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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 24, 1911
Page
1
A reader shares how a $20 weekly budget sustains a four room home, garden, and church life. The letter details expenses for housing, groceries, car fare, and personal allowances, with a weekly total of 17.40 and a leftover of 2.60 to cover taxes, insurance, and contingencies.
Washington dispatch notes East and Western Texas will be generally fair with variable winds. Temperatures rise likely by Monday.
San Antonio and vicinity forecasts call for fair weather on Sunday with expected calm conditions and no precipitation.
Temperature readings and wind directions for cities including Louis Chicago Milwaukee St Paul Kansas City New York Boston and Washington. Forecasts show showers or cooler conditions Sunday in several locales with fair weather in others and winds ranging from southeast to northwest.
The statement alleging that the AP leased wire into San Antonio is carried in whole or in part by any newspaper besides the Light is unfounded. There is no basis in fact for such a claim.
A saloonkeeper John Gest age 40 at 1500 South Congress street was fatally shot at his Austin saloon. A relative fatally wounded another man George Duncan who died later. Police found the apparent killer a relative of Gest as they searched for the assailant. Cause of the tragedy is undetermined.
Texas report notes Attorney General Lightfoot seeks certified copies of the general appropriation bill to challenge the governor's veto. If Secretary of State McDonald refuses, mandamus action may target him to compel delivery. final bill copies are being prepared by AG staff.
Mrs. Clara Ditmars wife of New York Zoological Park curator Raymond L Ditmars returns from Forestine Sullivan County after breaking her rattlesnake catching record. The trip included three weeks of hunting prizes for the Bronx Zoo exhibition program and proves she is possibly the only woman to tackle live rattlers in their native haunts. She says rattlesnake hunting is the only real sport for a real sports woman.
News from El Paso reports Magonistas threaten to invade Columbus New Mexico with 150 cavalry sent from Juarez to deter the attack. General Duncan seeks permission to deploy Fourth Cavalry from Fort Bliss as border tensions rise and Juarez fears a broader assault.
In his first out of state journey the governor heads to Hutchinson Kansas for a semi centennial event while aiming to meet President Taft about Mexican depredations along the southwest border. He will press for federal troops or ranger expenses to be covered and return to Austin next Saturday.
Chicago news reports Pat Crowe, known kidnapper and evangelist, attempted a window escape from a Dearborn hotel. He fell onto a fire escape, was carried back inside, and is under doctor care with a possible skull fracture. a police court hearing is planned if his condition allows.
Police chief Frank Newnam says early arrivals of the weary Willies from northern states are being rounded up and sent to work on a rock pile. Detectives and patrols patrol the city to capture hoboes. fines of 10 to 20 dollars are issued. The anticipated winter influx is expected to swell the labor force turning out crushed rock for street improvements.
Crickets, presumably angry with Austin, swarmed San Antonio on Friday. They gathered around electric lights and in stores and homes, rode street cars with Traction Company, and caused night-time disturbances prompting fumigation in some areas. Officials expect the invasion to be short-lived.
Arthur J. Burnham, under arrest since the murder of his wife and two children and their neighbors, was released from jail in Colorado Springs. He then went to an attorney’s office and transferred a $3000 Woodman life policy to his cousin’s two Detroit children after fingerprints on an ax matched his. No progress yet in finding the killer.
Boston September 23 Miss Helen Clay Frick heiress and philanthropist has ousted the French chef at Pride's Crossing Wrick mansion and now personally prepares the finest dishes for her father. The elder Frick reportedly boasts his daughter is the finest cook in the country. He finds her in the kitchen rather than the drawing room.
A special cable reports socialist uprisings and general strikes across Europe with Spain at the center. Revolt threats grow as monarchists face opposition while 45 000 troops are sent to Morocco. martial law persists and censoring clouds the picture. The Spanish government struggles as workers demand a fair share of wealth amid rising bank rates and falling securities.
In New York on September 23, Jarred Flagg once a divekeeper and Daniel N. Morgan former U S treasurer along with F Tennyson Neeley and five associates were jailed in the Tombs as federal prisoners. The raid on Flagg’s Tilden building offices exposed a 52 percent per year stock brokerage syndicate earning about 1.5 million dollars. Bail was set at 25 000 for Flagg and 10 000 for Morgan and Neeley. Authorities described lavish office parties and a web of romantic entanglements linked to the scheme.
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