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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 18, 1916
Page
5
Mrs. Martha A. Corbin of Laurel Mississippi reports chronic side pain backache dizziness and swelling. After using Cardui she improved within two bottles and stopped taking it declaring it the grandest medicine for women. For sale by all druggists.
William Reichert sues William Kempin and Otto Kempin in Seventy third District Court seeking an injunction to settle rights to a common irrigation well on parcels in Francis Giraud plat. Judge Ezell set a 4 pm February 21 hearing. case outlines shared access on specified days and times.
In Austin today L B Alford of Dallas Studebaker and G L William of Detroit met Attorney General regarding the state's suit to void contracts that fix dealer territories. They pledged compliance and a new contract may be submitted soon for approval.
An old time remedy promotes Hamburg Breast Tea as an effective vegetable cold cure. A tablespoonful steeped in boiling water is drunk to relieve congestion loosen bowels and break a cold quickly. The treatises claim it opens pores and is inexpensive and harmless.
An advertisement promotes Solvax as a guaranteed kidney remedy from Wagner Drug Co. It claims Solvax cures sluggish or clogged kidneys and related pains, with refunds offered if it does not help. The copy cites numerous San Antonio customers praised for restored health and renewed vitality.
The San Antonio traffic bureau led by U S Pawkett resumes efforts to establish regular freight steamship service between Port Aransas and eastern ports. Shippers from Waco to Dallas favor direct Atlantic connections, with San Antonio interests funding the bureau to push the campaign.
Telegrams to Medina dam litigants said United States District Judge August N Hand of the Southern District of New York dismissed the bankruptcy proceedings begun in 1914 by the San Antonio Land and Irrigation Company. Hand approved Special Referee Townsend findings that the principal properties lay in Medina and Bandera counties Texas, ending the New York phase of the case.
A string of personal mentions records Mr and Mrs A D Edson of Cuero Tex and other guests at the Gunter St Anthony and Menger hotels in San Antonio Texas. Included are G Greenlay Dallas H Godfrey Turner Arthur Loesser New York W Scrivner Aransas Pass R W Hall Boston A B Davis Philadelphia L Hartzberg New York M Hirsch Chicago W B Stevenson Houston F E Meerbeke New York A H Phillipa New York Val H Lurie New York L Tynan New York Jonson Neb Charlie T Sidle Denver and other travelers with registrations and arrivals.
Suffering from indigestion and acid reflux are advised to take a tea spoonful of Bisurated Magnesia in hot water after meals. The preparation neutralizes excess acid and aids digestion, promising relief and a gentler stomach. Get Bisulated Magnesia from a drug store for stomach use.
An invitation to display made in San Antonio products at the Gillespie County Fair in Fredericksburg was extended by Adolph Gold to the Manufacturers' Club. The fair association offered exclusive exhibit hall space, with multiple counties expected to attend and about twenty five thousand visitors anticipated.
Eugene V Beifeld of the Hotel Sherman leads a Chicago group to San Antonio to buy fifteen to twenty polo ponies for the Chicago Speedway Polo Club. C D Lancaster and Frank P Hayes accompany him. they stay at the Gunter Hotel and discuss ponies with Fort Sam Houston officials.
Advises weak, nervous people to use Scott's Emulsion for one month to build richer blood and stronger tissue, claiming it makes work easier and increases vigor. Mentions Scott & Bowne Bloomfield New Jersey.
The order lists First Lieutenant James H. Lau Bach as professor at West Virginia University Morgantown. Leaven of absence granted for various officers including First Lieutenant William H. Sheppard, Second Field Artillery, Oliver S. McLeary, Fifteenth Infantry, and Harry W. Gregg, Signal Corps. transfers include Colonel William A. Shank to Fifteenth Cavalry, Major William Weighel to Second Infantry, and several colonels and majors reassigned or authorized to travel, with routes to San Francisco, China, Japan, or Hawaii and ends with extended leave for Joseph W. Rumbough.
Mexican Consul reports Governor Alvarado of Yucatan organizing the gun boat Bravo to Galveston for transporting Mexican laborers to Progreso. Over ninety applicants already, with 250 target to set sailing date. Plan to move between two thousand and twenty three thousand workers to Yucatan henequin plantations. Also notes that only US imported vine varieties in western France avoid mildew this year.
The Midwinter Music Festival closed Thursday night with about 3500 attendees from across Texas. Railroads offered low return fares, drawing large crowds from Austin How ton Fort Worth Corpus Christi and beyond to San Antonio for the three day event.
Railroads report a heavy week of traffic due to the festival with passengers from Corpus Christi Pleasanton Jourdan ton and other points. The three leading hotels were crowded nightly as visitors shopped in San Antonio. Departments stores benefited from the influx of visitors with hundreds motoring in from within 50 to 100 miles, some returning home the same evening others staying several days.
The first county child welfare conference in Bexar opens Saturday at 1 p m in the county courthouse office of Superintendent Stewart. Speakers include Amanda Stoltzfus and Mrs W C Buckner, with Judge James R Davis giving the welcome and discussions on urgent county school needs and rural social centers.
W A Franks 47 a Pleasanton Texas native died in a San Antonio sanitarium at 3 30 Friday morning. Survived by widow two sons Yollie and John W Franks and three daughters Lela Easie and Florence Franks all of Pleasanton. Body sent to Pleasanton for funeral under Pleasanton Lodge No 283 A F and A M direction Shelley Loring Undertaking. Floresville Friday morning by Riebe Undertaking. relatives accompanied the body.
Charles D Grant aged 80 formerly with Southern Pacific Railroad died at his daughter Mrs C A Gotten's home 409 Sherman street at 4 10 Friday morning. He was born in Trigg county Kentucky and lived in San Antonio 45 years. Survived by brother Joseph Grant two daughters Mrs Goron Mrs Sallie Glass a son R Grant fifteen grandchildren and fourteen great grandchildren. Funeral from Mrs Goron's home at 4 Saturday afternoon. Interment City Cemetery No 3.
Arthur J. Herrmann formerly an architect in San Antonio died in Mount Vernon New York on Thursday per a telegram received here. Funeral plans were not announced. Herrmann had lived in San Antonio for years and moved to Mount Vernon about four months ago.
The body of Mrs. Zudie Carpenter, wife of Wiley W. Carpenter, who died Thursday morning, was taken to services and burial arrangements pending as announced by the family.
Local ad lists Shelley Loring Undertaking and a car equipment business with phone contact 971 Ady for services and inquiries.
In London on February 18 the proprietors of the Journal Weekly were fined £100, editor Vivian Carter £50, and cartoonist Bernard £50 for publishing a cartoon showing a British soldier intoxicated beneath a tree with a bottle of rum. The caption read Reported Missing. The case charged the publication with harming discipline and recruiting. an appeal was noted.
Washington Feb 18 Senator Hoke Smith introduced a plan for a regular army of 250000 enlisted men trained for both war and peace. Service would include two years active duty, four years in reserve for 500000 men after five years in operation. Postmasters to recruit and reservists report annually.
Three thousand workers at the American Brass Company plants in Ansonia Connecticut walked off their jobs today seeking wage increases in a coordinated strike affecting wire brass and copper mills across the plant system.
Quote from Baltimore American features Mrs Jiggers and her smoker husband in a light exchange about smoking. The humor centers on a common brand and habit, reflecting everyday life and social banter of the era.
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