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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 09, 1918
Page
12
A furlough for ship draftsman Harold Ti. Dreeke in New Orleans visits his parents at 427 Gavan Street. The page lists business ads and community notices including job ads, dances, store moves, vacation plans, and a new meat program changing beef serving rules in Texas.
Washington announces that 100000 white registrants from forty states are ordered entrained between August 26 and 30. Texas supplies 4000 white registrants, with 1750 from Texas and 200 from Louisiana among the Negro group. August call brings total August enlistments to about 300000, part of the current military program. A separate note, from the St Paul Dispatch, cites a prisoner lamenting innocence and questioning charges in a chaplainly exchange.
Reports from the reviewing authority on several Camp Travis court martial cases reviewed in France. Maj. Gen. Henry I. Allen signs the reviews as delay stemmed from cross seas approval. Defendants include Private William P. Callahan, Cook Eck G. Cook, Rufus C. McMillan, and Punk I. Boyd with sentences ranging up to 20 years and discharges deferred.
Paris August. Women across France toil under war strain, funding, staffing, and sustaining the nation. They supply munition work, harvest food, clothe troops, and run railways while nursing the wounded, with hundreds of thousands already employed and the figure rising toward four hundred thousand.
Discussion on universal languages from Volapuk to Esperanto and Idiom Neutral notes. Mentions American writer criticizing English dominance and history of Massachusetts bonds from 1775 linked to Lexington and Concord and Yorktown era. Includes reference to Maud King of Chicago and Liberty Loan.
The Kansas City Star advises on infant sleep: newborns up to three months need about 22 hours daily, 3–6 months about 20 hours, and 6–12 months around 16 hours, with variations for nervous or small babies. Proper sleep aids growth, reduces digestive issues, and should occur in a cool, quiet space to avoid destabilizing the infant.
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