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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 29, 1917
Page
5
The ad promotes all wool suits in several price points from 15.00 to 30.00. It claims the merchandise is standard stock not job lots and notes past overstock was returned as not up to standard. It emphasizes paying the eastern market price.
Local store advertises shirts at 1.00 and 1.50 and 2.00 and 2.50 and 3.00 and 3.50 and 4.00 dollars. The listing shows multiple price points for shirts in a compact sales notice.
Belgium shows a density of railroads suitable to its compact area, surpassing many larger nations in rail coverage per square kilometer and highlighting a high rail network reach relative to size.
Miss Wynne Pyle, former Dallas girl, will be soloist for the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra concert in San Antonio with Emil Oberhoffer conducting. The program features Liszt and Tchaikovsky, with the Star Spangled Banner and Wagner selections. The orchestra travels from Houston to the Pacific coast and back, with a large First Minnesota Infantry attendance planned.
The ad promotes Jick's Vap-O-Rub salve as a safe cold remedy for mothers with young children. It recommends external application to the chest and throat, plus room air and coverage with flannel. The product is described as harmless, absorbing through the skin and aiding vapors to reach affected parts. It claims relief from throat, head, chest colds and surface irritations.
A historical listing enumerates numerous San Antonio drug stores and pharmaceutical firms including It House Drug Store, Main Ave Pharmacy, Milburn Drug Co, Pfeiffer's Drug Store, and Meier's Pharmacy among others, reflecting a dense local health commerce network.
Coupon offers a single free 25 cent Vicks Vap-O-Rub Salve package while supplies last. If the druggist has run out, a jar can be tried on a 20 day trial. Name and address requested.
The state supreme court affirmed the Allegheny county court ruling in the Campbell versus Barchfield congressional contest. Barchfield appealed over the tally sheet figures replacing the certified returns, with tally sheets showing Campbell in the lead.
A Alburtis teacher describes recovery from a nervous run-down condition after taking Vinci tonic. The ad promotes Vinci containing beef and cod liver peptones iron and manganese, claiming improved sleep appetite and general health with listings of Texas druggists and stores selling the product.
An advertisement touts Gold Medal Haarlem Oil Capsules as a daily cure for backache. It claims origins in Haarlem, Holland, government charter, and longevity since 1696, urging buyers to purchase from reputable druggists with refunds if ineffective.
In New York on January 29 a shift in attention from Blackwell's Island to a Brooklyn special session court followed hunger striking Mrs Ethel Byrne as sister Mrs Margaret Sanger and Miss Fania Mondell face trial for aiding in a birth control clinic. About 500 mothers with children in carriages planned to accompany Mrs Byrne.
Burglars struck Saturday and Sunday nights, stealing jewelry valued at hundreds of dollars from C. C. Barksdale’s home at 3906 South Presa and watches worth 185 from K. F. Thomas’s hotel room. Other thefts include $64 cash, watches, jewelry at Morris & Co plant, and $25 from P. C. Oatman’s room. Miss Gertrude Smith reported a Sunday night entry with two watches stolen at 409 South Hamilton.
The Beethoven Maennerchor presented an extended evening of instrumental and vocal numbers at Beethoven Hall on Sunday night. Alex Bauer organized the event and, with Dr. A L Rehag, performed a humorous vocal piece. Numerous performers joined, with Mrs. B B Andrews and Miss Gisela Bauer prominently featured at the piano.
Rome reported Francesco Ruffini, Italy’s public instruction minister, said Italy’s war aims center on freeing Italians under Austrian rule and achieving complete unity. He aligned Italy’s goals with Wilson’s peace conditions but stressed final victory is essential. He warned Austria-Hungary seeks continued oppression in the Balkans and across Serbia Montenegro and Romania.
W ROGERS of 2241 2 East Houston street credits Tanlac with ending two decades of catarrh indigestion and rheumatism. He reports gaining fifteen pounds, renewed energy, better sleep, clearer skin, and says he feels like a boy again after taking the medicine at Wagner Drug Store San Antonio. Tanlac is described as aiding stomach health and inflammatory conditions and is sold locally by Wagner Drug Company E J H Meier.
D. E. Colp of the Texas Good Roads Association left for Austin to urge passage of a state highway commission bill. The measure, from printers Monday, is set as the second bill for House action Tuesday. Colp will meet with E. J. Hernan of the National Highways Association during an inspection tour of the Austin to New Orleans highway.
An old warning promotes S S S as a blood remedy for catarrh, arguing local sprays fail and the disease can reach the lungs. The ad urges a full trial of Swift’s Specific Co. product, inviting reader letters for medical advice from Atlanta Georgia.
Berlin says the British steamer Trevarrack was stopped by a German submarine on November 16, crew left in boats, ship sunk as a hostile vessel. The 2098-ton vessel was built in 1912 and owned in St Ives.
The Sam Houston State Normal at Huntsville reports a current enrollment near 700 students, with President H F Estill predicting 850 for the spring term. He attends a meeting of educators drafting a bill to classify and standardize Texas junior colleges.
Scores of delegates arrived in Pittsburgh Pa for the United Presbyterian missionary convention set to open tomorrow night. President J Campbell White of Wooster College and founder of the Lay men's Missionary Movement will open the gathering.
The Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions will launch a $1,000,000 campaign in Chicago to support new hospitals schools and churches in its foreign missions. Delegates from China Persia Asia Korea India and Africa will participate in the meeting tomorrow.
R L Leonard former Waco stockman, aged 49, died in a wreck at Mounds Junction Arkansas between a Rock Island passenger train and a Cotton Belt engine. Leonard lived in Memphis at death and would have turned 50 today. A clip invention secures a pencil on a telephone with a preventing chain.
A group of Texas automobile dealers on the San Antonio Texas Special will dine at the Blue Fountain room in the La Salle hotel Chicago Monday evening. J W Hucker will read a telegram from Mayor Clinton G Brown and a message from Governor Ferguson. The telegrams praise spring in Chicago and invite locals to visit Texas. W B Oneal of the M E T conveys the party’s arrival news.
A royal welcome greeted San Antonians during their twelve hour stay in St. Louis as the train proceeded to Chicago, reaching there at 7 o'clock Monday morning.
Four hundred ten men and boys signed a promise to attend Sunday school for ten consecutive Sundays after a campaign run by Protestant church committees. Total signups exceeded 410, with specials and San Antonio residents excluded from workers' credit. Presbyterians led with 195, Methodists 192, Baptists 11, others remaining.
The Boston Transcript notes Owen claims to provide employment to a large number of men, while suggesting he handles others’ bill collection duties.
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