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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 11, 1916
Page
7
Emil Blum Company on West Houston Street opened its Todo Se Va sale to a surge of customers who filled the store, forcing doors to close three times. Advertisements in the afternoon paper boosted attendance, and the first three hours of Thursday sales matched the entire best day of last year’s sale. An extra sales staff was added for Friday.
Mrs. Scribb asks upstairs for goats on the dressing table and explains she now calls them kids as they age. Scribb, puzzled, learns the change, then gets the hint from his wife in a brief Rochester Times exchange.
An advertisement touts Dodson's Liver Tone as a safe, vegetable liver remedy to replace calomel. It claims to cleanse the bowels, remove sour bile, and prevent salivation, promising quick relief and family-wide benefit with a pleasant taste.
Sunset-Central president W B Scott is in San Antonio predicting a flourishing winter tourist trade as Texas railroads report high freight and troop movement. He cites improved streets highways and parks boosting San Antonio and notes rail lines run near capacity with extra trains. Scott heads to Houston after speaking on Texas expansion and tourism potential.
After talks between Dr D Berrey and Dr Beverly Young the Southwestern Insane Asylum about lunacy trials, insane persons will be tried by jury in Bexar county ending six physician commissions. Exceptions apply for estates where both commission and jury may be used to ensure legality. Judge Davis confirms jury trials saving county costs from 300 to 100 dollars weekly. The attorney general previously supported the act then questioned its constitutionality.
A Dutch customs officer uncovered a scheme where cement blocks containing benzine were hidden beneath tombstones destined for Belgium. The hollow graves markers were filled with oil and the blocks seized by Dutch authorities. PathFinder notes the tactic as a clever ruse by Germans to smuggle fuel through Holland into Belgium.
William Jennings Bryan urged total abstinence to Atlantic City reporters stating milder cures fail. A parable about a man named Smith resisting a tavern illustrates resolve, ending with the man returning home and praising Resolution for staying firm.
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