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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 01, 1913
Page
3
A new garbage collection schedule begins as an experiment today with two weeks to test the plan. City officials hope regular hours will reduce complaints and inform housewives of pickup times.
Advertisement touts Horsford's Acid Phosphate as a non alcoholic remedy to restore appetite strength and vitality. Rich in health claims aimed at general well being.
A district convention for the Bexar County Sunday School Association is set for October 9 to 11 in San Antonio. A delegation led by W. N. Wiggins, state general secretary, will visit ten to fifteen Texas cities in September and October. An executive committee of local church leaders will oversee arrangements.
The Treasury Department Supervising Architect in Washington announces sealed proposals due September 25 1913 at 3 p m for the installation of an electric passenger elevator in the United States post office and courthouse at San Antonio Texas. Specifications available from the Supervising Architect. O Wendor th Supervising Architect Adv.
The Allard Musical Comedy Company presented A Family Affair to four packed houses. Joseph Massey starred in the comic role. New costumes and six singing numbers drew strong applause. Four shows are scheduled today with Labor Day Country Store prizes worth over 200 dollars. The Thanhouser three reel feature completes the program.
The evening program at Wigwam Theater No 2 features three comedies His Athletic Wife What Cupid Did and 1000 Reward plus the Selig drama How Betty Made Good all praised as a holiday bill. Tomorrow two reel feature The Invaders by Kalem Company dramatizes John Lloyds western tale of homesteaders persecution and frontier justice with ranchers troops and gunfighters in a stirring sequence.
The Royal shows two distinct two reel features plus One Round O Brien's Flirtation. The Human Bridge by Cines Company offers a trans continental drama with civilized and uncivilized characters. For the Flag stars J Warren Kerrigan in a lavish two reel drama. Talking pictures accompany the program today.
Mrs. Jessie Hardy Stubbs of Chicago, a suffrage activist and member of Rosalie Jones' lecturing hikers, addressed a Pittsburg audience arguing Genesis shows man and woman created together. She urged reading Genesis chapter one rather than later verses to support equality.
A. Torres, about 48, died at Santa Rosa hospital at 3 am after being shot early Sunday at a dance near Mitchell Lake. Vicente Dominguez, a laborer, is in custody and said to have fired the fatal shot. Officers found a dispute preceded the shooting but could not determine a motive.
Finley A Cox has been appointed assistant general manager and assistant secretary for the Southwestern Casualty Insurance Company of this city. He has served with the Southwestern for two and a half years, starting in bookkeeping and cashier roles for about eighteen months before becoming Special traveling agent.
Otto Scheidt German imperial consul at Galveston arrives in San Antonio for a short meeting with C A Goeth of the Galveston consulate. He stays at the Gunter Hotel then returns to Galveston. He downplays any impact on Mexican or international affairs noting German interests there are nominal. He anticipates a larger German cruiser visiting Texas waters next spring replacing the Bremen.
In Manhattan 75 horse drawn mail wagons were retired as automobile trucks take over, completing a long planned motorization of the post office in the city. Postmaster General Burleson backed the move, approving lower Manhattan contracts for motor truck delivery last April. The motor wagons had been installed above Forty second street four years ago.
The Associated Charities label a Mexican man’s tale of a dead daughter and starving children as a fabrication. They say the Macon Street address he gives is fake and note a prior, similar scam in another area with altered family deaths.
The regular term of the county criminal court with Judge J. R. Davis starts tomorrow morning. A number of misdemeanor cases are scheduled and the week will likely be spent disposing of the already docketed matters.
The Boy Scouts of America announce a plan to become self supporting by assessing 25 cents per member annually starting October 1. 300000 members will have 15 cents kept locally, 10 sent to the national council. second class councils keep 5 cents. Thirty five Scouts depart September 15 for a trans continental walk.
They will spend three weeks at a beach resort to gain experience for a long journey. The travelers intend to go to New Orleans, likely take an excursion to witness the Panama Canal opening, then continue from New Orleans to San Francisco for the 1915 exposition.
Vice President Marshall urged home influence over public morals at a Methodist Camp meeting in Great Falls Virginia. He warned that good government and religion are linked and lamented modern church attendance and perceived cultural looseness. Senator Swanson of Virginia spoke as well.
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