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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 30, 1912
Page
11
James Halleck Reid's play The Confession will be shown Thursday night and Friday afternoon and night at the Grand Opera House. The production promises a powerful dramatic story with uplift and a strong moral lesson, performed by a cast of notable actors.
One of the decade’s most delightful romantic dramas, The Goose Girl, plays Saturday at the Grand Opera House with matinee and night showings. The tale follows a royal maid forced to tend geese, a dashing American lover, and a restoration to her rightful station in a wholesome, well presented production.
Colonel Roosevelt announced hiring counsel and a private detective agency to monitor New York polling places on election day. He pledged vigorous prosecution for any fraud on either side and said he would travel to New York to speak at Madison Square Garden and attend two Progressive rallies this week.
Willard's Temple of Music at the Plaza theater features over four tons of musical devices with novelty as the keynote. Highlights include the Lucia sextette on the chimes, Swain's Cockatoos, Laypo and Benjamin Hebrew comedy act, Schrade and Mulvey in a theatrical agency sketch, the Three Dixie Girls, Prune Center Cut-Ups, and Carroll and Fields. Bargain matinee Friday and school children matinee Saturday accompany the full weekly bill.
Wonderland presents So-Jun-Wah and the Tri bal Law mixing Indian and Western life with red men lore. At Home in the Water showcases G. H. Corsan swimming demonstration. The Boy Rangers comedy and Poor Jimmy drama complete the program.
The republican organization canceled use of the garden on Friday night and the progressive state managers secured the amphitheater for the evening turning tonight's meeting over to the national organization. Colonel Roosevelt is expected to attend the rally.
In Morristown across the Delaware, residents seek legal removal of a grave marker for Samuel McCracken who died in 1862 after a contract to keep the tombstone undisturbed. The inscription reads If politicians and priests all go to heaven then I am bound to stop at some other station. His wife’s stone proclaims she died a firm believer in Christ.
Ivan A Gwynn 34 formerly of Austin died at his Fort Worth home on Friday October 25. Funeral from Fort Worth residence Saturday at 8 pm survived by widow two children Allen Catherine brother Frank C Gwynn of San Antonio four aunts. Fred G Smith 77 died at his Laurel Ave home native of England resident of San Antonio two years survived by widow and stepson Emmett Fred Smith funeral 4 pm Riebe parlors City Cemetery No 3.
Golla Georgia Golla a 1 year old child of Theodore Golla a farmer of St Hedwig died at noon yesterday at 120 Greely street. The body was placed in the family residence awaiting further arrangements.
The burial was arranged for last night and sent to St Hedwig by the Zizik Undertaking Company.
Madison workers assemble granite pillars and walls for Wisconsin’s new capitol dome. The steel framework supports a dome 300 feet high, costing about three million dollars of the six million appropriation. The dome will be the second tallest in the world, rising above Washington’s dome and near Milan’s height, with completion targeted for 1916.
The report notes that steamship lines burn five million tons of coal each year at New York, highlighting the city as a major energy hub for maritime traffic.
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