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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 18, 1911
Page
3
Letters filled with examples from San Antonio families show couples living comfortably on $20 a week with prudent management. A critic argues the engaged man who avoids marriage over money is undeserving, while supporters point to homes, cars, and a piano achieved on low wages. The Light contest ends September 22.
Elwood Indiana resident Mrs Sadie Mullen credits Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with relief from months of pain and disability avoiding surgery. The ad touts the remedy for displacements inflammation ulceration fibroid tumors irregularities and nervous prostration and invites letters for free confidential advice to Mrs Pinkham in Lynn Massachusetts.
The Light invites readers to submit letters on saving for a rainy day with three key ideas good management bargain hunting and wife’s industry. Winners receive 5 and 2 dollars. Contest closes Friday September 22 with letters due by noon.
Prof Isi dore Broman state mining inspector just returned from inspections of coal mines at Eagle Pass and Laredo and reports mine owners are now complying with the mining law in every respect. He notes that a $1000 annual traveling allowance approved at the recent special session will significantly aid enforcement, as previously funds were almost unavailable.
The Sterling, the U S collier that wharfed in New Orleans, started taking on general storekeepers supplies for the Algiers naval station closure. Work should finish by Friday and Commander J M Helm and staff will likely receive orders to transfer. Sterling destined for New York. dry dock remains active for merchant vessels.
The first Tennessee state fair under state control opened this morning in Nashville with good weather and a large crowd. There are no free passes and no opening formalities. Governor Hooper speaks tomorrow, Champ Clark visits Friday, and the fair continues through Saturday night.
Mr and Mrs A L Barefield of 609 West Laurel street report seven day delay in a letter from their son A R Barefield, a United States Marine, preventing a reunion in San Antonio. The family seeks information as the son vanished after arriving August 23 and missing August 28 meeting plans.
Inventor C. W. Clark nearly drowned when his space suit like life preserver collapsed during a 75 foot leap from a Venice platform into the sea. Life guards fished him out. he was not seriously hurt.
Rev John Parsons former superintendent of Alaska missions for the Methodist church will stand trial next Wednesday before the Oregon annual conference at Salem on charges of misappropriation of church funds and related indiscretions. He is in Fairbanks Alaska and will not appear in person but will mount an active defense.
An old advertisement touts Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup as a universal teething remedy for mothers. It asserts safe use for sixty years, soothing the child, softening gums, alleviating pain, curing wind colic, and treating diarrhea, urging buyers to insist on the product name.
Emma Venella McKenzie of Minneapolis becomes the first woman named to enter the Wright brothers training camp in Dayton to learn to operate a flying machine. The Wrights had previously refused to train women, marking a historic breakthrough for female aviation efforts.
Businessmen with Argentine interests report a developing situation as cholera in Italy blocks emigration. Argentina may seek Italian laborers from the United States. Argentine farm laborers earn $2 daily in gold plus board during busy seasons.
Tomorrow the semi weekly flower mission by The Light's auto visits hospitals and charities in San Antonio with floral remembrances from local residents. Patients far from home welcome the gifts, and volunteers urge readers to pick bouquets, tie them in small bundles, and leave them at The Light office by 2 o'clock for delivery to those in need.
Michael Sobeleski, escapee and convict in a murder case, is believed to be near Hilliards Ohio after escaping the Ohio penitentiary wearing the warden's wife clothes. Prison officials have traveled to Hilliards to conduct a search.
Rev. Henry T. Adams rector of the Arcata Episcopal church was arrested in Eureka on a charge of robbing the Union Water company cash drawer in Arcata. A marked coin was used as evidence. he was released on a $1000 bond.
Nexdore asks how the lawn mower operates and Subbubs replies it does not run and requires manual pushing. The exchange shows frustration with the machine and the speaker’s complaint about the effort needed to operate it.
A major blaze hit the Peerless Oil Refining plant and its storage tanks in the Los Angeles area. Firemen fought the flames as eight large tanks exploded at 2 o’clock and about twenty-five more tanks were believed doomed. The inferno likely to burn for days threatens property worth hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Rabbi David Rosenbaum of Chicago was formally installed as the new rabbi of Temple Beth Israel in Austin on Saturday evening. A large congregation attended with many out of town Jewish visitors. Rabbis Henry Cohen of Galveston and George Fox of Fort Worth assisted, succeeding Rabbi Grad.
New York diviner Rev. Dr Samuel Henderson Virmin dies at his Madison Avenue home at 69. He had led the Pilgrim Church since 1871.
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