Camp Travis Publicity Officers and Staff Promotions
IV Division publicity officer at Camp Travis Texas notes recent promotions and achievements. Klingelhoefer earns praise for supplying overcoats and bayonet dummy projects while gaining potential promotion. Schwarz named assistant manager of Exchange and praised by the chief image officer. Metzger of Fredericksburg now with Battery 345th Regiment Artillery applies twin mind development to general class work, holding a state certificate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hans H. Schwarz
Justen
Exchange
Emiage
Louis Metzger
Fredericksburg
Texas
Meld Artillery
Camp Travis
Metzger
Camp Travis barber hygiene and soldier grooming rules
Division Headquarters at Camp Travis issues a general order mandating barber shop hygiene practices. Barbers must wash loads with soap and water before attending each man. towels cannot be reused until laundered. shaving cups and brushes soaked after each use. Many units charge $1 monthly for two shaves and two haircuts per soldier, a voluntary plan driven by cost. The piece notes cleanliness boosts neatness and combat readiness, advises visitors to San Antonio on Saturdays or Wednesdays, and says Christmas furloughs will be scarce due to wartime demands.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Camp
Travis
Camp Travis
San Antonio
Doan's Kidney Pills End Kidney Trouble Says Man
In a testimonial from New Braunfels Texas Mr Maier reports long lasting relief after using Doan's Kidney Pills for tired dull days back pain and scanty kidney streams. He credits the remedy with restoring normal kidney function and ending trouble for over six years. Card urges readers to buy 60 cents at dealers via Oster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San New Braunfels
Tex
Dean
Maier
Doan
Oster- Milburn Co
Msgrs
Buffalo
N. Y
Difference Between Money Lenders and Bankers To Build Community
A banker extends beyond discounting paper and collecting interest. He engages in broader aims, seeing opportunities and acting on them to build up the community. The money lender serves individuals in distress and charges for such aid, but a true banker pursues larger, developmental aims.
Wanted: Unfair Sample to Cut Cotton Bale Grade
The cotton buyer seeks a sample that is not fair or true, the ginner’s sample, to justify lowering a bale. An unfair sample could justify reducing the bale’s grade by three or more full grades.
Markets and Warehouses Department report 1917 Texas
F C Weinert reports the Markets and Warehouses Department fiscal year ending Aug 31 1917 shows expenditures of 50 455 17 under a 70 408 25 appropriation with 20 048 04 unexpended. Describes duties of the Commissioner, warehouse standards, weights and measures oversight, and the push for uniform grading, standard bale integrity, and protection against dishonest practices to support farmers and merchants in Texas.
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Austin
Texas
W. P. Hobby
Ship Department
Federal Reserve Bank
Wilson
Congress
Ducer
Markets and Warehouse Law
United States
State of
Chambers of Commerce
Commissioner of Weights and Measures
California
Union
President asks 50 million to fight drought in Texas
Cotton seed crushers and stockmen in Houston meet with Dr Charles McCarthy and Gov Hobby officials to urge immediate federal aid. They demand a 50 million dollar war measure to loan feed and credit, rail relief, and a revolving fund for crop and livestock loans to aid drought stricken Texas counties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Houston
Chas. vwicCarthy
Herbert Hoover
E. A. Peden
Texas
Drouth
F. C. Weinert
Markets and Warehouse Ag Vete
Chas. McCarthy
Austin
Hobby
McCarthy
Senator Weinert
Appeai
Wilson
Washingon
Coe
Germany
Federal Department of Agriculture
United States Department of Agriculture
State Chambers of Commerce
Farmers’ Association
United States Food Administration
F.C. Weinert
United States
Washington
William G. McAdoo
Treasury
Arrival of Cotton Seed Cake and Loaves in Cameron
Readable portion notes the arrival of cotton seed cake and meal, bran, shorts, and a large stock of Belle of Wichita Baker's Pride Wichita Loaf. The shipment arrived on 16 Aug in Cameron.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wichita
Cameron
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Bugs
GUS. Malchow
J. P. Moore & Co
Ivision Publicity Officer
Co. Bu
O. Klingelthoefer
Klingelhoefer
Camp Travis, Tenas
Icksburg
Standards of Weights and
West
South
Drouthtricken
Cardu
Cardus
Mary E. Veste
Madison Heights
L. Garrett
Willow City
B. A. Weed
L. Robertson
Priess
Courts of Texas
United States Supreme Court
R. Maier & Sons Yard
J. P. Moore, Joe Fiedler
Gillespie
Mason Counties
H. C. Keyser
A. R. Evers
Henry Kothe
Emil Kordzik
Geistweidt Bros
Alex W. Maier
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