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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 23, 1916
Page
7
New dimes reach San Antonio with owners showing few. some stillinited by their holders. Public use delayed as banks await guidance. The coin features a Liberty head and the motto In God we trust in small print, with the artist’s initials. The reverse shows fasces and authority emblems set in a laurel branch.
Sub lieutenant George Guynemer, the famed French aviator, has brought down his twenty second German airplane, the French war office announced this afternoon.
British aircraft bombed German torpedo boats tied alongside the Zee Brugge dock after a victory over a German airman five days earlier, signaling ongoing aerial superiority in the region.
Notice lists two horses and one draft mule missing from Camp Wilson Fort Sam Houston Texas. The brown horse has a small star and a wire cut on the fore foot. the bay horse bears a star and a left shoulder scar. the draft mule is a black mare. Reward of ten dollars per animal offered for delivery to Depot Quartermaster Fort Sam Houston Texas.
Delegates from Kerr Gillespie Blanco Hays Bandera Kendall Comal Medina Bexar Guadalupe Caldwell Atascosa and Wilson counties attend a two day Presbyterian Sunday school convention at Westminster Church on Garden Street. R Wallace Blain of Gonzales presides H C Fullerton of Cotulla attends. Discussions cover new methods for supervising extending and carrying the Sunday school message to sparsely settled districts. An entertainment program accompanies the visit including concerts luncheons a banquet and a Wisconsin band performance. Thursday schedule includes a devotional service work of the conference and discussions led by Rev Arthur G Jones and Rev B I Dickey.
The San Antonio civilian regiment colors were brought from Wolff & Marx to the Alamo for safekeeping in a sunset ceremony. The Nineteenth Infantry Band and High School Rifle Club members escorted the colors, with Daughters of the Republic overseeing the Alamo. Officers and color guards led the event on Soledad street, pledging they will defend the flags if needed.
Work on flooring tents enclosing kitchens and mess shelters at Camp Wilson advances rapidly as part of a 1 160 000 program to winterize troops. Cantonments will be erected at San Antonio for the Thirty seventh Infantry and Sixteenth Cavalry, with regulars and guards aiding border protection for some time.
The War Department has not approved a $12,000 authorization for flooring and boarding of tents in General Pershing's command, despite General Funston's recommendation. The request pertains to winter operations for state and regular troops in the expeditionary force in Mexico.
Tickets for a Fort Worth fundraiser concert by Masonic Orphans' Home youths progress well as local Masons aim to sell 1000 advance tickets for matinee and evening shows at the Majestic theater. The program features a 32 piece boys band and a 24 piece girls orchestra plus Girls' Campfire Club acts. A morning street parade with Masonic drill groups is planned. After San Antonio the orphans proceed to Houston then return to Fort Worth.
A Baltimore American quip notes Billetts was driven to a champagne party, sparked by rumor and curiosity. The remark hints at social temptations rather than a personal grievance, reflecting the era’s light gossip tone.
Thieves broke a gate lock and garage door to steal a five passenger Ford from 105 Felisa Street. Car number 3654. Reports also note thefts at other homes and the loss of a light express wagon wheel set and other items.
New York physicians tout Nuxated Iron as a cure for weakness and anemia, claiming millions take it daily. They warn that refined foods strip iron and endorse organic iron for quicker strength gains, vigor, and better health, with testimonials of dramatic improvements and a money back guarantee.
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