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Newspaper
Fredericksburg Standard
Location
Fredericksburg, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 09, 1916
Page
8
An ad touts Aermotor wind mills with Double Gear Center Lift needing oil only yearly. Reservoir capacity ranges from 1 percent to 1 gallon by mill size. Features include dust water and ice proof construction, light weight and durability. Sold by 47 is.
Sunday Dr. Lincecum of Austin and County Health Officer Dr. V Keidel visited the editor to publish Texas Sanitary Code rules for stamping out contagious diseases. The officials cited scarlet fever concerns and planned a future free public hygiene lecture with moving pictures.
The sanitary code directs Texas physicians to report contagious diseases and deaths to local health authorities and to notify the State Board of Health if pestilential. It outlines quarantine and disinfection rules, placards, and the duties of health officers, physicians, and school officials in handling outbreaks and in maintaining isolation, detainment, and sanitation.
Principal may deny attendance to those from infected houses until presenting a doctor’s certificate countersigned by the local health authority. Violators face misdemeanor charges with fines from ten to one thousand dollars under the Texas Sanitary Code.
Mr and Mrs J C Stinson and Mr and Mrs R A Striegler spent the latter part of last week in Kimble County. J B Hime and family are settled in their new home. Mrs Katie Patton is erecting a cottage for her future home. R A Striegler M M Striegler and L F Price went to the Blanco Valley Thursday. August Hauffler and wife stay at the hotel while he works for Cain City Lumber Co. J O Haley of Jolson ity visited Gus Haley and wife this week. Road work supervised by A J Mullinax progresses and the low water bridge over the Pedernales under Greathouse is slowly but surely being constructed. Alfred Jung made a business trip to Fredericksburg Thursday. Several car loads of cord wood are shipped out each week.
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