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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 18, 1917
Page
7
Commissioner Fred W. Davis calls 2400 farmers institutes across Texas to conserve food during wartime. He urges sacrifice to boost national food stocks as soldiers enter the service, warning prices may stay high due to Europe’s need for American food.
The Rotary Club of San Antonio hosted the Alamo Council of Boy Scouts at a noon appreciation luncheon at the Gunter Hotel. About four hundred scouts and as many Rotarians filled the ball room. Judge James R. Davis and Rev. Hugh McLellan spoke on service and youth, with a Fiesta crowd-pleasing program and a $250 check from the Fiesta Association for the scouts.
San Patricio County Commissioner W. E. Tedford reports freight rate hikes have stopped a $75 000 bond funded project to build 25 miles of gravel and piled road in three routes. Sixteen miles were nearly finished before higher costs forced contract cancellation and a $9000 loss on hauled gravel, harming Aransas Pass Rockport and nearby areas.
A dialog from a Chicago Sterala item notes a hobo dream job as a lineman in a wireless telegraph firm. A San Francisco farm journal questions asparagus causing perspiration but fears higher prices.
The county attorney bill, twice killed, was finally passed just before adjournment. Representive W. L. Schlesinger pushed the measure while Senator Carlesee led the Senate version. The law lets the county attorney appoint two investigators and applies to Bexar and other large counties with both county and district attorneys.
Official notices announce the Texas Good Roads Association mid-summer convention to be held in Mineral Wells in June 2022. D. E. Colp, state secretary, sends notices urging full representation from all 262 units and notes plans to finalize the program for public release.
Fort Worth will host a joint meeting of the Fort Worth El Paso Highway Association and the Reclamation Conservation and Irrigation Association of Texas on June 19 20. Organizers expect the parade through Fort Worth streets to be the largest good roads event in the United States.
A mule hoof No 625 strayed from the Fort Sam Houston picket line in Texas. A reward of ten dollars will be paid for delivering the animal to the depot quarter master at Fort Sam Houston.
Californians are advised to give more water and fertilizer to palmetto or sabal palms from the southern states to improve growth and health.
In a Randolph Walker case over the 1916 Arsenal killing, defense led by Senator Carlos Bee argued that a certified deed copy cannot prove ownership and challenged the transfer reference. Prosecutor Hugh R. Robertson urged the copy suffices for venue, and Judge West allowed further authorities while jurors were not yet impaneled. Earlier, jurisdictional questions delayed evidence as hearings continued. Separately, German wood stumps are softened with acid-filled holes to aid removal.
Vintage advertisement touts Sulpherb Tablets as a modern sugar coated cure for spring lethargy and sluggish blood. Claims purge poisons, ease rheumatic pain, and improve kidneys and digestion with a money back guarantee at 50 cents per sealed tube.
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