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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 23, 1911
Page
7
Governor Colquitt briefly toured the Alamo area on his return to Austin from El Paso where he attended a city celebration with his staff. He made no final decision on restoration plans and left the site shortly after arriving.
The governor lingered in the city only long enough to change trains and proceed toward Austin then Dallas early next week, as New Mexico and Arizona gain statehood rights.
W S McChesney Jr president of the St. Louis Trinidad Railway association and his wife arrived in Rockport Texas tonight in his private coach attached to the San Antonio and Aransas Pass train on an outing trip.
Flyer the child friendly aviator arrives from Cincinnati and plans a 4 to 5 PM city flight over Main Plaza to Alamo Plaza if wind allows. He will issue free fair tickets to the first to reach him after landing in his parachute event on Wednesday.
Postmaster W. E. Sayers announced from the post office department that Stanley Gillette received permanent appointment as assistant in the Bay City Texas office. Gillette passed a recent examination, with an extraordinary record among the top examinees.
The South Side Baptist church burned its mortgage yesterday during a two hour dedicatory service. Mrs P F Loring lit the document held by T A Eldridge as Dr S J Porter and several ministers spoke. The church traces back to 1891 with Flores Street Baptist origins.
Governor Colquitt State Senator Ed Kauffman and Adolf Boldt of Houston will participate in Traveling Men's Day exercises. The parade will start in front of the Gunter hotel with new features and a ban on all advertisements. Tom Dechman and J S Borroum are named to marshal and manage participants alongside other fair officials. An urgent invitation will be sent to Rev Homer T Wilson to attend.
Miss Gray on the bill at the Star theater averted a theater panic when a false fire alarm sent hundreds to the exits during her act. She urged calm from the front of the stage as men in the audience shouted to sit down and the alarm proved false after the fire department arrived.
Corpus Christi Tex Oct 23 The contract for putting down piling for the new pavilion to accompany the half million Nueces hotel was awarded yesterday to D M Picton of Tarpon. Work on the pavilion begins Monday and its cost is about 50 000 dollars. the structure aims to be the finest on the Texas coast.
Natick Massachusetts resident Mrs Nathan B Greaton reports relief from severe nervous symptoms and a tumor after using Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. She calls the treatment a miracle and urges others to seek its help during the change of life.
A historic mixed timetable lists departures and arrivals for routes to and from the north east south and west. It includes trains from Houston New Orleans Galveston and Cuero with specific times such as 6 40pm from Houston and New Orleans and 7 30am for Kerrville services.
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