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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 21, 1916
Page
15
Members of the Music Festival Chorus discuss a picnic planned for this month or June after Monday rehearsal at St Mark's parish house. The season features Hayden's Creation with H W B Barnes directing and Ella Mackensen at the piano.
At Laurel Heights Methodist Church Harrodsburg a service features organ preludes and solos including Barcarolle and Meditation with Miss Hazel Cain and Mrs Chester Terrell in attendance. First Presbyterian Church presents a morning service with organ preludes and a duet by Freysinger, Hoffman and Mietzke among others.
In Berlin a government backed Association for Artistic and Literary Relations Between Germany and Her Allies organized a Turkish soiree at the Lessing Museum. Dr. Kaufman spoke on Turkish art and literature, Fraulein Ida Druck read Turkish poetry, and Mehmed Emin and Imhoff Pasha performed. Imhoff Pasha recited an ode praising Enver Pasha and likened him to Alexander the Great, Caesar, and Napoleon. The next event will be Bulgarian, with imperial presence expected.
A Yankee overhears guests boasting of shooting prowess and retorts about a fly at 300 yards. An Irishman claims greater marksman feats in the Dublin Fusiliers with a barrel rolling downhill and bullets fired when the bunghole appears.
Twenty thousand women from two million members of the General Federation of Women’s Clubs will gather in New York City May 23 to June 2 with delegates from Alaska Cuba Canada England Hawaii and South America. The program covers art civics home economics conservation and more as Mrs. William Grant Brown leads preparations. Notables include Madame Blanche de Barratt Miss Leonora O Reilley Mary Antin and Dudley Field Malone with diverse events at the Astor Armory and various host venues.
A brief humorous exchange quotes Senator Sorghum about conventions and a quip on preferring home duties and a commencement speech.
After weeks of scarcity along the eastern coast of Denmark and Schleswig Holstein, enormous schools of herring appeared in the Skaerack and the Kattegat. Fishing steamers and sailers dispatched at once, yielding millions of fish worth $183,000 from four days of hauling. A trawler’s catch hit $12,000 as boxes filled to supply Bay of Kiel markets despite steady prices at 10 cents a pound.
A central war administrations committee has asked the minister of railways about several steel railroad cars loaded with bullion sent to Archangel that never reached their destination. Suspicions arise that railway officials know more than they reveal about the cars fate and location.
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