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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 23, 1916
Page
8
An old advertisement extols Mother's Friend as an external remedy for pregnant women. It claims to firm the stomach muscles, reduce morning sickness, and soothe nerves. The ad urges fathers to supply a bottle and contact Bradfield Regulator Co. in Atlanta for a guidebook.
Two men entered a Sapulpa moving picture theater at 2 AM Monday using a skeleton key and removed a safe weighing over seven hundred pounds. The safe was later found opened near Tulsa with about $700 missing. Checks worth hundreds were left untouched. the robbers remain at large.
New Orleans suffered over seven hundred telephone outages as a result of electrolytic damage from heavy rain. A 28 hour total of 6.30 inches drenched the city up to noon, nearing the local record for rainfall.
The 1916 graduating class of San Antonio High School staged The Pennant on Monday at the Majestic Theater. Captain Jack Lawson pursues Doris Bond amid a preferred English nobleman plot, with a strong Pennant Chorus and polished high school cast, delivering a lively campus romance and musical numbers.
The document lists stage and ensemble directors Jack Burke Lula Griesenbeck Frederick Abbott Miss Penelope Borden Miss Lucie Newton Hugh McAmis Mildred Johnson along with assistants Dorothy Evans Henry Boyd Dick Smith Vernon Hightower and a play committee headed by William King with O Neille Frink Dorothy Evans Dick Smith Hugh McAmis and Elma Martin.
New York May 23 the state presses medical testimony against Dr Arthur Warren Waite in the murder case of John E Peck of Grand Rapids Mi. Prosecutors say Waite poisoned to gain the Peck fortune with arsenic and chloroform. Defense plans alienist witnesses to argue possible insanity.
Advertisement touts Horsford's Acid Phosphate as the best tonic for nerves and stomach aiding insomnia mental exhaustion and lassitude. Claims include quick relief and overall nerve health benefits to support stamina and well being.
Theodore Roosevelt testified as a character witness for C. C. Glover president of Riggs National Bank in a Washington perjury trial. He said he has known Glover since 1889 and that their social ties were strong though he did not discuss politics much. Roosevelt praised Glover's standing and noted the two other defendants had good reputations.
An old advertisement touts Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonic as a general tonic noting it contains quinine and iron. The copy emphasizes tonic benefits and lists a 50 cent price.
Advices from Stockholm via the Overseas News Agency say winter crops in the northern and middle Russian governates are destroyed by a severe frost. In Volga, Kazan, and Samara, early spring crops were frozen leaving grounds to be plowed and replanted. A coffee shortage is noted as 6,000,000 rubles of supplies are detained in Sweden.
Bonn Avon school held commencement in the Gunter hotel ballroom with the processional and diplomas presented by Bishop Capers. St Marys hall graduates wore organdie frocks and carried gilded baskets. the alumnae meet at 6 30 p m to elect officers and award the ring to the 1916 graduate.
Hall honoring Miss Kathryn Mac Gregor is postponed due to her departure for Laredo. Annabelle Hilgartner returns to Austin after a weekend with Misses Jean and Mary Aubrey. Local social notes also mention visitors from Austin and Taylor and guests at the Gunter. Nichols Grocery Co advertises Wednesday specials with reduced prices on butter hams bacon eggs and quick delivery from 209 Avenue C.
Dyspeptics abandon costly patent foods and harmful drugs and instead use a teaspoonful of pure bisurated magnesia in water after meals. It neutralizes excess stomach acidity, prevents food from spurting or fermenting, and improves health. Use bisurated magnesia, not other forms that may cause laxative effects.
The Parent-Teacher Association hosts a Friday garden party at Collins Gardens school from noon to 10 pm with afternoon child plays from first to fourth grade and an evening program by upper grades The festival features booths a Japanese tea room a Mexican inn an art exhibit a baby show and prizes including a washing machine for the best booth and proceeds fund school improvements completed in February 1915.
Officials moved the customs house records from Progreso Mexico to Merida on May 12 amid fear of a bombardment by an American fleet. Mexican troops dug trenches and armed positions while two vessels from Yucatan carried sisal cargo and prepared to evacuate American refugees if needed. The alert eased before the ships sailed and normal conditions returned.
The article outlines the vast insect variety, their varied effects on humans and ecosystems, and the need to study their life histories to plan effective control. It explains two main feeding groups chewing and sucking, with appropriate spray methods for each. It also notes a separate public notice about sealed bids for a corrugated steel storehouse and wagon shed at Fort Sam Houston Texas.
Two new 160 horsepower aeroplanes reach Columbus New Mexico as military aviators begin field service prep under General Pershing. Eighteen cars of food and forage reach Casas Grandes, and an engineer company moves to repair roads below Colonia Dublan, signaling no withdrawal of the expeditionary command for now.
Douglass high school domestic science class will serve luncheon to the San Antonio school board on Thursday. After lunch, the board will hold a meeting to choose a depository for the school funds for the next fiscal year starting June 1. Wives of board members are invited. Luncheon at 12.
A lone masked robber entered the mail car of the Texas and Pacific train from New Orleans to Fort Worth shortly after 10 pm as the train was departing Shreveport Louisiana. The incident occurred in transit with no further details provided on injuries or arrests.
A gunpoint robbery occurred on a mail car twenty miles south of here at Grand Cane. The bandit ordered the clerk’s head covered, rifled the registered mail, and fled before the alarm at Keithville. The incident mirrors a prior heist near Shreveport a month earlier. No trace or value recovered.
In Stuttgart Arkansas on May 23 testimony began in the trial of Mrs Lily Lynch charged with conspiracy to murder her husband Robert C Lynch a wealthy planter A prior trial for Mrs Lynch and her son resulted in second degree murder convictions but new trials were granted The third trial started after a one day postponement and the jury was secured last night The motive alleged is to seize the husband’s property
Berlin reports Clemens Delbrueck, former interior minister, was decorated by Emperor William with the Black Eagle and sent a personal letter of thanks for his devoted loyalty. The item notes his resignation due to ill health and honors from Berlin.
A Chicago incident reports one chauffeur fined 500 dollars after taking his employer's car without consent. A second chauffeur questions how the boss discovered the unauthorized use as the first chauffeur was run over.
The article argues neglecting health harms women through years of toil and worry. It promotes Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as nature's help to strengthen the female system and combat ailments, citing letters from readers as proof.
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