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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 19, 1917
Page
2
London report says fourteen British ships over 1600 tons were sunk by submarines or mines in the past week. Four vessels under 1600 tons also sunk along with eight fishing boats.
Last chance to see Norma Talmadge and Tulley Marshall in The Devil's Needle by Ince-Triangle. Tomorrow The Little Boy Scout with Ann Pennington takes over, offering her notable talents in a photoplay at the Famous Players-Paramount theater.
A rebellious niece of old Miguel Alva rez hides from a tyrant uncle near the Rio Grande in Mexico. On the eve of her forced marriage she escapes with a priest and embarks on a sequence of humorous and dramatic adventures highlighting liberty and love.
Uniformed men in khaki and olive drab danced amid a bustling crowd on Wednesday night. A lively crowd kept the dance floor going as children enjoyed the morning swim in a partly filled pool where the bottom was reachable in many spots.
The document explains a national lottery for military drafts, detailing how 10 million registrants are grouped into 4557 examination groups. It describes drawing 1000-number sheets to order within groups, measures to ensure fairness, and steps for recording and announcing drawn numbers with safeguards against fraud and errors.
Three tally sheets record each announced number and agree on the result. If any number differs, the agreeing sheets determine the outcome. Before drawing numbers from one to one thousand a sub-draw for zero to ten fixes the order of thousands on the master lists.
Sergeant Ashworth and Bartlett Massey of Motor Truck Company No. 51 Leon Springs offer to assist Red Cross entertainment programs. Men from quartermaster and motor truck units can volunteer through the Red Cross Bureau at the Gunter Hotel lobby. The committee says concerts are for everybody and acknowledges an $11 gift from Rev. A C McStravick of First United Presbyterian Church.
The San Antonio Builders' Exchange held its bi weekly luncheon at the Travis Club with an overflow crowd. Under President Wright, the session moved quickly as members agreed to meet weekly going forward and each attendee pledged to bring another person to the next gathering.
Thomas A. Carr reports rapid material flow into Camp Travis with seventy carloads mainly lumber arriving Wednesday and another expected Thursday. To date 599 carloads have arrived and 285 more are listed. lists include lumber posts sand rails coal bricks and machinery. Stone & Webster begins a second mess hall with 1200 capacity. initial and new building posts exceed 200 for 200 man and smaller units.
Employed Signal Corps recruits from the Southwestern Telephone Company head to Camp Funston for service training. The group from the San Antonio exchange, led by Maj. Frank A. Montrose, will join other Texas recruits forming the Tenth Telegraph Battalion of the Reserve Signal Corps under Lt. H. Sullivan and Lt. E. Painter. Captain D. C. Rosser commands the Texas unit with Lts. Cuney of Houston and Eppler of Dallas as successors.
Two hundred and fifty wounded American servicemen were entertained at Holland Park by the Red Cross for American soldiers and sailors.
The crown prince army loses control of positions northwest of Verdun. French counterattacks reclaim the trenches, take prisoners, and disrupt German lines. German attempts near St Quentin and Avecourt Wood fail to regain ground.
German assault on the Le Mort Homme slopes and Hill 304 area was repulsed after a thirty minute engagement. French forces secured control of the high ground and observatories, with first German counterattacks failing to break through twelve hours later.
Today’s Army orders assign Henry D. Thomason to Fort Ontario and Lt Col Paul F. Straub to Boston. Capt Albert Young, Philippine Scouts, retired, goes to Fort Douglass relieving Capt Joseph Harris. Other captains switch to Linda Vista California Western Department and West Point officers detached to San Antonio arsenal and Getteburz. First Lt Beverdi Daly listed.
A druggist extols a lemon skin lotion made by mixing juice from two fresh lemons with three ounces of Orchard White to yield a quarter pint. The mixture, strained to remove pulp, can be stored for months and used daily to whiten, soften, and brighten the face neck arms and hands. Edward Wesley Co. Cincinnati Ohio markets Orchard White.
A list of individuals including Robert Fe.antares Guy C. Armstrong Lawrence G. Bremenser Normal Whillock Floyd N Jenkins Arlo F. Kraus Earl Kropp ee W. Lae Ray D. Lor Ralph Les M. Stull Card Turnery Francis R. Wadsworth Homer A. Wilson Stanley Co. Mook are reported to advance to captain and retirements, with notes on veterinary reserve and Second Heu tenants, heading to Nogales.
Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt Jr arrived in Paris from New York and was welcomed by the prefect of the department on behalf of the French government. American naval and medical missions and several ambulance workers also disembarked on the same steamer.
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