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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 03, 1913
Page
3
The text touts 8 S S as a skin purifying remedy. It explains how the preparation purportedly stimulates cellular activity, draws nutrition from blood through the skin, and removes disease, urging readers to obtain a bottle from drug stores. The Swift Specific Co. offers a book on skin troubles.
Dr Hamilton Rice and Lieutenant P P Ritter Von Bauer report from New York that after thirty months in South American jungles they found the Amazon and the Orinoco begin near the same spot. They claim their feed streams interlock and that the regions were sparsely inhabited and teeming with tame wildlife.
Senator F C Weinert secretary of state undecided on accepting Governor Colquitt s offer to join the prison commissioners board. Decision awaits discussion with the governor on his return. Also notes a tent meeting by M Capp a converted Jewish evangelist in Austin with no collections.
City Aldermen back a plan to amend the charter and establish a mayor plus four commissioners instead of a twelve alderman council. Mayor Brown urges action while Steves introduces a resolution to form a committee to draft amendments within sixty days, amid petitions opposing delay.
The item is described as hemstitched all linen with silver-bleached fabric in a 15 by 15 inch size. It lists a better-than-usual price of $1.25, offered at a special Thursday price of 98 cents per dozen.
Thursday special priced red linens include linen pillow cases at 98c a pair, sheets 59c each, Pepperell cases 21c each. Values listed show significant savings on torn, hemmed and ironed items, with noted sizes and original prices.
Advertises heavy Venetian silk gloves in black or white. 16-button length with double finger tips, cloth covered buttons, and pique back seams. Priced at 98 cents, originally $1.50, Main Floor.
A large Texan delegation travels to the Grand Army of the Republic National Encampment in Chattanooga Tennessee beginning September 15. Notables from San Antonio include H L Brooks and daughter Mrs Fox president of the Ladies Circle, Captain Sidney Tuttle Texas department commander, Alvin Mosher Ogelsby Post Dallas commander, Dr L L Whitaker surgeon general, and C S Broadbent patriotic instructor Texas, with others from Lampasas Blanco City Dallas Galveston Dublin and Denison among attendees.
The low rate tickets to San Antonio started yesterday with a September 21 deadline. Hundreds of merchants are expected to arrive later in the week to buy their stock. Visitors will be entertained by the Jobbers and Manufacturers League of the Chamber of Commerce.
In Dublin on September 3 a coal trade lockout followed a merchants meeting that barred hiring transport workers union members. The move worsens bitterness between workers and employers as the union restricts coal deliveries to certain firms.
Forty inmates from the state penitentiary, in ordinary clothing and unshackled, prepared to depart Joliet for Lee County to begin work on the state’s first convict labor road. They will set up a camp and receive special privileges during the project.
San Antonio hosts the Bering cup caravan from Houston to Corpus Christi with 70 motorists greeted at the Automobile Club house. News includes local agency orders for Lozier Chandler and Hudson models, a Nueces bay causeway bond passage, and a murder trial of Mrs. Alice Orlando in Houston Heights.
Tailor notes hand-tailored all wool suits and fancy patterns at 3.95. Gloves advertised for motormen teamsters and household tasks. Merchants plan a Thursday sale offering items at 17 cents to 75 cents instead of the usual 25 and 1. Prices and store location: Men's Store Main Floor.
In Chicago on September 3, plans to organize about 20,000 sleeping car conductors and porters across the United States took shape as the federation of Pullman conductors of America and the federation of Pullman Porters of America were incorporated at Springfield. The move signals preparation for wage demands.
Major Herbart L. Wigmore, military attache to the American embassy, died suddenly at Chuzenji on the Island of Hondo from acute appendicitis. The Japanese war department sent condolences to the embassy.
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