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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 11, 1911
Page
7
Years of experience have built Castoria into a practically perfect preparation with modern machinery and careful ingredient selection. The ad claims absolute safety for babies and warns against imitations, featuring the signature of Chas. H. Fletcher on the label as a safeguard.
The city physician’s annual report to the mayor shows San Antonio as clean and healthy despite a population boost of 15 000 from a maneuver camp. Deaths were 2476, births 1803, with a rate of 10.16 and an estimated population of 125 000. recommendations aim to protect public health and expand sanitation services.
Exposition 15 opens this afternoon in Knoxville Tennessee with a grand parade and speeches by Governor Hooper Col L D Tyson and Mayor Heiskell. The event runs to September 30 and includes a dinner and an address to the negro building. Ohio Governor Harmonman is slated to speak next Saturday night.
Cable News St Petersburg reports the appointment of George Bakhmeteff as Russian ambassador to the United States succeeding Baron Rosen. Bakhmeteff formerly served as ambassador to Japan and earlier as a secretary at the Russian legation in Washington.
Havana based El Combate editor Ernesto Mendosa killed Guines de Rumbo editor Rodolfo Fernandez after Fernandez struck him with a cane during a newspaper controversy. Mendosa drew a revolver and fired, ending the dispute in Guines, about 40 miles from Havana.
Jena Germany The social democratic congress opened with 450 delegates from across Germany. The Reichstag’s entire democratic party attended and foreign representatives joined. Dietz of Stuttgart and Lober of Jena were elected presidents.
Partisans of Jose Pino Suarez traveling to Merida for a Madero rally were attacked by supporters ofMo reno Canton. Seventeen Pinosistas were wounded as rocks hit the special train.
Mount Etna shows renewed activity with two fresh craters about 8000 feet above sea level. A vast smoke cloud and continuous ash eruptions follow frequent earthquakes every five to ten minutes. Inhabitants of surrounding villages are greatly alarmed by the seismic events.
An 19th century style advertisement touts Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup as a longtime remedy for teething pain wind colic diarrhea and other infant ailments. It claims the product is harmless and recommends asking for it by name with a price of twenty five cents per bottle. The ad lists Glaze Wood and Coal Co as successors to Government Hill Wood Co and provides two phone numbers.
More than 600 members and guests attended the corner stone ceremony for the San Antonio Hermann Sons new home. A copper box in the stone held the program, a historical review, newspapers, souvenirs, and emblems. Subscriptions were asked to finish the $465,000 building with future theater and bowling addition planned.
The Bakers and Confectionery Workers International Union of America opens a triennial session in Kansas City with about 22 000 members and 85 delegates. They may back independent bakeries and aim to win master bakers’ recognition, with key representation from New York Pittsburg Cleveland and Boston.
James Lewis Baraca class met Sunday at Government Hill Methodist Church for devotional services. The class led opening exercises with song and prayers. L. L. McNease new teacher from Dallas led the Daniel and His Companions lesson. Baracas hosted Epworth League devotional program with strong attendance.
Horsford's Acid Phosphate recommended as a nightcap. A half teaspoonful in half a glass of water before bed is said to induce restful sleep.
Mrs W B Deeds, who has chartered Lord Anglesey s yacht Semiramis once owned by Anthony Drexel as the Margherita, will cruise the Adriatic for September and likely be joined by Sarah Wilson. She will then spend autumn at Balcombe Place in Sussex, rented during the Denmans absence in Australia.
F C Melcher vice president of the Chicago Rock Island & Pacific warns in a letter from New York that pending railway bills would force vast costs. Replacing wooden equipment, enlarging clearances, and universal block signals could total 1 361 000 000 dollars equal to 10 percent of U S road net capitalization of 14 338 575 000 in 1910.
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