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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 16, 1916
Page
14
A promotional piece extols drinking hot water with limestone phosphate each morning to cleanse the stomach and bowels. It claims improved skin, energy, and health for those with digestive issues, urging readers to buy a quarter pound of limestone phosphate.
Austin reports from the State Department of Agriculture indicate dry weather has damaged wheat and oat crops and could wipe them out as late spring crops. If conditions persist, the corn crop may also fail. Commissioner Davis cautions farmers not to overproduce cotton.
Corpus Christi Rotary Club plans to adopt a new constitution and by-laws at an evening meeting. The move marks the club’s most significant session in its two year history. Special note mentions a $7.55 Houston round trip fare for the Cattlemen’s Convention with a special train leaving 11:00 p.m. March 20.
The Citizens League calls a Tuesday ratification meeting to back Fire Chief Phil Wright as Mayor Brown’s choice for fire and police commissioner. Pre primaries Monday set precincts and chairs, with Wright likely winning by an overwhelming margin amid machine anxiety and German-American support for Uhr. Labor unions press for union-scale painters in fire dept work.
About 50 styles of long sleeve Crepe de Chine blouses offered with new collars cuffs and several with embroidered fronts or tuck and hemstitching. Shades listed include sunset rose peach maize Nile flesh and white.
Campaigns are under way for the next Cattlemen's convention. Delegates from San Antonio and Southwest Texas are expected to help Fort Worth in its bid. Southern Pacific train No 8 leaves San Antonio at 11 30 am Monday with an observation car for delegates. A special delegate train will run from San Antonio to Houston Monday night over the Southern Pacific.
Dr Ernest E Scholl state entomologist from Austin will visit San Antonio March 23 24 and 25 to aid in cultivating and preserving shade trees. He will perform tree surgery in San Pedro and Brackenridge parks and lecture on cultivation and preservation of shade trees at Main Avenue High School in the evening of March 23 or 24 under the Parent Teachers Association.
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