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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 13, 1916
Page
2
Commissioner Lambert predicts a high quality program at the Industrial College with a new dietitian. He notes partial completion but says the course already outclasses others in the city and draws members from the Country Club and Huisache Golf Club. By next fall eighteen holes will open, elevating the course to southern prominence.
In Denton Texas on February 12 President F. M. Bralley of the College of Industrial Arts announced the election of Edith Ingham of Topeka Kansas as dietitian and manager of state dormitories. She will supervise meals for more than 500 students as the new dormitory and dining hall open next September. The college aims to place dining and dormitory services on a scientific basis and may add an institutional cookery course.
Municipal links, not yet formally opened, will welcome players today after watering the fairways. A week schedule includes a match between Commissioners Steves and Lambert, both inexperienced in golf, as the temporary club house and locker facilities are readied for use.
While campaigning in Iowa Speaker Cannon visited a town public school to speak. A young teacher staged an amateur oratory of Byron’s Battle of Waterloo. Cannon sneezed twice, the boy exclaimed a cannon’s opening roar, and Uncle Joe quipped I won’t shoot any more as the crowd roared.
A Philadelphia inventor has patented a photometer merge mounted on a staff with standard marks to measure candlepower of street lights. The device allows quick, direct readings by aligning the instrument with the light source and reading the marked scale.
An English inventor claims his device can reject metal slugs and counterfeit coins. The machine allegedly identifies coins by size and weight, preventing use of faked currency.
The French railroad in the Sahara has designed locomotives and cars to pass through sand storms with minimal resistance to sand cutting metal, enabling smoother desert transit.
A new electrical process imitating engraving leaks a powder into fresh ink. The powder forces the ink to rise to engraving height, creating a raised effect. This development suggests a simple method to mimic engraved relief on printed pieces using existing presses.
Reports from Washington say Major General Hugh L. Scott may be replaced as chief of staff as a new secretary of war is named. Lane of the Interior is favored, with Goethals and Baker among possible successors amid ongoing discussions on compulsory service and postwar policy.
General Funston stated on Saturday night he had not received any information indicating he would be named chief of staff of the army nor had he been summoned to Washington.
Sealed proposals will be received here until 11 am February 17 1916 for finishing the Post Chapel at Fort Sam Houston Texas. Further information on application Adv.
Presidents of fifty six San Antonio women’s organizations attend a Tuesday luncheon at the Gunter Hotel hosted by the Manufacturers’ Club. Speakers cover cooperation, employment, cost of living, and the M I S A movement with foods supplied by local manufacturers.
Rumor spread of a tie vote at a secret order meeting over who should crown Alamo Plaza’s burlesque queen. Two factions the Highbrow Coterie and Younger Ranching Set each claimed 29 votes from a 14-member group, delaying the selection and hinting at rapid future recruitment.
The Federal Reserve banks raised investments in munitions warrants by nearly five million dollars during the past week, per a February 11 statement of banks' condition released today by the Federal Reserve Board.
President Lowell of Harvard University headed a petition of protest against the confirmation of Louis D Brandeis as Supreme Court justice. Fifty five names of prominent lawyers and others from New England were attached to the petition.
New York artist and businesswoman Mrs. Bruce Waring oversees a 3200 foot oil well project on her San Antonio hillside estate near West End. The venture aims to develop local resources with shifts of drillers operating day and night as she maintains the yard and art studio.
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