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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 05, 1918
Page
4
Paris on April 5 reports the prefect of police will prohibit all matinees including theater vaudeville moving pictures and concerts to avoid gatherings during German long range bombardment.
Nearly 1000 trained soldiers from the Ninetieth Division at Camp Travis in Texas were moved to Camp Gordon in Georgia. Officers observed the deployment with regret as new assignments take effect, with many recruits and units swapped or reassigned.
The report notes many Oklahoma based troops and others from Texas and the South are being redirected from Camp Donovan to Camp Travis and other camps. It says about 700 soldiers from various National Army camps will join the Ninety-first division as the unit fills its quota with trained personnel. Generals expect the Ninety-first to be rebuilt with recruits and transfers, maintaining readiness for overseas duty despite losses and prior training cycles.
Readers respond to a plea from a lonely Armenian stationed at Kelly Field hoping to connect with San Antonio families. Letters from mothers, nurses, and locals offer hospitality and invites for visits, while others request addresses for Arlington, Puebla, and West Point ties. Soldiers worldwide are invited to write for host families, with the city continuing to match lonely servicemen with hosts amid the broader hospitality drive.
Dallas reports state that a dredge worth more than 290000 dollars was destroyed by fire at Orange Texas. Federal officials provided details indicating the blaze originated from an incendiary cause during the night.
Unclear report says the Galway steamer Toes 679 tons was struck near Vancouver Island yesterday. Wreck and relief steamers left for the scene as families and officials await confirmed fatalities amid rough seas and stormy conditions.
Readers may submit ten line rhymes to win daily cash prizes of 2.00 with the Liberty Loan drive as the theme. Open to soldiers civilians school children and adults. prizes total 4.00 daily for the best verse. Contests run Sunday through Friday April 12.
Local druggists report calomel sales drop as Dodson's Liver Tone is pitched as a safer, vegetable remedy. Ads claim calomel causes laziness and weakness, urging readers to switch for better energy and relief from liver sluggishness and constipation.
Daily contests will award a cash prize of $2 for the best rhyme each day. Entries must be new rhymes about Liberty Bonds and submitted to the Liberty Bond Editorial office in The Light by Monday noon, with judging daily and the top verse printed as promotion.
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