Flood control talk with senator and city officials
Senator Sheppard met Thursday morning at the St Anthony Hotel with city officials and Chamber of Commerce members to discuss flood control and river navigation. Attendees reviewed maps, recalled the 1866 flood, and planned data gathering to seek federal aid while noting Boerne’s recent rainfall near San Antonio.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sheppard
Ie Chamber of Commerce
City
St. Anthon Hotel
N. Johnston
Galveston
War Department
San Antonio
Clinton Brown
Carrington
Chamber of Commerce
Surkey
Olmos Basin
Clinton I. Kearny
W. B. Tuttle
The
Gas & Electric Company
Boerne
Tire
San Pedro
Main Plaza
Commerce
Houston
Senator Sheppard
J. R. Davis
A. B. Wenkle
Hart
L. B. Clegg
Jake Wolff
Clinton Kearny
Tuttle
George B. Taliaferrio
John Bennett Jr
J. B. Carrington
George Surrey
Iwo More Backache For Her Mrs Gaskill of Etna Green Ind
Mrs J M Gaskill describes severe backache and urinary trouble. After taking a single box of Foley Kidney Pills she experienced significant relief and praises the remedy as safe for backache and rheumatic pains. She notes the pills helped her regain mobility.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. M. Gaskill
Etna Green
Ind
Pinex cough remedy marketed as home made
An advertisement touts Splendid for Coughs and Colds as an inexpensive home made cough syrup. It promotes Pinex as the key ingredient to ease bronchitis croup whooping cough and bronchial asthma with a pint of sugar syrup for about 54 cents. The ad claims quick relief and a money back guarantee from the Pinex Co. of Ft Wayne Indiana.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United
Canada
E Pinex Co
Ft. Wayne
Ind
Special Cuticura Treatment For Scalp Care
An advertisement describes a three step scalp regimen with Cuticura Ointment and Soap. It claims to remove dandruff, aid hair growth, and includes a testimonial from W. C. Truman of Fordsville Kentucky dated March 27 1916 about a child whose head healed after using Cuticura products. Free trial by mail is offered.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. C. Truman
Fordsville
Dept. H
Boston
Lawn Mowers 20 Percent Reduction Ad
Sam Speir Hardware Co advertises lawn mowers at a twenty percent reduction, highlighting a limited sale offer on outdoor power equipment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sam Speir Hardware Co
France's wartime loans fuel postwar industrial growth
Albert Thomas warns at a Paris luncheon that wartime financing has spurred new chemical, metallurgical, and mechanical industries to meet army needs. He says loans now become a broad industrial fund, drawing national savings from government securities into peacetime enterprise while urging focus on essentials and not dispersing strength.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
Albert Thomas
Economic and Financial Association
M. Thomas
France
Europe
Iowa Troops Allowed to Vote on Mexican Border
Iowa soldiers on the Mexican border may vote under a Civil War era law. Attorney General George Cosson ruled the 1860s statute remains valid and in force, and the decision was released at noon today.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
Iowa
George Cosson
Heating and cooking stoves at right prices
Heating stoves and cooking stoves offered at favorable prices for quick purchase. Includes a range of models suitable for homes and kitchens with emphasis on value and timely availability.
Forgery Charge Highlights City Crime Briefs
A 42 year old stranger was arrested for forgery in four cases as detectives pursue more charges. Also reported were a shoplifting arrest of an elderly Mexican woman, a dog attack near Avenue B with possible rabies, a short circuit fire damaging an automobile on East Quincy, and a clothing theft from a shed on Oakland Street.
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Mize
Jake Rubiola
Ben Bruno
Avenue B
Pugh
Central Headquarters
Houston Street
W. E. Cleveland
East
Quincy Street
Grace Ransom
Oakland Street
Stolen articles described and local notices in 1916 San Antonio paper
Police report a Mexican man found ill in the 500 block of South Flores Street at 1 15 AM and later jailed for sanity evaluation after escaping hospital. A white man, 40, arrested for carrying a sack of fifty pounds of brass identified as stolen from the G H S A railway east yards. Promotions granted for railway mail clerks with $100 annual raise.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Houston
South Flores Street
Peche
Guillemetti
G., H. & S. A. Railway Company
Department At
Washington
Railway Mail Service
San Antonio
Cuthbert E. Burton
Charles Crocker
E. CC
N. Schuette
C. A. Rice
Mack J. McMaster
Harvey E. Henry
C. D. McClendon
Eric Potchernick
Sam B. Nagel
Greek Church in Jerusalem Seeks Aid From Turkish Leader
In a letter dated August 21, Greek Patriarch Damanos reports to Djemal Pasha, commander of the Turkish army, that the Jerusalem patriarchate asked for aid as war financial strains grow. Djemal secured a 1000 pound sterling loan and promised more help plus rations from military depots.
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Berlin
Sayville
Constantinople
Damanos
Jerusalem
Djemal Pasha
Djemal
Government to Build Munitions Plants at Laredo
Reports from Mexico City indicate the de facto government plans plants for arms, ammunition and aircraft with hangars at a cost over a million dollars for buildings. The facilities would employ European workers for munitions and use American and French experts to build aeroplanes, with construction to begin immediately.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Laredo
Tex
Mexico City
Home Dry Cleaning At Home With Salvite And Gasoline
An advertisement explains a simple, inexpensive home dry cleaning method using two ounces of salvite dissolved in two gallons of gasoline. It claims to brighten rib bons, laces, silks, furs, and more without fading or shrinking, with no pressing needed. Warning to perform outdoors away from fire due to gasoline flammability.
Foley's Honey and Tar Cough Remedy Endorsed by Family User
A promotional testimonial asserts Foley's Honey and Tar has relieved coughs for eleven years. It claims safety for children due to no opiates, praising its effect on hoarseness throat tickling bronchial throats and sleep. Endorsed by Mrs Chas Rietz Allen Mills Pa and A M Fischer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chas. Rietz
Allen Mills
Foley
A. M.fischer
What Dyspeptics Should Eat
A medical column argues most indigestion stems from acidity and advises dyspeptics to avoid acid foods. It recommends moderate meals followed by a teaspoon of bisulated magnesia in water to neutralize acid, claiming plain bisulated magnesia is an effective food corrective and antacid.
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Balcony ST
Wolff & Marx Big Store
Francis X. Bushman Stonehouse
Brent Washby
Princess
Lois Webber
Mary McLaren
WM. S. Hart
Empire
Vitagraph
Sers
Joseph Kilbour
Charles Wellesley
Bobby Connelly
Naomi Childers
Virginia Pearson
Josephine Earl
Earl Williams
Wm. Fox
Sins of Man
Dorothy Bernard
Tom H. Dalton
Nana Aker Co
Neal
Segal
Franklin
Ree
Turners
ROYAL
Mabel Talliaferro
Metro
Wigwam
Maurice Costello
Ethel Grandin
Theodore Roberts
Anita King
ASK Ca*hier
Union Country
Marguerite Fisher
Brady
Crane Wilbur
Jsenator
Soledad St
Attorney General
Exchange
International Exchange
Navarra Street
Catholic Woman's Club
Nacogdoches Street
Women of
Culling Printing Company
Light
O'Connell
Jew
E. Houston St
Adv
Oan Co
Curry & Curry
Pal
Mer
Swearingen Bidg
F Derthee
Oster
Giddds Bidg
Horace E. Wilson
State Bank Bldg
Kehoe Loan Co
J. F. Carl and
J. A. Ward
Bedell Building
Pnone Crockett
R. P. Ingram
John D. Robinson
Gunter
Phone Crockett
West Commerce Street
Merriman
Oe Jewelry Co
Alamo Plaza
L. Robertson
Travis
Wm. H. Russell
Kampman Bldg
E. B. Hudson
A. H. Shafer
Braden-Hudson Heating, Plumbing & Electric Company
E. Commerce St
Riverside Shooting Gallery
Houston St
Perry L. King
San Antonio Gas & Electric Company
St. Louis
American Gas Institute
Mr. King
Gas and Electric
Medina Lake Toll Road Company
Franz C. Groos
Sam C. Bell
J. H. Frost
W. H. Furlong
Newton & Newton
Dixie Dance
W. Co. W. Hall
Willett Orchestra
Woodmen Hall
E. Houston
Advy
Ottolene
Thee Fairbank Ssapary
Chicago
Dreseo
Ray Ny Dy
Legalite
Automobile Association of America
Woodward Carriage Co
Third Street
Texas
Wallace Brosco
G. Heileman Brewing CO
LA Crosse
Wis
U.S. A
N. Flores St
Crockett
San Antonio Texas
Aerg
Texas Liquor
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