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San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-04-22

The following new building actlvl-
ties are reported in the service bulle-
fin published weekly by the San An
tonic Builders Exchange:
Bids were opened last week for the
construction of a reinforced concrete
warehouse for the Liberty Flour Mills.
1t will cost approximately $4,000.
Plans and specifications are being
prepared bv G. Il. Schoepple q Com
pany for concrete, tile and stucco
residence for Thomas Lyons. 1t Will
be located on Kings Highway.
Alice b. & Robert NJ. Ayres. archi-
tectS opened bids last week for the
construction of an addition to the
Grace Lutheran sanitarium on the cor
ner of San Fernando and XarzamOra
streets. 1t will be frame and stucco.
Bids for the erection OF a two
story frame residence for T.. :. Bar
row were opened in the office of
Adams X Adams, .architccts last week.
1t will be located on Agarita ave
nue..
Plans and specifications for the
construction of n metal lath and
stucco residence for Curtis Vaughan
will be completed soon. 1t will be
located on the Terrell road.
Proposals for strengthening officers
quarters at Fort Sam Houston are
being received in the office Of the
Constructing Quartermaster. Work
will consist of placing concrete col
umns and footings under the buildings
and making repairs to officers quar-
tiers in the Cavalry Post.
Swayze and Hauck. structural
steel engineers, have the contract for
removing steel bridge at New
Braunfels. Work will cost $500.
Bids were opened last week by Will
lard f.. Simpson, engineer, for the
construction of reinforced concrete
basement in William Church's resi-
dence. 1t is located in Terrell Hills.
Work will cost $11S0.
Contract has been awarded J. c.
bTuSptH ~ NOlIluliA lpT Inv anu
marble work to be done in bank build
ings at Santa Anna and Elgin.
Contract has been awarded G.. f.
Long for construction of a four-room
frame bungalow for w. b. Reese. 1t
will be located on Normandy street.
The cost is estimated at 5000.
Bids were opened recently at Pleas
anton for remodeling and addition
work TO be done on the Pleasanton
school. Contract was awarded to VIII
son and Ferguson. Work will cost
$4,000.
s. T.. Kicks will construct n tile,
concrete and stucco store and hotel
building to be located in Pleasanton.
Gunderman & Allen. contractors esti-
mate the cost at S14,101.
O. r. Dix has awarded contract
to Gunderman & Allen for the con
struction of his brick store building
which will be located on the corner
of Main avenue and Myrtle street. |
1t will cost $4,000.
C. =. Schoepple and Company have
under construction two frame resi-
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-04-22

Attractive window displays in the
new store are already in place and a
record crowd is expected TO attend the
store on the opening date.
Immediately after the San Antonio
variety store is opened Mr.. Vim says
he will go either TO New York or
Dallas whore the Piggy Wiggly is
planning to open stores. Mr.. Bassc,
a director of the Piggy Wiggly Stores,
Incorporated. district manager of all
stores. grocery and variety, has re-
turned from Waco. where he is said
TO have secured 4 lease on a building
in which his company will open an
other variety store. Before the end
of 1923 there will be a long list of
Texas Piggy Wiggly Variety stores,
Mr.. VIM says.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-04-22

At the Edge of the City-TOo Blocks From Car Line

Of from 3245 feet by 1844
1852
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-04-22

C. =. Schoepple and Company have
under construction two frame resi-
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-04-22

O. IT. Dix has awarded contract
to Gunderman & Allen for the con-
struction of his brick store building
which will be located on the corner
of Main avenue and Myrtle street.
1t will cost $4,000.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-04-22

This than wonderful buy
of to in the
O. o
San bushes
OF
Natural drainage eliminates the worries Of em weather (3) Within
sfrontn
tractfr
a of
hill practical af
frding ample and avoiding Own and loss of
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to home
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-04-22
WHY ! AM
RAISING THE
PRICE,:

In order to give all
my friends an oppor-
tunity to join me,
basing the offer on the
very closest margin
a too close margin!-I
made a special intro
ductory price of $425
an acre.
You see. ] not only
furnish the land, but
/ provide and plant the
full quota of trees, re-
place where necessary,
cultivate, manage and
stand all expense for
SEVEN YEARS.
And even dividing
the IRENE II d ousl Y
heavy initial expense
a m on e the entire
thousand acres, YOU
can easily realize that
S425 is entirely too
SMALL
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-03-27
DRINK WATER FREELY
IF KIDNEYS BOTHER
Also Take Salts If Back
Hurts or Bladder Trou-
bles You

Flush your kidneys by drinking n
quart of water each day. also take
salts occasionally, says noted au-
thority. who tells us that too much
rich food forms acids which almost
to expel it from the blood. They be-
come sluggish and weaken: then YOU
may suffer with dull misery in the
kidney region. sharp pains in the back
or sick headache. dizziness. your stom-
ach sours. tongue is coated. and when
the weather is bad you have rheumatic
twinges. The urine gets cloudy. full
of sediment. the channels often get
sore and irritated. obliging you to
seek relief two or three times during
the night.
To help neutralize these irritating
acids: 10 help cleanse the kidneys and
flush off the body's luminous waste.
get four ounces of Jad Salts from any
pharmacy here. Take a tablespoonful
in glass of water before breakfast
for a few days, and your kidneys may
then act fine. This famous salts is
made from the acid of grapes and
lemon juice. combined with lithia. and
has been used for years TO helm flush
and stimulate sluggish kidneys: also
to neutraize the acids in the system
so they no longer irritate. thus often
relieving bladder weakness.
lad Salts is inexpensive cannot in
iurc and makes n delightful efferves-
cent Whitewater drink. BY all means
have your physician examine your
kidneys at least twice a year.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-03-27
Won Know a Tonic is Good

when it makes you eat like a hungry
boy and brings back the color to your
cheeks. You can soon feel the
Strengthening, Invigorating Effect of
GROVES TASTELESS G H IL L
TONIC. Coo. (Adv.)
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-03-27
RADIO FOLLOWS WIRE
Carrier Current Experiment Hailed a.
Great Development.

New York. March 27.-Radio. in
the form of carrier current was used
Monday in carrying on conversation
between a moving trolley car and a
power station about three miles dis
tant.
Carrier current, it was explained.
differs from radio in that the voice
is not broadcast in all directions. II
follows the trolley wire and does not
radiate enough for any other persons
to pics up the messages.
Nor does it interfere with messages
broadcast from other stations.
Advantages of this new develop-
ment. it was said. consist chiefly in
the ability of repair or emergency
crew to communicate with the power
Eouse. as conversations can be car
ried on whether or not there is power
in the trolley wire.
The energy used for carrier current
is supplied fom storage batteries on.
Grating n motor generator set.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-03-27
Corpus Christi Tells the World
Writer Says 1t Rains There "Once in Three Years.
Hear the Howl.

Corpus Christi. Tex. March 81
Corpus Christi is peeved. Yea, veri-
ly, the Naples of the Gulf is riled.
And justly SO. Aspersions have been
cast on its climate.
Citizens are seen to rise early in
the morning from Nueces bay to Flow
er bluff and chant a hymn of hate TO
one Alfred Fantl. 1t is this Fantl
person who wrote. in an article head
cd Experiences of a Buyer in the
April Magazine. that Corpus Christi
is as arid as a desert-in fact, that
it rains in that vicinity 1T least "once
in three years"
"Never too old to learn" quote the
bluff dwellers, but this is one piece
of information that they refuse TO be-
lieve. One indignant citizens rises
to say that he don't know if Mr..
Fantl has ever been in Corpus Christi
but the chances are he has not. Mr..
Fantfs Indictment is based upon So
called last news handed him as he
sits in his New York office where
day in and day out, whether it rains
or not. he goes about his business of
being purchasing agent for many re-
tail stores"
The people of Corpus Christi deny
the allegation that they have not had
more than one rain Sin the last three
years" and they defy the alligator.
Also they have the figures to prove it.
The situation reminded one citizen
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-03-27
POLES APPEAL TO REDS
Seek TO Have Convicted Catholic Pre-.
lates Released.

Warsaw. March PA resolution
calling on the Polish government to
make all efforts to obtain the release
of Archbishop Eggplant and the other
Roman Catholic priests on trial IL
Moscow was passed unanimously by
the Polish chamber of deputies on Sat
Urday.
In adopting the resolution the
chamber declared it was acting in ac-
cordance with humanitarian princi-
pies recognized by the entire civilized
world, with regard to religious and
cultural freedom.
In the discussion preceding the
adoption of the resolution it was de
Clared that the trial in Moscow af-
fccted the future of the entire Roman
Catholic population of Russia. includ-
ing some 2.G00.000 Poles. who. in
accordance with article of the treaty
Of Riga, are guaranteed liberty Of
religion and culture.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-03-27

of a story Roy Miller OF Corpus
Christi tells on Dave Woodward OF
San Antonio. who in the course OF
his business has been instrumental in
settling many of Texas verdant acres.
formerly the home of the mesquite and
rattlesnake, but which are now made
to blossom like the rose.
According to the story, the San
Antonio realtor was showing n party
of northern homeseekers over a sec
ton of the Lone Star state with a
view TO selling them some wide and
fertile acres. In telling his prospective
purchasers of the eternal summer of
the section. Mr.. Woodward. it seems,
had been rather glowing in his re-
marks on the absence of cold weather.
Coincident with the arrival of the
homeseekers came one of those stiff
northers such as swept South Texas
last week. The temperature at the
time the party reached the farm land
had slid down TO the freezing point
and few flakes of snow could be
seen in the air.
SIS this the land of year-around
summer" asked one of the men. why.
l never saw it so cold in my life"
Mr.. Woodward being put on the
defensive. of course. could do nothing
but plead an exception. Scratching his
head he pointed to one of the native
sons, and told his prospect, he could
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-03-27
GLIDERS FOR TARGETS
Anti-aircraft Defenses Will Now Have
Something Real TO Shoot AT.

Washington. ID. C.. March 81
Antl-aircraft defenses throughout the
country soon will be given the Oh
porrnity Of firing at a realistic tar
get as it travels through the air. as
result of an invention. known tech
nically as target glider" which
has been perfected by the engineer
ing division of the army air service
at Mctook Field. Ohio.
The target glider has a wing span
OF j. IL feet and weighs only %
pounds. Reports of experiments at
McCook Field, announced by the War
Department, show that the device.
which is fastened to the top wing of
an airplane, gradually descends to
the ground at speed of about 80
miles an hour when released.
The target glider should prove n
valuable addition TO the equipment of
fieIds where training in aircraft gun
merry is featured the announcement
said.
Heretofore there has not been
VALUABLE satisfactory targets simulat-
ing an airplanc in flight. against
which actual fire could be delivered
in tho training of anti-aircraft and
airplane gunners."
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-03-27

he saw her here in two performances
and she still had the coffin.
Miss Bernhardt's last appearance
in San Antonio was at Beethoven
Hall in 1910. Previously she had APP
peared at the Grand Opera House.
Mr.. Powell said Monday that Miss
Bernhardt's appearance in Beethoven
Hill was the result of Il controversy
which the great actress had with a
New York theatrical exchange which
controlled bookings in theaters OF
Texas. Miss Bernhardt refused TO
come TO terms with the New York
concern 50 She used a tent as an
auditorium in many of the towns
which she played. He said a tent was
used at Dallas. but that when she
reached here arrangements were made
TO use Beethoven Hall.
Was Getting Fat.
For sixteen years. Mr.. Powell was
critic for the New York Dramatic
News and the Dramatic Association.
An interesting item printed in The
Light of February %. 1887. is quot
ed below. Miss Bernhardt had passed
through the city the previous night.
The item follows:
Sarah Bernhard. the divine Sar-
all. passed through the city on route
for Washington last night. and Texas
cannot fail to regret this non-ap-
pcarance Of this vorld-famouS actress.
FL Paso was willing To pay $1,000 to
see her perform, but time and trains
forbade il. and the same reason de-
prived San Antonio of that pleasure.
Sarah has had a most enjoyable and
successful trip. but Pandora has
thrown her discord into it in the
shape OF a dead pet dog. Sarah is
quite well. but according 10 accounts.
the spirituality for which she has been
famous is passing away. And it is
recorded on good authority that Sarah
is actually getting fat"
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-03-27
ALL FRANCE
NOURNS FOR
DIVINE SARAH
Paris Not Stirred So Deep
Iy Since Death of
Victor Hugo.
ACTORS PAY TRIBUTE
Body Will Lie in State at
Home Tuesday
Afternoon.
ACTORS PAY TRIBUTE
BY the Associated Press.

Paris. March 25.-All France
mourns today, for her weil-bcloved
daughter. Sarah Bernhardt, is dead
Paris is stunned. scarcely belley-
ing that she who WIS regarded as al
most immortal. in more than one
sense of the word. has passed away
If seems not 100 much TO say that
not since the death of Victor Hugo
has France been stirred so deeply.
As the Academician De Fleers OBJ
serves in Figaro. Bernhardt probably
shares with Hugo and Pasteur the DIS
tinction Of being the most illustriouss
nerson in the last hundred years OF
French history. Divine Sarah was
undoubtedly one of the greatest am
bassadors VI French art and litera-
ture who ever lived.
Harding Asked to Announce Death.
Ii was thus Jefitting that the pub
lie idolized her aid which she in
turn held 20 close TO her hear. should
have fingered rcverently in the soft
spring night outside the house on
the Boulevard Pereirc. where she lived
1Nr - NfdLSs NuaA III lAt ft-'A 'A'''
The family. After midnight. when
the Iheaters were closed. came the
people Of the stage 10 pay tribute TO
their illuStriodS Comrade.
Among them were Sacha Guitry, the
playwright who had a filial respect
for BcInhardt. Cecil Sorel. Rachel
Boyer and a host of other stars. In
cluded in the number also was James
Hacket. who. according 10 LLclair.
cabled President Harding requesting
him to announce officially to the peo-
pie of the United States the death
of the greatest artist in the world.
Body TO Lie in State.
Bernhard lies on her bed covered
by the flowers she loved 80 well. Tall
candles burn at either side and at
the foot Of her couch. and. in ac-
cordance with French custom. a
crucifix and n bowl Of holy water
stand on a little table nearby.
1t was arranged that the body
should lie N state at the home be-
ginning at . o'clock this afternoon.
The funeral probably will be held
Mt the church of st. Francois dc
Sales, but. inasmuch as this is "tht
week of the dead preceding Easter
there can be no high mass.
Nine. Bernhardt's most valuable per
sonal effects are being taken out of
the house by her son Maurice and
sent elsewhere for safe-keeping.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-03-27
CHICAGO PACKERS ARE
ATTACKED AS "TRUST"
BY ARGENTINA PRESS
Government Officials Are
Behind Agitation Against
Packing Plants.
BY CLAUD q. PIKE.
special Correspondent OF The San Antonio
Light and tho Chicago Daily News.


Buenos Aires. Argentina, March %.
Chicago packers with branch packing
plants or frigorificos located in yari-
Gus cities of this republic are placed
on the defensive by governmental Of
ficials, who charge them with being
in trust.
DR.. Thomas 4. LeBreton. minister
of agriculture, has been active in a
movement advocating national pack
ing plants as a means of offering
competition TO the foreign companies.
He argues that national plants would
lower the price of meats 10 consumers
and increase the price of livestock 10
Argentine stock raisers.
The scheme has met with the favor
of Il large group of politicians who
apparently see in il an opportunity
for campaign slogans. Many of tho
smaller newspapers, identified with
political leaders, are hot on the trail
of the So-caled trusts.
At first the foreign packing COM
panies made no answers To the charge
that they were responsible for the low
prices paid to stock raiSers for cattle.
but as the antitrust clamor became
louder, plain statement of the live
stock situation was prepared AMI
handed To government Officials. In
this statement, the packers pointed
out thar meat prices were governed
by the law OF supply and demand, and,
that, with Argentina's principal mar
ket reduced because OF the economic
breakdown in Europe. no artificial
attempts Of n single government 10
fix cattle prices could be successful.
They pointed to the fact that the live
stock and agricultural interests Of
the United States and Canada had
just emerged from such depression
as is now felt in this country. The
slump reached this country after it
did the other countries.
The after-the-war slump has hit Ar
gentina hard, according TO the pack
ers' statement. because this nation s
exports are almost entirely meats and
livestock products. Argentina is thus
largely at the mercy of the meat con-
sumers in European markets.
The larger daily newspapers OF
Buenos Aires are not espousing the
national packing mouse scneme OF inc
government leaders. their general trend
being directed toward showing that
the subject is not one that can be
adjusted by legislation. Even the two
British dailies of this city have
espoused the cause of the packers and
pertinently inquire why the govern
ment leaders and Argentinians OF
wealth do not organize private iack-
ing plants. if. such great profits are
being made by the foreign packers,
The newspapers suggest that polite
ians who can hatch up schemes where
by government finances can be used
do not care how unsuccessful the ven
lures may prove.
Beautiful Roselawn Cemetery. not a
graveyard. beautiful, well kept burial
park. Crockett 16SS.-(Adv.)
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-03-27

Beautiful Roselawn Cemetery. not a
graveyard, a beautiful, well kept burial
park. Crockett 16SS.-(Adv.)
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-03-27

was to the effect that it had NOT
rained in Corpus Christi more thai
once in three years"
Figures Disprove II.
Can you imagine it?
Why, really, the people of Corpus
Christi would rather be alluded to as
people who didn't have enough sense
10 come in out of the rain than TO
have the good people of the North
and East believe their territory to be
such an arid waste.
Mr.. McAuliffe. in charge of the Cor
pus Christi weather bureau. has writ
ten his chief at Washington regard
ing the misstatement of fact. 1t is
understood that a number of the citi-
zens have written the editor of the
American offering to show Mr.. Fantl
more rain in three days than some
sections of the nation have in three
years.
Corpus Christi had more rain in
1922 than it has had in any year since
1885," said Mr.. McAuliffe. 'The to-
tai rainfall in Corpus Christi last
year was 1885 inches. The average
rainfall is 2I.1S inches, sufficient to
supply all needs. This city has never
had a period of even ore year in
which there was no rain.
THE writer on the American Mag
azine should have been in Corpus
Christi last September when we had
1880 inches of rainfall in that zone
month. He probably would have
changed his mind about rain falling
here once in three years"
Regarding umbrellas, Mr. McAuliffe
said he had been in Corpus Christi
two years and had worn two of them
out already.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-03-27

ask the youth il he had ever seen snow
in those parts before.
Calling the boy over, Mr.. Woodward
asked: "Son, have you ever seen il
snow in this part of the country be-
| fore:"
Where Fantl Got Idea.
The boy thought for a moment, and
then said: mo, / haven't; but I'll
tell you what l have seen; I've seen
it rain once"
1t is evident that some one has
been to New York and related the
story to Mr.. Fantl, giving Corpus
Christi as the scene of the incident.
Mr.. Fantrs Islander has aroused the
ire of the local weather forecaster, j.
p. McAuliffe.
why last September. 1922" said
Mr.. McAuliffe, in commenting on the
Americans story. 1--WE had over thir-
teen in.Ses of rain. IL Mr.. Fantl was
basing his remarks on September
weather he would have been more cor
rect IL he had said that it stopped
raining once in three years"
Any way. what does a buyer in
New York know about South Texas
weather? In his article he describes
the various kinds OF merchandise
which command better sale in diff
ferent parts of the country. The fol-
lowing paragraph is the one that
brought forth such bitter comment
here:
More umbrellas are sold in Cali
fornia during the month Of December
than are sold in any other state in
two years. You may be surprised to
know that there is one town in the
United States where umbr Has are
never sold. This is not because the
people prefer to get wet to carrying
umbrellas. but because it never. or
almost never rains. The town is Cor
pus Christi, Tex. The last news l had
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-03-27
WAS HERE TWICE.
David Powell Recalls Coffin Famous
Actress Always Carried.

At least one San Antonian recalls
the first American tour of Sarah
Bernhard in 1878 and was present
at one of her plays.
David Powell. San Antonio attor-
ney, and former dramatic critic, saw
Miss Bernhardt at Montgomery. Ala,
the first time She toured this country.
Monday. Mr.. Powell recalled that at
that time the famous actress carried
an elaborate coffin which she had
built, and in which she had requested
that she bc buried. In after years
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-03-27
TURKS AS EDUCATORS
Decree Says that Angora History Must
Be Taught in All Schools.

Constantinople, March 27.-Pursu-
ing a policy Of nationalism, the An
CORA government has decreed that
Turkish history, geography and lam
guage shall be taught in the Turkish
language in all the foreign schools in
Turkey.
The decree prescribes the number Of
hours for the classes. 1t will affect
90 foreign schools and 525 Greek, Ar
menian and Jewish institutions.
The Turkish government will Sc
lect all the instructors.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-03-27
COUPLE IS BURNED
Newly WEEDS In Hospital rs Result OF
Gas Explosion.

Breckenridge Tex, March H.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. c. Swancy, just mar.
ried. were in a hospital last night mt
the point of death following an explo-
sion and fire in their home here.
They entered the kitchen of their
home and struck a match when the
gas-filled room exploded.
A leaking cook stove is believed to
have allowed escape of gas.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-03-27

A pretty sheer quality silk hose, have
Isle tops and foot. Full fashioned and
are sure to be serviceable, shown in black
and white. You'll want several pairs at
this price. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..