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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 28, 1916
Page
5
A conversation frames Duthwaite as an optimistic man who dreams of living by the sea but remains trapped in a city flat. He insists he will not swim or risk sharks while he cannot afford a railroad ticket to the shore.
Joseph Wilmeth of Chicago and George D. Miers were seized near Las Vacas while inspecting cattle and goats for a financial deal. Wilmeth says Miers remains in Sabinas under Carranza guard. British Consul Marshall helped secure Wilmeth's release while in Allende and Sabinas. The men were kept for ten days, then moved and treated reasonably well.
Associated Press report from Dublin rejects claims that Irish regiments, especially the Dublin Fusiliers, are filled with English or Scottish reserves. The Dublin battalion commander says less than twenty members are non Irish, many joined due to Irish friends. Some English regiments recruit from Irish in England, and Highland casualty lists show many Irish names.
A Rochester Democrat and Chronicle item recalls a Salvation Army girl in New York who faced a cheeky street car prank. The woman offered a public prayer for the joker, asking the Lord to soften the young man’s heart, and the crowd murmured amen.
A social dance at the W. O. W. hall is advertised for Saturday night Sept 30 with Willett Orchestra and admission 25 cents. Also noted is a local police inspection schedule at central headquarters and various community notices including medical and legal advertisements.
Henry Frink Jr master mechanic of the San Antonio Traction Company will depart for St Louis this week to supervise hurried construction of all steel street cars at the American Car and Foundry Company He will then attend the National Electric Railway Association convention in Atlantic City in October seeking new ideas to improve San Antonio street car service and bring them home for immediate use The company is known for an excellent system while new transportation features continually arise and Frink aims to adopt them promptly after his return
Attendance at the Guadalupe county fair far exceeded yesterday with paid admissions over four thousand by noon. Seguin day is anticipated with shops closing and heavy child attendance, while livestock judging nears completion and a balloon ascent plus aerial fireworks headline tomorrow’s program. Max Bergfeld’s bronco busting and a donkey race delighted crowds as rail traffic stays steady and W B Tuttle travels for interurban talks.
Arrangements for financing the San Antonio to Austin interurban railway are practically complete. Promoter Varies P Brown, back from Austin, says details cannot yet be released but the project is now assured and work will begin soon. Brown cites Austin support and enthusiasm for electric transport.
Sherman resident Tom B Chapman stops at the Gunter while D Slaughter from Dallas and E Dillman of Dallas register at the St Anthony. Miss Katherine B Smith of Dallas and H H Rice of Mexico City also listed at the Gunter along with several others from Simmons Campbellton Waco and Houston. A humorous exchange ends the note with a cartoonish duo referencing morning wake up for horses.
T F Hutchinson of Little Rock Arkansas says he suffered ten to twelve years with kidney trouble and tried many remedies before Foley Kidney Pills. After five boxes he is now well, noting the pills eased aches and sleep disturbing bladder issues and helped his overall health. A M Fischer endorses.
A letter quotes a quack offering medicine for kidney trouble with baliawort tablets and a tonic. another asks about coughs and sore throat, answered with mentholaxene syrup and sugar syrup. a third seeks blood cleansing and laxative guidance with three grain sulphur tablets.
Barber seeks scalp care and natural hair gloss while Too Large seeks 40 pound loss. Office seeks tonic and builder for energy. Slender seeks weight gain. Responses tout five grain arbolone tablets for weight loss, three grain cadomene tablets for energy, and three grain ponyclane tablets for flesh gain.
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