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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 10, 1916
Page
14
San Antonio Municipal Chorus urges attendance at Sunday rehear sals for the Messiah program to be staged at Travis Park on December 28. The still-building program includes Hofmann recital and a large Houston Camp Wilson soldiers chorus with a 500-member cast.
Readings and prizes from the Dunning System Plaza program highlighted by six students and prize recipients Ruth Herbst and others. Church choirs held services with solo and quartet performances at Central Christian, Travis Park Methodist, Madison Square, St Mark’s, and First Presbyterian churches.
A German wartime report from Burline shows the army commissary bought or requisitioned immense amounts of food and fodder from Feb 16 to Sep 30. Total items include rye flour 150 549 tons, oats 9 169 827 tons, hogs 4 112 678 head, beef 2 385 512 pounds, and total costs exceed 760 million dollars.
A letter to the Bishop of Chelmsford argues that munition workers on Saturday night shifts are repeatedly disturbed by church bells. It asks the diocese to ring bells less, noting workers need rest while wartime production continues. The exchange includes a sharp classroom confrontation as a separate vignette.
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