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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 16, 1912
Page
3
An advertisement touts Digestit for indigestion sour stomach and distress after eating. It claims immediate relief with one dose and a money back guarantee. It notes widespread use and recommends Brown's Digestit be kept at home. Schwab MoElroy 4 Drug Stores.
The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals denied rehearings in the Lonnie Snodgrass case from Erath County and the Burrell Oates case from Dallas County. Oates, convicted for the 1904 Sol Aronoff death in Dallas, faces hanging after multiple trials and reversals for minor errors. A separate Love case from Lamar County affirmed a two year sentence for assault.
Proceedings list numerous applications granted and refused in various counties including Fayette Nueces Dimmit and Dallas. Also notes mandamus and jurisdiction matters plus November 6 and October 30 trial dates and opinions filed in Dewees v Stevens.
Advert promotes a turkey dinner and shrimp a la creole at the Riverside Restaurant. Meals are offered at 25 cents and 90 cents with a full market array of offerings advertised.
James W. Smith of Union National Bank Houston writes a letter claiming Plant Juice cured his nervous debility back pains and fatigue. He endorses the product and says it restored his health after a spring decline. The letter promotes Plant Juice as offering immediate relief and renewed vitality and notes Fischer's Drug Store sells it.
The In terdenominational Sunday School convention at Travis Park Methodist church in San Antonio ends tonight with a farewell song service. Morning sessions covered Sunday school problems missions and temperance. speakers included John C. Carmen and W. N. Wiggins. Wiggins urged an interdenominational visitation campaign to boost church membership. Carmen spoke on The Artist of a Soul. Tonight’s program features vesper, Echoes, Vision, and The Good Shepherd with brief sessions, songs and offerings ending at 9:30.
Mrs. Herm an Rosenthal widow of the gambler who was killed testified against Police Lieutenant Charles Becker stating he insisted it must be Herman or me and arranged the raid on her husband’s gambling place. She recalled Becker embracing her husband and offering to help any time. She described Becker’s demand debt be called off and that Herman Rosenthal and Becker were square.
New York financier N. R. Bagley says Texas attracts growing eastern capital for development. He warns that Texas will see more outside investment in the next five years than in the previous twenty five, with New York eyes fixed on the state.
Governor Wilson announced he would cancel all speaking engagements except those set for Thursday and Friday until Colonel Roosevelt can actively participate. He will tour Delaware, West Virginia and Pennsylvania this week, ending the campaign in Pittsburgh Friday night.
A Philadelphia Record item quotes Bridget and Mr Hilton joking about a bottle that seemed to open itself. Bridget suggests the bottle had been filled with two quarts instead of one, in a humorous exchange about the mishap.
The Seventh ward held a cleanup organization meeting at Herff School Indiana and Hackberry streets. Mrs. W. J. Spillman was elected chairwoman with Mrs. J. Johnson as secretary as precinct chairmen were named and inspections assigned. Dr. W. A. King urged more garbage wagons to aid city cleanup efforts.
In Fort Worth Texas on October fifteenth four wedding guests trapped by a falling vestibule were rescued. Elizabeth Darrah, dug from the debris, said she enjoyed the experience and would not mind another try. Miss Edna Potts and Robert Wilson, newlyweds, escaped injury. Woolen sweaters are in demand in China.
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