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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 28, 1913
Page
35
Advert explains a universal cure claimed to eradicate bladder complications infection stricture rheumatism and other hard cases. It says doctors reject many patients but this method can help and offers a cure or no payment. Caller invited for explanation.
The essay argues that healthy discontent drives improvement and that cities reach sanitation through united citizen action. It notes how visitors judge a city by its streets and buildings and cites youths repairing a school, running a cooperative farm, and planning a gym as signs of practical progress.
The Boston Transcript cites a new grafting method tested in Germany that could create disease resistant cotton bushes and turn cotton into a perennial crop. By grafting a cultivated scion onto a wild stock and then grafting the parent onto the seedling stock, researchers claim ongoing vigor and broader cultivation regions. United governments are urged to trial this approach to expand cotton growing beyond current annual limits.
Dean Battle reports from Oxford that Texas Rhodes scholarship exams will be held at the University of Texas on October 14 and 15. Open to all Texas men under 21, tests cover Latin English Greek arithmetic algebra and geometry. winner gets Oxford appointment for three years and 1500 dollars per year. Homer Bruce of Denton, last year’s winner, sails to England October 1.
Local Chamber of Commerce offers three hundred fifty dollars in prizes for best agricultural product display on October 6. Trades Day events in Christoval, Waco, Coleman, and Dallas announce fairs, road improvements, and new projects.
Washington reports the United States loses ground in Asia cotton goods trade, with China imports shrinking from 1905 to 1913 and Japanese mills gaining. Commerce investigates causes as Commercial Agent W A Graham heads to China and Japan to study shifts and what new textiles may succeed. McKinney businessmen form a Retail Merchants' Credit association and plan a remember ship rally.
The Mobile Chamber of Commerce and Business League launches a Panama Canal on Wheels tour to drum up interest ahead of the canal’s opening. A working model car, built from Isthmian Canal Commission plans, will feature a miniature Titanic ship passing through the canal as L. C. Irvine leads the Mobile convention tour.
A suburban domestic farce unfolds across three acts in a city office and a restaurant. Mrs Thoughtless and her husband Mr Thoughtless clash over missed errands and temper as Miss Sharpe and Miss Craven arrange to meet, exposing a parade of petty misunderstandings and domestic friction.
Travel writer Lecky described a Labadist colony in Friesland in 1898. Intermarrying within the group, the sect maintains distinctive features including a refined appearance, prosperous fishing livelihood, and houses with silver inlays, prints of the house of Orange, and large Bibles with silver clasps.
Ready made correspondence cards have been popular in France for years. Each card carries about four dozen stock remarks for travelers to select from and fill a page of letter writing. A cross marks the sentiment. examples include Just arrived, Weather bad, This is a bad hotel, Very dull here, Jolly people, Send me some money.
Progress report shows Alabama high schools expanded from fifty in 1908 to 132 institutions. Most now offer four year courses, with only fourteen lacking full four year programs. The statistic traces development in secondary education and curriculum breadth across the state.
A man named Mister Stone arrives in the local village wielding power over tenants and finances. He boasts of foreclosing mortgages and evicting landlords, while quashing dissent and threatening to take more property for his own gain.
Clarence Burr Byxbee, once a $10-a-week insurance clerk, leaped to wealth via mining ventures in South America. Theosophy guided his marriage in Brooklyn in 1912 to Stella Chinilla, now thriving in Iquique Chili. Norwalk may crown him mayor upon his return, as he promises to bring opportunity and money.
Excavators at the Arrowrock dam area uncover a great arrowhead carving in a granite cliff along the Payette Boise project. The V shaped mark is believed tied to Indian legends and marks the dam site approach. Bedrock excavation revealed the crevice where the arrowhead was exposed by steam shovels as floodwaters rose. Scientists estimate the carving to be around 3000 years old.
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