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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 01, 1916
Page
3
A promotional line touting inclusive music offerings. It emphasizes that all genres suit every listener and highlights personal taste by promising music that fits individual preferences. The phrasing targets broad audiences with upbeat, inclusive messaging.
R P Neville of Waco asks General Funston to help locate his sixteen year old son who left home about midnight July 113. The father believes the boy may be in the United States or have joined a militia as troop trains pass Fort Worth en route to the border with more than 100000 guardsmen on duty.
Mr Neville described his son as having dark red hair, about five feet seven inches tall and weighing 140 or 150 pounds.
Tentative plans for a modern state general land office were presented to Governor Ferguson for approval by the state architect. A $300,000 appropriation was approved by the last Legislature but becomes available September 1. plans aim to be finished and contracts let before then so construction can start promptly. The building will be fire proof and must gain State Fire Insurance Commission approval.
SEGUIN Tex August 1 Lightning struck a tree just in front of Mr and Mrs Y A Maddox home yesterday afternoon shocking them as they sat on their gallery during a thunderstorm. The struck tree stood about fifty feet from the house.
The Petit Parisien reports a 1891 1904 commercial treaty had bound Italy to Germany economically and its denunciation by Italy now clears the path for a possible war declaration.
Charters issued include Dewey Oil Company of Humble with 10000 capital stock and three incorporators. W C Lipscomb Company of Dallas with 2000 capital stock and three incorporators. Rotary Club of Port Arthur incorporated with no capital stock. St Charles Hotel Company of Waco with 2500 capital stock. Sedgwick Paint Company Fort Worth amends to 5100 capital stock. Dexter Oil and Gas Company Gainesville files dissolution. A new sanitary shaving brush is described with sponge scraps in a coarse mesh bag for single use.
At the Monday council meeting Mayor Brown backed civil service and proposed a citizens committee to draft a charter amendment. Commissioners Uhr Garland Kearny Lambert supported the plan, signaling possible vote delays and a special election. police chief Lancaster would stay on under civil service. The Traction Company received a permit to lay 800 feet of supplemental track on South Flores Street for the Katy depot.
A claim that proprietary medicines must prove merit through competition is echoed. Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound is cited as a four-decade best seller, depicted as a dependable standard remedy for women's ailments with public confidence.
Wolfson's advertises final days for summer merchandise with discounts on in demand items across store sections and limited year around stocks being closed out at decisive reductions.
A sale of midsummer blouses featuring voices and organdies with long acetate and large collars. Styles include fine tucks tatting embroidery and laces, complete size assortment, reduced from 2.50 to 1.85. First Floor.
The notice promotes a shoes sale with broken size assortments, hand made low shoes, and price cuts from 3.50 6.00 to 1.95 per pair. It also advertises second floor Japanese lunch sets cloths and napkins at low prices including Luncheon Sets 2.75 and 98 cents, napkins and cloths with listed sizes and prices.
Tokia dispatch reports Japan plans a new dreadnought at Kure with fifteen inch guns perhaps to be named Nagato. Displacement near 2000000 tons and speed about 24 knots are rumored, making it larger and faster than Yamashiro and close to Pennsylvania but possibly slower than Queen Elizabeth. Torpedo defense and armament decisions are unsettled with importation from England likely.
Harry Monroe, credited with converting evangelist Billy Sunday to Christianity, died at his Chicago home at 86 after injuries from a streetcar accident last November. He served 24 years as superintendent of the Pacific Garden Mission and was known nationwide for reforming ex convicts and gamblers. Using electricity, a new machine the amount of corn purchased and ers it to a customer when a coin is ped into a slot and a handle turned.
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