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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 18, 1918
Page
10
Mayor Bell designates May 1 as Clean-up Week in San Antonio with extra garbage wagons to remove trash and relaxing collection rules. He praises the city’s sanitary record, warns of summer mosquitoes, and says a full week allows every household to clear yards and alleys along rivers and creeks to prevent breeding grounds.
The fourth student officers school will begin May 16 as about 600 officers may come from divisions and reserve units. Those completing the course will be commissioned as second lieutenants or proceed to return to their organizations as officer candidates with a provisional white sleeve bar.
Maj. Gen. Henry T. Allen urged officer candidates to follow complete honesty as a creed for life and duty. He stressed character above education, said leaders must lead by example, and announced the May 14 training camp opening in Ta Willits with top officers chosen to train students.
An ad boasts a tiny bottle of Freezone that relieves aching corns instantly and lets you lift them out without pain. It claims to remove hard and soft corns and calluses, sold cheaply by druggists as a celebrated new discovery.
Dr Newell Hillis renowned Brooklyn minister will speak at Beethoven Hall Sunday night at 7 16 oclock revealing German wartime atrocities in France and Belgium with photographs and records. He will include American soldier insights from his front line visit and aim to spur support for civilized action. Rotary Club sponsors bring the lecture to San Antonio.
Jtle schedules two public appearances including an illustrated evening lecture and an afternoon talk as a principal speaker on Alamo Phiza. A fragment references a 50 cent dose of laxatives and a humorous barber shop anecdote involving an American officer and a dog named Cameray, with stray chatter about newspapers and shaving.
An old promotional piece extols iron tonic to bolster iron in blood, linking it to Cromwell era iron will and WWI soldiers in France. It touts Iron-tie and Tryn-tic tablets, urging readers to mail a nickel for a trial package from the Surgical Institute in Buffalo, N.Y.
The report notes Major General Henry Allen praised the accuracy of gunners during a large scale firing drill. About 1 200 silhouette targets were engaged by two battalions with thirty machine guns on the lane. Artillery fire reached 11 700 feet, with Maj. Gen. Atenenas observing and brigade and field officers present.
A Southern traveler in New York requests an early wake up at a hotel. The attendant, described with a racial slur, responds with a boast about a bedside button that calls the guest in the morning. The Pittsburg Chronicle Telegraph quotes the exchange in period voice.
Lieut Oscar B Black granted ten days leave and Lieut John We Andersen transferred from Camp Stanley to Camp MacArthur. Capt Frank Ganucheau granted ten days leave. Maj C A Kellum formerly at Fort Chirk assumes duties as commander for Mort Lang Houston base hospital. Maj Po H Farrell returns to duty after thirty days leave spent in Chicago.
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