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San Antonio Light

Location

San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Date

Nov 03, 1916

Page

7

Army orders and assignments shuffle for 2d Army units

Today's orders announce retirement board examination for Second Lieutenant Sidney DaCosta of the Philippine Scouts in San Antonio. Several captains and lieutenants are reassigned or detached across the Third, Seventh, Eleventh, Nineteenth, and Medical Corps units with duties ranging from inspections at border camps to reporting by telegraph to the Southern Department. A humorous aside from a Puck cartoon ends the fragment.

Sidney 5. Dacosta Philippine Scouts San Antonio Albert W. Foreman Twentieth Infantry Allan L. Briggs Third Infantry Paul M'Cormick Jr Montana Allan R. Kimball Robert B. Bord i Seventh Infantry Fauntley M. Miller Nineteenth Infantry D. L. Rogers W. S. Kenyon Army Corpus Christi F. A. Wilson-Lawrenson Young Women's Christian Association Young Men's Christian Association Lawrenson India

California Syrup of Figs Promotes Easy Bowels For Children

Parents are urged to give California Syrup of Figs to feverish or cross children with coated tongues and digestive upset. The ad claims the syrup gently cleanses the bowels, relieves sour bile and discomfort, and restores playfulness, warning buyers to buy only the 50-cent bottle from the California Fig Syrup Company and beware of counterfeit products.

California Cross

Fire at H. Wagner & Sons wood mill causes minor loss

A spark from a boiler room engine at H. Wagner & Sons planning mill on Leal and San Marcos streets started a fire discovered at 7:40 PM Thursday. Fire was extinguished with small loss. Nearby notices advertise assorted goods and services.

Planning Mill H. Wagner & Sons Leal San Marcos

Infants Outing Sacques Offered In White with Trim

Infant sacques priced at 25 cents available in long or short styles. White fabric with flowered trimming and flowered outings featuring white collar and cuffs.

Children's Outing Sleeping Robes 25

Heavy striped outing robes in colors for babies and small children. Cool weather sleepwear in sizes 2 to 6.

Oxford

Baby's Knitted Stocking Caps 25

Baby's knitted stocking caps offered in navy grey and white feature tassels and cuffs. Sold as warm protection for infants, with claimed cold prevention and comfort.

Baby

Knitted Shirts and Drawers Offered in Natural Color

An advertisement highlights fleeced lined knitted shirts and drawers for children in natural color. Drawer waists range 16 to 30 inches and shirt sizes 26 to 30.

Children’s Union Suits Fleeced at 25 Cents

Classified item offers children’s fleeced union suits in sizes 8 to 8 years. Silver knitted fleeced suits for small boys or girls, with some unbleached sizes available. Factors include price and limited sizes.

White Cotton Union Suits and Shirts and Drawers on Sale

Women’s bleached union suits and shirts and drawers offered in snowy white ribbed cotton with fleeced lining. Sizes for big girls and women available with regular values of 85c and 75c, now 50c.

Outing Flannel Gowns in Striped Pink Trim Sizes 16 17

Fancy outing gowns described as long sleeved and full length with striped patterns and solid pink or blue trimmed collars and piping. Available in sizes 16 and 17.

Indigestion Doctor's Advice Backfires In Comical Row

In a humorous kitchen exchange Mr. Smith groans that a doctor's instruction to drink hot water before dinner has him bursting after a quart, while his wife asks what is wrong. The scene highlights a domestic moment of miscommunication and rising frustration.

Mr. Smith

Extra Quality Girls Shirts and Drawers Sale

Fine ribbed fleeced lined shirts and drawers in sizes 2 to 12 offered at 50c with 15c savings for early buyers.

Children’s Bleached Union Suits at 35 Cents

Fleeced Union Suits offered in sizes 6 to 12 with embroidery on the front and beaded yoke. Market prices suggest they would fetch 65 cents, but are advertised at 35 cents.

Union Quaker Mills Children’s

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