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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 25, 1916
Page
12
Amusements list vaudeville acts by The Metropolitan Dancing Girls and six other acts at the Majestic. Film attractions headline Raymond Hitchcock in My Valet and Douglas Fairbanks in The Lamb at the Grand tonight.
The Metropolitan Dancing Girls headline the Majestic Theater first vaudeville bill of quality for the season. Their ballet promises entrancing proportions as the main attraction on the program.
The piece argues that by age forty a person should know enough to care for their health and questions why doctors caution against self medication. It notes women often rely on familiar remedies like Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for female ailments and common cures for other illnesses.
The program today and Wednesday includes Ray mond Hitchcock in the Keystone comedy My Valet with Mack Sennett and stars such as Ma bel Normand Fred Mace Fatty Arbuckle and Mack Swain Also Douglas Fairbanks in The Lamb by D W Griffith with Leena Owen in the leading role and a strong cast including Monroe Salisbury Alfred Paget Kate Toneray Lillian Langdon Captain Dalton William E Lowery and Eagle Eye Griffith directed by W Christy Cabanne.
Washington January 25 The cabinet agrees President Wilson should stress national defense and call for a large army and navy in his talks during a western tour beginning January 29 in Pittsburgh. He will address business groups and clergy while visiting New York St Louis Topeka Kansas City and Omaha. He also discussed tariff commission ideas with Representative Kitchin and favored a nonpartisan fact gathering body and anti dumping measures.
The electoral court seated sixteen deputies from Northern Epirus in Parliament. The region, part of Southern Albania up to Koritsa, was occupied by Greece without authorization after the London conference. The entente powers protested the elections in this district.
Deputy Sheriff George Millard traveled to Pearsall to fetch three young men charged with stealing a horse and buggy Saturday night from the corner of Houston and Santa Rosa streets. Sheriff John W. Tobin coordinated the arrest.
An advertisement proclaims Dr. Kilmer's Swamp Root as a gentle herbal remedy that heals and strengthens kidneys liver and bladder. It urges readers to buy a bottle or request a sample by sending ten cents to the company and mentions the San Antonio Daily Light.
El Paso Texas January 25 cattle raisers and packers from all states west of the Mississippi gather for the nineteenth annual American Live Stock Association convention. Topics include grazing lands public land control 640 acre homesteads forest reserves meat inspection rates and foreign trade. Dwight B Heard urges federal land control and improved marketing with joint effort from ranchers feeders and packers.
W A Fraser sovereign commander of the Woodmen of the World arrives Friday for a southern tour. He will address a Bexar county Woodmen meeting at Woodmen Hall and discuss Fraternalism and Woodcraft. An entertainment follows as several hundred Woodmen are expected and more speakers may appear.
F. W. Capt, 60, died at home on Kennedy and Mayflower streets in Alamo Heights at 5 30 Monday afternoon. A native Texan, he had lived in San Antonio for twenty three years. He is survived by his widow.
Frank Phillips aged 43 died at his home 337 Ada street at 7:29 Monday night. Survived by widow Susie Phillips, parents Mr. and Mrs. Simon P. Phillips, two sisters Ida and Fannie Phillips, and brothers Morris Adolph and Eugene Phillips, all of San Antonio. Funeral from the home at 3 o'clock Tuesday with Rabbi Marks. interment Beth-El cemetery.
A historic classified ad for Shelley Loring Undertaking Co listing automobile equipment and contact phones 971 and Adg. with brief business details.
Tourists and newcomers complain about sidewalk expectoration in San Antonio's business district. Morris Stern of Uilman Stern Krausse urges stricter enforcement as main streets’ sidewalks are described as deplorable.
Mr Stern and Mrs Stern condemn sidewalk exhaling in San Antonio while praising traffic squads in the business district. Percy Tyrrell, manager of the Gunter Hotel, says three winter guests have left for California in recent days due to the nuisance.
Washington report states the army will wait two years for the first of the new 16 inch mobile howitzers. Brigadier General Crozier told the House military committee that nine months are needed to complete designs and another year to build the first gun for testing. Ordnance experts plan 26 sixteen inch rifles in turrets for fixed fortifications.
The body of John F Burk a watchman for the Houston and Texas Central railroad bridge over the Trinity river was found early today by a train crew. He had an ugly head wound and authorities suspect foul play though no arrests are made yet. Sheriff Reynolds orders investigation into his death.
Vera Cruz state plantations with up to thirty children must build a school house and provide instruction within two months under a decree by Governor Aguilar dated January 23. The government will cover the expenses.
The article reports that after a Supreme Court ruling validating the income tax, Congress plans to raise revenues for national defense. Bills propose taxing incomes over 1 million dollars up to 50 percent, potentially adding about 100 million dollars annually. Representative Hull suggests the law can be amended to yield more without unfair changes.
A Kansas City Journal brief notes a bride hiring Tom as her first cook, prompting a witty exchange about cooking knowledge. The exchange highlights the humor in domestic roles during the era.
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