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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 10, 1916
Page
6
The Wire Press reports from Madrid via Rome that Spain has issued definite orders prohibiting revictualing of submarines in Spanish waters. Several torpedo boats have reached Palma and are patrolling the Balearic Islands in the western Mediterranean.
Manila October 10 The insular government aims to boost Philippine tobacco by establishing a testing station in the Cagayan valley, the center of local tobacco growing. The move follows the dispatch of A B Powell chief clerk of the internal revenue bureau to the United States to launch an advertising campaign to promote the product.
Advertises sales of Philippine cigars in homeland and a cabaret show at Beethoven Hall Hosbrau featuring the Py roleans with jokes and songs billed for tomorrow night.
The Luxemburg iron manufacturers have prolonged their contract with the Association of German Smelting Furnaces to 1920. Until 1910 Luxemburg's iron works were allied with Lorraine furnaces. in 1911 part joined the German association and the rest soon followed.
London reports the death of Admiral Sir William Robert Kennedy who passed away Monday at Falconer's Hill Daventry. Born in 1838, he served in the Royal Navy and held high command.
Charles E. Hughes in Philadelphia assailed the administration for its foreign and Mexican policies and outlined a Republican program. He said the US will protect American lives property and trade under international law and pursue peace with honor while avoiding meddling in others affairs. He declined to discuss submarine issues, noting no official information and not to embarrass the administration.
Delta Gamma Taus meet at 8 in their Gunter club rooms, Ohio Society at 8 in the Gunter, all natives of Ohio invited. Les Jeunesse opens at 4 in Ellis'. Philanthropy Department of the Woman's Club at 3:30. Ladies' Aid Society of Prospect Hill Christian Church at 2 in the Tabernacle, 2524 West Travis Street.
Dispatches note Miss Zulime Pettus appeared in the opening performance of the Boston National Grand Opera Company and Russian Ballet in Boston Monday night. The company will perform in San Antonio on March 16, offering Pettus many friends a chance to see her on stage after a month with the Russian ballet in Boston.
Narrows resident Mrs. C. F. Askins writes that after years of weakness and low weight she used Cardus on the advice of a sister-in-law and, within months, regained health and flesh, reaching about 195 pounds and calling it a strong recovery from prior ailments.
A column describes performances by Miss Dorothy Cooper and Miss Nellie Lytle with piano by Miss Yates and Butler Knight singing Dixie and Tenting on the Old Camp Ground. It highlights Mrs. Lilla Wiles Wyman of Boston as a premier American dancer guest at the St. Anthony and hints at a nation famous pageant. It mentions various local social movements and upcoming events including Pan-American Round Table studies and a Sisters of the Incarnate Word jubilee in 1919.
Special cash sale ads highlight ham 22c, breakfast bacon 30c, picnic hams 18c, and creamery butter 30c. Encourages customers to compare prices and save money. Located at 209 Ave. C Cr. 61 with phone Cr.
San Antonio Council No 1789 Knights and Ladies of Security plans a 7 pm Friday supper at the original Mexican restaurant for national officers. Afterward they will proceed to the Woodmen of the World hall at 22 East Houston Street for a initiation class of about 100 candidates by the national officers and stereopticon pictures.
The T. K. O. Club hosts a dinner dance at the original Mexican restaurant with member Edward Kuehn Fritz Buck and Frank Orr on the organizing committee. Miss Edith Storey attends with her orchestra performing selections for the event.
Jackson Miss Oct 10 The opening session of the second annual convention of Young Men's Business Clubs of America features a reading of a President Wilson message and welcoming speeches. About twenty cities are represented by several hundred delegates. The President says the rise of future business depends largely on young businessmen and urges preparation for a new era filled with imagination vigor and enterprise. He regrets not being able to attend in person and asks the delegates to convey his greeting and interest to the gathering.
Sekutada Ito, president of the Toyo Steamship Company of Japan, has arrived in Panama and will spend a week examining local shipping and port conditions.
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