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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 21, 1917
Page
7
For years San Antonio has longed for factories and payrolls. The developing Industrial Center in South San Antonio promises a prospective payroll of several million dollars annually and room for many more giant industries. Real estate bought near these developments is expected to yield substantial profits.
A Capitol clerk is arrested after declining to reveal the nature of a suspicious package. The report notes authorities warn citizens to avoid public buildings in Washington including the Capitol the State War and Navy buildings the Treasury and the White House amid heightened security.
After a grip left his kidneys weak and backache disturbing his sleep Otto Moegelin of 225 Fredericksburg Road San Antonio found relief with Doan's Kidney Pills. He says two pills cured him completely and he has stayed free from kidney trouble since. Price 50c at dealers Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
The article describes heightened security in Washington after the break with Germany. White House grounds are locked, side gates used, guards stationed, and access to the State, War and Navy Building requires passes and prior notice. Press correspondents must obtain special passes and may use old 1915 press cards. Capitol security tightens with more guards and scrutiny of visitors. Secret Service increases protection of the president as fear of cranks and spies grows.
Mrs. Chas. S. Smith of York, Pa reports her four year old son stopped coughing after using Vick's VapoRub Salve for two nights. The ad touts VapoRub as a vapor release with inhaled vapors easing air passages and loosening phlegm. Available in 25c 50c or 1.00 at druggists.
Michael J. Gibbons of Philadelphia testifies he began using Duffy’s Pure Malt Whiskey in 1879 for gastritis and indigestion after a physician’s advice. Now age 74, he claims ongoing good health and strong appetite due to the tonic taken two to three times daily for nearly four decades.
The advertisement extols Duffy's Pure Malt Whiskey as an excellent tonic stimulant for temperate use. It claims digestion improves, vitality rises, and life’s waning hours gain vigor, with medical men recommending it to delay old age and restore youthful vivacity. Many older men and women are cited as endorsers.
New York, Feb 21. Announcement of the Mexican Co operative Society formed to promote education mutual understanding and cooperative action between Mexico and the United States. Noted educators from Western Reserve Wesleyan Johns Hopkins Rochester Stanford Haverford and others join. A Mexican school will teach agricultural gardening domestic science and more. The project aims to reduce war talk if its program is carried out.
Ian B. Stoughton Holborn of Oxford will lecture on the debt of present civilization to Greece Saturday at the Main Avenue High School auditorium. Books including The Need for Art in Life Architectures of European Religions and The Children of Fancy may be secured at Carnegie Library. Holborn, a versatile scholar author and artist, has crossed Lang Jakul Iceland, survived the Lusitania disaster, and has delivered 300 public lectures in America recently.
Nebraska plans to revive college baseball this season after a seven year lapse. Coach Stewart and Athletic Manager Reed aim to schedule games with Missouri, Kansas, the Kansas Aggies, and Iowa State. Dicky Holmes, head of the Western League club at Lincoln, is slated as assistant. The move follows a possible abrogation of the summer baseball ruling by colleges. A Washington Star quip about leaks is included as a local color aside.
David S. Berger of the Seventh field artillery at Camp Wilson was shot in the right foot at 12:30 AM after resisting an armed hold-up on Dawson street. Detectives Green and Bradford investigated, Berger was treated at city hospital and Fort Sam Houston base hospital. Robber fled, three dozen pairs of trousers and overalls were stolen from an automobile later recovered. a 24-year-old Mexican was jailed on a separate charge. Milwaukee Wants Players. Lee Fohl to provide four recruits to Milwaukee. seeking a first baseman, two pitchers, and an outfielder for the spring roster.
In the House of Commons Arthur Ponsonby Charles Trevelyan Philip Snowden and other pacifists urged that Entente powers pursue peace while condemning government rejection of German peace overtures. Snowden warned continued war narrows peaceful terms Bonar Law argued fighting is needed to defeat the German war machine. A stray anecdote about a lamb chop exchange appears in the same column.
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