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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 21, 1916
Page
20
London reports a WWI battle in the North Sea where the German commerce destroyer Greif was badly damaged after torpedoing the British armed liner Alcantara. The Alcantara began sinking as a British cruiser arrived and fired a shot to ensure the Greif's loss, with a wireless message sent as the liner went down.
A wealthy Perm merchant Adamowski was arrested and sent to Siberia as a German spy after a court found pro German sympathies based on a German manufacturing firm catalogue found in his office. He contested the timing of the catalogue.
Seven hundred six Democratic delegates are instructed for Wilson, with 356 more to be elected before the St Louis convention. States listed include Texas and Pennsylvania, with dates and numbers for many primaries and conventions. Campaign effort expands across Congress, departments, and campaign HQ as literature touts prosperity.
The B F Goodrich Company announces awards totaling $10,000 for the 1916 season champion and runners up. The American Automobile Association will act as sole arbiter of the official champion and prize distribution. The Silvertown twin cable cord tire is cited as preferred for speed contests and widely used by racers.
Paris financiers scheme to corner the battlefields of the west at war end. They plan to profit by charging tourists for permission to inspect the sites of historic battles.
Plans for a Buy It Made in Texas convention to meet in Houston on June 26 and 27 were announced from Dallas. President J. F. Shelton and the Houston Chamber of Commerce set the dates, with invitations to Texas manufacturers and business leaders to join a major industrial parade and a Texas made exhibit. The Cotton Mill men and about twelve Texas mills with a five million dollar investment will participate, aiming to produce over a hundred million yards of cloth this year. Large delegations from various cities are expected, with outreach to over one hundred Chambers of Commerce.<END>
The War Gazette of the Fourth German Army prints six laconic postcards from Bavarian Matthias Niedermaier. He reports moves from Belgium to Mesopotamia, noting heat in Belgium, wet trenches in Argonne, bugs in his uniform, and the Russians’ one ear, then Serbia’s defeat and arrivals in Constantinople as the path continues.
Cevion starts a new sugar refinery that will extract sugar and alcohol from palmyra palm sap. The facility emphasizes local sap sources and seeks to expand its product range with palm-derived sugar and alcohol.
The government of New Zealand supports and regulates the beekeeping industry and maintains an experimental apiary where students are trained.
In Berlin on May 26 a petition from 35 Cologne women societies urged General von Zastrow to stop luxury attire by the wealthy. He endorsed the aim, ordered police to remove fashion displays, and warned rigorous measures to suppress foolish fashions that waste materials vital in critical times.
A Los Angeles shop shows a perfect model of the Tower of Jewels from the San Francisco exposition. The miniature is built at one eighth inch to one foot scale and uses 8000 jewels in its construction.
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