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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 12, 1917
Page
11
Extra Attractions highlights eight unique body types, each exclusive, produced at their own body plant by dedicated artists and experts. They design from varied like-type bodies, mixing best attractions with oils. The in-house plant lowers per car costs, funding luxuries and beauties rare in most cars.
Extra equipment doubles the usual margin of safety and cuts repair costs by seventy five percent. Mitchells, built under John W. Bate, are factory designed with efficiency methods saving millions yearly. They boast thirty one features including a power tire pump and reversible headlights, with doubled endurance and eight body styles across two Sixes.
Roadwork along Predsticksburg Road between Blusinel's Store and the Leon Springs military reservation has closed the highway. A parallel tarviating segment between Truemel's Store and the Huebner Road will finish by Thursday and be opened. Finley Method Co will tar the completed stretch while Uvalde Rock Asphalt Comes Many plans to start topping the upper road from Leon Springs toward the city next Monday.
The text describes Arctic travel perils and meticulous provisioning for survival. Admiral Peary notes emergency readiness at Utah, with pemmican, tea, biscuits, sugar, and ammunition staged near the rail for rapid disposal to the ice. Whaleboats are fully equipped for a week or ten days, with gear and medical supplies, plus extra clothing for Inuit companions.
A general order from Camp Travis outlines a sixteen week intensity training program for the National Army division, detailing trench warfare instruction, officer and unit coordination, and multiple divisional schools including arms, engineers, artillery, and sanitation. Brigadier generals and colonels will oversee units with daily eight hour sessions on most days and four hour sessions midweek, aiming to produce capable instructors within each unit.
Brig Gen John A Johnston Jr arrived in Boston to assume command of the Northeastern district succeeding Major General Clarente Edwards. In 1904 he traveled with Brig Gen B C Corbin to army manoeuvres in Germany as guest of the Kaiser and later went to the Philippines in the interest of peace.
Camps to be established at Jack Point eight miles from Jacksonville Florida will host two hundred tiger students from each ramp for a total of about S20. About 200 graduates from Crump Fantson around San Antonio may be affected. Quartermaster officers reserve corps transferred from Camp Travis to Camp Logam Houston. Names listed include John K Weber F R Tarver Joe W Secor Paul J Haralson N Sperry S O Lewis J DB He Lefevre B I Woster H master.
Lieutenant Louis Razin of the French Sixty-eighth Infantry will instruct American students in trench construction and warfare at Camp Funston. He will assist Camp Engineer Captain William St. Bage Jr during the early part of next week and become assistant senior instructor when trench training begins Thursday. Official communications will continue to refer to the camp as Leon Springs Training Camp and avoid using Funston outside War Department matters.
Ailing elderly couple from Flushing pleads for confinement on Blackwell Island rather than separation. William Livingston and his wife, both worn by years, insist they can endure jail if kept together, noting they have a small amount of money and a home but fear winter and deteriorating health. The guard questions their eligibility for vacancy while the couple clings to lifelong companionship.
Texas lawmakers will travel to San Antonio with about 200 people for a two day inspection of nearby camps. The resolution notes large military presence and aims to reveal war preparations to the delegation. Rail lines will run excursions September 15 with return to Austin by September 16, delaying usual business.
Members of the Ninety Ninth and One Hundred and Second Avro squadrons at Kelly Field affected by a suspected ptomaine poisoning after Sunday’s supper have recovered. Field infirmary reports the illness was not serious with no lasting effects, about twenty men ill briefly.
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