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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 28, 1916
Page
12
Berlin dispatch reports Norddeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung denying hostile reports that Germany enlisted foreigners including Belgians. The paper says Germany upholds detaining hostile nationals but not enlisting them, clarifying military policy amid wartime rumors.
Philadelphia report details Mrs Lillian LeDuc of Cincinnati recounting the triple shooting at a city hotel. She explains her handbag was left in Graveur’s room and denies traveling with Graveur to multiple cities. Her husband J C LeDuc and sister support her account amid conflicting claims from Mrs Belzer’s sister.
In Laredo Texas Jewish members of the national guard and regular army observe the ecclesiastical New Year with ritual. Furloughs were granted for the holidays for Hebrew soldiers. Motor Truck Company No 32 plans a land journey over 1000 miles to General Pershing's headquarters in Mexico, described by officers as perhaps the most severe durability test yet for motor transportation in the army.
North Carolina First Infantry and other regiments are due to land in San Antonio with arrival times set for six in the evening Thursday and the following days. Red Cross workers will meet the trains and a large local host of volunteers including Mrs. L. B. Clegg and many others will assist in welcoming the troops.
Austin Texas September 28 Mrs Josephine Winfield Roche will be the next postmaster of Georgetown succeeding her late husband Col F T Roche if Congressman J Buchanan's recommendation is adopted in the appointment and there is little doubt it will. Buchanan stated he had decided to recommend Mrs Roche for the position after spending the day in Austin on his way home from Georgetown. He will remain in his district for several days before returning to Brenham.
In Nashville on September 28 two Black men charged with complicity in the Bud Burns mine incident at Gordonsburg, Tennessee, were torn from the Hohenwald jail by a mob. They were hanged to trees with wire and shot, after overpowering the jailer. A pursuing party later discovered their bodies.
The body of Frank E. West, 20, of Fort Worth, private in Number One Texas Field Hospital Corps, died in camp here after a brief pneumonia illness. The body is held pending instructions from his brother G. P. West of San Antonio.
A Texas Woman's Fair letter to Cuero Commercial Club secretary F N Clifford requests soil samples from DeWitt county for testing and reporting. About twenty four farmers and stockmen were asked to send or bring samples, some already received. An exhibit of Cuero turkeys is also being explored.
An advertisement notes a Sunday rail service on Southern Pacific Lines with a 60 cent fare at 8:15 a.m. from Sutherland Springs.
East Houston lodging house guest Candido Herrera awoke to find his room ransacked and $215 in valuables stolen including $40 in gold $75 in Mexican currency $5 in silver a watch. In other incidents eight Plymouth Rock hens were taken from J D McIlhenny’s coop on Mistletoe avenue after theft attempts. Additional reports include two suits of clothing from R L Wilburn on Dilworth street a horse and bags from Francisco Sufaro on Durango street and a light spring wagon with hornets stolen from Abner Dorn on Lamar street.
A visitor asks if hosts can accommodate the speaker and family for summer boarding. Foremer Corntessel questions if politics affect acceptance. The reply confirms that all summer boarders must share the same politics to avoid ongoing disputes.
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