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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 26, 1917
Page
5
Cardinal Gibbons spoke at Philadelphia's joint tercentenary and centenary events noting contrasts between conditions in the United States and Europe. He addressed clergy freedoms and urged thoughtful reflection on social issues affecting the church.
In Baltimore Vincentian fathers compare church freedoms here with Europe. They cite Russia where priests need government approval to preach, while U S clergy freely speak the truth. The cardinal returns to Baltimore as about two hundred clergymen attend the dual jubilee through Sunday. Pope Benedict sends a congratulatory cablegram via the papal secretary of state.
Get Hamburg Breast Tea, a small package sold in pharmacies. Stir a spoonful into boiling water, strain, and drink a teacup to relieve congestion, loosen bowels, and break a cold quickly. It is inexpensive, vegetable, and harmless.
The YWCA announces a campaign next month to reduce the building debt of about 50,000 dollars. At the annual Banquet in the Gunter Hotel 400 attendees approved officers reports and plans, with seven new directors appointed and a pageant titled Wayside Piper presented by extension workers.
A vintage ad warns that freed from corns a brisk step enhances charm. It promotes Freezone a quarter ounce at drugstores for quick painless removal of hard or soft corns with soothing relief and a risk free dry shrivel. Women are urged to maintain cornless feet for a youthful gait.
Secretary of State Lansing sent a note via Charles B. Parker to General Carranza warning that retroactive expropriation without compensation and retroactive tax exemptions could harm contracts and be confiscatory. He also objects to executive power to expel aliens without appeal, noting it diverges from standard international practice.
Delegates at the fourth annual National Foreign Trade Council convention in Pittsburgh pause for breaks after a morning of talks on world shipping conditions. J W Powell of Fore River Ship Building discusses American shipbuilding prospects, Bolles surveys Latin American shipping, and Lynch covers foreign trade development.
In a New York briefing Whitney Warren reports Rheims Cathedral badly damaged after heavy bombing. Sixty thousand bombs fall on the city since the war began. 545 civilians killed and 652 wounded, including 86 children and 192 women. The cathedral’s flying buttresses show damage, surrounding quarters demolished, and three harsh winters threaten vaults without roof protection.
Washington January 26. A caucus of Senate Democrats failed to agree on a new legislative program for the remainder of the session. Debates split over preferred measures including water power and corrupt practices legislation with railroad reform seen as the likely first priority.
Two tramps discuss leaving rough journeys behind with talk of riding fast freights and a wish for a first class coach. One man mentions a silver lining and a passenger coach reminder near a wooden area.
Highland Park will retire old bonds with 155250 dollars from the general sinking fund to finance a new street car route. San Antonio Traction Co. is allowed to build tracks on South Hackberry from Aransas to Rigsby, rerouting Highland Park cars via Denver Heights, Goliad, Victoria, to South Hackberry and up to Rigsby. A two-block strip on Olive between Rigsby and Avant will be torn up, and Buckingham Avenue service may extend to Olive later. Funds include 150000 to retire bonds and 5250 interest. 194 dollars to cover bank exchange costs in New York. and 221000 from held sinking funds were redirected to improvement districts. The council also rejected bids for a police alarm system, suggesting Bell Telephone rental or purchase instead. An extra 7427 dollars is approved for Robert B. Green Memorial hospital costs, with half covered by the county. Other ordinances cover park driveways and street grading for San Jacinto and Delgado streets.
An old advertisement urges mothers to use California Syrup of Figs to cleanse the stomach liver and bowels of sick children. It claims rapid relief from cold feverishness and constipation and warns to buy the genuine 50-cent bottle from the California Fig Syrup Company.
The commission discussed projects on North Laredo street and noted no action on a Western Union permit to cut pavements at Main avenue and Houston street and Cameron street for conduits. Commissioner Garland cited orders to finish underground work before paving the business district, with Mayor Brown affirming prior notice and completion. The petition was referred to the city engineer.
An advertisement for Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonic promotes a tasteless quinine and iron tonic. The label details its ingredients and price, 50 cents, highlighting its advertised relief from chills and malaria symptoms.
A lively ad touts Musterole as a clean white mustard oil ointment for sore muscles joints and back. It claims fast soothing relief with a gentle glow and cool finish and lists uses from sore throat to bronchitis and colds with a note it may help prevent pneumonia.
The San Antonio Liederkranz with a women’s chorus presents the oratorio St Caecelia at St Joseph's hall on Saturday and Sunday nights. An orchestra accompanies fifty voices with soloists M W Dielmann Hilda Wagner and others under O W Hilgers with Ernest Raba stage settings. A court judge was shot and wounded nearby while walking with Mrs Camron after bootlegger prosecutions and election cases.
Williamson West Virginia January 26 Judge James Damron of the circuit court was seriously wounded in an ambush. Authorities say the judge was targeted amid a crackdown on bootleggers prompting a heavy police response and an ongoing investigation.
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