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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1915
Page
7
A fire damaged the upper part of a barn and smokehouse causing about 150 dollars in structural damage and 2 dollars in contents losses. Fire crews from the local station at 403 Giadatone Avenue responded after a nearby bacon house fire began from a defective fuse, with only slight damage reported at the adjacent home of PA. Vanet.
Report by Major General Innes U. Aleshire to Secretary of War details 115,020.69 spent for border defense last fiscal year including salaries, camps, kitchens, shelter, sanitation, and equipment. Note on cavalry band experiments with French trumpets and hunting horns at Fort Sam Houston and Paris.
Ew Hall, a Cotulla Cotulla Texas teacher at Iva High School, was accidentally shot and killed by Joseph Wilson, superintendent of public instruction, during a quail-hunting outing three miles from Cotulla. Witness Joe Peters saw the incident. Hall died before medical help arrived. Hall, 41, had lived in Cotulla since September from New Waverly, Texas. A Christmas supper and service are planned at St. John's Parish House Wednesday evening for the neighborhood, with over 100 pounds of turkey prepared.
The nineteenth annual gathering of Anion Wenzel Lodge No. 174 reports officers elected for 1921 including president Jacob Swull and secretary CtLu Celery. Installations planned for a future meeting. Also mentions visitors, ads, local notices, and a minor traffic accident with a pedestrian in Santa Rosa area.
Subpoenas for witnesses are being issued in several cases. Fletcher Way faces a murder charge with trial set for January 10. Mrs Cattie Veith is charged in her husband Brexton Veith murder case with trial January 17. Nathan Greenfield, returned from South Bend, is indicted for disposing of mortgaged property and has trial on January 11. Officers Malcolm J. Stuart George W. Ehuntres JT and Deputy Sheriff George AT. Millard oversee the proceedings.
An old advertisement promotes Foley's Honey and Tar for croup colds hoarseness inflamed throats and bronchial troubles claiming it opens blocked passages soothes irritated surfaces and aids breathing A user from Tioseley Missouri touts long term use and recommends it for their family of four children as the best cough and croup remedy available.
A stove explosion at 126 Belmont Street, McNeil, injuring 44 year old Rawle Watkins and badly scaring him, with Mrs McNeil and three children escaping. Fire damaged Reichman’s adjacent building.Watkins was rushed to hospital. Damages estimated at $800 with $200 in injuries to others.
A new road sealing machine demonstration led by Corantissione Taunhert was held in Tulsa and Houston area tests to prove its ability to reduce whet nuisance on macadam streets. The unit combines a sprayer and oiling system with a compressor for water in 160 psi, as investors and city officers watched. Additional tests planned on Avenue E and several streets to show air surfacing and scarification followed by a heavy roller. Charles F. Logan leads the demonstration.
The health department distributed preventive rhyme cards across New York to educate the public on grippe avoidance. Aimed at halting spread, the couplet urges covering coughs and sneezes and will be posted in public places, schools, and trains.
In San Antonio Tuesday, Jess Dandy and his vaudeville troupe performed at the Grand Orsera House, with Dandy detailing troupe members and their relationships. He introduced Miss Mabel Hucks, Miss Louian Evans, and Miss Wynne, all described as single, while noting married or divorced partners among the company. The group’s arrival, brief bios, and social chatter filled a curious, revelatory segment of the show, followed by a formal appearance by the troupe.
John W Gallagher died on a Tuesday morning in a San Antonio sanitarium at an advanced age. A native of Dublin Treland he came to New York as an infant with his parents and moved to San Antonio in 1878. He belonged to Alamo lodge Knights and Ladies of Honor and Siemering Indge No 82 Order of Hermann Sons. Survived by his widow Mrs Mary Biesenbach Gallagher of San Antonio and his parents Mr and Mrs TE Gallagher.
An advertisement claims Korein capsules can reduce weight without dieting. It urges daily use after meals and before bed, weekly weigh ins, and promotes a painless method said to remove fat from the body. Sommers Drug Store markets the product as harmless and inexpensive.
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