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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1916
Page
2
Don-Ton Park hosts Retail Merchants Association night with the five reel headliner What Love Can Do. The photoplay cast includes Adele Farrington C L Hamond and Mina among the featured performers.
A quick home method claims to remove unwanted hair with a stiff paste of delatone powder and water. Apply to the hairy area, wait about two minutes, then rub off and wash. Cautions include ensuring the druggist sells delatone to avoid disappointment.
The notice details a Cunard play about reclaiming love, plus on screen No. 2 a lineup of comedies. Smith's San Antonio Band performs a special program for Merchants' Association and Mine delegates, with Alicia Petitclerc singing several popular numbers.
June Dixons models present a sequence of famous paintings ending with a dance. The program lists works including The Water Carrier Youths Pastime Bacchanal and others. Eddie and Bertha Moon perform a comedy act The Kids and the Wagon with a farm scene.
Advertisement offers New York round trip and Sutherlang Springs return with Sunday service via Southern Pacific. Announces diverse routes, rail both ways, and burning locomotives as a vivid note in an era railroad promo.
Hundreds of Dutch women met the prime minister in The Hague to urge price cuts for bread pork potatoes and vegetables. The interior minister later told the deputation of measures taken and expected pork potato and vegetable price reductions, citing export bans and seizure of potato stacks as remedies.
Dyspeptics abandon costly patent foods and harmful drugs. A tea cup of bisurated magnesia after meals neutralizes excess acidity, prevents fermentation, and improves stomach comfort. Use bisolated magnesia to avoid unwanted laxative effects and save money.
Reports from Petrograd indicate a major Russian push across Bukowina and Volhynia, severing Czernowitz rail links and pushing toward Kovel and Lemberg. Austrians retreat in disorder, with fears of losing Lemberg as Brussiloff’s right flank advances and stockpiled defenses collapse under a deceptive Russian barrage.
Paris reports continued heavy bombardment of French positions north of Souville, the Verdun key, with infantry quiet overnight. Artillery activity increased near Chantancourt and Souville while a German detachment in the Vosges was repulsed and a surprise attack northwest of Bonhomme failed.
Berlin reports Russian forces in dense formation attacked Teutonic lines near Przewloka and were repulsed by General von Bothmer. Austrian troops hold their position north of Czernowitz and east of the city, with Vienna headquarters confirming the repulse in a June 14 statement.
The war office announced the repulse of a British attempt to advance on the right bank of the Tigris near Felahie. The action occurred below Kut el Amara after General Townshend's surrender.
In Athens meetings, Greeks adopted resolutions pledging loyalty to King Constantine and backing Premier Skouloudis. They protested the Allied blockade of Greek ports and condemned Allied conduct toward neutral nations.
The document praises the king as our glorious sovereign King Constantine XIII linking him to ancient Constantinople rulers. The feature of the resolutions centers on this royal title and its implications for legitimacy and continuity of rule.
A Belgian war office statement claims substantial progress for Belgian forces invading German East Africa. They say they now control the entire northwest section of the colony.
Berlin declares the German auxiliary cruiser Herzmann was attacked by four Russian destroyers southwest of Stockholm during the night of June 13. After resisting, the vessel was set afire and blown up by its crew. the commander and most of the crew were saved. Meanwhile thirteen German merchantmen convoyed by auxiliary ships and torpedo boats were attacked near the Swedish coast by Russian vessels, with some ships sunk.
Advertisement-style note stating Horsford's Acid Phosphate provides prompt relief after meals for nausea, sick headache, and acid stomach. Mentions use for distress following meals and benefits of the product.
The Rotary Club Friday noon meeting at the St Anthony Hotel will feature Gabe Cazell speaking on Voice Building. He will describe how vocal students are trained to sing. Six San Antonio Rotarians in civilian training camp at Fort Sam Houston and guests from other cities attend. Dr J H Burleson presides as toastmaster.
Shake Allen's Foot-Ease into shoes or a foot bath for instant relief from swollen smarting feet. It soothes sweating, callouses, and tired aching feet and is sold by druggists nationwide for 25 cents. Trial package available from Allen Olmstead in Le Roy, New York.
Miss Callie Hoke Smith daughter of Senator Hoke Smith of Georgia wed J Lyman Grant Pratt son of the late Le Gage Pratt of New Jersey in the Smith home on California Avenue Washington D C The ceremony attended by relatives and a few friends followed by a wedding breakfast and reception The bride a former debutante and Washington society favorite is the youngest Smith daughter and sister to Lucy Smith who married Alston R Simpson
Theodore Roosevelt underwent an X ray examination after a broken rib from a May 24 fall, with doctors saying no serious discomfort is likely. He spoke with reporters, spoke little about politics, and met Raymond Rolins and Governor Johnson during a quiet day. Lucien Bonheur defended Roosevelt against party critics.
In St Louis on June 15 suffragettes urged a strong suffrage plank but faced a committee split. Three members support suffrage while four oppose. two are viewed as admin aligned. President Wilson’s draft hints at a suffrage plank but many doubt its sufficiency.
An aged negro flagman Rastus tells how he waved his lantern as an express train struck a buggy and its occupants. The cross examination tests his nerve while the division superintendent commends his steadfast story and warns against wavering under questioning.
Thunderstorms moved over a large part of Texas with rain and winds. Galveston logged 40 mph gusts, others at 36 mph. Rainfall varied from 1.30 to 2.64 inches across regions, droughts ended in several areas while southern and western parts saw little or no rain.
Weather reports show most of Texas received rain in the past day except the southwestern drought area. San Antonio measured .38 inches with a thunderstorm and 25 mph winds, while totals ranged from .02 to 2.64 inches in other cities including Fort Worth and Dublin. The forecast calls for fair weather but lingering clouds and unsettled conditions locally.
A high wind and heavy rain wrecked several houses in Wurika Oklahoma during the night. Derrick structures in southern oil fields reported blown down as well. The same storm era caused localized damage across the region including a drought ending in Big Springs Texas with rain and some barn damage. In Waco Texas 1.65 inches fell with lightning damage in McLennan County.
Austin reports over two thirds of an inch of rain fell in Travis county on Wednesday night, providing timely relief for corn and cotton crops across the area.
The Smith family nearly controls Rossville’s village council after Bert Jess and Dick Smith win council seats and Gene Smith holds over one of the eight votes. George Smith, a retired farmer, announces a bid for mayor with a two plank platform to transform Rossville into a city and rename it Smithville.
In Corpus Christi area on June 15 Mrs. Beatrice Parry killed a venomous eight foot six inch rattlesnake after it attacked her garden. The skin is displayed in Corpus Christi while Mrs. Amos Robinson was badly bitten by a large rattler nearby. The snake season is underway prompting locals to warn travelers and farmers to watch their step.
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