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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1918
Page
8
The sale highlights aluminum percolators at 1.17 dollars for seven cup units with glass tops and black hardwood handles. Regularly 1.75, the item is pitched as a present and future value in the clearance line.
The ad promotes knitting yarn at 1.10 per hank, offering best quality for soldiers and sailors sweaters and gear. Colors include khaki gray navy and natural mixes. Full-size hanks regularly priced at 1.10 are offered as value specials.
The department offers hundreds of blouses in organdy voile crepe de chine and Georgette crepe with new collars cuffs and lace trims. Prices range from 97c to $5.39 with many sizes 36 to 46 and model blouses $11.25 to $18.75 in the clearance.
The Continental Congress formally adopted the Stars and Stripes on June 14 1777 with Washington Morris and Ross reporting. Elizabeth Ross oversaw flag making at 289 Arch Street Philadelphia widow of a revolutionary soldier. The day was marked with celebrations at Independence Hall Philadelphia and elsewhere. The notice advertises Defiance Cotton Bunting U S Flags and a 3x5 feet house flag set.
With cotton costs high, this ad markets muslin garments priced at 79c to 1.48, including corset covers gowns teddies and drawers. It touts 98c undermuslins 1.25 values and 2.00 muslin wear at 1.48, highlighting quality fabrics embroidery and ribbons.
Exquisitely handmade garments priced at 1.98 in the White Sale. The items include dainty gowns and teddies with hand scalloped necks sleeves ribbon eyelets and embroidered fronts. The 2.50 value collapses to 1.98 in this sale.
Garments and gowns offered at sale prices. Envelope chemises with embroidery and medallions priced at 2.98 from an original 4.00. Hand-made gowns and envelopes in fine batiste or Filipino cloth marked down to 3.98 from 5.00.
The Light invites submissions from civilians and soldiers for humorous, true camp anecdotes from San Antonio and other camps. Accepted pieces up to 200 words earn $1 each, with no return of submissions. names and addresses must be attached on one card.
A brief public notice touts a free lesson from the King Institute EB-119 Station F New York claiming the K I shorthand system can be learned in hours and used for dictation high speed speech and improved earnings.
A federal court naturalization session at Kelly Field Wednesday morning granted United States citizenship to 32 foreign nationals, who were grouped by country before being naturalized. Countries represented included Argentina, Armenia, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, England, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Mexico, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Scotland, and Spain among others.
Mrs Josie H Kerr aged 50 died at her sister Mrs Mattie Engles home 302 Cass Street at 2 pm Tuesday. Funeral from Mrs Engles residence at 5 pm Wednesday, service at St Philip s Church at 580, burial San Fernando Cemetery. Survived by two sons, two sisters, three brothers. Mary Ethel Forbrich 12 died Tuesday at home of parents Mr and Mrs William Forbrich. Service by Rev SKL Neff from 1915 Virginia Boulevard at 4 pm Wednesday, burial Lutheran Cemetery. Survived by parents and two brothers, Tris and Herman.
An old column lists Porter Loring Funeral Directors and other undertakers with contact numbers and addresses, plus private ambulance services and motor equipment details. It also references a Texas farmer tale and a Greensburg, Tid, wheat harvest note with inconsistent phrasing.
A Paris court martial sentenced Madame M a 37 year old spy to death. Her 16 year old son Noel was sent to a penitentiary colony until he reaches age. The case remains largely private. The mother earned the nickname The Merry Widow after fleeing debt and contacting a Greek agent in Spain.
Sergeant Charles McCann of the Lafayette escadrille and now stationed at Kelly Field, attached to publicity, wed June 1 to Laura Bell Huddleston of Waco. Once a lieutenant with six German planes, he served in France and later toured Texas cities promoting Liberty Bonds and Red Cross drives. Also noted is a St Louis hotel ban on free amenities for patrons.
Forty five objectors sentenced to twenty five years will be sent to Leavenworth to begin serving their terms unless orders delay. They are currently in the stockade at Camp Travis and will be treated as other prisoners as records are reviewed by the judge advocate general. Patton and McKenzie fled to Mexico, followed by Walter Turns who helped extradite them for trial. August Glover’s murder trial set for June 24. A domestic dispute over fire making and keeping ends with humorous exchanges.
Judge W S Anderson announces a summer term of the Thirty seventh District Court starting around July 1 to tackle a heavily crowded criminal docket. George McKenzie faces trial next Monday for murder of Leo Burns, with Delmar Funk already sentenced to fifty years and James Patton to ninety nine years. The Burns killing, the first of the chauffeur tragedies, involved hiring Burns to transport the four soldiers to a dance, then assault and murder ten miles south of the city before disposing of the body.
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