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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 04, 1911
Page
6
Postmaster John J. Stevens reports September failed to bring the usual equinoxial storm or norther, breaking a 59 year old pattern. Residents note persistent heat and dryness with no cooling rain, drought, or early fall signs. Forecast offers little relief.
An advertisement for Hall's Texas Wonder promotes a kidney bladder and rheumatic remedy. It claims a one dollar bottle provides a sixty day treatment and that seldom a single bottle fails to cure, with testimonials available from Dr. E W Hall of St. Louis and druggists selling the product.
SPARTANBURG S C Oct 4 W W King an entomologist of the United States department of agriculture arrived to study insects as a possible cause of pellagra He will stay indefinitely and work with Dr R H Grimm of the Public Health and Marine Hospital Service who is investigating pellagra in the area.
Community notices show mass meeting urging attendance at Travis Park church with a program. Woman's Missionary Society postpones, then reschedules to next Tuesday. Richard Cohn and Rose Burghein marry in Houston as guests arrive in San Antonio. Business Woman's Club plans first post summer meeting with Travelers' Aid address and musical program. Various club officers are elected at Daughters of the Confederacy meeting at the Woman's Club house.
The notices list two weddings at private homes with Miss Katherine Teich and Roscoe Cahill pairing with Frank Joseph Duetz and Nell Boren at the W. D. Boren residence, plus multiple afternoon gatherings: Laurel Heights Bridge Club hosted by Mrs. Jack Rowe, Woman's Club at 3 30, Government Hill Literary Club led by Mrs. J Nichols, West End Sewing Society on Gaines Avenue, Travis Park Phil athea class with Miss Pearl Kenny, Philathea class at First Baptist, San Pedro circle at Warren Street with Mrs. BE Price, and Ladies Hebrew Benevolent Society at Tempel Beth-B1. Moonlight trolley ride promised by the Ladies auxiliary of the Spanish War Veterans.
Mr and Mrs Rudolph O Jones return from New York and eastern cities. A great mass meeting is planned at Travis Park church tomorrow afternoon and is expected to draw a large crowd.
O-Ko-San sits in a hill tea-house as war takes a village couple. A little brown man goes to battle and is killed. She endures poverty and becomes bound to the tea-house, whispering Sayonara to memory as cherry blossoms fade.
Chaplain Mrs. Mary Manlove and class members of Laurel Heights Methodist church hosted a moonlight picnic at San Pedro park. Attendees included Miss Peggy Bliss Margaret Coleman Hazel Doris Avery Gladys Robbins Phyliss Shiner Ruth McKinney Alice Woodley Adele Hazel Shaw Hazel Davis Hunter arfield Marvin Charlton Slayden Goldstein Robert McNemer Winchester Kelso Fowler Davis Jack Cassity Jack Gunter Hardie Gilbert Denman Atlee Robert Ayers John Forrester Will Mell Booth Henry Easterwood.
The Demosthenes Society at Brackenridge High School met this afternoon to debate the resolution that a property qualification for voters should be adopted in the United States. The negative won. Mr Rochelle delivered an extemporaneous Panama Canal speech. Several new members were sworn in and a committee was elected to draft a new constitution. Visitors attended.
Mrs Otto Schank of New Braunfels returns home with her two week stay concluded. Her young son received eye treatment from Dr J Harvey Moore in the Gunter office building. The child was in a serious condition but has fully recovered.
Samuel W. Adler reports jewelry valued at fifteen thousand dollars stolen after his wife left gems at a jeweler for repairs. The couple, returning from dinner, believe a pickpocket lifted the items along Fifth Avenue. Stolen pieces include a six thousand dollar diamond necklace and a two thousand dollar horseshoe pin with six rings.
Directors of the San Antonio and Aransas Pass railroad adjourned after a brief meeting in their general offices. A meeting is set for Thursday morning at 10 o'clock to elect officers and directors for the ensuing year.
Secretary Mueller of the health board reports 187 birth certificates filed in September, the largest monthly total ever for the office. Nearly twenty four birth certificates for last month were filed for record this morning.
Rest and health note extols Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup as harmless and effective for teething, gum soreness, wind colic, and diarrhea, claiming it calms the child and has been used by millions of mothers at twenty five cents a bottle. In Texas, J Armstrong of Hays County advocates a Farmers' Union presence in Caldwell County with Jesse Wright introducing him at the Caldwell County courthouse. An organizer may visit soon.
Mrs Mary Herbergs of St Louis says ten weeks of illness with womanly troubles improved after using Cardus. She resisted hospital surgery, began Cardui and soon could walk again. weighs 155 pounds and feels fine. Cardui touted for strengthening effects and long track record of helping women with related ailments.
Kerrville stockman Charles Schreiner reports unsettled conditions in New York and a lingering lack of confidence following recent stock manipulation. He notes chilly northern weather but a warm shift to San Antonio and expects normalcy once investors regain trust. The text ends with a pasted joke from the Philadelphia Times.
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