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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 22, 1918
Page
5
The experience from fifty-one years of business supports San Antonians and Southwest Texas residents in buying top instruments. Each instrument is built to offer value for every dollar and lifetime satisfaction.
Monday plans call for a wooden 40 by 450 foot ponton shed with galvanized iron roof and ends to store ponton boats and wagons. Construction will use hired labor under the engineer department and follow near Wilson Street on recently acquired land.
The Welly Pickt tare will debut as a five column, twelve page weekly at Kelly Field. The paper will be edited by Sgt Howyd and published by the aviation section corps to inform men in the field and the public. It will offer orders from headquarters, personal news, and morale boosting features by field artists and staff.
Rockport will support Port Aransas to build it into a major national port on the South Coast. Mayor A R Brice of Rockport notes US dredge work to deepen the Rockport channel to aid new government vessel launches and cites McAdoo's rail and shipping takeover as key to gulf port opening.
A garbled roster lists visitors and guests in multiple hotels and towns. Names include Marthy Woollary Augusta Mrs J Kline Laredo Wool Wilson Yoakum at Gunter William vy Benhew Mexico at Menger T Ponre Lrownsville reg under various spellings. Several others register at St Anthony Lanier Menger and related venues.
Milwaukee woman Mrs H Dooley testifies that Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound relieved her chronic pains from work fatigue. She says the remedy let her work day and night without discomfort and encourages other working girls to try it. Special advice offered by Lydia E Pinkham Medicine Co. in Lynn Massachusetts.
A compilation of obituaries from San Antonio area residents. Mildred Holzhaus dies at home on West Myrtle Street. services in Castroville with La Louis Catholic cemetery burial. Several other deaths listed include Mrs. S. McCurdy, Mrs. Anna Brinkoeter, Menno Hisfield, Melon Marie Anderson, J. A. Mercer, Meyers, William Stone, Gardner Thomas, and Mrs Zilla Benefield with funeral plans and interment details across local churches and cemeteries.
Shelly Loring Undertaking Co and Pearce Robinson offer automobile equipment and private ambulances with phone numbers. Roselawn Cemetery and Robers Cement Burial Vaults advertise burial services in San Antonio with water proof air tight and everlasting vaults and reasonable terms.
Sick rate at Camp Travis fell on Monday to a level not seen in many months, officially reported to Washington as part of the war effort. The rate stood at 57.75 per 1000, well below the 60 plus per thousand observed in the prior two and a half months, a finding welcomed by headquarters officers. A separate note from New York states James A Server, president of the Mexican and the Central and South Amelia Telegraph Companies, died at his home aged, as reported yesterday.
Telephone lines linking Laredo to Nueva Laredo and Magle Pass to Piedras Negras have been spliced and may resume soon. The move, ordered by Southwestern Telegraph official C A Gates, was announced in The Light. No official explanation was given, though Washington authorities are suspected to be involved.
A Home Works program connects servicemen with San Antonio civilians who share the veterans’ old hometowns. Letters from Kelly Field and Fort Sam Houston ask for peers from Toronto Ashbury Park Menonville Sance Philadelphia Seattle St. Louis Des Moines and other places to reestablish ties before returning home.
A single home remedy promises to dissolve and destroy dandruff. Apply about four ounces of plain liquid rvan nightly to moisten the scalp, rub in gently, and by morning dandruff should be gone with three or four applications. Itching stops and hair becomes fluffy and glossy.
A fragmented OCR snippet lists several place names and personal surnames including Baltimore Boston South Boston Livan Yep Maaten Re We Marien Kell fonte Lewiston Mount Vernon Charleston and icella with no clear event or context.
Nine German societies unite to call all San Antonians of German descent to attend a 8:20 p m meeting at Beethoven Hall featuring Henry Risenberg of Indianapolis, famed orator and prominent citizen. Risenberg, an American of German descent, is highlighted as a leading speaker in the region.
Mrs J C Gueringer recounts severe pain and weakness from illness. After months bedridden she used three bottles of Cardui and recovered, saying she grew strong again and now urges her daughter to try the tonic. She notes many women have similar experiences and recommends early use.
A speaker touring the country to deliver a message for his countrymen of the same flood travels at the direction of the National Council of Defense. In San Antonio arrangements for his talk on Tuesday evening are by Warry Hertabers, four-minute men chairman. Beethoven Hall is donated for the event by the hall’s owning society.
Amsterdam April 22 Baron Gantsch von Frankenthurn former Austrian premier is dead at his Vienna home. He served three terms with his first term ending in 1911. He was 67 years old.
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