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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 12, 1916
Page
5
The Salvation Army Home at 3019 River Avenue reports 32 residents the largest since its seven year history. Since January 1 1916 twenty five women and girls have joined. thirteen babies born there and eighteen children cared for. Capacity improvements were added as the work expands with state wide awareness.
San Antonio branch names committees for the Retail Merchants Association as it plans a June 12 to 15 state convention. A resolution opposes a 33 1 3 percent fire insurance rate raise and W. J. Edgecombe will attend the May 25 Fire Insurance Commission hearing.
Sunday only service on the Southern Pacific line departs at 7 65 a m bound for Sutherland Springs and returns.
Travel ad notes a May 14 15 round trip deal to Birmingham via Southern Pacific. Price listed is $23.45 with a 14 percent discount.
Advertisement notes fresh river shrimp available at River Side Restaurant for fishing enthusiasts.
A newspaper notice extols a home remedy using Parmint double strength with hot water and sugar to treat catarrh and ear inflammation. It claims constitutional benefit, quick relief from head noises, opening clogged nostrils, easier breathing, and improved hearing, urging general use.
Engineers Thomas and Jones direct the start of digging on Du rango street for the Katy terminals. A reinforced concrete double channel culvert 6 by 8 feet and 6300 feet long will divert San Pedro creek, with capacity doubled. Track laying may start as right of way clears.
Advertisement notes a Southern Baptist convention in Asheville with a price of $39.90 and dates May 13 to 16 with a sleeper through May 15, referencing Southern Pacific transport.
The item states a recurring Sunday return time at 7 55 am on the Southern Pacific line with an advertised note.
More than a dozen Mexicans were arrested in Southwest Texas on Thursday afternoon in connection with an uprising plot. Colonel Jose M. Morin, Villa agent and alleged leader, was captured at 1 am. Most arrestees were released for lack of evidence. U S Secret Service officials believe the leader's arrest halts the scheme.
An old advertisement promotes Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonic as a malaria preventive and system booster. It states the formula is printed on the label, highlighting quinine and iron in a tasteless form and includes the price 60 cents.
A. Levine brought a Panama hat exhibit to his store at 109 Ala mo plaza. The display shows the process from palm to finished hat and how natives braid each hat by hand with children on ordinary grades and experienced workers on higher grades. The window has attracted local attention similar to its reception in New York City.
Virginia Edmonds Robertson of Hyattsville Maryland asks Postmaster George D P to inquire about Westly Smith who left Virginia for Texas about forty years ago and has not been heard from in twenty years. Her grandmother Eliza Tarry of Richmond is his sister and she seeks to locate his branch of the family in San Antonio.
Captain J E Elgin, San Antonio Republican chairman, expects several Republicans to travel to Boerne for the Fourteenth district convention Saturday. A 7:05 a.m. train from the San Antonio and Aransas Pass depot arrives at 9:45 a.m. for those attending the executive committee meeting. The convention opens at 2 p.m. and those going only to attend may also go by car as cars will depart the Gunter Hotel at 8:30 a.m.
A May 12 Army orders list detailed officer actions including leaves of absence for several ranks and units, assignments to Governor's Island and Fort Sam Houston, retirements and pronotes, plus a health officers school opening in Galveston with 35 enrollees under Dr. RB Arms. Notable names include Edward I. Munson, Edward R. Schreiner, Henry S. Brinkerhoff, Paul Giddings, Chas Menchere, Gordon Johnson, Arthur Tasker, Philip Huntington, Dana Merrill, Wiley Dawson, Hugh L. F. Applewhite, Lewllyn P. Williamson, Irvin I. Hunt, James N. Pickering, William Bertsch, William Hewbill, Thomas S. Moorman, John E. Morris.
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