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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 01, 1913
Page
10
The San Antonio school board plans a Wednesday 8 o'clock meeting to discuss the new salary schedule for teachers and the total raises awaited. Readjustment of the schedule is described as a tremendous undertaking with plans for buildings and improvements to be reviewed.
Sherbrooke reports mark a tense legal battle over Harry Thaw as Judge Hutchinson weighs habeas corpus to decide whether Thaw will be deported or remanded to Sherbrooke jail. Jerome and New York lawyers foresee appeals and possible extradition actions.
At the Plaza, a five act vaudeville bill and motion pictures opened for a three day run with 4 PM and 8:30 PM shows yesterday and today. Headliner Jack Neville delivers clean, funny routines in This Is No Place for Mamma's Angel Child. Other acts include Garci gh and Hemmingway Spanish dances, the Pills, McLaughlin and Stewart in song and mirth, and Eddie Clark with changing songs. Also a tent revival by M Capp, convert Jewish evangelist, at Hickman and Blanco road each night with free Beacon Hill car transportation and no collections.
Police department today posted shift changes with Captain Pipes on 7 am to 3 pm, Captain Coy 3 pm to 11 pm, and Captain Christian’s relief 11 pm to 7 am. Local notices include court brief, taxicab ads, dancing at Muth’s Garden, and humane society contact details.
A Camp Fire Girls meeting is set for 9 30 tomorrow morning at the YWCA building. The group plans a Friday outing to cook breakfast in the woods to study woodcraft and outdoor life under the camp fire code. Miss Rosalee Venable returned from Kerrville after closing the summer camp.
An elderly man identified as Andy Wilson, said to be over 100, was found dead on a cot at his Simpson street home Sunday morning. Coroner Fisk ruled natural death due to exhaustion from old age. Wilson, a Virginia native who lived in San Antonio over 50 years, was reportedly active until recently and will be buried in City cemetery No. 3 this afternoon.
The National Conservation Exposition opened in Knoxville Tennessee with labor groups and expo officials sharing the stage for Labor Day events. President Wilson sent a wireless congratulatory message and support for the undertaking. (Adv.) The Riverside Park Baptist Church Junior Philathea class plans a lawn social Tuesday night at 125 Ward Avenue with ice cream and cake for a nominal charge to aid the church building fund.
A national tally shows Spain eats 747 million pounds of meat each year valued at 105 million dollars. The report underscores consumption patterns across households and regions and hints at dietary trends amid price shifts.
New fabrics for children's school wear feature ginghams 28 inches wide in novelty plaids stripes and checks priced at 12 1 2 10 and 8 cents per yard Percales 36 inches wide in designs and patterns priced at 12 1 4 and 10 cents yard Suiting 33 inches wide plain colored linen finished for school wear at 12 1 2 cents yard Ramie Weave Linen Suiting 28 inches wide in plain colors for school wear at 15 cents a yard
Parents are invited to order woven name identifiers for clothes and gear. Names are woven to order in many styles and serve as legible markers for sons and daughters at school. Submit a memorandum outlining needed names and preferred styles as soon as possible.
General Stokes seeks to make naval officers attend surgical clinics to harden them to blood and suffering and enable rapid first aid during engagements. He will address the Naval War College on the psychology of naval warfare and enforce clinic attendance to prevent demoralization on damaged ships. Germany exported 6154 motor vehicles valued at $10,099,000 in 1911.
Donaciano Tervino a young tailor of Luling Texas was killed Saturday evening in a clash with a crowd of more than twenty American men and boys. His wife said he had earlier trouble but was saved by his employer Abe Goodman. He died from a knife wound behind the ear entering the brain. Also note: a third motor hearse for San Antonio ordered by Shelley Loring Undertaking Company to be built in Illinois arriving December 1 with a 50 horsepower motor and electric features.
Joske Store promotes school shoes offering comfort, fit, and long service at lower prices. Grown Misses and Misses button shoes in gunmetal calf and dongola kid range from $1.50 to $3.50, with most styles available in children sizes and college girl lace options.
Gunmetal calf boys' school shoes offered in button or Blucher lace styles. Features include a medium high toe and half double solid oak sole with shank. Available sizes 2% to 7 at $2 and sizes 11% to 2 at $1.50 per pair.
A vintage ad lists several limited time hose deals: 8 pair of medium weight black cotton hose at 25 cents for 8 pairs, 2 pair of Onyx Dub-L Wear lisle hose at 43 cents for 2 pairs, 2 pair of Oneida Indian-head ribbed stockings at 25 cents for 2 pairs, and 2 pair of Warrior misses stockings at 25 cents for 2 pairs. Each offer highlights sizes for misses or boys and emphasizes durability and black fast color.
At West Point New York on September 1 a crowd of Polish Americans joined cadets to unveil a bronze statue of General Kosciuszko, a hero of the American Revolution. The statue, heroic sized, rests on a marble shaft erected in 1928 by cadets on the Fort Clinton site overlooking the Hudson River. The unveiling was led by Miss Helen Towley daughter of Colonel Towns the academy superintendent.
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