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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 06, 1916
Page
11
Miss Lottie Kingsbury won the silver loving cup in the Y W C A pool event held Thursday afternoon. Her score was 43 points, with Rosalie Block second on 39 points. Several participants joined the series fourth contest conducted by Miss Edith Jimison.
A newly married man confides in a friend with twenty years of marriage. He laments that his wife will not speak after a remark she disliked for two days. The elder mate asks to recall the exact words, hoping to fix the rift.
Verdun France General Dubois describes a single German shell creating an arch like structure by clearing a hole through fortifications and anchoring trees to form a bridge for a narrow gauge railway linking the citadel to the rear. Descriptions note widespread destruction of shops homes and rigs in Verdun while bridges and routes remain surprisingly intact.
Martha Caroline Harwell, 62, died at 8 45 Friday morning at her South Presa Street home. A native of Alabama, she lived in San Antonio sixteen years and is survived by six sons E J and F J Shipp J J A A and J Harwell, all of San Antonio, a sister Mrs V Thomas of Fostoria, and ten grandchildren. Funeral 8 30 Saturday afternoon at Ludwig Undertaking Company chapel with interment at Rose Lawn cemetery.
A. L. Watson aged 56 died at 5 10 PM Thursday at a San Antonio sanitarium. A farmer by trade and native of Mississippi, he had resided in San Antonio eight months. The body will be shipped to Deport Mississippi Friday night by the Shelley Lering Undertaking Company.
A vintage advertisement urges mothers to give California Syrup of Figs to children with sour stomachs and indigestion. It promises quick relief, notes the product’s "fruit laxative" action, and warns to buy only from the California Fig Syrup Company with genuine labels.
The Ex-Students' Association of the University of Texas organized in San Antonio and spreading to other cities. Members may secure football game seats before the public sale, by joining by Monday noon through Prof. Pfeiffer or Dick Terrell. Seats $1 to $1.75, with luncheon for Austin team supporters and 1500 expected attendees. Ten thousand total spectators anticipated.
Nels Krogen Wattson, chief cook at the Thornton Hotel in Butte, spent three months abroad visiting Gothenburg Sweden and returning to resume his Butte post. He reportedly inherited his father's estate and eluded Swedish authorities who sought him for the army while witnessing wreckage from naval battles near Jutland. His voyage included a wartime route aboard the ship United States of …
Two Irishmen planned a pistol duel. One, stout, claimed to be a bigger target and suggested doubling the distance. The lean opponent drew chalk lines on the stout man to define a shooting gap and warned that any hit outside the chalk line would not count.
Pine-O-Pine, a non poisonous disinfectant and insect destroyer, is now on sale in Texas after city demonstrations. Made from Texas pine oil, it is harmless and will not stain fabrics. House to house demos and store showcases run daily, with federal approval and backing from Buckner's Orphanage in Dallas. Houston factory produces 60 gallons weekly.
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