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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1917
Page
9
Austin June 1 The newly designated Highway Commission moves quickly to action. It ordered 125,000 application blanks for motorists statewide to apply for car registrations and 150,000 copies of registration forms for public distribution.
Ladies can wear smaller shoes after using Allen's Foot-Kase antiseptic powder. It is sprinkled in shoes and on feet to ease grit and pressure, relieve corns and bunions, prevent calluses, and soothe sore spots. Aimed as the greatest comfort discovery, sold everywhere for 25 cents with free package offer by Allen S. Olmsted, Roy, N.Y.
The Highway Commission plans a free pamphlet printing federal and state highway laws. It will cover speed limits, motor driver licensing, and provisions of the Federal Act. Texas expects 3 million dollars in federal highway funds within five years. Commission members will stay in Austin to implement the laws once operative.
Telegraphic reports from Denver say about four hundred Chinese internees moved from Columbus toward Fort Sam Houston. They will be housed on the new drill ground east of Camp Wilson and assigned to the quartermaster for any suitable labor.
Paris June 7 The French war cross has been conferred on Mrs J Catlin Park formerly Mrs Chauncey Mitchell Depew an American woman for turning her home into a 130 bed hospital near the front The ceremony was attended by Thirteenth Army Corps officers in full uniform Her father was the late Julian Catlin of New York and she was married to Chauncey Mitchell Depew in London in 1915 and divorced last year
Richard Walter, charged federally with aiding Germany, was granted a $4000 appearance bond after a Wednesday hearing before U S commissioner R L Edwards. Three government witnesses testified to propoganda items found at Walter’s home, a treasonable postcard, and a coded book and key seized from the suspect.
O E Todd and E Kessler testified for the defense that the defendant had a good character, noting a book from fifteen or sixteen years ago that had not been used.
The locating commission for the new West Texas Agricultural and Mechanical College departs at once to inspect offers. The panel of Ferguson Hobby Fuller Davis and Doughty will visit Uvalde Kerrville San Angelo Sterling City Miles Balinger Abilene Stamford Haskell Hamlin Sweetwater Big Spring Snyder Post Lubbock Balls Crosbyton Spur Floydada Plainview Canyon Amarillo Goodnight and Clarendon over about two weeks.
Dr Thomas Do Hall formerly decorated by Emperor William is removed as professor of Christian ethics at Union Theological Seminary after nineteen years of service. The announcement follows decades of teaching at the New York institution.
An article promotes Parmint as a cheap at home remedy for catarrh related deafness and head noises. It instructs readers to mix one ounce Parmint with hot water and sugar syrup, then take a tablespoon four times daily to reduce middle ear inflammation and relieve ear buzzing and dullness.
A group of about 20 friends gathered at Mr. and Mrs. John L. Siedo’s home at 634 Castro Street to toast W. P. Bishop, newly named chief of the San Antonio fire department. The gathering served as a reunion with former firefighters and featured a Mexican menu and remarks from H. G. Rossi about Bishop bridging past and modern firefighting.
The readable text presents a roster of individuals including Charles Graap Ed Mylius Ward Sams Max Cadena Ed Liebrecht Fritz Cadena H Kup fernagie W R Woodroof John Ma rotte D Yuse Joe Morales M C Delgado Ed Rodriguez Mike Garcia Martin Klockenkemper A Cadena J Anderson Antonio Olguin Sr M C Delgado N G Russi and others.
The Rev. E. Rausch of Waverly IA will lecture this evening at 8 o’clock at St John’s Evangelical Lutheran Church corner Nueva and South Presa Streets. Topic: The Sixteenth Century and Its Message to the Twentieth. All welcome.
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