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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 24, 1916
Page
12
A dealer advertises tire and tube units with a 3500 mile guarantee and positive adjustments. Promises to replace tires when customers return their old tires regardless of condition. Offers non skid tires and other sizes on application with plain pricing hints.
A compact newspaper item lists accessory specials for the entire week with prices noted such as 19c, 79c, $2.19 and $6.50, alongside signals of promotional items and deal pricing.
Camp Mabry near Austin hosts about 15 000 soldiers of the twelfth provisional division with little maneuvers planned. General Funston and staff may return for a review. General Greene commands from the new arsenal. Social events include Miss Julie Pease hosting officers and plans for band concerts and city church services.
A Chicago letter to Mrs. Blank labeled South Akard Street was mis directed from Chicago to San Antonio then redirected to Dallas, dubbed the second best known city in Texas, after San Antonio.
San Antonio clubs kick off the new year with meetings and studies across numerous organizations. Gibbons Literary Club, Daughters of the American Revolution, San Antonio Council of Mothers, and many others plan programs on Latin America, Canadian studies, Shakespeare, German classics, and civic causes while celebrating anniversaries and fundraisers.
A branch of the Hughes National College Men’s League was organized in San Antonio to aid Charles E. Hughes’s presidential bid. Charles C. Cresson was elected chair and William K. Ewing secretary for Bexar county and the 14th district. The group plans active canvassing and aims to enroll college men across the area, with affiliation sought with the National League headquartered in New York.
Traffic officers across three reliefs will follow a new uniform signaling system under George W. Jackson chosen by Commissioner Uhr. Jackson began duties Saturday and aims for simple, consistent signals to improve downtown handling and curb freak gestures. Twelve arrests occurred downtown Saturday as the reforms began and motorcycle officers expanded to six sub stations to curb speeding in residential areas.
About 500 former University of Texas students in San Antonio are urged to attend a Monday 5:30 pm meeting at Travis Club to organize an ex students association. Plans include a barbecue and ball around the October 13 Oklahoma A&M game, with railways offering excursion trains and temporary stands for 10 000 to 15 000 spectators.
Berlin reports from the governor general of Poland that the harvest in the conquered Russian provinces exceeds all expectations. Apple and pear production is so abundant that under half the crop will be needed locally, with thousands of tons destined for German markets. Apples from Poland and Courland are already flowing to Breslau Koenigsberg Danzig and other eastern cities.
J. M. Switzer of Dayton Ohio will speak at the San Antonio Rotary Club luncheon at the St. Anthony Hotel Wednesday noon. He will explain the commission manager plan now adopted in eighty two American cities and towns and discuss Dayton progress under the system.
Ty Cobb touts iron as the secret to renewed vitality and peak play. Doctor E Sauer extols Nuxated Iron as a safe strength booster with claims of doubling energy in weeks and offers refunds if results fail.
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