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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 30, 1912
Page
3
A testimonial from Mar Wohlschiess of Neshamery Pa states Duffy's Pure Malt Whiskey cured long standing stomach and nervous troubles. He reports relief after four doses daily and recommends it to others.
An advertisement touts Duffy's Pure Malt Whiskey as an absolutely pure distillation of malted grain. It claims to aid digestion and assimilation, strengthen nerves, heart, brain, muscles, and blood, and notes availability in sealed bottles for 00 a bottle from Duffy Malt Whiskey Co. of Rochester, New York.
San Antonio businessman J. Reutzel recounts a four month tour through Europe lauding Germany’s crushed granite roads and proactive overseers. He notes rampant tipping customs, hotel staff courtesies, and contrasts faster German rail with comparatively poorer American train comfort from Munich to Würzburg.
Adelaide E Stevenson, vice president in Grover Cleveland's administration, rebukes President Taft's claim that Cleveland's election caused the 1893 panic. She cites the McKinley tariff and Payne Aldrich law as influential factors, asserting the panic began before Cleveland's inauguration and long before the Wilson tariff. She references electoral tallies, noting Cleveland's 277 to Harrison's 145.
Major General Leonard Wood, chief of staff, toured San Antonio after inspecting border conditions. He said Fort Sam Houston will not grow now but the army aims to strengthen posts gradually, keeping Rio Grande patrols until normal conditions return. He praised San Antonio’s military value and vowed to return for extended visits.
San Antonio contractor N F Jordan extols Plant Juice after a thorough test. He claims long standing indigestion and stomach trouble are relieved, calling Plant Juice a pure vegetable remedy that quickly improves digestion, liver, kidney, and blood derangements. He urges readers to visit Fischer's drug store at Houston and Alamo to try it.
General Wood discussed rapid army promotion and politics, saying politics has no place in the army. He urged filling existing regiments to full strength, then allowing national choice on further increases. He described total fighting forces and a new two year reserve system with ready call ups instead of long pensions.
The Austin inaugural ball committee decided tickets will cost five dollars for all Austin and Travis county citizens. State guests will receive invitations and need not buy tickets.
A traveler extols Stuart’s Dyspepsia Tablets as a universal aid for digestion. The piece claims the tablets support gastric fluids, relieve overburdened stomachs, and work like a healthy stomach. They are sold by druggists for 50 cents a box with universal demand.
Mexico City reports President Madero will not interfere with the Diaz case. The foreign minister says the supreme court will decide jurisdiction and that Diaz and associates will be executed in Vera Cruz per court martial decree. Col Diaz Ordaz is captured ten miles from Vera Cruz with rebels still at large.
Colonel Miguel Quiroga, once campaign manager for General Bernardo Reyes, appeared before Judge Burns in Houston seeking to cut his bond from 5000 to 2500 on neutrality law indictments in Brownsville. He volunteered to answer the charges and is staying at a leading hotel under counsel Jake Wolters.
Rebel leader Antonio Rojas has resumed brigandage in Casas Grandes settlements. He holds ranchman A P Shillsbury for 3000 dollars. Other Americans freed after smaller ransoms. General Orozco may reenter Chihuahua as federal troops pull south. Rebels move along the Texas border.
In Merida, Manuel de Arrigu naga, serving as Belgian consul, has been arrested and charged with complicity in the Yucatan revolution. He is described as a Mexican citizen.
Federal forces repelled rebels near Moctezuma with about equal numbers in battle. About 15 rebels captured and forced into the hills, while 450 federals fought the same count of rebels. No casualty list given. In Saltillo 38 rebels were executed at Blocker ranch after capture. Ten rebels killed in the engagement. Belgian query to Mexico seeks information from the foreign office.
Laredo Texas October 30 General Geronimo Trevino remains ill prompting the appointment of General Leonardo Mier as commander of the third military zone with headquarters at Monterey. The change takes effect immediately.
In Corpus Christi on October 30 a 2 a.m. fight between Drue Floyd and Leo Newton left both men seriously wounded. Each carried a long dirk and exchanged blows in front of a Chaparral Street saloon. Floyd was stabbed near the left armpit and lung, Newton seven times in the back and twice in the side. Both men, bartenders, have slim chances of recovery.
Sydney reports the cabinet seriously considers a national steel works to supply rails for government railways amid claims an international pool is inflating prices and threatening delays to the Perth to Adelaide trans continental railway project.
Nine members of the Brotherhood of Timber Workers on trial for murder in the Grabow labor riot plan to finish witness examination and wrap the case this week. Defense argues no violence by union men and that mill men fired the shot. Proceedings began in Lake Charles with Judge Overton presiding.
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