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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 17, 1917
Page
5
Admiral George Dewey died in Washington in his eightieth year. Funeral likely Saturday with interment at Arlington National Cemetery. President Wilson and Secretary Daniels voiced national mourning as ships and stations worldwide received word.
A San Antonio resident Mrs L C Edwards reports backache relief after using Doan's Kidney Pills bought at Fischer's Drug Store. She describes night pain and dizziness improving. price 50 cents. Foster Milburn Co. Buffalo NY advertises the remedy.
Health guidance advises drinking a glass of hot water with limestone phosphate each morning before breakfast to cleanse the digestive tract. Proponents claim it washes poisons from stomach to bowels, improving complexion, breath, headaches, and digestion.
Reports say Admiral Dewey died at 5 56 pm after a rapid decline from arteriosclerosis and a general breakdown. Flags to half mast. ceremonies planned with Navy and Army units, a 17 gun salute, and a possible Capitol funeral under the dome Saturday at 11.00.
The town of Dewey Oklahoma marks the nation’s hero Admiral George Dewey with mourning. Born in Montpelier Vermont in 1837 he rose from Annapolis to command at Manila Bay guiding the destruction of the Spanish squadron on May 1 1898.
Frederick A. Delano, member of the Federal Reserve Board, told the Railway Business Association dinner in New York that the Interstate Commerce Commission should reconsider its duties and may delegate some executive functions. He warned of past errors, urged states to fix rates to curb interstate bias, and stressed preserving state police power.
The State Board of Health recommends changes to vital statistics reporting and the sanitary code. Proposals trim penalties for reporting failures from 1000 dollars to ten with a 50 dollar cap and shift cases toward justice courts. A modern shipping method for human bodies is urged to prevent disease. No quarantine changes. The board backs Governor and Health Officer Collins for cooperation and efficiency.
At the Corpus Christi Commercial Association meeting the board elected L. D. Garrison as president W C Bailey as first vice president and Glover Johns as second vice president. No secretary was chosen yet W C Wright will continue as secretary. The group plans to study bringing natural gas from the White Point field across the bay.
The State Fire Insurance Commission in Austin announced the first batch of credits for good fire records on policies issued in 1917. Ten Texas cities including Victoria Yorktown Cisco Elgin Floresville Gonzales Henderson La Grange Shiner and Lampasas are listed with loss ratios and 15 percent credits, Lampasas receiving 9 percent.
A fat plumber and a thin carpenter joke about a supposed invention that could sell to maidens for scaring off strangers. The talk centers on a talking device using three sentences, first asking who is at the door then urging defense actions. The quip ends with the Rochester Times attribution.
In Austin the Texas Good Roads Association convenes its sixth annual meeting with about 300 delegates from across the state. The program features talks on the administration highway commission bill, with day sessions at the Driskill Hotel and night sessions at the House of Representatives. Delegates from El Paso Fort Worth San Antonio and other areas attend as action on the Tillotson joint resolution to create 10 reclamation districts is anticipated.
Federal authorities mark time in the Webb case awaiting Naylor and a Washington indictment for the West Virginia 1915 unsigned currency robbery. A preliminary hearing awaits the indictment and Naylor's investigation into Webb's links with southern train robberies. The Harrison gang is alleged to be involved with numerous hold ups totaling about $600,000.
The second day opened with M. A. Turner of Houston presiding as secretary. Professor C. B. Yoakum of Houston spoke on Insane and Feeble Minded, Edward Titch of Dallas spoke on Housing Sanitation and Health, and Dr. J. B. Knight of Carlsbad was to present on topics next.
The Prescription Druggist at Be dell Bidg corner Avenue C and Travis offers prompt delivery service. Contact Cr. 3537 or Tr. 3537 for orders.
The program featured talks on Tuberculosis by Labor Commissioner C. W. Wooman and on Labor and Employment Agencies. Byron A. Kessler of Dallas spoke on Reclamation and Play Grounds, while Rabbi Henry Cohen of Galveston discussed After Care of Prisoners. Mrs. F. W. McAllister of San Antonio presented Child Welfare and Kindergarten in Public Schools read by Professor W. F. Doughty.
A Lawrence Mass businessman, long unpaid by a customer, sees a local notice and sends a witty letter to the debtor. He references the debtor's upcoming talk on "The sinner's unbalanced account" at the YMCA and hints at attending the lecture.
Chicago nurse Mrs R W Sloan reports two years of poor health from a displacement improved after using Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound. She says she is a healthy mother now and recommends the medicine to women with displacements, inflammation, irregularities, or backache.
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