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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 07, 1913
Page
5
The Miller Brothers and Arlington's 101 Ranch Wild West Show will exhibit in San Antonio on Monday October with plans for a family entertainment program.
The 101 Ranch Show returns on show day at 10 30 am at South Presa and Buckingham with a street parade and sensational auto polo exhibition. The program features educated dancing horses, a band from Mexico, an expanded Indian contingent led by Iron Tail, and a wild West pageant with cowboys, staged attacks on a pioneer camp, a stagecoach hold up, rough riding, and a buffalo hunt, plus a redesigned street procession marking a broader frontier tableau.
Home keeping women need health and vitality as kidney and bladder issues threaten strength. Foley Kidney Pills invigorate the body and restore balance, helping back pain nerves aching joints and irregularities. Fischer's Drug Store.
The San Antonio Advertisers Association launched a campaign to liquidate its indebtedness and pursue affiliation with the Chamber of Commerce. A committee led by W. S. Stires and others will collect shares to cover the deficit. At a Hutchins Hotel meeting, members decided to rehabilitate the club by clearing debts and entering the Chamber as a publicity bureau.
Dr. M. H. Boerner and Dr. C. N. Brownlee depart Austin for College Station to begin a systematic study of hookworm prevalence among Agricultural and Mechanical College students.
The council deferred action on a petition to erect a 15 foot sign while considering a new illumination method for Commerce street that could bar electric signs there. Discussions covered a $3000 lighting-standards project, cost concerns, and merchant upkeep doubts ahead of a one week delay.
An advertisement for Texas Wonder claims it cures kidney and bladder troubles and related conditions in men and women and regulates bladder issues in children. It offers mail delivery for $1.00 and promises two months of treatment per small bottle with strong success claims.
Parents are urged to give California Syrup of Figs to children for gentle, overnight bowel cleansing. The ad claims a coated tongue, feverishness or stomach upset signals the need and promises a safe, effective outcome with directions on the bottle. It warns to avoid counterfeit syrups and to buy only the 50 cent bottle from the California Fig Syrup Company.
The city board of health was authorized to maintain a training school for nurses at City Hospital to improve staff quality. The ordinance passed under a suspension of the rules. Mayor Brown urged a Friday public improvements committee meeting to review first paved streets under the bond issue.
Judge John D. Bird reports Hall county voters approved banning pool halls by 596 to 80 under a Thirty third Legislature local option law. No pool tables remain as the county also remains dry. A Wilbarger county case before the Court of Criminal Appeals will test the anti pool law.
Governor Colquitt has sailed from the Isthmus of Panama and may visit Cuba before returning to Texas. He is expected home around October 15, per private secretary J. T. Bowman.
Germans in Austin and Travis County observed German Day under the Travis County German Day Association. The parade was canceled but celebrations continued last night at Scholtz's Garden with German residents taking part.
Two women describe relief from female illnesses after using Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. Mrs James G LeCleer of Detroit reports two years of suffering and insomnia solved by the remedy. Mrs Charles Buell of Philadelphia says two bottles eased organic inflammation and backaches before her marriage and childbirth.
Nome Alaska reports five hundred houses demolished and five hundred homeless as the worst storm in memory abates. Three bodies wash ashore and fire at a Pacific cold storage plant is extinguished. Steamships Victoria Navajo and Corwin safe at anchor seven miles out. electric light plant wrecked. telephones out. $1 500 000 loss.
President Wilson selects Dr. Arthur Yager emeritus of Georgetown College Geor getown Ky as governor of Porto Rico and plans to send his nomination to the Senate this week. He also aims to nominate H M Pindell editor of Peoria Ill as ambassador to Russia and Toledo Mayor Brand Whitlock as minister to Belgium. McCombs consideration for ambassador to France remains possible. Edmund K Billings named collector of customs at Boston despite opposition from Massachusetts Democrats.
Talbot Manufacturing Company of Texas of Fort Worth with capital stock of 2500 is incorporated. Pleasant Valley Presbyterian Church of Dallas county appears as incorporator with no capital stock. Hillburn Brothers Manufacturing Company of El Paso files amendment increasing stock from 10000 to 25000. Palmetal Company of Houston Nash Hardware Company of Fort Worth and Boone Institute of Massage Company of Plainview file proofs of final payment. Webb Development Company of Bellevue files dissolution certificates.
Pure Food Commissioner Abbott will start a campaign in Austin against dealers selling adulterated meats. Assistant Chemist Hoffman says some vendors continue using sulphite as a preservative, which is against the law.
General Li Yuen Heng was elected vice president of the Chinese republic by the United Houses. He received 610 votes out of 719 cast by representatives and senators, for a five year term.
Mrs. Timothy L. Woodruff stated her husband’s health is slowly improving and denied any relapse. The update came from New York as the ailing figure's condition shows gradual improvement.
JL B Cook, USDA market milk inspector, spoke at the St Anthony Hotel on keeping milk sweet and pure. He said bacteria cannot be entirely kept out but sanitary buildings, surroundings, and utensils, plus cool house temperatures, help prevent reproduction. Several hundred attended the lantern slide illustrated talk invited by the city health board and Bexar Medical Society.
An advertisement extols Pape’s Diapepsin as the fastest, harmless remedy for indigestion and related stomach distress. It promises quick relief from heartburn belching sourness and gas and urges readers to buy a fifty cent case for home use.
A lecturer demonstrates how bacteria enter milk through straining bottling and transport methods using lantern slides to illustrate the best practices for handling dairy.
At a Austin meeting October 7 businessmen agreed to raise 1000 dollars to retain the county farm demonstrator. Walter Davis had his contract not renewed by county commissioners, but local leaders decided to fund keeping the demonstrator.
Henry A. Johnston of 1/Anse Michigan praises Foley's Honey and Tar Compound as a safe, tastily accepted cough and cold remedy for his family including children, noting it contains no opiates and recommending Fischer's Drug Store.
Family dining offer at Riverside ee promotes meals priced at one dollar with a 25 cent special. Advertisement notes value and timing, inviting readers to visit for affordable options.
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