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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 25, 1916
Page
7
FOR SALE AND EXCHANGE BLACK land farms and ranches in South Texas. Ranch farm and cattle loans secured liberal terms. Lowest rate of interest. State Bank Building Crockett. Residence business property and vacant lots in growing town of Bangs Texas trade for western land. Box 27 Bangs Tex.
Captain Y Hirose of the Japanese army visits San Antonio to study the U S national guard mobilization on the Texas border. He will confer with General Frederick Funston and stay about two months at the St Anthony hotel as representative of the Japanese military attaché Colonel T Mizuma in Washington. He seeks to compare universal training with conscription and predicts growing U S-Japan trade after the European war.
A speaker stated that all Japanese high schools are teaching English to prepare young men to handle American business. This highlights a push toward English fluency in Japan’s education system and its aim to facilitate cross border commerce.
The notice lists numerous individuals staying at or visiting San Antonio hotels including Mrs C B McMunn of Laredo at the Gunter Hotel Mrs George Look Jr of El Paso at the St Anthony Hotel C E Mains of Jefferson City Mo at the Menger Hotel G B Merwether of Donna at the Gunter Hotel Af Holm of Brownsville at the St Anthony Hotel A B Baker of Boston at the Menger George N Blair of West Point Va at the Gunter Hotel R D Camp of Brownsville at the St Anthony Hotel J H Harshaw of Denison at the Menger W A Cooper of Langtry and Miss M B Dilworth of Vernon at the St Anthony Hotel Miss Ray Davenport of Fort Stockton arriving at the Menger H A Clemert and wife of Dallas at the Gunter Hotel 8 Klausner and wife of Chiaca at the St Anthony Hotel A B Doctor Jr of Dallas a guest H O Fiebig of Houston at the Gunter Hotel E R Dilworth of Dallas a guest Captain T P Jackson of Llano Grande among Monday arrivals
Sheriff Tobin says one of four Mexicans arrested after W A Slocum was killed on the Corpus Christi road is the gang captain. Letters found tied him to the bandit group that terrorized western county and forced Mexicans to join the Partido Liberal. Four suspects claim not to have used the knife, blaming a fifth man sought by deputies.
Marine intelligence reports in Galveston on December 20 note arrivals of steamers Nessian from Liverpool Topila from Tampico and El Sol from New York. Departures include Richard de Larrinaga to Manchester via Charleston Eptalofos to London via Charles town and other routes.
Misers fear Germany may be driven to bankruptcy cost farmer Peter Witkiewicz his life savings. He withdrew 6500 dollars from the Posen savings bank, hid the cash in his bed, and slept on the fortune. A fire last week consumed his house and his hoard, nearly killing him.
Dec. 23 report from War Vadu z notes Liechtenstein, with 11 000 residents, has effectively become a dry state as wine produced is sold to Germany and Austria Hungary and imported beer is costly. Saloons mostly closed, the nation embraces temperance by force of wartime conditions.
Grand Rapids Michigan December reports say Bishop Henry J. Richter of the Grand Rapids diocese is near death after pneumonia. He grew worse during the night and became unconscious after 9 o clock. Last rites of the church have been administered.
Frank J. Gould announces through the Paris Herald a $100000 gift for rebuilding the English Protestant church at Maisons Lafitte near Paris. The community includes a prominent English American colony linked to thoroughbred racing stables.
In three weeks about 100 foreign spies were deported from Switzerland and 34 await trial in cantons. English French and Italian agents predominated among those expelled, with Germany and Austria also contributing. The crackdown targets espionage threatening Swiss neutrality, with arrests across Geneva Lausanne Montreux Bern Zurich. An Egyptian former official living in Lausanne is among suspects.
Paris report states Howard Bur chard Lines a Dartmouth and Harvard Law graduate and son of Dr. E H Lines of Paris died in the Argonne of acute pneumonia. He contracted the disease while serving with the American ambulance corps at the front.
Northwestern Wisconsin beet growers received an unexpected Christmas bonus totaling 30000 dollars from a local sugar refining company. The payment was calculated at fifty cents per ton of beets produced in the past season.
A fragmentary OCR passage shows a dialogue with odd phrasing about Helen and a question concerning a husband. Readable portions mention an Ant woman and a request about Helen’s status, but additional context is missing.
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