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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 22, 1916
Page
7
Nelson Johns a 34 year old bartender walked into central police headquarters Friday morning and surrendered to Detective King. Sam Bryant, wounded, was found Wednesday night at the I N G freight depot with a bullet wound in the hip and taken to the city hospital where his condition is not serious.
Thieves entered the home of I. F. Hazen on Richmond avenue while residents were away Thursday. Detectives Long and Carver handled the case as clothing a watch bracelet and other items were stolen. Additional burglaries included 8 S. Wellington on Commerce Street for clothing, Marvin Bryan of the Medical Corps reporting two suitcases of clothing, and Mrs. Ed Gerlach on Hicks avenue losing a horse and buggy left by Lutz grocery store with no trace found.
San Antonio prepares for a major golf tournament at the new Brackenridge Park eighteen hole municipal course. Visitors are invited to join, with near 100 entrants already listed for both men and women events. The course is reported in prime condition with fast greens and smooth fairways as officials praise the layout and hazards.
Little Dolores Mitrova daughter of Mr and Mrs Adolph Mitrovich of 509 Avenue B received praise at the Asbury Park carnival for performances of the Butterfly Capture Doll Dance Dream of the Rose and a Waltz. She displayed versatility with slow dreamy and quick toe work and evoked serious emotion. Encores followed two numbers.
The Delaware Punch Company of Texas files with the Interstate Commerce Commission alleging unjust rates by railroads including Galveston Harrisburg and San Antonio Southern Pacific Texas and New Orleans and others on shipments of flavoring syrup from San Antonio to Louisiana and Arizona. No hearing date set.
Mrs Levinski tells her lawyer she suffered another sidewalk fall downtown. the doctor says damages are due. The lawyer notes this is the third accident in a month, and she replies with pride that she is lucky.
Postmaster George D. Armistead returns from Washington with approval for an additional clerk in the money order department and another at the Fort Sam Houston station. W. W. Gentzen, assistant superintendent of mails, gets a salary raise to promote uniform service. Armistead also seeks promotions for several colleagues and plans to have actions completed by year’s start. The trip included a stop in Martinsburg as a witness in a train robbery trial. illness of his son shortened his vacation.
M M Stewart of Crystal City Precinct No 3 Zavalla county visited San Antonio to buy steel for 27 bridges and a large tractor plow for road building. Precinct 3 recently approved a bond for roads and two new links are planned, Crystal City to Eagle Pass and Pryor to Uvalde, with Alamo Construction of San Antonio supplying the steel.
A salesman pesters a prospective buyer to examine his line of goods. The customer resists, saying there is nothing he wants. The salesman insists, offering to let the customer inspect samples on his own time.
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