Temple to Host 10 Stage Lifesaving Contest and Meet
In Temple Texas the Southwestern Division American Red Cross plans a three day lifesaving school for physical directors from high schools YMCAs and normal schools December 27 28 29 with 75 to 100 attendees. A second event is the state Red Cross Lifesaving Championship in February or March awarding the Campbell trophy to the winning chapter. Captain Joseph B Law leads the instruction and regional organizing efforts with university cooperation across Texas.
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Temple
Texas
American Red Cross
Red Cross
Miz
Campbell
Joseph 8
Law
Texas doctors endorse Red Cross health drive in Eastland
In Cisco Texas and Eastland County the Medical Societies of Eastland and Comanche Counties passed a unanimous resolution pledging moral and professional support to the Red Cross health service campaign for youths and school children. The 28 physicians signed the pledge agreeing to assist gratis through the campaign led by Mrs. J. B. Nunn and Mrs. Philip Pettit.
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Eastland and
Comanche Counties
Texas
Cico
American Red Cross
Eastland County
Comache Counties
J. B. Nunn
Eastland City
Philip Pettit
Cisco
W. H. Guy
Carpon
Joseph W. Gregory
Oldest Junior Red Crosser Turns 70 in Kansas City
Dr. Elliott Smith of Kansas City Missouri is the United States oldest active Junior Red Crosser at seventy years. He serves as port scout master for Kansas City Scouts and has long worked with Sea Cadets. An expert swimmer and life saver, he completed the first aid test in 1919 at the local YMCA and chairs the First Aid Committee of the Kansas City Red Cross Chapter.
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Red
Red Cross Nurse Receives Quilt From Creek Indians
Miss Mary D. Beyer Public Health Nurse for Okfuskee County Red Cross receives a red white and blue quilt from full blood Creek Indians at Okemah Oklahoma. The nurse counsels a rural family on a diet for a boy with stomach trouble and notes a poor educated Indian squaw worth 3 000 000 who does not seem to grasp her fortune’s significance.
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Mary D. Beyer
Okfuskee County
The
Red Cross
Okemah
Oklahoma
Miss Beyer
Lee
Public health nursing eyed to cut school backwardness costs
A Southwestern Division Red Cross report in St Louis details a study of backward schoolchildren in a midwestern state. It finds 97 percent are hindered by physical defects, not mental ones, with tonsils teeth and vision issues common. Cost analysis favors one public health nurse per 1000 children to prevent repeaters and reduce state expense, plus parental education and early medical care to boost readiness for school and lifelong independence.
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Southwestern Division
American Red Cross
St. Louis
Southwestern
Fort Lyon to publish veterans hospital newspaper
Fort Lyon Colorado Veterans Hospital has gained a print shop with a donated hand press. The first issue will appear soon produced by patient volunteers who are printers and writers. The Red Cross hosts the shop and hospital staff will edit the publication.
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Fort Lyon
Colorado
Veterans’ Hospital
Red Cross
T'E Pain
Veterens
Row Si Cars
Athasiassa Wifewiy Oy Wank
Fortheuin
Loewe
Building Up Our Town and Honest Advertising
A compact argument urges community involvement in local progress and denounces secret mail campaigns as untrustworthy. It extols frank newspaper ads, highlights consumer safeguards, and notes public concerns about coal prices, pests, and economic trust in home towns.
Christian spirit for chambers of commerce reform
The piece urges Christian business leaders to invite Jesus Christ into the chambers of commerce to guide money making and trade. It argues business is worship when aligned with righteousness and conscience over politics, seeking holy commerce and moral leadership.
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Jesus Christ
Chamber of Commerce
Temple of Mammon
Congress
Christ
America
Cassates
Prevention of Tuberculosis by County Sanatoria Urged
A 1921 tuberculosis report urges county and state action to reduce deaths. It cites 107000 national TB deaths with 6000 under five, notes transmission not hereditary, and calls for nurses to screen schools, prompt physician exams, and open air schools or summer camps. The 33rd legislature enabled every county to have a TB sanatorium.
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United States
Helpful Hints from Mrs Housewife
A disjointed page of practical tips covers cleaning and repair tricks. It suggests using soap and water on powder puffs, sprinkling sugar on custard pies for even browning, beating rugs on springs, stuffing shoes with tissue, camphor in oil stoves, violin strings for heavy beads, tearing irregular wallpaper pieces for camouflage, boiling water or egg and gyberine for coffee stains, pasting heavy fabric on oil cloth corners, and petroleum jelly to stimulate eyebrow growth.
Public Health Group Urges County Sanatoria Build
The Texas Public Health Association backed by Christmas Seals presses for the construction of county sanatoria as a key phase in its anti tuberculosis program.
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The
Texas Public Health Association
Stop That Itching Blue Star Remedy Ad
Dramatic advertisement pitches Blue Star Remedy for eczema and related skin ailments including itching tetter cracked hands ringworm chapped face poison oak sunburns and old sores. Product offered for sale by local vendor.
Hayes Healing Honey with Grove Open-Trate Salve Offer
Hayes Healing Honey cough medicine stops coughing by healing irritated tissues. Each bottle includes Grove's Open-Trate Salve for chest and throat to aid children with a cold. The combined carton costs 35 cents and is available through druggists.
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Hayes
Grove
Hayes Healing Honey
Notice of Sheriff Sale Reeves County Texas
Legal notice of a sheriff sale in Reeves County Texas arising from a Travis County district court judgment. The land described as Survey No 13 in Block 6 and owned by Houston and Grand Northern Railroad Company is to be sold at public auction for cash to satisfy a $3398.90 debt plus interest and costs. Sale date set for the first Tuesday in December 1923 between 10 AM and 4 PM at the Reeves County courthouse. Sheriff E B Kiser signs the notice.
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State of Texas
B. Kiser
Reeves County
Texas
Pecos
Houston and Grand Northern Railroad Company
Court House
E. B. Kiser
R. G. Middleton
Sheriff Sale Notice in Reeves County Texas
An order of sale issued October 2 1923 in Hamilton County directs the sale of the Real Estate of August Rierson and A A McAlister. The 320 acre portion of Section 23 Block 51 Township 7 Texas and Pacific R R Survey in Reeves County is to be sold at public auction December 4 1923 between 10 AM and 4 PM at the Reeves County Courthouse to satisfy a 976.36 debt plus costs.
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State of
Texas
Reeves
District Court
Hamilton County
L. A. Morris
August Rierson
A. A. McAlister
W. J. H. McBeath
Court House
Reeves County
P. Texas
Levy
Pecos
Levy on Real Estate in Pecos County Under Judgment
Under an October 22 1923 order of Reeves County Court Judge S C Vaughan Sheriff I E B Kiser levy on Lot 9 Block 5 Original Townsite Pecos Reeves County as property of Julian Assad in 1923. The levy followed Leader Grocery Company v Assad No 741 with sale to occur between ten A M and bidder.
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State of
Texas
Reeves
Reeves County
S. C. Vaughan
Julian Assad
Leader Grocery Company
J Assad
E. B. Kiser
Pecos
Julian
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