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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 21, 1912
Page
9
The ad promotes Pape's Cold Compound as a fast remedy for colds and grippe with doses every two hours, claiming it relieves headaches stuffed nose feverishness sneezing sore throat and rheumatic pains. It asserts a 25 cent package suffices and warns against substitutes. The copy emphasizes taste and home use without affecting duties.
Donations to the Democratic National Campaign Fund are received by the Wilson-Marshall club in Bexar County. Chairman Marshal Hicks reports checks from T. M. Paschal Homer Jones and B. Kiolbassa Sr. totaling 17.50 and orders committee members to hustle for at least 1000 more by week’s end. In Austin the attorney general says a new trial motion will be filed in the Imperial Sugar case. if denied it goes to Galveston civil appeals.
Greenville D C October twenty first Rev Thurston A Vaughan former superintendent of the South Carolina Odd Fellows home was indicted by a special grand jury on the charge of assaulting three young girls at the institution during his tenure last May.
An appeal to working and homemaking women urges belief in Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound as a universal remedy for female ills. The ad stresses shared physical laws and susceptibilities across social stations and promotes trust in the product.
The 1912 annual report shows net income fell from 1 773 706.08 in 1911 to 17 168.21. officials attribute the drop to poor grain crops in Oklahoma and Texas, low cotton prices, weather, and disease quarantines in North Texas. Passenger traffic fell about 6 percent due to quarantines. freight and express also declined. Operating expenses rose 599 333.05, with causes including higher wages, a carmen strike, flood and tie renewal costs, and losses from injuries. The report ends with cautious optimism for 1913 amid favorable southwestern sentiment and expected revenue rebound.
A 19th century style advertisement touts Hot Springs Liver Buttons as a gentle safe remedy for liver stomach and bowel health. It claims to improve complexion energy and vitality with regular use and offers a free sample from Hot Springs Chemical Co. Ark.
Archduchess Eta aged 20, favored granddaughter of Emperor Francis Joseph, will renounce royal rights to wed Count George Waldburg Hohenems, a dragoon officer. The Hofburg ceremony will seal her vow as the emperor and imperial family consent, with the oath on the Gospel and both spouses relinquishing titles.
A $20 230 bid wins the contract to build four apartment houses on San Pedro avenue. Boehles & Boelhauwe drew the plans and the design features modern conveniences. Construction starts soon with occupancy expected before winter. each building has two five room apartments.
After weeks at his Owensboro home Mack Allison leaves to marry and winter in San Antonio Texas There he will join Morris Block owner of the local Texas league team in a cigar business The pitcher formerly played for Block before joining the St Louis Browns according to the St Louis Post Dispatch.
In a humorous moral vignette, a bitter wife is urged to drop her jealousy of her husband’s mother. The advice counsels embracing family bonds, visiting the mother, and sharing life to heal the rift. A playful call to empathy and humanity ends with inviting the mother-in-law along for a look at new cradles.
In Part IV of the New York City court, Walter Aldrich challenged the executors of J. W. Bouton over a carved oak chair said to be linked to William Shakespeare. Aldrich claimed a $300 purchase and sought delivery after the chair was refused. Justice Green dismissed the suit. The chair reportedly belonged to a set once in Shakespeare’s Stratford home.
A San Antonio citizen, J. J. Billing, testifies that Dean's Kidney Pills relieved back lameness and cured a distressing back condition. He states his family has repeatedly recommended the remedy since 1908, and urges others to buy through Foster Milburn Co., Buffalo, NY, sole agents.
Sydney reports Jack Johnson will not fight in Australia. Hugh McIntosh who offered $50,000 for a Johnson Langford bout and Sam McVey or Joe Jeannette cabled today to W. W. Kelly in Chicago to cancel all negotiations.
Medford Oregon O J Ames won first prize of 50 dollars for vegetables at the county fair and pear show. His exhibit featured beans grown from a seed found in a cliff dwellers Aztec ruin, possibly thousands of years old, obtained in 1909 and planted in 1910. The bean resembles a Lima bean but is more prolific.
In Appleton Wisconsin a dispute over a cemetery grave epitaph escalates to a municipal court injunction. The inscription references Laura Hes and a shooting accident involving Laura Freeman and others, prompting the Freeman family to seek removal of the monument.
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