Texas Public Health Department Urges Expanded Staff And Funding
The State Health Department calls for editorial staff additions in Public Health Education, more field engineers in Sanitary Engineering, and full time Health Officers in counties over 40,000 population along with city officers in larger towns. It backs university training chairs for doctors and nurses, broader public health nurse employment, and strengthened state coordination for a unified public health system.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bureau of Public Health Education
Bureau of Sanitary Engineering
Texas
Bureau of Vital Statistics
State Health Department
Medical Department
University of Texas
When the Kidneys Fail and Back Pain Calls
A 1920s style advertisement notes kidneys work hard and may wear out with activity. Doan’s Kidney Pills are promoted as restoring strength and easing back pain, featuring a testimonial from Schmiedekind of New Braunfels, Texas, and a price of 60 cents at dealers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dean
Schmiedekind
Foster-Milburn Co
Msgrs
Buffalo, N. Y
Telephone links to planets race faster than earthly calls
Article by Isabel M. Lewis from the United States Naval Observatory compares telegraph and telephone limits with star-scale distances. It notes radio telephony could reach the moon in about 1.33 seconds and Venus in about 2 minutes, while journeys to Jupiter or Neptune span years. An imagined airplane, traveling at 200 to 2900 mph, could orbit Earth in five days and reach the moon in seven weeks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Isabel M. Lewis
United States Naval Observatory
Miss Lewis
Earth
Venus
Mercury
Mars
Jupiter
Saturn
Uranus
Neptune
Solar System
Moon
Radio Central
Adonis McManus
Venus Central
Sun
Alpha Centauri
Alpha
Wi. J. Bryan
United States
Lewis
Engineer Corps Roles In Civil Life And Military Training
The Engineer Corps outlines duties during hostilities including reconnoitering surveying and map design, plus constructing defenses and roads. Peacetime focuses on sapper duties and trains soldiers in general education trades and military subjects with pay ranging from 30 to 124 dollars monthly and annual expenses around 1000 to 1700 dollars. Colonel J F Gohn, U S Army, Recruiting Officer.
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Corps of Engineers
J. F. Gohn
U.S. Army
Army Tank Corps seeks skilled and unskilled workers
The Army Tank Corps at Camp Meade Maryland seeks master mechanics mechanical engineers auto mechanics auto electricians machine designers topographers wireless operators photographers oxy acetylene welders auto engine mechanics auto assemblers fitters bench machinists lathe hands general mechanics blacksmiths and tractor operators. Training includes mechanical courses driving gunnery reconnaissance signal design and map reading with pay from 30 to 121.50 monthly plus board lodging clothing and medical care.
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Tank Corps
Camp Meade
Baltimore
Washington
J. F. Gohn
U. 8S. Army
Construction in Camps Halted by War Department Order
The War Department halted all new construction at Camp Normoyle Camp Stanley and border points pending congressional funding. Maj. Gen. Cabell said the $3.5 million border project is unaffected, with only audits and account closeouts allowed. About 200 skilled workers were laid off as shops valued at $3.5 million were disabled and waiting for resumed funding.
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J. H. Alphin
Camp Normoyle
Alphin
War Department
Normoyle
Fort Sam Houston
Camp Stanley
Southern Department
Bureau of Construction
R. C. Cabell
Army
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General Health Department
Quaintain
State Board of Health
Fredericksburg
Texas Bankers’ Association
American Bankers’ Association
Citizens Bank
Alfred Vander Stucken
Oscar Krauskopf
Bierschwale
Martin
Keidel & Kallenberg
Engineer Corps
U. S. Army
Army Tank Corps
District of
Congress Avenue
Houston
Comptroller of the Treasury
G.f.dalley Corporations
CTD., Cuffalo, A
Cardus
William Eversole
Hazel Patch
Cardui
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