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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 18, 1916
Page
2
Purchases at Saul Wolfson Dry Goods Company Friday and Saturday will aid the Red Cross. The event supports the relief cause with proceeds from sales during the two days. Beneficiaries include relief efforts and community assistance through the Red Cross.
A 19th or early 20th century advertisement extols Mother's Friend as a safe external remedy for pregnant women. It promises pliant muscles, reduced distress, calmer nerves, and relief from morning sickness, urging readers to request a bottle from Bradfield Regulator at 410 Mar Bidg Atlanta Ga.
The American Red Cross Society in San Antonio launches a fundraising and supply effort. Mr. Wolfson offers 2 percent of Friday and Saturday receipts. A Red Cross booth provides gauze, sheeting, pillow material, packages with buttons and patterns for pajamas and pajama patterns from McCall Pattern Company at no charge. Memberships will be taken at the booth.
A new relief organization named The Ministering League was organized by St. Mark's Parish members in San Antonio. Officers elected: Rev. R. Y. Barber president. Mrs. Willis Johnson first vice president. Mrs. C. A. Morris second vice president. Mrs. Mary Garey third vice president. Mrs. S. C. Timpson secretary and treasurer. Annual dues set at $3 with aims for broad membership and donations. Meetings will be monthly. work is interdenominational and welcomes all cooperation.
SHIN people especially those ten pounds under normal weight can gain weight by improving absorption of fat making nutrients. Sargol is said to stop waste and help the body use fat from meals, with many readers reporting gains like 18 pounds in a month. The tablets are small easy to swallow, harmless, and sold with a money back guarantee by local druggists.
Heavy rains swept Texas Oklahoma and Louisiana with San Antonio logging 1.56 inches and Hondo 2.82 inches. The storm moved through the Rio Grande area while other reports from Corpus Christi to Laredo showed varied rainfall and continued unsettled conditions across the region.
Reports from Dallas on May 18 describe general rains across North and Northwest Texas. Some areas saw hail, totaling between one half and one inch, with fruit and crops near Big Springs damaged and Snyder recording a small hail amount.
Reports from outlying towns say heavy rains drenched the Eagle Pass area last Monday night and Tuesday. Ground soaking showers filled streams to flood levels, promising relief for farmers and stockmen across the vicinity.
Fine rain fell yesterday afternoon in Yoakum Texas aiding farmers and stockmen after a drought. Despite the dry spell, crop conditions are reported good.
60 cents for a Sunday round trip to Sutherland Springs leaving at 7 65 a m on the Southern Pacific line.
Sam Houston Texas reception asks bidders to submit sealed proposals by 11 a m June 6 1916 for screening hospital work. Information available on application to the Quartermaster Adv.
The last of eleven coast artillery companies ordered into the department may move with the Southern Pacific patrol heading to Fort Clark. Brigadier General Henry A. Greene will reach Fort Sam Houston from Fort Leavenworth Thursday to take command in Eagle Pass. Brigadier General William A. Mann, already at Laredo, leads the second brigade there.
American consuls and vice consuls from Chihuahua Juarez Nogales Duran go Aguascalientes Monterey are ordered to El Paso to confer with Major General Funston. The move aims to align civil and military efforts on the border and may affect final withdrawal of U S forces. Officials report on Carranza control progress and rescue updates for Deemer and Payne after raids.
May 18 report from Marathon Texas states Jesse Deemer and Monroe Payne reached Boquillas after a rescue by Major George T. Langhorne's Eighth Cavalry detachment. No official confirmation of engagement with bandits or killings and captures. possible mix with a prior rescue night action. Langhorne pursues southward despite gasoline shortages. Residents report 400 Yaquis moving from Cuatro Ciénegas toward Langhorne's column. officials cannot confirm.
General Alvaro Obregon defensa reports that he has not declared, public or private, that President Wilson contemplates no war with Mexico. Juan Amddi arrived from El Paso saying the international situation is calm and that troops from both countries will be mobilized to patrol the border. Carranza’s ministers held talks but gave no details on the subject.
The national situation shows no plan to send a note to Washington at present. Railway links with the north remain disrupted due to the government and workers dispute, with orders to resume work under the 1862 law. Train service to Vera Cruz stays open.
The Carranza garrison at Ascension moves south toward El Valle along the American line of communication. Field reports say General J. Pershing's expeditionary force is short of soap but well rationed and otherwise equipped.
By Thurs day night all militia officers and enlisted men are expected to be in federal service. Vaccination against typhoid fever began Thursday morning with three injections over ten days and a thirty day alcohol ban. A rain storm caused tents to blow down, but quick action by officers and men set tents back up and resecured shelters.
The muster roll of Company C Texas National Guard in camp on the maneuver field grew by two Thursday morning when the company received two mascots from S Smith photographer of San Antonio. The dogs are Chihuahua hairless variety.
About four hundred reservations already made for a Red Cross luncheon at the St. Anthony Hotel at 1 pm Saturday. Judge Winchester Kelso presides. Mrs. Frederick Funston speaks on women’s roles in preparedness. Music by a 68 piece military band. decorations of American and Red Cross flags. Donations welcomed to Dr. C. S. Venable.
C E LaVigne field agent for the American Fair Trade League will address retailers wholesalers and jobbers Friday afternoon. He will lecture on the Stephenson bill to standardize prices at 4 o clock in the Chamber of Commerce auditorium.
The House naval committee, voting 13 to 8, abandons Secretary Daniels five year program and recommends building five battle cruisers at about 20.4 million each plus four scout cruisers ten destroyers twenty submarines one hospital ship one oil supply ship and one ammunition ship in 1917. A committee resolution authorizes the president to invite world powers to frame a court of arbitration after the European war and sets aside 200000 for the purpose.
Personal mentions list guests at the St Anthony Gunter Menger and other hotels with names and origins including Lobel Dublin Sheffield Hampton Dillon Scott Maxwell Hoerney Burgess Cameron Smith Ledbetter Herman Mills Kyte Collins and Mills. Thefts reported include a watch neck chain garden hose silverware and eight hens.
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