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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 26, 1916
Page
3
Ford emphasizes dealer service and adds a promise of free service for Fords. The claim extends beyond local stations to service anywhere, anytime, with the firm stating they will come to customers.
Four German U submarines believed sailing toward the Atlantic coast to attack British French and Russian merchants. The Mauretania and Olympic in Halifax await to ferry Canadian troops. U 5s may lurk near the West Indies while Panonia and Minnehaha movements raise anxiety among shipping interests.
San Antonio mothers and clubs rally to bake or donate pies and cakes for 17 500 soldiers at Camp Wilson and Fort Sam Houston for Thanksgiving. Monday is deadline for pledges, with 14 army trucks to collect pies Wednesday. Local groups already promise hundreds of pies and a mother from West Virginia writes in gratitude for the effort.
An advertisement extols Pape's Diapepsin as a fast, harmless cure for indigestion and related stomach woes. It claims rapid relief from sourness, gas, heartburn, and dyspepsia, urging readers to keep a fifty cent case at home for family use and to enjoy meals again.
W. B. Caldwell a telephone lineman was seriously injured when a 30 foot pole fell after 3 p.m. Saturday in the 300 block of Nevada street. He was dragged groundward by a snapping belt but wires restrained the pole. Caldwell was taken to Physicians and Surgeons Hospital with bruises and possible non fatal injuries. He resides at 2223 West Houston Street.
The Thirty seventh Infantry band performs a 4 30 Monday afternoon at the lower post Fort Sam Houston. Band leader Carl Everhof curates a program including Fort Des Moines Perwein Overture Poet and Peasant and Cavalleria Rusticana among others. A Thanksgiving concert by the Nineteenth Infantry band is noted for Thursday afternoon.
A newspaper blurb promotes morning hot water with limestone phosphate as a wash for the stomach and digestive tract. It claims cleansing the alimentary canal improves appetite, skin clarity, headaches, and general vitality in one week, citing relief for constipation and biliousness.
The domestic science class at Harris School No 17 plans to bake 50 pies for the soldiers Thanksgiving. Pies will be baked in the school and sent from the collection point to trucks for delivery. The Mothers Club will also bake pies.
British dispatch reports Roumanian forces in Wallachia overwhelmed by Von Falkenhayn and Von Mackensen. Bucharest considers retreat from the 150 mile Alt line as German and Bulgarian troops seize Danube fronts, threatening final collapse of Romanian resistance and possible relief for Russia.
Reports from Berlin say General Culver's first Roumanian army has been practically wiped out as remnants flee toward the Carpathians. A second Roumanian army under General Averseau operates north of Bucharest, while Third and Fourth armies face Mackensen and defend northern passes. Headquarters for Culver are reported at Araieva.
Governor Ferguson said he has not decided on a successor to Dr. Faber of Tyler on the Texas University board of regents. He noted he asked for resignations of Faber and Regent Jones from Salado, with Jones not yet resigning, and mentioned a third appointee from Temple.
Texas Ritchie known as the Gentlemanly Gorilla appears at the Empire Theater in San Antonio for a three day engagement with partner Miss Antoinette Schaeffer. The act features stunts with heavy weights and daring feats including hauling trucks of girls and bending steel bars.
The ad promises a flawless skin with mercorized wax to remove chapping and discoloration by nightly use. It claims a fortnight transformation for blotchy or coarse skin and suggests a face lotion from dissolving a small amount of a coded compound to erase wrinkles after a single application.
The department of agriculture announced the release from cattle tick quarantine on December 11 of 6,424 square miles in Texas including Archer Baylor Clay Nolan and Wichita counties and parts of Throckmorton Shackleford. In total 27,172 square miles in Alabama Arkansas Georgia Mississippi and Texas were released bringing the national total to 509,186 square miles. The original quarantine area in 1906 covered 728,543 square miles.
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