tablets as the treatment. It claims fast relief within five minutes and offers a money back guarantee through Bexar Drug Co with a 50 cent price.
The San Antonio Real Estate Exchange will lease space in the Bedell building on Avenue C, effective December 1, vacating 229 East Houston Street. A committee led by J. Herbert Compton and others will coordinate. adjoining offices and a 200-seat auditorium are offered rent free for two years to centralize city commercial groups. A factory-site proposal was deferred until next Wednesday.
The nine months old infant of Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Kelley died at 11 o'clock last night at 1208 Hays street. Funeral held at 1 o'clock this afternoon with Rev. Bentley officiating. Interment in Cemetery No. 4. Leonica Casas, 58, dies after illness. obituary notes two years residency and survivors. Interment at San Fernando cemetery scheduled for this afternoon.
Eugene Corlett aged 33 died Tuesday afternoon in Comfort Texas after a several months illness. He worked as a telephone company clerk. The body was brought to this city and will be interred in Mission burial grounds.
Fourteen year old Hiram Hill of Bedford Indiana faced a skunk in his grandfather's hennery. He seized the animal by the tail with a club and killed it. the skunk's spray nearly suffocated him as his aunt fled. A dispatch notes he may receive a Carnegie medal or similar recognition for the stunt.
The Carranza family from Saltillo arrives in the city with Jesus Carranza, brother of Venustiano Carranza, governor of Coahuila. They are hosted by T. R. Beltran and stay several days at the residence formerly No. 501 South Presa, now Emil io Vasquez Gomez.
Corpus Baptists honored by the Baptist State convention with Rev. D. B. South of Corpus Christi Baptist church chosen as a member of the state mission board He is the only board member from south of Yoakum to the Rio Grande and will sit on the panel in Waco Texas.
Thanksgiving is generally observed in Waco with religious services and closures of federal offices, businesses, and schools. The morning thermometer was 19 degrees, three below yesterday, as Mr and Mrs D B Felder of Sherman stay at the St Anthony.
A Rexall advertisement promises free relief for indigestion and dyspepsia with Rexall Dyspepsia Tablets. Customers may try a box at home with a money back guarantee if unsatisfied, available at the new corner of E Houston and Ave C. Three sizes priced 25c 50c and 1.00.
The Vanderbilt Cup race coverage tracks leads as Hearne Benz holds top at 148:44 with Wagner second, Bruce Brown third, and De Palma fourth. Hearne breaks the world record for 205 miles at 76.2 mph, while Hemmery and Bergdoll suffer engine trouble and retirements thin the field.
London music hall culture shows waning interest in the so called dawn of love dances with officials demanding decency. Critics call for a return to classicism as dancers including Maud Allan face scrutiny while patrons and guests of the St Anthony hotel in San Antonio and Hotel Bender Houston are noted in a separate item.
N H Gorden a Sanderson business man is registered at the Gun Club. The note records his affiliation and location, indicating a formal enrollment or membership detailed in the local business and social notices.
An advertisement touts Botanic Blood Balm or B B B as a cure for rheumatism and related pains. It claims the tonic improves blood, reaches nerves and joints, and has cured many cases after other medicines failed. Sold by Owl Drug Store at 226 3 Commerce Street for $1 per bottle.
Representatives of San Antonio lodges with Judge A W Houston grand junior warden and J A Patterson grand senior steward will travel Sunday night to Waco for the seventy sixth annual Grand Lodge of Texas Masons session opening Tuesday. Walter Acker of Waxahachie is grand master Sam P Cochran of Dallas deputy grand master and J J Mansfield of Columbus grand senior warden will attend. Judge Houston expects record attendance and Waco residents prepared entertainment for visitors.
The Sunset Express from New Orleans to San Antonio is six hours late for a second time this week due to shopmen and carmen strikes. An extra train from Houston served passengers between Houston and San Antonio and to Del Rio, as the regular Sunset Express resumes westward to Los Angeles and San Francisco. Striking workers blame locomotive breakdowns from machinists substituted by the railroad, while local railroad officials declined to state a cause.
Miss Louise Eberle daughter of Mr and Mrs Eberle of Taylor and Lee Neubauer a young farmer were married yesterday morning at St Marys Catholic Church Rev Theodore Dress rector officiating. After a visit in San Antonio the couple will reside on Neubauer’s farm near Taylor.
An advertisement promotes Kimer and Amend’s product N. Y. 3851 claimed to relieve rheumatism and notes it is for sale by all druggists. The notice also lists Riebe Undertaking Co. auto ambulance service at 221 East Commercial with phone 341 and Theo Artast's Orchestra with two phone lines.
Eleven jurors in the Julius R. Norton murder case left the courthouse for a Thanksgiving meal with Deputy Sheriff Antonio Diaz joining them. They returned to the jury room and awaited word on a verdict or mistrial as juror George Nellise' condition improved after treatment at Moody's sanitarium. Doctors Moody and Dinwiddie expect to assess tomorrow if the trial can continue.
Man killed in Mexico City this week by Pablo Escandon Jr the son of a former Morelos governor. D Asunsulo had recently visited San Antonio about a month earlier en route north and met with figures including General Bernardo Reyes and Governor Colquitt. He was said to be a Maderista on a mission to the United States and was escorted by Consul Manuel Esteva to the station before returning home.
Fred Reutzel reports 1000 acres in Atascosa were sold to two investors from Devine on Tuesday. There are still 5000 acres in the Zanderson tract listed by Meerscheidt and Reutzel. Total sold to date reaches 7000 acres.
Ringgold Georgia resident Mrs Clarissa Black recounts long severe womanly troubles with pains in the side and back and repeated sick spells. She credits Cardui the women’s tonic with rapid relief after beginning use and eventual full recovery. She urges other suffering women to try Cardui and offers a free booklet from Chattanooga Medicine Co for Home Treatment guidance.
Brigadier General Joseph W. Duncan commander of the Texas department returns to Fort Sam Houston after inspecting the border garrison at Fort Clark. He will report findings to the War Department and says recommendations will not be public until Washington approves.
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