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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 15, 1916
Page
5
A vintage advertisement touts Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets as a cure for indigestion and stomach troubles. It claims the tablets aid digestion after meals, reduce belching and sour risings, and improve appetite, priced at 50 cents a box with a free-trial coupon offer.
The Lone Star Poultry Association will hold its annual banquet on Wednesday evening at the original Mexican restaurant. Members and their families will attend. Dr. C. F. Hayes chairs the affair with Mrs. Sam C. Slack and J. D. Pulliam on the banquet committee.
Firestorms from Tuesday afternoon to Wednesday morning ripped through several sites in San Antonio. Swift & Company packing plant on 115 South Medina suffered major damage, with meats stored there burned. insurance partially covers losses. Dr. Charles Dixon home at 1143 West French Place and other residences sustained smaller but notable damage. Five fires were promptly controlled with minimal totals, including Portland Cement plant and several homes.
Colonel Edwin F. Glenn, chief of staff of the Department of the East, declared in New York that U.S. Army forces are pathetically neglected and under strain. He spoke amid broader concerns over logistics and readiness.
A Dallas reader testifies to relief after using Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery and Favorite Prescription for women. The ad touts open ingredients, non secret remedies, and offers trial tablets for 10 cents and large packages for 50 cents, plus Pheasant Pellets for digestive health.
The Sphinx Club speaker derides the United States army as pathetic and notes European nations object. He compares the army to a fly in a telescope and questions attention to the Mexican situation, estimating that stabilizing Mexico would require five years and at least 100,000 troops.
At a Tuesday meeting the Manufacturers' Club endorsed the Fort Sam Houston construction plan and civilian training camp. It opposed curtailment of those plans, supported railroad growth through San Antonio, and thanked the school board for encouraging San Antonio made products in new buildings. The group discussed power production efficiency and formed a committee to arrange a trades excursion.
Mrs Elizabeth Klaus dies at noon Tuesday The funeral is set for 4 pm Wednesday from Riebe Undertaking Company Chapel Rev Paul Hein of Grace Lutheran Church to conduct services Interment will be at the new Lutheran cemetery Pallbearers named W A Gardner A V Oughton Henry Stow Frank ee T W Garvin John ux William Leroy Read William Leroy Read 36 dies at 3 pm Tuesday in a San Antonio sanitarium Survived by widow Hattie Read parents George and Mrs Read a brother J A Read and three sisters Mrs J M Black Minnie Read Annabella Read Funeral from 203 Diaz street at 9 am Thursday to St Ann s Church at 9 30 Rev Father P F Nichol officiating Interment St Michael s cemetery
Sam Buhano aged 43 died at his home 318 Maryland street at 8 30 Tuesday afternoon. A native of Mexico he had lived in San Antonio 29 years. Survived by widow a son F Buhano and three daughters Josephine Lucille and Esther May Buhano all of San Antonio. Funeral from the home at 430 Wednesday afternoon with interment in Hermann Sons cemetery.
Mrs Rudolph Oppermann died Tuesday afternoon at her home 1401 South Laredo Street. A native of San Antonio she lived here all her life. Survived by husband three daughters Mrs Albert Chavez Dorothy Adele Oppermann and Otto Oppermann a sister Mrs Bertha Alver of New Braunfels and two brothers Henry and Dan Pfeil of San Antonio. Funeral from the home at 4 o'clock Wednesday with Rev A L Wolff of St John’s Lutheran Church officiating. Burial in the Hermann Sons cemetery.
Roth phones 971 for automobile equipment from Shelley Loring Undertaking Co. The advertisement promotes auto supplies and services offered by the firm.
Austin March 16 The Texas railroad commission finished most docket matters set for hearing this month and took several proposals under advisement including readjustment of coal car load rates to Eagle Pass and sand and gravel rates to Texas points. The commission delayed the April 1 effective date for interchangeable excess baggage books to May 1 and approved sale at twenty dollars for twenty five dollar coupons.
In old style advertising language a product named Tiz claims to relieve tired aching puffed feet and foot conditions. It touts quick pain and burn relief from corns calluses and bunions and urges readers to buy a 26 cent box at any drug store for year long comfort.
An inexpensive shampoo recipe using a teaspoon of canthrax in hot water. Applied to the scalp with a massage creates a cooling lather that dissolves dandruff and dirt, rinses clean the scalp, and leaves hair looking glossy and fuller.
Zemo promises blemish removal and healthy skin for 26c or 1.00 for a large bottle. It claims to remove pimples blackheads eczema and ringworm without being watery sticky or greasy. The ad emphasizes easy application dependability and low cost from Zemo Cleveland.
An Athens dispatch reports Is mail Hakki president of commercial administration has been named Turkish minister of war amid rumors Enver Pasha, the wartime decision maker, has been assassinated. Wives of Laboring Men Form Branch in Corpus Christi Event led by local Trades Council and affiliated with the American Federation of Labor.
This notice promotes three grain Cadomene Tablets as a cure for nervousness insomnia and related symptoms. It claims rapid tonic effects and urges readers to buy at large drug stores and follow provided directions, noting physicians no longer needed for prescriptions.
An informal guide promotes mercorized wax to remove freckles pimples moth patches and sallowness by nightly application and soap wash. A wash lotion made from powdered saxolite and hazel is suggested for wrinkles and crow s feet with daily use.
Gold coin of any denomination is scarce in the Texas state treasury due to war conditions. Currently about 3.6 million dollars in cash remain, with less than 1000 dollars in gold coin. Previously the treasury received up to seven and a half million dollars in gold daily before the war.
Mobile Alabama March 15 The battleships New York and Arkansas fired indirect shells at a concrete and sand fortification at the mouth of Mobile Bay. Eleven miles from the coast they dropped 14 inch and 12 inch projectiles at ten minute intervals while three airplanes observed and photographed the results. Officials withheld the test outcome as the government evaluates the new coast defense fortification.
Corpus Christi business men respond to Captain John L. King of Company C Texas National Guard offering a chance to take part in military drills without enlistment. Many locals are eager to volunteer if called. The militia has mustered forty-two men above the 108 regular strength.
Wages of farm laborers rose slightly in the leading grain states with some areas showing stationary or declining pay. The report notes modest gains amid ongoing cost shifts affecting agricultural labor markets.
Grover C. Coombs sergeant in the U S infantry and aide to Captain James M Love Jr Texas National Guard inspector instructs the local infantry company in outpost duty in Austin March 16 He is expected to train other guard units along similar lines after completing the work Coombs is noted as an expert marksman.
Augustus McCloskey was elected special county judge in a meeting of attorneys held in the county courtroom. He will preside over probate matters during Judge James R. Davis's absence in Washington and immediately after taking the oath he admitted wills to probate and appointed appraisers for estates.
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