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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 20, 1916
Page
2
Vitalitas is touted as a natural mineral tonic that aids detoxification and organ invigoration. It claims to relieve chronic conditions where other remedies fail and emphasizes its alcohol free, pleasant taste. Sold by all druggists.
Mrs Margaret Sanger of New York announces clinics to disseminate birth control information will open soon in San Francisco Cleveland and other Western cities. Police are searching for a Brookyn East New York clinic advertising handbills in English Yiddish and Italian. The teaching of birth control is a misdemeanor in New York. Sanger says police will find the eastern clinic in a few days and that they are prepared to pursue the matter through the courts.
Boston, Oct 20. Women seeking suffrage test a new expedient in Massachusetts. Those who voted in states with full suffrage demand registration as legal voters in their current residence. They argue that qualification in one state grants voting rights when moving to another state.
Western Chihuahua readies a new campaign led by General Carlos Ozuna against Villa and Salazar commands. About 600 troops entrain for Santa Ysabel to join operations toward San Antonio and Guerrero as martial law tightens and arrests rise.
Officials of the First National Bank of Centralia report four masked thieves stole about 75000 in notes and 6118 in currency. They fear the bank paper will not be recovered and debt records may go unpaid. Posses abandoned pursuit, bandits believed to have fled through a timber tract.
Mrs J P Bridges wife of Cuero Record editor died suddenly at Mull Hotel rooms near noon Wednesday. She had been ill but improving recently and was 32. Funeral held in Luling after body taken from Cuero with family. Survived by husband two children and her mother.
Westmount authorities order destruction of all cats and dogs in families where infantile paralysis occurred after a three week old exhibition. The measure targets pets from the New York show cited as possible disease vectors and aims to prevent further spread.
Chief Rheamount a 60 year old medicine man and Carlisle graduate from Lansing Mich declared Indians were spiritualists first and whites arrived later before the national Spiritualists convention in St Paul Minn The independents who practice spiritualism for financial gain were scored by Dr C A Burgess of Chicago.
Fourteen officers and 2050 men seized eleven machine guns and vowed to end the monarchy at Athens. A Paris newspaper discusses Venizelos and the Allied policy toward an independent Greece urging U.S. recognition of a free Greece born at Saloniki.
The Roumanians have taken the offensive in the Oltuz valley driving Austro-Hungarian forces back to the frontier. Other fronts report repulsed attacks. Bulgarian and German forces in Dobrudja push offensive along the front, forcing back the Roumanian left wing.
The Texas Honey Producers Association will complete organization at a 2 PM Saturday meeting at the San Antonio Chamber of Commerce. Fifteen counties will be represented. Stock allotment caused delay. 207 stockholders now. Quarterly meetings will be held in San Antonio. State entomologist F B Paddock will aid in organizing and explain benefits of unified action.
Colonel F. A. Piper of the F. A. Piper Company in Uvalde Texas closed a contract for 150000 pounds of mohair. The fall clipping sold for about 56 cents per pound, roughly twenty cents above last year’s price.
At Grand Central station a train of about one hundred women campaigners began a transcontinental journey to the Pacific coast. Marie Dressler led with a megaphone as the phrase Hughes for youse echoed through the crowd and spread among the flag bedecked passengers.
A cascade of transfers and leaves across multiple units reports Major Robert M Culley and Capt Edgar Z Steever leaving commands. Reports detail resignations of Second Lieutenant Thomas M Dowell and numerous postings including Col Jesse M Carter to militia bureau and Brigadier General Frederick W Sibley announced. The list also notes several officers detached or reassigned to the southern department canal zone and New York assignments with durations.
Senator Morris Sheppard pledged full cooperation for a San Antonio Pan American Exposition planned for 1918 or soon after. At a Mexican luncheon the project was praised, bonds discussed, and federal aid lauded as San Antonio officials and supporters urged public backing. He praised the delegation's Washington effort and promised aid in any form. He also announced an address to the Woodmen of the World on Friday night.
L M Jones a mining engineer with the Pittsburg bureau of mines died in Jamison mine near Barrackville W Va after entering the workings to rescue trapped miners. Eight in the rescue party were overcome by gas as canaries died testing air. Matthew Allison chief electrician and three other bodies were recovered as conditions remained dangerous.
The Hanover Mercantile Association and several business groups plan a postwar drive to remove women from jobs they now hold and replace them with men. They bar women from even learning of open positions and agree not to advertise jobs below a wage standard. Hanover sets minimums: 900 marks under 18, 1080 for 18–20, 1200 for over 20.
Sam Speir Hardware Co advertises stoves and fireplace fixtures for home heating needs with a range of models and prices. Customers are invited to visit the store for demonstrations and installation options.
Friday Rotary luncheon featured Herbert Barnard leading an art program with talks from Jack Cones C W Archer and W Archer. Exhibits included commercial designs portraits and landscapes by Hummert Onderdonk Arpa and more. The club plans to invite Frank Mulholland to speak in November and invite the public.
Members of U. S. Truck Company 13 held a dinner at the Gunter Hotel in honor of Captain John Pearson Lieutenant Richards and Truck Master F Bell. About fifty attended with menus labeled veedo light radiator water high test gasoline and other motor truck accessories.
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