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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 23, 1912
Page
7
A ten strike at yesterday's Plaza matinee featured The ning Miss a tabloid musical comedy by Boyle and Harold Ateride. Grace Manlove stars as Winnie Win with clever dancing by the Frisco troupe and a polished chorus of pretty Misses delivering clean humor and lively tunes.
Farmers in Moriarty and surrounding New Mexico counties warn prairie dogs are multiplying rapidly and will ruin crops unless pest control resumes. The state allows counties to pay 50 cents per dozen prairie dog tails, a bounty once lucrative but now largely abandoned as efforts declined.
With the completion of the canal, Japanese steamships will likely operate on the Atlantic seaboard for the first time, linking to the large raw cotton freight traffic and broadening maritime routes.
Fra Elbert Hubbard known as Fra Elbertus arrived to address the Ad club on The Romance of Business. He praised women as the best business people, called suffrage one of his six hobbies, and criticized Roosevelt’s leadership while predicting prosperity and optimism despite social issues. He noted Texas, the Alamo, and San Antonio as distinctive, then prepared to lecture at Beethoven hall tonight.
In Minneapolis Miss Mabel Dickinson and Wilton Willey of Menlo plan marriage late this month after a playful egg swap. Willey had written his name and address on an egg sent to a home, prompting correspondence and an eventual romance sparked by a joke in a Menlo store.
Dr George S Ross of Canton Mass promotes Balm of Gilead made from Balm of Gilead buds rock candy Duffy s Pure Malt Whiskey with rock candy dissolved in whiskey. Adults take one tablespoon hourly or half hour in acute illness children ten and older one teaspoon hourly younger children ten drops hourly until relief. It is claimed superior to common Rock and Rye and easy to prepare at home.
Chief Fred Lancaster received Richard Herman, a 9 year old in knee britches, at police headquarters after patrolman Golden arrested him for carrying a loaded revolver. Richard said he traded a bicycle wrench to imitate Western movie actors and cowboys he had seen at the harvest jubilee. He promised not to offend again and the revolver was held.
It is announced that Tex as granite will be used in the new federal building in Austin after lobbying by Congressmen Burleson and Henry and the Austin Chamber of Commerce. The switch from Georgia granite costs contractors an extra $1000.
Comanche Texas October 23 Os car Calloway congressman from the Twelfth district left today in response to a wire from Charles Lloyd of the national democratic executive committee to campaign in Missouri.
A traveler's praise for Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets describes them as effective for weak stomachs and aiding digestion. The item is advertised as essential for travelers, easing stomach discomfort by supporting digestive fluids and functioning like a healthy stomach. Sold by all druggists at 50 cents a box.
San Antonio business men push for permanent winter home at San Pedro park for the Horne Wild Animal show, part of the harvest jubilee lineup. The company aims to winter three to four months here, bringing more than half its twelve-strong tour to the city and boosting local merchants and feedmen.
Officials will tell the Prospect Hill committee tomorrow if the street car company will apply to the city council for a permit to lay track necessary to reroute the International and Great Northern car line. The council previously ruled the residents’ complaints did not require action, leaving the decision to the company. R G Callahan said a Thursday morning response is expected and that the company may join residents in seeking the permit for rail lay.
Chief of Police Lancaster received a telegram stating Luis E. Molina who tried to visit Colonel Roosevelt at Mercy hospital matches the wanted description for Edouard Molina accused of passing worthless checks. The telegram from J J Halpin Chicago detective captain confirms the sighting. Molina was not arrested and planned to go to Oyster Bay.
At the Main avenue fire station residents and paving enthusiasts checked how many property holders would pay their shares to pave Camden and Dallas streets. The report shows near universal support with two or three holdouts. W. S. Conness said the next meeting will decide if the city should proceed and most signups are expected within one or two weeks.
The University of California expedition led by Professor Reginald C. Stoner has found the most important relic yet a perfectly preserved sloth skull about 100000 years old from the La Brea lava beds south of Hollywood. It will be shipped to Berkeley with other bones.
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