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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1915
Page
10
Classified notice offers gas stoves and refrigerators on easy terms. Items include Rogers plated desert knives, heavy plated teaspoon sets, Taviland and Haviland china pieces such as meat dishes and salad bowls with price tags like 8.98. Streaming mentions assortments and payment plans details.
Secretary of State Bryan era note recounts Orticar C. C. Syons assuming recruiting duties in San Antonio. He installs a three light electroilier using a three inch shrapnel shell, Russian in origin, previously unused in Nankin clashes. Evans replaces Charles Driver as recruiting officer. Driver stays as assistant until reassignment.
Mrs B M Liebhold, owner of a tallyho, will take 50 orphans from St Joseph’s Orphanage on a ride around the south loop Wednesday afternoon. The rubber neck car departs at o’clock. A crate of fruit donated by Pruitt Commission Company will be served. Jack the monkey accompanies the trip.
A grain tablet tonic advertised as a self administered remedy for overwork nerves and insomnia. The notice claims rapid relief, invites readers to obtain three grain Cadomen Tablets from a drugstore with full directions, and asserts no physician is needed. It notes the product was once dispensed by physicians and pharmacists and is now sold in sealed tubes with instructions.
A benefit matinee at the Grand Opera House will run Saturday from 10 am to 2 pm. All receipts above expenses go to the Light’s Work fund with ongoing Saturday showings through summer. Two features include Hiawatha and Charlie Chaplin, admission five cents, aims to aid children and education through Indian life depiction.
The San Antonio Equal Franchise Society will continue the suffrage school in June with weekly meetings at 10 o clock on Wednesdays at the Woman's Club on Graden street. A large evening event for men and business women who cannot attend mornings is planned, with Mrs James K Young as committee chair and a panel of speakers addressing objections to suffrage.
The advance guard of 300 to 400 Texas Press Association members heads to Corpus Christi for the annual convention June 10 to 12. Delegates pass San Antonio en route, with many traveling by MM, I and T and Sap railroads. About 250 plan to use the arrangements for staff transportation. D R Hurriy of Henderson is president and Sam P Herbert of Richardson is secretary.
The Travis Club discussed plans for the coming year at a Monday executive committee meeting. Committees named include Insuse chaired by James Crenshaw, Membership led by Edward McWannahan, Entertainment headed by D V Hamilton, and several others with multiple members listed.
The article describes German submarine warfare and a vivid sea chase as told in The Nations at War. It notes the book’s unbiased presentation by Whistler Abbot and promotes a limited edition offer by The Light, inviting readers to buy at 98 cents. It also mentions sealed proposals at Fort Sam Houston in May 1915 for constructing officers’ quarters and related military buildings.
County Highway Engineer Fred Bennett and two road superintendents Rey Barnebure and J. 3. McWheel compile a report on road bond work. It shows over 200 miles of roads built or resurfaced and nearly 20 miles paved with tar via an estimated $80,000 cost.
A historical advisory warns that calomel or mercury laxatives cause sickness, cramps, and weakness. It urges consumers to avoid calomel and promote Devon’s Liver Tone as a safer, gentle alternative for liver relief.
Mrs Sarah J Armstrong of 121 North Pine Street killed a four foot long garden snake in her front yard on a Friday afternoon after neighbors gathered and a neighbor used a hoe to aid. The incident drew attention from residents as the snake threatened the area near the fence and under the house.
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