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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 15, 1916
Page
2
An ad promoting Vitalitas claims it helps chronic indigestion rheumatism nervous debility and various stomach liver kidney and blood issues. It promotes home use with a teaspoon in water and notes no alcohol or drugs. Available at Summers Drug Store and other druggists.
Roberto V. Pesqueira, special agent for Venustiano Carranza, will arrive in San Antonio Wednesday night and stay overnight before continuing to Washington Thursday. He has acted as a special diplomatic representative in the United States and has recently toured border consuls with the constitutionalist government.
Visiting Ohioans attended the Ohio Club meeting at the Gunter Hotel Tuesday evening. Among them were Judge and Mrs. B W Ross Findlay Mrs Harry Dogherty Columbus Mrs Thornhill Columbus Mrs I D Russell Findlay and Mr and Mrs M Livingston Youngstown. Committees on Membership and Program were appointed and Mrs B W Ross read a paper on Psychic Phenomena. Next meeting set for Tuesday April 4.
An advertisement warns that calomel makes people sick and cramps, urging readers to use Dodson's Liver Tone as a safer vegetable tonic. It claims the product starts the liver without upset, costs 60 cents a bottle, and is harmless for adults and children, with no digestive complaints.
The fourth semi annual meeting of the Southwest Texas Medical Society reports markedly increasing cancer in Texas. Treatments can succeed before spread. discussions cover gastric ulcers and carcinoma links. The event features lectures by Drs Scott White Lowry Venable and Kahn with a banquet at the Menger Hotel and a theater outing to The Birth of a Nation.
The Y M C A reports 180 new members secured by Wednesday noon in a 100 minute goal campaign named 200 members in 100 minutes. Generals Arthur Surkamp and Ralph L. Delby lead brigades. Captain George Wheeler’s team had 30 and J Floyd Smith’s 28 new members. The first brigade totaled 91 new members to date, second brigade 39.
Resolutions adopted by the San Antonio Automobile Dealers Trade Association at a Travis Club luncheon urge establishing a government manufacturing plant at the San Antonio arsenal. The group calls for developing the depot of supplies and for dealers to back the project and urge Chamber of Commerce delegates to vote in its favor.
The United States clears its aims with Mexico as it plans to recruit up to 20 000 more troops and widens publicity across the border. Secretary Baker presents troop maps to the cabinet while Carranza authorities tighten telegram censorship and reports of unrest surface in border towns.
Reports from El Paso say U S troops may be marching toward the Mexican border in two positions with camps broken but no confirmed movements. General Gavira says Carranza approval awaited before crossing. The desert route spans 125 miles to the Sierra Madre range, a barren, canyoned landscape with scant water and no roads.
The Second Cavalry Brigade under Colonel George A. Dodd completes preparations to move from Culberson's ranch toward Mexico. Supply trains and a signal station are set, with many guides fluent in Chihuahua and Sonora ready to assist. Border patrols and county sheriffs organize home guards for potential duties.
Reports from El Paso indicate a partial censorship has been established at Hachita. Authorities have not released full details about the censorship's scope or duration.
Governor Salvador Alvarado of Yucatan issues a decree forbidding foreigners to acquire real estate in Yucatan, citing foreign activity in unsettling the money market. The decree will be revoked once conditions prompting it are remedied, per La Voz de la Revolucion.
Large numbers of Zapata followers who had been captured are brought into Yucatan and released on the condition they work in henequen plantations.
A train with about 200 Americans and 100 Mexicans from Nacozari reached Agua Prieta. Mexicans said they feared clashes between Carranza forces and the United States, not complications, but reports that Villa’s men might invade Sonora. Hl Tigre workers stayed at their posts. passengers were counted.
Word arrives that Bishop Francis J. McConnell of the Methodist Episcopal Church, en route from Mexico City, reached Eagle Pass Texas last night. Church officials say all twenty seven missionaries of the church have been ordered to depart Mexico by Bishop McConnell.
Large detachments of Mexican troops with artillery have been withdrawn from the Yaqui area near San Diego California. The move comes as tensions ease and authorities monitor border conditions amid ongoing conflicts in the region.
Reports indicate Paign moved north through Southern Sonora with reliable radio advice. Raids by the Yaquis upon American settlements are feared as tensions rise along the border.
Telegraphic instructions issued in Los Angeles lift the embargo on exporting arms and ammunition to Mexican points for shipments to the de facto government. The order, signed by William P. Malburn, assistant secretary of the treasury, follows elevated unrest. Kansas Guard Expects Call for Militia Mobilization as War Dept plans action within a week, Adjutant General C. I. Martin in Washington reports.
Mexicans born in the United States have formed a home guard in El Paso to offer services to the city in the event of an emergency or imminent threat. The move reflects local wartime preparations and community mobilization.
Laredo authorities report a customs embargo order exempts munitions destined for Carranza forces from seizure. All shipments not clearly identified will be held at the border. 60 cents Sutherland Springs round trip advertised for Sundays at 7:55 a.m. by Southern Pacific.
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