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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1916
Page
14
An old advertisement extols the arrival of a baby and promotes Mother's Friend as a remedy to ease pregnancy. It cites letters from mothers and grandmothers praising the product and invites readers to request a free informational book from Bradfield Regulator Co. in Atlanta, Georgia.
Eagle Pass will furnish four of its citizens to the Fort Sam Houston training camp this month. The men are George C. Hollis Dr. J. K. Wilson H F Brown and Albert Talmadge.
The twelfth annual council of the West Texas diocese of the Episcopal Church opened in Corpus Christi with many delegates. Women from the Woman's Auxiliary League attended, and the session is led by the Right Rev. William C. Capers of San Antonio.
A vintage advertising notice urges readers to cut out the slip and mail it with a 5 cent stamp to Foley & Co. in Chicago for a trial package. The offer includes Foley's Honey and Tar Compound for bronchial issues, Foley Kidney Pills, and Foley Cathartic Tablets for various ailments.
Instructions for using Parmint double strength with hot water and sugar to relieve catarrhal deafness and head noises. Claims quick relief as nostrils unclog and breathing improves with four daily spoonfuls. Simple, inexpensive preparation recommended for sufferers.
Paris dispatch profiles General Joffre, on duty about seventeen hours daily for twenty one months of war. He travels over seventy thousand miles by motor, reads every dispatch, approves orders, and plans front operations from a villa HQ. He inspects shelters, barbed wire, kitchens, and trains, remaining calm, decisive, and unhurried.
Charters issued include Carlos Oil Company of Navasota with capital stock $15,000 and Grimes Oil Association of Anderson $15,000. Jones' Oil Company of Houston $20,000 and The J. Livinski Company of Waco $75,000. Permits granted to Sullivan Machinery Company of San Francisco with Texas HQ in El Paso and Galveston County Oil Company of Texas with blue sky stock sale, $14,000. Amendments filed: Phelan-Josey Grocery Company of Beaumont to $125,000 and Elliott-Fisher Company of Jersey City to $100,000. Proof of final payment by Bowen Car Initial & Number Recorder Company.
Kingsville ad notes Linde Air Products Texas Dallas service with $84.15 New York round trip via New Orleans steamer, Southern Pacific. 60 cents for Sutherland Springs return Sundays at 8:15 and 9 a.m. German theater opens in Lille with Goethe's Iphigenia as the lineup.
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