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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 18, 1916
Page
10
About 19 000 pupils entered San Antonio public schools Monday with Main Avenue High School registering 1500 to 1600 students and Brackenridge around 525. Officials anticipate longer high school hours and new campuses on Garden Street with several additions planned for the grade schools to ease crowding.
An advertisement claims a trussless garment fully supports and strengthens the rupture, preventing rupture and eliminating belts and springs. It touts a 96 page clothbound book that explains dangers of operation, test trials, and endorsements, with a coupon for free book and trial offer from Box 881 CLOTHE COMPANY, New York.
A two room addition to School No 18 on Cassiano street will be finished by October 1. The new negro school at West End, a four room frame building, is completed and in use. The two room addition to the negro school on North Center and Hackberry streets will be completed October 1. An additional typewriting room with 30 new machines opened at the Main avenue high school to handle increased commercial enrollment. A room for applied arts and house decoration will be taught by Miss Sybil Brown.
Dairymen in Bexar County including members of the Bexar County Dairymen's Association raised the price of milk by 1 cent per pint on Monday. President George F. Littler cited higher costs for washing powders, stoppers, glass, sanitary supplies, and feed as key factors. The milk shortage and regulatory compliance expenses left dairymen with little choice but to raise prices or close.
Deputy Sheriff Sam C Slack reports perch and bass leaping from Cibolo Creek to snatch ticks off cattle in Louis Hartung’s pasture eighteen miles northeast of San Antonio. He says fish ignored worms and grasshoppers and instead fed on ticks, weighing two to three pounds each at times.
A Louisville Courier-Journal blurb notes a refrigerator with a secret drawer for a pint bottle, sparking curiosity about concealed features and practical novelty in home appliances.
A health column promotes drinking a glass of hot water with a teaspoonful of limestone phosphate before breakfast to flush the stomach liver and bowels. It claims cleansing rises appetite and improves appearance, with a quarter pound costing little at the drug store and helping biliousness constipation and rheumatism.
An advertisement promotes GOLD MEDAL Haarlem Oil Capsules as a health remedy to cleanse kidneys and bladder, relieve congestion, and improve overall kidneys function. It claims government chemist approval and direct import from Holland, urging readers to buy at their druggist with refund assurance.
Washington dispatches report Turkish government moves to crush民主atic Armenian Church structure. Bishops appointed and a new spiritual assembly replaces the 1279 era national assembly with limited powers over religious and charitable matters. State Department weighs implications as Ambassador Elkas discusses Armenian treatment with Ankara.
Twenty eight American muleteers aboard the British steamship Kelvinia reached New York aboard the Cunard liner Tuscania. The vessel was sunk on September 2 by a mine or torpedo while en route from Newport News to Glasgow. no Americans perished.
Mrs L Ward and family return from Colorado Springs after six weeks travel by car and rail from Fort Worth while others depart for motor trips and rail homeward journeys. Bon Aven and Bon Aven events noted alongside church society gatherings and a stag dinner at the Mu Nu Sigmas. A marriage announcement for Lillian Elizabeth Lehr to Brewer Taylor McNeil set for St Mark's Church San Marcos.
Swift & Co shows beef sales in San Antonio for the week ending Saturday September 16 with domestic beef averaging 8.60 cents per pound.
Advertisement notes a style show by Witmer Crane Milly Co. scheduled for Wednesday September 20. Local shoppers are invited to view latest fashion lines and accessories at the event.
Anzac mounted troops and camel corps, supported by artillery, attacked Turkish trenches at Bir-El-Mazur, 65 miles from the Suez Canal. The surprise engagement caused heavy Turkish casualties, several prisoners were taken, and Allied losses were slight.
A 1766 Beauvais tapestry given by King Louis XV to Emperor Qianlong of China and stolen during the 1911 overthrow of the Manchu dynasty sold in New York for 200000 to a Cleveland, Ohio collector. The piece, titled The Chinese Fair, measures 10 feet 7 inches by 19 feet 3 inches.
A British naval air squadron attacked German aerodromes at St Denis and Westrehem. The war office reports many bombs dropped with success. One aircraft forced down in Holland and the pilot interned.
The local Y M H A held a dance for members and friends at the Harmony Club rooms with post card souvenirs. Future events are planned to entertain Hebrew soldiers at Fort Sam Houston and Camp Wilson, with a soldiers committee meeting soon. High Holy Days on September 28 29 and October 7 will be observed at Y M H A headquarters conducted by Moses Wilchins.
The Texas Circulation Managers' Association meets at the St Anthony Hotel with forty papers represented. Harvey L Steele notes reservations as the group plans sessions on rising paper costs and cost management. Sidney D Long will deliver a key address and J M Schmidt is expected to attend. Delegates will tour the city and attend a Mexican banquet in the evening.
J Zerubabel of Poale Zion presents the first of two talks on Palestine at Red Men's hall at 8 pm Monday. He recently toured the United States after years in Palestine and will discuss local conditions. The second lecture on The World War and Our Prospects in Palestine is set for Wednesday at Modern Woodmen's hall.
General Carranza issues a decree ordering banks to raise reserves to cover existing paper money and to appoint bank examiners. Banks failing to comply may liquidate. The government plans to open a bank to issue bank bills, removing private banks’ monopoly.
Denver Colo Sept 18 The United States Court of Appeals sitting in Denver sustains the Federal District Court of Iowa finding four members of the National Association of Master Plumbers guilty of Sherman anti trust violations. Defendants named are Robert Knauer Hugh B McCarten John P Cunningham and George H Wentz among 240 others indicted in 1914.
Austin reports preparations for the fall term opening of the higher courts on the first Monday in October. The Court of Criminal Appeals will prioritize cases filed during vacation, while the Supreme Court scene centers on the All Country Club liquor case. The Third Court of Civil Appeals has previously reversed a district ruling permitting club liquor sales to members.
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