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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1915
Page
6
An OCR filled page lists sale offers and business opportunities. Items include a well established business, store fixtures, real estate options, cars and jewelry ads, plus legal notices and public sale references. Numerous names, addresses, and prices appear in fragmented form.
A garbled price list advertises wines and liquors including Old Forester 4 quarts at 4.50 and Pearl 4 quarts at 3.00, with various brands and bottle sizes. The noisy entry notes eight cummers of claret and imported champagne, plus general house prices and shop terms.
Pali December 25. Abbe Wetterle, a Reichstag figure, presents figures based on German statistics estimating military strength at the war start. He claims 2,500,000 fit for active service aged 19 to 45, with casualties and prisoners exceeding 2,500,000 by June. If Bavaria, Saxony, and Württemberg are added, losses could total around 3,000,000. Germany may not exceed five and a half million troops now, with one-third from the Landsturm and 65 percent unfit for service. He says 20,000 to 400,000 abroad labor mobilizations may occur, but will not fully compensate losses. He suggests Germany’s plea for peace stems from the risk of defeat without a front battle, as allied powers maintain resolve. The piece notes German press fears and a likely inter-allied conference response.
A chaotic World War I chronicle details German advances across Poland Litvonia and Bukowina, capturing territories and pushing deep into Belorussia and France. The piece tracks major offensives from January through November, noting Russian setbacks, British and French countermeasures, and German gains including Przasnysz, Lemberg, Vilna, and advancements toward Warsaw, with hunger and strategic shifts shaping the long war.
A retrospective summary notes Allied landings at Gallipoli, Mesopotamian advances along the Tigris, and German successes in East Africa and the Kamerun region. It cites submarine warfare against Britain, the Dardanelles battles and the Great War’s grim winter, including food shortages and political shifts in Germany, plus the sinking of several passenger ships by Teuton submarines and the looming break with Germany.
A garbled late 19th century dispatch describes filibusterers along the Florida coast opposing Orr. It details naval activity, treasure hunting legends, and reports of arms shipments to Mexico, with references to coast guard vessels, government offices, and neutralities laws.
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