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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 15, 1916
Page
20
Berlin reports Roumania’s entry into the war threatens German beer by cutting barley imports. Germany and Austria-Hungary have reduced brewery output and may close plants as domestic grain is diverted to bread. Food dictator von Batocki seeks substitutions to delay closures.
Church music schedules list at Laurel Heights Methodist Central Christian First Presbyterian with details on directors organists soloists and pieces including Chopin Eye Hath Not Seen Bach Gounod Wagner Da ggett Eve Orvis King Lowe Bell and others. Programs feature organ preludes duets solos offertories postludes and combined choir pieces across three congregations.
Musical services feature organ preludes and postludes, solos, and choirs at Mark's Episcopal and Madison Square Presbyterian churches. Performers include organist directors H W Barnes and Mrs J M Todd, with pieces by Handel Mendelssohn Gounod and selections by regimental bands.
Great indignation sweeps Germany as Mayence graft scandal unravels. A modest trader reported nearly 100000 dollars in war profits, triggering an investigation that exposed large army contracts secured by bribes. Confidants were seized. names withheld for now. one conspirator is a veteran wine merchant and longtime Reichstag candidate.
The Milan Corriere della Sera reports Rudolph Benker a Swiss hotel keeper in Pegli was mobbed and driven from the town by several hundred enraged Italians. The hotel was partly destroyed after the proprietors refused to remove a marble tablet commemorating Emperor Frederick the previous German Kaiser’s stop there over thirty years ago.
The article notes that premier cork comes from trees in Spain and Portugal allowed to reach about forty years of age before bark removal and then harvested only every eight to ten years.
The San Antonio Musical Club hosts a season opening musical reception at the St. Anthony Hotel on Monday at 8:30 PM featuring works by Mendelssohn, Beethoven, Schubert and Humperdinck. The Tuesday Musical Club plans a 4 PM meeting with Rafael Diaz Oliver Denton and a Moses Messiah production at Christmastime with the San Antonio Symphony Orchestra recruiting amateurs for a approval. The Boston National Grand Opera Company visits March 19 with a diverse French German Russian Italian repertoire and featured stars including Maggie Teyte and Dolores Fallis with fully staged productions and ballet integrated into each show.
An advertising pitch touts Danderine for instant hair cleansing and improved volume. It claims dust, oil, and dandruff dissolves with a cloth swipe, roots invigorated, hair grows longer and stronger, all for 25 cents at drug stores.
Miss E. Alice Holman announces morning dancing lessons from 10 to 11 o clock on Tuesdays Wednesdays Thursdays and Fridays.
The Paris Pump in white washable kid features an iridescent beaded bow knot on the vamp and a high Louis XV heel priced at 7.50. Two companion models, Patent Kid with Silver Beads and Dull Matt Kid with jet beaded vamp, are available at 6.50.
Vienna reports the time honored custom of civilians wearing full dress in audience with Emperor Francis Joseph is abolished. An official order requests civilians to appear in the simple Grehrock or Prince Albert in future audiences.
The Ruskoe Slave reports Romania will not be officially included among the Allied powers because it has not signed the declaration of London that binds signatories to refrain from separate peace with the enemy.
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