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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 11, 1916
Page
3
The provider emphasizes defined service and cost cutting through specialization. They offer two top tires Diamond and Portage with guaranteed quality and free road service and advice. They pledge on-site help anywhere and insist on not selling off brands, promising expert service and a full service station lineup.
A Berlin based neutral war correspondent reveals how the Russian general staff and foreign office craft rosy official dispatches. Reports are edited multiple times and often exaggerate victories and prisoner counts to boost morale and influence neutrals and allies.
United States District Court docket shows many cases of persons charged with buying army clothing form a large portion of the calendar. The term begins December 18 but will be continued to January 3 due to Christmas holidays. Assistant District Attorney Hugh L. Robertson says witnesses will not be called until January. The bulk of trials are minor crimes and civilian purchases of single shirts from a dissident. Expected to be tried is Randolph G. Walker, a soldier indicted for killing a fellow soldier at the arsenal last summer. Walker is out on bond.
A Times-Picayune feature on San Antonio, produced for Southern Pacific to entice travelers to visit or stopover en route to California, follows a mother and son touring Fort Sam Houston Camp Wilson the Alamo missions plazas and parks in a modern city setting.
Mrs Meyers of 815 Delgado Street San Antonio wife of a fire department lieutenant reports drastic health improvement after using Tanlac She says after an April operation she regained strength appetite and weight and believes Tanlac restored her vitality and color The ad notes Tanlac aids digestion blood quality and mucous membranes and lists local San Antonio dealers Wagner Drug Co and E J H Meier with a Tanlac representative.
Chicago December 11 Charles C Mealey chief of police may face a decision by Mayor William Hale Thompson on his status with the department. After thirty years his body bears numerous injuries from a long career including broken bones a shattered wrist and multiple cuts. He denies resignation rumors stating he would resign if asked.
Fire early Sunday morning in Marshall Texas destroyed several business buildings valued at about 50,000 dollars, with partial insurance coverage. The blaze damaged structures in the city’s business district, amid investigations into the cause.
The armory home of the local national guardsmen on border duty reports losses of personal effects and government property valued around 2500. Major losses include Hayes Machinery Company at 30000 and Henry Yokes blacksmith and repair shop at 7000.
Reports from Stockholm quoted by Overseas News Agency say German submarines operating in the Arctic have sunk six steamers bound for Russia in recent weeks amid wartime naval activity.
Germany’s reply to the Swiss note on Belgium deportations was received in Berne. The dispatches say it is Polite yet clear that Switzerland has no ground to interfere with Belgium unless its own interests are affected.
Three boys ages totaling twenty discover a tomato can buried near San Francisco's new city and county hospital. The can contains five thousand dollars in five dollar bills. The find is described as the tangible end of the rainbow.
A group of youths used 1914 Federal Reserve issue notes to buy candy and exchanged bundles of bills for sweets. They distributed about 3000 dollars for 50 cent purchases before a police officer intervened and seized the remaining 2000 dollars.
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