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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 26, 1916
Page
7
The text promotes a method to treat backache linked to kidney disorders by reducing meat intake and increasing water between meals. It recommends taking a single anuric tablet before each meal and suggests asking a druggist or anuric for the treatment if unwell. It also mentions lumago rheumatism and dropsy as conditions to begin with this treatment.
Mattie Hines Hartmann wife of University of Texas professor Carl Hartmann died at a relative’s home on university avenue. Born in Karnes County on May 35 882 she studied at San Antonio High School graduating valedictorian in 1889 winning the Marshall Hicks gold medal and a UT scholarship. She and her husband graduated in the same class and will be buried in Dignowity cemetery San Antonio.
Take Pape's Cold Compound every two hours for three doses to break a cold. It eases headache fever throat soreness and stuffed nose, stops discharge and sneezing, and costs about 25 cents at any drug store. Do not substitute.
Frank M. Lewis of the Country Club set a new course low in qualifying with 79 to win the gold medal. Poor wind affected drives and bunker play as hotly contested eliminations began in four cup events with eight players advancing in each. Jack Tarrant was second low at 86, while Mrs. J. H. Lapham tied for a championship flight spot but drew a late loss.
The Austro-German forces press along the southwestern Russian front from Dorna Watra to the Romanian border seeking to split the Russian line and block further Russian aid to Romania The Russians reportedly hold and repulse attacks along this sector Russian troops in the Carpathians also beat back Teutonic assaults northwest of Capul Mountain The war office says Bijar in Persia northwest of Hamadan has fallen to Russian forces
French troops broke German lines northeast of Verdun capturing Haudremont quarries Thiaumont and the Faussecôte ravines and the village of Douaumont. The seizure, witnessed by General Joffre, came after five months of hard fighting and tens of thousands of German casualties and prisoners.
Rev. John A. Marquis of Cedar Rapids Iowa Rev Maitland Alexander of Pittsburg and Rev. William H Roberts of Philadelphia were elected by the executive committee here to draft plans for a great denominational gathering to be presented at the assembly in Dallas in May and to mark the fiftieth reunion of the new and old schools of Presbyterianism in Philadelphia in 1917.
German artillery shelled positions near Vaux and Deuaumont as French forces press their advance at Verdun. French losses were light, many prisoners were captured, and three Lieutentant Generals under Mangin rose from lieutenant colonels earlier in the war.
The Overseas News Agency reports seven days of brutal fighting on the Narayuvka in Galicia concluded with a German victory. Russian efforts to reach Lemberg failed again, with losses exceeding five thousand men and many machine guns captured or lost.
Roumanians announced the capture of Mount Kerek haras south of Bicaz on the Transylvanian front. Fighting in the Oituz valley continues beyond the Roumanian frontier. Austro German forces have been driven beyond Moldavia's western frontier with very heavy losses.
German army headquarters reports Fort Douaumont in Verdun sector evacuated before French capture. It says French attacks on Fort Douaumont and Fort Vaux yesterday were repulsed by German forces.
French cavalry supported infantry to seize Golobrda and Laisitsa southwest of Lake Doiran and take the bridges at Zvezda. Laisitsa lies on the Greece Albania boundary, while Golobrda and Zvezda are in Albania. The front extended westward with a junction with Italian cavalry from Avliona.
U S officials fear Mexican weakness hampers restoring order in Northern Mexico. American commissioners have been shown the issue as a major obstacle to enforcing authority and pursuing outlaws into rugged hill country.
Pershing orders remain near Columbus as Villa bandits operate 25 miles south of the American expedition outpost. They demand shortening the American troop line and gradual evacuation of Mexican territory by the United States army. Americans returning to the border from Mexico report the demand.
The Overseas News Agency reports a decisive advance by Field Marshal von Mackensen’s army in Dobruja. After Constanza, Bulgarian German and Turkish forces push 12 miles, threatening Medjidie and forcing Rasova to surrender. The Russo Romanian front is collapsing as Teutonic allies threaten the Danube bridge head at Tchernavoda.
Laredo Texas reports a surge of buyers from Northern Mexico massing to purchase dry goods shoes groceries and other essentials before November 1 when a new de facto government increases customs duties. Local businessmen and households aim to ship across the border ahead of the higher taxes.
General Carranza issues decree directing all tax payments be made in gold, a move received in Chihuahua City. The proclamation, relayed via El Paso Junction, signals a shift in tax collection policy.
Sir Ernest Shackleton, fresh from Tima Peru, sails Sunday from New Orleans on the Parismina to San Francisco then Australia to lead a relief party for ten Shackleton crewmen left with scant provisions on the western Antarctic coast. The Aurora had previously carried the stranded party ashore.
Charles E. Hughes began the home stretch of his campaign in Hartford with a theatre address to workers in munitions plants. He urged action over complacency, warned against tariff only policies, and framed a peacetime aim tied to national strength and world stability. En route he received station crowds in New Haven and Meriden, while Mrs. Hughes visited Wellesley College.
Charles Evans Hughes left New York for a four day New York state tour with stops in Hartford Providence and Boston. He urged young men to back the Republican ticket citing five aims including national respect preparedness open government and individual readiness. He attacked the administration for army unpreparedness and called for a strong international peace framework.
Mr. Hughes quoted an organization bill declaring the Navy Department incapable and noting Secretary Garrison’s June 1914 suggestion to fill the regular army to full strength. He said that if that addition had been made, the national guard would not have needed to be sent to the border.
General Bricken of the Alabama National Guard and his headquarters troops passed through Fort Worth on the way to Nogales Arizona. All Alabama militias have moved to the border except one cavalry troop.
A kidney ache may signal Brights disease and ruin your plans. Do not blame weather for swollen feet. seek warning signs of serious illness. Stomach pain could indicate appendicitis while joint creaks may precede rheumatism. Regular use of Gold Medal Haarlem Oil Capsules is promoted with a money back guarantee and cautions against substitutes.
A beauty note touts delatone paste as an easy home method to remove facial neck and arm hair. The ad instructs mixing delatone powder with water to form a thick paste, applying for two minutes, rubbing off, and washing the skin. It warns to use delatone in its original package to avoid disappointment.
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