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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 12, 1916
Page
5
Paris August 12 Sir Edward Carson declares Germans are barbarians and should be treated as such in peace as in war. He urges allied governments to declare forthwith that Germany will receive no diplomatic representatives until those guilty of war crimes are punished.
Aug 10 dispatch reports Dr Thomas Darlington inspecting border camps for the New York civic federation. He praises cheerful troops maintaining best health, cites need for more rest, additional cotton netting, and notes clean drainage and waste systems with low sickness rates attributed to heat.
The West Texas Fair opens Tuesday August 15 and runs four days. It bills itself as the biggest agricultural fair and stock show in this part of Texas with special low excursion rates and ticket sales at the Sap ticket office.
Harry Affleck eight son of Mr and Mrs H E Affleck is reported improving at Baylor hospital after being thrown from a horse. He has not fully regained consciousness but doctors expect recovery.
Letters of thanks reach Troop C Texas cavalry in the Big Bend area as Mrs. W P Rote reports gifts from home. Capt R O Whiteaker and Lt John Pape praise the timely boxes of fruit and pillows sent during a three day march.
New York reports that within two weeks officials may announce a $250 million loan to Great Britain. The two year note issue carries 5 percent interest and would be secured by about $500 million in Canadian Argentine and Swiss government bonds and by American railroad and industrial securities. Principal and interest would be paid in gold in New York to fund munitions purchases from the United States.
A four funnel French warship entered Pensacola harbor today hoisting a quarantine flag and requesting a reserve of Marine Hospital personnel. The vessel then slowed to nearly still progress in the bay.
Two hostile seaplanes dropped four bombs over the British naval port of Dover this afternoon. An official statement reports one officer and six men slightly injured with little material damage beyond broken windows. anti aircraft guns responded as planes pursued the raiders who fled seaward.
Lincoln Nebraska August 12 Shelry E Fossler assistant city editor at the Nebraska State Journal died today after a two week illness from tonsillitis and complications arising from diseased tonsils.
Copenhagen August 12 The Danish Landsthing moved to form a committee to consider ratification of cession of the Danish West Indies to the United States. The opposition fears secret negotiations and will likely dissolve the Rigsdagen with elections and a new constitution granting women suffrage lowering the voting age and broadening the electorate.
A semi official Rome note relayed by Havas states twenty aircraft dropped four tons of explosives near Trieste destroying a major petroleum reservoir and nearby buildings. Three torpedo factory buildings suffered heavy damage. Austrians attacked Venice causing church Santa Maria Formosa to collapse with no military damage reported.
Constantinople reports the occupation of Kivehli on August 9 in a new official statement. The Egyptian front details a British cavalry regiment nearly wiped out at Katia, with all officers killed according to prisoners.
It is cool in the hill country and a short vacation to Kerrville and the West Texas Fair is suggested with low excursion rates over the Southern Pacific.
Arthur L Flanigan 49 died Friday night at his son in law Hugh S Hughes home 1716 West Commerce street He came from Florida two months ago survived by his widow and family Funeral at 3 pm Sunday from the Masonic temple with Masonic services Interment in Masonic cemetery Mrs Sallie Duke 76 died Friday morning in a San Antonio sanitarium Native of Texas she came from San Saba seven months ago Funeral at 3 pm Sunday interment St Luke's cemetery
Funeral and automobile equipment services offered by Shelley Loring Undertaking Co. Advertising blurb notes both phones for contact and inquiries.
Rome reports the Austrian air raid on Venice on August 10 destroyed the Santa Maria Formosa church. The building, centuries old, housed Palma Vecchio altars and Madonnas by Sassoferrato and Pietro Damessina, with most artworks already removed prior to the raid.
The Seattle Post-Intelligencer reports the Japan steamship Canada Maru of Osaka Shosen Kaisha carries the season's most valuable silk consignment. It totals 3600 packages valued at 1.76 million dollars and is due in Seattle October 17. A Chicago, Milwaukee and St Paul train will rush the silk overland. Another Osaka Shosen Kaisha steamer, Mexico Maru, bound for China and Japan, carries 4343 bales of cotton valued at 211.497 thousand dollars, with transit through Seattle, Tacoma and Vancouver.
The country home of Ed Cross at his amusement park two miles south of Kingsville was totally destroyed by a fire at 2 o'clock Friday morning. A small portion of the furniture was saved. The Kerrville Fair offers daily horse races and midweek aeroplane flights, opening with Treisy.
The French steamer Tibor of 2727 tons caught fire on August 11 while carrying inflammables and sank. It had departed New York July 2 bound for Marseilles and was last reported passing Gibraltar July 16.
Nat Parks of the Southern Pacific says Texas ranges are at their best in years with ample grass and water. Thousands of cattle will move next week from North and Central Texas to the Brownsville district, aided by rail orders for hundreds of stock cars. The King ranch will ship thousands from Brownwood and Welder ranches will move stock from Llano Kerrville and Richmond as drought relief ends and profits rise.
San Antonio riders can reach Kerrville Fair for 1.25 dollars round trip. The fair opens Tuesday, August 15, and runs for four days.
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