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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 03, 1917
Page
8
Exceptional low temperatures sweep the Southern Atlantic seaboard and reach the far south where Florida crops fear damage. Growers burn smudge fires in groves and cover vegetables with burlap and pine straw as high winds add to the chill.
A ransom style ad urges readers to mail a cutout with a 5c to Foley & Co for trial packages of Foley remedies including Honey and Tar Compound Kidney Pills and Cathartic Tablets. It mentions A M Fischer as a seller and provides an address in Chicago.
The region faces record lows with Jacksonville at 16 and Tampa 26. North Carolina towns like Asheville and Hot Springs report extreme lows while many cities such as Orlando Ocala Daytona Deland and Tallahassee lose wire contact. Norfolk Richmond Atlanta Columbia Nashville register frigid temps.
A developing low pressure system and warm air will bring milder conditions Saturday night and Sunday in San Antonio with Sunday’s high expected to exceed recent levels. Rain is unlikely, though storm development injects uncertainty into Texas weather. Temperature climbed from 28 to 32 degrees between 4 and 7 AM Saturday.
Chicago reports relief as the cold wave ends with a weather bureau forecast predicting warmer conditions. Below zero readings were anticipated today despite a brief respite. Memphis meanwhile shows a warming trend with temperatures up to 13 degrees above zero, a four degree rise from yesterday.
Beeville Texas February 3 a sharp cold snap drops to sixteen degrees above zero after days of summerlike warmth. Peach trees wild currants and other fruit trees show bloom and may suffer serious injury with orange groves possibly damaged.
Harry J. Spanell posted a five thousand dollar bond and was released pending the hearing of the case arising from the killing of Lieutenant Colonel M C Butler. A local pastor rancher and a Sutton county lawyer signed the bond and will back it with an indemnity bond. Spanell declines to discuss his future plans.
About four hundred Chinese refugees from the district abandoned by American troops reached Columbus New Mexico tonight under guard. They will stay under the exclusion law until they can return to Mexico. Refugees crossing the line are vaccinated and given antiseptic baths if needed with clothing fumigation. Blankets and food are distributed by military authorities and a field hospital is being erected. Eleven hundred refugees crossed Friday from Mexico including Americans Mexicans French Germans Chinese Japanese Arabs and others. The line extended seven miles from the border line gate to Palomas lakes and they were escorted to the line by a troop of the Fifth United States Cavalry.
A brief spoken exchange is cited from a Birmingham Age-Herald clipping. A child asks for 60 plunks and the father offers $507 instead, with both agreeing it is all the same to them, concluding the request is denied.
British trenches south of Ypres faced two German dawn raids described as ghostly by the Associated Press. The attackers wore white sheets and hoods, crossed No Man's Land under moonlight, and were repelled with heavy losses amid machine gun fire. Sentries opened fire regardless of whether enemies looked like ghosts.
Miss Stella Elmendorff will deliver the first of two lectures at 8 15 Friday evening at the Carnegie library under the library lecture committee. The talk titled Early Indian Art will cover Toltec Aztec and Mayan civilizations with slides from the Santa Fe Ethnology and the New York American Museum. It will showcase Aztec pottery and related images.
General Gregorio Ozuna, candidate for governor of Aguas Calientes, declares Obregon and Gonzales are close personal and political friends of Carranza. He says there is no real opposition to Carranza and predicts his March presidential election victory with broad support. He notes local indifference to Villa and asserts peace in Mexico.
State laboratory chemists reported morphine in the viscera of Mrs. Joe Wendell Pallister who was found dead in a Brownsville hotel, but the amount was not enough to cause death, according to the state pure food commissioner.
Residents of southwest Texas push a bill to rename Willacy county to Mifflin Kenedy county. Former Rep Pat Dunn and Sen Parr back the change. Sen John J Willacy and John J Kenedy of Serita support the measure, citing historical homage.
During Fiesta week the San Antonio Kennel Club will host its annual show from April 18 to 21. Committees were formed to arrange prizes and entries with Captain C R Mayo as beach show chair. R P Woolley elected secretary. Silver cups will award top breed winners and silver medals reserve winners. A Feb 5 meeting will decide additional prizes.
Sixty three of the 400 delegates at the Boy Scout Workers' Conference in New York camped overnight in Van Courtlandt Park after a two mile march into a keen northwest wind with the thermometer near zero. Dillon Wallace led the group and Belmont Browne helped erect tents. delegates arrive from every state in the union.
Charters were filed for Athens Pottery Company Rosenberg Daily Mercantile Company Nix Hotel Company Roanoke Drug Company Sunset Oil & Gas Company H G Tolbert Grain Company Wilhite Rogers Company Amendments to Tri State Talking Machine Company John Griffith Company Tyler Commercial College Final payment proof Meadows Grocery Company Dissolutions filed by Southern Motor Company Forbes Markham Austwell Mercantile Refugio county authorities.
Mayor Ed McCuistion of Paris and City Attorney Wright visit Austin to back a state bill by Senator McCollum to exempt Paris from county taxes and part of occupation taxes for five years. He cites the March 1916 fire that destroyed about 5 million dollars of property and says the relief is urgent.
A historic water source feeding Damascus for almost 4000 years will be harnessed to generate electricity and power 100 miles of railway. The project aims to illuminate the city and drive regional transport enhancements.
Circular letters signed by three hundred soldiers thank President Wilson for intervention yet urge him not to dream of peace until victory is achieved. The article notes revived armed ship controversy with Germany and mentions striking visual illustrations.
A special communication at the Scottish Rite cathedral will confer the fifteenth degree. This first of four meetings enables candidates unable to attend regular returns to receive degrees from the fifteenth to eighteenth. The sixteenth degree is planned for February 10 with the program continuing weekly through the eighteenth degree.
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