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Newspaper

San Antonio Light

Location

San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Date

May 29, 1915

Page

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Germany Issues Warn On War Zone Pretend Threats

Berlin announces warnings to neutral shipping in a maritime war area. The German foreign office urges all vessels to display neutral markings clearly and to avoid traveling in the designated zone. The State Department reports the warning and cautions American ships to take precautions against possible attacks.

Washington, DC Amrrican Agntist Terversing Ravel State Department Ruri Gernwig Geri Saben Rink Inas Foreign Office

Vanderbilt will totals 50 millions will of Alfred G Vanderbilt

The will of Alfred G Vanderbilt, Dusitamia victim, filed in New York City, disposes of an estate valued over 64,000,000. It leaves the trust fund from Cornelius Vanderbilt to his eldest son William B. Vanderbilt, with other bequests to relatives and employees, and specifies real estate holdings in New York and abroad. Executors include Reginald Vanderbilt’s heirs and Frederick L. Merriam, dated December 16, 1914. Beaumont Saloons Are Probe notes in separate report.

Cornelius Vanderbilt Margaret Emerson Vanderbilt London Heginala Vayderhile Frederick W. ¥Andertiy Henry B. Anderson Frederick M. Davies Frederick L. Merriam

Kidney Pills Restore Surge of Vitality Says Couple

In Hairixpurg Pennsylvania T B Carpenter notes years of kidney trouble and pain. After using Bottier Kidney Pills they found relief and regained vigor comparable to thirty years ago. The product stops sleep disturbance and a host of urinary and rheumatic symptoms.

Inidney Trundle T. B. Carpenter Hairixpurg

Rotan and Dexter Tie In Title Play

Rotan and Dexter battled to a tie in the title match as golfers Tex and Dexter struggled with putts and nerves. Dexter recovered late, but Rotan holed out on the 11th to clinch a shared lead, while other veterans entered consolation rounds with mixed results and unsettled scores.

Rotan Dexter

Burglars Busy Friday Night Across Town

A string of burglaries reported Friday night includes a sandbox of thefts: a saloon nickel slot machine and about $8 taken from a counter, a meat market at 2626 West Commerce Street looted of a portion of meat, fifteen pounds of copper wire missing from a market window, and multiple homes on Mason Street and nearby streets ransacked with small valuables stolen. Police believe a single thief or crew carried out the incidents, with additional break in attempts noted at several residences.

Frites Amother Mason Street Lanis Montanio John Stesich West Commerce Street EB. W. Carr Market Street Wis

Harvard and Yale Men Form Battery at Chicago

Harvard and Yale graduates form a military artillery company in Chicago to join as a field battery. Caplin Roy B. Staver, West Point graduate, commands with a 70-man roster. Drills will be at Fort Sheridan using government post horses.

Chicago Mem Bere Harvard Yale Missional Guard Caplin Roy B. Staver Gratiate West Point Will Cox Bittery Fort Sheridan Government Post Westihy Boston New York Polladelpha Cleveland

Subscriptions for Free Milk and Ice Planned Start

A free milk and ice distribution program moves toward implementation with upcoming start dates. Officials indicate the service will begin Monday or Tuesday under the current plan, with distribution details forthcoming.

Subscriptions support West Side charity milk fund growth

Subscriptions total five dollars bring the West Side charity milk fund to 820 dollars as drive continues through Fras Clinic for infants and children. Distribution to begin soon with multiple stations planned to reduce fraud, while local theaters and the St Anthony hotel pledge donations. cooperation urged among organizations to reach needed funds.

Fras Diante- Non Pree Clue Ausociaton Orgsuizuilors Phe Wahian J. R Sprague Milly Tee San Antonio Humane Society Fres Clinic Assovigtion Josloway Ervas Parchazes Free Clinic Association W. 3. LyHe Empire Theater Jack Hurke Grand Theater St. Anthony Hotel Trea Woman's Club Ig Gunter Iieals Uinse

Unclear Footwear Plan Described in Fragmented Text

Fragmented OCR notes reference footwear for troops and a sequence of unclear events. Names and places are obscured, making the main action hard to determine. The passage mentions Kale Iota god er Hora, a military context, and various garbled terms without coherent details.

Allen Wien Mohd

Unclear Property Sale Involves Charity and Investors

A garbled report describes a dispute over a San Antonio area property once owned by MINK ON Jackson. Allegations involve charitable use, tenancy by low income residents, and a plan to hire workers for an indeterminate period. The discussion centers on ownership, potential demolition, and rental arrangements amid financial uncertainty.

Br. Y. Jackson Alde Jeane San Anconite Bolt & ‘Terr Company Atarhyhl-ug- Ak Balit Br Jackson Eveat 4 Oma Heaith Asten

Obituary Mills Partridge 46 Dies at Home of Daughter

Mills Fugania Partridge, 46, died Friday afternoon at her daughter Are Suita Zaiman tig's home at 318 East Mirtlestrve. Funeral will be held Saturday afternoon from the Siven Hagy chapel. Survived by son Harold and two daughters Mrs Julian Zal meng of this city and Hazel Furman of Portland. Interment in Misefon burial park.

Partridge Mills Fugania Partridge Welock Are Suita Zaimantig East Mirtlestrve Siven & Hagy Harold Mwy Julian Zalmeng Hazel Furman Portland Ore Misefon Guneva Trontier Lake Toro Stora Ang Gulf of Trieste Gerk Grajisce Wetes Mcnhill Fiora Graham MeNcil Ogden Street Wesa North Carolina Texas San Antonio Odun McNeill Mies Flora McNeill Ana Bessie McNeill

Austrians Loge Trent and Triest to Italy

World War I dispatches detail Austro German advances in Galicia and near Trieste with heavy fighting around Gorica and the Adriatic port. Reports describe Turkish maneuvers in Gallipoli and Balkan theaters, Russian advances from Van, and French British actions along the Lens to Artois sector with progress near La Bassée and the Labyrinth.

Trent Triest Italy Galiela Sterluwa Breemsel Petrograd Vienna Rnarinnn Sikithsh Welt la Baas Ves Lens-Artho Une Arrag Frenn Angres Berl Abluja-St Nasaiec

Italian advances at Stora and fronts near Trieste

A long desolate wire service style chronicle describes Italian forces taking Stora after a push along the Torio shore by Lake Toro, with Austrian retreating. It notes Troops before Grajisce and near McNHILL, plus Red Cross appeals for Mexicans facing starvation and U.S. diplomatic negotiations with Villa amid broader war concerns.

Wilson To Insist On Change In Mexico

President Wilson signals no shift in American policy toward Mexico after talks with Duval West. Government actions and relief efforts unfold as Carrazza seizes goods for relief, while Britain pressures Mexico. State Department coordinates with Red Cross to expedite aid amid delicate negotiations with Germany.

Germany Wilson Duval West Mexico Merlean Met Carrazza International Relief Committee Vera Cruz Mexico City Bryan Pearce-Robiison Unfiertating Co State Department Kehe Red Cross Arrongen Bevan Yariona Moxico Thy Mag Ware Great Britain

District Judges Order Closures In Restricted District

District Judges 8 G Taylon and R T Minor ordered closures Saturday morning at nine in a restricted district. Temporary injunction granted in certain cases. Judge Minor set the hearing for Friday. The text references a theater schedule and a weekly Sunday performance.

G. Taylon R. T. Minor Evry

Villa Cateds Tale Wileat Bread Riots Hit Cumpas District

In Douglas Arizona on May 29 a report from Hermasti y and Guaymes says Villa forces are patrolling the Cumpas district seizing wheat supply as bread riots threaten the rise of Jose B Mayierens. Local authorities are responding to the unrest with measures to control shortages.

Austin Thy Ste. Treasury Departments Siomores Ota Cumpas Douglas Ariz Hermastiy Guaymes Jose B Mayierens Villa Forcey

Byrd son execution reported near Tampico

Word reached WM Byrd formerly of Tampico that his son W M Byrd Jr aged thirty was executed near Tampico by a Mexican soldiery. Unclear whether Crionea or Villa forces killed him. An application will be made to Washington to obtain relief via an act.

Lieutenant Buelgw Killed in Nair Raid

Paris dispatch reports Lieutenant Buelgw of the German Imperial forces killed in a dogfight near Paris. An eyewitness French aviator described engaging an Albatros machine, a crash, and the other pilot’s death. The wreckage yielded a name tag and items from the fallen crew.

Buelgw Paris Lieutan Ant von Rugiow Permin Wen Ouelin Cormec Point Blank Range

Club To Give Banquet At St Anthony Hotel

The annual tumninet of the Con nkress Debitne Ginv will be held in the tapestry room of the St Anthony Hotel at 3 a pinh Saturday Hght Te will uo an elaborate affair with Fraderek Abbat head of the department of prbdiis spaakiiue feast pastors The dupeetally invites guests include Mayor Clinton G Brows President Walton D Rood of the school board W P Willams principal of the Main avenue high school and three members of the Devwsthe nese Debating Club of the Bracken ridge high school Carnotallen re tiring president of the latter organisation Mayer Katz president elect end Eugene Pamston champion 4 uimmer of the Brackenridge high school [ Francis Bowes Will speak on Our Piel Aghivvenents William Meddeq HII president elect will talk on Our Futura Prospects Other sneakers will be William M Gur winner of the Bexar county declama tion contest and Irie Racéy vetir ng president of the club The following nenly elected offi cers of the club will be inaugurated Saturday viehl: William Madden Hill president Rowald Mebade vice president William 3 Gunn secretary Blanford Gerhardt treeeurar Jitton Ford serjeant-at-army and William Hanklz reporter

St Anthony Fraderek Abbat Prbdiis Devwsthenese Brackenridge High School Carnotallen Mayer Katz Eugene Pamston Francis Bowes William Meddeq Hii William M. Gur Bexar County Irie Racéy Viehl William Madden Hill Rowald Mebade William

Open Roof Garden at Hotel Abthonr Opens Saturday Night

Many society people and a large number of army personnel will attend the informal opening of the Top Of the Town Roof at the Abthonr Hotel Saturday night. Reservations have been made for twenty officer tables, dancing arrangements are in place, a new dancing floor installed, and other improvements completed since last season.

Redistricting Bill Beaten At Close In Legislature

May 2 in Austin Texas reports a late night House vote failed to adopt a conference committee report on congressional redistricting. The Senate adjourned earlier and governors bills move to general appropriation work next week amid departmental inquiries and legal questions.

Austin Tex Ain House Burgess el Pass cDrogresa Senate Aray

Diamond ring vanished during Friday street search

A missing $800 diamond ring sparked a nighttime search between Travis and Hewron streets along Avenue C. A neighbor’s porch light shone as the ring disappeared into a street gutter near a car window, with onlookers aiding in the fruitless hunt.

Travis Hewron Searety Aldewalia Tig Strent Wis Avenue C Tovaten Wemsey

Special Ix racletion Worle program at Young Women's

A rustic community event at the Young Women's Christian Association in Gwelnek Sunday features Miss Pickering leading talks on country work for immigrant girls and the LLWC A. A choir will perform with a solo He Knows the Way and a chorus number The Distant Hymn. Judith Joye and others join in a duet My Shepherd followed by reception.

Gwelnek Pickering Giea Club Xoces Judith Joye eTha Tard Shepherd Nilenes Magma Wellner cordisNy

Bail Bond Case Involves Mrs Hopkins In Habeas Corpus

Indicating an application for a writ of habeas corpus and bail bond for Mary Hopkins, the Thirty-seventh District Court heard the matter with Attorney A Cowen and Judge W S Anderson setting 2:30 p.m. Tuesday for hearing as Sheriff Tobin waived service notice.

Hopkins Sheritt John W. Tobin Sheriff Touin Ty Judge Anderson Pei Fae Ik

Indianapolis 600 Mile Race Postponed To Monday

The Indianapolis Speedway 600 mile race set for Saturday is postponed to Monday. The event is the nation’s premier motor car race and drew many inquiries at The Light offices as some fans were unaware of the postponement.

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