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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 09, 1917
Page
6
In Society SOCIAL CALENDAR the Ohio Association meets at o'clock at the Gunter with a Wednesday schedule. The Department of philanthropy of the Woman's Club meets at 3 20 p m.
Miss Eleanor Barclay and Hes ter Schreiner visit Houston as guests of Miss Aubrey Culberson. Miss Bessie Simms hosted a Majestic box party Monday night for them and they will attend a dance Tuesday evening. Miss Nina Cullinan will also entertain. The Ladies Aid Society of Central Christian church met for annual officers election with all officers re-elected.
The German Literary Club met at the Gunter to open the year with Schiller's Wilhelm Tell as a lesson led by Mrs. Rudolph Seebe. Papers were read by Mrs. Bernard Mackensen and Miss Elizabeth Sons and plans were laid for February guest day.
Specials Wednesday advertise best hams at 221, breakfast bacon 24c and picnic hams 17c cash. Buying from Nichols Gro. Co. saves you money. Monthly accounts solicited. Nichols Gro. Co. Ph. Cr. 51, 209 Ave, C.
Seguin Texas observes the formal opening of its Park Hotel tonight, adding to the recent Aumont which opened a few weeks earlier. The 40 room Aumont debuted before the Park, signaling a growing hotel scene in Seguin.
A testimonial from Miss Mayme Long of Munfordville Kentucky describes severe head eczema. After a year of failed remedies she used Cuticura Soap and Ointment, improved, and was fully healed. The ad urges using Cuticura for all toilet skin issues and provides contact details.
District Attorney Rotan plans to continue the Philadelphia investigation into Maizie Colbert's December 29 murder. John Colbert seeks a private inquiry as friends in Pittsburgh push to clear Bernard W. Lewis, who died by self-inflicted cause in Atlantic City after a warrant was issued.
Pneumonia caused the deaths in the base hospital Monday of five soldiers namely Sergeant John Long of Company H Seventeenth United States Infantry Private George T Guthrie of Company A North Carolina Engineers of Wilmington North Carolina Private Charles F Turner of Company A Private Samuel A Watson of Company G Twentieth United States Infantry Private Herbert Bennett 18 from Columbus Ohio the guard recruit.
Representatives of insurance companies, the State Industrial Accident Board, and labor interests held the final conference on proposed amendments to the employers liability law. The board seeks harmony among all parties before presenting the measure to the Legislature for action.
New York January 9. Chaplains from the army and National Guard defended border duty at a clergy luncheon. They criticized churches for neglecting chaplains and urged faster mobilization while noting regulars slow the border response. Some said Mexico action may be required. others called such aggression criminal.
Columbus Ohio January 9 The District No 6 United Mine Workers Convention opened its twenty seventh annual meeting with a plan for a seven hour day and five day week. President John Moore cited statistics showing five eight hour days produce more coal than needed and a shorter week would steady employment.
Texas & Pacific officials and Orient representatives met with the State Railroad Commission and agreed there will be no further confiscation of coal consigned for domestic purposes. Commissioner Mayfield said a bill to grant the commission more authority to handle coal confiscation cases would be prepared for the Legislature.
Lloyd's reports the Norwegian steamship Bergholm of 1719 tons believed sunk. A Bergen dispatch to Reuters says the small steamer Markland has also been sunk.
Officers of Sam Houston Post No. 76, Veterans of Foreign Wars, were installed Monday night in the post gymnasium at Fort Sam Houston. Commander Robert A. Dickson led a ceremony joined by W. W. Dayton and J. Gardner Greeves as vice commanders, with John R. Sands as chaplain and Alden Carpenter as surgeon. The event marked a local push to honor the flag and national anthem with Civil War veterans present alongside younger war vets.
Corbell county grand jury investigated the death of 45 year old George Webber in Gatesville. County Attorney R B Cross said Sheriff Hallingsworth had left Gatesville to pursue a suspect and an arrest could come before night. Viscera showed poison in the stomach and intestines, sufficient to cause death.
Former Judge George Gray expressed regret over events that marred the protest against Belgian deportations. He wished to support the meeting but refused to speak when the keynote speaker attacked the president. An investigation has begun into possible violations of federal statutes by union leaders connected to Chicago strikes.
Representative Ice B. Reeves of Sherman introduces a bill to provide an adequate appropriation for the new Texas institution for the feeble minded. He says the site is ideal and aims to open the facility for patient reception next fall.
A Summerville reader endorses Foley's Honey and Tar for quick relief from colds coughs and croup. The ad claims it heals inflamed membranes loosens phlegm eases breathing and stops throat tickling with excellent results cited by A M Fischer.
Dr J A Udden head of the bureau of economic geology and technology at the University of Texas will speak on Glimpses From the Geological Past of Texas to the Scientific Society of San Antonio. The 8 15 p m talk will be in the Stevens building rooms. He is a former Iowa and Illinois geologist, knighted by Sweden in 1911, fellow of the Geological Society of America and AAAS member.
In Frankfort Kentucky a cell house at the state reformatory burned after prisoners were locked in. Two black inmates died from suffocation and a third is presumed fatally burned as more than fifty inmates escaped through a wall breach made with dynamite as firefighters battled the blaze.
Paris January 8 Le Brun the seventeenth century painter is linked to a discovery at Versailles Palace where two large figures of Hercules and Minerva were found buried beneath whitewash in a guardroom wall altered in 1749 for Mme de Pompadour and later whitewashed in Louis Philippe’s era.
Vienna January 8 The Austro Hungarian government allocates 25000 dollars for a scientific expedition to the Balkans. The commission is led by Count Paul Teleki, with members Prof Dr Albert Pecsi Dr Joseph Andreansky Prof Dr Eugene Cholnoky and Dr Ernest Csiki.
An advertisement urges readers to swap calomel for Dodson's Liver Tone a vegetable liquid claimed to cleanse the liver without causing salivation or weakness. It targets children and townspeople and warns calomel is dangerous mercury while promising better well being and quicker relief from bilious symptoms.
A Texas Oklahoma and California thief will arrive in San Antonio at 4 pm Tuesday in Waco detectives custody. Local and visiting officers plan to file two or more affidavits and pursue cases including theft forgery and a car stolen from Dr Petrey later sold to F A Cavanaugh. The suspect also sold a stolen car of S Walker to an Houston resident and Oklahoma detectives plan to probe two more San Antonio vehicle thefts.
A country woman attempted to ascend the descending side of the moving staircase at Embankment Station. After two bold tries she reached the top and declared the moving stairs no better than the old stairs.
A man identified as a foreign spy, believed English, arrived at Lindau from Switzerland and claimed Spanish ties. After arrest for attempting to leave a steamer, he was found dead two hours later in his cell, having hanged himself. no identifying papers were found.
Readers facing head noises and ear pressure are advised to try a home remedy using Parmint double strength mixed with hot water and sugar. The recipe aims to reduce inflammation in the Eustachian tubes and balance ear pressure to lessen noise and improve hearing.
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