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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 02, 1916
Page
2
Natural Vitalitas is advertised as a universal remedy for stomach digestion issues and related ailments. The claim highlights quick, permanent relief, no opiates or alcohol, and benefits for chronic stomach disorders, rheumatism, kidney liver and blood issues, with easy administration and availability at Summer's Drug Store and other druggists.
A brief quotation from Life magazine and a Boston Transcript snippet reflect a nostalgic note on spring and sunrise. The exchange features a youthful speaker born in '68 and a sentiment about beauty in dawn.
The Austrian forces were repulsed in Monday fighting in the Astico valley with heavy losses after attacks on Italian positions at Monte Seluggio Castellatto and Monte Cimone. The war office issued the official report today detailing the failed assault and high casualties.
Pending the arrival of Judge Frederick Lehman of St Louis former solicitor general under Taft who is handling the German governments appeal in the Appam case motions on the ships disposition were adjourned in Norfolk Virginia The date for further motions will likely be set today Prince Hartfeldt attended a conference but did not appear in court
Colonel W C Langfitt Major U S Grant and General Manager A G Whittington with Horace Booth arrived for a routine inspection of local conditions. J N Galbraith, former National Lines of Mexico manager, accompanied the party as they seek a closer look at the area.
Three trainloads of mobilizing army motor trucks will pass through San Antonio toward border points from Michigan and Illinois. A. R. Atkinson says over 500 army trucks have already moved through the city during militia concentration. Thirty trucks were unloaded at Pine Street for Fort Sam Houston with 52 drivers and mechanics, as shortages of drivers and trucks persist and recruitment expands.
New York August 2 forty-one children died and 166 were stricken in the greater city during the last 24 hours in the epidemic of infantile paralysis.
Hammond Indiana delivered the first armored car with heavy steel plates forged wheels and a gun well in the roof to the War Department within 30 days of the order as the Mexican crisis peaked. The vehicle carries a high powered gun and twenty machine guns with side mountings for sharpshooter use.
Captain Koenig leads twenty seven aboard the Deutschland as it departs Baltimore with a convoy of cutters and harbor launches. Entente warships await within the three mile limit as he faces a dangerous course between perimeters in the Atlantic. A Baltimore admirer leaves roses on the conning tower.
Candidate Hughes restates notional party lines on suffrage and urges federal amendment ratified nationwide. He says he supports women's voting rights in federal amendment terms and appeals for female support while dodging specifics of platform in this speech. Mrs. Scott confronts him, predicting generations of opposition.
Resignation of Captain Horace M. Love of the Third Infantry Tennessee National Guard is accepted. Special orders revoke First Lieutenant Roscoe Coe of the First Cavalry. First Lieutenant Thomas Dew Milling detailed in aviation and as a military aviator with rank of captain. Colonel George M. Dunn leave extended seven days. Major Harry L. Gilchrist to New Orleans for temporary duty. Lieutenant Jay L. Benedict and Second Lieutenant Thompson Lawrence to West Point for duty. Lieutenant William V. Carter to join the Second Cavalry on arrival. Major Charles Y. Brownlee to Walter Reed General Hospital for observation. Leave of absence seven days for Lieutenant George Graham. Board of officers to meet to plan National Guard and volunteer supply. plan excludes central depot concentration. Leave of absence ten days granted. Attorney General Nugent noted.
Two forestry experts from Texas A and M College arrive in San Antonio to work with the Chamber of Commerce. Harry Krausy and Fred J. Hockaday will gather official data from mesquite forest owners with trees 10 inches or more in circumference to assess fuel resources and attract manufacturers.
Members of the San Antonio Real Estate Board will hold a luncheon at 12 30 Thursday in the private dining room of the Travis Club. They will discuss several matters of interest to real estate, including a vote by San Antonio members of the National Association of Real Estate Boards on adopting the title realtor. Luncheon plates are 40 cents and reservations are requested by 10 a m Thursday.
Miss Elizabeth West, president of the Texas Library Association, reports first donations for militiamen on the border. She hopes to hear from states of origin as camp reading needs are met. Mrs. Cummings, 8. H. Gwinn, and Edward Werner contributed books and magazines.
Fort Worth Texas, Aug 2. State Democratic Chairman Paul Waples said a clerical error on return blanks mislabeling repeal as retention won’t affect the validity of the Robertson insurance law vote count. The mistake was in the word repeal used instead of retention.
Reports confirm Calixto Contreras, Villa's chief lieutenant, died of wounds after being found buried at El Ojo, Durango. Contreras' sons seek amnesty, promising surrender of 400 troops under their father's command. General Trevino will decide on clemency. Davenport Renominated in Oklahoma’s First District. Davenport appears set to win renomination after strong Tulsa County lead.
Japan's top shipping line Nippon Yusen Kaisha reports a 20 percent half year dividend and a potential 60 percent additional payout if carried forward. Government subsidies support steady dividends. the Imperial Household is a major investor. Foreigners are prohibited from holding shares.
Petrograd reports the Russian government has issued orders stopping all emigration from Russia to the United States via Archangel. Cabrito advertises Mexican Inn dining from 11:30 a.m. to 9 p.m. at 126 East Crockett Street.
Fort Brown in Brownsville Texas was elevated to division post as Lt Colonel Frederick D Evans was named adjutant general of the division. The move signals further appointments to divisional staff with Captain Frank R McCoy of the Third Cavalry named active chief of staff under the new arrangement.
The Texas state board of education set the 1916 17 state per capita apportionment at seven dollars per pupil based on estimated receipts of eight million eight hundred thousand dollars and a scholastic enumeration of one million two hundred forty six thousand eight hundred ninety six children. The per capita figure is considered high due to the census counting an extra year in 1916.
The Matin reports Ama zone Oucashima, king of the Jibaros, has declared war against German colonists. His army is divided into three groups armed mainly with bows arrows assegais and other primitive weapons. The Jibaros is the collective name for the wild Indians of the province of
Orients inhabit the eastern slope of the Andes in Ecquador and are also found in northern Peru, extending their distribution across Andean regions.
Leipzig Aug 2 The Reichsgericht confirms the Bonn criminal court sentence against Ernst Boetticher owner of a large German distillery. He was convicted of cheating the government out of war taxes totaling nearly a million dollars and sentenced to eighteen months in prison and a 3.25 million dollar fine. The fine is collectible as the distillery is valued at over five million dollars.
Moscow reports Count Kratsky in charge of the relief fund accused of misusing money. Of about half a million rubles voted by the government only three thousand reached the refugees, with roubles totaling around $250,000 failing to materialize.
London reports a British doctor freed by the Turks says English captives are training the Sultan's men to play football, a game Turks are embracing with great zeal.
Petrograd on August 2 reports F. Faskevicz chief of the Kiev governor's office and acting chief censor arrested on charges of squandering large sums of government funds.
A Sioux Paris physician cites a Philadelphia businessman's doubt about the Ark story, noting disbelief in the Ark lasting forty years in the wilderness despite belief in its scale and animals. The piece also recalls Miss Howler’s Paris singing lessons and a Boston quip from the Boston Transcript.
A new book titled Mrs Percy V Pennybacker An Appreciation by Miss Helen Knox of Giddings Texas offers a sympathetic portrait of Mrs Pennybacker. It sketches her journey from Baptists daughter in Virginia to a leading club woman shaping and inspiring women in Texas and national circles. The text highlights her club work from Carthage Missouri to Texas Federation conventions in San Antonio and notes the evolving acceptances and power of women's clubs.
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