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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 05, 1916
Page
30
Talk No 1 explains how Our Company ties its profits to the citys growth. It stresses local investment in infrastructure, price reductions, and cooperation with public improvements to benefit both residents and the company. Tomorrow promises more on electric service.
Suspected. hind the altar. said the cathedral ie to a party of tourists. Iles Rich II. In the churchyard outside lies lazy Queen of Scots, and who halted above an unmarked flagging in the
A fragment from Tit-Bits presents a Cockney tourist quip about a mystery on a stone floor. He asks who lies on the spot and muses he does not know for sure but harbors suspicions.
Leaders of the Texas good roads movement propose a state rewards system tied to a future State Highway Commission to stimulate highway improvements. Auto registration funds would provide 400000 to 500000 annually, with 100000 for department expenses and the rest for county road rewards up to 25 percent of costs and limited to five miles per year per county.
All Sunday school teachers using International lessons are invited to join a Thursday afternoon class at the YWCA taught by Mrs. E D Love from 2 to 4. Weekly notices list meetings for the house committee border committee physical department and a YWCA board meeting chaired by Mrs. Floyd McGown. The Young Matrons Bible Class meets Tuesday at 4 at 1146 West Russell Street hosted by Mrs. John son Griffith.
A new Lord Mayor of London has been elected. He has long been active in charitable work among London's crippled poor. Previously he was identified as a South African merchant. He is the third Roman Catholic Mayor of London in recent years.
Budapest reports the government will relocate 200000 Gypsies to restricted districts and draft all able bodied men aged 18 to 60 for military service. Wives and children will receive government support, wages go to community heads, and savings credited for homes or farms after three years. Families wandering postwar will be confined, with medical controls to curb disease.
A historical advertisement touts St Jacobs Oil as harmless neuralgia relief that quickly calms pain in any body part. It promises immediate relief without burning skin or discoloration and urges readers to obtain a small trial bottle from a drug store.
The State Department of Agriculture warns the wholesale slaughter of birds in Texas costs farmers millions annually. It links insect pests and weed growth to bird loss, urging a protective law and noting many species have already vanished. It asks citizens to choose birds over destruction by insects.
An advertisement promotes Dodson's Liver Tone as a safe vegetable substitute for calomel. It claims calomel causes vomiting cramps and possible salivation, while Liver Tone purports to restore energy and liver function without side effects, even suitable for children.
Danish Schleswig casualties totaled about 3700 soldiers from a 175000 population, per German lists. Experts in Copenhagen estimate German deaths could reach 1 3 to 1 4 million when including all losses, suggesting a higher overall war toll than usually cited.
London reports John Henshall, eighty six, toils ten and a half hours daily in the Manchester munition plant and walks eight miles daily to reach his shift, illustrating wartime labor and endurance.
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