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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 24, 1917
Page
7
Berlin battles report heavy snow and freezing temperatures across fronts aiding neither side. Russians push from Riga toward Dvinsk while Germans near Galatz in Romania. British replace French on Somme as both sides prepare for a major offensive.
The constitutional assembly approves an eight-hour workday and night limits for certain workers in Queretaro. Prohibits night work for women and under-16s, sets maximum day hours for youths, ensures equal pay, and assigns municipal salary controls and safety duties. A presidential election is expected last Sunday in March with May 1 inauguration. Officials report no movements by Pershing's troops.
El Paso reports Lieutenant Colonel Buclon former chief of staff to General Gonzales has been arrested in Juarez and ordered to Chihuahua City for trial. He resigned his commission to enter civilian life after the command change by General Murguia. The cause of the arrest remains undisclosed.
The article urges both women and men to start mornings with hot water and a spoonful of limestone phosphate to cleanse the stomach liver and bowels. It argues that internal sanitation improves skin tone energy and helps prevent headaches biliousness bad breath rheumatism and colds by purifying the blood and digestive tract.
Mrs B M Cox 85 widow of a Civil War veteran and former law partner of Abraham Lincoln seeks pension information at army headquarters in San Francisco. She aims to obtain pension support in a case tied to a little Illinois town and Lincoln era connections.
A. E. Trenton, a San Antonio butcher, reports severe kidney pain and night misery then relief after two boxes of Doan's Kidney Pills. He notes no trouble since 1913 and reaffirms in 1915 that kidney issues have not returned. Price 50 cents at dealers. Foster Milburn Co. Buffalo NY.
The widow, widow of Captain B. M. Cox who served in an Illinois volunteer regiment and died in 1876, explains she needs federal aid now. A 1906 fire damaged her husband’s discharge papers and their 1862 St. Louis marriage certificate, complicating pension claims.
Real estate men meet at the Gunter hotel Thursday noon to discuss housing for winter visitors and to organize conference delegates for a San Antonio coliseum plan. Lytle will lead the luncheon program and announce speakers. letters to civic groups show strong response.
Merchants and local shippers plan a meeting at the Gunter hotel Wednesday at 4 30 pm under the San Antonio freight bureau to protest railroads slow distribution of freight. They will seek reforms and may take the issue to the state railway commission if needed.
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