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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 13, 1918
Page
14
Classified ad fragment list of real estate offerings. Multiple properties including modern bungalows, furnished cottages, and rental terms. Items mention Navaro and Highland areas, several contact names, prices ranging from cash to monthly payments, and notes on features like sleeping rooms and garages. Royalty ad tone suggests a bustling early 20th century urban market.
A garbled late 19th or early 20th century want ad shows multiple real estate listings and notices. It mentions bungalows for sale on Government Hill New 5-R COT price $1800, rooms baths garages, and various properties with names and addresses. The text is fragmented but signals real estate opportunities and rental offers amid a busy classifieds page.
Washington March 13 The War Department disclosed to a Senate military committee new building plans for army purposes. Total cost 208,059,000 with additions 60 million for ordnance depots air bases and housing projects at Edgewood and other sites. Hospitals in Denver Dallas Asheville and others priced 12 to 15 million each. Port terminals and ammunition depots planned along Atlantic and Pacific coasts and in Middle Atlantic. Overall program includes training camps and cantonments with several sites still undetermined.
The document lists numerous officer names and ranks across artillery aviation and staff sections, including majors, lieutenants, and colonels, with mentions of resignations and reassignments. It references units such as coast artillery, aviation, and signal corps, plus various detachments and staff appointments.
Dairymen supplying milk to Antonio plan to appeal for a government priority shipment order for concentrates and hay to sustain herd welfare. A meeting of about 68 interested producers at the Chamber of Commerce discussed the shortage caused by a January misting order and the need for supplies from Mississippi to resolve the milk supply crisis.
Fragmentary text indicates a War Department advisory board of educators in Washington Feb 14 discussing mobilizing schools to improve officer training amid wartime needs. The readable elements reference the Signal and Buginger corps and a push for centralized control, but details are incomplete.
In Austin today's report the Court of Criminal Appeals upheld death penalties in three cases. Leonard Dodd and Walter Stevenson of Wallus County were executed for murder. Miss Jenee Orcutt was killed. The court found no reversible error in the record and affirmed other sentences including Treving, Morrell, and Sweeney. Some reversals occurred in Chiyrton and Flayd cases, with adjustments to penalties.
Unclear text reports New Orleans Mardi Gras festivities suppressed by city authorities amid a war context. Masking parades curtailed to prevent unlawful acts while national tensions and allied motion complicate celebrations.
Government and military notices list appointments and promotions for officers, including chief ordnance, aviation sections, and reserve corps. The document names numerous ranks, units, and posts such as captain, first lieutenant, medical reserve, and fort assignments, with extensive depictions of personnel and locations. It also includes classified ads for sale or trade, real estate listings, and solicitations, showing a broad snapshot of wartime community activity.
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