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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 27, 1916
Page
21
Thieves forced open a rear door of the Oriental Oil Company station at 415 East Trains feet Wednesday night, opened the cash register, and escaped with five dollars in change. The theft was found Thursday morning and reported to the police by manager G. C. Cain.
An advertisement claims Q-Ban Hair Color Restorer darkens gray hair to a youthful shade, adds fullness and softness, stops dandruff and hair loss, and promotes growth. It touts a 50 cent bottle, sold by Summers Drug in San Antonio with mail order for out-of-town customers.
Mexican march Zacatecas overture Il Guarany selections from Cavalleria Rusticana and selections including Wine Women and Song. Violin solos Alt Wiener Tanzweisen Liebesfreund Liebesleid Schon a. Le Hermandan. Soloist G Codina A C Gomez. J Strauss Mascagni K Kraisler Rosmarin. Hungarian Dances 1 and 3. Descriptive Fantasia A Day in Acadia. Synopses The Shadows Roll Away Dawn Birds Begin to Sing Fishing Boats Put Off Church Bell for Matins The Mill The Smiths Song Twilight The Cattle Are Driven Home The Young People Gather on the Green The Country Dance Old Comrades by request. WM H Smith Director Co Teike
The Wolff & Marx Co is the authorized depository for all public school books in San Antonio. They offer textbooks for Main Avenue and Brackenridge High Schools plus a wide range of school supplies at very low bulk prices. Includes Spanish and Latin texts, notebooks, drawing and construction papers, pencils, erasers, lunch gear, bags, straps, rulers, colors, ink tablets, and(course materials) Elocution Musical Scientific Commercial Domestic Science texts. First Floor.
Houston editor Ed Mueller of New Braunfels and others present essays on urban policy. Topics include aiding small cities, regulating automobile traffic, preventing junk theft, and how city officials can best serve railroads. Interspersed are local ads and a robbery report about a stolen five passenger automobile from the Travis Club area.
Berlin date January 27 reports from Dutch sources say the number of undecided cases before the British prize courts is so large that if peace were declared now the courts would remain occupied for two years.
In San Antonio the Araucano chief Caupolican objects to confinement and will sleep on the Gunter Hotel roof for the rest of his stay. He hails from southern Chile with French lineage, was educated in Paris, and plans to attend an annual Araucano reunion next January 1917. The piece notes his tribe’s pride and cross race friendships. Also, Chicago hosts a Methodist unity conference February 10-17 with 8,000,000 members represented.
A promotional jingle invites readers to mail a 5 cent slip to Foley & Co Chicago for a trial pack of Foley products. The pack includes Foley’s Honey and Tar Compound for coughs and croup, Foley Kidney Pills for kidney and back ailments, and Foley Cathartic Tablets for constipation and biliousness, with sale through A M Fischer Gibbs Building.
A satirical snippet notes a magazine accusing the speaker of nefarious practices while playfully asserting many others are indicted. The piece mentions Sunday Light Want Ads reaching over 25,000 homes at 15 words for 15 cents, with promotional tone intact.
Washington D C January 27 under provision of the Shackelford good roads bill passed Monday by the House and now up to the Senate for action in Texas context.
Stomach misery solution Mi o na is advertised with a money back guarantee from H L Wagner. meanwhile Texas receives 1 070386 from a $25 million road bill with two Texas members voting against it surprising observers. The article also notes rings worn by Villa, their oak leaf and acorn design, and the mystery of how they wore thin.
Dr Henry Allen Tupper, special representative of the International Peace Forum and ally of Venustiano Carranza, travels through San Antonio toward the Mexican border en route to California and then Mexico City. He predicts a Carranza government will secure peace, calls for patient American sentiment, and notes efforts to capture Villista slayers of eighteen Americans.
New season arrivals showcase house dresses with short sleeves and pique necks, full plain skirts with pockets and closures. Also featured are spring skirts at 6.95 and 7.50 in golphine with Shepherd Checks, pockets, belts, and black buttons in gray rose peach blue salmon whites.
Beautiful Middy blouses arrive in Ga lata, Linen, Khaki and Pongee. Styles include regulation Middy Tennis and Campfire Blouse with belted effects. Trimmed in spring shades. Prices range from 1.00 to 2.50.
A storefront ad promotes women’s muslin undergarments including gowns teddy bears corset covers and petticoats. Items showcase organdy trim embroidery beading and ribbons with prices from 89 cents to 1.50 dollars and a third floor display. Regular values up to 2.00 dollars.
New line of dresses for girls ages 6 to 16 in Ginghams and Percales in light and dark colors with piping buttons and pique collars. Priced from 1.25 to 5.00. Little Tots dresses for ages 2 to 6 feature gingham and percale with braid piping and pearl buttons, specials 59c to 2.50 on third floor.
Reports describe numerous rings sold in the United States each bearing the initials F. and featuring a hinged top opening to a tiny chamber believed to hold poison for Villa. The rings, linked to Francisco Villa, were sourced from unspecified sellers and widely circulated as curios.
A quirky note cites Flubdub and her attitude to drinking with a parodied dialogue about moderation and waste. It contrasts a lighthearted toast with a measured tablespoonful. Then a statistical line reports that out of 16,307,840 acres of land in Ceylon only about 2,875,000 are cultivated.
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