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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 18, 1917
Page
5
The May 25 special election will test seventy charter amendments including civil service, compulsory voting, and a $500000 coliseum bond. Ballots will list amendments by section numbers in two columns with For and Against prompts. voters cannot bring copies into booths.
The Beethoven Maennerchor with the Mozart Society and local musicians performed at Beethoven Hall for the San Antonio Red Cross Society. The program featured overtures, arias, quartets and Saint-Saens numbers with the San Antonio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Arthur Claassen, closing with patriotic encores.
Aurora resident Mrs. Kieso suffered seven months with female troubles and severe back pains before recovering after six bottles of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. The testimonial notes many unsolicited Pinkham results and invites other women to seek free confidential advice from the Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co. in Lyon Mass.
Waco chosen as next meeting place for the Texas Pharmaceutical Association after a final session at the St. Anthony Hotel. Waco defeated Galveston 63 to 42 to host next year. Officers elected include President C. E. Craycroft Sherman and secretary treasurer W. H. Cousins Dallas. Burn s named fourth vice president. Mrs. E. B. Dwyer Houston named historian.
London mourns John Nevil Maskelyne, famed conjuror and longtime English institution. His celebrated Egyptian Hall show house, a landmark akin to Westminster Abbey, Buckingham Palace, marks the end of a nearly fifty year era.
An old advertisement touts Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonic with quinine as the malaria fighter. It promises a tasteless formula and notes a 50 cent price per bottle.
A State Department conference in Washington on May 18 with British Foreign Secretary Balfour and U S officials focused on rationing Holland Norway Sweden Denmark Switzerland and Spain. Officials urged strict export limits to deny enemy access and to conserve Russia. The text notes about 25 million horses reportedly in those countries, with the United States close behind at about 24 million.
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