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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 08, 1911
Page
4
Rudyard Kipling writes to a local paper opposing the U S Canada reciprocity pact. He argues nine million Canadians face ninety million strangers on a 4000 mile frontier and warns Canada risks its soul and national integrity for market gains.
An old newspaper ad promotes Grove’s Tasteless Chill Tonic claiming it drives out malaria and builds up the system for both grown people and children for 50 cents.
With return day approaching the district courts in October, clerk filed suits rise from a summer average of two to three daily to eight or ten. By noon today thirteen suits had been filed since yesterday, including six divorce actions. Divorce cases often come in blank to keep marital disputes private, a noted peculiarity.
Rest and health to mother and child. Mars. Winston's Soothing Syrup claims to ease teething pain, soften gums, and cure wind colic and diarrhea. Widely used by mothers for children, it is advertised as harmless.
Bay City officials will order a bond election to fund a sewer system. The council favored the petition and appointed O. J. Doubek D. J. Porter and Mr. Thompson to study costs to determine bond amount.
The coast ing steamer Santa Clara ran onto submerged Contessima rocks near the Golden Gate in fog. Government engineers failed to locate the reef in a recent search, and misplacement of the marking buoy is blamed. The ship retained buoyancy, pumped out water, and docked under its own steam after signaling distress.
G Grosvenor Dawe director general of the Southern Commercial congress announced plans to invite conventions to New Orleans in 1913 for a national celebration tied to the canal’s 1913 summer water turn. He aims to spur a southern driven national sense and attract attention to the south and its resources. He will tour the southern states with Col. Collier to support the Memphis congress on October 9.
Seguin Texas reports that the city council ordered a sanitary drinking fountain to be erected on the high school grounds. County Superintendent J B Williams and City School Superintendent R E L Adams examined county teachers' certificates with papers sent to Austin for grading. Royal Orchestra plays at the Saratoga restaurant daily. A Coleman, plumber. 416 Main Ave.
General Duncan and Col Green dismiss dispatches from Washington claiming the Tenth Infantry bound for the canal zone will sail September 14 from Galveston. The Kilpatrick transport needs at least two weeks to load gear from Fort Benjamin Harrison. Duncan has no notice of a looming division dispersal and believes the Twenty-eighth may also head to Panama with the Tenth.
An advertisement touts Lax-Fos as a comprehensive tonic for liver stomach kidneys and bowels while claiming to strengthen the entire system. It urges buying the first bottle on a money-back plan and asks readers to request a second bottle, asserting no other product is like Lax-Fos.
Chief Bishop plans complaints against drivers who race fire engines while responding to alarms and will seek fire lines at fires. W. Tominson fined $10 in police court for racing No. 7 engine to Knob Hill. Also includes an advertisement for Hall's Texas Wonder kidney cure with local testimonials.
Houston administration launches economy move to fund a bond issue maturing January 1 next year. Forty employees have been notified to seek other positions as part of retrenchment efforts. Glaze Wood and Coal Co operates as successor to Government Hill Wood Co with contact numbers 1811 and 6053.
Henry George the famous single tax advocate has accepted an invitation to speak in Houston next month. Elaborate plans for his reception and entertainment are being organized.
City physician's report released shows 97 deaths in August with a death rate of 11.4 per thousand based on estimated population.
Phil O. Parmetee, noted Wright aviator, becomes the fourth entrant in the $50,000 cross continent flight. He plans to start from Los Angeles on September 15 with New York as his destination.
Northern California fires, burning across ten miles of ranges, reach Novato eleven miles north of San Francisco. Five hundred residents join the firefight overnight as another blaze nears San Rafael, driving deer from hills and clogging roads.
In Greeley Colorado on September 8 two women, Miss Alice Corn and Miss Katherine Kirby, claim to be the regularly appointed teacher in the Frederick school. Each occupies a desk and teaches portions of the class, with contracts signed by different school board members. The salary dispute hinges on court rulings.
Private telegrams received here requested assistance of the revenue cutter Seminole for the schooner Annie R. Heidritter of Charleston sent toward Providence and ashore off Cape Romaine. The Seminole is at the river mouth and will work with tow boats to float the Charles H. Valentine, previously ashore inside Cape Fear bar.
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