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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 08, 1911
Page
7
A mixed sale offer lists Yankee Screw Driver sets with bits and chucks, a shotgun, loads in gauges, buck saws, axes, chisels and hammers. Also featured are bowls, cabinets, dinnerware, auger bits, carving tools, beaded spoons and forks, hat racks, nest eggs, wash basins and enamelware with various special prices for Monday.
The opening vetting of the Texas British association for 1911 12 will be held at 8 15 p m Monday in the International club auditorium. An inaugural address by President J F Howard will precede a musical and elocutionary entertainment and visitors will be welcomed with help from the Texas British Women's club.
A public dispute unfolds between Texas Governor Colquitt and Comptroller Lane over hiring legal help to enforce liquor laws. Assistant Attorney General Lane and attorney Shelly Grover are at issue, with Lane insisting on his own chosen counsel and funding. The governor says Lane should accept Lane and Grover, while Lane plans to obtain his own attorney if funds are approved.
The Missouri Kansas and Texas Railway shows higher earnings as of June 30 1911 with operating revenue of 29 065 293 55 and net operating revenue rising to 8 458 777 80. Mileage increased 9 93 percent and improvements were made across properties.
Miss Elsie Stoddard is bitten on the nose by a bull terrier while she sleeps on a home couch in Wigin Wisconsin. Surgeons sew the nose, but fear the operation may fail. The Stoddard family is described as wealthy and she belongs to exclusive social groups.
Kansas Attorney General John Dawson led a surprise raid in Leavenworth, arresting stewards and confiscating liquor at the Eagles Elks and Antlers clubs and at numerous other joints. Dozens more establishments were raided as soldiers’ testimony about easy liquor access prompted action.
Christina Conti affidavits Tony Palo claimed devil power to return her husband and stole her money. He was arrested in Squire Walsh's court on receiving money under false pretenses and is jailed without bond. Conti says her husband has been missing for months.
First Church of Christ, Scientist in San Antonio announces a free lecture on Christian Science at Bee thoven Hall next Sunday afternoon October 8, 1911 at 4 o clock by Francis J Fluno M D C S D member of the Board of Lectureship of the Mother Church in Boston Mass Public invited to attend.
In Paris a custody bid by Mrs. H Sellers McKee, mother of A Hartupee McKee, could reopen the McKee Tevis divorce saga. The two day weekly visitation remains. she alleges the child’s upbringing is improper. The case foreshadows new social and diplomatic entanglements involving Austrian embassy officials, Turkish officials, and European nobility. The Seine tribunal will hear the matter Wednesday.
Abrams and Koenizheim operate in Conroy Building offering specialized tailoring for women with refined fittings and custom alterations.
The Detroit News-Tribune notes seven million dollars of American patent and proprietary medicines were shipped worldwide in 1910. Europe received about two million dollars annually, with England alone at over 1.75 million. North America sales reached about 1.5 million yearly, Cuba Canada Mexico Panama and the West Indies key buyers. South American exports exceeded one million, Argentina Brazil Venezuela and Chile each around four hundred thousand to one hundred thirty thousand. Asiatic trade was small, with British India and the Straits settlements cited and China Japan and Persia minimal. An Atlanta judge orders a man to kiss his wife twice daily.
Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Walser of 1187 North Olive receive the first mail ever delivered to San Antonio by aerial post. The card shows a Government Aerial Station No. 1 postmark and indicates a mail service between St. Louis and beyond the city, an experiment toward future aerial post offices.
A Springfield Mass report says a Chinese Sunday school class was found in an opium den during a raid. Twenty two arrests were made and $500 worth of opium seized. Teachers bailed out pupils and returned them to lessons.
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