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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 19, 1912
Page
12
Bexar County Boys' club invites entries for the ten best ears of corn with $450 in prizes funded by local merchants. Judges include United States Department of Agriculture representatives. The Harvest Jubilee will showcase the top ears and announce winners.
Notices report Terrill Medical Institute in Hicks building and two amateur performances. Jack Hardesty the chauffeur is fined ten dollars for speeding and five dollars for no proper lights after being arrested on South Flores. Court actions include a divorce suit by Jane De Villiers, and cases continued for Trinidad Gomez and Justo Gonzales after a knife fight on South Laredo.
Union Meat Company advertises hams bacon lard and compound made at home with a claim of top quality. Buyers are urged to ring phone 292 for attractive prices and the article's origin should not deter purchase.
A reader question contrasts dining at home with meals delivered from Chicago Kansas City and Omaha, arguing for self-prepared fare over restaurant or courier options. It advocates local, home cooking and questions costs and quality of distant takeout.
Pierce D. Christian, named by Mayor Jones, becomes the first police roundsman in San Antonio. The post, created alongside a new police captain rank, assigns him to patrol night beats and oversee mounted and foot patrols. A former St. Anthony hotel house detective, 34, from Gonzales, he is regarded as courteous and efficient.
Chamber of Commerce readies an active effort to raise 20000 dollars for Charities Fund association. Subscriptions will support six San Antonio charity groups. A contributor index is being prepared, and fundraising starts after Secretary J. F. Carter returns from Washington.
San Antonio residents stage another anti-dirt drive with extra garbage wagons, urging ward two residents to continue cleaning through Thursday and into next week under the direction of Mrs. W F Kirby and health inspectors. Precinct chairs announced for Ward three as clean-up plans expand to Ward four.
In Duluth Minnesota on September 19 public transport returns to normal as car service resumes with well filled cars. Some union members and walking club supporters refuse to ride. Two cars were stoned in the West End and several railroad ties were placed on tracks in the East End.
An advertisement extols Pape's Diapepsin as a fast, harmless cure for indigestion gas heartburn and sour stomach. It claims relief within five minutes and offers a fifty cent case with a dollar back guarantee, urging households to keep it on hand for upset stomachs day or night.
A parade of travelers visits area hotels including J. S. O Flynn in Houston stopping at the Gunter and Miss Dot Goodknight of El Paso at the Savoy. Numerous guests from Dallas, New Orleans, Buffalo, and beyond register at the Bexar Menger Crockett Gunter St. Anthony and other inns. Colonel H A Jackson returns from a long house and business trip via Nebraska after 56 years. A bottled water dispenser patent is announced for touchless use.
Jamaica bay Long Island and the Potomac river 75 miles from Washington are polluted by typhoid germs department of agriculture declares Acting Secretary Hays says investigators traced typhoid to oyster beds and a survey of oyster beds is underway to gauge contamination and urge state policing and sewer purification measures.
Joseph Raminas of San Antonio Texas was shot and killed and Francisco Basquez wounded during a race quarrel among circus employees in Rochelle Illinois police pursue a Black suspect described as the shooter.
Funeral held at 8 in the morning from 1 Bowie Street with prayers at St Joseph's Church. Survived by two daughters Sister Mary Gertrude of Our Lady of Charity Go Shepherd Convent and Mrs WY Wilke and Miss Mary Hesse, four sons John Fran William and Joseph. Burial in St Joseph Cemetery.
SPECIAL TO THE LIGHT HALLETTSVILLE Tex Sept 19 Tax Assessor R Valenta has completed his tax rolls for 191 showing total assessed valuation of all kinds 17011024 Last year 16851763 The assessor notes a loss to the coin from the intangible tax bill about 120000 The land assessed covers 608643 acres valued at 10302685 horses and mules 13940 head valued at 6943449 cattle 36796 head valued at ?
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